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Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-09-02
WHAT FARMERS ARE LEARNING,

Agriculture has become science.
In the past men found that certain
things they did to plants changed
them; some of these changes were
/ improvements and So the crops were
Improved. Nowadays men are finding
out more than that, says Dr.. John
Gaylord Coulter. They are learning
| just what to do in, order to get the
results they want. They are learn
ling how to breed plants just as they
have bred horses and cattle. They
are finding out Just what to do in or
der to make farm plants grow where
they never grew before. s
1t is the knowing why as well az
how that makes agriculture science
Success in farming depends very much
on Knowing why plants behave as
they do; why the doing of certain
things produces good results. and
why the doing of other things pro-
duces poor results. Farms cannot be
run best by rules alone Each field a
problem in itself, and the farmer
needs to know how to solve his prob.
lens for himself.
To do this he must understand the
principles of plant life He must un-
derstand the conditions which are
most favorable to plants growth, and
learn to recognize what conditions are
unfavorable to it. He must under
stand why it is that crop plants grad
ually poison the soil for themselves,
and why it is an advantage to change
the crops. He must understand why
plants Of the clover family increase
the fertility of the soil, and why it Is
that deep blowing and frequent crum-
bling of the surface also increase it.
He must understand the principles
which should guide him in the choice
OF the seed which he plants. He must
understand how to encourage that i'm
Wis bic plant life above the soil which
Injuries his crops by causing diseases.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-09-02

about this unsanitary, unpleasant, i'll
looking condition of a school house.
OF course the teacher and pupils come
in contact with the cleaning up.
Following, an itinerant with magic
lantern gained admission into the same
building to show d show which he
didn't show and left the building per-
fumed with the scent of unwhOIesome-
ness and streWn with refuse that
snould have been In a slop bucket or
garbage can. The teacher and pupils
had to clean up again.,
It is the proper thing to do to make
the school the social center Of the
community and have as many as posi-
bic of the community gatherings at the
buildings Parents should visit the
school and talk to the children about
caring for school property, but no
amount of precepts will revolutionize
such acts of vandalism as defac1ne
walls, scratching or cutting fHfnfttlfE
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-09-02

killing shade trees upsetting toilets or
shooting out windows when the ex-
amples of authorities and citizens arc
lacking to back them up"
What we need is to set the example
before the child. Beautify the school
grounds with flowers and shrubbery,
lawns and shades. Furnish the
grounds with many kinds of play ap-
paratuses and conveniences. Beautify
the walls of the buildings with pictures
and ornaments. Make the school a
home for the child and he will protect
it, if the interest in such a home is
shown by the parents and the proper
examples set by those who have been
and are careless.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-09-02
S-,,,c exercises Planned; win Ooen
Nffice Soon to Receive Pupils and
patrons; TO Make Visits.

PAtFOnSS TO Make V1SltSs
prof. G. C. Briggs, the newly elect
;, sunerintendent of the Henderson,
60 a. schools, was in the city this week
Wing WI. after preliminary arrange
WO nts incident to the opening of the
n 'h1ic school here on September Is.
Puofpssor Briggs will return to the city
Thin few days and open Office in
WV graded school building to receive
InT and parents, make examina-
pms sign promotion cards and trans
80 such other school business as may
oome to his attention.
prof. Briggs stated that he would
.nnounce the program for the open
of school in time for publication
- next weeks Democrat 1t is his in
tnr+ion to have number of brief talks
bT neople of the community and an
Educational address by some visiting
sneaker of note.
'p The exercises will be held at the
court house and Prof. Briggs Is
ANXIOUS to have good attendance on
tho part of children and especially
narents. For a number of years he
has arranged public exercises for
school openings and experience has
taught him that they serve a good
nurDose in inspiring the children and
aronsing interest among the parents in
school work.
Before school opens Prof. Briggs
homes to visit a number of the parents
&c if is his desire to enlist their in
terest and corporation in the school
work. So far as is possible he wants
to gather the ideas of the school
natrons in order that he may know
their wishes and that they may more
thoroughly understand his methods
and purposes.
A statement elsewhere in the Dem
ocrat from the school trustees will be
of interest for the reason that it gives
an outline of some, of the things to
he undertaken mad sets forth the pro-
gressive policies of those who have
the school matters in charge
The trustees of the HendersonYille
City schools, with the people OF our
beautiful city, feel some degree Of
pride in the growth and progress of
our graded schools and the rank they
have taken among the schools of the
state. But anxious further to improve
our schools and to furnish the sons
and daughters of the patrons with not
only the best possible literary train
ing, but business and musical as well,
the trustees have decided to make the
business course more thorough and ex-
tensive to meet the demands, and to
add a music department which has
been greatly needed in our system of
schools
Superintendent G. C. Briggs, well
and favorably known to the older citi-
zens of Hendersonville, as success
full educator, will superintend these
departments as he will all others of
our city schools, and will teach some
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-09-02
City Schools to Open With
Public Exercises September IS

