The Dahlonega nugget. (Dahlonega, Ga.) 1890-current, February 10, 1928, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text•A. ) Good Advertising Medium* Vol. 4o—No. i Devoted to Local, Mining and General Information, $1,50. For Annum DAHLONEGA, GA., FRIDAY FEBUARY io. 1928. VV. B. TOWNSEND, Editor and Pro And Attendant Ills Relieved By Taking Black-DraugLt. Tho Rev. Granville Ed wards, who lives at School- field, near Danville, Va., was troubled for a long time with constipation and its attend ant ills, which kept him from feeling fit. lie writes: "Luckily I then, which was about twenty years ago, heard nbout Blade-Draught and be gan to take it. After tak ing Black-Draught for a little while I noticed that my trou ble began to disappear. The poisons, which had accumu lated in the body, as a result of constipation, were elimi nated, and I felt a hundred per cent, better. Tho dizzy feeling, which. I had felt al most every morning boforo breakfast, was gone. "Black-Draught is a house hold article with us. We al ways keep it on band.” Try Thedford’s Black- Draught for constipation. Sold everywhere. 25c. Thcdicrd’s BLACK-DMU® ^ Purely Ve^eie.blo c £4 TO RENT. -A two horse crop. .Stock fur nished. A good chance for the I •right man. ,T. H. MoKije, Burtsboro, Ga. G.~H McGUIRE DAIILONEGA. GA. Repairs watch'j, clonks, pianos, or- aus, sewing machines, Jewelry, Ac.,. Next to Burns’ Barber Shop. Trees in Constant Fight for Existence The highest known Lint tie ground where the trees make their fight for life against the elements' is on Mount Orizaba in‘Mexico. There, a living tree has been found 11,000 feet above sea level. The charge of tho tree troops goes on in every part of the world, but the most dramatic bottle grounds are In the Arctic, the Alps, from western China to eastern France, and the Rocky mountains where they make their farthest stand two miles above sea level. • Holding on to life Is a problem which each tree must solve for itself. A tree In the front line often looks like a mangled bush with no limbs on its- stormward side where sand and flying particles in the wind have ground away the bark, while on the lee side are a few tattered branches. Besides wind nnd snow, the trees have to fight against the difficulty of finding -water. They send roots into every crack and crevice within reach. Some of those no higher than a man’s waist have been found to be 500 years old. Among the trees which reach the front line in the Rockies, t lie com monest are the lumber pine and the Engelmann spruce. Others include Ihe white bark pine, the quaking aspen I and the Alpine and foxtail fir. In the Far North the timber line comes down to the shores of the sea. The tree line \ on Mount Rainier is 7,000 feet, and in tColorado 10,000 to 12,000 feet—St. I Nicholas Magazine. PRESSING CLUI Wo have cnstaHod a Dry Cleaning Machine and nre 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. A BEE. Mlonega & Atlanta Dus Line. Leave Dahlonega 7 :t,0 A. M. Leave Dahlonega 4 P. M. ItETUKN. Loavo Atlanta 7:3O A. M. Leave Atlanta 8 P. M. Best cars. Careful Drivers PRINCETON HOTEL Bus Station 17 North Forsyth St. See F R E 1) J O NjE S, Dahlonega. TO PHONE DEAD BEATS. Dahlonega telephone rates are made low with tho understanding shat the phones in rosideneos are for the use only of the people liv ing therein, and others using them are simply cteadbeating the com pany for service which belongs to those who pay. It is just as dis honest as covering cliiUDn from the railroad conductor to save your fare. If you have to save the price of a telephone be honest enough to carry your messigos 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 vour business we will contrib- nte 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 laundrying. But it can’t be clone. Pay for your talk or walk. Daiiloxga Tioruri’iioxic Company. REPUBLICAN MEETING. The Republicans of Lumpkin county are requested to meet at tho court, house at 12 o’clock, Sat urday the 4th day of Feb. 1.28, to select delegates to |tho Slate Convention and some other 1 usi- ne-s that will comojbefore it. B, F. Anderson, Ckm’11. Centuries Count for Little in Archeology For an archeologist, 15. C. J 000 is positively a recent date, and an object 8,000 years old is almost new. In B. C. 1000 the degenerate Cretan civilization was just coming to an end; it laid tasted for 2,000 years, and now it was being destroyed by barbarians. In B. C. 1000 the Chinese had already had several centuries’ experience of the examination system for civil serv ice candidates. The Mayas, at about the same date, were invading Lhe terri tories of the so-called Archaic peoples of Central America (whose civilization was front 4,000 to 5,000 years old) and had begun to drink cocoa—an early example of temperance on the Ameri can continent'. What had once been Ihe flourishing city of Mnrappa in the Punjab whs already many feet un derground. Every style of art, from impressionism to a move than German expressionisntus, had already been ex ploited, heaven knows how many times, by hoa\en knows how unity generations of sculptors and painters. —Kansas City Star. Minnesota’s Islands Having a little island in the family is not at all difficult in Minnesota, "land of ten thousand lakes.” There tire so many islands there the state cannot keep track of them. One lake alone—Lake Vermillion— has 805 islands, many of which have not formally been “discovered” for registration purposes as state prop (rly. They may be acquired by the script method, much the same as proving a homestead claim. The only string attached to the is lands in Lake Vermillion, which is in the iron mining region, is that min ing companies hold the mineral rights and are privileged to force the sale of any island when they choose to mine ore. Many of the Lake Vermillion Islands have been bought for $100.