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VOL II. NO. B7.
RUTHERFORDTON, N. C, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 18, 1902.
81.00 A YEAR.
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COMMERCIAL BANK.
Roport; of the condition of the Com
mercial I?auk of Ilutherfordton, at Rutk
orfordton, N. C, at the close of business
on July lGth. 100;?.
RESOURCES.
Loans arid discounts 22, 106.86
Overdrafts 1,034.60
Furniture and Fixtures 1,000.00
Due from banks and bankers, 7 931.49
Cash on hand 3,418.36
Total.; $35,481.31
LIABILITIES.
Capital stork $!C,000.00
Surplus l,0C0.OO
Undivided profits 645.93
Deposits subject to checks 23.447.43
Due otlur banks 155.42
Cashier s checks 232.53
' Total $35,481.31
I, J. F. Flack, ca? hier of The Commc-r
cial Bank of Rutherfordton, do solemnly
swear the above statement is true to the
best of my knowledge and belief.
J. F. FLACK, Cashier.
State of If. C, Rutherford County.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 29th day of July, 1802.
M. O. DICKERSOX, C. S. C.
Correct Attest:
T. E. Twircr, Jotix C. Mit.ls, SI. H.
Justice, Director.?.
2! C5a3lC2Cia
Under and bv virtue of a mortgage
made to E. Y. Melton bv J. W. filler
and H. M, Miller Jr. I will sell the land
deKciibed below at the court house door
if fc Rutherfordton on
Monday, October 6th, ISO?,
at 12 oclock m. Stiitl sale will be for
cash and to satisfy the debt securtd by
the aforesaid mortgage. Said land de
scribed as follows : Known as M. D.
Hill tract, joining lands of O. Hicks'
wife, T. E. Mitchell and others, and
bounded as follows: Beginning at a
pto:ie and Lynn ra'ming north HI west
2i' poles to bunch of of chestnuts ; then
youth. 8 we- t 1G pc-ks to hickory, SIc
Farland's corner ; tl.t-n south PS' west
14 poles- lo walnut, McF;rlaeds corner,
tlu-u S. 13 E. l lbj -poles to a Lynn ; thtn
north 8;3 ear-t ly poles to a W. O. ;
th'-ncc sontli 73 cast 20 poles to a cho. ;
thu north 0 ea?t 27 poles to (). ; then
south 38 east -'3 pjili-s to P. O. ; then
north i-xVj Eiisr V) poks ta a : ;ake in
road; then north C3 west "i;'; poles to a
pi'K?; thf -l nonh S4 west 20 poles to
ret-k; then south 1 west 12 pole? to a
li. O. ; lh. u south o3 west 18 poles to
pycaaioro above the mill ; then south 4
east 2-J poles to chestnut st-iunp ; then
i-oalh -J:) ea.st 17 p-dns to rock; then
s intJi :i7 v,-et-t '12 pel"? to bt ginning, con
tiiuii::; 2-fhi acres, more or less. This
August 2'filii lVO-2.
: HEXBY HODGE.
Asaigure of mrtgaje.
XoTtTiijCbinoiXvi. J Hirh Shoals town
Ratherfoil County ship.
Sander k Havrill v.;. Tom Padgett.
Notice.
The (ISiCiidaat above named will take
3iotico th.it. a samuions in the above en
titled stotiion was issued ajyiiust said de
fendant tin the 27lli day of August, 1903,
by T. J. Wilkin, a justice of the peace
of Rut hcv ford comity, North Carolina,
f.r th.. sern of twelve dollars, due said
plaintiff by account, which f-urimor.s is
retiirnadic r.etcre said jrftiee, at nis of
iV'e at Henrietta, in said county in High
Shoal.-: toh'nshit), 0:1 the 5th (lay of Or-to
bcr, l'.M-:." Iho defendant will take
notice that a warrant of attachment was
issntfl by )id justice on the 27 th day of
AuKUi t, 1302 against the property o;
said defendant, which warrant is iv-turnal-lo
before the r-aid justice, at the
time and -place above named for the re
turn of summons, when raid where the
defendant is required to appear . and
answer or demur to complaint or the. re
lief demanded will be granted. - This
Oth day of August 1902.
T. J. WILEINS.
Justice of the Peace.
Hotlee!
