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THE ASHEVDLLE GAZETTE -NEWS Tuesday, February 16, 1915. FAGS TOTHt There Is little reason for further i dispute In the Carter-Abernathy controversy. It has reached the point Among other good things Hata Daddy's Goodnight where It should be settled and It should not be very difficult to settle Story. By George Henry Smith. PUBLISHED BY Evening News Publishing Co, AHTCEVnXK.

N. C. It. Either Solicitor Abernathy was justified In continuing from term to term a case against a prominent citizen or he has proven unfaithful to his trust in office; Judge Carter is either right In his charges against the officer or he has done Solicitor W. A.

Hlldebrand Editor Wm. M. General Manager SUBSCRIPTION BATES: aHnia and Blltmore Abernathy a great Injustice. The Aim VTuk I .10 went on his way. Why down the brook Billie Bubble found the little fish hiding behind p.

big stone. "What you go so quickly?" asked Billie Bubble. "I didn't go any too fast to suit me," said the little fish with a shiver. "If that bright little thing you saw had gotten hold of me I would not be here now." facts should be easily determined. Three Month! i-f" Mi UitMh.

Any woman intending to commit a murder should go to Chicago to do it. Announcement We will open on February 20th a large, modern mill for manufacturing high grade flour, meal and feed stuffs. We invite farmers to get our prices on wheat, corn and other farm products. We will also do custom grinding as heretofore. We invite the public to call and inspect "onr new plant.

Would be glad to quote merchants on onr products. Biltmore Roller Mills Clyde S. Reed, Mgr. The Fly Hook. "Splash!" something bright and sparkling swooped down into the little brook right beside Billie Bubble.

It came so quick that Billie bounced way up out of the water. "Now, I wonder what that was," he thought to himself as he settled tack into the brook again. "There come a little fish, I'll ask him what that is." "Hello, little Fish," said Billie Bubble, "can you tell me what that bright little thing is that is floating around in the water?" "Where?" asked the little fish. "Right there beside you," said little Billie Bubble. The little fish turned around and "scoot!" he had vanished out of sight TwaWa Months BY MAIL.

Df ADVANCE Threw Month J'nn "What was It," asked little Billie The nineteenth woman accused of murder there has Just been acquitted without an intervening conviction. Blx Mnntha .4.00 Twelve Months filled with curiosity. "That's what is called a fly-hook," said the little fish. ''It's very pretty, but it is not for little fish. I had a Do not tell us there Is no heroism in politics.

Look at thoee brave senators fighting In the trenches! Any matter often for puollcat on that not classified aa news, giving notice or appealing or Pr0rt tin admittance or other fee la advertising and will be regular rates only. The same applies to cards of thanks, obituary not ces. political announcement and tne mo little brother who went too close to one of those things and he was pulled right up out of the water and I have never seen him since. Whenever We fish see one of those things we Scoot, I can tell you." "Well, I'm giad you got away In time," said little Billie. "So am I glad," said the little fish.

so quickly that little Billie Bubble began to think he hadn't even been One would think Mexico would be clear of foreign diplomats within a few hours. lt It It 11 "That was a funny way for that fish to act," said little Billie Bubble as he Who struck Commission Bill-y The Oasette-News ts a member of The Associated Press. Ita telegraph news Is therefor complete and reliable. Looking at it from either direction but one tiling can be said about a hat from the Shop 'It's $3.50 M. V.

MOORE CO. 11 PATTON AVE. Mysteries of the Heavens Revealed By Astronomy RIPPLING It it it it it it Entered at the Postofflce in Asbevllle second-class matter. By H. P.

Lovecraft. In XIV Parts. SEEING THE WORLD. He jogged around from town to town, "to see the world," was his excuse; he'd get a job and hold it down Battery Park Bank ASHEVILLE, N. O.

Capital Surplus and Profits OFFICERS: James P. Sawyer, Chairman of the Board. T. C. Coie, President.

J. E. Rankin, Cashier. Erwln Sludcr, Vice-President. Rankin, Amt.

Cashier. No Loans Are Made by This Bank to Any of Its Officers or Directors. Tuesday, February ulae, planets and satellites alike, are held to their proper places and paths by the laws of motion and the force a little while, then turn it losse, "Oh The series beginning with this ar-i tide Is designed for persons having no previous knowledge of astronomy. Only the simplest and most interest say," employers use to say; "your moving is a foolish trick; you'll soon be of universal gravitation. The stars, THE RURAL MAIL SERVICE.

