Page Sis BANK IS 250 YEARS OLD London Institution in Whloh Pepys Kept an Account Venerable Customs of Messrs. Hoars & Co., Observed to Thts Day? Son Succeeds Father?Dia? ?rist's Account Overdrawn. London.?The bank in whlcil Sutnuel Vpys kept an account?which reoalned overdrawu when he died?has Just ?vleb rated its two hundred and fiftieth anniversary It Is one of the , three oldest bunks in Ia?ndon. and i Hoes by the name of Messrs. Hoare ok i Ot>. Since the beginning it has been ruled bj the Hoare family, eldest son I succeeding eldest sou as head of the : firm. Time has not changed many of the custom* begun by the founders. To \ j this day. a uteuiber of the house of | Hoare sleep* every night In one of i j the quiet bedr.h.j - overlooking s g; rden In the rear of the banking house. whl?*h n in Fleet street. Every ruorning Ht nine 'clock he un- ; locks 'be big fr<-nt ?! ? r with a huge key This rrad!t n began In the Sev- , en teen tl cepturv. In those days Cotr l.es ? otili! not be depended upon to get ?r< town to business on time, so one of ti e partners was assigned to sleep at the bank. In the old days a bather blackjnck hung ou side the d*?or. * S?ank being at the s gii .>f MVe 'd ie Leather Bottell." The Mi U ;: k is - ill a part of the b nk. and so Is ue old Gooh giaja - * and :>. \dding machines have not nose*' . :r way Into the business. In tie rear is a pari- saW to be built .? site of ! ' ?r Johnsons Mil: -em. 1 uder the carpet is a hole i - ,?}) which -in? barrels used to l-e owered Into the vaults, now piled deed and plate boxes. irease leads to handsome fani>i ".'-lenis, where every day the m 1*4 !1 luri'l. around a gleam: ny table, using an old Mind r for a pepper p? A wafer - rves as a us*a ! jar. Th# ciiuire ibout the table were made by uidale especially for the room, and iround the walls bang portraits of the generations of eldest sons who have ruled the bank. , Pepys' account is to he s?*eu In th? ( arlier of the surviving ledgers. It j records that he <|er site'! in KVSO ?l??ng after the diary stops. I'epy* ?on overdrew the account by ?13. and It never thereafter balanced. Later ^ Cromwell did business at the bank, but y hiM hr< ount did not slip :v.o the red. p FIND STONE AGE SKELETON ' - E : vr?M-i-re?erve:ake- it an unexcelled pasture for g stock and milking cows Root cops and particularly the lea- s of >t crops carry a high percc:.-age of m and potash which pi:im hem when freely fed an\ kind of <': .m and phosphorus destitute he larger proportion of minerals in tnal body. From ?? :< cent th< animal body is mineral matter eing about TO per cent of the bony ke!t i <>*'.. lion F an essential nstif the blood. Small an ints of ' hot tnim-'ab a'c found it : tfert * ; * ??f the idy. si rviug mportmt purposes. but calcium and phos mOTOr- .in iiu- orrrv oire> irqui, > u hi uch large mounts that the ration si : studied ' insure a supply of hv m. If however, good clover or alalfa forms the chief source ? : ughIgt .. r i a mixture of grain 'orm? he cor contrate part of the ration ad .tional mineral matter is not needed Sec bulletins No. 2Pf?, 30K. 3-17 >hio Experimental Station, Wooster >hio: Bulletin No. 1'45 I'- S. I). A. 'airv Division, Washington. 1>. C.) f The. Swedish expert?. 15 In number, save been at work for about seven ears, and have succeeded In collectng 20,000 relics of antiquity. The realt of their labor baa been uu aoumutation of proofs that the North a roost of Sweden was Inhabited as arly as SOOO B. C. The atone age skeleton. which la now elng mounted In Gothenburg* w*s ouad during excavations at Kunga uckn. a few miles south of this city. The relic3 now brought to light In hide Hint tools and weapons, oraaneius. etc. Ln one of the graves about ,uuu years oia were round the remains t a woman ami her equipment, con Istlng of an amber necklace, weaver** eods ami dlBtaflf. i Know at een opened in Boone ind most sanitary ires OLITE TOPS, COFC. AND WATER .ERS dern eqipment never the towns and cities. , TIMES A LARGE iORT ORDERS 35 and 50 cts. Restaurant THE WATAUGA TO MAKE DUBLIN OVER Elaborate Plans Prepared tor Improvements in City. Promoters of Principal Plan Estimate Cost at 10.000,000 Rounds Sterling? Central Station and Parliament Building Planned. Dublin.?Despite all the turmoil and discouragement In Ireland at the present tliue there are on foot two great and expensive projects for the Improvement of the city of Dublin. Elaborate plans for enormous changes have been prepared, which would make a new modern city out of nld Thu nrftmiit?ru of thfr nrln. clpal plan estimated