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Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-10-09
News Notes From Busy-Dana.

County Demonstrating Agent Per-
kins held a very interesting meeting at
The Dana school building Friday night,
October 3rd, which was largely at
! tended by the citizens of this section.
Refreshments were served during the
meeting and all enjoyed themselves
as we'll as appreciated the information
given them by Mr.. Perkins. The farm
ers are glad to have a demonstration in
the field as it will help them materi-
ally.
One of the interesting features of the
coming fair to be held at Dana will be
the large display Of native hardwoQds
in their natural state, and also worked
into lumber. Henderson county can
beast of some excellent hardwood tim
beers and this display should be very
interesting to various manufacturers.
J. Case has donate dthe use of a ware
house to house the large poultry show
! which will be held in connection with
the fair. This will be one of the most
interesting exhibits at the fair. Mr..
Scadin who is Manager of the poultry
department has left no stone unturned
TO make the poultry show a bowling
success.
IL Is Ouyl d mOulu unCIl Lie LdAI A3
to be held and the farmers Of Hender-
s6n county should decide what they
went to enter audmake arrangements
With the Secretary Immediately in or
der that there will be no delay in hav-
ing the exhibits placed on exhibition.
Jonathan Case was in Henderson
vile last week on business.
j.. H. Hyder has been quite ill for
the past. few days but is some better
at the present.
q. B. Jackson was in Henderson.
Vile last Saturday on a little bust
ness trip.
Ferman Jones made a flying trip to
Flat Rock and H~endersonYille last
Saturday.
The Farmers of this section have
been unusually busy the past ten days
caring for their large crop of corn
Blue Ridge township certainly has a
large crop of corn this year. The
farmers realize that it costs too much
to buy western. raised corn.
The Western North Carolina Fair is
the attraction for the week, many o.
this section intend to visit the fail
to be held at Asheville.
The catalogue and premium list OF
the Blue Ridge Fair is 20 being
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OCHLAWAHA LODGE
STANDS AT HEAD.

Letter of COngratnlatiOn Received by
Noble Grand Stepp From Grand Mas
ter /. o. o. F. Shipman. y
Mr.. ]. M. Stepp, Noble Grand,
Ochlawaha Lodge No. 161, 1. o. o. F.
Hendersonville. n. c.
Dear Sir and Brother:-
My hat is off to old Ochlawaha
Lodge. L have just seen the check
sent in by her very efficient secretary
for percapita tax and it is the largest
that has or will come from any lodge
III North Carolina. She heads the list
in the number of members and made e
substantial gain during the last term.
l feel mighty good about and am
writing to congratulate the brethren
who have labored so earnestly to make
ours the banner lodge of the State.
Let the good work continue for we
want Jul lodge to remain at the head
Of the table.
With high personal regards and
hest wishes, l am,
Fraterna1ly yours,
NJ. L. SHIPMAN,
Grand Master.
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RESOLUTIONS OF SYMPATHY.

Whereas. death has come into the
home of our beloved brother, M. A.
Pace, and taken from him his wife,
and realizing that the loss is the great
est that could have come to him, save
the loss of his own life, therefore be
it resolved by Green River Lodge. No
253. /. o. o. 3.
First. That We bow in humble sub
mission to the will of Him who trieth
the reins and searcheth the heart of
the children of men.
Second. That we render any conso-
lation that we possibly can in his sad
afHiction.
Third. That a copy of these resolu-
tons be sent to Bro. Pace, a copy
spread on the pages Of our records
and 2 cnny be sert to each of u
local papers, with request to publish.
Very respectfully,
A. G.. HILL,
W. H. NORRIS,
L. B. RIVIS.
Committee.
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PRESIDENT SIGNS TARIFF BILL.
Continued from 1st Page.l

