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Vol. 39—No. 3
DA 11 LDNLCGA, GA., FRIDAY FEBRUARY n. i >27.
VV. B. TOWNSEND, Editor am! Pro
SYSTEM CHOKED
Texan Wat Helped by Use of
Black-Draught.
Mr. James VV. Burnett, who
lives on Rural Route No. 4,
Whitney, Texas is a great be
liever in Thedford’fi Black-
Draught for the relief of such
common ills as indigestion
and constipatioh. lie writes:
“Since I first found out
about Black-Draught, I have
never been without it in the
house. For several years, I
had been a sufferer with in
digestion. Occasionally, my
system would ho come
thoroughly choked with poi
son, and I would liavo a real
«ick spell. -Now I ward them
off by being forehanded, and
taking Black-Draught before
they come, instead of after.
“We all use Black-Draught
in our home, for constipation
and indigestion.”
Get a package tod - *, and
try Thedford’s Black-Draught
the next time you are consti
pated. Sold everywhere. One
cent a dose.
Thedford’s
M Purely Vegeta He c-43afc
SIX-FOOT GORILLA
LIKE HUMAN BEING
Killing by Hunter Almost
Seemed Murder.
SPRING OPENING
Ot lad ins spring hats Saturday
Feb. 12th at B. F. Atidorsons.
Eyetybody invited.
JOHN II MOORE & SON
Have In a complete line of new
Spring Dry Goods and Shoes A
visit will be profitable to-you
FOR RENT.
A two or. three horsoerop. A
good chance for the rig: t man.
\V. ,J. McXeu,
Burtshoro, Ga
G. H. McGUIRE
DAHEONEGA. GA.
Repairs watch ...clocks, pianos, cr-
ans, seeing machines, Jewelry, Ac.,.
Next to Hums’ Barber Simp,
F REUSING CLUB.
We have enst.alled a Dry
Cleaning Machine and are
able to give you first chins work.
For Dry Cleaning 85c.
Scrubbed and Pressed (30c.
Hats blocked and cleaned
65 cents.
Mail orders given special atten
tion. -
F. M. A BEE
Diililoiiiigi & Atlanta Hus Line.
Leave Dahhmegu 7 :.v0 A. M.
Leave Dahluneg.i 4 P. M.
JIETUKN.
Leave Atlanta 7 130 A. M.
Leave Atlanta 13 P. M.
Best cars. Careful Drivers
PRINCETON HOTEL
Bus Station 17 North Forsyth St.
See
F R E 1) .1 O N E S,
Dah lonega.
How Doctors Treat
Colds and the Flu
To break up a cold overnight or
to cut short an attack of grippe,
influenza, sore throat or tonsillitis,
physicians and druggists are now
recommending Calotabs, the puri
fied and refined calomel compound
tablet that gives you the effects
of calomel and salts combined,
without the unpleasant effects of
•cither.
One or two Calotabs at bed-time
with a swallow of water,—that’s
*11. No salts, no nausea nor the
slightest interference with your
eating, work or pleasure. Next
morning your cold has vanished,
your system is thoroughly purified
and you are feeling fine with a
hearty appetite for breakfast. Eat
what you please,—no danger.
Get a family package, contain
ing full directions, only 35 cents.
At any drug store. (adv),
Gory
Arthur Decrin Call, secretary of the
American Peace society, praised at a
Washington reception the efforts, of
Brland and Stressemnnn, at Tholry,
to promote peace in Europe.
“European peace champions,” lie
said, “have their job cut out for them.
Europe, incredible as it may seem,
still sings of the -glory of war. Eu
rope's spokesmen, I mean, sing the
glory of war—the old boys who will
never have to tight,
“The glory of war! Ah, hut how
the trenches, the real fighting knock
L out of that glory'!’ ”
New Street Car Material
Instead of steel or wood, the new
type of street car is built of a light
weight aluminum alloy developed for
use in .-aircraft. The advantage of tills
Is not wnly that less power Is needed
to haul the car, but that it can be
stopped and started more easily and
more quickly than can a heavier ve
hicle. A huge part of the cost of
street railway operation Is caused by
the necessity for frequent stops and
for rapid pick-up of speed In city
trailic.