pers, and other subjects belonging to
the course.
Course II. Shorthand and type
writing according TO the most improv
ed text4bcoks and methods. The Ben
P1tman system OF Shorthand and the
touch system OF typewriting will be
used. The charges for the course will
be small as compared with the charges
for such advantages elsewhere.
After completing one Or both courses
the student will receive certificate or
diploma.
= The, Music Department will be in
charge of Miss Marguerite Briggs who
Is a graduate in music and an accom-
plished musician, and has had success
full experience in teaching. AS to her
talent, Prof. Putnam, concert pianist
in the Conservatory of Music Of Vir-
ginia Intermont College, Bristol, Va,
says in a letter to her parents while
she was in school: cit gives me pleas
ure to say that Miss Marguerite is one
of the most talented pupils in piano
that We have ever had in Virginia In.
termont college. I am not exaggerat-
ing, but say this after mature consid-
O0dC1On one Is Highly al
might say poetic in her playing of
Chopin ballard C min.) which she mas
lust learned, Her talent
is so rare that I am inclined to the
opinion that you can safely count on
her to accomplish almost any thing IN
the art"
The course in music and method of
instruction will be in accordance with
those of the best Conservatives of
music. The studies will be modified to
meet the various needs Of pupils. The
charges will be moderate. From time
to time there will be given musical re-
cita1s so the pupils may have oppor-
tunity to play in public which inspires
confidence and gives self possession.
With this progressive step as indi-
Gated above, We feel that the people OF
Hendersonville will heartily join In
and help the members of the board
and the superintendent and teachers of
the schools to carry forward the great
est work our city has ever undertaken.
namely, the education and training of
her children.
Respectfully,
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OF the Hendersonville City Schools.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-09-02
MRS JULIAN S. CARn DIES
AT FAMILY COUNTRY HOME.

Durham, n c.. Aug. 1S.-Mrs. Mamie
Graham Carr, wife OF General Julian
s. Carr, died at the county home of the
family, OcconneecFee farm. near Hills
boor, this morning at S:15 following
three weeks serious illness of COM
plimation OF diseases. She had been.
In failing health for three years and
for the last few days her condition
had been more serious than her Dur
ham friends, other than the family.
realized
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-09-02
Third Year.

Wentworth's New School Alg-- liz
Wentworth's Plane and Solid
Geometry. La
Scott & Denny's New Compost
ton Rhetoric. :. :. ;. :. 1.3O
Homer's Iliad Ga good transla
tom la
Vergil's Aeneid Ca good transla
Myers Medieval and Modern
History. =. -. LOU
Physics Ito be supplied later
Gunnison & Harley's Caesar. -. LIS
BENEFITS Cicero's Orations -. LOO
Benefits Latin Grammar. +. -. 80
Benefits New Latin Composition. LOO
Chardenars Complete French
Fourth Year.
Wentworth's Plane and Solid Ge-
s0metry... - 80. ..s.r7lssE1sz0
Scott G. Denny,s New Composition
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-09-02
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M HORSE SHOE CURVES q
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Taking Care of School Property.
IBy N. L. Ponder.)
lBy N. L. Ponder.l