Having qualified as administrator of
the cetat-3 rf J. K. Lynch, deceased, and
having on liand several notes and other
evidence.? o; debt belonging to the estate
i said deceased, the public will take
notice that I will sell said notes and ev
idences of debt at the. court house door
in Knrherfordton, to the highest bidder,
on October 2nd, 1902. This September
11th, 1902.
T. M. LYNCH, Administrator.
Notice!
All persons were notified to lut their i
prop erty to regular listakcrs during the '
month ot Jnuo, or to the cleric cf the
board of County Commissioner;;. We
now extend the time to December, 1902.
Non-listers, delinquents, income taxpay
ers, take notice: After Docombor next
we will act, according to law, under sec
tion 70 of the IvfaohineiT Act for 1901.
; C. I'd. LYNCH, Chairman.
For SaleS
Ono farm of Oil acres on Mountain
creek, about 10 acres being good bottom ;
also 15 acres near C. C. depot, all in cul
tivation ; and house and lot on Green
street. For further in formation, address
R. II. T WITTY,
Rutherfordton, N. C.
Notice!
All persons owing the Rutherford Sup -
ply Company are requested to settle with
the undersigned, who may be found at
the Clerk's office at all times. -
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spis2a Cap
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Sis-Cest$ Vtsat fOU eat.
QUICK WORK WITH A SHARK
Three Kanakas Went Down and Got
liiia While He Was Asleep.
"The Kanakas of the Hawaiian Is
lands have about as much fear of the
huge sharks that infest the Hawaiian
waters as we have of one-montk-old
fox terrier pups," said a naval officer
who recently returned from the Asiatic
station by way of the islands. '"One
morning a couple of months ago, when
our ship was lying in Honolulu harbor,
n big banana barge, propelled by three
muscular, fine looking, nearly nude
Kanakas, pulled alongside of us to
peddle the fruit among the men for
ward. Just as they got the barge close
to the ship the three Kanakas began to
jabber excitedly in their queer, musical
language and to feel of the edges of
the knives suspended by lanyardfe
around their necks.
"The eyes of those Kanakas were
keener than ours, and they had seen a
big shark asleep directly beneath the :
i . , i . i .. 4i... . .... 4 . l , .. : ... rt 1 .. , . , -. . '
lighter, the water being so lear down
that way that objects can be seen
through it to a great depth. It didn't
take those three giant museled Kana
kas more than ten seconds to shuffle
out of their few clothes. Then they
removed the strings from their long i
kiives, grasped the knives in their 'J
right hands, stepped gently over the j
side of the lighter, hung to the gun- !
wales of fhe lighter Avith their left ;
hands for a moment or so, and then, j
altogether, they gave that queer diving j
Avriggle to their legs in which they are :
so expert and disappeared from the :
surface. We couldn't sc-e them going
down on xeeoant of the commotion
and coi: sequent bubbles they made in
the water.
"Within about ten secmads after they
disappeared the bubbles that came to
the surface began to take on the hue
of blood.
" 'That about settles cue Kanaka, if
not the whole three of theiiy said we
on the gangway. The next thing we
saw was a gigantic shark thrashing
the water crazily on the port side of
the lighter and incarnadining the sea
within a radius of fifty feet with its
blood. Then the three Kanakas came
up, all in a buneh. like a trio of jacks-in-the-box,
with contented smiles on
their faces. The shark thrashed around
for five er ten niuutes, and at the end
of that time he was as dead as any
salted EiRckerel in a barrel, the entire
length of him. The three Kanakas had
tackled him altogether as he slept, had
driven their knives into his vulnerable
parts, and before he bad a chance to
pull himself together he was as good
as dead. It was as workmanlike a job
of going after tig sea game as ever I
saw." Philadelphia Times.
Society and Cair-ini:inslilp.
The privilege of having sonae one
with whom we may exchange a few
rational words every day, as Emerson
phrns-K it, is the choicest gift in life.
We .- e rich in society and yet poor in
companionship. In the overflow of
chatter we are starved for conversa
tion. Social life is so largely an affair
of representation, it inclines so largt-ly
to the spectacular and to wfcat its
chroniclers designate as "social func
tions." that the element of coaveusa
tional intercourse is almost eliminated.
Yet, primarily, is net that the supreme
object of all friendly meeting? When
we reduce to first principles this com
plex thing called living, do we not go
to our friewd solely to talk with him?