After thrilling adventures and hair
breadth escapes in the heart of Afri
ca, Ben Bnrbridge, noted American
big game hunter, has furnished to
scientists the first real opportunity to
study the mentality of the gorilla—
the beast which, both structurally and
in reasoning powers, resembles man
most closely. Mr. Burbridge, in Ids
two latest expeditions to Africa, not
only obtained the only motion pictures
of the gorilla ever made in its native
haunts, but captured more live goril
las than have ever fallen prey to any
other naturalist, eight in all. lie suc
ceeded in bringing three hack to Eu
rope and America alive, one of which,
Miss Congo, n female about six years
old, has lived and thrived since the
fall of 1925 in Florida. She is the
only living gorilla today outside of the
African forests.
Some of the experiences in captur
ing these remarkable man beasts with
the aid of pygmy warriors are related
by Mr. Burbridge to Frank Parker
Stockbridge in Popular Science
Monthly.
“What I was after was live, young
-gorillas,” he says. “Our method was
to watch for a family of gorillas pass
ing through the forest, the old male
leading and the young ones straggling
along behind, and to pick up the strag
gling infants.
' One day we caught two young go
rillas In this way. We thought the
rest had gone on, and had begun our
inarch eampward, when I heard the
roar of a gorilla behind me. 1 know
of nothing more terrifying than the
roar of a gorilla when heard the first
time. It rivals the roar of a lion in
volume, but lias a more threatening
tone. It is punctuated, moreover, by
the beating of (he beast’s arms against
his chest, producing a booming, echo-
noise like a big drum.
"The crackling of the underbrush
•told me thnt the whole hand was
after us. Hearing them, the young
gorillas we had caught began to
squeal, just as I was assembling my
motion picture camera in the hope of
getting a sensational strip of film. 1
had three natives with me this time.
To one, the gun bearer, I turned over
the crank of the camera with instruc
tions to keep turning until I told him
to stop. Flanked by the other two,
each carrying a squirming gorilla in
fant, I advanced toward the place
where the shaking of the shrubbery
and the roaring of the beasts told me
the band was assembled. The racket
•finally became so threatening that my
two natives bolted with the captives.
And that, it seemed, was what the
‘old man’ gorilla had been waiting for.
I was alone.
“He crashed toward me through the
underbrush, a huge, hairy, towering
hulk, walking erect, almost like a
man, with his great arms hanging to
Ills knees. I fired once. He was so
close that I could not miss. He fell
•dead, almost at m,v feet, and Hie rest
■of his family lied into the forest.
“As he lay there 1 measured him.
Six feet tall he had stood in his life.
His foot was 32 Inches long; his fist
when closed would have filled a gal
lon measure. I estimated his weight
at 450 pounds. Ilis muscles stood out
in great knots, indicating his tremen
dous strength. He seemed so human,
like some prehistoric ancestor of our
own race, that if I had gone into (he
gorilla country for the sport of kill
ing them I believe I would have aban
doned my expedition then and there."
Litsutt’^Ttcs of Pc fen
LiiSle-Kncicn People
Lc.vu Important, ijunn-riciilly, of the
population of “Mysterious I’t leti." the
wild, northernmost department of
Guatemala, are the Lacoudones, the
bin hums, or "wild" Indians Vet these
hecatt.se of their primitive mode of
life, when other Indians have assumed
a semblance of civilization arc per
Imps the' most interesting of Guide
nitilan people.
A settlement of boundaries b-tween
Mexico and Guatemala automatically
moved most of the I.ucaiuloiies into
the Mexican state of Chiapas, hut in
Belch, (ho region between the rivers
l.acandon and Usunuieinta— Aztec
“Csu-tmitslnt-la," or "Place of the
Monkeys”—Is tliolr homeland. Here
they are credited, by goverum mt olfi-
clnls not overly anxious to bravo the
will’s of Pot on, with maintaining their
"independence” without that savagery
and hostility to Mayan and Criollo
(creole) neighbors they demonstrated
in ancient times. The greater part of
them—again on the testimony of <>!’.;
ciais who have never seen a barbaro
— have entirely embraced Christianity
and abandoned barbaric customs.
Actually, they live bidden away In
the deep forests between the I.'.lean-
don and Usumacinta, cultivating tiny
patches of corn and beans and plan
tains and sugar cane, supplementing
their tortillas y frljoles diet with
roots and the game and fish they spend
most of their lime hunting They are
most (lexlnuls with the great hows,
which are almost their only weapon,
l ike most of (lie other Indians of I’e-
ton, their clothing Is simple—n long,
sometimes sleeveless, shirt. They
speak 11 patois of the Mayan tongue.
Either as a separate rite, some left-'
handed pacification of the old gods, or
as adjunct to their peculiar Christian
ity, they worship rude earthen images.
