THE FLOWERS COLLECTION
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VOL. III. NO. 4.
RUTHERFORDTON, N. C THURSDAY. JANUARY 29, 1903.
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saved doctors' bills for more than
sixty vears. For the common fam
ily ailments, such as constipation,
lr.uigeation, hard colds, bowel com
plaints, chills and fever, bilions
ncoj, headaches and other like
cociplaint3 no other medicine 13
aoccasary. It invigorates and reg
ulatM the liver, assists digestion,
stimulates action of the kitlnevs,
pumw tho blood, and purges the
Lowe! of foul accumulations. It
fo? M'M stomach, dizziness, chills.
rheumatic pains, sideache, back-
arhc, LiUnov troubles, constipation,
diarrhoea, biliousness, r iles, hard
cold.l and hrrl
gist has Theuford's Black-Draught
in 23 cent packages and in main-
mom size tor gl.w. .Never accept
original matte by tho Chattanooga
lutxucms company.
I believe Thedford's Black-Draught
is me ccst mecicine on earth. U is
good for any and everything. I have
a family of twelve children, and for
four years I hve kept them oa foot 1
n.iu nc&tuiv wim no doctor hut mark.
Draught. A. J. GREEN, lllewara, La.
HOROR ROLL-
Pupils of the Graded Scooh! Who
Stand High in Classes.
Honor Roll for school month
ending Deceniher 25th.
Fiust Grade.
Lloyd lie
Annie Craton,
Marie Reid,
Kssie Kudasill,
(it-or-re Mills,
Fin nl; Mills,
Fred William?,
JManiie Williams.
Second Ohade,
Joe Erwin,
Leslie Tavlor,
Claud Miller,
Max ltams-'V,
LMie Hodge,
Faii!ie Wasliburn,
Lolli Smith, .
Maude Hester.
(Jrady Jones,
Kaimie Wilkins,
Annie Umker,
Mac Mel-aniel.
Tiiikd Gf.ade.
Guv Reid.
Kohert Tavlor,
Charles Walker,
Lewis Powers,
Ocie KiugerstuiF,
Ola Callahan,
Mary Dickerson,
Ellie Morrow,
Knos IJamsey,
Annie Phillips,
Fta Powers,
linger Walker.
Foirtii Grade.
Maud Pell,
Elh'ii Erwin,
Ahla Grayson,
Lollie Harris,
Fannie .Justice,
Pessie MeFarland,
Annie Mc.Brayer,
Caudis Payburn,
Fifth Grade.
Lola Ravburn,
Ollie Bell.
Sixtr Grade.
Kathleen Harris,
Nannie Morgan,
Mary Biggersiii
Pruna Jiiggerstatf,
Nellie McBrnyer,
IJlyes Hester,
Nora McDaniel,
Elmer Dorsey,
Evie Pucker.
SSevkstii Grade.
Maud Guthrie,
Eloise GritUu,
Husk in Morgan,
Mai Jones,
Breinoii Quinn,
Willard Powers,
McGilvery Miller,
Harb McDaniel.
Sells 400 Bottles a .Month.
Ons drug store in Los Angeles, Cal.,
owned by Mr. C. Lanr, v,here the rem
cdy is inanafactuicd.'is sollius; 400 hot
ties of tfricsol, tlw great California 1
Rheumatic Remedy, a month without
any advertising whatever. Ernggistr
Ml nat$l.(X) per bottle, or six bottles ;
for. $.1.00. It also cures kidney and
bladder troubles, caafttd l y uric acid in
the system. Soud Hnrs fu- book of
particulars to the Uriool Chemical Co
Los Angt lcs, Cal., or Lamar & Rankin
JDrrg Co. Atlanta, Ga.
Carroll W. Downey,
Physician and Surgeon,
Rutherford ton, N. O.
Office m Residence on Main street.
'Phone No. 22.
One SSSssut QquqU Gisre
Fcr Coughs, CoWs apc3 Croup.
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A Mystery Ii Politics Amaz
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Special Washington Letter.
HERE never Avas in this world
a more thoroughly barefaced
piece of political stealing
than that, now being attempt
ed by the Republicans in Colorado.
The Democrats elected the legislature
fairly, and Senator Teller is entitled to
his re-election, but if force, booule and
chicanery combined can prevent it he
will not got it.
