POLK COUNTY NEWS C. BUSH, Publisher H. M: FRASCR. Editor Phone 99, Published every Thursday at Tryon, North Carolina Entered as second-class matter April 28 1915 at th-~> post office at Tryon, North Carolina under act of March 3, 1879. Y? . Advertising 3epr^?cntative ! ;;? ; .R :AN PRKSS ASbOCl A 1 1 ON. SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR SPRING AND MAT 8. Spring is here! And with 6pring comes all of Nature's beauty, and ? every two years ? elections. Late in arriving with its sub sequnt finery, Spring is here. Together with the (well known) shrinking violets come the more daring flowers and blossoms of the opening season. Candidates for municipal of ficers ip the coming election are poping their - heads above ground gradually as the sum shine of public sentiment casts its compelling warmth over ' them. Spring is here! FOR SALE. We wish to sell our new, well appointed well furnished home. It contains a living room, dining room, two bed rooms, sewing room, bath, kitchen, butler's pantry and two large closets on the first floor; on the second it has an apartment of three rooms and a bath. We will sell ' at cost. Come look it over. D. W. SIMMONS. _ * PRESBYTERIAN THE METHODIST AND CHURCHES OF TRYON. Sunday School at 10:00 A. M., P. G. Moris, Superinten dent. Reverend Fikes preaches on 1st and 3rd Sunday mornings at 11:00 A. M., and 2nd and 3rd Sundays at 7 :30 P. M. Reverend Yaadell preaches j on the 2nd and 4th,Sundays at | 11 :00 A; M., and 1st and 3rd | Sundays at 7 :30 P. M. REGISTER FOR ELECTION ON TUESDAY MAY 8th. I will be on duty at the office of the Tryon Electric Service Company for the registration of those not already register ed, daily from 9 A. M. until 5 P. M. and on Saturday the 21st until 9 p. m. H. DOUBLEDAY Registrar. For Sale Seven acres 2 miles north ofj Tryon Howard Gap Road; five room bungalow, bath, gravity spring water also 3 room cottage good barn, garage, other build ings, orchard. Bargain! . I C. FAULK. Tryon, N. C. o More ol a Procf. "Hi* a:n" *o mua's razor strop ;t?. i?-( s m omm* with. I go:ta dsue in half an hour." ' Ex'i'UHi.nQ Dream. Frightful i < ?ivi oi 1 a smiden rush of blood to l ho hea.l. while dreams *boat blood point in iniiatir.nation in gome part of ?ho body. In thi^ connec- \ tion a person may suffer from nothing more serious than a festered filler, and yet the spectacle of blood will form part of his dream. Appreciation * of the Birds. At :i conference of bird lovers held rivtui:ly in London it was stated that Asm . was fading the world in the p~ .-h? ^ives I lie bird life with- j il. !;,>;? 'order..*. It was also stated i Ih i : ii?* v\'.etlc valuq of j hi i ?!>. Plant Poisons Mosqultoet. A South American investigator hat 1 discovered th>? t > the mosquito larva* | cannot live in water where the plant known as chara foedita is found. This plant will grow almost anywhere and J j may be the means of ridding local Itles of this troublesome pest. The x experiments prove conclusively that ? the Insects are killed quickly owing to 1 ?omev toxic substance thrown off by j the plants. MORE THAU A RAIN SHEDDER African Chiefs Take the Possession of an Umbrella Very Seriously, Ao> cording to Reports. Some time ago, there was what tilt . news described as .unrest In the West African colony of .. Lagos; telegramf were dispatched between that country j j and Great Britain, governors and deputy-governors were interviewed, j and it was with difficulty that a native war was averted. The cause of all this commotion was an umbrella I Now, in our country, as we all know, an umbrella is looked upon as a harm less possession ? but not so in West Africa. There, among most of the na ! tive tribes, the umbrella is regarded as an emblem of royalty, and Its pos session Is strictly confined to the chief or king of the tribe. Therefore the Indignation was in tense on t?he part of one of these kings, when he found an inferior chief | putting up an umbrella of his own. The king at once took a journey to , Lagos, to lodge a formal complaint of the chiefs treasonable conduct with the British governor. An African king's umbrella Is a very elaborate affair, and It often costs i large snms of money. Most of the umbrellas for AshantI and the Gold coast are made of gigantic size, some of them when open measuring ten feet across. / The coverings of these umbrellas are of colored silk ? the brighter the i better, with very deep fringes. The largest umbrellas are carried over the heads of chiefs, by bearers while other j bearers steady the umbrella by cords attached to the uppermost parts. One state umbrella had for Its apex a silver eagle standing on two silver cannons, while another umbrella had j a gold hen on the top, the hen being 1 surrounded by numerous chickens, to I represent the chief and hts' tribe. CHANGES IN "OLD FAITHFUL" M Yellowstone's