TrJ iPV Of earning bigger pay, for we'll promote Including the sun, and also the nebulae, shine by their own light, but It appears tnat unuer uj ing parts of the subject have here been included. It is hoped that this retrenchment proposed by the Mr Burleson, some- the moon and the planets of our solar system are made visible only by ra series may help In a small way to diffuse a knowledge of the heavens amongst the readers of The Gazette- you pretty quick." "This town Is punk," he would reply, "and every street is surnamed Queer; I'd see the world before I die I do not wish to stagnate here." Then he was young and quick and strong, and Jobs were thick, as he jossed by, till people pass roaster thing like fifty per cent of the rural delivery routes in the various states may be discontinued. The Postmaster General has repeatedly stated that he News, to destroy In their minds the pernicous and contemptible supersti diance reflected from the sun. As will be made evident in the succeeding articles of this series, the domain of astronomy is more unbounded than is that of any other science. In the solar system, distances of millions of miles are relatively short; whilst the stars are.

so far apart, that the space between them cannot be tion of judicial astrology, and to lead at least a few of them to a more particular study of astronomical science. ed the word along that on him no one could rely. Then, when he landed in a town, and wished to earn a humble scad, the stern employers turned him proposed to make his department sen and it is assumed that he STOP THAT FROWN Eye strain, nerve strain and headaches relieved by glasses correctly made by us. CHARLES H. HONESS Optometrist and Optician 6i Patton Ave.

Opp. P. O. OUR CE-RITE TORIC LENSES ARE THE BEST. Part 1 Tiie Sky and Its Contents.

Astronomy, the oldest of all the down "we want you not, your record' bad." He's homeless in these sciences, is that branch of knowledge which treats of the heavenly bodies, wintry days, he has no bed, no place ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF None but high-class factory mechanics employed. Our supplies are cheaper and all work is Guaranteed. ENTERPRISE GARAGE Rurabough, Gen. Mgr. to sup; he "saw the world" in every measured conveniently by terrestrial standards, being marked off by the number of years required by light, at its enormously rapid rate of 186,000 miles per second, to travel from one to the other.

Notwithstanding these tremendous gaps, many of the heav their size, distances, motions, relations, and physical conditions. The phase; the World saw him and pass Thae planned to cut down the appropriations until the department Is placed upon basis desired by him. A great deal of bad news of one or another is being heard now, and this intelligence must be so clas-j sifted. The rural delivery service Is one thing which hns been established by a more or less paternalistic gov- name is derived from the Greek. words "astron," a star, and "nomos" ed him up.

It's Rood to "see the world," no doubt, but one should make his bundle first, or age will find him down and out, panhandling for the a law. Of the various studies pursued by enly bodies can be weighed, measured and even analyzed Vy means of mod LEADING HOTELS AND BOARDING HOUSES mankind, none is better adapted to ern while most of the or point overhead, so that there Is a furnish to Its followers a rational and Wienerwurst. WALT MASON. Copyright, 1915, by The Adams New3 paper Service. planets, being comparatively near, ernment of which the people have proved.

The service has helped the intellectual species of enjoyment than may be studied and mapped like the is this sublime science, for the gran very considerable part of the" northern sky, having as a radius the distance between polaris and the horizon wherein the stars never set, but re earth by the aid of large telescopes. However, the amateur astronomer deur and 'beauty of its objects, the very wholesome back to the farm movement, it has given the rural 9. simplicity and directness of their ob need not provide himwlf with any servation, and the broad conception population relief from a condition of main perpetually visible, describing circles about the pole, and therefore such instruments, as the sky is suf PP V.SS of the universe obtained from their isolation, has helped the town mer ficiently entertaining and instructive contemplation, whereby our seeming being called "circumpolar." There Is an opposite area of extreme southern chant and has been a great convene 9t as seen bynhe unaided eye. The Aspect of tho Heavens, ly boundless earth Is relegated to Its Vnce in every way. Begin Dragging Konds.

proper insignificance in the vast sps- The sky seems' to us an immense The cheapest good roads maker Senator Aldrich once said that mil over invented Is the drag. If you don' tern of infinity, all afford to the active and reflective mind an exercise of the most refreshing and pleasur sky which can never be seen in this part of the world. The equator of the heavens Is an extension of the plane of the earth's equator, girdling the sky ninety degrees from the celestial pole, and want impassable roads in February hollow Bphere, at whose center we are situate, and only half of which wo are able to see at one time, since the rest is cut off by the earth under 3 nd March, begin dragging them now able character. Send to the United Slates department Astronomy is likewise of great practical use to the human race, for foot. Once In every twenty-four hours ASHEVILLE, N.