AfeT.inaldo's request for a loan of
$lC0,tx;0,CC0 from this government to
relieve tho distress in the Philippine
Islands will fall on the leaden oars of
the Republicans. Having used Aggie,
they will pay no attention to his re
quests, prayers or demands. Tie ought
to have had sense enough to know that
before he went into partnership with
the Republicans. His request is pre
posterous. So is he.
These statesmen are to be pitied who
imagine that we can cultivate friendly
relations with the Cubans by getting
up a ruction with them about the
worthless Isle of Pines. The truth is
that all the jobbers in the country de
sire a war with Cuba and that we shall
take and hold her as a conquered prov
ince ia order that we may have some
excifie for a large standing army. The
sous of senators are crying for soft
berths not "the sapient son3 of saint
ed sires," as Governor Lon V. Stephens
once dominated a certain job lot of
governors, but the lazy sons of thrifty
sires.
That great "reform movement" among
the Republicans of the New York leg
iskiture which was to land Hon. Thom
as C. Piatt, "the easy boss," in the
soup tureen 'and to clothe Governor
lUn Cdtll's form in a senatorial toga
did not eventuate or materialize.
lion. Booth Tarkingtou, novelist, of
Indiana is trying his hand at politics.
There was a novelist once named Ben
jamin Disraeli who cut a tremendous
figure in politics. It may be that Booth
Tarkingtou will rival him, but few
men have rivaled that "marvelous
Jew."
An Enigma.
There is one mystery In American
politics that ought to be explained, and
that id why purists ar.d reformers are
forever howling about Tammany and
it'? coiTKptiou while saying precious
little, if anything, about the Republic
an ring in Philadelphia and its corrup
tion. Is it force of habit, is it perversi
ty of spirit, or is it a deliberate attempt
on the part of the self styled purists
niul reformers to deceive fhe plain peo
ple and to lead them into the Repub
lican party, as the Irishman who had
taken the temperance pledge, but who
still had a consuming thirst, wanted
the doctor to give him the whisky 'im
knovvnst to himself?" No doubt Tam
many doe3 many things which Avere
better left undone, but the Philadel
phia Republican gang does things
which Tammany never dreams of do
ing, yet the reformers split their throats
atd the welkin also in denunciation of
Tj-Liniany and preseri-c a marvelous
silence when it comes to the Philadel
phia conuptionists. It really looks as
though the professional reformers, men
who live by reform, are mere recruit
ing agents and cxhorters for the Re
publican organization. Mayor Seth
Low and District Attorney Jerome
William Travers Jerome are thinly
veneered Republicans.
V.'heu, for instance, did Tammany
perform such a brazen piece cf boss
ism as tho Philadelphia Republicans
Lave performed as to their next maj'
or? Four or five petty bosses haA-e se
lected Mr. WeaA-er for that high posi
tion. They announced his selection by
telephone to the hundreds of thousands
of citizens of that great city, ajid,
Avhils nearly all were astonished, none
has had the courage to protest, none
dares to contest the nomination, and if
any man, no matter how strong and
meritorious, did pluck up the courage
to contest it AA-ould do him no good, no
matter how many votes he received,
for the ring would count their candi
date in anyway. The reformers haA-e
not opened their mouths about this of-fensiA-e
bossism, but if Tammany were
pnilty of such a caper all space would
be vocal with their ululations, and
folks who know no better Would think
that all Democrats ought to be hanged
and that all Republicans are so pure
that they live In imminent peril of be
ing translated in a chariot of fire a la
Elijah. .
Professional Reformers Mute.
It is n well known fact that Senator
Matthew Stanley Quay dictates all the
principal appointments of his cousin,
Governor Pennypaeker. from Wash
ington and that Senator Thomas Col
lier Piatt, "the easy boss," dictates to
the Republican legislature in Albany
what hiAvs It shall enact. Nevertheless
the professional reformers are mute as
Ciice. .
Hon. William A. Clark of Montana
was driven into r signing a seat in the
senate for spending too much money.
The sum proved was about $30,000.
Yet the notorious Addicks boasts that
he has spent $250,000 in making Dela
ware Republican. Yet when he pre
sents his credentials not a Republican
senator will object Wherefore? Be
cause he Is a Republican.