The high lights of their monotonous
lives come with fiestas to these im
ages, when the honey of wild bet's,
brered into a kickful mead, is swilled
in enormous quantities, while balsam
incense burns before the idols. These
fiestas last as long as there is mead
—wild orgies which sometimes end Ln
bloodshed.—Adventure Magazine.
Gats’ Good Service
Dr Charles A. It. Campbell, liie San
Francisco bat authority, believes hats
can be used to reduce to a -minimum
the havoc wrought on the apple crops
by the coddling moth. This moth Is
particularly pernicious to the apple
growers of the Northwest.
An apple grower of Seiah, Wash.,
sent Doctor Campbell some-of the cod
dling moths and some guano from
bats of the Yakima valley. In the
microscopic examination of this ex
cretion it was ascertained that the
food of hats in that vicinity was al
most 95 tier cent coddling moths.
If raised in sufficient quantities to
enable them to operate effectively it
would be a blessing to the harassed
Northwestern orcliardists. The bafs
of south Texas’ have nearly eradfented
the malaria-carrying mosquitoes in
that- section.
Ex-Empress a Stuart
My recent paragraph about the Stu
art descent of the ex-Empress Zita
lias brought me a long letter of nine
pages from Boston. The writer points
out that the ex-empress is not only in
the Stuart succession, but that she is
in the line of the throne of France
through her grandmother, Princess
Marie Therese of Franco. My corre
spondent adds that the ex-empress has
always been proud of being the direct
descendant of Louis XIV of France,
and that she always lias signed Zita
de Bourbon-Parme, “which annoyed
the old Emperor Franz Joseph of Aus
tria very much.” The same corre
spondent bids me keep my eyes on
Signor Mussolini’s attitude to the
French Riviera. Think of all those
details about the affairs of our poor
Old World interesting Boston, Mass.—
London Graphic.
National Thrift w- c ■ i>
mildly beginning Innim : \ IT '' ! ' 0
nive; vary of IV:.'- - min I'rmddi.
birthday is National t hrift <I • \ 1'ln
wool; was cstali i In <1 ns a result of
co-operation of various business atm
professional interests with the Y R!
0. A The week comprises the follow
ing days: Share With Others day
National Life Insurance day. own
Your Own Home day. Make a Will
day. Thrift in Industry day. Family
Budget day and Pay Your Pills day
Illiterate Adults Eager
Illiterate men and women in Deta
ware are the most eager students In
the short-term night schools in that
state. More than 1.000 of them are
enrolled in the rudimentary courses
It required 00 teachers in 55 schools
to give tills Instruction Twice as
many men ns women attended. In
one place where (lie school houses
were not wired with electricity, the
students brought their own lamps or
lanterns to aid them In their study.
Daring Climbers Risk
Liven “Bagging” Birds
The sen cliffs of Faroe Islands,
which rise, terrace on terrace, from
one to two thousand feet in height, are
the roosting places of thousands of
gulls, guillemots, puffins and auks.
From the top to the bottom of the cliff
tlie birds may lie seen sitting in ser
ried rows, each species having its own
terrace, and Jammed so close together
thnt a shot would kill scores of them.
The islanders bug them wholesale, for
salted puffins, dried guillemots and
auks, with rashers of smoked whale
supply them with food. The fowling
is a dangerous business. One method
is this:
Two men agree to ascend a cliIT.
One climbs up the first terrace, being
pushed up from behind by (lie pole ot
his comrade below. When lie Is safely
planted on tlie shelf lie pulls up the
other, who is attached to him by n
rope fastened to bis girdle. I11 this
way they climb shelf after shelf, until
they reach the one on which are situ
ated the best birds. Should one lose his
balance and fall from tiie terrace, Ids
comrade would go with him. For they
are partners in life—and in death.
Another method is resorted to when
the nature of the cliff prevents climb
ing. A man is let down by a long
rope from the top of the cliff. Down
be goes, several hundred feet, holding
onto a string, by which he signals tli i
watcher on the cliff. When lie arrives
opposite a shelf on which the birds
lire sitting he oscillates till lie swings
Into the alcove.
Then, disengaging himself from the.
rope, lie uses :> long pole, to which a
net is attached; to bag the birds, which
lie catches sitting, or while they are
flying close to the cliffs. The spoil is
either thrown into a boat below or is
hauled up by the string.
