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THE FLOORS COLLECTS ftathcrfircMoii 3nbunc. VOL. II. NO. U. COMMERCIAL JUNK. Report of the condition of the Com mercial Bank of Rutlierfordton, at Ruth erf ordton, N". C, at the close of business ou July Kith. 1W2. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts, $22,10G.86 Overdrafts 1,034.60 Furniture and Fixtures !,000.00 Due from tanks and bankers, 7 921.49 Cash on hand 3,418.36 Total LIABILITIES. Capital stock Surplus Undivided profits Deposits subject to chec ks. . , Due other banks Cashier s cheeks Total $35,481.31 ?iO,000.00 1,000.00 615.93 3.447.43 155.43 232.53 .$35,481.31 ! I, J. F. Flack, cashier of The Commer cial Bunk of Rutherford ton, do solemnly swear the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. J. F. FLACK, Cashier. State of N. C, Rutherford County. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 29th driy of July, 1902. IvI. O. DICKERSON, C. S. C. Correct Attest : T. B. Twitty, Johx C. Mills, M. H. Justice, Directors. By virtue of a mortgage deed executed to the undersigned on the 6th day of January, ISO, by David Tate and wife, Texas Tate, I will at the court home door in Rutherfordton, for cash, at pub lic auction, on Monjday, September 1st, 1902, fill that interest, right aud title of the iid David Tate pad Texas Tate in and to the following described lauds lying in Rutherford county, adjoining the lands v,t R. W. Logan, Elias Grizzle nnd oth ers, ou die waters of Mill creek, bound ed as follows : Beginning at a stake just l'low the ford, comer of land sold to Elias Grizzle, and runs with his line north 35 west 14V poles to pointers on Loam's liue of the Morris tract, Griz zle's corner; thence wirh his line south 45 cist 133 pules to a htakc ou the bank of Millereek; thence cp the said creek as it uu adders, to the beginning, containing- forty-six (40) acre?, more or less. The said land will he sold to satisfy a rtebr i):".i!fd in the said mortgage, which is reisl'-rc-d in the Register V office for R utberford eouuly, in Book H-3 of Mort gage Deeds, page 183, to which record reference i made for full particulars. This July iUsr. 1H.2. W." M. WITHROW, Moitrsee. MeBaavt-r & Justice, Attorneys. By virtue of a decree from the Supe rior couJt of Rutherford county, made in the specSal pi-oaeedinjrs.eatitled "Wiliam Walker administrator of Lacretia. Pan nel vs. Alcifiituey Walker et ui." I will sell on Saturday, tiie 30th day of Au 5yist 1002. at 35 ni., fee public taction on the preral-4es lately occupied Ire- Lacretia PiiiHM. decea-d, a trae- of land of which she seized, containing about nine ty and one-half acres, iyiag in Ruther ford county in Ciafax township ou Hill's creek, &A joining the la ads of David Jen-kin.-.. Joh Edward.-; a:id others. The said property will be sold for the pose -of vxeafiag assets for the payment of any valid iul just debts that may ex i:t agaiiist the e: t;U' of the" said Lucre tiA Pciiiiiel, deceased, and whatever sur plus :uay remain, to be distributed among her heirs at law u'e-nriing to their sever al iiituvsts. Said land will be sold on the following terms, to-wit: One-fourth i the purchase price to be paid in cash on day of sale aud the remainder to be p :id in six mouths from date of sale, ev idenced by note with approved security with interest from date of sale. Any persons desiriug to see the hinds will call on the undersigned. Thus July 25t h . 1 03. WILLIAM WALKER, Ad'iur. of Lucretia Paunel, deceased. The undersigned, having obtained let ters of administration on. the estate of Koa.h Womach, deceased, liereby notifioH all persons indebted to the said esrate to ettle the same at once ; also persons hav ing claims against said estate are requir ed to present the same duly authentica ted to :he undersigned on or liefore the loth of July, 5903, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery on claims not ko presented. This July' loth, 1902. ORSON MORROW, Administrator of Noah Womach. McBrayc:- & Justice, Attorneys. Having qualified and liaviug been ap pointed administrator of D. D. Harrill, deceased, late of Rutherford countv, all persons having claims against the said deceased arc hereby notified to present the same