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WHERE OCCCA?iUTS GREW.
Th© Way ths Natives Strip, Open and
Eai tr.e Milky Fruit.
1 hail <uw, . - . cocoa-
nuts grew o: ;■ e> j::- :e wav we
see then) de-., i. al „:ocerv. but
instead of thev ;<e a thick
mat around L- hard* . t<>
get this off tit i- :■> „et t nut
open. 1 woi. ..-red hoa my friend
was going to i the in;l; oil when
he didn’t even have a knife. Tak
ing up the nut tie stepped up to the
tree, turned hi- back and with long
powerful stroke.- began hammering
the nut against the bole of the tree
between hi- leg>. After a dozen
strokes the rough outer covering
split enough for him to get his fin
gers in and pull it off. Then the nut
began to look like the kind Ed An
drews has. Again 1 wondered how
he could get into this, for back
home it would be a job with a saw
and ax.
Picking up a pointed stick he
punched out two of the eyes, one
for an air hole, and turning up the
cocoanut offered me a drink. It
wasn’t very fancy, but it was filling.
When the milk was out he took a
stone and gave the nut a few hard
blows, and the nut opened almost in
half. With the sharp edge of an
other stick he rimmed the white
meat loose as though with a spoon
—and there it was for me to eat as
though he had had a whole carpen
ter shop. The meat was soft and
slippery, like trying to pick up but- ;
termilk. j
In Missouri I had never eaten :
them that way, for by the time a
nut travels that far the meat is •
hard, and 1 hurt the man's feelings I
by telling him that I preferred the
tough kind. One of the nuts was j
hard, and he threw it contemptu
ously to the pigs that stood in a
circle around us, noses in, but 1
rushed out and rescued part of it
in glee. A few moments later I.
caught him looking at me as if he
couldn’t quite make me out, a man
seemingly normal —but who liked ,
ripe cocoanuts. Homer Gray in
Leslie’s.
Jumping at a Conclusion.
Elsie sat drearily in the gloaming
in the front room. She was miser-'
able, for the previous night she had
words with her lover, and now she .
.feared he would not call. Suddenly
she heard a step, a ring, a voice she
knew and some one speaking to the
•servant in the hall. Not waiting
for a light to be brought she gently
called:
’’.Come in!”
The visitor entered, and with a
jovful sigh Elsie cast herself into
his arms and softly murmured:
“Ofr, my darling. 1 am so glad you
have come! I have so wanted to
make it up and settle.”
“Well, I’m very glad, too, that
you’re going to settle up at last,”
-aid the ga> collector. London
Mail.
Took the Tip.
The good advice of the laird of
Waterton. in Aberdeenshire, to a
heef st i r i ids like a very prac
tical joke, ije had himself sent the ,
man to jail, and in those days sheep
stealing was a capital offense. Visit
ing the prisoner the night before
the trial, he asked him what he
meant to do. To which the prison-,
er replied that he intended to con
fess and pray for mercy.
“Confess!” said Waterton. “What
man, will ye confess and be hanged?
Nae, nae! Deny it to my face.”
He did so and was acquitted.—
Dundee Advertiser.
Saved the Edition.
Sir Frederick Gori Ouseley used <
to tell a story about the famous j
Clarendon Press at Oxford, which!
shows how very easily serious blun-1
ders may be made. It was when a
new edition of the Bible was com
ing out, and not till the final re
vision of the text, when in another
moment it would have been irrevo- ■
cablv fixed in immortal type, that!
the printer was discovered to have
given the following “free” render
ing of 1 Corinthians xv, 52:
“The trumpet shall sound, * * *
and we shall be hanged.”
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The Barn Swallow. i
From daylight till dark the barn
swallow on tireless wings destroys
countless numbers of insects. It’s
favorite nesting site is the barn
rafter. Farmers can easily provide
m their barns for the entrance and
exit of the birds and thereby add
materially to their numbers. Its
food consists of flies, beetles, wee
vils, small dung beetles of the May
beetle family, ants, wasps and bees.
Origin of the “Dun.”
A dun took its name from a cele
brated bailiff of London during the
reign of Henry VII. named Joe
Dunn. He was extremely clever in
devising wavs and means to compel
unwilling creditors to settle their
accounts, and hence the saying,
“Send Dunn after him” or “Dun
him.”
THE sfeSITiVE BOLOMETER.
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It Measures Energy |n Rays of Light
the Ey® Cannot Discern.
The sun’s rays are more complex
i than they appear. In the rainbow
nature gives us an impure solar
spectrum. A much better one can
be formed in the laboratory by al
lowing a beam of sunlight to pass
I through a vertical sdit and thence
i upon a glass piasm. By this means
: the band of spectrum colors is form
’ ed out of the wliite sunlight and
I may be brought to a sharp focus by
a lens or concave mirror.
Neither the eye nor the photo
graphic plate can accurately esti
mate the relative amounts of energy
I in the several parts of the spectrum,
but the bolometer does so. Die
bolometer consists of a pair of ver
tical tapes of platinum, each about
half an inch long, 1-250 inch wide
and 1-1,000 inch thick. The tapes
are blackened upon their front sur
faces with lampblack. One is liid
! den from view by a screen, the oth
i er exposed.
When the rays of the spectrum
fall upon the bolometer the exposed
tape absorbs them and becomes
I warmer than its hidden neighbor.
I The two tapes form’part of an elec
trical circuit, called a \\ heatstone's
bridge, which contains a highly sen
i sitive galvanometer. Thus when the
i exposed tape of the bolometer is
I warmed a small electric current is
| caused to flow through the galvano-
I meter and to deflect its magnetic j
i needle system.
