FEBRUARY 8. 1923. EASY TO POINT OUT MORAL Present Generation Should Take Los- > v son From the Fate of the Prehistoric Baluchistherium. BehoM the Balnchistherlnm crtme again into puhlio notice after laying down hts wearied bones jK?s$ibly two or thi*ee millions of years ago. He was hullt. way the paleontologists who broke o|*?n his resting *Vce. after the general design of the nK - m rhinoceros. His skul! was five feet long, and from this you can f make a fair guess as to his total size. Mentally the BnTuehistherium was reactionary. His skull was almost en- ! tirely hone. The brain cavity was ! hardly larger than a cavity which might have formed In one of his back 1 teeih. And because he carried con- | servatlsni to Its farmost lengths he and j his kind perished from the face of the j oortV. There cnme a period in the career v of the genus when environment greatly altered. The weather may have grown colder or warmer. An arid climate may have succeeded a humid one. Marsh may have humped Itself up into mountains or highlands become depressed to stagnant levels, j Whatever the chances were, the Bnluehistherhim did not change with thern. He did not fit himself to new .. circumstances. A reactionary* born, a ' reactionary by breeding and temperament. his eyes on the past rather tlsin on the present and the future, he committed racial suicide. Nature hecume impatient with him and. save for his skeleton?now become the wonder and pride of science?wiped him out. The moral in the ancient Balurhlstheriuni for us, dear readers, is this: March with the times. As environment alters, make ourselves suitable to it. Seek happiness In our own dr.ys Instead of mourning ahont days and conditions gone forever. Don't make nature querulous with ua.? Toledo Blade. Porky Hero of Zoo. ' There !n n now hum t*? fh? ' ... surrounding the small mammal house In Bronx zoological park and all the euiall ammals are chattering about the deeds of Porky the porcupine, the New York Sun relates. Porky was never thought much of by the raccoons, opossums and his other neighbors. lie would not help en- j tertfilu visitors. In modern history. In 1885 Bulgaria, | under Prince Alexander, found herself unexpectedly at war with Serbia, and sadly short of ammunition. Moat of the fighting in the three days' battle y of Slivnltza had to be effected by < bayonet charges, and to stimulate the troops, the Bulgarian bands came Into action, playing the national air, "DJnml-Marltza." The charges were Irresistible. Got Warning In Radio. A woman In California, listening la on a radio set, beard a warning from the state board of health as to tha dangers of rablee. She had been bitten shortly before by a sick dog. Tha advice coming through the ether caused her to have an analysis of the -\ dog's head made, which showed that the dog had been suffering from rabies and she reported for treatment .la time to save her Ufa from the dreadad , . LOOKED IN FACE OF DEATH Anglo-Indian Merchant's Close Call at the Hands of Servant Who Sought Revenge. Poisoning: Is a fine art In India. It la a favorite way to he revenue*) on a foe in a private quarrel. Sometimes n reptile Is placed in a man's bed, or tlie more subtle method may be : adopted of Inserting poison In his belongings. An Anglo-Indian merchant once had an adventure that nearly cost hfm his 1 life. He had gotten along well with the natives, hut two of his servants had had a quarrel over a girl. The merchant Interfered In the affair. La J. the unsuccessful suitor, t*egan to make trouble, and his rival, the husband. warned the merchant against him. Nothing happened for some months. Then the merchant went aw?y qn business. On his return he was told that La J had been caught In his bedroom. In the Last this means trouble. The merchant called his servants and had a thorough search made of the house. They scrutinized every knob, handle and garment to see whether It had been smeared with poison or with juices that attract venomous creatures. The merchant was tired, and after eating went to the cabinet where he kept his cigars. As he took up a box no noticed on It the marks of dirty fingers. He was about to take a clgor when he noticed that something was wrong with the head. A second and a third were like the first. In each a small, almost Imperceptible rose thorn had been Inserted and on It was a dab of brown slime, still moist, the same color as the cigar. The merchant notified the police. In half an hour an officer appeared with Laj under guard. The merchant stated the case to the officer, and. taking one of the cigar*. handed it to T#aJ with the command, "Take it and smoke It.