Ita cost at 10.000,OUO pounds (sterling, whils Its critics put the cost at over 30.000,000, and there Is no visible source from which either sum could be raised. One plan is to build a large central railway station near the ruined custom house and turn the custom house Into a new post office. Since the destruction of the post office In Easter week. 1910. Dublin has had no central post office except Inadequate makeshifts. and even the makeshift was completely destroyed In the fighting which followed the capture of the Four Courts last July. Another element In the plan Is the building of n new parliament house on the s !e of the Royal hospital at Kllmalnham. This hls'orD building was, until this year, the residence of the commander of the British forces and also a hospital. The commander-inchief and the invalids have nil gone and the place Is now at the disposal of the Irish government The Free State senate Is now housed !n the Art museum and the Dall In the adjoining Lelnster house, taken over temporarily from the Royal Dublin society. A new parliament house will sooner or Inter have to he built. The fCilmnlnham proposal has been criticizisl by those v*ho think that the Irish parliament should be housed In the Bank of Ireland, once the scene ; of Grattnn's parliament. But the gov- I eminent does not consider the hank j premises suitable and even the sentl- ' mental association of the place is de- ! cried by some, who point out that the 1 Free State Is not the Inheritor of the flrnttnn tradition hut of the tradition of Theobald Wolfe Tone for complete Irish Independence. SHIPBUILDING HAS DECLINE Only 852 Vessels of 2,467,084 Ton* Built in 1922; Few in United States. London, Knglaml.? According to Lloyds' Annual Sumnmry ??f Mercantile Shlpbutiding. 852 vessels i?f 2.4??7,084 tons were built during 1922 In the shipbuilding yards of the world, which * compares with 1,377 of 4,341.679 ton.* in 1921 and 2.483 of 7,144.549 tons In 1919. The output credited to th* United States for 1922 Is 119.138 ton*, or 887,275 ions leas than during 1921, and nearly 4,000,000 ton* lees than the recor?1 year of 1919. British yards built 1,031,081 tons in 1922. as compared with 1,538,052 tons in 1921 ; Genmany'a utput in 1922 was 575,264 tons, against 600.064 In the previous year, other notable declines In 1922, as compared with 1921. are: Japan. 144,000 tons; H.ilhind, ?n.*70; Italy, 63,571; ltcn luin, 30,222. and France. 20,154 tons. xh? number of sienui and r tankers launched In the world's yards during 1922 was 61 of 855,854 tons, ana f these tireat Britain Is credited with 42 of 262,826 tons, and the United States two of 14,440. "SHINES" IN LONDON RUINED Cleaner Sidewalks Help Drive Shoeblacks Out of Business?War Also Blamed. London.?Cleaner streets are mainly responsible for the gradual disappearance of another of London's landmarks, the red-coat* d shoeblacks, who formerly were stationed at rron*lnent places In the city and west end. Years ago these men, who numbered j 2,000 made sufficient money In a few years to start business on their own ac- j count, but slackened demand for the shining of shoes has depleted their number to about 400, most of whom find It hard to make a bare living. This Is due partly to men about town being less careful of their appearance since the war; the fact that there Is less money In people's pockets, and that the streets today are much cleaner as a result of asphalt paving on sidewalks and macadam In roadways. Young "Viotlm" Watched I Hunt for His Own "Body" j 8 Jenkins Hllam, six years old. | of Ashland, Ky., for two hours watched scores of men drag the flooded and ley waters of the Ohio river for his body. The boy had played hookey from school, and Miss Wright, his teacher, caught one glimpse of the truant as he disappeared over the edge of a high bluff overhanging the river. She gave the alarm. and searchers dragged the river for two hours before one of them saw the boy peeping out at thfaa from be- jj hind some buahea. | -3MfMWMMMaa8HMMMMeMM0 V. DEMOCRAT LACK POWER OF DESCRIPTION i Avarag* Person Unable Accurately ft* Define Things That Are in Commonplace Use. It seems rather strange, but there are a number of things which we know well enough and yet ure totally unable to describe accurately. In some cases, to give a description of an ordinary common object may require special scientific knowledge, in others it seems as though it ought to be simple enough to anybody?and yet nobody can do it! An example of the former class is shown by the joke which was common a little while ago. of uakiug