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Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-08-28
He Has Married His Wife II Times.

Hagerstown, Md, August 25.-To be
married to each other eleven times
since 1909 has been the novel expert
ence of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Vernon,
who are at Braddock Heights. The
marriage ceremonies have been per-
fored in as many different countries.
Asked why he and his wife have
been married so often when once
usually is enough, Vernon said it was
a sort of hobby with them, and they
took the step a sa ~precaution because
in some foreign countries marriages
performed in others are not recogniz-
ed. The first time they were married
former Governor Herrick, of Ohio,
then the states executive, was a wit
ness.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-08-28
HENDERsONV1LLE STREET CARS.
Technical Information Concerning
Carlson Gasoline Street Cars In OPP
Grafton Only i'm HenderSOnTflle.

Secretary Neptune Buckner of the
Asheville board of trade while in Hen
Jacksonville last week in connection
with some publicity work collected the
following data, which will appear in
various publications throughout the
country:
There are only two street cars In
the United States propelled by a gaso-
line motor and these two cars are in
operation at Hendersonville. North
Carolina. They are the Carlson I'm
proved F~our-cylinder opposed type
with chain drive. They develop 40
horse power with a minimum speed of
fifteen miles per hour. The length of
the street car system in Henderson
Vile is two miles and extends from
the Southern Railway passenger sta
fjon through the main business sec
ton of the town to Columbia park.
The engines have four speeds. three
onward and reverse, and have been
in operation for forty-five' days. They
are the regulation "Pay as You Enter"
a with the exception that the en-
trance is at the front and at the right
side. There is no real platform. the
platform space being used for seating
capacity. Cars have the regular drum
brake as is used on automobiles.
Total length of car over all. thirty
feet: inside measurement, twenty
eight feet. Illumination is by Prest-
{ lite. Engine Starts with n turn Of
the crank; and where it is stopped
fifteen or twenty minutes, it is started
On compression. The cars are opera
ted eighteen hours per day and the
records show that the cars have been
Llaklng an average of about s miles to
tie gallon OF gasoline. The cars are
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-08-28
Has Lied 1O7 Years, Never Sick.

Linton, Mass, August 25-Joseph
Fisher. said to be 107 years old, and
claiming to have cast his first vote
for Andrew Jackson for president
passed through here late yesterday in
n one-horse wagon On his way to Bed
ford, Ind, to make his future home.
He was accompanied by his daughter,
aged rs, and his son aged 81. Fisher
says he was born in Washington coun-
ty, Indiana, in 1906, uses tobacco in
every form, drinks liquor and never
was sick.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-08-28
Tax Payers of Polk.
[Polk County NewsA


The News begs to ask the tax pay.
ers of Polk County if they think WI
can at present time really afford to
spend 100000 in making dirt roads
in this Sounty.
A dirt road is a mud road of which
We have quite enough of them now.
Every mile that We now grade and
build should be a hard surface road of
some sort that will be ~serviceable.
Better have fewer miles of hard sur
face roads than more miles of dirt
roads, viii al put prove a delusion
put to use.
Insist on our dollars being spent for
hard surface roads and our money
will be saved to us. In dirt roads our
money rs gone and we have no better
roads than those we have now.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-08-28
FUND TO MOVE CROPS
BEING SENT TO SOUTH.
Charlotte. Greensboro, Raleigh and
Wilmington Have Been Selected as
Cities to Handle North CarOIina's
Share.

Share.
Washington, August 25.-The gov
ernment's $50,000,O0O crop moving
fund is being rapidly forwarded to the
various cities i'm which the national
banks have complied with the condi-
tons of the treasury department.
Eanks in several southern cities al
ready have sent their list Of securities
to the department for approval and
these are being examined as to their
a~cceptability.
While the exact amount of deposits
already placed has not been announce
ed at the department, it is understood
several hundred thousand dollars have
been sem into the larger lei
cities in the south to aid in moving
the cotton crops.
The department today completed the
Inst of cities in that section where the
deposits are to be made. 1t is in
cludes:
Birmingham, Mobile and Montgom-
cry, Ala; Little Rock, Ark, Jackson
vile, Pensacola and Tampa, Fla; At
lanta, Augusta. Macon and Savannah,
Ca, Lexington and Louisville, KY;
New Orleans and Shreveport. La; Jack
sonyilla, Meridian and Vicksburg,
Miss; Charlotte. Greensboro, Raleigh
and Wilmington, n. c.: Muscogee and
Oklahoma City, Okla; Charleston,
Columbia, Greenville and Spartanburg
s.. c.: Chattanooga, Knoxville, Mem
phis and Nashville, Tenn; Dallas,
Fort WcrthCiGRveston. Houston and
San Antonio, Texas; L%ynchburg, Nor
folk, Richmond and Roanoke, Va, and
Wheeling, w. Va.
Twenty-eight cities in central and
western states also were selected.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-08-28
prove Wife as Horse His Daughter
Asserts.