to the nndersicinvt mi nr w vo tbe 10th day of July, 1903, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery, j All persons indebted to the estate of said . D. D. Harrill, deceased, will please settle ; ui unee. iiiis j'lrn nay ot July, 1902 C. B. HARRILL, Administrator. Notice. The undersigned will make amplication at the September meeting of the Board of County Commissioners for Rutherford county, to change the lownship line be tween Morgan and Camy Creek town ships, as follows : B, -muiug at Gilkie's mill, and running the cast prong of Cach ey's creek to Windy Gap, the McDowell county line. This Agast 4th, 1902. B. F. Tate, M. V. Bautles, J. C. Kee- thu. A. H. Na.nwky, C. Mokgan, C. G. Hill. Eaves & Rucker, Attorneys & Counsellors at Law, Rutherfordton, X. C. Office up stairs in Biekerson building. Prompt attention given to all business intrusted to them, ROOM FOR ALL GRADUATES Nature Ad J nuts Matters and Always Preserves an Equilibrium. Once a year the schools and colleges of the country harvest a crop of grad uates, and once a year the wise men of the land write essays for publica tion on the surplus of men who are entering the law, medicine and other callings that are open to the newcom ers. If the wise men are to be be lieved, it would seem that all the oc cupations were tilled and that the young man had arrived too late. Fortunately for the tenderfoot, the wise men have always been wrong. No philosopher has ever presented a logical argument that did not leave something to be said on the other side. Every year since the world set up for business a new crop of young men has arrived, aud that new crop has even tually become the stay of the race. What has been going on eternally will continue. The young chaps will locate themselves. It is no argument that lawyers have their signs staring at you from every hallway on half the streets within several blocks of every courthouse in the country. The har vest that Includes a new lot of law yers also raises a lot of new litigants. Nature takes care to preserve an equilibrium. If the fledgelings of the medical schools do not find bones to saw, some of them turn to sawing wood. The boy who has gone through college with the intention of becoming president of the United States finds a satisfactory job as master of ceremo nies in a coalyard. A few jostles and the new man adjusts himself to cir cumstances, and then he has become a part of the machine, which runs ou as usual. It is unnecessary to become alarmed about the surplus man. If be is in law, medicine, theology, horse trading, ped dling milk or anything else, he finds it out, and he arranges the matter iu some way without any upheaval in so ciety. The surplus man is surplus only until he gets his first job. After that he is one of the establishment, Pittsburg Times. SCIENCE SIFTINGS. The sun's flanies spring at times to a distance of 350.000 miles from its sur face. In dry air sound travels 1.412 feet per second, in water 4,000 feet nnd in Iron 17.500 feet. The amplitude of vibration of the diaphragm of the telephone receiver in reproducing speech is about the oue-tWtfUty-milliojith of an inch. Fresh air contains about three parts of carbonic acid in 10.000, respired air about 441 parts, aud about five parts will cause the air of a room to become "close." Holophane glass Is a pressed glass resembling cut glass, having vertical prisms on the inside for. diffusing the lijht and horizontal prisms on the out- side for directing the light. The following are found to be the densities cf the planets, water being 1: Mercury. 3; Venus, 5.14: earth. 5.50: moon. 3.34"; Mars. 4: Jupiter. 