Museum Collectors Find
,e Excitement in the
Swamps of Honduras.
?"Have you ever played
^l(a^ seek wlth a croc?dile *t
0* ;nd ks Kur! 0. Schmidt, who,
olfllt? L \\ ait ere. Just returned
filh ^ Field m useuru after four
tD f' in Honduras collecting reptile?.
,?me is exciting, especially if
?*' wiini* forest. And if the
tW r, tags >011 you'll certainly
*hL' ^uTe It ? Hut in thif case,"
, e M* l1^' t,,e skin 0f * vId0US
WWIW. "1 *?'? hlra !trst
lL< s;,e,i..irn 1 ,-0t in British Hon
We had ? several smaller
wanted a big fellow. They
lr grow to about rtve feet there?
* later got sonic eleven-footers in the
Public <>f Honduras. But on thlq
X,t Walters and I went out with the
fflStomarv headlights on our forehead,
2 ready to kill. The headlight daz
the eyes of the animal and gives
hunter the Advantage. Pretty soon
j MW thLg brawny chap slavvering
gronn 6 In t puddle about a foot deep.
Blind** Creatur# Good Wreetler.
-j , hot twice for his ear but missed.
m,e second bullet scraped hit head and
gtout half-stunned hira so that he be
m to navigate wiklly in circles. I
tkeuflit I'd lose hi m then, but all at
ip0e I found hlni right near me. I
didn't take a chance on shooting, but
just poked my flngeri into his eyes
tod pulled him out like that. The eye
lockets are rather deep and five you a
lood hold on the chap. Well, then I
pabbed his nx-uth. but he kept squirm
mg around in my hands so I could
hirdfy hold hlra. Walters came up
just in time to keep the beast from
getting away. y
"We tied him. but even after that
his musses were so strong that he
could "roll himself around on the
fpouud like an animated cylinder. He
coold have got away into the swamp in
no time if we hadn't tied him to a tree.
Well, here he is. poor fellow. And
there if the plaster mold Walters made
of him. I have a sort of affection for
him now. He Rave me a good time of
It. all ricbt. But I didn't try to get
my bigger ones by hand. No, not after
that."
The collection brought home by
Schmidt and Walters also includes
ipeclmens of a tree-climbing salaman
der, an animal about four Inches k>ng
that lives in the tubular leaves of the
ilr plant. Tliese leaves always con
ttlEwsrer In their bottoms. It Is here 1
that the salamander exists. Among the
- .ipedmens of this kind taken by the ex
plorers are several new species.
H iller En Route WKh Specimens.
John T. Ziramer has returned from a
rear of explorations In Peru. He told
of meeting Edmund Heller, another of |
the Field museum's collectors, In Peru j
Id April. 1922.
For mure than a fear Heller and ;
his wife have been scouring South
American hills and forests in search
of specimens of mammals to stuff and
bring hark to the Field museum. They
JLr* siso brining a few live rarities for
the Lincoln, park zoo. t The two are
now on their way here from New York. J
Amone the collection to be mounted
for the museum are the leaf-nosed bat; I
the oil bird, or owl that Is not an owl, ,
i ?penec of which thousands of sped- j
mens were found In the L#echuza cave I
and from who*e fat young the natives j
nake & fins salad oil ; a "vampire" anl- j
nial like a hear with a tooth like the
Wade of fi knife, and others equally
odd.
How Bull Wm Taught . .
Fear of Automobile
Toledo. 0 A fight with an enraged
bull resulted In a narrow escape from
Injury for Dr. Charles J. Henzler, Lu
pts county coroner, and the damaging
of his automobile recently In a farm
'?ot near Temperance, Mich.
Coroner Henzler parked his machine
?n the cow pasture while he went to a
stream 200 yards away to pick muah
roornp. a herd of cows grouped around
Mm to watch the proceedings. A bull
landing on a hill nearby became en
^Ked at the coroner and started tor
him.
