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Good Advertising Medium, Devoted to Local, Mining and General Information, $1.60, Per Annum Vol. 39—No. 51 DAHLONEGA, GA., FRIDAY JANUARY i 7 , 1928. W. B. TOWNSEND, Editor and Pro 2 ACUTE ATTACKS 2 H 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.