Do we not invite him solely that we
may exchange ideas and compare
views on subjects of mutual interest?
Still, as things go, people meet all
through n season in the m hist of groups
and throngs at dinners, receptions, en
tertainments of 'all kinds without ex
changing one word in the way- of true
intercourse. Exchange.
Swift Was c Dnnee at School.
Not only philosophers and divines,
but some cf the most trenchant satir
ists and brilliant humorists were dull
enough as boys. It has been said of
Swift 'in his best days that "he dis
played either the blasting lightning of
satire or the lambent and m'eteorlike
caricatures of frolicsome humor." And
yet this vigorous disputant was consid
ered a tit sulvject for a fool's cap at
school. Afterward at the Dublin uni
versity "he was by scholars esteemed
a blockhead," who was denied his de
gree? on his first application and ob
j taincd
it with great difficulty on the
; second. London Standard.
Mr. McBride was showing his wife
the workings of our national congress.
The Detroit Free Press represents her
as putting to her spouse this intelli
gent question:
"Bui where is the framing depart
ment?" "The what?"
"I read in the papers that laws were
framed in Washington," she explained.
The Real Test.
Hardup I tried to sell those dia
monds I bought of you and was told
they were not genuine.
Jeweler Did you sell them?
Hardup Yes, for almost nothing.
Jeweler Well, you go back and try
to buy them, and you will find out that
they are genuine. New York Weekly.
An Impossible Condition.
"You say you can't afford to hire a
clerk. Why don't you get your wife to
do your typewriting?"
"Impossible! ' She wouldn't submit
to any dictation." Richmond Dispatch.
Fears Long Drawn Ont.
Diggs Rounder is quite ill.
Biggs Indeed! His -wife naturally
: has grave fears about him, I suppose?
Diggs Yes. In fact, I think her fears
extend beyond the grave. Exchange.
A woman is not real old fashioned
unless she makes a salve for neighbor
hood v.Fe for cuts, bruises and burns.
Atchwon Glebe.
cents gets ihs Tribune troni now
Jnntil jantiaryj 1903
HOW THE INDIANS VOTE.
They Are Very Deliberate and Then
Have a Simple Method.
The Chickasaw Indians cast their
vote differently from the way the
white man does it. They meet the day
before the election, and none but
Chickasaws by blood is allowed to
vote. Xo white man or intermarried
citizens have the right of Suffrage.
They go off to themselves and have a
powwow. They decide for whom they
will vote after considering the matter
for twenty-four hours.
The polling place is quite unlike that
of the white man. There is a great ;
sheet of paper, wlnte, yellow cr brown
as the case may be, about three feet
square. Upon this sheet of paper are
a vast number of cross lines, regularly
ruled off with a pencil. Then down
one side of the sheet of paper are
placed the names of all candidates for
office, beginning with the candidates
for governor and running on down to
- . i. . J 1? . j. 11. , J . - .. IV ..
precinct officers. At the top of the
sheet are the number of blank spaces
that will be required for the names of
the voters. The judges of election sit
by and pass en those entitled to vote,
and there is a certainty that no illegal
votes are cast.
The Indian is thoroughly deliberate,
He takes his time when it comes to
voting. He proceeds to the polling
place, looks carefully over the pell
sheet, and if he is ready to cast his
ballot he caffs out his name, and the
clerk records it on the sheet- Then the
clerk reads off the names of the can
didates for governor. The voter delib
erates awhile, caJis out the name of
the candidate for whom he desires to
vote, his vote is recorded, and the
names of the candidates for the next
office are called out, and so on through
the list, till all the offices represented
are voted for.
Thus it is that every voter knows
exactly how every other voter has cast
his ballot, and there are no remarks,
no suggestions and no quarrels over
differences cf opinion.
POSTAL STATISTICS.
The number of pieces of matter of all
kinds mailed increased from 500,000 in
1790 to 7.124,300,329 in 1001.
The first year's isece of postal cards,
1S73, numbered 31,094,000, while in
1901 659,014,800 were issued.
In 1SG3 money orders to the amount
of $1,300,122 were issued, while in 1901
the total amounted to f 274,040,007.
In 1S53. the year in which stamped
envelopes were first issued, 5,000,000
were used, while in 1901 the total was
772,839,000.
The registry system was started in
1855, and in that j'ear the registered
pieces numbered 029.322. In 1901 they
numbered 20,S14,501.