something like this at heart ever since
l was a boy and and knew men stand
ing around me who can say the same
thing, who have been waiting to see
the things done which it was necessary
to do in order that there might be
justice in The United States; and so il
is a solemn moment that brings such a
business to a conclusion and l hope I
will lot be thought to be demanding
too much of myself or of my colleagues
when l say tnat this, great as it is, is
the accomplishment of only half the
journey. We have set the business of
this country free from those conditions
which have made monopoly not only
possible, but in a ems easy and ma
But there is no use taking away
the conditions of monopoly if we do,
rot take away also the power to cre-
ate monopoly; and it is financial, rath-
economic power.
1.-The power 20 control and guide
and direct the credits of the country
IS the power to say who shall and who
shall not build up the industries of the
country, in which direction they shall
be built, and in which direction they
shall be built. We are now about to
take the second step, which will be
the final step in setting the business
Of the country free. This is what we
shall do in the currency bill, which
the house has already passed and
which | have the utmost confidence
the senate will pass much sooner than
some pessimiStic individuals believe.
Because the question, nov that this
Liece of work is done, will arise all
all over the country for what do We
wait? why should we wait to |crowa
ourselves with consummate honor?
are we sc self-denying that we do not
wish to complete our success
81 vas quoting to some of my coll
leagues in the senate thoe' shines from
Shakespeare, which have always ap-
realed to me-'if it be a sin to covet
honor, then am l the most offending
soul alive'-and l am happy to say
that I do not covet it for myself alone.
/ covet it with equal ardor for the
men who are associated with me and
the honor is going to come from them.
/ am their associates. u can only
complete the work which they do.
| can only counsel when they ask for
my counsel. I can come in only when
the last stages of the business are
reached. And 1 covet the honor for
them quite a smuch as covet it for
myself, and I covet it for the great
party of which 1 am a member; be-
cause that party is not honorable un-
less it redeem it's name and serve the
people of the United States.
Feels Happy.
$50 / feel tonight like a man who
is lodging happily in the inn which,
lies halfway along the journey and
that in the morning with a fresh i'm
pulse he shall go the rest of the Jour-
ney and sleep at the journeys end
Ike a man with a quiet conscience,
knowing that we shall have served our
IfellowmaR and have thereby tried to
| s.Ive God"
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mailed out by the Secretary and citi
zens. not receiving a copy may secure
one by writing the Secretary at Dana.
y C.. Every citizen should have a
copy as this is the only fair to be held
In Henderson county this year.
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Several days ago Garrens MAd,o,-
company shipped one of the Iorsune
orders ever received of it's modiss eSt
to a concern in Jacksonville I ~
This well known patent medic;na nia
gaining a wide reputation. Is
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womer's Cause in Canada.

Three bills for woman Suffrage VIII
be introduced in the Ontario legisla-
ture. one of them being the old bill OF
Allan Studholme, which proposed TO
give the ballot to every woman or girl
more than eighteen years old. 1t Is
not likely that Mr.. Studholme's radical
measure will be acceptable to much
larger number of members than it was on
the occa sion of its former appearance. but
the Whiteside bill, which desires to
give married women property owners
a vote in municipal affairs, and that of
William Mcdonald. of Center Bruce,
which would extend the parliamentary
franchise to widows and spinster's
now enjoying the municipal franchise,
are likely to be less unfavorably re-
garded There are reasons for and
against each of these bills; but, after
all. 1t is not reason that rules where
women are concerned. II the ladies
have set their hearts upon the ballot.
and are persistent enough, they Will
finally conquer the most conservative
of governments. just as the widow OF
old had her wish with the ruler whom
she wearied with her petition. But the
persistence of the leaders of the wom-
an suffrage movement should not take
the violent form that has distinguished
the agitation in England. They should
ponder the deep significance of the
phrase that Thomas Carlyle applied to
his wife when he spoke Of her soft in
vincibility'' 1t is the softness. some
times that makes the invincibility.
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ALASKA CANADIAN BOUNDARY COMPLETED

