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PLANTING THE WIRES.
The Trick That Saved Morse With His
First Telegraph Line.
It is not generally known that
the earliest experiments in electri
cal communication were made with
the expectation of using under
ground wires. In 1843 congress ap
propriated $30,000 to enable Pro
fessor Morse to test his newly in
vented telegraph on a line between
Washington and Baltimore. f
A Maine man interested in the
plow business had taken the con
tract to lay the pipe containing the
wires at SIOO per mile, and Ezra
Cornell happened to call at his of
fice in Portland when he was trying
to invent a machine to do the work.
Mr. Cornell at once sketched a ma
chine something like a plow, which
would cut a deep and narrow fur
row and lay the pipe in the furrow
as it moved along. Professor Morse
asked Mr. Cornell to build such a
machine, and the contrivance prov
ing practicable Mr. Cornell was ask
ed to take charge of laying the pipe.
The work was begun at Balti
more in October, 1843, and went
forward satisfactorily, but the dis
covery was presently made that im
perfect insulation allowed the cur
rent to escape from one wire to an
other. A serious crisis was at hand.
The appropriation for the experi
ment was nearly exhausted, and
Professor Morse felt that to sus
pend operations at that stage would
be a confession of failure.
Accordingly Professor Morse call
ed Mr. Cornell aside and said:
“Can’t you contrive somehow to
stop the work for a few days so
that the papers will not know that
it has been purposely interrupted?
I want to make some experiments
before any more pipe is laid.”
Cornell stepped back to the ma
chine and shouted: “Hurrah, boys,
whip up your mules! We must lay
another length of pipe before we
quit for the night!”
The teamsters cracked their whips,
the animals started at a lively pace.
Mr. Cornell grasped the handles of
the plow and, watching his oppor
tunity, canted it over so as to catch
into a point of rock. The machine
was completely wrecked.
The experiments that Professor
Morse made decided him to put the
wires on poles. By the following
spring the line between Washington
and Baltimore was in operation.—
Youth’s Companion.
The White Breasted Nuthatch.
The white breasted nuthatch is
often mistaken for a small wood
pecker. Its name was suggested by
the habit of wedging nuts, especial
ly beechnuts, in the crevices of bark
and breaking them open by blows
from his sharp, strong bill. Insects
and spiders constitute about 50 per
cent of its food, the largest items
being beetles, moths, caterpillars,
ants and wasps. More than half of
the vegetable food eaten consists of
mast, acorns and other nuts and
large seeds. Only one-tenth of its
food is grain. The bird does no in
jury, as far as known, and much
good.
A Famous Milestone.
One of the oldest milestones is to
be seen in the museum at Leicester.
England. It is a cylindrical block
of sandstone roughly inscribed with
an abbreviated statement to the ef
fect that it was erected during the
emperorship of Caesar Hadrian, son
of Trajan, conqueror of Parthia. It
also says, “To Liecester, Two
Miles.” The Hadrian milestone was
discovered over a century ago be
side the ancient Fosse way and nar
rowly escaped being converted into
a lawn roller by the unromantic and
practical finder. . ■- i
» Nest Made From a Leaf.
The tailor bird of India, a tiny
yellow creature, makes a most curi
ous nest. To escape snakes and
monkeys this bird takes a dead leaf,
flies up into a tree and with a fiber
for a thread and its bill for a needle
sews the leaf to a green on hang
ing from the tree. The sides are
sewed up, an opening to the nest
thus formed being left at the
top. The leaf, apparently hanging
from a twig, would never be taken
for a nest.
Putting It In English.
A Hindoo bakers’ assistant in
Bombay setting up in business for
himself and desiring to cater for
the English community had the fol
lowing notification painted over his
doorway: “Ram Bux solicits re-
spectful patronage. He is a first
class British loafer.” Christian
Life.
Three Dinner Rules.
John Bulwer. a rather quaint
writer of the seventeenth century,
recommends the following three
dinner rv. es: Stridor dentium, al
tum <;lenrium, rumor gentium.
Thi se have been humorously trans
lated thus: “Work for the jaws, a
silent pause and frequent hahaws.”
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HANDICAP OF THE TROPICS.
Why the Forests Cannot Be Cleared
For Planting Purposes.