From June 30. IS 47, to June 30. 1S5L
4,603,200 postage stamps were issued, 1
while in the eingk? year 1901 4.320,
273,696 stamps were used by the peo
ple of the United States.
In 1S0 there were only seventy-five
postotSces established, the length of
the post routes being 2,275 miles and
tha gross revenue of the department
being only $7,510. The expenditures
were $7,560.
There were In 1901 76,594 postofhees
in operation, 511, SOS mi!s of post
routvs, 406,146.059 miles of mail serv
ice performed. The gross revenues of
the department were $111,031,193, the
expenditures $f!5,039,007.
The Old Lady and the Incubator.
An old lady visiting an exhibition
went to see some incubators which
were on show and, complaining of the
expense of keeping fowls, said that if
they were cheaper she would buy an
egg hatching machine. After she had
asked various questions the gentleman
in attendance proceeded to show her
the drawers in which were deposited
the eggs in different stages. On these
the old lady looked in astonishment.
"What!" she exclaimed indignantly.
"Do you use eggs?" "Certainly." was
the attendant's astonished answer.
"Well,",, said she, "I consider It a per
fect swindle to pick ..the pockets of
honest, hardworking folks by selling
them these frauds! Why, anybedy can
hatch chickens with eggs! I caff do it
myself !" London Globe.
Mar-felons 3Ietlicine.
A patent medicine vender in a coun
try village was dilating to a crowd
upon the "wonderful efficiency of his
iron bitters.
"Why," said he, "Store Jenkins had
only taken the bitters one week when
he was shoved into the prison for mur
der, and what does Steve do but open
a vein In his arm and take iron enough
out of his blood to make a crowbar,
with which he pried the doors open
and let himseff out. Fact!"
Iincky.
"No use o' talkin'," said Mr. Erastus
Pinkley, "dat brother o' mine is a
mighty lucky man,. He alius has mon
ey." "But you must remember that he is
much more industrious than you are.
He isn't at all afraid of work."
. "Dat's jes' de point. He were lucky
in bein' born industrious." Washing
ton Star.
His Early Promise.
"Does my boy," inquired the parent,
"seem to have a natural bent in any
one direction?"
"Yes, sir," said the teacher; "he gives
every indication of being a captain of
industry some day. He gets the other
boys to do all his work for him." Chi
cago Tribune,
Versatile.
Mrs. Bjones Your husband, I hear,
is quite versatile. - "
Mrs. Brown-Smytbe Versatile is no
name for it. Why, he can actually
stay ont bite every night in the week
and not give tbe-sauie excuse twice.
Philadelphia Record.
j baosenbe lor the tp.ieuune.
'pnblised every Thursday evening.
It is
THE WOODCOCK.
Where Does It Hide Daring; the Molt
ing Season?
It is during the months of August
and September that the mystery of j
the woodcock's life begins. ' This ia '
the molting season, when the bird
changes its plumage before beginning ;
its journey southward. At this time it ;
leaves the swamps. Where does it
go? That is a question-which has nev
er yet received a satisfactory answer, !
although each sportsman and natural- j
ist has his own opinion, and many fine ,
spun theories have been advanced,
Some say that the birds move toward
mountain tops, coining into the-sw amps , ly 20,000 of these being -represented.'
to feed only after nightfall; some that ' From garret to basement in the large '
thoy' sock the cornfield?, and there ' bouse of a Leeds mineral water manu
ka ve been many other such theories. faeturer is a gigantic scraphook, ev-
Probably th truth lies in a mean of
all these statements. I think it prob
able that the birds . know the lo;:s of
tht-ir feathers renders them t
. ... .
u cer
tain extent helpless and more exposed
to the attacks cf their natiirnl enemies,
and they therefore leave the more pen
swamps and hide in "the dt-nf ejjt and
most tangled thickets.'- It is certain
that they scatter, for at this season
i single birds are Tout-.d iy. the most un
usual and unexpected places.--
Years ago when shooting in Dutch-i,
oss county. N. Y., I knew one or two '
swamps, which wo cfillsu molting
swampp, where in August we" were
sure to find a limited number of birds.
These swamps were overgrown with
rank marsh grass and were full of
patches cf wild rose and sweetbrier.
If we killed the birds which we found
there, we v- are sure in a week or ten
days to find their places filled by about
the same number. Outing.
