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Vol. 39—No. 51
DAHLONEGA, GA., FRIDAY JANUARY i 7 , 1928.
W. B. TOWNSEND, Editor and Pro
2 ACUTE ATTACKS 2
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Indigestion Helped
Black-Draught.
By
Black-Draught was recom
mended to Mrs. Reathia Ed
mondson, of Williamson, N.
Oar., by her father-in-law.
She says:
‘‘Shortly after I Locarno a
bride, I had a spell of indi
gestion, and my father-in-law
told me to take a dose of
Black-Draught. I had never
heard of it before, but I tried
it, and got such quick relief.
I have turned to it ever since.
' About throo years ago, I
began having acute attacks of
indigestion real frequently.
I would feel severo pains
through tho lower part of my
body, and they were accom
panied by bad gas pains. I
took a systematic courso of
Black-Draught and soon be
gan to feel better. Tho acuto
attacks disappeared.”
Try Thedford’s Black-
Draught for indigestion.
You can get it everywhere.
Thedford’s
FOE SALE.
Four brood sows, or will swap
for a cow. .Toe Davis.
G. H. McGUIRE
DAHLONEGA. GA.
Repairs watch?.., clocks, pianos, or-
tins, sewing machines, Jewelry, &c,,.
Noxt to Burns’ Barber Shop.
FOE SALE.
My two story, 4 room house and
hear a two acre lot on Pea Ridge,
where I now live. Also 2 thor-
thorough bred Berkshir hogs and
one horse. Henry Elrod.
TRESS1NG CLUB.
We have enstalled a Dry
Cleaning Machine and are
able to give you first class work.
For Dry Cleaning 85c.
Syrubbed and Pressed 00c.
Hats blocked and cleaned
65 cents.
Mail orders given special atten
tion.
F. M. A BEE.
DIVINING ROD PUT
ASIDE BY SCIENCE
Modern Geology Succeeds
Rule of Thumb.
Dahlonega k Atlanta Bus Line.
Leave Dahlonega 7:30 A. M.
Leave Dahlonega 4 P. M.
RETURN.
Leavo Atlanta 7:30 A. M.
Leave Atlanta 0 P. M.
Best cars. Careful Drivers
PRINCETON HOTEL
Bus Station 17 North Forsyth St.
See
F R E D J O N5E S,
Dahlonega.
Green Bay, Wis.—Science is replac
ing tho “rule of thumb” and the old
divining rod in the digging of wells,
Prof. F, T. Tlnvaltes, University of
Wisconsin geologist, told Wisconsin
well drillers in convention here re
cently.
lie said that after 15 years of re
search the state geological survey’s
knowledge of water.-bearing forma
tions has been brought to the point
where needless expense for the well
driller and tapping of water supplies
that are not tho best available may
be avoided many times.
In those years, Mr. Tlnvaltes ex
plained, the survey lias been collect
ing samples of cuttings and logs from
Wisconsin and northern Illinois wells
and from the study of those has de
veloped a store of information upon
the depth and thickness of water-
hearing strata and the quality of wa
ter in each stratum which Is con
stantly drawn upon by well drillers.
Points Out Helps.
Some of (lie problems of water sup
ply which the geologist can aid the
well driller in solving, Mr. Tlnvaltes
pointed out ns follows:
“From some regions we have
enough well samples so that we can
'tell the precise depth at which hard
or soft water will ho found. As more
wells are drilled In Wisconsin and
more samples are submitted we can
make additional Wisconsin data on
quality of water at different levels.
“We have nearly enough records
now to make a map for the whole
State which will show the water sup
ply possibilities in each section. Maps
have been made for certain areas as
the Fox river valley.
“We are studying temperatures of
water from (lowing wells because tem
perature gives a certain index to
depth of the formation.
“Down to about 50 feet, the earth’s
temperature varies according to the
season of the year. The coldest wa
ter comes from the 50 to GO-foot level
at which the temperature is constant
at about the mean average tempera
ture of the locality. Below this depth
temperature increases with depth. At
2,000 feet, ns deep as we have been
able to take readings, it stands at
about 70 degrees the year around.
F.y determining the temperature of
water from an old well we can find
from what level the water comes—
information which is highly impor
tant to the driller called upon to
make repairs upon such a well when
nothing was recorded as to forma
tions penetrated.
Can Forecact Depth.