people what a spiral staircase ia. It takes a mathematician to define a spiral, and the average person finds it easier to trace ?me with his finger. But suppose some ftne Is asked how he distinguishes between beef and mutton! That requires no specialised knowledge, but the chance* are that he will be hopelessly floored. Yet when be sees them both he will know each In u minute. Even then he will probably still be unable to explain exa<*tly how he recognizes them. Again, suppose some Imugimiry person of ordinary intelligence had never seen any flowers and had no idea what they were. How many people could teli him so that he could recognize them in future? Probably no one. not ven the greatest botanist! '1 r things which would seem to be easily and simply described really often rei;i quite a lengthy explanation. FVr instance, to make the appearance of i book plain to anyone who didn't know would necessitate a fairly complete and detailed account of the process of bookbinding. A man was once asked to describe (with.. 't making any diagrams, of course the appearance of u violin, lie S" i g"t into ditliculties and gave It up I The reason for this curious inability to explain common tilings is that we are never called upon to do it. Neither has anyone over explained them to us. People are shown flowers from infancy and get to "know" them without realising why or how they do it. It is the same with thousands of commonly occurring "familiar** objects. A man having once seen u violin would recognize another at any time, hut any amount of verbal description of it would leave him almost as much ui it'i 'i run c ui n uai 11 uimru iinr m before. When Money King Loses Out. When Rufus Kayiie has cutns hi* cropper in frenzied finance, lu Arthur Train's novel of New York, "Ms Children's Children," he unburdens himself to young Malilund : * 'And the queerest part of all is that since that time, ever since rte been down and out, Tve had a sense of being in luck?of relief?sllver-lining-tothe cloud sort of business.* "Maltland had lit his pipe again and was leaning back against the wall. " 'If you really feel that way,' be said, 'there must be a reason for It/ " 'Of course there'* a reason !* answered hi* client eagerly. 'If y?e knew the whole story you'd understand It? Just as I do. We're all of uu walking the tight rope?every man Jack of rts. The ones who have learned tt> keep their balance go riirht along as a matter of course?no danger at all I The others fall off. Well. I didn't have the balance. Over I went!*" Of course the case of Kayne in fiction points a moral in fact. Rut It's the kind that no climber will heed and every man on top regards with contempt. Blackbirds Eat Grain Crops. Blackbirds, which are attracted in immense flocks through the fall and winter months, cause great damage to rnins of mllo mnizp In fh?> Tmttprlal valley, California. Investigations made hy the biological sum} of the United States Department of Agriculture reveal an average destruction of about 10 per cent of the crop over an area of 20,000 acres. This loss, with lesser damage in adjoining areas, and expenditures for protecting the grain, totals about SiSO.OOO annually. Poisons cannot be depended upon for dontroL It has been found. The possibility of employing toxic gases has been considered, but their practicability Is doubtful. The only method so far found to alleviate the losses is the expensive practice of "bird minding.** This la done by patrolling the fields with shotguns during the morning and afternoon feeding periods of the birds, the main effort h -ing to frighten the birds by the noise rather than to kill large numbers of them. Englleh Language Puzzles. The English language la still a puer.le to many Japanese wireless operators. As an illustration, an American operator on an Alaskan steamer heard a Japanese operator working and asked for his position and who ha was. The reply came back that he was Takl somebody and that he was working in the radio room. Another American operator Inquired regarding the report of a great typhoon in mid ocean, end the Japanese replied that It was an 111 wind that blowed no ona any greater favor. Another questioner asked whether the Chinese had tn; at! toted a boycott on certain American-made goods. Hie Japanese operator answered that so far as be knew 1 there had been no boya captured by the Chinese for soma time?? ** News. Interviewing n Laser. "Who la the beet poker player to CHmssn Gulch r 1 slat the heat," replied Cactus Joe. "Bet Its the gentlest and thd Mi." ^ Mi BABY BARRED: NO PASSPORT Immigrant Family From Poland May Bo Turned Back Because of Baby Born at Sea. Omaha. Neb.?The birth of a baby which the atork left on the liner Hochamheau Is the cause of the detention at Kills Island of Mr. and Mrs. Moses Epstein and three children of Warsaw. Poland, bound for Omaha. Issuan?