C. FIREPROOF of agriculture, Washington, for a free this sphere appears to revolve aroun-l copy of farmers' bulletin 321 by Its aid the size and figure of the cutting the horizon at the east and west points. Bodies in this region spend equal periods above and below the horizon, whereas others stay Split Log Drag on Earth Roads. earth are measured, the ship guided us from east to west, though we know that thin motion is really due to the rotation of our own earth in Also demand that your legislature from port to port, the calendar and make proper provision for paying clock regulated, and countless other lions could be saved to the treasury by the practice of a reasonably degree of economy. Many students of public affairs have agreed with thl9 conclusion.

There are hundreds if not thousands of jobs under the government, created under political pressure, that might Just as well be abolished. It would seem, if economy is to be practiced, that It might be put into operation In ways that would not affect the postal service, In which everybody Is Interested, and through which every one receives a measure of benefit. the opposite direction. By day the dally affairs facilitated. The book of farmers for dragging roads.

Here is the gospel of road dragging as given in a single paragrapff by D. Ward dazzling refulgence of the sun prevents us from studying the surface of the heavens Is open to all on every clear night of the year, whence there would seem to be little excuse for the great ignorance of celestial science King, inventor of tho now celebrated plit log good roads maker: longer above or below, accordingly as they are Bltuate north or south of the equator. The or apparent annual path of the sun, is In reality an ex-tensionof the plane of the earth's orbit into space Since the earth's equator is inclined 23 and a half degrees to the plane of the orbit, it follows that in the sky the ecliptic and celestial equator must Intersect each other at a similar angle. That inter "It's not the water that falls on your this celestial sphere, but when the bright orb has sunk from sight, we see that the vault above is bespangled with a vast assemblage of stars, which appear always to keep the same places In relation to one an Grove Park Inn has secured from New York an expert Hair Dresser, Marcel Waver and Manicurist, who is also pre- pared to give all the latest scientific treatments of the scalp and hair. To the ladies of Asheville desiring Buch services at the Inn, appointment can be made by telephoning 3000.

roads that does the harm, but the now so lamentably prevalent even In the most highly civilized portions of our globe. ater that stays on it. After you grade your road the surface Is still composed porous dirt. This absorbs water. other, and which are arranged hjr1 chance Into certain well known peW Nature of the Heavenly Bodies.

Although the various bodies which shine In our skies appear to us as small flat discs and minute points of ENGLISH PRESCRIPTIONS. Either you drive at one side or you drive at the top and cut It up. Tou know the kind of mud you find in a manent figures called "constellations." This seeming lack of motion, however. Is only the result of the in section which the suncroases the equator on its northward Journey is called the "vernal equinox," and is a The New York Medical Journal suggests that doctors ought to write og wallow. It Is like wet cement.

conceivable distances at which the most imoortant point on astronoml- siars are situate; aciuauy tney arecan charts You could fashion a waterproof vessel from It. This same fine dirt ts found on a traveled roud. If It Is net dragged after rains It Is like a basin. flying In vurious directions at tre. In order determine the position their prescriptions In English.

"If a medical substance has any effect upon the Imagination," says the Journal, It will have that effect as much of objects on the celestial sphere, mendous rates of speed, though not for thousands of years could we perceive any sensible difference In thtilr that Imaginary globe Is supplied with holding the water, later hardening system of circles like those of lati light, they are, nevertheless, as every one has doubtless heard, very different in their actual nature, being for tho most part great suns and worlds, the majority of them much, and some vastly larger than the earth on which we reside, whirling around on their axes and rushing with Incredible rapidity in their appointed courses; some possibly inhabited by beings not unlike ourselves. This terraqueous globe Itself, massive though it seem to us, is reality a most Insignificant object as considered In relation to the rest of the universe. It Is, in When written In English as In perfect apparent places and arrangement. tude and longitude on the earth. Into a rough, lumy surface.