“By examining cuttings in tho lab
oratory, it is possible lo get much
more precise information as to kind
of rock than can be obtained at the
well. It is possible to forecast the
depths at which trouble in drilling
has occurred elsewhere."
Mr. Tlnvaites closed with a request
that drillers co operate with ihe State
survey in submitting sample cuttings
from wells and in keeping records of
the formations, especially in wells of
greater depth than 250 feet.
TO PHONE DEAD BEATS.
Dahlonega telephone rates are
made low wifi- ^ unda^thuMig
that the phones in residences are
for the use only of the people liv
ing therein, and others using them
are simply cleadhenting the com
pany for service which belongs to
those Who pay. It is just as dis-
honest.as Covering childen from
Hvq 4-a)lroa(l ’conductor to save
jyo'fip ■fai'6. If yon have to save
the. price of a telephone lie honest
euotish to carry your messages ro
irhtvi 1 them at 1 cent each. Howev
er you wifi have to pay for the
stariip. If you are a pauper and
'will show that you need a phone
in ydtir 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 laundrving. But it
can’t he done. Pay for your
talk or walk.
Daitlo.noa Telephone Company.
Advertise Heaven by
Sales Talk, Vicar Urges
Wisconsin ltnpids, Wis.—Ministers
as high-powered realtors, selling sub
divisions In heaven, is the soul-saving
plan of Itev. James M. Johnson, vicar
of St. John’s parish here.
Doctor Johnson advocates the elim
ination of the “ponderous sermon and
00-cent word” from the evangelical
campaign, especially In the rural dis
tricts.
frt their stead he would substitute
the “sales talk," selling heaven to the
neonle on Its jpei’itS over auother
web-known subdivision.
Doctor Johnson would conduct the
revival meeting after the fashion of a
‘Rotary club “get ingether," with the
formal element eliminated in favor of
tho informal social features of the
farm home.
He declares this plan had been
found highly smjeessful In the rural
districts of Kansas and Wisconsin
where it had been pur to tho test.
Would You Be Rich?
So many want to be rich. Are you
sure you want to be rich? Don’t you
get your greatest happiness from do
ing tho everyday things that bring
you driving? Aren’t the very things—
at least some of them—that you have
to do because you are not rich, the
things that bring you your greatest
content, your greatest peace of mind?
Think of your life without tho neces
sity of earning a living, without the
necessity of work. Would It he n full
complete, happy life?—Grove I’atler
son, in the Mobile Register.
BRING THIS A D TO
Clarice Hat Shop
Mrs. C. W. McDonald
ANDGET CREDIT FOR $1.00 ON ANY HAT
IN OUR STOCK AT $5.00 OR OYER
GAINESVILLE, GA.
Baw2 Uccd in East
for Measuring Time
It appears that in certain sections
of Algeria a copper howl with a hole
in it lakes the place of a timepiece.
An American with business interests
in that colony tells of the peasants of
Beni Feral), for example, who use the
bowl for timing the llow of water into
their gardens from the only nearby
river. So precious Is the water among
the lull people in that part of lie
world that u few moments more or
less in the period of ilow is of great
importance. A watch, therefore, is
not to be depended on.
The bowl is part of a system of
measuring time that must be of great
antiquity and probably has prevailed
in Algeria for countless generations.
When gardens are to be irrigated
a member of the village council ac
companies the landowners and brings
with him a large earthen bowl, or
a metal pail of water and a smalt
copper bowl in the bottom of which
is u minute hole. At the moment
when the mud wall of the irrigation
canal is cut through, and the water
is allowed to flow into tho first gar
den, the councilor carefully place?
the perforated bowl, which is the
property of the village council, and
which, therefore, is the legal measure,
upon the water in the pail and watches
carefully for It to sink, which it will
do, perhaps, in 15 minutes. Thus each
landowner is entitled, as the case may
he, to three, four, six or eight sinkings
of the copper bowl.
As the time approaches when the
flow of water into a garden is to cease
a neighbor in the little group of land
owners will shout to an assistant in
his garden lo be ready to cut an inlet
into his land as soon ns the howl lias
.sunk for tlie last time. Just us the
bowl sink? the last time the peasant
cries out to a mail in his garden to
stem the (low of the water by filling
with mud the hole through which it
lias been running. Since landowners
are present in person, and since an
elder witli the official bowl does the
measuring, it appears that (lie quaint
method is almost: as good as any.