*e of passports to Mr. and Mrs. Epstein and two children completed the authorized immigration quota from Poland for February and when the Epsteins reached New York they found that the baby was excluded under the now Immigration law. immigration officials pointed to two valid reasons wny tne Daoy is exciunea?m exceeding by one person the February Polish quota, and It had no psssport. j The Kpsteln passports were for four persons and there were live. So the officials ruled that either the Kpsteln family must leave the baby behind or else ro back to Poland. Workman Injured When Companions Obey Whistle j Benjamin Brown of Montlcel- y lo. N. Y.. has a fractured spine ? because fellow workmen on a Z building heard the noon whistle I blow and dropped a plank they ? were -arrylng across a Scaffold, z The plank fell, striking Brown < on the hack. y I I OK > hifty or sixty head of ] Cattle, Cows, and Sprii sonable price. All who cattle at a good price, HARRISOI bands, N. MBHDBHSHnBBXI 1 - All Ready t< We pride ourselves n the servic and the good values our lumber quality and quantity in framing, and millwork. We also handle windows, doors ent, and sewer pipe. We do a general rail and shi[ one of the largest shippers in J oh down to fundamentals and comp; with any in the market, you will | best. Let us have your orders. EAST MAIN AND E I Heading - Sell JOHNSON CIT^ Quotations made promptly on ri To Court V: * . There will probably 1 scores of people who 1 place of business, and tend a most cordial ii Many will buy a sup here and kill two birds would profit by this. 1 am very anxious foi people to visit me as don't want to trade, \ anyway?just get ao a l .i + /vna say, tnose or y< try to think and bring that don't "hit the ba expert in the Watch ar iness and to prove th work?IT 'S GUARj CHILDREN?get ; etc. at my place before you here. I ! W. A. 1 i >v kRCH 22. 1923 Olympic Games of Hercules. The Olympic ptmes of Greece were established In very early times?according to Greek tradition by Hercules himself. Ther hecnjne a truly national festival In 77? B. C. Every four years a series of athletic contests were held In honor of Zeus on the Olympic plain In Ells. The games at first comprised chariot races, foot races, boxing, wrestling, leaping and i running, etc. I^ater the drama had a | part and works of art were exhibited, j Garlands of olive twigs from the sa-; rT?*rl nltvA tro? rrnwn.'fl the heeds of' the victors who were welcomed home with triumphant processions. The frames were kept up until 394 A. D.. and dates were common It reckoned by these Olympiads. About that date they were abolished by Emperlor Theodoslns I. In the present century they have been successfully revived aa an International contest. England Swatting the Fly. Swatting the fly In England under the Incentive of sanitation and health propaganda has resulted In the reduction of the nnmher of house flies from n^rrlads to a comparatively few, according to the medical assessor of the ministry of pensions. He toured the British Isles last summer and. In those places where previously there had been thousands of files, they were con splcuons by their absence, he declares.' Some ontof-the-way villages and' * farmhouses still sheltered the grubs and Inseets. hut the locations were not numerous. There hn" been n very great decrease In the figures of infant mortality, as <-oin|?nred to 1911. and the Improvement Is credited by the medical assessor to the relative absence of file* , v\ii; i ^ure Bred Short Horn iging Heifers at a reawish to purchase real 8 Write or see v baker Carolina < d Ship You :e we are able to render buyers, offers. We are leaders in both sheeting, siding, ceiling, finish >, builders' hardware, lime, cemt >ping business and are rated as nson City. When you get right ure our lumber, point for point, find it will measure up with the IIVISION STREETS s Lumber Co. f, TENNESSEE squest. isitors: >e in Boone next week tave never visited my to these I want to exivitation.. . iply of groceries while with one stone. Many r as many out-of-town possibly can, if you vhy come and see me quainted iu who will visit court along that time piece 11" just right. 1 am an id Clock repairing bus at 1 have faith in my I \NTEED I your Easter egg dyes I : the other kiddies heat ?HOMAS '