It is really a wonder that decent
people do not become so thoroughly
disgusted with' Republican duplicity
mid hypocrisy as to rise in their might
and hurl hem into that outer darkness
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where there is weeping, wailing and
gnashing of teeth.
In Re Nelson A. Miles.
Will not some Republican authorita
tively explain to an expectant Avorld
Avhy the administration has so sudden
ly taken a new tack in its treatment of
Nelson A. Miles, lieutenant general of
the army? Nothing appears to be too
good for Miles now, but for the last
two or three or four years in fact, ever
since the beginning of the Spanish war
it has been the administration habit
to snub Miles, to lambast him, to cross
him. to reprimand him, to insult him,
to humiliate him. Why has this change
come o'er the spirit of the administra
tion's dreams? It is rumored that the
reason is that the administration Avants
to coddle Miles into seeking retirement
some eight months before he can be
forced upon the retired list in order
that two or three administration favor
ites may be promoted from major gen
erals to lieutenant .w.-als, so that
they may be retired with the higher
rank and larger pay. Will General
Miles dance to their music? That's
an Interesting question. He can block
their game if he will, if lie is not se
duced, for they ivill not dare to retira
him forcibly before he roaches the age
limit. He has too many friends for
that experiment to be considered safe,
though it Avas undoubtedly considered
seriously at one time. Flattery may
win the grizzled old warrior over, and,
Le may at last li t two or three, of his
inveterate enemies reach the coveted
rank of lieutenant general when he can
easily prevent such a consummation.
Graceful Oratory.
When Mr. Secretary of State Ilay
does not talk politics, he is a most in
teresting orator. FeAA' tilings - have
boon more gracefully spoken than the
folloAviug, AAibich he uttered at the Ohio
society of New York:
A distinguished American some time ago
leaped in!o unmerited fame by saying,
"Eomc men are born great; others are
born Jn Qhio."
This is mere pleonasm, for a man who
is born in Oh'o is born jrrcat. I can. say
this, as Vhe rest of you cannot, without the
reproach of egotism, for 1 have suffered
all my life under the handicap of not hav
ing bten born in that fortvnate common
wealth. Indeed whfn I lock back on the
shifting scoiies of my Ufa. if I am that
altogether deplorable creature, a man
without a country, I am, when it comes
to pull and prestige, almost equally be
reft, as I am a man Avlthout a state.
I was born in Indiana, I grow up in Illi
nois, I was educated In Rhode Isiand, and
it i3 no b'ama to th?.t scholarly community
that I know so little. I learned my law ia
Springfield ar.d my politics in Washing
ton, my diplomacy in Europe, Asia and
Africa. I have a farm in New Hampshire
and desk room in the District of Columbia.
When I lock to the springs from which
my bleod descends, the first ancestors I
ever heard cf were a Scotchman who was
half English and a German woman who
was half French. Of my immediate
progenitors my mother Avas from ICew
England, and my father was from the
south.
In this bewilderment of origin and ex
perience I can cniy put on an aspect of
daep humiiity in any gathering cf favorite
eons i-.nd confess that I am nothing but an
American.
I lived a little while In Ohio and was
very happy there; but, obeying a call
which seemed to me imperative. I went to
Washington some twenty years ago. I
might be pardoned for thinking I had not
left Ohio, for every great department of
national activity and power was undtr
the direction of a citizen of that master
ful state.
Tha president was an Ohio man equally
distinguished in character and achieve
ments; the finances cf the country were
In the strong and capable hands of John
Sherma-; the army gladly obeyed the or
ders of Tecumsch Sherman, with Phil
Sheridan as second in command, while at
the head of our august supreme court sat
Chief Justice Waite. the purse, the sword
and the scales of justice' all in the hands
of men corning from a state which natu
rally breeds men who know how to make
war, to make money and make laws.
What a roll call ot great names is found
In the presidents from Ohio! The two
Harrisons, old and young Tippecanoe;
Grant, one of those simple, great men for
whom history has so sure a partiality;
Hayes, the ideal Republican citizen, and
those twins in fate and fame, so like in
destiny and so different in temperament
and in methods, Garfield and McKinley
all Ohio men by birth or adoption, all il
lustrious, in peace and Avar, citizens and
soldiers, too, without reproach.