In the true tropical forest agri
culture is practically out of the
question. Even for the white man
it is difficult to clear the ground,
and for the sluggish son of the
tropics it is almost impossible. Not
that he cannot cut the trees, al
though this is a slow process where
the huge trunks throw out buttress
es five to ten feet in radius, but that
having cut them he cannot dispose
of them.
The primary reason for the ex
istence of the genuine tropical for
est is that rain falls abundantly at
practically all seasons. There may
be, and usually is, a short dry sea
son, when the sun is farthest from
the zenith. Nevertheless, even at this
time the drought is not absolute.
When the trees are felled the only
way of getting rid of them is by
burning. Under the ardent tropical
sun most trees will become dry
enough to burn in two or three
weeks.
If they do not become ready to
burn during the dry season it is use
less to think of such a thing later.
They will rot away, to be sure, and
disappear within a few seasons, but
this is of little use, for meanwhile
a new growth has quickly sprouted.
In the tropical rain forest bushes
will grow to a height of ten or
twenty feet in a single year. In
deed, in the short space of two
months so much herbage will spring
up that a piece of forest which has
been cut cannot be burned even
though the trees have become dry.
This is no theory, but actual fact.
In the spring of a recent year in
a part of Guatemala, where the for
est is by no means of the densest
kind and where a considerable num
ber of coffee plantations exist, I
saw this happen. The trees had been
cut, but so many showers fell dur
ing the nominal dry season that the
branches did not become dry enough
to burn and consequently many
people were unable to plant crops.
—Ellsworth Huntington in Yale
Review.
The Brahman.
Religion plays a very important
part in Indian village life, but it is
in the holidays and the rites con
nected with them that religion as
serts itself most conspicuously. It
is then that the Brahman comes tc
the front. The Brahmans are the
priests, the “bhusurs” (lords of the
earth). They take the lead in all
rural life absolutely and completely.
In towns their ascendancy may be
disputed, but in the Mofussil they
still reign supreme. In fact, ir
some of the more primitive and oui
of the way villages the Brahmans
are actually objects of worship.
Nothing can go on without them,
neither births, marriages, deaths
nor feasts, and as a natural conse
quence there are many feasts. —
Empire Review.
Not a Wise Choice.
A suburbanite who changes his
trousers when he gets home anc
goes into the garden to work one
afternoon placed his pocketbook in
his working pants because he ex
pected to pay a bill. While he slept
that night his house caught fire.
He questioned for a moment wheth
er he should put on his good trous
ers or the ones holding the pocket
book and chose the latter. The bet
ter trousers were destroyed. Then
he discovered only $3 in the pocket
book and new apparel cost $8. —
New York Tribune.
Finding a Reason.
“Who was that man at the side
door awhile ago?” asked the hus
band of an Indiana wouldbe poetess
the other day.
“Why, it was a man who said he
had come to change my meter. I
told him he had made a mistake in
the number of the house, for thc
men had not finished wiring our
house yet.”
Husband, after thoughtful pause:
“Maybe he’d been reading some of
your poetry.”—lndianapolis News.
Deep Water Cups.
One interesting deep sea appli
ance is the water specimen cup,
which is let down on the sounding
line and is so arranged that the re
sistance of the water keeps open the
valves of the cup during its descent
and closes them during its ascent.
Water from any given depth can
thus be brought to the surface foi
examination. These water cups art
strongly built to resist the great
pressure. —New York Tribune.
Football.
Football is understood to have
originated among the Romans about
the middle of the hrst century be
fore Christ. It appears occasionally
during the middle ages, but it was
under the guidance of the public
schools of Great Britain that the
game advanced and became popu
lar.—London Globe.
COTTON SHOWERS
HOLD CONFERENCE
Gather In Atlanta To Discuss Situation
In Georgia-Are Greatly
Encouraged
GOVERNMENT PROMISES AID
Country Banks in the Cotton Counties
Also Pledge Their Support to the
Growers
—Atlanta.
Important resolutions, designed to
protect the Georgia cotton grower and
to uphold the price of the crop, were
adopted by a committee of the cotton
conference at the capitol, which was
called by John D. Walker, of Sparta,
Ga., and will be considered in detail
at a meeting of farmers, merchants,
bankers and warehousemen to be
held in Macon.
The conference was assured that
the treasury department at Washing
ton will issue $300,000,000 in govern
ment currency, available to country
banks for loans on cotton at 12 1-2
cents on a basis of 75 per cent, of the
average price of the staple during the
past five years. About two hundred
and fifty farmers, bankers and mer
chants attended the conference.