*' The man refused. His guilt was proved. Up to the Minute in Rings. The Woman hail gone with the engaged girl to look at platinum w?Mhling rings. But as the delicate hoops with sentimental wreaths of orange blossoms or prosaic but gorgeous diamond sturidedl ones were placed on the strip of black velvet on the couf.ter U>? Woman's attention wandered from the eager engaged girl *n n nonchalant customer of many years. There was nothing extraordinary about this person's appearance either in features or clothes, but there was a positive manner In the way she picked up the rings displayed for her Inspection that aroused Interest. After hIip hntl (tviimiikul ? ding rings or so i?s though they were the most commonplace merchandise Instead of the most wonderful thing In the world to buy. Hie Woman saw her slip one on. And as she wondered how anyone could he quite so cold about that sort of a purchase she heard her say: j MI don't want to spend a lot. Rut; It must be platinum. This Is my third. I've had the gold and the white gold, i so I might as well have the latest there Is to have now."?Chicago Journal. f Moses as Alchemist. All writers upon alchemy trlum* j phnntly cite the Bible story of the gotaen calf to prove that Moses could make or unmake gold at his pleasure. It is recorded Unit MuSt'S Wits so wroth with the Israelites for their Idolatry that "he took the calf width they hud made, and burned It In the fire, and ground It to powder, and strewed It upon the watei, and made the people of Israel drink of it." This, say the alchemists, he never could have done had he not been In posses* si on of the philosopher's stone?by no rttlipr moo no w?>? I-1 tin ** ? ?VVUIU UV unit muuc mq powder of gold float upon tlie water. The notions of the alchemists seem to have been that all metals were composed of two substances?the one, metallic earth, and the other a red. Inflammable matter, which they called sulphur. The pure union of these substances formed gold, but other metals were mixed with and contaminated by various foreign Ingredients. The object of the philosopher's stone was to dissolve or neutralise all these Ingredients by which Iron, lead, copper and al! metals would be transmuted Into the original gold. Daddy Knew 'Em All. My brother recently attended a charity bazaar, accompanied by hia little son, aged three. Several young ladles soliciting acles for charity were dressed In costumes cut rather decollete. My brother, 'enow In g several of the women, conversed a few momenta with them. Next morning, when mother asked the child what he'd seen the night before, he told of the pretty things and also said "And. Oraudraa, there were lots of '.adles and they had nothing on here (pointing to his chest* and nothing on here (Indicating his | arms) and daddy knew them all I**?? Detroit News. Business Letters. One business man whom the Woman knows receives many humorous letters. When he receives one that Is particularly funny he forwards the Woman h copy. T'er mail this morning contained this opy: "Gentlemen," It read, "my order arrived in very had shape. All the metal sheets were bent and the kegs were broken. I am disgusted with your service. If I ever order anything from you again, pleas* efTln <+ *? Ma- O ' THE WATAUC. FAMINE AND DISEASE ARE MENACE TO ALL REFUGEES One hundred thousand refugees m scriottaiy i-t or dying on the coast: ^ Asia Minor, Trace and the Greek -.iai. land. No nation a.* such has com? iv.aru to help tnem. Private re.! f organizations seem hcpless ti until the entire problem. It i: too vast. Greece is face to face wit 11 social catastrophe. Internal order, r. t i.rity are menaced by the hord of starving and distracted fugitive: peering into the country. Famine and disease are stalking through Anatolia. Thace and tr? Aegean islands. Women and childrer are dying everywhere. Even so great and precious a thing as mother-love cannot survive the agony and des^ pair wrought by the sudden break ing up of families and homes. At Samsoun, on the Black sea. mother: in their desepration are abandoning their children and fleeing for then lives on board any ship that wil take them. The parentless childrer are left to the merciful hands oi American women releif workers i heir fathers having long since beer deported or killed. In Thrace, Greek soldiers ami ref ugees maddened by hunger, are rob bing and sacking the country-side. Ii Constantinople, a city of a thousaiu sorrows, pedestrians at night stumble over half dead forms of childrei middled in doorways and alleys. To day a caravan of dejected and ex nausted refugees from Anatolu swarmed up the Grande Hue de Per* of the capital like famished wolves rifty thousand Turkish refugees, 45, Odd Greeks and Armenians, and 14, 000 Russians till the capital's cup ol misery to overflowing. lypus, smallpox and dysentery ar< devastating refugee area in Thraci Piraeus and Salonica. In Anatolu where the Greek