1.35; Sa turn, 0.03; Uranus. l.Ul); Neptune. '2.29. The star Arcturus. the hottest of ce lestial bodies, gives us as uiuoli heat as a standard candle six miles away. This fact was ascertained by the ra diometer, an Instrument which will show the amount of heat given off from a man's face at 2.000 feet dis tance. He Was "In the Sonp." "Mou ami." sakl the Marquis de Croisic the other day, "the hotel keep er's life is an unhappy one. If ho does not look to the least little detail, the whole thing goes what do you call It? Ah, yes. ou the blink. "Here Is example of what I say. When I had tbe Logerot. there was once a dinner there at which Chauucey Depew was a guest. I told the chef to put In the menu some dish in honor of him. and I forgot to look at the menu before it went to the printer. "What do you think that imbecile of a chef had done? There" And the marquis produced an old menu card on which among the "soupes" appeared the following: "Puree de mu i rons a la Depew." Gently Sarcastic. The following church notice was re cently exhibited: "The service on Sun day morning is at 11 a. m. The suppo sition that it is ten minutes later is a mistake. Young men are not excluded front the week night service. The seats in the front portion of the church have been carefully examined. They are quite sound and may be trusted not to give way. It is quite legitimate to join in the singing. The object of the choir is to encourage, not discourage, the congregation." London Answers. Giving- Her Ligrht to Die. A small farmer in Aberdeenshire, having a wife that bad been long ail ing and confined to bed, was of so nig gardly a disposition that he grudged the poor woman so much as a light She in a pet one night exclaimed. "Oh, isna this an unco' thing that a puirl body 'II nae get light to see to dee." i The husband rises up and lights a can dle and, placing it at the bed toot, says to his wife, "There, dee boo!" Scottish American. A Deep Look. "Yes," said the lawyer; "there are many things txvbe Investigated in this case. The first thing to be looked In to" "Is my pocketbook." assented the cli ent, with perfect assurance. Judge. The Hungry Sea. "Why do they speak of it as a hun gry sea ?" "It takes the dinner right out of a person's mouth." Town and Country. The Tribuxe from now until January j 1 903, for only 50 cent. j BUTHERFORDTON, N. C. THURSDAY PLOWING WITH ELEPHANTS Burnum'N Reply to the Parmer Who Asked Whether It Would Pay. It may be said of I T. Earnum that he was the major domo or lord of laughter and fun, the protean dispenser of amusement. How well he became known through this function one curi ous incident certifies. Some years be fore he died an obscure person in some remote part of Asia wrote a letter, which he dropped in the postoffice near him, directed to "Mr. liarnum, Ameri ca." The letter reached its destination without an hour's delay. The great showman unaffectedly enjoyed being known from the very beginning of his celebrity, and when he found his celeb rity Avas a tremendous factor in his suc cess he did everything that he could think of to extend the exploitation of his name. This was not to nourish vain imaginings or because he felt ex alted. It was to promote business. Around his successive homes at Bridgeport, Conn., he was fend of put ting something that suggested a show. Queerly marked cattle, the sacred cow or an elephant was frequently among the stock to be noticed in his fields. On one occasion he had an elephant engaged in plowing on the sloping hill where it could be plainly seen by the passengers on the New Haven and Hartford railroad, an agricultural inno vation that he knew would get notice of some sort in every newspaper in the country. It was even said that he re ceived letters- from farmers far and wide asking how much hay one ele phant ate and if it was more profitable to plow with an elephant than with horses or exeu. His replies were In variably frank and were of this pur port: If you have a large museum in New York and a great railway sends trains full of passengers within eye shot of the performance. It will pay, nnd pay well, but if you have no such institution then horses and oxen will prove more economical. Joel Benton in Century. WEDDING SUPERSTITIONS. The bride should not fail to shed a few tears on her wedding day. It is an omen of good luck in the future. It is unlucky for the bride to enter the church before the ceremony at one door and leaveafter the ceremony by another door. The bride should always cut the first piece of her wedding cake and pour out the first glass of wine for her guests if there are not too many. If the bride drops her handkerchief ou the wedding dav and the bride groom picks it up, it is a sign that in the future he will play second flddle. It is said to be unlucky to tie shoes