Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-07-02
Tie Charm Of Keeping mp With the
Jones, Following the Smiths and
Initiating the Browns.
Editor Democrat:

into ones mind, more forcibly at this
season of the year, because everybody
who is possessed of any feeling Of
stylishness at all is suddenly seized
with a burning desire to obtain and
stuff into his pocket, without money
and without price, a superbly, illustrat-
ed railroad folder; one that tells of Sc
Plect, high quality summer resorts.
OF course if it happens to be female
resorter, who becomes thus affected,
she is not going to stuff this treasured
resort folder into any side pocket, but
she is going to chuckle it into that
swinging purse, along with her ticket
and other belongings, incident to all
outing trips.
To be sure in writing on such sub
jeet as the above, your correspondent
would not presume to do SO. without
first attempting to forget all the mean
things he knows, or remembers about
himself, and also he would confess
his own lineage and tree of consan-
guinity, so far as ne knows it. when
taken altogether, might make quite
poor showing, compared to the distin-
guished names appearing in our sub
ject above. Of course we are not go
ing to admit but what he are kin to
father Adam as well as they. but to be
sure some of us, may have forgotten
more badly worsted in that original
fGll, of our first common parents, than
did the Jones' Smith-Browns. but they
had about as well make up their minds
that the rest of us are not going to adj
nit it until it is clearly proven.
Not only among our own natives. but
among our summer resorters we ma
turally look for Texie Jonses, Marjorie
Smiths and Dovie Browns, together
| with their Pas, Mas, brothers. sisters
and cousins to the number of many
tens of thousands, and just why peo-
| pie in all ages should almost break
their necks, trying to always be ''iA
the SWIM with all these folks, is. il
the language of an old saying, zone
huckleberry beyond our persimmon.. :
The plain language of this last saying
is, that you cannot know, never did
know and never will know. We have
all heard few pert sayings like,
Zones, he pays the freight" and then
charges it up to the fellow why buys
His tuff,-and that John Smith, big
man as he was, took for his wife a
common savage Indian girl, while as
everybody has heard and read, John
Brown was hung in sour apple tree
somewhere up in old Virginia. If all
this be true what in the world is there
SO +touchy" in the Jones' Smith-Brown
crowd, that makes us all want to break
cur necks to keep up with, and yet we
al do. Somehow, we just can't help
it. and this writer, for himself, is well
Ga--icied It is just inborn in US. Keeu
UP or bust is our motto, and some
time, when it is too late, we, like the
fellow moving west, will have to post
UP the sign busted
In the common talk we have heard
in this country, about the seediest
bum, ones eyes ever looked on, went
by the name of .Doogan" and his CHIEF
reputation was whiting goods boxes
and hanging around elections. A clear
idea of the common makeup, either at
home or away from home, of old Doc
gan may be gathered from what a
country sch6ol-boy poet wrote of him,
1 to wit:
! His horse was blind, his mule was
lame,
And he lost his COW in poker
! game
As old 'Doog." was married man,
you can well imagine some of the
things that happened, when that COW
was driven from the lot, as final and
eliminating result. of that poker
game. Old Rip Van Winkle, was told
t. take his cold potato and go, but
when Mrs. Doogan saw that COW going
down the lane, she remembered tia;
Scripture. about heaping Goals of fire
cn the head of your enemy and when
her spouse saw that fire shovel of hot
cshes coming, he knew what it all
meant and he waited for neither cold
potatoes, nor hot ashes. and while thai
has been many years ago. we challenge
any reader of the Democrat to prove
that @Doogan" has ever been heard of
since.
But what has tbat to do with keep
ing up with the JzS-Bs. Won ash 2 QValR