Doctor Henzler broke ftll speed rec
ords in covering; the distance to his
automobile. ^8 he started to drive
aw*y the hull rammed the rear of the
machine. A rack on the automobile
^ntaiTiing a tire was caught on the
bull'* horns hut did not deter his fight
ability. He continued to ram the
machine while the coroner stepped on
the accelerator.
When Doctor Henzler thought the
had damaged his automobile
*nouL'h he turned around, switched on
^ lights and started for the animal.
The latter dodged, the tire rack be
?*me unfastened and he galloped
After the bull had put quite a^
stance between himself and the gate
?ctor Henzler turned his machine
trour't5 sr?ed back, picked up the tire
and made a quick getaway.
Chemist Bares Hafnium Secrets.
"open 1 . * k en .?Prof. Nils Bohr, the
Bcover.-r of the new element, haf
Urn' Ju,s now determined its atomic
**ht 'phe element, which was
?med (n honor of the city of Copen
i* still not completely isolated,
J^tthe professor's efTorts in this di
rt T nr,Jirlng completion. Five
e '"inety-two element# 'jiktaw
io be ilnrnrsrM.
OK SVS11M tO SUPPLY 1
III U.S: ELECTRICITY
Plan Would Require Investment
of $5,000,000,000.
New York. ? Details of the plan to
develop a huge, unified, privately
owned electrical system, capable of
supplying the power needs of the entire
country, are being-worked out with the
support of the Westlnghouse Electric
and Manufacturing company.
Its fulfillment, requiring years, would
mean an Investment of $5,000,000,000,
and an increase of probably $1,000,
000,000 a year in money spent for
electricity. It would bring electric
light to millions of farms. It would
offer a practical method of electrify
ing almost all of the steam railroads of
the country.
The need for such a system was out
lined bffore the convention of the Na
tional Electric Light association by Guy
E. Tripp, chairman of the Westlng
hous^ board of directors.
The plan contemplates carefully di
rected extensions, by the efforts of ex
isting private companies, of present
central stations and transmission
lines. Within a few years almost all
important generating stations and
transmission lines- would be pooled in
half a dozen "supersystems." Later
the "supersystems" would be linked up
Into one unlt^ The unified system, sell
ing in one cjty power It has obtained
from a station 1,000 miles away, wodld
be to electricity w"hat the federal re
serve banks are to finance.
MEXICAN WAR VETERAN
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? Photograph of James Ourran, a vet
eran of the Mexican and Civil wars/
now residing at Riverside, 111., who is
said #to be one of the seven survivors
of -the Mexican war. Mr. Curran was
born in Constableville, N. Y., Aug. 10,
1832. The city of Riverside will honor
him with a bfg celebration July 4. He
Is enjoying the best of -health and
Is anxious to get In touch with the
other six survivors of the Mexican
war.
Papyrus Shows Realty
Deal 2,230 Years Ago
Philadelphia. ? & notary's agree
ment for the sale of a city house 2,230
years ago has just been discovered at
the University of Pennsylvania mu
seum on a strip of papyrus brought re
cently from Thebes, Egypt, and trans
lated by Dr. Nathaniel Reich.
In the agreement Petesche, the no
tary, took great pains to locate the
building in question, so that there
would be no possibility of litigation.
"It stands in the northern quarter of
Thebes," he wrote, "at the western
place of the wall. Its neighbors are
on the north, the houses of Petcharpe,
the King's street lying between them ;
east, a house which is 2% cubits of
land (250 square cubits) which I sold
to Khenseu, son of Uzeher."
4 The agreement was between a sol
dier named Paret and a locksmiUfrl
named Panl. The parchment on which
It is contained measures 90x15 Inches.
It is signed by sixteen witnesses.
Holds Doctors Liable
for Wrong Diagnosis
Berlin. ? That physicians are respon
sible for their diagnoses of diseases
and are liable to the patient for dam
ages if the diagnosis is wrong, is, in
effect, the decision of the German Su
preme court.