The above encouragement and a
pledge that the country banks in the
cotton counties will finance the farm
er to the extent of gathering his crop,
not only had the effect of cheering
farmers, but sent them to their homes
certain that the situation caused by
the European war is not hopeless, and
with a determination of holding their
crops whenever it is not possible to
get at least 12 1-2 cents a pound.
Increase in Prices Unexplained
Atlanta.—District Attorney Hooper
Alexander is beginning to receive re
plies from several dealers whom he
wrote for information concerning the
cause of higher prices of foodstuffs
following the outbreak of the Europe
an war.
The replies so far received contain
nothing very definite, and the dealers
seem to be in doubt about the cause of
higher prices. One dealer attributes
the rise in the price of sugar to a
scarcity in the supply of raw material.
It appears that the raw material
comes from other countries, and that
European countries have bid such high
prices for it that the supply has been
decreased and the price put up.
Mr. Alexander is of the opinion that
retail dealers can throw little light on
the situation, as they are really too far
removed from the sources of higher
prices/ The retailers tell him their
profits with high prices are really less
than they were with the old prices.
A., B. & A. Ry. Submits Bond Issue
Atlanta. —Application has been made
to the state railroad commission by
the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic
railway company for authority to is
sue $30,000,000 of common capital
stock. The company also desires to
create a mortgage bond issue of $lO,-
000,000, of which $3,000,000 is desired
to be issued now. A hearing will be
held on the application on Wednesday,
August 26.
The A., B. & A. was recently bought
at receivers’ sale and has been reor
ganized with E. T. Lamb as president.
The new corporation has acquired the
railroad properties of the old company
and also the terminal properties of
the Georgia Terminal company, locat
ed in Atlanta and of the Alabama Ter
minal company, located in Birming
ham.
Innes Reported Arrested for Murder
Atlanta. Victor Innes, it is
reported, has been arrested
for suspected complicity in the
strange disappearance of Beatrice and
Elois Nelms, who are believed to have
been murdered in San Antonio, Texas,
in a bungalow rented by Innes and
his wife during the month of June.
He was taken into custody by the
sheriff of Springfield, Ore., within 18
miles of which city Innes and his wife
had retired to a farm operated by him.
Marshall Nelms and a deputy sheriff
of Bexar county, Texas, left for Ore
gon with extradition papers.
Charged With Killing Nelms Girls
Innes will be brought to San Antonio
for trial. The arrest of his wife will
also be brought about. Marshall Nelms
swore affidavits against both of them
in San Antonio. Warrants were issued
for both man and woman by District
Attorney Linden of Bexar county.
Brief dispatches received failed to
state whether or not Mrs. Innes had
also been detained. She may have to
answer the charge of accessory to the
suspected crime.
The arrest of Innes revealed a sys
tematic scheme of surveillance that
had been thrown around rhe man and
hi- wife by Mrs. John W. Nelms, moth
er of the missing women, ever since
Innes was first accused of connection
with the mysterious case. Mrs. Nelms
had directed men who kept in constant
touch with the movements of the two
Decatur Farmers Organize
Bainbridge.—A meeting of farmers
was held here in the city hall for the
purpose of forming the Decatur Coun
ty Hog Cholera Eradication Associa
tion. Dr. R. W. Elrod, government in
spector in charge of hog cholera erad
ication in this county, conducted the
meeting, assisted by Mr. L. G. Proc
tor, in charge of the educational and
survey work. The following officers
were elected: President, J. C. McCas
kill; vice president. Thomas Parke",
Climax, and vice presidents for each
district.
suspects, and who followed him to the
secluded farm near Springfield.
The most important-evidence reveal
ed against Innes are clews to the pres
ence of Beatrice Nelms in the Innes
bungalow in San Antonio, Texas, on
June 16, at which time the girls dis
appeared.
Important Clews Found.
Various articles belonging to Beat
rice Nelms were found in the back
yard of the Wilkins avenue home. A
silk tan stocking, a handkerchief, three
medicine vials bought from an Atlanta
firm, a tan shoe and heel and other
clews, together with acid splotches
and bloody finger prints in the bath
and bedrooms of the building furnish
a chain of circumstantial evidence
which Innes will have to face.