SPEEDING UP WORK
ON BIG CATHEDRAL
Electric Haras Advocated
The proposed mechanical hare as a
quarry for greyhound coursing inis
aroused considerable controversy ln
England. Two years ago Lady Astor
supported a bill to abolish (he use of
the live hare. 81 le contends that
coursing a live hare with greyhounds
is cruel, and In this belief is backed
up by George Bernard Shaw, finis
worthy and other British huinnnltn
rians. The new electrical device lias
won many enthusiasts; but tlie coin
mittce of the Greyhound Racing nsso
elation asserts that coursing an nidi
ficially controlled hare Is “not a
sport.”
Advocates of the dummy hare main
tain thnt it provides better sport,
since its speed can be regulated, thus
assuring a dependable test for the
speed and endurance of the “long
dogs."
Beware of Poor Minds
'Vlien you are driving look out for
tlie man with the poor mind rather
than the one with the poor eyesight.
Dr. Harold" D. Judd of Detroit lias
recently made a study of 100 serious
automobile casualties In co-operation
with tlie Detroit police department,
and lias come to (he conclusion that
poor minds, rather than poor eyes,
are the cause of most of tlie accidents.
“A man with only 50 per cent visual
efficiency and 100 per cent mentality,”
Doctor Judd Is quoted as saying,
“would make a more perfect driver
than the man with perfect eyes and
half mentality. Observation lias
shown thnt the man wit h perfect eyes
and full Intelligence is liable to lie
more careless than t lie man who
knows ids eyesight is bad, but who Is
mentally normal.”
No Place Like Home
Billie, age seven, and his mother
were going on an overnight visit to
the former’s aunt. Mother was care
ful to Instruct tier young son in the
tilings he should and should not do.
"Now, Billie,” she said, “for good
ness sake, don’t begin to ask for some
thing to eat as soon as we get there.”
Bill promised lie would not. He car
ried out bis mother’s >. arious instruc
tions during" the Journey and appar
ently was getting long fine. After
the arrival at the uiiut’s, Billie grew
restless.
"I tell you, mother,” lie said, com
ing over to liis mother who was seated
in a chair conversing with the aunt,
"I do wish I was home eating some
thing.”
Freak Wagers
One of the most difficult walking
feats on record was accomplished by
a pedestrian named Lloyd, who under
took for a bet to walk 30 miles back
wards in nine hours. This he succeed
ed in doing with 3-1 minutes to spare,
on the road between Bagsliot and
Portsmouth, England.
A still more eccentric wager was
made by Lord Orford, who backed a
flock of geese to race an equal num
ber of turkeys from Norwich to Lon
don. He won tlie bet, the geese keep
ing to the road ail the time, while tlie
turkeys, when darkness fell, flew to
roost in tlie trees.
Modern Methods Hasten
Ccmpletior. of St. John’s.
Construction of tlie nave of St.
John’s cathedral, Now York, promises
to 1 stabllsh record for speed in such
work, walls and pillars having reached
an average height of 75 root from the
Iloor or 85 from the ground at the
end of a year. An excellent impres
sion of tlie general appearance of tlie
completed nave is already emerging.
In raising the great cathedrals of the
Middle ages u generation or more
passed in tlie building of the naves
alone.
The speeding up of tlie work at St.
John’s, as compared with the Euro
pean cathedrals, is largely due lo the
employment of modern American
building methods. Tlie stones used I11
great structures of tlie past were Usu
ally raised by man power, being slow
ly pushed up long Inclines or ramps.
Elaborate scaffolding was required,
some of which remained in position
about tlie cathedrals for long periods.
In building tlie New York cathedral
a series of six steel towers were first
raised on the floor of tlie nave, reach
ing to a height of 95 feet. Electric
derricks attached to the sides of these
supports lift the blocks of stone quick
ly to their places 011 tlie walls. As
tlie walls rose, the derricks were also
placed higher on the steel scaffolding
The new cathedral, it is believed, j
will endure longer than tlie great ca
thedrals of the past. Experience of
American architects and builders is j
being utilized to this end. Tlie mortar
is superior to that available in earlier
centuries. As an additional precau
tion, seams are often protected by
I sheets of lead to prevent moisture
entering the cement.
In building 8t. John’s tlie support
ing walls, pillars and arches have, it
is believed, been designed more scien
tifically than in tlie great churches of
oilier days. The theory of strains, for
example, is now much better under
stood. Where the great builders of
the Middle ages worked more or less
by rule of thumb, so that when a
wall did not prove sufficiently strong
it was frankly buttressed—tiie beau-
l'ul flying buttresses being often an
afterthought employed to correct a
mistake in calculating tlie strength of
the walls—today the exact strains "the
walls will be called upon to bear uro
calculated with a mathematical accu
racy, Nothing avoidable is left to
chance.
Cardui Helpful to South
Carolina Lady Whose
Health Cave Way.