Jersey City, N. j., August 25.-Ac-
cused OH itching his wife and 13-year-
old son with himself to a potato dig
ger when his team had proved unable
to drag the machine, and then beat
ing his wife and throwing her into a
gully when the human reinforcements
I I'D proved u~navailing, George W. K.
Boyce was before Justice P. F. Dodd
in Neptune Township, N. J.. He was
held in 5000 for the grand jury.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-08-28
The Canyon Route.
(Polk County News.l

NPOlk county NoWS.)
Our good roads engineers have To-
Gated the road between Tryon and
Saluda up the Pacolet Valley and the
rayine via, of Melrose, and let the con-
tract for road to be built and finished
IN nine months. So, next May or June
travel will begin on it, and the lumber,
tan-bark and railroad ties that will
roll into Tryon over it will no doubt
be immense, as these d~evastators Of
our forests will avail themselves of a
good road without any doubt, and in
a few years that grand wild scenery
up the gorge will be a desolate looking
cGt-over tract with fhe usual growth
of sprouts and blackberry briars.
number 106 and lib because these are
numbers on the engines.
Mr.. Carlson has been manufacturing
fnls type of engine in Philadelphia I'M
der the name of the Carlson Motor
Truck Company and the cars used in
Hendersonvil1e are an experiment
which is proving Mr.. Carlson's theory
that the gasoline motor will prove
economical for street railway and in
terurban service. The pulling power
of the engines is shown by the fact
that with a car loaded with n hum
dred and seven passengers, it made a
seven ner cent grade on The line Ia IL
gear without a reduction 80
speed from bottom to top CT the
Mr.. Carlson bought rhe Henderson
Vile street railroad for the purpose af
making a thorough test Of his engines
for street railway service and the As
ley test has proven very satisfactory
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-04-08

Shall Seattle put its high school
girls in uniform dress?
A retiring school board recently
proposed it. The Federated Womlen's
clubs has taken the matter up for dis
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-04-08

CuSSlOn. Teachers IN tne' SCHOOLS I
favor the idea. Mothers have vary
ing opinions. i
+ In our grandmothers' day it was, !
not definitely understood that the Il
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-02-01
ILLINOIS sUREME COURT ON THE
SALOON BUSINESS.

Here are the exact words of the
il dyes of the Supreme Court of the
State of Illinois in their decision re-
gardihg the Harkin Saloon ordinance
of Chicago which put 5000 saloons out
of business in that city:
''The business of selling intoxicat-
ing liquor is attended with danger to
the community by the police power of
the State. There is no inherent right
to carry it on and it may be strictly
prohibited.
"The manner and extent of its regu-
lation, If permitted to be carried on
at all, is to be determined by the
State SO as to limit as far as possible
the evils arising from it.
THE power conferred upon the city
is co-extensive with that of the State
and includes authority to adopt any
means to reduce the evils arising
from the sale of intoxicating liquor,
reasonably adapted to that end, which
do not violate constitutional rights.
The Legislature can not confer any
power which 1t does not itself possess
and can not authorize discrimination
between individuals not founded upon
a reasonable difference, for 1t could
not itself make such discrimination. !"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-02-01
thus the reality and the authority
of its Author, Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ, yesterday and
today, and the same forever.
RELIGIOUS CENSUS AT THE
STATE UNIVERSITY.

The result Of religious census
taken up among the students of
the University of Minnesota was
published last week. 1t shows
that 610 out of 1881 expressed no
preference for any church, 513 are
Methodists, 493 Lutherans, 410
Catholics, 800 Congregationalists,
389 Presbyterians, 312 Episco-
lians, 203 Baptists and 262 scat
tered among other denominations.
The report declares that regu-
lar church attendance among the
students falls below thirty per
cent. More than half the number
attend church occasionally and
very few never go. The Y. NJ. c..
A. employees a religious director
for the students of the University
and other organizations are, like
wise, active in looking after their
religious welfare.
For the Catholic students there
is the University Catholic Asso-
citation established some years ago
to promote the spiritual and social
welfare Of it's members. They meet
every Sunday afternoon and one
of the features of these meetings
is a lecture by some prominent
Catholic, priest or layman, of the
Twin Cities or elsewhere whose
services can be secured. The
spiritual director of the associa-
ton is the Rev. E. J. Wilbee, pas
tor Of the Church of st. Law.
renee, who attends to the moral
welfare of the Catholic young
men and women enrolled in the
different classes Of the Univer.
sity. The Association has been in
strumental in making the Catho
lie students realize their numer
ical strength and take a just
pride in proclaiming themselves
members Of the Catholic Church
and emphasizing, by their con
duct, it's efficacy as a power fol
good in the life Of the individual
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-02-01
THE ANTI-TEMPERANcE CLUB.

