The Dahlonega nugget. (Dahlonega, Ga.) 1890-current, December 23, 1927, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextG::d Advertising Medium. Devoted to Local, Mining and General Information. $1.50. Ter Annum Vul. 39—Mo. 47 DAHLONEGA, GA., FRIDAY DECEEMBER 23. 1927. W. B. TOWNSEND, Editor and Pro | DULL, JJSTLtSS | Made Bright, Energetic By if/\ - Black-Draught, Says g Gadsden Lady. "Ever since I have known about Black-Draught,” says ^ __ Mrs. Della Maybeu, of Gads- den, Ala., "It has been my j^., V" regular Btandby for indiges- W tlon and constipation. E?c3 £S| “I first used Black-Draught ,A fourteen years ago. At that IP time, I was suffering with a (Mj bad caso of swelling across £-: my abdomen. Every bite I ^ w ato disagreed with me, and I l§? i fSi bad very severe headaches. r&'\ 1 “I decided to try Black- Draught. I was truly aston- «ot* lslied at the quick relief. In [f‘| a few days, I began to feel r-j. jr; liko a different woman. In- hi.' slcad of being dull and list- L 7 less, I began to foci bright A. S’ and energetic. -7 “From that time on, I have [£§i ig*| rarely been without a box of Jja Black-Draught in my house.” »; IS* 25 cents. Insist on the lg|l igjj] genuine. £4 0 Thcdfoid’s | BLACK-DRAUGHT g # Purely Vegetable c „ a [($ ^swtMoiie G. H. McGUIRE DAHLONEGA. GA. Repairs watch-..., clocks, pianos, or- ana, sewing machines, Jewelry, &c.,. Next to Burns’ Barber Simp. Woody Barber Shop First Class Expert Seivicc H. R. VVOODY-H. E. WOOD ELECTION OF SCHOOL TRUSTEES. By order of lho Board of Edu cation of Lumpkin County, an election is ordered to be held at the various school houses of the county, from i2 o'clock M., until 2 o’clock, P. M., on Saturday, De cember 24, for the purpo c of electing trustees to fill vacancies on the board of trustees in the different schools of . the county. J.J. SEABOLT, C. S. S. FREEING CLUB. We have enstaUed a Dry Cleaning Machine and are aide to give you first class work. For Dry Cleaning 85c. Scrubbed and Pressed (50c. Hats blocked and cleaned 65 cents. Mail orders given special atten tion. F. M. AC EE. Dahlonega k Atlanta Bus Line. Leave Dahlonega 7 '.30 A. M. Leave Dahlonega 4 P. M. UKTUIIN. Leave Atlanta 7:30 A. M. Leave Atlanta 15 P. M. Best ca'rs. Careful Drivers PRINCETON HOTEL Bus Station 17 North Forsyth St. See F R ED JO N^E S, Dith lonegi. £ PITY FCQR FATHER, FLEA G7 BACHELOR Rutger Jewett, the New York puli- ili. her, mil at a dinner of the Dutch Treat club, of which ho Is secretary. “There ought to ho an annual Fa ther's day, and the movies ought to jgive us a couple of hundred father- hne films, the came ns they ■nave us all those mother-love films three or Jour years ago. Though a bachelor, 1 know whereof I speak. 'T’nlorfnmlllas! Poor paterfamilias 1 "One afternoon I was sitting In a hot olllce talking to n i'at, pale per spiring publisher of middle age when a sunburnt young fellow in pinkish (oxford bags and a blue Jacket with brass buttons hustled In. He was smoking a cigarette In a 10-inch am ber tulip, “ ‘Well, dud,’ he said cheerily. 'I’m Just up from the shore, and 1 thought I’d run In and say hello.’ “The fat, pale man mopped Ills wet forehead. “ 'Sorry, hoy,’ lie said, ‘hut your sis ter walked off with all my cash half an Ivnir ago. On her way down to the shore she just ran In to pay good- by.' ’’ PLANTS KEPT BUSY TURNING GUT RAYON “The giant plants erected during (he war to provide explosives, with which we attempted to make political democracy safe in Europe, are now producing rayon to make social do mocrncy secure c:i American Main streets," points out Lucile Leech In an nrtiela In Liberty. “It may be next to impossible to find admitted rayon'stockings In the store,” the writer explains, "hut the deadly statistics disclose these facts— America leads the world in the con sumption of both natural and arti ficial silk. The use of both is increas ing by millions of pounds year by year, and the two products are run ning neck and neck in bolii produc tion and consumption. “American plants this year will pro duce 70,000,006 pounds of the silklike fabric, mostly from wood pulp; some from cotton (Inters mid refuse. Wo Import about 0,500,00!) pounds a year 1 for domestic consumption. Twenty- ciglif per Cent of rayon is used in hos iery, JS her Cent mixed with natural silk goods, 15' per cent for underwear, arid 10 per cent for sports sweaters.” Unwelcome Serenade They were Jolly good fellows, all seven of them—at least they felt that way at three o’clock In the morning following an old-fashioned soiree in New York. To wind tip a perfect eve ning they decided to serenade the fair lady of one love-sick member. With voices loud but not altogether dear the male septet parked below a win dow and raised their faces to heaven in their fervor. After the impromptu concert the gentlemen found them selves in the custody of the law—they had serenaded under n window of the dormitory of a police station where a weary bachelor cop was trying to get some sleep.