Mrs. Lethe, Caban iss, of
Chcsnee, S. C., “did too
much,” pud her “health,
gave way.” Sho writes:
“I took- boarders and, at
the samo time, worked ln
tho mill. As a result, I
had to stay in bed from
overwork for eighteen
days. I had bad pains .. .
I got clear down and was
very much depressed.
“I had read of where
Cardui had helped other
■women suffering with trou
bles like my own, so I
made up my mind to take
Cardui, myself.
“I sent and got a bottle,
and it did me so much
good I took it on until I
got entirely well.”
Cardui should also prove
helpful iu your case. Try
it. Ask your druggist.
CARDUI
A Vegetable Tonic
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Plenty of Time
“The worse' case of absent-minded
ness I’ve ever come across,” began tho
club story teller, “happened in London
last year.
“It’s about old Smithson, tlie most
forgetful chap I’ve ever heard of.
lie was asked, out to dinner. Half
way to tlie house he suddenly remem
bered something.
"Tiling it!’ lie said, ‘i’ve forgotten
fny watch.’
"Then lie put lii.s hand in Ids waist
coat pocket and pulled the watch out
to see what time lc was.
“ ‘Hurrah!’ he said, ‘it’s only 10 past
7. I've time to go home and fetch
it.’”—London Tit-Bits.
Twins, Maybe
An American manufacturer was dis
cussing English labor troubles.
“Labor limits output," he said, “and
capital taboos modern methods, and
so tlie English public suffers.
“The public is in tlie position of (lie
woman who was talking about her
two husbands.
“‘Yes,’ she said, ‘I was married to
both those hounds, and they both beat
me with equal severity.’
“ ‘I see,’ another woman giggled.
‘A striking resemblance between
them.’ ”—Los Angeles Times.
Rice in Imperial Valley
Much interest is being taken in tlie
culture of rice in the Imperial valley,
California, says the Los Angeles
Times. The state experimental sta
tion here has been growing lice for
three years, and this season farmers
are growing .a total of 1G0 acres of
the grain.
Rice growing is advocated by sta
tion authorities on lands where flood
ing Is resorted to as a means of rid
ding the land of alkali. While this is
going on, rice may be grown at a
profit, it is asserted.
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Open Southern Rhodezia
What is believed to be u move to
throw open southern Rhodesia t.^set
tlers was revealed in tlie sale recent
ly of two large holdings by die Char
tered British South Africa company.
One, tlie Nuanetsi ranch, comprising
2,743,004 acres, is the largest compact
holding in that district. The other
the Rhodeodale estate, is tlie next ln
size, uud the new owner has an
nounced that settlers from Europe
will be encouraged to emigrate to tafe
uo tobacco and cotton cultivation.
*. WMstmmsm
FOB .“ ALE
orly bushels of Mexican Pea-
• for sale at §'2 00 per bushel,
H F. Parks,
Dah'onega. Rt 3
HATCHING EGGS
Jarred Rocks for Sale Ansto-
t Imperial Rinuiets One set-
15 egu;s $1 00 'I wo eit ' y.s
75. Brown Loch rn . Limv
y Sir mu, sell ing 75c 1 . -A
plume 1 i nKi>s S'lf
Rt 1 D tlPo
New Director
P 0 iso US t in
tory win 11 t all Mi.
your phone a d . . 0
ti al give prompt ie-
urate service
Dahlonga Tklephoxk Company
Shop Work.
I will be found at my shop, six
days in the week to d'
Blackmail bin*,
Make and repair old Furni
and do anythb g i,
or iron
Horseshoeing 1 s
T. V. (.KEEN W A .
SALE OF WILD L ,Ni>.
Georgia, Lumpkin Gnu My.
By virtue ot a lax il. ta issued by
C. O. Porter, Tax Uollecior nt said
county, will tie sold before the court
douse door, in tiie town of Duklonega
between the legal hours ot sale, 1st
Tue.sdiu in May, 1927, the following
property towit: 11-48 interest in ana
to lot of land No 229, iu tlie Sixth.
District and 1st Section of Lumpkin
county, Georgia. And a 3-10th inter
est in lot of land No. 230, in the Sixtli
District in said county and state, con
taining in botli fractions of lots, 20
acres more of less, unclaimed, uncul
tivated and 11 returned, tn-atisfy the
state and Bounty taxes, principal in
terest and cost for tlie years 1918, 1919,
1020, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1024, 1925, 1920.
This Jan. 3. L920.
W. M. Housi.ky,
Sherill.
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