burn was taken i'll with pneumnoia and
laid up for three weeks without medical
assistance OF any kind. Two members
Of the party made hurried return trip
to Herschel Island. It's miles away. where
the steam whaler Belvidere was win
tering, in the hopes of obtaining medi-
cine. In order to reach the whaler. they
had to cross a body OF water more than
three miles wide, frozen solid In places
and in others broken UP. On the shore
they found a prospector. The three roped
themselves together and started on the
perilous trip across the ice to the island.
IL took three and a half hours to make
the trip Upon reaching the whaler they
found 1t frozen solid in the Ice. optain-
ing some medicine from Capt. Cottle,
they started on the return journey ana
reached camp after two weeks absence.
Near the Arctic Ocean the engineers
found the skeletons Of three men whc
had persisted in one Of the terrinc arctic
billiards. The skeletons were hudoleo
together on the side of a little wind-break
made up of some boughs and moss.
little farther on they found another skeie-
ton back of another little wind-break'
where the lonely traveller had evidently
crawled in a futile effort to escape the
same blizzard. They found here the REM
nants of a small tent, with Few canip
utensils and a notebook so badly blurred
that il could not be read. A little farther
away they found the prospectors gun
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by the driving in Of a tack. After that
We broke out the hags Of the two ma
tons with the college pennants Of the
two chiefs of party underneath. Prince
ton. OF America, and Queens. of Canada.
Several biologists with our party found
few signs Of precious metals, but they
succeeded In securing fine collection Of
FOSSILS. consisting Of corals and marine
lie. Large deposits Of coral were found
on the summit Of the highest mountain
We crossed. This would show that the
whole country, thousands Of years ago,
was at one time under water. The geolo-
g1sts made one great find when they dis
covered the remains of the prehistoric
horse. You know the prehistoric horse
had split hoof similar to the COW Of
today. and was in size about the size OF
Shetland pony. This is positive proof
that Alaska and Siberia were at one
time connected. cumbersome remains
were found of the mammoth, the pre-
httoric progenitor of the elephant Many
other extremely interesting relics of long
ago were discovered in the mud of the
old Crow River, a tributary of the Por-
cupine River, about sixty miles above
Rampant House. the most northerly trad
ing post in the world.
1T was at this point we met a large
tribe Of Eskimos. They bothered the
life out of US for medicine At first I
tried to satisfy them by doing out a
few pills. but Mid not seem to satisfy
them. They would come In the morn
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ny WILLIAM l.. ALTDoRFER.