This magnetic needle system is I
suspended by a fiber of rock crystal
1-15,000 inch in diameter, and it
1 carries a tiny mirror no larger than
the head of a pin.. Thus the tiny
magnets and the little mirror are
I free to turn horizontally under the
■ slightest force. A beam of light is
reflected from this mirror upon a
photographic plate, which is moved
j vertically by clockwork.
When the solar spectrum is mov
ed along from the violet toward the
i red the warming of the bolometer
causes the spot of light reflected by
, the galvanometer to move horizon
i tally across the photographic plate,
j but the simultaneous vertical ino
. tion of the plate draws the record
out into a line called a bolograph.
| The bolometer measures the spec- ■
I trum far beyond what the eye sees j
in the violet and in the red. It is j
a curious thought that if the eye I
could see these invisible rays they i
would seem to possess colors un- ■
■ known to us. What these would be i
the reader must imagine for him-1
self. C. G. Abbot in Harper’s;
Magazine.
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“Will” and “Shall.”
The proper use of the words ■
“will” and “shall” depends upon j
whether they are used in the first. ;
second or third person. To ex- j
press mere future action is I
. used with the first person singular i
or plural, and “will" with the sec- i
ond and third persons, as 1 shall go j
tomorrow, or we shall go; you will
£O. and he or they will go. To use
will in the first person, as 1 will go,
or shall in the second or third per-
I sons, as you shall go, he shall go, or
thev shall go, will imply authority,
determination or compulsion. The
I general rule has many modifica
tions to express different shades of
I meaning.—Philadelphia Press.
The Steady Man.
We’d like to write a little rhyme
about the steady man, who keeps on
I pegging all the time and does the
j best he can: the man who early goes
j to work and doesn’t get home late,
: who never tries to shirk in order to
I be great. There are some fellows
1 who will try to do their business
: tricks and have a finger in the pie
lof city politics. They try to put on
I lots of style and play a heavy role,
and in a little bit o' while you find
th'em in a hole. I like the man of
steady pace; his system 1 admire.
He has no wild desire to place more
i irons in the fire!—Los Angeles Ex
-1 press.
Entirely Too Practical.
A young Frenchman was being
shown about C’alderstone park by
an English friend. “What a fine
l place this would make for shooting,
i Look at all the birds flying about,”
said the Frenchman. The English
man replied to the effect that, with
certain exceptions, it was the spirit
of the country to encourage bird
life. The son of Gaul shook his
head and observed half sorrowfully,
“It does seem a pity that all this
food should be flying around and no
use made of it.”
Different Viewpoints.
Housewife (to new domestic)—
There is one thing 1 wish to say to
you. The last girl had a habit of
coming into the parlor and playing
the piano occasionally. ou never
play the piano, do you?
New Domestic Yis, mum, I
‘I plav. but I'll hev to charge ver half
>i a crown a week extry if I am to fur-
■ j nish music for the family. —Liver-
’ poo! Mcrcurv.
‘OUR BUSINESS IS BANKING
Our effort is to attend to that business.
Our aim is to please.
Our wish, to succeed.
Your patronage w ill be appreciated.
Your interest will be cared for.
T?D Us and You'll is Pleased
STATE BANKING CO.,
T. E. ATKINS, W. R. WINBURN
President. Cashier.
R. J. SANDERS, Vice-Pres.
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Saved Mine Option
A WESTERN Mining Engineer, with
an option on a valuable mine was
about to close the deal, when, at the
last minute, the Western capitalists with
drew their support. With a few hours left
in which to find the money, he got New
York on the Bell Long Distance Tele
phone, talked with a banking house and
outlined the proposition, which they
agreed to finance.
A personal interview by the Bell Long Distance Telephone
often closes a trade or saves a situation.
When you telephone—smile
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Samples of Seed Corn and Irish Junipers can be seen at
the Piedmont Drug Store.
Also FRUIT and ORNAMENTAL TREES
GRAPEVINES, ETC.
For prices phone or write—
P. B. Simmons,
PHONE 2704 GAINESVILLE, GA
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The Cochran Home Place
Think of this nice 14-room house on one of the best streets
in Gainesville, and a corner lot at that, for the price we
are asking.
Nice, Large' rooms with all modern convenience; including
bath-room upstairs and down, on a beautiful elevated lot;
corner South Main street and College avenue; with lot
running through block to Bradford street-
Now is your opportunity to buy a nice home for less than you
can build it, if you had the lot.
Mrs. Cochran has moved away to make her home in Florida,
and that is why you can buy a home like this at this price.
Roper & Washington.
P. S. —We] write all kinds of Insurance and will appreciate
your business.
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Chronic Diseases Cured.
AFT ER THIRTY-FIVE YEARS ot successful practice and
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and Dropsy.
If interested, send me description of your ailment with
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mail. Address —
J. A. LATHEM, M. D.,
Oakwood, Ga
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W. F. Dover, cancer temple, Cumming. Ga.
,J. F. Jones, cancer cheek, Lula, Ga.
R. M. Loggins, cancer forehead, Leaf, Ga.
W. A. .Jennings, ulcer of lip, Oakwood, Ga.
Walter Reed, tumor of neck, Oakwood. Ga.
O. W. Gilstrap, cancer of hand, Gainesville. Ga.. R. 6.
Mrs. John Gilstrap, cancer eye. Gainesville, Ga.. R. 6.
Worthy Martin, cancer tongue; and mother cancer face, Dougherty,
Ga., Route 1.
Sallie Graham, cancer head, Dougherty, Ga., Route i.
Mrs. Mary McKinney, Dropsy.
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