MILITARY DISPLAY.
-An Amusing Eit of Rcatine la a ?i'cw
York llcte!.
There is no better place to mark the
Increasing love of military display and
maneuvers than the lobby of a large
hotel. The colored help in particular
are great soldiers.. In one of the Broad
way hotels uptown fhe" colored -hall-men
are changed at noon. Things were
quiet in thejo'jby at that hotel today,
for the clerks and bookkeepers were
deep in their books, and the loungers
were air sitting -peacefully on the so
fas when the steady tramp, tramp of
what sounded like a regiment of infan
try broke the stillness.
The regiment consisted of six col
ored hallmen in blue and brass, with
an especially resplendent mulatto in a
mere gorgeous uniform walking at the
head of the precession, says the New
York correspondent of the Pittsburg
Gazette. He lined his six men in front
of a bench before the desk, looked
them over sharply to see that they
were "eyes front" and hissed "Atten
tion!" Then r.s he clapped his hands
once the six men hinged their legs si
muliaui'onsly and drooped into their
scats like .t row of wooden soldiers.
-The mulatto wiped his brow with a
highly perfumed handkerchief, glanced
at the head chrk for approval and as
the tirst man responded with a jerk to
the cry cf "Front!" went to the main
doorway to look at the sunlight cf
Broadway with the air of a succssful
major general. The whole perform
ance was excruciatingly funny, but I
am sure that mulatto would have com
mitted assault and battery cn any one
who dared to laugh.
He Wni Insect.
Trees afford the birthplace and cra
dle of the wax insect, scientifically
caiisd Cossus pela. In the early spring
the bark of the boughs and twigs be
comes covered with brown pea shaped
scales, which can be easily detached
and which, when opened, reveal the
flowery looking mass of minute ani
mal:;, whose movements can just -be
detected by the uaked eye. In May
and June, however, the scales are
found ta contain a swarm of brown ;
creatures with six legs and two an- i
teiiua? each. Some of the scales also I
contain the white bag or cocoon of a
small black beetle, which, if left undis-
,uwt- ic- -.,.,
turued, burrows, into and consumes
the scales. The Chinese say that this
beetle eats the little wax insects, and it
, appears certainly the cas? that where
! the parasite is most abundant the
! scales fetch a lower price in the mar
' ket. Chambers' Journal.
. All la the rar,s!!j.
They were discussing the .factors
which make for success in. the world,
when the knowing young man said:.
"There's nothing like force cf char
acter, old man. Now, there's Jones.
Sure to make his way in the world.
Ha3 a will of his own, you know."
"But Brown has something better in
his favor."
"What's that?"
"A will of his uncle." Stray Stories.
Legal Points.
"So he got out an Injunction against
your company." we say pityingly.
"Why didn't you forestall him by get
ting an injunction to prevent the issu
ance of his injunction?"
"I couldn't. You see, he was slick
enough to get out an injunction against
my getting out an injunction against
his injunction!" Baltimore Herald.
Small In a- DouMe Sei
"After all," remarked Smithers, yawn-
t ing, "it is a small world."
"It has to be," snapped Smulhers,
"to match some of the people in it."
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
Aeconnteil For.
Dime Museum Manager What Is
that peculiar smell?
The Living Skeleton The rubber
skin burned bis finger lighting a ciga
rette. -Judge.
We ou?.ht to avoid the friendship of
the bad and ihe enmity of the ood.
Epictetus.
The Tkibcne from now until January
1903, for only 25 cents.
FREAK ADORNMENTS.
Strange IiOTisehold Ornaments Tnnt
Slay Be Seen la England. j
Many are the strange household and j
garden adornments scattered up and j
down the English countryside. In a ;
Sussex village is part of a garden pal
ing made wholly out of the swords of
swordtishes. The lady who owns ihe
garden got the strange paling from her
brother, who had originally sported it
in the tropic.
Near Leeds is a summer house made
wholly of buttons of every imaginable
kind, and in the sump reimfv is n
room the walls of which are adorned i
cry notable theatrical "poster of the last
twenty years being pasted on the
walls.
A north country banker living ie:ir
V.'akeliel-d has a great dining room tiie
Avhole of the walls of which are the
wooden and iron doors "of eminent cas
tle.? and historic buildings, and at Lis
card, in Cheshire, is a room that con
tains hundreds or picture frames made
of every imaginable substance, from
f leather to tigers' bones, one frame be-
;ng- piact.j Vithin another according to
sjze so that the whole surraca in tov-i
ered with frames.