Amazing Journalism.
The Kansas City Journal regards it
self as a great paper. Thousands of
Republicans in Missouri and Kansas
read it with the same reverential feel
iDg AA-ith which a devout Mussulman
peruses the Koran. Truth to tell, gen
era lly when it discourses upon any sub
ject save politics or about anybody ex
cept a Democrat It is quite readable,
sometimes instructive, but surely it
ha3 the queerest idea of Avit and criti
cism eA-er entertained in this world.
Its idea of wit is to put into a Demo
crat's mouth words of precisely the op
posite meaning from Avhat he did say
and then to larrup him for saying Avhat
it says that he said. Its idea of criti
cism is to wrench sentences and parts
f sentences from this context, jumble
them together and represent thi3 het-.
erogeneous mass as what somebody
said. This may be up to date journal
ismat any rate, it is Kansas City
journalism but it Avill hardly com
mend itself to the judgment of candid
persons who desire to form correct es
timates of public men, and most per
sons would like to form correct opin
ions touching public men.
What folloAVs will illustrate the Jour
nal's methods. On the 13th of January
General CJiarles H. Grosvenor and my
self indulged in a political debate in
the house, during which some half
dozen or more Republicans came to the
general's aid. It was what is called a
Snbsaribe for THE TRIBUNE,
printed every Thursday CTening.
It is
rough and tumble debate, a perform
ance in which the participants do not
stand very much on ceremony, but hit
whereAer and whenever and howso
ever they can. It may be that the
Journal man, who is so wrought up by
my remarks and replies to interrupt
ers, believes that when his speech is
broken in upon the average member of
the house retires to a corner for an
hour or two to held communion with
his OAvn soul and to devise an elegant
and elaborate rejoinder. If he were in
congress, he miglit change his opinion
not only radically, but suddenly. In
fact, he might learn a great deal in a
very short time.
General GroSA-enor jumped me and
in closing his carefully prepared as
sault, which required an hour for its
delivery, expressed the opinion that
next year Missouri would cast her A-ote
for the Republican candidates. I be
gan my reply as folloAvs:
Mr. Chairman, the gentleman from Ohio,
General Grosvenor, says he expects to see
Missouri go Democratic in 1904. If he is
fortunate enough to live until Missouri
casts her electoral vote for a Republican
candidate for the presidency, he will dou
ble discount Methuselah as the oldest
man that ever lived. That state had a
bad case of Republican maladministration
for eight years, and I undertake to say
that since the morning stars first sang to
gether there was never such a saturnalia
of crime in the history of the human race
as the Republican.? held in Missouri.
A burnt child dreads the fire, and a
scalded cat is afraid of cold water.
Missouri will not go Republican in a
fair contest until the people of that mag
nificent commonwealth have lost the pow
! er of memory.
i I have never vaunted myself or been ex
ploited by my friends as a prophet of
either the major or the minor variety.
Disclaiming all powers of vaticination, I
shall draw some conclusions from the
plain facts of history. There is an old
saying, "Fight the devil with fire." ana
while I do not say that the gentleman
from Ohio resembles Old Nick very much,
though one of my colleagues once said on
the floor of this house that he looked like
Santa Claus and talked like Satan, I pro
pose to. fight him with his arithmetical
plan here today. I have never been held
up to the community as a lightning cal
culator, although I understand the multi-
plication table. Out in Ohio and even be
yond the ample confines cf that state my
friend bears the sobriquet of "Old' Fig
gers." r - -
Today I happened to be standing down
, in the hall by the postoffice. An old em
ployee of the house was talking to a
; "tenderfoot." The general swept by in his
majesty, tenderly fondiing his prophet's
beard, and the old employee said to the
' newcomer, "There goes the stud bug of
arithmetic."
Nothing to Change.
j In reading and rereading that in cold
type there is nothing in it that I would
j change. I took General GrosA-enor
: upon Ms own proposition, and Avhat
i ever my ansiver lacks in elegance it
makes up for in emphasis, but , the
Journal, in its vaiii endeavor to make
a point against me, wrenches the cat
. and cold Avater proverb from its set
ting, makes me out a ruffian for using
it and by innuendo declares that the
Democrats of the house wore a lot of
fools fcr applauding. The way the
Journal quotes it no man could guess
A-Lat I Avas talking about. Quoted as
part of the paragraph where it belongs,
most people would say it Avas apropos
and that the reason I assigned Avhy
Missouri will not go Republican is a
i good and unanswerable reason, and
; that is precisely why the Journal at
tacks me unfairly.