army burned sackec and killed there are 600,000 shelter less Turkish peasants, whose pligh' is rendered double acute by heav> snows and lack of clothing .In Iht great storm of indignation following the Smyrna fire, they have been in uocent, law-abiding, home-loving til iers of the soil, who deserve som< measure of the world's sympathy. Correspondents who have trav eled throughout the affected terri iorios report that unless foreign gov eminent relief measures are under laken, a majority of the two miilioi i more refugees will perish thi winter. There is virtually no fuel . o shelter. no clothing. Angora gov eii.nients is pitifully inadquate. Phej ..ix bovh bank rupt. Help niu>t conn irom the outside and as yet this hel| has not proved effective, particular ly in Salonica, Thrace, Constantino pa- ana tne Aegean islands. STORK PAYS VISIT TO PULLMAN CARS Great as is the speed of the Pull man car, that of the stork is oftei faster, anil often the benevolent bin catches the train. Many conductor and porters have assisted in usherinj infants into the world with literal!; a flying start in life's handicap, ac cording to the Pullman News. The stork, although an intelligen carrier, sometimes fails to ascertaii whether a physician is on the trail he is pursuing. In such instances i ;s up to the porters, conductors am possibly experienced men and woniei passengers to assist in the gloriou advent. The News says: "On one occasion William Venn 'general foreman of the Pullman yard at Kansas City, but then conduct o of the car "Biscay," aided and abet ted the stork. The mother promptly selected the name of Venn Bisea; feniith for her son." Porter Loii Thomas, now dead was known as "Doctor" on the Eri< run from Buffalo to Cincinnati be cause he had asisted in three birth on his car. * oiler Stephen L- Hopkins of th Milllieanalis District, had /?nn ?*t" r'nu^ experiences. The next morning Hop kins wrapped the mother and chin ui oiankets and presented them to th> availing husband and father. "He gave me 50 cents, but I in formed him there was no charge,' narrates Porter Hopkins. "That nigh lie returned the blankets with $10.' Little Mary wns rather willfnl am Inclined to have her own way. She wa? especially fond of slipping out of th< front door when ber parents were no' looking. So often did this occur tha' they were afraid that one day ?h< might get lost. So they lnstruriei her, should this happen, never ts speak to any one but a policeman. One day she was out for a walk wit! her father, who was anxious to kuov tf she had grasped her Instruction] correctly. Now, Mary/* said he. 'net's pre tend that you're lost and Tin a police man." He crossed the road, and Mary fol lowed, tearfully saying: "Please, Mr. Policeman, I'm lost!* "What's your name, dear?" lnqoire< the psuedo policeman. iiini. jAvknuu, IIICBK, WHS LUM COT rect reply. "Where - head waters of Eik creek. Begin- , > ning on a walnut tree in Walt Gregg's I line and then various courses so a.to include ail- the vacant land in j aid boimdry for compliment. Ent red Jan. 26, * 923. . H. J. HARDIN, E. T. J NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND i ! Notice is hereby given that by : virtue of the power and authority conferred in a certain deed of trust - executed to the undersigned by Lindsay Patterson and wife. Lucy B. Patt terson. on the 24th day of August 5 1918, and duly recorded in the office I of the Register of deeds of Watauga i county. North Carolina, in book No. I L W of Mortgages, page 91, default. i having been made in the payment of f the note for the security of which . said deed of trust was given. I will i offer f.?r sale at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash, at the - Court house door in Boone, Watauga - county. North Carolina. I i Saturday, the 3rd day of Marcil, 1923 i i at 12 o'clock m. the following: dfig-. crihetl real estate, to-wit: I ; First tract: Beginning on a dog- I wood, (now down) this dogwood was, - \ where a rock is now and is N. 28 j i . degr - R. 13 links from a new mark- i i I dogwood, Mild South id degree*- | . cu i -0 links from a gum pointer, , - and south 80 degrees cast 29 links - from a maple and south 80 degrees f W.2 poles from a spring at the edge of a swamp and running north 1 87 degrees west 214 poles to 11 2 a stone, thence south 39 de-! t grees west 28 poles to a stone | 1 thence south 10 degrees east 18 poles' - to a stone, thence south 18 degie?*s|| I west 16 poles to a stone, thensc south;i 82 degrees east 1 1 poles to a sugar * tree on the north bank of the creek: I * j thence south 4 1-2 degrees west about I - 135 poles to a stone, thence south - 21 degrees west 39 poles to a stone, thence south 88 1-3 degrees east I 255 1-2 poles to a rock, the south east ornor of the Brown 640 acres - tract, thence north 2 1-3 degrees east J Jpoles to the beginning, be-, iiu ot < half of the 11. A. Brown land i i of '".'