In Liverpool . 13 a room that of a
dentist whose grandfather occupied
the same premises that contains many
mirrors and pictures the frames of
which are made entirely of sharks'
teeth. Near Birmingham a manufac
turer has a studs' that is lined, even to
the roof, with nothing Lut chains of
various thicknesses and padlocks of
different sizes. Pearson's.
DON'T GET TOO FULL.
A Lesson That Slay Us Lecmcd From
(he IIuuiiH of the Bees.
"Don't stir up a beehive unless you
know it is a rich one," said an apiarist
to a visitor at his bee farm.
"I think that I would leave ther
filcne altogether," was the reply. -Thc-y
have too angry a buzz about them to
win my confidence."
"You are not used to them, that'3
all." said the bcemau. "Vcr example, :
these bive3 are full of honey, and if I
puff a little smoke into the doors o as. .
t tort of suffocate the sentries I can
topple a hive over, handle the beos
like fo manv beans, clean the honev-
combs and earrv them off. The bee
won't harm me." And. to prove hi3 cfee- ia thrit respect resembling Ilaw
words. the speaker performed his j Ikorne mere than any ether man of
perimout and came back to his friend" ters.
with a smile and several heavy combs 1 Baxter, it Is said, kept the rnanu
of honey. ' rcript of the "Saint's Everlasting Iiest"
I "If those hives had been nearly ! ia h-is hands for thirteen years, revis-
empty." said the apiarist, "I would
have been lucky to have escaped with
! my life. The tenants of a poor hive
sting to kilL"
"That's strange," said the visitor.
"1 should think that thev would de
fend their hoards with especial jeal
ousy, and the more they have the hot-
i ter they would fight."
! "The reason is," said the beeman,'
"that when alarmed the bees fly to
i r storehouse and gorge themselves
n uvii iuii yjt uuiit j , u iftr van l i-'MU
its body and sting."
"Which should be a lesson to us,"
said the other. "Don't got too full."
i New York Tribune.
A Panetcal Eird.
What tempts the little humming
bird that we. see in our gardens to
travel every spring from near the
equator to as far north as the arctic
circle, leaving behind him, as be does.,
for a season, many tropical delights?
He the only one of many humming
birds that pluckily leaves the laud of
gayly colored birds to go into volun-
tary exile in the north, east of the Mis-
'. sissippi. How It stirs the imagination
to picture the solitary, tiny migrant, a
mere atom cf bird life, moving above
the range of human sight through the
vast dome of the sky! Borne swiftly
, u "i v'lLU
J-wrogs.' he covers the thousands of
miles between his wintcr'home and his
summer one by easy' stages and ar
rives at bis chosen destination, weath
er permitting, at approximately the
same date year after year. Country
Life In America.
T3ie Womnn and Her Face.
Once upon a time a woman had a
quarrel with her features because they
made ugly faces at her when she
looked lh the glass. She scolded aud .
scolded, but Jt all did no good. j
Finally she sat in. front of her mlr- !
ror, and with rouge, powder and -black
pencil went deliberately to work to
show her face how wrong it was and
succeeded.
After a time she smiled a smile of
intense satisfaction, and her face
smiled pleasantly back at her.
Moral. It is better to make up than
to continue differences. New York
Herald.
Cnretnrned.
Mrs. Meekins What a nice lady Mrs.
Seklen is!
Mrs. Pratt Is she? 1 nevr met her.
Mrs. Meeklns-rerfcct! I told her
today I was ashamed of myself- be
cause I never had returned her will,
and she said, very politely, you know.
i that I needn't worry myself; that I
: could keep it as long as 1 pleased.
Boston Transcript
Asked and Atcsvrered.
Female Lawyer How eld are you?
Female' Witness You know as well
as I do that I'm just a week younger
than you are; but. If necessary
Female Lawyer (hastily) Never mind;
It isn't necessary. Chicago News.
Every man should profit by his own
mistakes, but most of us world prefer
to profit by tb.e mistakes of others.
Philadelphia Record..