—Exchange. BRICES LOW. If you are looking for bargains call and sec me. Have a good line of sweaters, lumber jackots, mens, ladios and childrens, priced from 85 cents to $5.00. Mens, and indies hat* from fii.00 to $5.00., Stocking caps 85 to 00 cents. La- dies apron dresses 5O0. to $ 1.00’ Regular dresses $i .00 to $10 00. Outing 16 to 2O cants per yard. Sheeting 5 to 20 cems per yard. Mens and children’s clothing. A big lot of handercliies for Xmas 5 to 50 cents. Boxes from 15 to $1.75 for Christmas. Also many goodn not mentioned. New goods coining in every too or three days until Christmas Everything Bold at big b irgains for cash. 1 have the goods and your cash talks here. Sea my goods and get pri ll. B. Anpekson. Novel by Phonograph Now a phonograph can “read aloud” to you a full length novel, If you wish. Or it can give you an entire congres sional debate. An English radio con cern announces that one of Its en gineers lu\g developed a process to record a whole novel on six double- faced, twelve-inch phonograph rec ords. Each record “reads" to you for forty minutes, at normal speed. They are of greatest benefit to blind per sons.—Popular Science Monthly. Family Secret Some one ttsked little Barbard Stern, daughter of the Big U’s busi ness manager, the meaning of the quotation, “For men must work and women must weep.” The little girl thought It over for a moment and replied: “It means that the poor man lias to work all day and get the money and then his wife has to cry all night and get it away from him. “But,” she added as an after thought, “my daddy Isn’t like that.” Seeni3 to Be Book Surplus With 65 miles of books on Its shelves, the British museum has to find places for 35,000 more each year, according to an article in Capper's Weekly. ‘‘To place new books and newspaper and periodical files, the museum 1ms been 'building extra swinging tresses and supporting them on the cast iron framework of the dome,” Clipper’s Weekly continues. "It lias now warned that If more weight is placed on the dome the whole structure may bo pulled down. What Is the world going to do with its books?” B RING T HIS A D TO Clarice Hat Shop Mrs. c. W. McDonald AND GET CREDIT FOR $L.00ON ANY HAT IN OUR STOCK AT $6.00 OR OVER GAINESVILLE, GA. Make Annual Roundup of Wild Island Ponies Hard to Get Exact Size of Hailstones j There nre many stories to accountThe maximum possible size of n for the wild ponies on Chlncotengue | single hailstone cannot be stated pos-: and Assotengue and some other 1 ltlvely for the simple reason islands off the Virginia coast, hut there seems to be nothing of an nu- thorltntlve nature to explnln their presence. , | Some of the ponies off the Virginin ! coast have never seen n human nnd are very wild. The largest ponies measure about 13 hands high, and be cause Iheir principal habitat Is Cliin- cotengue Island—a strip of land about nine miles long by a mile and a half wide—they are often referred to as Clijneoteague ponies. < One of the stories concerns a Span ish nobleman who undertook to take advantage of the opportunities offered in the New world for horse breeding, lie started over with a herd of the animals, but on the way the vessel was wrecked and he was lost, although- some of the animals managed to find their way to the shore of Clilnco-' teague. t ■' Tills story is corroborated to some extent by the Indian legend concern ing (lie origin of the animals at this point. Though the animals run wild, they nre not public property, for they nre owned by the persons who -own the Islands, and there is a round-up every year, when some of the ani mals are conveyed to the mainland and sold.' that there Is not always n trained observ- j er on hand to measure every