Drifting Sand Dunes
Menace to Railroads
As one makes die ascent of the
,Andes from tiie Pacific port of Mol-
.lendo, in Peru, following tho line of
tiie Southern Pacific railway, the climb
to the divide is broken by two great
:steps or wide-spreading shelves of
,desert or pnmpn.
On the first of these steps, about
,two hours?’ steep climb from the sea,
’and at an altitude of from 4,000 to
5,000 feet, nro located the famous
'drifting sand hills of Peru. Tiie
plateau is here about 20 miles wide,
tiie air thin and dry and no trace of
vegetation to he Been, only these
^gigantic crescent-shaped sand dunes
dotting tiie pampa ns far as the eye
can see. Composed of fine gray erys
tnl sand, they gleam white against tiie
brown of the desert, and their horns
point toward the prevailing south wind
of this region. They are from 15 to
25 or even 30 feet high, 20 feet in
breadth across the thick part of tho
crescent and sometimes 100 feet from
horn to horn. So tightly is the sand
"packed that tiie feet of the horses or
mules make little Impression on it.
These sand hills, called menanos,
travel with almost impcrccptnble slow-
, ness, and when they threaten tho rail-
;wny track they can sometimes he di
verted by piling up blocks of stone in
(their pattis, otherwise tiie railway bed
lias to be altered, to go around them.
An analysis of the soil of lids region
shows that it would be very fertile If
irrigated from tiie available snow fields
cf tiie Andes, so that it is possible
there will come a day when its deso
late sand dunes will cease to be.
Gave Impulse to Move
for Better Education
American Education week undoubt
edly developed from tiie movement
forwarded by Dr. P. I’. Claxton in
1920, then commissioner of education.
School Life of October 15, 1920, car
ried what was apparently the first
suggestion for a nation-wide campaign
for (lie improvement of schools and
other agencies for education. In this
article Doctor Claxton designated tiie
week of December 5 to 11 as “School
week” and urged governors and chief
state school officers to take proper
action to cause the people to use this
week in such a way us would most ef
fectively disseminate among tiie peo
ple accurate information in regard to
tiie condition and needs of tiie
schools, enhance appreciation of the
value of education, and create such in
terest as would result In better oppor
tunities for education and larger ap
propriations for schools of nil kinds.
High and Low “Tides”
in Human Blood Flow
Daily tides in blood pressure, heart
beat and other functions of tiie human
body, almost as regular .as tiie tides of
the sea, may be caused by mysterious
forces beyond (lie earth, as are tiie
ocean tides. Such is the statement of
Dr. P. E. Morhardt, French physiol
ogist, who suggests that they may be
produced by daily variations in elec
trification of (lie air, says Popular
Science Monthly.
It is well known to physicians, Doc
tor Morhardt points out, that tiie tem
perature of tiie body rises slowly in
the forenoon and reaches its height nt
about four or five o’clock in tiie after
noon. During tiie evening it recedes,
reaching “low tide” in the early morn
ing. Similar high and low tides at
about tiie same hours are found also
in tiie human pulse rate, in the amount
of oxygen used in breathing, and in
blood pressure. A strange fact is that
the llow of tides in persons who work
at night is no different from that of
persons who are active during the
day. That sunlight is not responsible
is evidenced by the fact, according to
Doctor Morhardt, that in northern
countries like Iceland, where there Is
a season when the sun never sets, tiie
same rhythm of bodily tides persists.
Either mankind has daily tides in
bodily functions, or some external
cause is affecting us all iu the same
wav.
Something in Luck
Snys Novalis in one of his question
able aphorisms, “Character is destiny.’’
P.ut not (lie wlioje of our destiny.
Hamlet, princ of Denmark, was spec
tacular and irresolute, and wo have a
great tragedy in consequence. But if
Ids father had lived to a good old age,
and his uncle had died an early death,
we can conceive namlet’s haying mar
ried Ophelia, and got through life
with a reputation of sanity, nothwlth-
standing many soliloquies, and some
moody sarcasms toward Hie fair
daughter of Polonlus, to say nothing
of the frankest incivility to his fa
ther-in-law.—George Eliot.
Look Forward
Tiie man who continuously looks
backward doesn't make much progress.