to any part of the carnage in which the bride and bridegroom go away, but it is lucky to throw an old shoe after the bride as she enters the carriage. In leaving the church the bride will do well to place her right foot fore most if she wishes to be happy, healthy, etc.. In the future, and she should always be the first to ca41 her husband by name. After the wedding breakfast aud re eeption the bride should be careful to throw away and lose nil the pins, if there are any afont her. The brides maids should not keep the pins them selves or they will retard then: chances of marriaire. A Moil est Request. To judge from an incident reported in the Washington correspondence of the New York Tribune, the department of agriculture souk times appears from a distance like a big department store. During the season when members of congress send out seeds one of the packages found its way back to the eender, accompanied by a note from the farmei- to whom It had. been ad dressed. "My dear sir," wrote the farmer, "I appreciate your good will In sending the seeds, but my eldest daughter, Ma lilftn, is going to marry the doctor down to the village next month, and wife and I think of giving up the farm and going there to live. If we do, the seeds won't be much good, as we shan't have a garden; so if you could change them for some stockings (No. 9) and some handkerchiefs or a nice spring bonnet for Matilda I would be much obliged." A Juvenile Feminine Prayer. A little girl was spending the sum mer at a fashionable watering place, and one morning as she played upon the veranda of the hotel where her mother was stopping she heard a lengthy conversation upon the fashions of the day and the absolute necessity of stylishness in dress if one hoped to be a success in society. One lady went so far as to say that stylishness was far more Important than beauty. That night as the child said her usual prayer she added, with great earneat-ness, "And. oh, dear Lord, do please make me stylish!" Lippincott's Magazine. Medicinal t'oen of Salt. Salt is one of the greatest of natural remedies and antiseptics. A weak so lutionan eve teaspoonful in a glass of water, cold or hot is excellent for Indigestion. A solution of about the same strength will often relieve a cold in the head If snuffed up through the cose. Severe pains In the bowels are often relieved by the application of a bag of hot salt. Necennary Precaution. Life Insurance Agent My dear sir, have you made any provision for those who come after you? Harduppo Yes; I put the dog at the door and told the hired girl to say I'm out of town. Brooklyn Life. The ashes, so called, from volcanoes are simply lava that is finely pulver ized. 53 cents gets The Tribune from now uutil January, 1 908. ALMANAC YAGAMESJ AN INTERESTING COLLECTION IN THE LIBRARY CF CONGRESS. JVoted Men Who Are Crca Js-piI Willi Beinjr. the First Aitiaase Makers. Yeurly Alntsiv.aci liuse Since the SistecEtU 1'pr.iurj-. One of the r.iost curious collections nt the library, of congress is that of almanacs. These publications, which as advertishig mediums are left at the door, often to- be at once thrown care lessly into the wastebasket, have a striking and venerable history. It Is still contended by many author ities that the almanac of 1457 was the first specimen of printing, and it has ! been variously credited to Gutenberg, I j Schaeffer and Plister of Bamberg. Dr. J j Faustus, celebrated in legend, whose : j strange story has been immortalized '' by Marlowe and Goethe, was the ac-1 J credited author of almanacs containing astrological signs (retained at the pres- j ; eut day) and necromantic secrets, j j "Poor Richard's Almanac," the pro- j j duction of Benjamin Franklin, is well ! j known as a- treasury of homely wit I and wisdom. One of the greatest of j i modern German authors, Auerbach, first won his way to popular esteem ' by using the almanac as a vehicle for ; His talents. j j Iteyiomontanus, a famous German ' ' mathematician, under the patronage of ; Matthias Corvinus, king of Hungary, i published a series of almanacs from ; 1473 to 150G, and yearly almanacs be- ' . came an established custom in the six- ' teeuth century. Henry III. of France ; . In 1579 enacted thut the almanac should not be made the Instrument of partisan politics by the Introduction of i prophecies against parties and indi- vidua Is In the state. ,; The first almanac in the modern j 6hape appeared in England in 1073. It j was compiled by Maurice Wheeler, ' canon of Chrlstehureh. Oxford, and j Whs printed in that city. The sale was i o great that the booksellers of London 1 lought the copyright in order to mo nopolize its subsequent sales. The j "Almanac BoyaP of Paris. 