Quoting paragraph from the
Sacred Heart Review criticizing clubs
which are in effect only private bar
rooms, the Abstainer says:
1T bears out the argument often
made before in the Abstainer, that the
great obstacle in the way of temper
ance progress is not the ordinary
drinker who goes to the cheap saloon,
but the so-called respectable drinker;
the man who drinks and does not get
drunk publicly at least and would not
dream of pouring the vile liquor on
which the police court drunkard gets
intoxicated down his aristocratic
throat. The saloon is no place for
such as he. 1t would be decidedly
mira dig for him to rub elbows with
the class which frequent it. Conse-
quently, he buys an interest in a pri-
vate saloon by paying a fancy fee for
admission Tito a club. The club is a
mighty institution. It's members are
all men of influence and standing. The
young man who is ambitious to raise
his head above the crowd feels that
membership in the club will be sort
of hall mark of gentility, and joins
it as soon as he can afford it, or be-
fore for that matter Once in, he has
started on the path of dalliance with
drink, and he ends up where thousands
like him have ended up.
Catholic men should not join clubs
of this kind the Review says. Of
course they should not, but they do.
In but few cases the men who belong
to this kind of a club do not belong
to any Catholic society. The duties
which the membership in the club de-
tails do not leave them time for that.
AS for belonging to a total abstinence
society, that is not ever to be dreamed
of. The League of the Cross offers
so few social advantages. One has to
call everybody Brother there, no mat
ter whether his clothes fit or his linen
is clean or not. Decidedly one does
not gain any prestige by belonging to
the League of the Cross. And these
are men of influence and standing,
and, powerful factors in moulding pub
lie opinion. The League of the Cross,
or whatever temperance society it may
happen to be, is deprived of that in
fluence, has that influence opposed to
it, in fact No wonder the work of
directing public opinion into the right
channel is slow and arduous."
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-02-01

the Bible says, is not extinct.
What an intelligent idea of the
Church and her teaching must the
Catholic pupils who attend this
high school receive from a teacher
of history whose horizon is limited
by the tip of the nose and whose
mind has been fed on the drivel-
ling diatribes of writer's whose
blatant anti Catholic bigotry is a
stencil in the nostrils of intelligent
Protestants!
Why don't the Catholics whose
children attend this high school
protest against the incompetency
of this so-called teacher of history
They should give the members of
their School Board to understand
that they are not paying taxes to
the public school for the purposes
of having their religion calumni-
ated, the motives Of their fellow
Catholics inpugned, and their
children insulted. 1t is time for
them to take stand and impart to
this teacher much-needed lesson
in common sense.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-02-01
AN INCOMPETENT PUBLIC
SCHOOL TEACHER.

In one Of the high schools of
this state there is a teacher Of
modern history who is false to
the fundamental postulate of
pedagogy, namely, to seek the
truth and inculcate it. Some time
ago, in the history class, a ques-
ton arose as to the probability
of another religious war in this
country, and this intelligent peda-
gogue introduced as evidence of
the impending danger a leafet
on "The Knights of Columbus,
and Their Oath of Treason, = TAX
en- from the "Jeffersonian. "
edited by the notorious Tom Wat
son, of Georgia, who is under in
dictment for misuse of the United
States mail.
This leafet contains the So
called oath of the Fourth Degree
Knights which abounds in the
usual blood-curdling denunciation
of heritics and Protestants. 1t
states that "more than 100000 of
those knights are fully armed
and equipped for warfare, and
ready to respond to the call of the
Church at an hours notice." and
that in all the large cities Of the
United States their rifles are
stored in the basement of the
Catholic churches; and they are
receiving most thorough military
drilling constantly"
All this portends, forsooth, in
the mind Of this teacher, bloody
religious war! We hope there is
not many of this caliber among
the public school teachers Of the
state. That there is even one
shows that the race of those
whose number is infinite, = as
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-02-01
THE PSALMS IN VERSE.