- - ~@-N~N@4'P
Where is the teacher that does Nor
require his pupils to protect school
property? To keep the school house
and grounds in as good condition as
possible is the difficult task the over
worked pedagogue has to encounter
from the first to the last of his school
term. School patrons are not burden
ed to such an extent as the teacher In
the care and even improvement of the
school property as they are at a dis
lance from the school building and
usually keep that distance. And here
it should be stated that parents do not
see the exterior of their school house
enough during the year to say the least
Of the interior. The poorly remunera-
ted instructor has to assume the big
end of the responsibility in keeping
his place of business in normal con-
dit1on because he gets the pay, as peo-
pie say, and 1t is his duty to do so.
The teacher is a great factor in COM
munity betterment and educational
Improvement, but it is impossible for
a teacher to do all that is expected Of
him in converting the bad into the
good, in undoing in a day what has
been done in years and in implanting
principles of conservation where
waste and destruction exist. AS the
teacher is only one factor in the mat
ter. the patrons and community at
large must form the other.
Not long ago visitor with a pro-
fessor Of a certain school passed into
the auditorium of this large school
and instead of the interior casting
upon the eyes of the visitor something
Of the fine enticements Of the place,
his utter disgust was produced by the
sight Of disfgured. SCARED. scratched
backs of three hundred seats that were
once as beautiful as they were comfort
able, necessary and indispensable. Who
has not seen something of similar
circumstances in the way Of demolish-
ed or scared desks in school room
where people have stood on them in
stead Of sitting; doors and walls with
holes whitted through them; maps and
charts torn or cut to pieces in the
absence Of the teacher; shade trees
dead because of a knife, an axe or a
horses teeth and defaced walls with
fools names and monkeys facesa"
Where is the root Of this evil? 1t is
deep seated and widely prevalent.
Not long ago township meeting
WIS Neld I'm certaiu s"hooI huildin2
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-09-02
Second Grade.

Graded Classics, H.. II
A Spelling Book (revised) $50. 20
Practical Drawing, II........... 70
Pract cal Writing II............ 10
*Heart of Oak Books, II. ....s... .28
*McMurry's Robinson Crusoe. 49,. 80
*Baldwin's Fifty Famous Stories. 80
Third Grade.
Graded Classics, III............. so
A Spelling Book (revised) ...... 20
Practical Drawing, III. ......... ~
Practical WI. ting, III. 49,. -. ~
Mines Progressive Arithmetic, /. 81
sHeart of Oak Books, III. .....,. 81
Language Through Nature, Lit.
and Art. 'oO
~Arnoid,s With Pen and Pencil. .35
*Cook's Story Of Ulysses. -..... 30
Fourth Grade.
Fourth Language Reader .......: .Sz
Mines Progressive Arithmetic, I %
A. Spelling Book (revisedl ...,., 70
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-09-02

Fifth Language Reader. SO
Hyde's Lessons in English, I.... Is
Dodge's Primary Geography. .... As
Mines Progressive Arithmetic, II Sc
A Spelling Book (reviseO ......J. 20
Practical Drawing, V........... 20,
Practical Writing, ". :. 49,. 10
Whites Beginners Hist. Of U. s. 40
Richie Caldwell Primer Of Hy
&1ene.. 90
Agriculture for Beginners. so
*Heart of Oak Books, V.........-z 40
*Conner's Makers of N. G. Hist. .65
%Song of Hiawatha. :. $500. 30
*Francillon's Gods and Heroes. 40
Sixth Grade.
Mines Progressive Arithmetic, II. SO
Essential Studies in English, IL 40
Dodge's Comparative Geography. go
Hills Young Peoples Hist. of NC. .85
Ritchie's Primer of Sanitation. 40
Agriculture for Beginners. :. ;. so
A Spelling Book (revised) ...... 20
Practical Drawing, VI.........S 20
Practical Writing, VI. 10
*Heart of Oak Books, VI. "A
*Hawthorne's Great Stone Face Is
Browns In the Days of the
Giants. =. :. -. so
Industrial History of the Negro
Race NEGRO schooD $50. rs
Seventh Grade.
Mines Progressive Arith. III. ;. Al
Dodge's Comparative Geography 80
Ritchie's Primer of Sanitation. 40
Our Republic. >. :. 49,. ;. :. 20
Essential Studies in English, II. As
A Spelling Book (revised) ..... 20
Peele's Civil Government. -. so
Practical Drawing, VII. 20
Practical Writing, (Review( W.. 10
"Heart of Oak Books, VII. AZ
Brooks Story of Cotton. 1900. 80
"Irving's Rip Van Wrinkle. 10
"Warren's Stories from English
History. $50. -. 90
u HIGH SCHOOL.
First Year.
Mines Standard Arithmetic. -. IS
Wentworth's New School Algebra. lis
Buehler's Modern English Gram
mar and Composition. -. -. .6S
Courtship of Miles Stand ;sh. -. 3.15
Evangeline.. :. :. :: :. :. 10
Irving's Sketch Book. :. :. -. so
Montgomery's Leading Facts Eng.
History. -. LIZ
Holden's Real Things in Nature 80
O'Ooge'S Latin for Beginners. =. 100
Second Year.
lWentworth's New School Algebra. 1.12
Scott & Denny's Elementary Com
position. =. -. :. -. 80
Merchant of Venice. :. .. .. .. .15
Webster's First Bunker Hill Ora
ton. .... Is
Millions Comus and Lycidas... 10
julius Caesar. 80. IL
Myers Accent History. =. -. 1.50
Redway's Elementary Physical
|. Geography. :. .. -. -. LIS
Gunnison g Harley's Caesar. 80 1875
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-09-02