The Tkib-jxe is all-homo print, and
ha only paper published in the county,
DOWN IN A SALT Mil
An
Occasion Wl'pn One's
Mn:t Ee Set Aside. j
It is only the elect among travelers ;
wuu ii .hi men- way xo tsercniesgauen, .
in Bavaria, not very far from Salz-;
burg, writes a correspondent of the
London Taller. If you drive in a car
riage from thence by road, you are
stopped midway at a customs house
and hud yournelf leaving Austrian ter
ritory fcr liavaiian. Iierchtesgadeu in
beaut: f id! v fitustod. ami it h:is lwo
noteworthy attractions, one of them i
the Komgseo, thought Ly many the j
most beautiful lake in' the world, and !
the other the salt mines. A visit to the
salt mines gives one an exciting hour, j
Many tourists take tickets at the top,
but many of the fair sex are deterred ,
from using them when they see the
costume that is rendered c-iteiitial tJ
the visit. In other words, they have to
abandon skirts and adopt a special
"rig out." One may frequently observe
4-1 . 4- 1 .1 J A. 1 ..J I. . A. .I.
""'.T, ' ""'--
consider modesty and curiosity, go two j
or three times to the mines I efuv they j
screw up their courage sutliciontly to j
don the attire and pay the visit. i
The necessity for women to abandon '
the usual garment arises from the fact ;
that a itortion of the mine can only be
visited through the medir.ni of a kind
of slide?.- This slide is, however, the
best thing in the whole visit. It is a
great deal I ctler than tobogganing,
and, as one is in the dark ur.d with
only a candle fastened to one's dress,
it is not a little exciting.
The strangest incident in the trip is :
that of the illumination of what is
called "the salt bike." Yea are rowed
across this lake, in almost absolute
darkiuv,:?. the illumination being pro
vided by a number of miners' Iamp3
round the lake, and the journey has
very considerable weirdness. The next
best experience in the trip is tiu final
ride into daylight on thi trucks. This
j is a journey through absolute darkness
i fcr a very considerable way until final
ly one sees a little &Lici of light in
: the distance. Altogether, as I have
' said, between the toboggan slide, the
car ride and the boat journey across
the salt lake the visitor to th? liercli-
; tesgaden salt mine has plenty for his
' money. Rut, curiously enough, Le S2C3
I very little sal:. At any rate, the pre
pared salt that one u ses on on- j break
fast table is not at all In evidence.
SOME WRITERS.
Brct Harte was a good deal of a re-
ing and condeusiag.
f'oontr is r.fli.l to hnre written "Trip
Spy" in I. ks than six months. Most of
Lis e'-ries were founded on legend:!
well known in Lis neighborhood.
Longfellow turned out about one
volume of poems a year fcr many
years. Nearly four years were required
fer his 'translation cf "Dante."
The first volume of poems by Alfred
Tennyson came out when he was twenty-four.
He was forty-one whin "la
Memoriam" came from the press.
Thomas Moore often wrote a short
poem almost Impromptu. lie consumed
over two years in reading and prepar-
ing material for "Laila Ucckh" and
two years mere in writing that inimitable-
poem.
One Brick Short.
Richard M. Hunt, the architect, used
to ivLite that in hi3 younger days,
whii3 supervising the erection of a
brick building, a recev.t arrival froia
Cork applied for a job and was em
ployed s.s a hulearrier after being In-
structcd that he must always carry up
fourteen bneicrj m his Is -u.
One morn
ing t'10 sv-pply of bricks ran out, and,
tlo his best, the n;w man could find
but th'rte.n to nut ia his hod. In an
swer to a bud yell from the street one
of the masons on the sixth story
shrieked c-.own :
"What do yon want?"
"T'row me down wan brick."
Tat, pointing to his hod. "to make me
cumber good!" Now York Times.
Too CauttcoH.
"I have the greatest confidence In
Dr. Skcum r.s a physician," said one
of the doctor's patients. "He never
gives an opinion till he has waited and
weighed a ca.se and looked at it from
every side."
"Um-m!" said the skeptical friend.
"That's all right if' you don't carry it
tOD far. There have been times, you
know, when he's been so cautious that
his diagnosis lias come near getting
mixed up witli the postmortem.
Youth's Com pa u ion.
A Warning' From (lie Child.
A three-year-old little gii 1 was taught
to close her evening prayer during the
temporary absenee of her father with
"and please watch over my papa." It
60undid very sweet, but the mother's
amusement may be imagined when Fhe
added. "And you better keep an eye on
mamma too." Exchange
An Indication.