I Again, it says that I said that Gen
ieral Grosvenor looks very much like
Old Nick, Avhen, as a matter of fact,
my statement was exactly to the con
trary. The Journal says that I said that
"my age Avill double discount that of
Methuselah, the oldest man that OA'cr
lived, before Missouri goes Republic
an." I said no such thing. Au con
trairo, as the French wouid say, I de
clared that 'General Grosvenor's age
would double discount Methuselah."
Of course a little thing like that does
not amount to anything when tho great
Kansas City Journal is endeavoring to
put a I emocrat in the wrong.
The Journal Feeins to think it A-as
something awful for me to say, in
speaking of General Grosvenor, "lie
is the hardest man to corner thati I
ever clapped my eyes on." Yet I can
prove the absolute verity of that state
ment by every man in the house.
It must be that the Journal expects
a Democrat to use only rosewater in
fighting a Republican notorious for
using vitriol. If so, the Journal Aviil
be grievously disappointed in its ex
pectations. Mr. Wachter of Maryland broke in
on my speech to refer to the differ
ences betwixt Democratic factions,
whereupon I replied, "They are as near
together as Messrs. McComas and
Mudd." The sapient Journal concludes
that that was "a cute pun on the latter
name," and apparently not knowing
that the McComas and Mudd Repub
lican factions in Maryland hate each
other Aiorse than the devil hates holy
Avater, but the members of the house
inew it; consequently the Journal
should not be too hard on them for
applauding. I have studied puns some
what in my time, and I am utterly at
a loss to follow the erudite Journal
when it construes my remark as to
Messrs. McComas and Mudd into a
pun, cute or otherwise. When the
Journal intends to be witty, it should
say so.
Dr. Bartholdt of St. Louis broke into
my speech, whereupon I jogged his
memory about the villainies perpetrat
ed by Missouri Republicans when in
power. He said that those Republican
act3 were committed lone- niro. I re-
woined: "Do you believe the Bible? A
leopard cannot change its spots or an
Ethiopian his skin" which the Journal
thinks w-as a dreadful faux pas, but
the Journal fails to state whether its
objection is based on the fact that I
qugted the Dible 6r because the Bible
quotation knocked out Bartholdt And
so on to the end of the chapter.
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INTO OPEN SWITCH "
FAST TRAIN GOES
New Orleans Special Wreck
j ed Near Memphis. .
TWO AHE FATALLY INJURED.
Switch Lamp Showed Clear Track,
Though Switch Was Open, and It
Is Believed that Accident Was the
Work of Train Wreckers.
Memphis, Jan: 23. The Illinois
Central New Orleans special from
Memphis for New Orleans, which left
this city at 12:15 o'clock this (Friday)
morning, was derailed and badly
wrecked by an open switch at a lum
ber company's side track in an indus
trial suburb of the southern part of
the city.
Five of the seven coaches were de
railed and overturned and the loco
motive was badly smashed. Not a
single passenger WB3 injured and none
of the train crew were killed out
right, although the engineer and fire
man are fatally injured and three
other members of the train crew are
seriously hurt.
List of Casualties.
Fatally injured:
Harry Norton, engineer, of Memphis.
John McDaniel, fireman, of -Water
Valley, Miss.
Seriously injured:
W. P. Myrick, baggagemaster, of
Fukon, Ky.
Frank Etheridge, mail clerk.
Reuben Davis, mail clerk.
.The switch at the siding was open,
although the switch lamp showed a
clear track. It is believed that it
was deliberately opened and the lamp
set with the white light showing, by
wreckers for the purpose of ditching
the train.
The engine collided with a cut of
heavily loaded box cars on the side
track and the entire forward section
of the train left the side track. The
mail car was badly crushed and the
combination buffet and baggage coach
was cut squarely in half. One of the
Pullman sleepers was thrown at right
angle to the track, bat remained in an
upright position. The rear sleepers
did not leave the rails, and the occu
pants escaped with a slight shaking
UDv
There were about 65 passengers on
the train.