Drag the road after a rain and you spread a thin layer of this fine dirt over the Latin." The fact that the Latin, as Outlined against this unchanging 'Right ascension," corresponds to the Journal further Intimates, Is stellar background, and seeming to longitude, and is distance east of the THE BATTERY PARK HOTEL Under New York Management Refurnished Redecorated Modern Kitchen Ouisine and Service Highest Standard. 0. E. BAILING, Proprietor. Formerly, of Hotel Plata, New York.

surface and it is beaten down. Drag' move slowly amongst the stars, shine It after the next rain and you put on tially far from perfect, Is of no special Importance. It Is curious, though, the members of our solar system. vernul equinox, whilst "deollnatlon Is like latitude, being distance north or south of the equator. another layer which Is also packed But whilst we cannot observe the down.

Keep this up and after a while that a highly educated and progres The "meridian" of the eky is aline real motions of the stars, we are lm-prerted plainly enough by their two fact, only one of eight similar globes apparent motions; their diurnal rising you will have a road, higher In the middle than on the sides and covered with an elghteen-lnch or two-foot, smooth, hard crown that will shed all water. Using a simple drag is the extending due north south, and marking the central and highest points in the apparent diurnal courses of the heavenly bodies. A body on lve profession uses the Latin names for drugs Just because doctors did so In the middle ages when Latin was the language of all educated men, and called "planets," that revolve In ap proximately circular paths or "orbits' and setting, due to the earth's rota tion on Its axis, and their annual around the sun, an irrtmensc, fiery, central sphere from which they re progress westward, due to the earth's the meridian is said to "culminate" or to be In "transit." Circumpolar Swannanoa-Berkeley Hotel motion around the sun. Since the only suggestion yet made that will not make a road worse before it makes it ceive all their warmth and Illumina stars are fixed on the celestial popular names for drugs lacked preel ion and general currency. This Latin terminology may be de bodies cross the meridian twice In better.

Never drag up more at one tion. The moon is a small planet revolving around the earth as the earth sphere, we may with greater inclu one revolution; once in culmination, or upper transit," above the pole and time than can be packed down by the traffic." The Progressive Farmer. Itself revolves around the sun. Near slveneui way that these are motions not simply of the stars, but of the celes fended by physicians on sentimental POPULAR American and European Plans HARRY L. LANGEL.

Proprietor. ly every planet poseeses one or more twelve hours later in lower transit, below the pole. tial sphere itself. The heavens are such moons or "satellites as they are different at different hours of the grounds, as the last bit of mystery left in medicine. But why any mystery at all? Most patients want to (To lie Continued).

called The sun, together with its retinue of planets and their satellites, same night, because tho earth Is ITT. It I swiftly turning us to face different HAD LUNG TROUBLE forms what ho been designated "the solar system." parts of the sky; they are different for tne same hour at different sea AND EXPECTED TO DIE know what they are taking Into their systems, and most doctors today tec-egnire their right to know, There xo doubt, too, that the use of clear The stars, which should never be CATAWBA HEIGHTS Four blocks from square. Steam heat Private baths. Oil Merrlmon car line. Corner Morrtmon avenue and Marcellus street House remodel ed and newly furnished, rhone 2143.

MRS. H. J. BTJOHEB, Prop. sons, because the sun appears ro be OPENED UST confused with the planets, are other suns, similar in many respects to ours, independent of the solar sys moving eastward, carrying the day with it, as it were, overtaking the The many recoveries brought about English Instead of abbreviated medle by Eckman's Alterative are attracting stars, and causing them to rise and tem, and quite likely having attend The duck pin tournament at the wide attention.

Read about this set four minutes earlier every day, val Latin would result In fewer mistakes in putting up prescriptions. Ask T. M. C. A.

opened last night with case: ant planets of their own. The nearest star is 9,000 times more distant from The morning sky Is that which the sun has just left behind; In several 3S Koyser, W. Va. some very good scores posted in the small pins. The team of Anderson fuiy prescription clerk.

us than is the most remote of the months, the sun having; traveled around from the eastern part of it to "Gentlemen: I was taken sick in November, 1908. I grew steadily worse. Had two consultations. The verdict the fever had affected my met that of Jackson and the latter team succeeded in getting away with two of the three games and finished THE ST. JOHN Kendersonvllle's Largest and Best Hotel Commercial, Tourist The only steam heated hotel in the town.

Hot and cold water. Private baths. Large Sample Room. HT. JOHN AND SON, Props.