Innes Protests Against Arrest
Portland, Ore. —Innes was arrested
near Eugene, Ore. The sheriff was
aware of his whereabouts, having kept
posted on the movements of Innes
ever since Innes had moved into his
territory.
Innes protests his arrest, stating
that he is the victim of an outrage,
and that he will fight the charges.
Protest Against Negro Shriners
Atlanta. —Forrest Adair and other
nobles of Yaarab temple have peti
tioned the superior court for an in
junction to restrain certain negroes
from the use of the words “shrine,
temple, potentate and raban” and from
the use of the insignia identified with
the Ancient Arabic Order of the Mys
tic Shrine.
Americus Enters Protest
Americus. —Representatives of the
Americus chamber of commerce and
commercial interests generally, in a
largely attended meeting, took steps
to oppose vigorously the proposed ear
ly annulment of two important pas
senger and mail trains of the Sea
board railway. The case will be pass
ed upon by the railroad commission.
The Seaboard proposes to convert
two through passenger trains now op
erating between Savannah and Mont
gomery, a distance of 340 miles, into
suburban trains operating out of those
cities.
In such event a territory of 130
miles, including Americus, Preston,
Plains, DeSoto, Huntington, Leslie,
Cordele, Abbeville and several other
intermediate towns, would be deprived
entirely of this double daily passenger
and mail service.
Augusta Hospital Completed
Augusta.—The new city hospitals
are now practically complete, and as
soon as electrical fixtures, laundry
equipment, refrigerating plant and
kitchen equipment shall have been in
stalled, together with the furnishings,
for which bids are now being adver
tised for by the special hospital com
mittee of council, the magnificent new
buildings will be ready for occupancy.
When the committee opens bids on
the first of September for the house
hold furnishings needed and also sev
eral apparatus, bids will also be re
ceived and opened for the following:
1. Completing interior finish of kitch
en and laundry building and construct
ing morgue building. 2. Furnishing
and installing window and door screens
for all outside openings in all build
ings. 3. Furnishing and installing elec
tric light fixtures for all buildings. 4.
Furnishing and installing refrigerators
and ice chests for all buildings. 5.
Furnishing and installing refrigerating
plant. 6. Furnishing and installing
laundry equipment. 7. Furnishing and
installing kitchen equipment.
Moonshine Stills Raided
Sandersville. —A large crowd quickly
gathered around two automobiles from
Hancock county line, which contained
Deputy Collector S. M. Moye and posse
and four stills which they captured 22
miles from Sandersville and 10 miles
from Sparta. The four stills were with
in a radius of a mile of each other and
were lately in operation. Five hundred
gallons cf peach brandy and beer mash
were poured into the creek nearby the
stills. After demolishing each of the
stills they were brought to Sanders
ville. This is the eighteenth still de
stroyed by Deputy Collector Moye this
year and the seventh one destroyed in
this immediate section this year,
Bibb Board Retains Cabiness
Macon. —In the superior court Judge
H. A. Mathews handed down a decision
in the case of Harley Cabiness, mem
ber of the Bibb tax equalization board,
'whom a committee named by a recent
mass meeting was seeking to have re
moved on the ground that he was not
a freeholder and therefore not quali
fied to hold office. Judge Mathews’
ruling was in favor of Mr. Cabiness
and he will continue to serve on the
board.
Fire at Sandersville
Sandersville. Cohen company’s ,
store, which was destroyed by lire, |
was one of the largest in this section.
The firm carried about $30,000 worth
of merchandise and about $17,000 in
surance. The fire originated in the
roof of the store, and is thought to
have started by rats or a defective
electric wire.
Dona.son is Nominated
Washington, D. C. —Erie M. Donal- I
son of Bainbridge was nominated by I
President Wilson for district attorney t
for the southern district of Georgia. ;
Thomasville. —The banks of Cairo i
have decided to follow the same plan
as the banks of Thomasville in pro
tecting the cotton growers and allow
ing them away to store their cotton
and keep it for a more satisfactory
price. The three banks, the Cairo
Banking company, the Farmers and
Merchants’ bank and the Citizens’
bank, have agreed to take warehou
certificates and allc v about ’six cen’
per pound on a l cotton stored subF
to the sale of it whenever the far
desires, thus allowing absolutely
benefit from a rise in cotton.