large hailstone which falls. Ilnllstoneu larger than a person’s fist nnd weigh ing more than a pound have several times been reported on good author- Ity, according to the United Stntes weather bureau. During a storm In Natal In 1874 hailstones fell which ; weighed a pound and a hnlf. They passed through a corrugnted iron roof j as if it lmd been made of paper. Hall- , stones 14 inches in circumference fell In New South Wales In February, 1847. At Cazorln, Spain, on June 15, 1820, houses were crushed under blocks of Ice, some of which are said to have weighed four nnd a half pounds. In October, 1844, a hail storm at Cette, France, wrecked houses and sank vessels*. But these, like all reports dating back many years, must be taken with a grain of salt. The untrained observer often unconsciously exaggerates. Then, too, some of these reports may refer to cases where masses of Ice resulted from the coalescence, after falling, of a number of smaller hailstones lying closely packed together on the ground. —Pathfinder Magazine. Animals Make Little Response to Pictures During tests made in Berlin by Dr. Victor Mfendel, animals and birds showed a rather surprising lack of re sponse to moving pictures. The pic tures were especially selected for each animal nnd animal group, nnd the ex periments were made in an exhibition room especially adapted to the pur- j pose. The response of dogs was prac- | lically nil. Neither St. Bernnrd, set- i ter, spaniel, poodle nor collie gave the I slightest attention to the pictures. 1 Only a litlle mongrel of doubtful ori- | gin evinced a momentary interest by ! sniffing at the human figures on Hie 1 screen. The experiments with cuts | were much more favorable. Of five j subjects, throe responded actively, * showing fight on the appearance of a I big dog on the screen. Experiments i with birds were rather negative. Geese j ’and ducks, chickens nnd pigeons paid j GirVs Father Settled H. C. L. Complication A congressman Investigating the high cost of living said to a Washing ton correspondent: “The h. c. 1. is responsible for many vngaries nnd queer complications. "A young chnp who had got en gaged to a girl was talking over the future with her. ‘“With prices what they are,’ said the girl, ‘we must he content, George dear, with a small fiat nnd one or, ut the most, two servants.’ “George coughed. “ ‘It’s my Idea,’ lie said, ‘to live with your old man the first couple of years.’ “ ‘But, George—’ “ ‘That’s my Idea,’ he Interrupted. ‘Think of the money we can save. No rent, no light, no grub bills, no coal.’ “ ‘But—’ “ ‘I Insist on this thing,’ George In terrupted again. ‘I tell you, I—’ "Then the door opened Softly nnd some attention, while owls showed j the girl’s father entered the room. Teat Interest. Small birds nnd barn yard fowl showed anxiety when u lutwk appeared In their line of vision. A squirrel displayed Interest when a weasel made Its appearance on the screen, but reptiles and fish were, as might have been expected, quite In different. Fez 18 Disappearing The red cap worn by Turkish men received Its name from Fez, a city In Morocco, where such caps wore first made. Fez was long a seat of Arabian learning In Africa and Is still regarded ns* a sacred city of Islam. Until re cent times the cily had a monopoly of the manufacture of Fez caps, It be ing supposed that the dye which gives the caps their dull crimson line could not be obtained elsewhere. This dye is made of a berry which grows* In pro fusion In the vicinity of Fez. The fez Is mode britnless to allow the wearer to bow his forehead to (he carpet while praying in the mosque. This form of headgear, however, is fast losing its place In the national cos tume of Turkey. Expression I3 Old “Paying through the nose” melons to pay tt fancy price for a thing—to pay more than it is worth—to get stung. The origin of the expression is lost In obscurity. There was a legend that Odin, the Norse god, imposed a tax re sembling the modern poll tax. In Sweden It was called n nose tax, be cause It was a penny a nose. In de fault of payment the nose was sup posed to be the forfeit. “Paying through the nose” may have originated with this myth. Tie French have a similar phrase—"payer par ie nez.”— Pathfinder Magazine. “ ‘Children,’ be said, tenderly, 1 have decided thnt when you get mar ried I’ll come oud live with you for (he rest of my life.’”