President Farrell of the United planets; indeed, so far oft are the stars that the most powerful telescopes show them as nothing more than mere points of light. Bcattered tho western part, that same area of When la Wayneevtlle Stop at THE KENMORE HOTEL The Leading Commercial Hotel A. SrEARS, Prop. Pre Sample Boom, OPEIC THROUGHOUT TUB YEAR, EStatea steel corporation declares that lungs and that my rose was hopeless; sky with all Its stars will have be come the evening sky. Thus new con.

atellatlons appear in the east just be' the certainty of at least 11,000,000, amongst the stars, however, are the 09 pins to the good in the grand total. Jackson proved the most consistent performer of the evening and "nebulae," inconceivably great masse 000 favorable trade balance for 1118 only gve me two months to live. My physician had tried BMt all kinds of treatment and none did mn any good, so lie ankml my husband if he ob of glowing gas, whose prodigious got three games well over 100, draw nearly twice our best record In' size enables them to present percep fore sunrise, become visible earlier and earlier at night as time passes, at length rise so early that they are already high- In the heavens when ing down an average of 114 pins to the game. The scores and totals fol tible surfaces to our telescopes. urea a great Industrial boom.

But the latest export figures Indicate that All the heavenly bodies, stars, neb CANTON, N. 0. THE IMPERIAL HOTEL E. M. Gelcr, Prop.

Steam heated: Free sample rooms, Electrld lights. Free baths. Rates $3. low: darkness falls, shine farther and far Tot ther westward as the nlfhta pass, by the end of the year the world 'i Indebtedness to will be nearer $2, Anderson $4 102 294 until at last they a rift Into the west Maxwell 8C 91 275 HOTEL ENTELLA BRYSON CITY Headquarters U. C.

T. and T. P. A and Lumbermen. Rates per day.

Rath room. Free sample rooms. Railroad eating house fronting South arn, depot Livery In 'connection. W. W.

WHEELEn P. E. FRY, Proprietors. em twilight of early evenlhg. and fj 00,000,000.

The January excess of are lost In tht sun's rays; lator to Allport SO 86 91 247 exports over Imports seems to have J. 8. Williams 97 $1 284 appear afresh In the morning aky, Trx-n; about $140,000,000. Multiply jected to hlin trying a proprietary medicine. I began your Alterative, I was in bed from November SO, 1908, until Februa'y 25, 1909, and was thought dying several time.

Today 1 am healthier and stronger than over." (Abbreviated). (Hlgned) MILS. II. K. WIILEY.

Eckman's Alterative ts most efficacious In bronchial catarrh and severe throat and lung affections and upbuilding the system. Contains no harmful or habit-forming drugs. Accept no substitutes, fimall size, regular size Bold by lending drug Dhe pole or pivot about which the that by twelve and see what the to Grand touts ITS If I 1109 heavens seem to turn is that part of the sky to which Is pointed the earth's HOTEL BTtEVARD Brevard, N. Under new management All con-renlencea Special attention to traveling men. Table excellent Rates $2.00 per day.

Special rates by week or month. MRS. J. B. CLATTON.

Proprletoresa tal Is. And for the first week axis. This spot is roughly marked by February me lavorebie balance was like 144,000,000, which Tot. Ill 41 tit a rainy bright star called "Podarlls" the "north star," or the "pole star Jackson 108 118 117 Oudger 17 71 8 Garner 91 86 116 R. K.

Williams 98 86 lot would mske It at the rate of $180 which la of cos me exempt from the i o.OOO a month. Twelve times that $00 gentral motions of the celestial vault. DUDLEY 2X inoliee NORMAN 2 laches COLLARS and which Is stationed due north, as HOTEL REGAL MURPHY, NORTH CAROLINA. C. I.

Urettham, licence and Manager. Hot and eold water. Telephone in ev. ery room. Private baths.

Steam heat Large sample rooms. Special attention to traveling men. RATES: 11 and 12. to per day. ptclal ratea by the week.

Headquarters for U. C. I T. and A. Grand totals $71 414 1K9 pouring Into the United States yellow gold and In the form ut own redeemed securities would iily bring an unprecedented IUU JAKMkll HPHLNttM UttkO, Comaiercial aad Tewtat.

Rates per day. Hot and cola Baths, Speolal Rataa by the Week or Month. S. r. JARRKXt Manage DIEslMr H.

gists. Write for booklet of recoveries. Hrkman Laboratory, rhlladclphia, HEAD OAZKTTE-NKW8 WANT ADS TODAY. The next games en the schedule will be bowled on Wednesday night when Neely's team will take on that far above tho horizon or sky-line of any place, as that place is north cf the earth's equator. In our latitude.

It lies somewhat less than half way between the horlson and the "aenUn," IhlTlrti. Own, of Bugg I.

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