A vineyard owner named Braun fell
from a street car. His injuries oausejl
him to be taken to a hospital, where
the doctor diagnosed his injury as a
fracture of the hip joint. He was
treated accordingly, but It later devel
oped he had merely suffered a disloca
tion of the hip.
Through the treatment the hip be
came stiff and the patient sued the
doctor.
TTie court. In its decision, declared
that in intrusting his body to the doctor
the patient had intrusted his future I
happiness in the hand of the physician I
and, therefore, had the right to expect
that the physician would avail himself
of the most modern means of removing
all doubt as to his condition.
Dentist Breaks Man's
v Leg Pulling Tooth
Pottstown, Pa. ? As Maurice
Bryan, forty-two years old, arose
from a dentist's chair after hav
ing a molar tooth extracted he
cried: "My leg is broken." Then
he collapsed on the floor. Both
bones of the right leg had
snapped between the ankle and
tne knee./'
STOP! LOOK! LISTEN!
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BATHING CAP ' ' . ' - ,
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The Etexall Store
Tryon, N. C.
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wear v?fii i ? ? i. . -n :? /
It wliidi wIM \ 'i! t in ' h
corrupt <l!spo * t 5 ? 1 ?
to the siufu I vvjiw ??
cllne t.hem to thn ii* .?* .
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Young Love's Ending.
I hud taken my girl to a box social j
held in ? country 9choo1. I told
f ?? describe Iter b^x and I would buy It.
I bought- the box she had describat,
Mini on opening It I found It belongs
to a sour old maid. I was real angry, !
especially so when I saw that a niee
young fellow had bought my girl's
box Our friendship ended thera.?
Exchange. ?
Uplifting Sentiments.
Love. charity. b6T!evolence. kP"'
ness, go?id win towards others
arouse the noblest feelings and ?
ments wfthln us. They are life ir
uplifting They make for iiejiltl ?
mony, power They a I ! rein' ??
normal, to put us In rune ivi<r
'nflnlto '
i imcpicce?.
Putting the cat out Is a job that is
not so much with us. Rut cloek wind
ing is all that It used to be. There
Is the tin alarm clock to wind, the
wrist watch, the pocket watch, the tick
iug wedding present on the desk. and
'lie large eight-day clock, all In ?me
family. And It Is seldom that. any I wo
?if them agree as to what the time (a.
Announ
This is to Announce
V>*
Manager
the opening of the Landrum Undertaking
Co., in the Watson Building, over Landrum
Mercantile Co's store. We are prepared to
furnish elegant Auto Hoarse. Embalmer of
20 years experience,- with lady assistant.'
Caskets of all descriptions and prices, robes,
suits, shrouds and other accessories. : Our
prices will always be reasonable.
Chas 0. Smith
Our line of hardware is hard to beat
? prices are right. See us for gard
en tools and kitchen utensils of all
kinds. We have a complete line at
'live and let live prices. ' . v
WILLIAMS HOW. CO.
Landrum, S. C.
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(Iwber -of tfis family Eats
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The greatest factor for economy in purchasing
groceries is not in shopping around. - Go straight to
the place where you can buy good goods, buy them
and go about your regular business. There is very
little difference in the price of quality foods from
one end of the country to another. You will find a
complete line of groceries in our stock and at prices
just as low as honesty will permit. We consider the
best none too good for our customers.
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Yarns
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ICE
Beginning July 1st,; 1923,- ice will be delivered
in exchange for ICE COUPONS or CASH. The
charge system heretofore in effect has been discon
tinued with the close. of business June 30th, 1923.
Please purchase^ Coupon Books from office gr
deliverymen. We will gladly charge your coupon
book if you so desire. Deliverymen will have a sup
ply of Coupon Cooks at all times for your conven
ience.
Home Ice Plant
Manufacttft'era Sanitary Crystal Ice
Tryon, N.C.
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Tryon Real Estate Agency
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We have opened this business with office at the Bank
of Tryon, and are prepared to take charge of your prop
erty while away; also to make rentals and sales.
We Will Be Glad to Have Your Property With Us
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Real- Estate and Rents
Office Over Drug Store
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