Engineer end Fireman Scalded.
The engineer and fireman were
caught in the ruins of the enylne and
are badly scalded and burned. Both
will die.
The train -Is the fastest and hand
somest on the southern lines of the
Illinois Central. It consisted of a
BMiil coach, combination buffet and
baggage car, two day coaches and
three Pullman sleeping cars.
PARENTS STARVED CHILDREN.
Inhuman Acts of Frank Cronk and His
Wife Were Arrested.
! Binghampton, N. Y., Jan. 24. Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Cronk, who came to
Alexander Hill four years ago from
McHenry, m., are under arrest for
cruelty to their three children. The
youngest died Thui8day. Officer
Wheatcn found one child 3 years old
chained in a chair and starved: until
it weighed only 20 pounds. It had
been in the chair all its life. The
condition f the other two children
was pitiable. A fourth child died sev
e?al weeks ago.
Tho 3-year-oid prisoner died shortly
after being released
DUEL FOUGHT ON STREETS.
Participants Escape Unscathed, but
Passereby Are Wounded.
New York. Jan. 23. Tn
" uuauvwu
men fought a duel in sight of Oak
( oireti pimce station m the city last
! mgnt dui eota Demg bad shots escaa-
There were two victims of their
bullets, however, a boy and a girl '
The boy, Willie McLaughlin, was shot
in the body" and! perhaps fatally
wounded. The girl, 14 years old,1
received a wound in the
emptying their revolvers, the men es '
Scheme of Philanthropists.
Knoxville, Tenn., Jan. 24. A
to The Sentinel from Middlesboro,
Ky., says eastern philanthropists' ;
through the solicitation of tho Ken
tucky Federation of Women's clubs,'
have contributed a fund with which
to establish an industrial school for
mountain children in Knott county,
Kentucky. This is in the very moun
tain region. The school will be es
tablished soon as possible. j
Storm Wrecks Vessels.
Christiana, Jan. 24. As the result '
of a storm which swept over the
coast yesterday, the steamer Adokke, '
belonging to Bergen and having on
board a crew of 13 men is reported to
have foundered in the North sea; a '
fishing smack was sunk in Randoe-!
Sums and three men were drowned, !
and a ferry boat was wrecked at Var-
doe. with the loss ol five lives.
Ia Bed Four Weeks With La Grippe.
We have received the following letter
from Mr. Roy Kemp, of Angola. Ind.
' I was in bed four Aveeks Avith la grippe
and I tried many remedies and spent
considerable for treatment with physi
cians, but I received no relief until I
tried Foley's Honey and Tar. Two
small bottles of this medicine cured me
and uoav I nse it exclusively in my fam
ily." Take no substitutes. City Drug
Store
LITTLE STEAMER HAS
TERRIBLE VOYAG
Battled Fierce eas With
Leaking Boilers.
OUT FOR MANY LONG DAYS..
j Dswson City's Trip From Nome to
Seattle One of Perpetual M'ssfor-
tunes and Dangers Anxiety Dur
ing Voyage Turned Owner's Hair.
Seattle, Wash., Jan. 26 A special
to The Post-Intelligencer from Port
Townsend. says:
After having been so long on the
journey that recent advices of safety
were leceived with undisguised in
credulity the little steamer Dawson
City, one of the' first of the new fleet
to leave and the last to arrive, came
sailing into port at noon like a spec
tre. Few here had ever seen the
vessel, and it was not until former
Nomeites confirmed the supposition
that it could be believed that the lit
tle vessel was really the long over
due packet.
The steamer gives few outward signs
of the terrible voyage,, but casual in
spection aboard shows the differences.
The boiler is leaking to the point of
being absolutely useless, while the
machinery through continuous buffet
ing about and lack of facilities for re
pairs, tells a- plain story. Felix Brown,
owner of the vessel, shows the effects
of the troubles to which he has been
subjected in his effort to get his prop
erty back to civilization. Although
he is a comparatively young man, his
hair is white, and long lines of care
are discernable in his countenance.
From Oct. 8, last year, when the
Dawson city--started from Nome for
Seattle, her A-oyage has been one of
perpetual misforune and disappoint
ment. When about 5 days cut the
boiler commenced leaking and the
steamer headed for Nunivak island,
where temporary repairs were made.