During the past two years The
Catholic Bulletin has published a
number Of poems from the gifted
pen of DR.. Helen Hughes Hiel-
scher, Of Mankato. They were
written in the few leisure mo-
ments Of a busy life and possess
literary merit usually found
only in the productions of those
who devote much time to cult
waiting the muse.
Since the beginning Of the year
we have published several of the
Psalms Of David rendered into
choice English verse by DR..
Hielscher. Those who have read
them and compared them with the
original know how faithfully
they portray the meaning and
poetic imagery Of the inspired
writer. Wherever possible, the
simple, unstudied language of the
Bible is used to express the sense
Of the Psalms and thus the sacred
text is made familiar to the
reader.
In this weeks issue we publish
the eighth Psalm written by David
probably, as he lay on the hill
side herding his sheep. There
is in it all a boys wonder at the
immensely of God just when his
mind is beginning to open up tc
some shadowy knowledge of the
sublime system of which he is g
part; and there is nothing of that
revengeful wickedness that crop
ped out after he was sore tried by
the world" We hope that oul
readers will appreciate these
poems at their real worth, and
by an intelligent perusal anc
study Of them, familiarize them
selves with the sublime thoughts
of the Psalmist who sings so beau
tifully about the things of the
spirit.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-02-01
DOMAIN OF TEMPERANCE.
THE EVILS OF rNTEMPeRANcE..

The campaign, which is being Waged
against alcoholic intemperance in al
most every country in the civilized
world, is resulting in much good, says
the Montreal Tribune. There is a
marked contrast In the attitude of the
people at large in England-to in
stance a European country-and. the
England of the time of Fielding, Sterne
and Smollett when every one from the
highest to the lowest INDUCED more
or less in alcoholic beverages. In the
time of these writer's and even much
later a mans standing in the COM
munity was to some extent based upon
the amount of the drug he could inn
blbe without showing its effects. Now
on the contrary mans standing in
the community rests greatly upon his
temperate habits. For no matter how
good worker may be, how brilliant
his professional attachments, if he in
dulges periodically in bouts of intern
peran"e he is passed over for the less
qualif cd but steadier man. Positions
requiring trustworthy men will no
longer be filed by the man who drinks
There can be no place made for them
because in our modern Industrial life
so much depends upon ever unit of
| the vast organizations that the inefi-
cacy produced by the alcoholic is harm
full to the whole system. Time was
and it is not far removed when physi-
clans prescribed alcohol indfscrimi-
nately for almost every complaint, but
with proper understanding of it's
action upon the organs of the body
and the dispelling of the idea that it
was good for every condition reac-
| ton has set in against it, and the.
modern physician of any scientific
training is very careful to whom the
drug is given
We speak of people addicted to the
use of opium, morphine, cocaine and
getting that alcohol, the basis of all
the common intoxicating drinks, is
also drug; and one the desire for
which is very easily acquired We
view with amusement sometimes with
disgust the individual staggering along
our streets under the influence of this
nerve destroying poison. Many there
are-and our pity goes out to them
who view the same individual with
dread for the kind hearted sober father
often makes a cruel hearted drunken
monster and we'll the poor wife and
helpless child know it. The sin, mis-
cry and economic loss due to the in
temperate use of intoxicating liquors
is being realized more and more every
year. Legislation in this country as
well as every other is being enacted
towards curb1ng it's effects. Much re-
mains to be done and it is our duty to
help the good work.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-02-01

1t is pity that a matter Of
such vital Importance to the NOR
ais of a community as is the pro-
per control of these amusement
halls should remain so long un-
settled. In European cities meas
ures seem to be taken to remedy
the evils of the film theatre. In
Berlin, for instance, the police are
to force cinematograph managers
to introduce well-censored shows
for children only, and it will be
unlawful to admit any child un-
der sixteen to any other moving
picture performance.
"The harm that is done, espe-
cially to children, by the exhibi-
ton Of films depicting the commits
sion of crime has been dwelt on
before in these columns. Indeed,
readers Of the daily papers must
have remarked how often youthful
culprits are reported to have re-
ceived their first lessons in wrong
doing at the moving picture show.
Yet if properly managed and con-
trolled, what a power for good
these places could be made to
exert. Suppose the scenes rep
resented should consist chiefly Of
the high achievements Of Chris
tian heroes, contemporary events
of worldwide interest, or deeds
from history that are ennobling
and uplifting.
''That the public would take
kindly to the change seems to be
proved by the interest with which
throngs of beholders recently
viewed, here and in other cities
a film showing the Holy Father
walking in the Vatican gardens
and another that reproduces
scenes from the Eucharistic Con.
gress at Montreal. The cinema.
tograph companies, moreover
would doubtless manufacture more
films Of this character were there
an unequivocal demand for them
The life and marytrdom of Father
Jogues, we understand, is now
being prepared for the picture
halls. But there are hundreds OF
scenes from the Church's annals
that could be as successfully re.
produced by motion pictures
Catholic patrons of these theatres
if they went about it properly
could doubtless secure not only
the omission of Objectionable
films, but the exhibition of those
that are instructive and improv
ing.