1007, con tained notices of pastimes, court recep tion days, fairs and markets, to which ; were added soon afterward the gen ealogy of the reigning house, etc. In England Janus 1. granted a mo nopoly of the trade to the universities and the Stationers' company, subject ; to the censorship of the archbishop of j Canterbury and the bishop of London. The universities accepted an annuity i from their colleagues, and resigned the active exercise of their privilege Into I the hands of the Stationers. Under . their supervision were conducted the popular almanacs known as "Moore's" ' and "IrtridgeJs." the latter of which was hurnoromdy attacked by Swift. , "Boor Itobin's Almanac," published from 1052 to 182S, may have furnished ' a model, at least in title, for FrankliD's ' 'Toor Kichard." j Popular superstltitiona and The es ' travagances of r.strology fourd room in these almanacs, the Stationers, like a gemiine"'orporation or "trust" of tho time, having no personality of their owu. uud exhibiting no special bias except for what would sell, as wns particularly proved In 1024, when they issued a set of predictions In one almanac and bitterly contradicted them in another. The famous "Moore's Ahmnpc" pur ported to be edited by Fi ;'i:c;s Moore, physician. The original l-a."cls .'i jore died In 1724. but tbe pul licit: .,n was still isued as if m-d.'V his s;ot.;yvi..;ion, 'and in 1775 a vig:rous riv:i a ruse in another almanac cMhrdiig to be the genuine Frareis Mc;re. A great law suit followed, which was decided against tbe monopoly of the Statiou- ers' cf.mpaiiy. A i nil to renew and ! legalize the privilege was brought in the house of commons by Lord North in 1779, but Lord Ersklue. the great j barrister, most brilliantly exposed the absurdity and even indecency of the publication, and the bill was defeated, j Although the privilege was thus de . stroyed, the Stationers purchased their ; rival and continued to hold the field with a bnt slightly improved style of publication until 1S2S. when the Socl . ety For the Diffusion of Useful Knowl : edge published the "British Almanac" and demolished their predecessors, with the able assistance of Lhe daily press, which so vigorously assailed the Stationers' publication .that that com pany was constrained to follow the new example iu the "Englishman's Al manac." The uniform price for an English al manac for many years was a penny, but the monopoly increased the price, nnd the imposition of tbe stamp taxes after Queen Anne's time raised it still more. In 1781 "Moore's Almanac" was ninepeuce, two being for the stamp. Iu 1790 it rose to Is. 4d. and in-lSIC to 2s. 3d. An almanac was established by Isaiah Thomas In Worcester, Mass., whicli gained and established an ex traordinary repute in 1783 from the happy accident that, as It was being set up. one of thejjoys asked what should be placed against the 13th of July. Mr. Thomas, iu careless haste, an swered: "Anything! Anything!" The hid, literally obedient, eet up "Bain, hail and snow." The diligent readers were surprised, but when the day came the prediction was fulfilled it really did ruin, hail and snow on the 13th of that July, and the fortune of the almanac was fuade. The "Almanac de Gotha" Is the best known of the German publications. j Whittakcr's is the standard English i publication cf tbe kind, while in this country several of the large newspa-, pers issue annual almanacs. The stray production, however, with its old as trological and magical symbols of Faust, must ever possess an Interest for the curious who are versed in the history of almanacs. Washington Times. The Tribune is all-home print, and :- the only paper published in the county. AUGUST 28, 1902. strength in some form. The Quality