Running the longest straight line
boundary in the world, between Alaska
and Canada, has finally been completed.
1t measures from beginning to end ex-
actly 1907 miles, and runs as straight
as the crow flies from Mount st. Elias
directly north, over moving glaciers and
some OF the highest mountains in the
world, to the Arctic Ocean. 1t took
seven years labor OF seventy-five men
to accomplish this difficult task. 1t cost
the United States government in round
figures three quarters OF a million dol
lars, with the Canadian government
contributing a like amount, the cost of
the whole work amounting to 1880 900.
The story of this great work reads
like some Of the romances written years
ago of the so-called wild and woolly
West The men who took part In the
work tell tales rivaling those of Ad-
miral Peary in his search for the north
pole, and OF Amundsen in his hunt for
the south pole. AS a memento of the
hazardous nature of the work the bones
of some of the heroic scientist ex-
plorers lie today whitening along the
bleak and desolate trail Of the inter-
national boundary line in Alaska. The
men knew when they journey to the far
North that they took their lives in their
hands. but because of the absorbing in
terest and the desire to accomplish a
lasting good to humanity they were will
ing to take the chances.
Surveyors Have Scattered.
Most of the men engaged in the work
have now scattered to ali parts of the
United States. Because of the experience
gained and the knowledge of the coun-
of RI n n
search for the gold hidden there. But
they were not as successful in their
private undertaking as they were while
working for Uncle Sam. Word has just
been received In Washington that the
skeletons of two of them were found
by another exploring party in the far
northern section of Alaska, the only
means of identification being a note
book and letter addressed to the wife
at home. Another member of the origi-
nal party returned to Alaska, and was
murdered, along with the entire family
husband. wife. and two children-with
whom he was stopping. AS the entire
family was wiped out there were no
witnesses left of the tragedy and no
one knows how 1t occurred.
The American party was made up Of
nine engineers, surveyors and topogra
pliers, with thirty assistants, packers.
instrument men, and others. 1t was In
charge Of Thomas Riggs. jr. OF Wash
ington ID. c., with w. b. Raeburn, W.
j.. Gilmore, w. c. Guerin, F. 81 Ryus,
c. " Guerin, d. w. Eaton, Asa C. Bald
win, and e. C. Guerin. The Canadian
party was in charge of ]. d. Craig,
celebrated civil engineer OF the Canadian
government. All of the Americans are
now in Washington. having Just returned
from completing the biggest piece of
surveying WORK ever accomplished by
man.
Thomas Riggs is an old resident of
Alaska He acquired the gold fever dur
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A reader writes to inquire what dis
position, official or otherwise, is made or
wOrnout national flags used by the United
States government in the army and navy.
for public buildings, &c. He is Of the i'm
preston that some uniform regulation
governs their disposition and doubts II
they are thrown away.
The patriotic intuition Of the inquirer
comedies with the fact. The government
sets an example to the whole country IN
requiring that WORKOUT flags shall be
burned and not permitted to become mere
pieces Of waste rag. Whether or not any
special law or regulation governs the
disposition or the flags, the universal
practice Of the army and navy for gener-
ations has been that whenever nag
Is no longer fit for service it shall be
destroyed. When flag used at an army
post or on board a naval vessel becomes
unserviceable requisition of the quarter
master Is made for a new one and the
old one Is burned. The same disposition
Is made of flags used on public buildings
in Washington. Custodians of ouildlngs
outside of Washington buy their nags
outright from the government whether
or not they follow the official plan or DIS
posing of old flags cannot be stated.
I.awton and the Mexican Flag.
So ingrained among military men mas
respect for the national colors become
that It is extended in a curiously formal
way even to the flags of other nations
While the late Mai. Gen. Henry w. Law
ton, of Philippine fame, was inspector
general. on duty in Texas, list OF ar
ticIes for condemnation submitted to him
included a Mexican flag. The venerable
officer who tells the story and VINO was
an eyewitness of the incident says that
Lawton picked out the flag and turned
II back. that it might not be made sub
ject to condemnation and safe as was 'he
other property on the list.
Flags borne in battle are invariaoiy
preserved, either by the commands
which carried them. or, under lnstruc-
tions from the War Department., by the
government at Washington. A whole
roonnful of battle flags is on exhibition
at the War Department; and it will be
recalled that one of the most striking
of, the mural paintings which decorate
the state House at Boston depicts the
return of the battle flags by the Union
soldiers In 1866 to Gov. John A. Andrew
The government is a little thrifty,
however. in the use Of the national col
ors A flag is not put out of business
merely because II is torn or worn, Tor
contracts are maintained with men who
repair flags and If the injury is not 100
serious, repairs are made and the nag
Is sent back to service.
Where Flags Are Made for Navy
The f1ag-making plant of the navy Is
at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where some
thirty women are employed. The bunt-
ing comes from Massachusetts,. and
every case costs the government $3.50
or s11.e5 roll. Every piece must
weigh five pounds to every forty yards
and stand a weight test of seventy
hounds to two square inches. 1t is
steeped in salt water for six hours and
then exposed to the sun for another six
hours. If strength and color hold, the
fabric Is then pronounced Mt for service.
That Gen. LAwton's sentimental treat.
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FLAGS never become rags;
OLD ONES ALWAYS BURNED
Similar Respect Is Paid to Flags Of Other Nations
SCARED Ones Are Preserved-Large and Price
less Collection at Annapolis. -zs%