.i acres, containing 345 acres!) s 1 more or less. This tract adjoins the { . j land- of L. A. Greene, Joseph Brown - J. 1 Greene, E. B. Miller, Mrs. Houck and 1 imotky Morct . and others. I Second Tract: Beginning on a ma-?| ) I hoe. . tree un t.hi* Kiu.th i ! P| Meal Camp Creek in Kinley's line; - and running: a northeastern direction ; i with and along the east side of taid .! reek to the bond in A. .1. MoieU'j miil p ::;d (now E. B. Miller's), ihence^ > cm - g the creek in u northwest- r - erly ouise to a stone in said Ein- j 1 ley's iine at the foot of the hill, con- 1 I mining about two and one-half or' s three acres, being a tract bought of - A. J. Moretz. c Third tract: Lying on. the waters - of Meat Camp Creek, in Meat Camp township. Beginning on a stone the t, said stone being in the boundary line II between the lands of Lindsay fatter11 son and Jane Miller, the said stone ; t being in the middle of the road leadi i mg from Rootle, V, ataug:. ooaiwy. .\. C., to Jefferson, Ashe County. X. s C-. running thence with the middle of said road the following courses, , to-wit: Xorth 52 degrees east ~t pole, s to a stone in said road, thence north v 7n degrees east 14 poles to a .?s:e - in said road, thence north 54 degrees ; east 12 poles to a stone in said road. y thence north 20 poles to a stone in said road, thence north GO degrees , east G poles to a stone in said road, u thence north JO degrees east 1 poles, - to a stone in the road, thence south ; ::0 degrees east 6 poles to a stone ' in the road, thence 64 degrees east 1 e i ?> poles to a stone in said road, thence i : south 8 degrees east 14 poles to a - stone in said road, thence south 61 ,1 i degrees east 9 poles to a stone in said t* road to the bank of Meat Camp Creek, thence crossing | - the said creek north 40 degrees east! " , I poles to a stone in the said coad, j t; thence north 66 degrees east six (6 > j " ; pules to a stone in said road, thence j north 26 degrees east 7 poles to a j stone in said road, above a store- j 3 ; house on the lands of said Jane Mill- : 3 er. thence leaving the road north 56 ; t 1 degrees west 6 poles to a bunch of I chestnut sprouts, thence north 7S j 5 ! degrees' west 10 poles to a chestnut, j | tree, thence north 9 poles to a beech > ! tree, thence north 46 degrees west 6 poles to an ironwood bush, thence j I i north 2 Odegrees. we?t 1C poles to a 7 black birch, thence west 9 poles to B!a buckeye | a chestnut bush, thence sputh 10 de? ! grees west 9 poles to a buckeye in . the line between said Patterson and said Miller, near a small branch, . thence south 10 degrees east 7 poles to a stone at. Meat Camp Creek, thence south with the meandering of I the creek 34 poles to a stone, thence ^outh 54 degrees west 15 poles to w a stone in the line between the said Patterson and said Miller, thence south and with the said line 21 pMes to the beginning. This 1st day of February, 1923. j H. F. SHAFFNER, Trustee. ft DR. ALFRED W. DULA | I r EYE SPECIALIST ? ifVTfrn SEE BETTER i MRPr see dula f 17 Year s Experience |j The Best Equipment Obtainable. ' i Glasses Fitted Exclusively i I MARTIN BLOCK, LENOIR, N. cJ I If you got it from I?1LA. It's .AM Right V | 1 * WATCH PAT.ER. KOa DATES. 1 p>(t Sma ENTRY NOTICE 2565 s,.? ? (TORE M5JSCLP5 County. Office of the Ealry Taker ^ Vacut- as no often of said county. SpO; J Tel S res p fror.l 1 L'i!i)Or W. s. Trip!ft. In-.at?'> an.l < :>;.,> .. . A r-o.^ee ? at"""i,u u '? h v. th V oiun gives lying: o t tit* head waters o IK'k creek .. , .fK.m.inc on a tpantsh vak at I ; .a- surprising r~scf. beth 'I - plett's corti T, runs.:-.- v.iih' a s^rs sr\ ^0% -*n*. 1 thence with Elizabeth Triplett\< line ^ 2? r$ '**\ SrJjJ Lo the beginning. En red Jan. ! 1 J3. /j\ p Q (F* LJ B H. J. HARDIN, E. T. j 0?>er *7 Million JiMrm fJ**J Yearly The Wings of Time Fhe New Year is upon us Here?Does it find you a better xnan. richer man or woman than last year? Have you laid by something of what you ' r made last year? If not, why not today, start an account and save. Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide. What is your decision? The Peoples Bank & Trust Company | Sfi P 13E3* p 1 ^ll || CO-OPERATION IS OUR WORD We are still using our slogan. How about jjfl ^1 patroniing liome folks instead of buying Hi stoves, Ranges, Machinery, Fencing and so m on from folks who do not pay one cent of tax to the county and one worth nothing to pni |? you or the county exceDt to take vnnr bar/1 ie ja3 earned cash off into some other county or |j| |=j state, and then when ysu want repairs where |p are you going to get them. Think it over now friends. I BOONE HARDWARE CO. |