Above All Rise That Woman AcTmireit In Man. Women abhor cowards and still more sneaks, though I regret to say they often endure cads in a way that belies their intelligence and good taste. They have a quite pathetic desire to look up to men, to feel men their superiors in Strength of body and of mind, in calm ness of judgment and clearness of in tellect. And it is indeed a pity that men so often seem to go out of their way to destroy their most cherished illusions. Above everything a woman admires strength in a man.. It may be strength of body she will worship a Hercules with the brain of a guinea pig. It may be strength of intellect she will adore a savant with the body of a gibljou monkey. It may be strength of char actershe will break her heart for a politician or a financier who is un swervingly wrapped iip in dreams of personal advancement, and who pos sesses no more heart than an oyster. But strength In somj form she craves unceasingly. It is a hereditary In stinct that has been bequeathed to her through Eve's first disappointment when Adam was tried in the balance end found wanting. Woman, secretly conscious of hir own physical weak ness and lack of intellectual strength, demands strength from man to make up for her own deficiencies. Even the strongest women, strong in body and mind, well balanced as Athene herself, though they may shield and protect the weakness of the men thojr love and stoop to help them, will never do so without a secret feeling of contempt which is destruction cf all ideals. Man. in spite of that deplorable start made fcy Adam, was intended to be woman's protector and refuge from all harm, upon whom she could lean and rely In every event of life's pilgrimage, and when the roles are reversed, as they often so unfortunately are. it is a bad thiag both for man and woman. Strength, however, is what women love In men. Lady Colin Campbell. PRECOCIOUS AUTHORS. Succpsstnl Plays TJsnt Were Written by Boys In TJielr Teens. Was a Kuccessful play ever written by a boy of fourteen? asks a corre spondent. Yes. This seeming miracle has happened at h ast three times. The best known example of the precocious playwright is the celebrated Lope ue j la Vega, the most prolific dramatist i known to history, lie produced his first play, n comedy, entitled "Ii Pas toral de Jacinto." before he had com pleted his fourteenth year, and this was considered such a marvelous per formance that he is known to this day In Spanish literature as "tho Prodigy of Nature." Another Spaniard aud con temporary of La Vega. Pedro Calde ron, wrote his first play when he was thirteen. Metr.stasio wrote his tragedy "Giustino" and hid it produced when he- was fourteen on the stage at Bo logna. Of English playwrights Douglas Jer rold. the famous author of "Black Eyed Susan." also furnishes an answer to the question. In ISIS, before he had completed his fifteenth yecr, he wio'o a very well known farce entities! "More Frightened Than Hurt." It was very successful ou the English stage, and the French considered it good enough to steal. Curiously enough, this French translation was retrans lated into English r.nd again produced on the English boards under the title of "Fighting by Proxy." Another very remarkable instance of a different sort of precocity was that cf William Hen ry Ireland, who wheu he was about fifteen actually produced some plays which he attributed io Shakespeare and which, although afterward proved to be forgeries, were accepted by the experts cf the time as genuine. Pear son's Weekly. Sympathetic. Receutly a lithographic firm received a circular announcing the death of the head of a well known business house. In reply they wrote: "We regret to learn the loss sus tained by your firm iu . the death of Mr. - and beg to express our heart felt sympathy. "We notice your circular Is printed by Messrs. . We are confident that had you asked us we could have quoted you cheaper and better than any other firm In the market, and in the event of a future bereavement we hope you will afford us an opportu nity of making you ar offer." London Tit-Bits. Don't Be Foolish. Look at your frieuds and acquaint ances. You see them deliberately act ing the fool every day. Possibly you