DANGER IN DELAY
Kidney Diseases Are Too Dangerous
For Gainesville People to
Neglect.
Thegreat dang'-r of kidnoy trouble*
is that they so often get a firm hold
before the sufferer recognizes them.
Health will be gradually under
mined. Backache, headaehe. nerv
ousness. lameness, soreness, lum
bago, urinary troubles, dropsy,
grave] and Bright's disease may
follow as the kidneys get worse.
Don’t negieet your kidneys. Help
the kidneys with Doan’s Kidney
Pills, which are so strongly recom
mended right here in Gainesville.
Mrs. W. T. Loden, 27 West Ave.,
Gainesville says: “One of the family
suffered greatly from pains in his
back and sides and he often got so
bad that he couldn't stoop or
straighten up. His kidneys acted
irregularly. Dizzy spells and head
aches were common. He began
using Doan's Kidney Pills and they
helped him so much that he got
another supply at the Robertson
Drug Co. Doan's Kidney Pills bene
fitted his back ami kidneys greatly. ’’
Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy—
get Doan's Kidney Pills—the same
that Mrs. Loden recommends. Fos
ter-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo,
N. Y.
calomeTmay
HURT YOUR LIVER
Every time you take this powerful
drug you are in danger. Take Dod
son’s Liver Tone instead. Calomel
is made from mercury, and while
mercury has many valuable uses, it
is a dangerous thiug to swallow. If
calomel stays in the system very
long it salivates. Even when it
works naturally, is after-effects are
often bad.
Dr. J. B. George will sell you
Dodson's Liver Tone which is posi
tively guaranteed to take the place
of calomel. Liver Tone stimulates
the liver just enough to start it
working, and does not make you
sicker than ever—as calomel often
does. You feel good after taking
Dodson's and it won’t force you to
stop eating or workiug after taking
it. ft is as beneficial for children
as for adults.
Try a large bottle for fifty cents
under the guarantee that your money
will be given back cheerfully if
you’re not satisfied.
. For Rent
Nine-room house, Academy street;
all modern improvements; for one
or two families; possession Sept. 1.
Apply Mrs. T. C. Black.
Wanted to Rent
Five or six room house, good loca
tion. Address, R. 8., care Eagle.
Deafness Cannot be Cured
by local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There is
only one way to cure deafness, and tiiat is
by eoi.st.tutional remedies. Deafness is
caused by an inflamed condition of the mu
cous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube inflamed you have a rumbling
sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is
entirely eksed, Deafness isthe result,and
unless the inflammation can be taken opt
and tills tube restored to its normal condi
tion, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine
cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which
is nothing but an inflamed condition of the
mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh'
that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure,
Send for circulars, free.
F. J. CH ENY & CO.. Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipaion*
Flaming Finish.
“My grandfather,” said the old-timer,
“used to put all his money in his
stocking.” “Wa-all, things hain’t
changed much,” said his old friend.
“My grandson, who’s takin’ a course
in modern deportment at one o’ them
eastern colleges, puts most all his [
money into socks.” —Judge.
Whenever You Need a Genera! Tonic
Take Grove’s
The Old Standard Grove’s Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a
General Tonic because it contains the .
well known tonic properties of QUININE
and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives
cut Malaria, Enriches the Blood and I
Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents.
WOMEN :
Women of the highest typi
women of superior education, ar J
refinement, whose discernmer; :
and judgment give weight an i
force to their opinions, higb : <
praise the wonderful carrecti- c ;
and curative properties of Cham- ’
» berlain’s Stomach and Liver Tah- .
I lets. Throughout the maay stage* *
J of woman s life, from girlhood,
! dirough the ordeals of mother- i
> hood to the declining years, there :
! .2 no safer or more reliable med
icine. Chamberlain’s Tablets arc ,
i —ld everywhere at 25c a box.
Right on Time;
All of the Time; •
Are the watches we sell. Ev
ery one, even the least expen
sive, is regulated and guaran
teed to be an accurate time
piece. Classy Chains and Fobs
to hold them, too. And all
priced on a basis that by no
means indicate theirs worthi
ness. A purchase of one of
our time pieces will proves al!
we claim.
Watch and Jewelry Repair
ing have our prompt attention.
GEO. E. LEDERER
JEWELER
Near Singer Sewing Machine Co.
GAINESVILLE : GEORGIA *
STOMACH
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