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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.” ■' ' - . J. 6'/ ? / 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. 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