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DevotQi to Local, Mining and General Information. Ono Dollar Per Annum Advertising Medium, DAI1LONEGA, GA., THURSDAY. DECEMBER 10. 1903. W. B. TOWNSEND, Editor and Proprietor lotions, GrocErieS. '•.usBssastrs^sssBaax BARGAIN STORE.! Phosphoric Acid. Phosphoric acid is formed by the union of 1 hosphorous and cxygin in the | roportion of 2:5. Oxygou is :i gas while phosphor ous is u poi onous, \ellow, waxy solid, easily c it like beeswax and very inflamahle. If we dissovlo phosphorous in carbon di snl|)hide and pour the liquid on orjaranu* matter it takes tiro and burns with a brilliant flame as soon as it evaporates. It is .used also for making: matches. It is found in bones, mineral deposits and in | soils and ores. It is -valuable in agriculture only when it is com- | bined with oxygen forming: phos- | phoric acid. \ phosphate is phos- j phoric acid uniti (I with a hase as | lime, iron, alnmiuum, and mug- j nesium the phosphate of lime is : he form usually us d as a source o phosphoric acid. Let us cx- i plain, the difference between a I phosphate and a supcrpl osphatc. i Any material containing: phos- | phone acid as its chief constituent j is a phosphate. Any material phosphoric acid and a small amount of nitrogen. Bone-ash is free from nitrogen and contains from twenty—seven to thirty-six per cent, of phosphoric acid. Largo exports are made from South America, lioek phosphate is now being used very extensively. Large quantities are mined in Term.., S. C. and Fla. Some rooks contain 11s high as 10 per cent of phosphoric acid. The ellioot of phosphoric acid on plant life has been noticed in three forms: 1. It helps plant nutrition, play ing an important part in building I proleids. 2. Applied early in the season it hastens maturity unless its ef fect has been counteracted by the application of a large amount of nitrogen. If the seeds do not de velop normally and the plant fails to mature this is good evidence of the lack of phosphoric acid. 3. It aids certain nutrients in becoming soluble, so that they may be tnmsfored from the grow ing parts to the seed or wherever Dealer ini i r*i General Merchandise. DRY GOODS K FJSTD A SPECIALTY. ALL KINDS OF SHOES Ladies and Gente^ ::3Esr3' :;.as3SH3SE2Si Anderson & Jones 1 plication of acid arc gypsum have with musses.. aaaa^BSBKBBB^gg^MBa LOT H INC . , Hats, Shoes, Furnishing’s Guns, Siiry Goods. | Clothing a specialty.♦ l They will soil you clothing for cash* yiit Gainesville or Atlanta prices, nice line of saninles and will A | take? ♦ samples ♦ voor order for tailor made goods. DA FI I.ON LCG-^ containing soluble plmiphoric acid they arc to bo aasimalab'd. is a superphosphate. Phosphates are converted irlto suporphos-! Potash is formed by the union phutes by treating with sulphuric | of potassium, an iffflamable, silver acid. (By so doing we get the I white metal with oxygen. It is following reaction: 5>CaO, P2 05 2 found m abundance in tho ash of (!I-> 0. MOd) —2 (CaO SOU) CaO, { plants. All soils contain potash as 2[l2 0, PI 05.) Omit in “(C.)” ; it is an ingredient of many min The compounds formed by the ap- i orulp and rocks. Soils composed and | largely of sand are often found j deficient, in potash. In the early history of our country wood ashes was practically the only source of potash, while now the Stassfnr ■ mines of Germany furnish largely ; what is used. The product of j these mines sold in this country is i ehielly Kainit, which usually oon- | tains about twelve and one half per cent, of potash.. 1 Muriate of potash and sulphate of potash are (he manufactured products. In the first, potash is I combined with chlorine forming a 1 chloride, while in tho second pot J ash is combined with sulphuric j acid forming a sulphate. Potash ; is found ccmhincd in rocks, as ! mineral salts, in vegetable matter I and in the ash of plants. These are the known functions of potash: Aids in tho formation and transference of starch! n plants and in the formation of sugar. Essential iu the development of wood structure and the fleshy por tion of fruits. It neutralizes plant acids. Chan. W. Davis, X. G. A. (J. PRICES REASONABLE. M m iivery i ooeo J > 1*0*. .1 ^ropr IU NT a DAILY! IAOE DIN to and from G aiiiesyi'llo. FAREL • >150* 9 y^^rri-.'iaTIT^'agaagS y Dealer ii l superphosphate. Commercial fertilizers phospoi'ic acid combiuod lime in four forms: 1. Soluble phosphoric acid one Ila-rt of lime (calcium) united with one part of phosphoric acid and two parts of water. 'Ibis form unlike nitrates is not lost to any extent by leaching. 2. Reverted phosphoric acid- this contains two parts of lime ; with one part of phosphoric acid , and ono'part of water. This is j called “reverted” phosphoric acid, j which means that it at one time ; was soluble in water, but has “gone back” to a form insoluble in water. This form is almost as available as the soluble as it can readily be takon up by the roots. 