Nobody’s
Business
GEE McGEE—
It Yo’j Want To Know.
Som ■ old mean robbers robbed a
Jlk cnl in Kentucky the other day
td (jut 8. dollars and 40 cents, a.id
ley would have get the '.orher 2 j
)lfaur> 'and *i cy.i.-rt if the tJresi
. nt he-d net of had it in his .tucket.
And spe iking of b::n!;... did you
* *.r hear i bout the mail who er.
reed a note fee his very onf:
i and f. nlaii to jmy it and now |
; a said fiend won't even speak t*>
m? Moral: If your friends really |
/« you, lei them peddle their own
4noa so's you can retain their
.31103' lip.
New York, Dec. 4.—Private <*stt»
i rtef; from the -seda j'erkers union
Hoboken caused December it> d - '
, tie US polntc,.but the horse-hack
ters straddled and sold h>rt.
rOsl «i the pubkhi was predicted |
: tar south us Honda last nient, j
i h cn account of ecuth'sm ueUihg. j
-dgin? precipitated a slant in j
arch contracts, and very tew de- I
antis were made for call money I
; *, the man who has It now r,cems i
•nerhat deef since the stock mar
t broke. . . everybody except dot.
iih men who became richer. The
rru relief boa-d is still busy help
's the farmer, but nobody serins
i know how. We advise raisins in
jme-brev,.
An old lady tolu me that she v a
• i at the county fair not long ayoj
id she saw a hot dog jump out of
» frying pan and chase an ok’ mum
>p«e, and from here,say reports, it
t him right behind the sinoltc
>usc, but I don't believe a word of •
Personally, I am very lonci cf
.irs and never miss them if I can
• >ssib!y procure a pass to same i
bile meandering through one o;
e tents at our recent exploitation
the farmers' effort in cur com
unity, Mrs. Jones asked me which
< i the agricultural exhibits J likPd
est and I told her the "hcochy
oochy,” and she didn’t seem to
’tjfejit, but that's just the way some
Japtists are.
Yo-yo-Ing seems to be subsiding
> some extent in our city. The
•hool children have only 3 yo-yos
, jiece now. and the cld ladies nave
‘ ctually got down to only 4 to 5.
t's funny how a craze runs its
■urse and is soon forgot. Remem
'r the walking stick mania of 10 ;
ud 25? And have you forgot he j
ver-buckled garters of 19 and 20? I
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V
EMPIRE’
PLOW SHAPES
UOOK TOR KMPIRK BRAND
ON BACK OF EACH PIECE
NOTICE OF SALE.
Under and by virtue of the power
sale contained in a certain m \rt
tge deed dated the 23rd a*y of
ehruary, 1928. and executed by C
"• Green to Mr.. Oris Martin as a
urchase price mortgage as shov/n
: i book number 139, at page 182 of
egistry of deeds for Cleveland
.'Uhty, which mortgage was gh>en
> secure certain indebtedness and
'fault having been made in the
lyment of indebtedness thereby
* cured, the undersigned mortgagee
ill on the 27th day of November,
' 1?9, at about 12 o'clock a. m. offer
id land for sale to the highest
dder for cash at the court house
1 bor at Shelby, North Carolina,
liich land Is described as fn"ows
Lying and being in number 7
! iwnship, Cleveland county, Nyth
irolina, beginning at an iron pin
; the North margin of nghwiv
o. 20, 100 feet west of a new street
*md runs N. 39 feet E. 140 feet tc an
on pin; thence N. 49 feet W. 60
>et to an iron pin; thence S. 39
et W. 140 feet to an iron pin if
le north margin of highway Co
); thence with north mrrgin of
vid highway S. 49 feet E. 60 fee. to
ie beginning. Containing 8400
iuare feet. The same being lot No
in block A.
This is a second mortgage to one
' “Id by the Federal Mortgage com*
ny of Asheville, N. C. Sale is sub
■ct to tills mortgage.
This 28th day of October, i921.
MRS. ORIS MARTIN. Mortgagee
•’ Lee Taverdar. Attorney.
Administrator's Notice.
Hating qualified as administrator
/ the estate ot Johaimah Bur
left, late of Cleveland; county, N.