Famous Geyser Has! Slightly Lengthened the Periods Between Its Eruptions. Old Faithful, Yellowstone's most famous geyser, has slightly changed the period of its eruptions. According to the observations of the park naturalist and the rangers, the geyser now spouts on an average every 64.6 minutes. Last year the av erage period was 60 ralnutes. The alteration in Old Faithful's "tempo" does not Indicate any lessen ing of Its vigor or "faithfulness." On j the contrary, Naturalist M. P. Skin- j ner's observations show the mighty fountain to be increasing in volume. The change Is believed to be due to an alteration in the subterranean tube I of the ?eyser. For the last year or so Old Falthfnl has acquired a habit of occasionally throwing out small rocks. The pas sage of the rocks through the tube la believed to have enlarged Its dimea- j' slons slightly, this in turn being re- j sponsible for the lengthened period be- j tween eruptions and the Increased vol ume of water. A number of other interesting changes, lending a constantly varying j Interest to the mysterious manifesta- \ tlons of the park's pe|formlng natural | wonders, also are reported by official observers. That Word "Corker.* The American word "corker," mean ing a person or thing of superlative quality, is only a slang use of a legiti mate English word. Corker, In Its original senae, meant a conclusive ar- ! gument It probably originated from j the finality which a cork thrust Into I the month of a bottle stops all egress, I or Ingress of material in it. The relegation of the word as used | In America to the limbo of slang by j the dictionary writers has neither weakened the word nor limited Its use. The word "corker" Is a perfectly I good word. It expresses precisely a shade of meaning that needed to be expressed, and the chances are that It j will be a word of good and regular : standing long after the bones of the last living dictionary writers have thoroughly bleached. ? Milwaukee Sen tinel. Newspaper Accuracy. B. A White of the Detroit News, i after long investigation, finds that dally papers make only one error In evetry 3,250 opportunities for mistakes. ? Thifj country recently celebrated the ; anniversary of the landing of the Pil- j grtms at Plymouth Rock and history ha s pointed out the very spot where 1 -tttey landed. Now a scientist dls- j + covers %hat *t the time the Pllgrlxqs ! landed this spot was under sea. Which leads Mr. White to ask, "If history cannot report a ifact correctly in 800 years; ought we expect a news paper to be unfailingly accurate in six j or eight hours?" Diphtheria Germs In Wild Horses. Wild horses running on the open range and never in contact with hu< man beings have been found to be in fected with the diphtheria germ, ac cording to Dr. H. W. Schoening of the pathological division of the bureau oi plant Industry, at Washington. This fact,xhe claims, indicates that the dlph. theria organism is widespread in th? ?oil and fs not carried to the horse by some human being, as has been held. As *She Appeared to Him. Miss Saifah Bellum ? No one of thlt generation appreciates me. I was bom t0>o soon. Max Mi tftlrox ? Quite so. I bellevf :y4a'd be a pretty young girl right no* If you hat I only teen born about 21 ' years latei \ than you were. W, - | PEOPLES' FORUM j The Polk County News- re quests that persons sub mitting articles and news items for publication sign them. Unless otherwise specified the name will not. be published. This does not apply to letters submit ted for publication under "The People's Forum." Such ? letters .should be marked for "Trie People's Forum. j) More on Still Reporting. Now, I have another Lady that is reported as giving an idea of how "Traitors" and re- j porters who ave accused of be being probition violation's are thought of by one not very far from the one who it is sdid cut :lown stills. This reporter in company of officers proceeded to enter and i search her house. Whereupon . the lady told the officers to go I ahead and search but ordered the reporter (as thought to be) to get out of her house or she would bust; a chair over his head and never to put his foot on her premises again. Also telling him and the officers of his dirty acts and violations Qf i l;he Prohibition Law. He obeyed immediately and anoth er one of the company followed and didn't wait to be ordered. Governor Aycock at Columbus, while speaking in defense of a law to allow the rebel soldiers widows a pension, was enumer ating their good acts and brav ery as leaders of all the States, for said he, "When she is neat, she ?s the neatest and when she is sweet, she is the sweetest in North Carolina; and when she Is .grand, is the grandest, and when she gets mad, she is the is the d ? nest Jn North Caro lina." o Good Srccciinij. .? ' Spartanburg, S- C Don't Forget Spartanburg Festival? May 2, 3, 4, n