Bertha I gut's it's going to be a
match between Maude and Charley.
Constancy So?
Bertha Yes. Maude today spoke of
his stutterbig as a slight hesitancy in
the enunciation of words. Boston
Transcript.
The Mantle of Charity
"Did he marry her for her money?"
asked the girl in white.
"Well, let's be charitable and ray he
did." answered the girl in gray. "There
Is no use casting aspersions 011 his
taste and judgment"-Chicago Post.
The balky mule is an animal that
work i t bolls ends and yet not work at
all. R.iltimore News.
Subscribe for The Tr.rp.rsc aud gf t
the news whey, it is r.?ws.
'jBaok of lioikiffdtci!.
Report to the North Carolina Ou-po:
lion Commission of the condition .f
the Bank of Ratberfordlon at IV.. lb? r
fordton, X. C, at close of business on
lGth day of Jnly. 1T02.
RESOURCES
Loans and discounts 23,"-':.'.3:2
v n'nif t- l,GbM3
Rutherford county bonds 200.00
H , -
5,Cf!0.t?u
(-asn aml fro:n Links
AH other resources
Other real estate
.to
Total 5.!,41MU7
LIABILITIES
Capital stock $10,000.00
Surplus fund and undivided
P1"0
Xotes ami bills riLscouutl
2,00.1.67
7,7.0.(m)
Time certificates deposit 4,4G.4(
Deposits subject to check .. .
8,7'Ji.04
Total .33,4'!U7
Sworn to leforo J. F. Flack, Iotary
Public, July KUh, l'.m
D. F. HORROW, President.
Correct attest
E. B. Claukh, T.
C. Ssirni, J. F. Ar-
nowoon, Directors.
We solicit all your buf-inoss.
j Valuable Land for Sale
ON EASY T2ZRBZ52
The El wood Gold JMine phu-c,
j containing 500 acres, is offered
!fr sale oil easy term,
This vnlur-blo ma Will be'sohl
) , , ... ...
! as .a Viiolc, YVlta or Without the
j mining rights, or will he soM in
3 or 4 tracts containing: 75 to 100
acres each.
If not previously sold at private
sale, this land will be ofl'wed at
j ublic outcry at (he court house
at Kutherfordton on 1st day of
court (Monday, .November 17th,
1902) at 12oV-lock.
Terms of sale : One-third cash,
balance in two equal amount,
payments due November 1, 1903,
: and November 1, 190L with 0 per
cent interest, secured by bond
and mortgage on the land. Pur
chaser to pay for auditing and re
cording papers. Plat of this land
may be seen at the olHce of John
II. Wood, surveyor, Kuthcrford
ton. Offers will bo duly consid
ered by addressing
CIIAS. II. CARLISLE,
j as Executor of Estate of J. K.
Jennings, Spartanburg, S. C.
This property is sold under au
thority of the last will and testa
ment of J. K. Jennings, deceased.
UNIVERSITY
j ()? NORTH CAROLINA.
THE IIKAD
j
.Of the State's Krtticational System.
Loademic Dop.-irtmont,
Medicine,
Pharmacy.
One hundred and eighty scholarships.
Free tuition to teachers and to minis
ters' sons. Loans for the needy.
0;J Students. ."4 Instructors.
New Dormitories, Water Work, Ceu
tral Heating Syf-tcm.
Tall term begins September 8th, 19o2.
Address,
F. Vcnable,
ident,
ChnpolHiU,N.
J. G. & L. G. RE!D
DENTISTS.
.Marion :ind l'u1hnforlfg;n. All
1 t V .
worrc jiuarauieeu. j'.ir rices
rtao:inlk".
J. H. WOOD & CO.,
Kut.K-rfcr.iioii, N. (J.
Keen coih tautlv on band frdl jnniW
of Colli::. Caskets and Iinl-t.
J. II. vYctod v. ill . il von Tombs! rnrs
and Monuments of any description. BOO
uesigns to M.ieet imm. Ptioets g aivr.n ;vcl.
Eaves & R ticker,
At lorncystfc CouiiFfllors it Law,
P.uthf rfonlton, N. C.
Ofneoup stairs in id:ersn lmilding.
P.o upt Jiti'-iili.rfi ;-iv a . ail bo.-.neii
iuirx-t-d to t
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