She left there Nov. 10. during very bad
weather. To add to the discomforts
several boiler tubes blew out almost
dieabllng the steaming facilitios. Sev
eral days after the vessel was forced
into Port Moller through the fact that
both the water and fuel supply was
beginning to run low. The chart
showed that coal was available at this
port, but the statement was omittsd.
however, that the deposit was located
5 miles inland with no road available
to tide water. Nothing daunted the
crew aboard from master to boy went
at the task and succeeded in again
Ailing the bunkers, each man carry
ing a gunny sack with 50 pounds of
coal on each journey, covering 10
miles going and returning. While
taking water casks ashore the crew
lost one of their availabTe boats which
was dashed on the rocks and smashed
Into kindling wood. After two weeks
spent In this tiresome work at Moller,
the vessel started out again. Thn
severe winds commenced. The Daw
son City was caught In terrific gales,
but weathered them surprisingly well!
Her limited power proved a drawback,
however, and soon the coal taken from
the Moller was exhausted. The ves
sel was now forging ahead for Dutch
Harbor, using canvass as wa3 found
aboard for a make-shift sail.
Two weeks were spent at Dutch Har
bor, a new canvass was secured an
on Jan. 3 the packet resumed the long
trip to the sound. The entire voyage
down from Dutch -Harbor was at
tended by fierce gales and nasty seas.
Off Cape Flattery Friday night the
vessel met with a strong gale that
prevailed, but was fortunate in having
a shift to windward which brought her
safe anchorage here today.
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
A Toronto dispatch says the Cana
dian association of oarsmen have de
cided to seek aff illation. Avith the Eng
lish amateur rowing association.
While the services were in prog
ress In Christ Episcopal church, of
Elizabeth City, N. J., the congregation
was startled by hearing a loud moan
and seeing John Rowland Moorewood,
one of the oldest communicants, fall
back in his pew. He died a few min
utes later.
It is reported that "'Charley' Mitch
eM, one ime the champion heavy
weight pugilist of England, Is on his
way to the United States, where, it
is said, he will act as manager for
Jabez White, the holder of tho Eng
lish light-weight championship. White
Is said: to desire a match with "Young"
Coibett or McGovern, and Mitchell
will try to bring about a meeting.
Within a short time wireless tele
graph stations will be erected at New
port and various points along the
north shore of Long Island, primarily
fer the use of yachts, which at an ex
pense of less than $200 each, can be
equipped with sending and receiving
apparatus capable of service for 20
to 30 miles.
A $10,000,000 combine of emery
wheel manufacturers, along the lines
6f the American Steel and Yire com
pany, is being formed. Twenty large
Concerns in different parts of the
country have been asked to join the
combination. A meeting of the pro
moters will be held In New York on
Jan. 29.
Mr. and Mrs. William T. Hollen
shade, of Baltimore, have a daughter
named after Miss Roosevelt. The
baptismal service' was interesting. The
parents are deaf and dumb, as is the
Rev. D. E. Merrilan, who officiated.
The ceremony was conducted in the
sign language.
A man hates what is above hun; a
womam hates what is beneath her.
COMMERCIAL BANK.
Report of the condition of the Com
mercial Bank of Rutherfordton, at Ruth
erf ordton, N. C, at the close of business
on January 5th, 1903.
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts, 26,13G 35
Overdrafts 392 92
Furniture and Fixtures 1,000 00
Due from banks and bankers. 16,047 34
Cash on hand 6,527 00
Total $50,108.61
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock $10,000 00
Surplus 1,000 00
Undivided profits 1,155 90
Deposits subject to checks 36.992 84
Due other banks 531 58
Cashier' s checks 423 29
Total
$50,103.61
Dit. T. B. TWITTY, President.
J. F. FLAUK, Cashier.
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M L. EDWARRDS,
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
To the left up stairs ia the Commercial
Bank Euilding.
Prompt and carc-fnl attention given to
all busidess intrusted to me. Agent for
safe and reliable Fire insurance Coj pa
nies, also, for one of the largest and best
Banding and Trust Companies in the
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or want to make any kind of bond call
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May be found at the Rntherfm-dtr.ii
HardAvare Stort. Will give prompt and
oareful attention to all business intrust
ed to him.
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