Rhetoric. -. 40
Burks Speech on Consultation Is
Palgrave's Golden Treasury. -. Is
Adams and Trent's u s.. History. 1.50
Qiv1cs- Peeless Civil Covenant. so
Chemistry Ito be supplied later -
BENEFITS VeEgfPs Aeneid. -. 40
French (to be supplied later1s
mot to be purchased until request
ed by the teacher.
RGr-Re ncils, paper. pens, ink and
other needed supplies must be pur-
chased by each pupil under the direc-
ton Of the teacher.
Very respectfully,
g. c. BRIGGS,
Superintendent.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-09-02

Practical Drawing, w. 20
Practical Writing. W.. ..S.. 10
Richie Caldwell Primer OF Hy-
giene. -. ....... IS
Hydes Language Lessons; Is. ...z s25
Dodge'sr Primary .GeoRraphye.... IA
sHeart. of Oak Books, Nv. ...... sc
eMoulton's Bible Stories OF the
Old Testament. -. so
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-09-02

4 - !.
MATTERS NOT so MUCH, NOW.
WHERE YOU HAVE BEEN BUYING
THESE THINGS-that's thing of the
past-BUT you have yet to spend many
dollars in these lines in the future
and what we are interested in now
is to HAVE YOU 'HTRY FREEMAN &
JONES" BEFORE YOU MAKE ANY
FURTHER PURCHASES. WE ARE
ANXIOUS TO ADD MANY NEW AND.
PERMANENT. CUSTOMERS TO OUR
LIST and we are making strong bids
for your trade these days and during
the LAST TWO AND A HALF WEEKS
OF THE OVERLAND TRADE BOOST
ING CAMPAIGN WE WANT YOU TO
CALL AND LOOK OVER OUR LINES.
POST YOURSELF ON THE FREE
MAN & JONES" PRICE. Come get ac-
quainted-get posted as to our meth
DDS and prices and we believe you will
give US part if not all of your busi-
ness-at any rate, we want to talk
with you.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-11-13
LORD DERBY HINTS
AT CONSCR|PT|ON

London, Nov IA strong intima.
tion of compulsion at an early date
is contained i'm a statement by the
Earl of Derby. director of recruiting
This statement is made. Lord Derby
declares. with the authority OF the
prime minister 1t says:
If young men medically fit and not
indispensable in any business of ma
tional importance or any business con
Quoted for the general good of the
community do not come forward vol
unfairly before Nov 30 the govern
ment will, after that date, take the
necessary steps to redeem the pledge
made on Nov. 2"
On the date referred to Premier
Asquith announced in the house OF
commons that if young men did not
come forward voluntarily and enlist
other and compulsory methods would
be taken before married men were
called upon to fill their engagement
to serve" Lord Derby adds:
Whether a man is indispensable or
not to his business will be decided
not by the man. or his employer, but
by competent authorities and tribun
ais which are being set up to consider
such cases"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-11-13
CHURCHILL QUITS
english CABINET
LIKE BRYAN, BRITISH STATES
MAN THINKS HE Is DOING
COUNTRY A FAVOR.

London, Nov 13-It is officially
announced that Winston Spencer
Churchill chancellor of the duchy OF
Lancaster, has resigned from the cab
met and will join the army in France.
Rumors had been current for some
time that Mr. Churchill would resign
his seat in the cabinet and go out on
active service at the front. He is a
major in the oxford yeomanry. Mr..
Churchill was serving as first lord of
the admiralty when the war began
and filled that office until the forma-
tion of the duchy of Lancaster in Che
new cabinet Arthur j. Balfour being
made first lord of the admiralty.
Mr.. Churchill, in his letter of resig-
nation, explains that he agrees in the
formation of a small war council and
appreciates the intention which Pre-
mier Asquith expressed to include
him among it's members. He fotesaw
the difficulties that the premier
would have to face in its composition,
he states, and he makes no complaint
with that change his work in the
government naturally closed. He says
he could not accept position Of gen
eral responsibility for a war policy
without any effective share in its
guidance and control and did not
feel able in times like these to remain
i'm we'll paid inactivity.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-11-13
INSISTS L|FEBOATS
WERE FIRED UPON