As tiie saying goes, “he lives In the
past,” not even in the present. So far
as the future is concerned “he’s a dead
one."—Grit. iittMif-tU Ai-'i
Spanish Duke Jailed
in France as Vagabond
Melun, France.—Don Fernando de
Bourbon, duke of Durcal, reputed to
be a cousin of King Alfonso of Spain,
languished In Jail here recently
charged with being a rogue and vaga
bond without visible means of support,
lie was arrested on tiie complaint of
a Fontainebleu hotel keeper when he
was unable to settle his bill.
The duke is tiie son of Prince Pedro
de Bourbon, duke of Durcal, by his
morganatic marriage with Maria de la
Caridad Mudan of Cuba. It is under
stood that lie incurred King Alfonso’s
displeasure. He was politely request
ed to travel. He has visited America
| and England.
I Don Fernando’s -wife is the daugh-
! tor of a wealthy Barcelona manufac-
i turer and is laoy in waiting to Queen
i Victoria (f Spain. She is said to
i nave paid Don Fernando’s debts sev-
| eral times to get him out of similar
l scrapes.
Water Really Chief
Constituent of Body
Water is n more important sub
stance than we nro inclined to ndmit.
Besides Us value ns n beverage, its
utility ns ti home for fish, its function
ns a common carrier of tiie world’s
shipping, its use ns a washing medium,
lit plays nil important role in human
■ life as (lie chief constituent of tiie
body.
Tho human body is approximately
two-thirds water. An average person
of 150 pounds weight carries around
with him at all times about 100
pounds, or 12 gallons of water. Tills
water supply is very delicately ad
justed so tbut the intake of water and
the water resulting from oxidative
processes balances the losses occur
ring from tho various excretory proc
esses.
Tills compensatory balance some
times fails. The extremes of mnl-
, regulation which result are represent
ed by thirst and anhydremla on the
one hand and edema on (lie other.
Skelton of the University of Min
nesota found that the muscles con
tain about half of the total water sup
ply of tiie body, tho skin about ono-
iiftli and tiie watery blood only about
one-fourteentli of the total. When
marked loss or withdrawal of water
from (lie body occurs tho resultant
drying up is taken care of principally
by tho muscles and not by tiie blood.
'The muscles lose only a small propor
tion of their water even in tiie ex
treme oases, and the loss per unit of
weight is smaller limn for other or
gans, but tiie total Is larger because
of tiie large capacity of the muscular
system.
Ancient Chinese Tombs
Gigantic in Extent
Some 200 miles west of Peking
China, says the Pathfinder Mugazin
(Carl Whiting Bishop, curator of the
Freer gallery, examined tombs of tiie
North Wei dynasty, which was found
ed by Tartars from Mongolia and
lasted from tiie Fourth to the Sixth
'century B. C. Tiie enormous amount
of labor which went into the construc
tion of these tombs is indicated by
the size of one of them. It is 80 feet
high and has a circumference of near
ly half a mile, being made entirely of
earth. In front of tills was an altar
and impressive temples undoubtedly
marked tiie site.
These- temples, as Is common in
China, were of wood and so have dis
appeared. China had no stone archi
tecture. Tliis is a distinctive feature
of Chinese civilization and explains
tiie absence of such ruins as tiie Ilo-
man Coliseum, the Athenian Parthe
non or the Egyptian Sphynx. The
Chinese used wood altogether.
Very Embarrassing
A professional model was one night
posing in tiie nude before n dozen men
who were intent on getting every sec
ond of the fleeting hour, in n silence
broken only by tiie nervous scratch
ing of charcoal on paper, when an
incident occurred which throws nn
odd light on feminine psychology, re
lates Wait McDnugall, tho cartoonist,
in "This Is tho Life!”
Only a minute or so remained be
fore (lie period of rest, when, with a
sharp shriek of genuine alarm, tiie
lovely model leaped from tiie stand
and tied outside tiie circle of light
focused upon her form.
“I saw a man looking down upon
me from that window next door!" site
managed to explain when her agita
tion had subsided.
Watch Care
Before winding your watch after a
cold snap warm it for at least a quar
ter of an hour; winding it immediately
after exposure to cold may break the
spring. During the night, the watch
will run bettor if it is in about the
same position it occupies during tho
day. Tho timepiece shoulo be wound
In the morning instead of at night. It
is directly after winding that a watch
works best and can thus stand the vi
brations during tiie day. It should
be wound slowly, carefully avoiding
jerks. Count tiie number of turns the
spring will allow without undue strain.