ment Of the Mexican flag had It's basis
in custom may be inferred from the fact
that of the 160 varieties of flags made
for the navy, forty-three are the colors
Of foreign nations. all of which must be
carried by naval vessels of the United
States. Sentiment attaching to the ma
tional colors is one of the most pro-
found in the human breast. and it is
not surprising to learn that even a dis
carded official flag must be finally dis
posed of almost with military honors.
An Incident of FarraEut
The collection OF trophy flags now In
store at the Naval Academy at Annapolis
Is so large and priceless that it has been
made the subject of a special report to
Congress, and an appropriation of $4,000
has been asked. IL not already made, for
the repair, preservation, and exhibition
of these flags, which have been laid away
in pine boxes. One is the battle flag used
as signal for action by Commodore
Perry at the battle of Lake Erie: an
other of great historical value is an
English royal standard captured at York
Canada, April q, 1913. by a squadron un-
der Commander Isaac Chauncey. Among
these Is the ensign of the Alert. taken in
1919 by Capt. David Porter. There Is
also the last flag flown by the Spanish
squadron at the battle of Manila Bay.
and also the flag of the Governor Gen.
eral Of the Philippine Islands taken by
Admiral Dewey in 1898. These treasures
include also the ensign hoisted IN Japan
by Commodore Perry in his interview
with the japanese commissioners at
Uraga.
An admirars flag in the exhibition was
one used by Farragut on board the ITALIA
pcosa in January, 1870, when the great
admiral was in charge of the naval obse-
quies in honor Of George Peabody at
Portland. Me. Looking up 1T this flag
as a salute was fired at Portsmouth. n.
H., in his own honor, Admiral Farragut
remarked: ut would be we'll IL I died
now in harness" This was his last ofi-
cial duty. He died shortly after. August
A. 1870.
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food for ten days. During this time he
ate the leather in the moccasins on his
feet, and he still carries the strings as
memento of his frightful experience.
When he left Fort Mcpherson ne weighed
200 pounds. Arriving at Rampant House.
he weighed little more than l3s pounds.
having lost sixty pounds on the trip.
Tragedies occurred every now and then
on the last trip of the engineers to Alas
ka. The body of a poor ex-dog driver
of the northwestern police was found
in the river. Upon the assembling Of a
stump coroner's jury. the Canadian cor
Cner declared the evidence showed that
the body was found on the Alaskan side.
and, therefore. he was without jurisdic-
ton. So it fell to the lot of the Ameri-
cans to fashion a coffin out Of store boxes
and bury the dog driver in a shallow
grave. Two surveyors overtaken by a
srowstorm sought shelter in a little va
cant cabin by breaking into 1t. They
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ing and again in an hour or so, and
kept this up until it got to the point
where something had to be done. So 1
decided to try a harmless scheme to get
rid of them.
There was an old squaw with a very
large family who was the chief offender.
TIE next morning upon her return gave
her FIVE compound cathartic pills. and
told her to take them all at once. Mex:
morning the whole family got into their
canoe, and I never saw them again.
Buried on Border.
I'm the spring of 1897 a number Of strong
armed men were forced to leave San
Francisco, and they promptly signed up
on a whaler. In 1905 this same boat was
frozen in the ice at Herschel Island.
Some of the desperadoes deserted and
started for the gold fields at Dawson.
Coming TO an Eskimo camp, they killed
many of the Eskimos. stole their guns,
dogs, sleds. and provisions. and then con-
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tinued on their way. A party from the
whaler in pursuit Joined with the rs
KINDS and followed the deserters up the
Firth River to the boundary line. In the
battle that followed one of the deserters
was shot through the head and the rest
surrendered. The man who was killed
was buried right on the boundary line,
and We found the grave with a rude
cross placed there by Bishop Stringer. an
English bishop OF the Yukon.
This missionary is one OF the most
unique and Iovable characters OF the far
Northwest. He makes it a point to visit
every Indian tribe on the Yukon at least
once every two years. Snow and ice,
moving glaciers. nor the wild arctic
Billiards hold no fear for this man. lie
travels from one end of the Yukon to
the other trying to save the souls of the
heather. On one of his trips last year
he became lost between Fort Mcpherson
and Rampant House and was without
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After Seven Years Labor the Longest Straight Line Sep
arating Nations Has Been Marked-The Work
Commenced in 1906 and Was Finished
Last December.

ing the wild rush of 1897, and promptly
packed his kit and hiked to the new
Eldorado OF the Northwest. He remained
there about four years. prospecting In
many sections of the country. but at
last becoming discouraged returned home
Just about this time Uncle Sam was
looking around for likely men to run the
international boundary line between the
United States and Canada, along the for
ty-ninth parallel Of latitude. This was
another job similar in character to the
Alaska boundary, but not nearly 80 DIFF
fcult. Riggs applied for the job. and
was promptly employed. With a num-
Der of other engineers and surveyors, he
put In the following five years on this
work. Then in 1906 he was appointed en-
gineer in charge to run the Alaska-
Canadian boundary, which has now been
brought to a successful conclusion.
The Alaska boundary is marked by
1Ss stone monuments set three miles