. this it to notify all persons n*v
S claims against the said estate
> present the same to me tropet ly
■•oven on or before the 12tli dav
f November ld’O or this notice will
' pleaded In bar of recovery
iereof. All persons owing the said
date will please make immediate
1 'itlemeait to the undersigned. This
'fvember 12, 1929.
L. SUTTLE. Administrator.
Estate of Johannnli Bureh-Vh *
[ deceased. ]
l
And most of you recall the ear-bob
fad of 19 and 19, don’t you? Bustles
were just as prominent when they
bustled as some of these ,th»r
things, but the extenuation soon
eventuated up to the ches*, ard
when it became the style to be
come flat up there, every sir! got
flat. Oh, well. Pass me the gravy,
please.
Capitol City News.
Washington, V. C.—The health
of the community is good at present
except some of the senators have
right bad colds, and it -is rumored
that much cough syrup Is being
drunk by the members of cong. ess,
and in some cases—it has been Mis
taken by meddlers lor whiskey an
soforth. Public servants d> not
drink strong _flnr.k as some .oiks
seem to think. They arc nil very
Volsteady.
Mr DePriest likes Washington Q.
K., and says that contrary to thu
statements made by Sen. Cole L.
Blease, everything is very quiet In
deed in the District of Column.a as
compared with Chicago, his home
town. He recently bought Mrs. De
Priest a pretty little spitz puppy and
i; Sen. Heflin don't look out. it will
be sicked on him. Mrs. Gann's roo
dle strapped at it at the embroidery
club last night.
Sen. Bingham took a nice long
walk recently after explaining to his
colleagues why he had that man
from up east come down and help
him get the tariff adjustment, nade
so's it wouldn't hurt none of hi.s
friends, and for whose servicer he
paid 25 hundred dollars. He is a
fresh-air fiend and dislikes not atr
to an extreme. Sen. Bingham be
lieves that lobbyists have a perfect
right to lobby, and furthermore—he
intimated that if lobbyists were not
allowed in Washington, the popula
tion would immediately be decreas
ed to the tune of 143,689 souls and
twice as many half-soles.
The morals of our city have un
fortunately come up for critihsm
by members of the house. It ts true
a couple was caught by the police
yo-yo-ing near the monument one
afternoon and promptly locked up,
but the mothers of the said couple
are to blame for that. Nearly every
body goes to prayer-meeting and
preaching in our city except the
politicians and their wives and chil
dren, and the employees of the gov
ernment and their families, and the
policemen and their folks, and the
merchants and their clerks and
their acquaintances. Practically
every janitor in town attenos all
services regularly, that is — the
church Janitors, and the preacheis
are fairly faithful also when in the
community.
There are no blind tigers in
Washington at present, due to th“
watchfulness of the police and con
gressmen generally. Two or three
hot dog stands are selling sonic coca
cola and grape juice at present, but
Sen. Blease will soon put a stop to
that.' Mr. Hoover has not been hurt
by any of the bad men that have
recently been discovered on some
of the back streets and he has been
requested to keep iris air-rifle handy
at all times to protect himself and
family against would-be thug.,, and
It seems that he is sleeping Q. K„
regardless of reports to the contra
ry. Congress was in session 24 min
utes last week and is expecting to
re-assemble again at 4 o'clock next
month to plan for an adjournment.
Nothing else of interest has hap
pened lately.
tjou murt bring
?n« flower* to
jieb d reterua
feAr-1 ««a+ / )
bnglish Language Is Safe
With Present-Day Cowboy
| Phoenix Yelping hike Coyote About
The Fiction TVriters Who Make
The C'owpunchers Tnlk Had.
Phoenix, Arlz.—"They's gold in
them thar hills, stranger, and I
I reckon if I didn’t have to rustic
[these yere longhorns down thru
I the injun country—”
Stop right there, Phcenix, Ari
jzona, doesn’t like It. Phoenix is
i yelping like coyote, through the
columns of local papers, about the
I fctlon writers who make the ecw
' boys talk bed grammar. According
to Phoenix, the pellucid air of its
own bailiwick has nothing whatever
ion the pellucid English used by a
; preponderance of the boys in chaps,
I whose educated conversation rings
lout as true as their jangling spurs
[md whose culture is as broad as
any that flung skyward at a rodeo.