can look your friends over with less prejudice than you can look yourself over. Are you acting the fool and causing yourself unnecessary annoy ance? There are so many fcolish peo- ', pie in the world that you often find startling things in looking yourself over with candor and fairness. Atch ison Globe. Breathing of Insects. Insects generally breathe thrajgh special pores In various parts of their bodies, and if these pores are cloned by oil they are suffocated. Any one may test this by dropping sweet oil on the thorax or back of a wasp. It very soon dies. For this reason oil has been found one of the best things to use for the destruction of insects. Strictly Business. "Have you. observed that man who has been abusing you?" "Yes," answered Senator Sorghum placidly. "I've been watching him with a great deal of interest. If 1 wanted anybody abused, I don't know but I should hire him in preference to anybody I know of." Washington Star. Subscribe for The Tiubuu.ve. It is publised every Thursday evening. AUTHORS' BLUNDERS. Son;e MUtakea In Whirh the Moou, inn and Wind Fig-ore. The moon proves a terrible pitfall to moct writers. Yf ilkio Collins once per formed the marvelous feat of making It rise In the west. Ruler Haggard, in "King Solomon's Mines," relies for the effective rendering of one of his most thrilling scenes upon an eclipse of the r.ew moon. Coleridge rleed a star between the horns of the crescent moon, forgetting that to be visible iu such a position the star would Iiave to be botween the earth and the moon or, say, 230,000 miles away only. Next to the moon perhaps the sun Is responsible for more &hiriug errors than any single concrete cause. At the beginning of a certain famous nov el, the title of which a few years barb was in everybody's mouth, an invalid character's room was said to have been lighted by cue window looki in directly toward the east. Yet at the end of the book, when the invalid dies the author, wishing to make him de part this life in a flood of glory, suf fuses this eastern windowed room with "the red glare of the setting sun." ' Kiagsley, too, made cue of his heroes row out Into the eastern ocean after the Betting sun. But even this glaring absurdity has been capped. In a novel published by a weli known firm there occurs the following passage, the scene being laid on board a big sailing ship: "'How's the windV asked the skip per. East-northeast, replied the mate, glancing at the masthead pennant, which was streaming blithely la the direction indicated." So that in the world, according to novelists, we should not only find the sun setting in the east, but pennants would "stream" against the direetiou of the prevailing Wind. A TOPSY TURVY ROOM. A Frenchman W! Play Practical Jokes on I5I Gveitn. A top??y turvy room," writes a cor respendept. net Illusory, but actually so built, existed near Paris some years j ago and may Etill exist. Oue who saw 1 it thus describes it and the use to . which It was pot: "I was tbe guest of the owner of the house." he Kays, "from Saturday to Monday, ne was a bachelor, very convivial In his tastes, and w; were a very jollj- party i;f men. When we woke up. about 2 o'clock on the Sunday morning. o:ie of our num ber. Round asleep on the couch In the bill 1 nd room, was carried out like a log by a couple of servants. My host gave me a solemn wink and told me tbr.t If a sudden summons came 1 was to rush from my bedroom or else I might miss a night worth seeing. I wanted nothing but Fleep and was re lieved when the summous came to find that it was broad daylight "Yawning, I followed the valet and found myself, with four others, sileut ly p;eping through little holes in the wall. The scene was absurd, ridicu lous. A dazed man slowly waking to full consciousness wns lying on n plas tered floor, looking up In horror at a carpeted ceiling. Two heavy couches, an easy chair, chairs and t;:bles se curely fastened stared down at him from nbr.ve. Tbe man's eyes at last rested cn a floweret directly over bis head, from which a flaring rose, ap parently real, was blooming. He gave a cry and. rolling over, grasped with frenzied hands the etera of the chande lier, which came up through the floor. The host burst Into the room, with a loud laugh. They nil do it.' he cried. 