—Washington Star. Blue Laws Banned Pies “The pumpkin, or pomplon,” we road In Peters’ "General History of Connecticut," published In 1781, “is one of the greatest blessings, nnd held sacred In New England. Of its meat are made beer, bread, custards, snuce, molasses, vinegar nnd, on thanksgiv ing days, pies, ns a substitute for what the blue laws brand ns anti- Christian minced pies.” The same author explains why New Englanders were called pumpkin heads. As every male was required to have his hair cut round by a cup, “when cups were not to be had, they substituted the hard shell of a pump- kin, which, being put on the head every Saturday, the hair Is cut by the shell all around the head.”—Gas Logic. a Appearance of Tornado The chief Visible feature of a tor nado is tt hung, whirling cloud, extend ing to or toward the earth. As the storm travels along, at about the speed of an express train in the aver age care, and In a direction that In most cases is approximately from southwest to northeast, the zone of destruction Is little If any wider than the track swept by this cloud. The width of the zone may he only a few rods and is seldom ns great ns half n mile. Its length averages something like 25 miles, but is not always con tinuous, as these storms have a way of jumping over places along their paths and leaving them unharmed. Mexico Had Pioneer in Feminist Cause South Amerlcnn culture Is older than that of North America. The Uni versity of Mexico and that of San Marcos, Limn, were each authorized by Carlos V In 1551. In Mexico as enrly as 1530 was printed the first book on (lie continent. Mexico, In deed, from the earliest colonial days, shows a spirit of constant innovation. Whether In the economic or the spiritual field, the country has been In the van since the days of the con quest. A recent biographer of Thom as Paine writes that the first lance broken on Ibis continent In the cause of feminism was probably his "Oc casional Letter on the Female Sex," but the Seventeenth century pro duced In Mexico a remarkable wom an who lays less disputed claim to that honor. She was Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, first student of folklore nnd pioneer In education for women. South American culture follows, more or less closely, the era of colonization, the achievement of autonomy nnd the entrance into the currents of the larger world. It lias thus Its classic, its romantic nnd Its modernist phases. From the first It shows evidences of contnct with the new home; the lan guage undergoes subtle modifications of accent and vocabulary; a feeling for the soil I.: developed, nnd there nre not lacking rhnpsodlsts who fore shadow the nationalistic fervors of the emancipation. Poetry, for long, is in the ascendant; poetry, in fact, Is the chief literary output of Span ish and Portuguese America.—Isaac Goldberg, in Current History Maga zine. Use Sails of Windmills to Disseminate News Holland* possesses over 10,000 wind mills. To most observers, says a writer In the Wide World Magazine, they all look very much niike, but the “set” of the sails, when the arms are ut rest, Is. capable of considerable vari ation, and the resourceful millers take advantage of these different settings la order to convey Interest ing items of news to the countryside. Using a well-understood code of sig- rmrs, they actually make their wind mills "talk.” The Idea Is extremely ancient; it Is even said that semaphore signaling started from tills source. When there Is a wedding in a Dutch miller’s family he sets the sails at a certain angle, and often decks the arms with Hags and streamers, so that all neighbors within eye-range can learn of the happy event. Other variations of angle proclaim the birth of a baby boy or girl, a re quest for the services of the mill wright, nnd a dozen other little mes sages. If the miller sets Ids mill- sails In the form of a cross there is sadness In the family, for this denotes a death. Tennyson Not Exact Poetic license undoubtedly gave Al fred Tennyson, famous English poet, the privilege to immortalize only <;:k) English soldiers as participants in the charge of the Light brigade in one of the best-known war poems in the Eng lish language, but there actually was more than a “noble six hundred" for the English In that disastrous attack in the Crimean war. As pointed