These hints were recently given by a
large watch manufacturer as practical
ways to Impove the performance of
the tlmakeeper and prolong its life.
Nervous, Run-Down Young
Lady Regains Health
And Strength.
"I was so run-down and
‘no account.’ that I did not
foel like working, or do
ing anything at all,” says
Miss Flossie Evans, Route
No. 1, Liberal, Mo. “My
nerves were all unstrung.
I was very easily upset.
"After I had taken Car-
dul for only" a short while,
I began to feel stronger
and my appetite Improved
and tho headaches disap
peared.
"I was delighted with
the Improvement which
was so noticeable every
body spoko of It I looked
and felt like a different
girl. Now I am perfectly
well and glad to recom
mend Cardul.”
Act on this recommen
dation. Take Cardul.
At all drug stores.
CARDUI
In Use 45 Years
According to Hoyle
Even among the elders we see so
little of the old-fashioned fastidious
ness nowadays that we were attracted
by an incident on the street last week.
We saw a white-haired gentleman ap
proach two boys who were playing
with a kitten and join them. Then we
saw him extract from his pocket a pair
of gloves, return one of them and pull
the other carefully over his right hand.
This completed, lie employed his
gloved hand to pat tiie kitten anil
tickle its ribs for a minute or two. Lie
then arose, carefully removed his
glove, replaced It in Ida pocket, bowed
to the two boys and strolled on.—
New Yorker. a'-;
NOTICE.
"Whereas, Robert 1*. Parrish, Ad-
minittrator of tho estate of
Hubert Parrish, deceased,
represents to ihi Court in his pe-
tion duly filed thut lie has ful
ly administered tho estate of the said
deceased. This is therefore, to cite
all persons concerned kindred, and
creditors, to show cause, if any they
can, why said Administrator should
not he dismissed from his adminis
tration and receive letters of dis
mission, on the first Monday in Feb
ruary, 1928.
This January 2, 1928.
W. B. Townsend,
Ordinary.
CITATION.
In the Court of Oidinary
of Lumpkin Comity.
Probate of AVill in .Solemn Form cf
C. M. Ferguson.
O. K. Ferguson having applied as
Executor, for probate in solemn form
of the last will and tt stament of C.
M. Ferguson, into of Lumpkin county
and State of Georgia, this is therefore
notice to each and cvoiy heir at law
of said deceased to be and appear at
the court of Ordinary for said county,
on the first Monday in February,
1928, when said application for pro
bate will be heard in open Court.
This 2nd day of January, 1928.
W. B. Townsend, Ordinary.
SHERIFF’S SALE.
Georgia, Lumpkin County.
Will be sold beforet lie court house
door in the City of Dahlonega, Ga.,
on the iirstTuesday in February. 1928,
between tho legal hours of sale, to the
lightest bidder for cash, tho following
described property, towit:
All that tractor parcel of land ly
ing and being in tho 12th District and
1st Section of Lumpkin county. Ga.,
and being all of lot of land number
573 ns shown by deed recorded in rec
ord Book D-L page 120, of Lumpkin
county, Georgia. Also 10 acres in the
S. W. corner of lot of land number 115
in 1st District of Lumpkin county,
Ga., as shown by records of said coun
ty in Deed Book D-I,iage 121. Levied
upon as the property of Howard Ad-
ioek under and by virtue of a li. fa. in
favor L. U. Hardeman, Governor, and
liis successors in office, against How
ard Adcock and Boy Stowers.
This 9l.li day of January, 1928.
W. M, Housi.ky,
Sheriff.
REPUBLICAN MEETING.
The Republicans of Lumpkin
county are requested to meet at
tho court house at i2 o’clock, Sat
urday the 41I1 day of Feb. ll)2S,
to select delegates to [the State
Convention and some other busi
ness that will come before it.
B, F. Anderson,
Clnn’ii.
T empted
Observers from foreign countries
say American husbands, ns a rule,
spoil their wives by praising them
overmuch. However correctly the
criticism may apply generally, It does
not apply to the old Maine farmer
who is on record ns having said:
“Yes, I reckon I’ve got the best
wife that ever lived. For nigh on to
fifty years, through sunshine and
shadow, riches and poverty, sickness
and health, she’s been ns true ns steel
and ns sweet as an angel. Yes, sir,
1 don’t believe a better wife ever
lived atop of the earth, nnd some
times it’s all I can do to keep from
telling her so.”—Boston Globe.