3. Insoluble phosphoric acid three parts of lime united with one part of phosphoric acid. This j form is readsly dissolved bv strong ! ,-icids but i-' Howdy taken up by j plants, being firmly bound by a large amount of lime. The phos ; phoric acid made from bone is 1 more readily used than that liom | phosphate rock, as the organic , matter honeycombs it and renders i ii more favorable for solution. !. Tot rn — calcic phosphate— j four parts of lime are united with i one part of phosphoric acid. This j is insoluble but is more available i than the preceding form. Tt con- tains much lime and is found in the slag of the Jlessamer steel pro- ! cess. I Wo will now speak of the | sources of phosphoric acid. Bones of animals is one of the chief sources. The chief cause of the variation in the -composition of l,ones used as a fertile/, m is due to the treatment they receive. Bone meal is ground bone. Its avail ability depending upon its fineness of diyisimi. Steamed -or boiled Reform the School. The whole course needs to lie j simplified and the children should j be taught to spell. The spelling ; of even high-school children of ! I honor rank is disgraceful. The | ‘ old routine, parrot-liko spelling j i has disappeared before the march 1 of “progress” along with the old ! fashioned way of teaching chi-1- | : dren their alphabets. They now 1 learn to read phonetically, and ; i are supposed to spell by the same | 1 process. They are supposed to, ! but they do not. The theory , ! sounds well, but it doesn’t work. It might do, perhaps, for adults of j ! another race learning t he English I language. Hut with the large | !-classes in our public schools the There ! l;r«a3gga»!>TOJaBM»3BC3eS»3tlM illWH—— ng that underlies them. As a re- result, a bright child will “do complicated examples without the slightest idea of why he takes cer tain steps save that the teacher told him to. When ho comes to a new process he is at sea until tho teacher has told him how to work/i that. There is no time for the reasoning which children of au earlier generation were put through in-solving problems with out tho use of pencil and figures. That training itself was a pretty good substitute for geometry and logic. A child who mastered it had learned to think, and that is the foundation of all education. If a child learns to think or to spell under the present system, it is because he stumbles into it or else is taught at home by parents who went to school before the modern frills were invented. In place of these fundamentals he gets an excellent smattering of history, a pretty good idea that there is such a thing as English literature, with some knowledge of the biographies of tho men and women who made it, a patchwork of interesting facts from natural science, makes a few rudimentary motions toward drawing and painting and gets a, vague sort of notion that if he were smart lie might learn to read music. These are all excellent things in them selves. They arouse a curiosity about, and,perhaps in rare cases a real hunger for, knowledge which may lead the child to read or to study after he leaves school. That is fine if it can be combined with good spelling and a real mastery of simple arithmetic. But the ; schools have not been able to com bine - the two. Like the fabled dog | swimming the stream, they have dropped the real meat of elemen tary education for its shadow in tho water. It is time that the process should be reversed and the children fed and nourished.— Brooklyn Eagle. CITY DIRECTORY SUPERIOR COURT. Uni Mondays in April and Octo ber. ,J. J. Kimsey, .lodge, Cleve land, Ga. W.A. Charters, Solici tor General, Dahlonega, Ga. COUNTY OFFICERS. John Huff, Ordinary. John II Moore,Cle.ik. James M. Davis Sheriff. E. J. Walden, Tax Collector. James L. i Ionian, Tax Receiver. V. R. llix, County-Surveyor. Joseph B. Brown, Treasurer. D. C. Stow Coroner. Y CITY GOVERNMENT. E. II. Baker. M ay or. Aldermen: E. S Strickland, J. E. McGee, F. G. Jones. J. W.Boyd, T. J. Smith. W. P. Price,Jr. Win. J. Worley, Clerk. Geo. W. Walker, Marshal. RELIGIOUS SERVICES. Baptist Church — , Paster. Services Sunday at 11 and at night. Prayer meeting Thursday night. Sunday School at ’J o’clock. Methodist—Services every Sun day at 11 and at night. Rev. .J D Turner, Pastor Prayer meeting every Wednesday night. •Sunday School at !) o’clock. Presbyterian—Services only on 1st and 3rd Sundays. D. J Blackwell, pastor. Sunday School ff a. in. MASONIC. Blue Mountain Lodge No. 38, F. 6c A. M.„ meets 1st Tuesday night of each month. R. H. Baker, W. M K. ofP. Gold City Lodge No. 117, Dah- lonega, Ga, meets in their Castle Hall, over Anderson & Jones’ store, the first and third Mondays in each month at 8, p. m. All visiting brothers who are in possession -of the S. A. P. W. are hereby cordially invited to attend all meetings. W. W, Crissnn, C. C.. W. E. Ricketts, V. C. D. J. Blackwell, P.; D. C. Stow, It. It. & S.; F. M. Meadors, M. of F.; Wharton Anderson, M. A. b ine contains more phosphoric | thing is a wretched failure, adid. and less nitrogen than raw j seems to be 1.0 way of teaching I,one. Bone- black is prepared by j the average child to spell save by heating bones in air tight vessels until all the volatile matter is driven off, leaving the original form of the bone which contains carbon and phosphate of lime. This ground inton powder is used A. i) J-eneral Ji^erch.and.ise. Iii„t for clarifying sugar. When received from the refineries it e at tains impurities of vegetable niaC ter and moisture- the composition varying from R2 to <W per cent of going over and over lists of words that sound alike and have slight differences until he has glued them in his memory like a parrot. It 10ay not lie scientific, but the re sults abide, and it is results that count. Their there is arithmetic, upon which the public schools lay prop erly great stress. But they teach | the processes without the reason* A Philadelphia photographer tells this as having actually hap pened, says the Ledger. A woman entered his studio. “Are you the photographer?’’ “Yes, madam.” “Do you take children’s pic tures? 1 ’ “Yes certainly.” “How much do you charge? “Three dollars a dozen. ’ “Well,” said the woman sor rowfully. “I’ll have to see you again. I’ve only got eleven. Will. J. WORLEY, Attorney at Law, AND BEAL ESTATE AGENT, Dah'oneqa, Ga- l)r. H. C. WHELCHEL, Physician & Surgeon, CDahlonega, Ga. FOLEYimONEMAR Cures Colds: Prevents Pneumonia R. H. RAKER, Attorney at Law, Dahloneya, Ga. All legal, f uainess promptly attended to WBBSbWBHHMwI