'They fear they will fall up to the ceil ing.' " 'SIt" and "Set." Some one who believes In teaching by example has concocted a lesson In the use of two little words which have teen a source of mortification and trouble to many well meaning persons. A man or woman cither can set a hen. although they cannot pit her; nei ther can they set on her. although the hen might sit on them by the hour If they would allow It A man cannot set on the wash bench, but be could set the basin on it, and neither the basin nor tbe gram marians would object. He could sit on the dog's tail If the dog Mere willing or he might set his foot on It But If he should set on the aforesaid tall cr sit his foot there the grammarians as well as the dog would howl, metaphorically at least And yet the man might eet the tail aside and thee sit down aud le as sailed neither by the dog nor by the grammarians. Not Worry, but Slnmber. They were discussing suicides and the proneness of different peoples to depart in that way when one of ' those engaged in the conversation turned to a colored man aud asked. Vfcy is it that so few of your people take their own lives "f After scratching his bead a moment the person addressed responded. "Welt I tell you. Ikss; when a nigger sits down he don't worry, but goes to 6leep." New York Times. Knrfed tbe Other Boy. Johnny I whh 1 was Tommy Jones. Mother Why? You are stronger than he Is, you have a better home, more toys and more pocket money. Johnny Yes. 1 know, but he can wiggle his ears. Men of Tomorrow. Eaperlenee tbe Only Traekcr. She rThere'8 really no reason for married folks to quarrel. tie No. except that they generally need a few quarrels to Gnd that out Brooklyn Life. The man who has the most to say about charity beginning at home Is generally the one who thinks that re form ought to begin on the other side of the world. Subscrilie for The Tkibc;e ard get the news when it is nrws. S1.00 A YEAR. Bank of Rutlierfordion. Report to the North Cer.liua Corpora tion Commission of the condition of the Bank of Rariu rfordton at Rnihcr fordton, N. C. at close of t-asiuc? s ua ICthday of July, 1902. RESOURCES Loans and discounts Overdraft 1,089.03 Rutherford county bonis. . . . 2U0.00 Banking lionf e, F. an F o.OO.OO Cash and due from kuiks 3,22(1.15 All other resources o4P.t7 Other real estate .6 Total ?&M!XU7 LIABILITIES Capital stock $10,000.00 Surplus, fund aud undivided profits 2.001.67 Notes and bills rediscomited 7,700.00 Time certificates deposit 4.34tf.i3 Deposits subject to check 8, 1 9! .04 Total 833,409.17 Sworn to before J. F. Flack, Notary Public, July 16th, 1TO2 D. P. MORROW, President. Correct attes; : R. R. Clirkk, T. C. Smith, J. F. Ar 'rowood, Directors. We solicit all your business. Weaverville ' College Has a history of twentr eight years of proficient, and thorough work, a good, solid student body, and a strong corps of teachers who gve THOnoUII and PROGRES SIVE TRAINING. It is tho school of "the masses." Courses in English, Mathe matics and Ancient Lang uages are especially strong. Do not read thi3 advertise ment and throw it a side. Write for our catalogue. It represents us as we are. Nest session begins Septem ber ISth. 10(. Address SVSAR1QN A. YOST, Baoratary, Weavei vlllo, X. C. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, TIIK IIKAI Of the Mate's Kduratlonal Syrtrm. Aoctcle mlo Departmant, Medloine, Pharmaoy, One hundred and eighty scholarships. Tree tuition to teachers and to m mis ters' sons. Loans for tho needy. 563 Students. o4 Instructors. New Dormitoris, Water Works, Cen tral Heating System. Fall term begins September 8th, 1002. Address, r- S. Venabla, President, Chapel Hill, IV. C BOOK STORE The place to buy BOOKS, STATIONERY SCHOOL SUPPLIES, ETC. A. L.GRAYSON J. C. Green, UNDERTAKER FOREST CITY, N. C. Best stock of Burial Rcqnists iu the county from the cheapest Coffin to t no most elegant Casket, all at moderate prices. Elegant Hearse. Phone Number O. Carrol! W. Dovney. Physician and Surgeon, Rutherfordton. I. C. Office in Residence oa llaia ktrer'r Phone Jio. '22.
Rutherfordton Tribune (Rutherfordton, N.C.)
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