You'd be surprised, especially it
you have been reading those ill
informed stories of western life
iwhich induce in the consumer the
[erroneous belief that cowboys oc
casionally split an infinitive. They'd
no more do that than shoot up a!
1 saloon, and every one has heard I
| that prohibition came here ion.: ago 1
, Observations of and conversation [
I with cowboys autochthonous to
| Arizona end Flew Mexico compels
' the admission that Phoenix is right, j
i There appears to be . something |
| about riding the range which muk
jes fer education. As n matter of tact j
unless you have studied plenty ot j
languages, it is particularly impos
sible for you to attain the vocabu
lary needed for punching cows.
Many cow-waddies address their
herds in terms which go s raight
back to the fine old days oi the
j Jutes and Angles; nevertheless, it
j is vigorously denied that the paint
icd desert got thrt way because a
| waddy once stubbed his toe on a
I mesa.
A knowledge of the Spanish lan
| suage is also part of the equipment
of every efficient cowboy, he would
no more think ol mounting his
horse without u couple ot rarnmbas
In reserve then he would think of
leaving his six shooter back on the
dressing table in the bunk house.
What's more, las pronunciation in
any language is absolutely accurate
and if you dilfer from him on any
delicate point you’d better be a
pretty good shot yourself. Fling In
his direction a few paragraphs from
Cicero's Denunciation of Catiline,
for example; or quote from the Ve
da of the Hindus or any other dia
lect that sounds a bit approbrlous;
and the results will be enlightening.
There is no tongue in which you
can address him, especially if you
employ gestures, without his hav
ing an instantaneous come-back.
That's education, what wo mean,
and the same cannot be said for
every graduate of Oxford.
In practical matters, also, the
cowboy is right there with the Ph
D . IX. D„ and Magna Cum Laude
Once he had to know only about re
pulsing the attacks el Aprches and
cattle ticks. Now he is not accept
able in cowboy circles unless lie pos
sesses a knowledge of fence mend
ing and wind-mill oiling. Lassoing
grizzlies and other fauna used to be
the high peak of his talent. Today
he can fake a motor car to pieces
and pul it together again without
having any parts left over—much
What surplus of spark plug;; am
cylinders may remain after this op
eration he uses as markers for tin
columns of Einstein on Relativity
Andre Maurols on Modern Ethics
cr Musenfleld's poems, which he al
ways carries in his pockets. On thi
other hind he may use a volume o!
Da Maupassant to eke out a space
which none of the left-over cylin
ders seem quite to fit; for veisattl
ity is perhaps his greatest cultural
charm
Serxuefy however—not that on<
would w i-h to be otherwise with a
coterie that carries guns even undei
his aims - a sizeable percentage of
former cow-waddlee is to be found
or. a representative list of import
ant Americans. Look at John B
Kendrick, of Wyoming, who got to
be governor and United Bute f»na
tor lock at Colonel House, confi
dential rdvlser of Presltent Wilton
look nt Tex Rickard, who, utter be
ing city marshal of Wichl u Pads,
Texas at the age of 211. was heard
from 'n New York City; at the late
Dwight B Heard, one of the weal
thiest and most Influential citizens
cf Phoenix, Arizona; or at Colonel
Ike Pryon, of 8an Antonio, who—
born at Tampa, Fla — lost both par
ent* at the age of 6, became self
supporting at the age of !>, followed
the Union army during the Clvii
war to sell it newspapers and be
came president of half a dozen land
cattle and water power companies
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==^i : ^=_-.= .-- ■ ■ *
I
in Texas.
Look at, Fred H. BIxby, of Long
; Branch, Calif,, college graduate,
ranch sjieep and cattle owner. Or
at those other two college graduat
es, H. O. Harrison and Charles How
ard, of San Francisco, who are
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state and later congressman. Or
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cowboy, who gets paid to talk ex
actly as Phoenix, Arlsona, says cow
boys don't.
Understood And Satisfactory.
From The Kansas City Star.
Since Professor Einstein has de
clared the American girls the nost
beautiful In the world, wera begin
ning to understand as welt us In
dorse the theory of relativity.
In order to gain entrance to a
store in Toone, Tenn., thieves oor
et| 61 auger holes in a wooden dooi
and removed the panel.
Because she said she made beer
to keep her husband home. Mis.
Mary Crus was freed by Judge *
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