out by fctunrt M. Emery, li. an article in Liberty, there were 073 men of the brigade in (lie charge, according to the most reliable figures. In the action, which took between 20 and 25 min utes from start to finish, the Light brigade, out of 073 men, lost 127 kUHed, 104 wounded, and 73 prisoners, almost half its strength. Nearly 500 horses were killed. Old and New Moon Frequently, during tho phase of the moon popularly called new, the dim form of the full moon can be seen within the crescent of the new moon. This Is known ns enrthsbine ntul Is u faint light visible on the part of the moon not directly illuminated by tho sun. It Is due to sunlight reflected to the moon by the earth and is most cofisplcuous wheti the part of the moon’s disk illuminated directly by the sun is smallest. The new moon Is first visible ns a thin crescent. Then, afccording to nn old adage, “the old hioon can be seen sitting in the lap or arms of the now." In olden times sailors regarded this phenomenon with superstitious dread.—Exchange. hit & & 11 m & m m m HOPELESS Weak, Thin, Nervous Woman Gets Strong, Gains Weight. Mrs. L. N. Crawford, Jr., of Iz5gansport, La., writes: "I felt perfectly hopeless. "Life wasn’t, worth liv ing, It seemod. I folt like giving up but, you know, a woman with a family just can’t do that. I was weak, thin and nervous. "I tried so many things but didn’t get better. Fin ally I asked my husband to get mo somo Cardul. After I had taken threo bottles, I was llko a new person. "I gradually resumed my work around the house and wont places. I quit suffer ing. Now I am strong, In good weight, and feel fine.” Thousands of women have been helped by Car dul, In a similar way, in the last 45 years. CARMJI i A Vegetable Tonic C45j WANTED.—25O cords of 4 foot wood cut before March ist and de livered to college Campus by or before October 1st, J. C. Baunes. Agent. FOR SALE. My farm consisting ol 57 acres, about 20 acres of it good bottom land. Good house and line orchard, in Cane Cfeek District. Cash or terms. M. S Smitit, New Holland, Gft. Shop Work. I will bo found at my shop sit days in the week to do j Rlacksmilhiiife. Make and repair old Furniture] and do anything in wood or iron. Horseshoeing a sped"Ity. T. V. GREEN WAY. GO TO BLUE & WHITE O A Iff 137 Good cats and prompt service. We also carry a full line of school supplies, candies, cigars, cigar ettes. Also a full line of Hash light supplies and Kodak films. Ice cream and all kinds of soft drinks, boille or fount. Make our place your home. It is the cool est and nicest, place in town. G. K. RIDER, l’ropr. .«■*■’»£ WANTED BUSINESS PAL TN Kit FOR 1 UMl’KIN COUNTY: A10 you making $40 to $150 weekly? Farmers, laborers, salesmen and others make big money distributing Whitmer’s Fnutory-to-you Products. Car neces sary. Sales training FREE Earn while learning—have own permanent business, be own boss—have independ ent income. Write today for our “Every-dny-pny-day-plan” for you. THE II. O. WHITMER COMPANY Columbus, ledinm J)(*pt. N. 204L Crooll Crooll Outside it was cold, dark nnd rainy, but from the lighted windows of the regimental P. O. came sounds of mirth and Jollification. “Say, buddy,” said Post No. 2, Just over nnd green to the Job, “what does P. O. stand for, anyway?” "Ob, that?" answered I^ost Nc. 1, an old-timer. “That means pinochle club.” —Exchange. TO PHONE DEAD BEATS. Dahlonega telephone rates are made low with tho understanding shat the phones in residences are for the use only of the people liv ing therein, and others using them are simply deadbeating the com pany for service which belongs to those who pay. It is just as dis honest. as covering childnu from the railroad conductor to save your fare. If you have to save the price of a telephone be honest enough to Carry your messages ro mail them at 1 cent each. Howev er you will have to pay for the stamp. If you are a pauper and will show that you need a phone’ in your business we will contrib ute one to save our regular sub- subscribers being bothered. Bor rowing’ phone service is some what similar to a borrowed news paper. Both after being loaned may need laundtying. But it can’t be done. Pay for your talk or walk. Dahlonga Telephone Company. CPS.

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The Dahlonega nugget. (Dahlonega, Ga.) 1890-current, December 23, 1927, Image 1