Paris, Nov 13.-A dispatch to the
Havas agency from Tunis says,
The captain of the Ancona, who
has arrived here. confirmed previous
reports that the hostile submarine
fired on his vessel while her boats
were filled with passengers and ready
to be lowered. Shells struck the boats,
killing or wounding many passengers,
the captain said, and boats also were
struck by proiectiles after they were
in the water.
THE captain declared that no sig
nal was given by the submarine ex-
cept that shot was fired when the
submarine was about five miles dis.
tant The steamer Immediately stop
ped The last gunshots were at dis
tance of about 800 yards from the
steamer. Several of the boats pulled
close to the submarine, the captain OF
the Ancona said. but were warned off
with insulting cries"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-11-13
WATER BOY BUYS
Big STEEL STOCK
j. LEONARD REPLOGLE BEATS
HIS OLD EMPLOYER IN
$4,000, 900 DEAL.

New York. Nov 13-Three hun
dred thousand shares of stock. or
thereabouts, in the Cambria Steel
company were bought today for APP
proximately $15,000,000 by j. Leon
ard Replogle of this city, who started
his business career when II years
years old as a water boy at less than
IS a week in the Cambria mills at
Johnstown. Pa.
Mr.. Replogle, who is now 3S years
old, We'd against his old superior Of
ficer. William II. Donner, for the
block of stock and won it after nego-
tiations in Philadelphia which lasted
all day and virtually all night for
several days and nights. The stock
was sold by the Pennsylvania Rail
road company, which formerly owned
450,820 shares of the 10000 issue
"a controlling interest in the Cam
bria company. The capitalization of
the Cambria Steel company is said to
be $50, 900, but only s45, 100000
(900,000) shares (of $50 par
value) were issued.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-11-13
SAND FORTS DEFY BIG GUNS
German Drive Against Dvinsk Proving
Very Costly.

Berlin, Nov. 13-The difficulties of
the army besieging Dvinsk because of
the nature of the fortress, which is
built of sand, are pictured by Cap
tain Won Kueschuetzky, correspond
ent of the Vossische Zeitung.
Had it been of rock" he says, "ex-
perts declare it would have been
knocked to pieces long ago. but an
artillery bombardment is of little
avail against a sand fortress. 1t was
captured fifteen times between Sept.
15 and Oct. 26 and still is not in tie
Germans possession. 1t has been re-
duced in size one-half without affect.
Ing the strength OF the remainder"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-11-13
STORY LACKS CONFIRMATION
Russians Reported to Have Landed in
Roumania.

London, Nov 13-Russian forces
are reported to have ascended the
Danube and landed at Silistrio, thirty
miles north of the Bulgarian border
for an invasion of Bulgaria
But because of inside information
that the Roumanian government is de
termined not to expose Roumania to
such a fate as Belgium's officialdom
here doubts the report.
That Roumania may Join the allies
if the Balkan campaign shows that
the allies are in position to protect
her from invasion is deemed possible.
but at present ii is pointed out that
she could be completely overrun by
the central powers without a chance
of receiving aid
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-11-13
FALL OF VELES Is IMMINENT
French Reported to Have Defeated
BuIgarans.

London, Nov ia Reuter- dis
patch from Athens says Saloniki
telegram to the PATHS states that the
French have inflicted severe defeat
on the Bulgarians near Veles and that
the fall Of that town is considered i'm
minent.
Veles is twenty seven miles south
east of Uskub on the railroad to Sa-
loniki. A successful French cavalry
raid when reached the environs OF
the city led to an erroneous report
that it hal been captured Wednesday
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-11-13
BOLT HITS BED, MAN SLEEPS
Fails to Wake Even When Surrounded
by Flames.

Trott of this city is a sound sleeper.
Lightning struck the house of his un-
Gle, John Curtis, and the bed in which
Trott was sleeping. The bolt set fire
to the house and bed, but Trott failed
blazing bed to safety.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-11-13
Marvin Huqhitt, Jr., Promoted.

Chicago, Nov 13.-ln an official cir.
cular just issued Marvin Hughitt. Jr.,
is named general traffic manager of
the Chicago and Northwestern rail
way. Mr. Hughitt is a son of Marvin
Hughitt, former president of the road,
and now chairman of its board of di-
rectOrs
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-11-13
identified as Slayer.

Wichita, Kan, Nov, 13.-Arthur
Houser, brought here from Indian
apolis, where he was arrested Satur-
day, has been identified by Miss Grace
Slater as the slayer of William II.
Smith, national secretary of the
Woodmen OF the World, at Omaha,
Neb, Oct %.