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Z / z / y ? T u ,.p >, / 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.” i 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. 1 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. i ‘ " “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. zWW W I I— —- liii A ollm = I 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 SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE ff Aj' AND_TELE COMPANY Simmons’ Ssed Com For Sale 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 FOR QUICK SALE 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. THE TENDEREST MEAT' In Gainesville. IXice hii<l HOME-MADE LARD I The Best of Everything! Byron Mitchell Chronic Diseases Cured. AFT ER THIRTY-FIVE YEARS ot successful practice and study of Chronic Diseases, for the last seven years I have cured every case where patients have follow ed my in structions, in the following diseases Cancer, Tumor, Ulcer, and Dropsy. If interested, send me description of your ailment with §IO.OO, and I will send you one month’s treatment by return mail. Address — J. A. LATHEM, M. D., Oakwood, Ga Some Cures: G. G. Bowman, ulcer sub-maxillary gland, Buford. Ga 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. FARMS ~ TIMBER J. D. COBB Hazlehurst, - Georgia. South Georgia Farms in any size, im proved or unimpioved, on easy terms. Correspondence Invited =PHONE No. 9 Bujhes Bros. Automobile Company Gainesville. Ga. Automobile Repairing and Overhauling— First-Class work; reasonable charges! also sell gasoline and oil. Rent cars for city or country trips; good careful drivers. Agents for famous OVERLAh’D CARS Give us a call at No. 11 E. Broad Street, by City Hall, or Call Phone 9 G. FRArK hughes. r-ainesville Si Horttasiein Railroad io Arrive Gainesville. No. 1 _ .1,-,.,... No-3 - .. 4.45 p. ni Leave Gainesville. No. 2 - . - .. .. 9.40 a. in No. 4 _ _ 4.55 p. in