—Minneap olis Journal. Living Forever If our whole conception of life Is encircled by the few years that we are to live upon the earth, we have a small appreciation of life. If we are not building for a future beyond our own days we are not building much Men crave immortality. Men cannot live forever on t.liJfe earth hut they can greatly extend the value of theii lives, here and now, by building be yond their own little day. They can •achieve Immortality by their works And how nre men best and longest remembered? Not by their accumula tion of wealth. They nre longest and best remembered—they achieve their immortality—by their service to others. He who helps most lives the Ipngest.—Grove Patterson, in the Mobile Register. Antiquity c c Coroners The office of coroner is a very an cient institution, and for nges was peculiar to the English. The lord chief justice is the chief coroner in the realm. Originally none but knights were permitted to hold the office, but it gradually became sufficient for a man to possess landed property worth £20 per annum to qualify for the Host. Today members of the legal or med leal proft -ion generally secure va BRING THIS A D TO ' Clarice Hat Slop Mrs. C. W. McDonald AND GET CREDIT FOR $1.00 ON ANY HAT IN OUR STOCK AT $5.00 OR OVER GAINESVILLE, GA. rnrarei»wr.v-rT ■ i ■wi’in HHOIENT ELEPHANT [N NEBRASKA ro i? r Giant Tws!;cr Built on Lines C7 Steavn Shovel. Omaha, Nt h.—They’ve found a now elephant cut here in Nebraska. I)r. Iicnry Fairfield Osborn, famous pale- ontologist of New York, says it’s a real discovery and that nothing like it has ever been found before. 'Lite new elephant is built along the lines of a steam shovel, its great tusks extend straight cut in front and the ends are shaped just like a shovel.* These tusks extend from tlie lower jaw and from the joint they measure seven feet. The length of the lower jawbones of the largest mammoth ele phants heretofore known is less than two feet. Dr. E. 11. Barbour, brad of the pa leontological department of the Uni versity of Nebraska, and curator of the university museum, says the ani mal walked Ihe earth some 1,000,000 or 2,000,000 years ago. Cuq Up in Nebraska. This particular type of elephant, which has been named “Ainedelodou Fricki,” used to roam the 'Nebraska plains. The individual skeleton has Just beet} found in Frontier county, tills state, and is now in the museum of (he University of Nebraska. Only I the tower jaw, the hug', tusks, (remen J Ions teeth, still in place in the jaw- bone, a rib and a toe hone have been j found, hut the expedition front 1 lie i University of Nebraska is now search- j lag Frontier county for other traces j of the big fellow who carried a spade j like a sleam shovdl out in front of : him as In* walked. • The ends of the two tusks are set j very close together, making pracli- i rally a broad, straight continurus line ] across the end where the “spade” i comes in contact with Hie earth. The I lingo molars measure nine inches j long and are still firmly set in fife I jawbone. These moSnrs are in perfect I condition, and the tusks have the | densitj and other marks of true ivory, i The specimen ’is perfect. It will he | mounted in the Nebraska university I “hall of the elephants,” which scion j lists say is the greatest collection of 'prehistoric elephants, mammoths and j mastodons in all tho world, l’ractl- : rally all the .specimens’in this collec- | lion, except several modern elephants, were discovered in Nebraska. The gigantic combination of steam sliovdl atld animal just discovered tilled Ihe Nebraska prairies and turned the sod over with as perfect nil ivory shovel and plow as can be imagined. In the days that the big follow roamed Ihe earlh Nebraska was either tile shores of an ocean or was a great inland sea. The ‘‘steam shovel” was used to turn the sod, dig up food Kuch as seaweed from beneath ihe waters, or for excavating in niqd or loose earth and sand in its search for food. Mystery About Tusks. The end ol 1 lie jawbone proper into which the heavy tusks are set is a comparatively light hone, seem ing not 'nearly strong enough to stand tlie heavy strain which might 1>e supposed to have been exerted in tlie heavy digging of which (lie shovel tusks would be capable. Tills pecul iarity makes something of a mystery out of (lie use of Ihe tusks. Doctor Barbour hazards (lie guess that as tlie great mifminoth dug. he wrapped Ids trunk around tlie “shovel” in (lie heaviest part and that this took most of the strain off tlie jawbone. ‘‘The shovel-mastodon,” says Doc tor Barbour, “must have carried Ills head high in order that the protrud ing inaudible could clear the ground when it walked, and not interfere with progression. Fortunately our specimen is perfect. The tusks have tlie whiteness and tlie density, as well ns I lie decussating lines of Ivory. Tlie hones are white and firm and tlie mo lars almost unblemished.” The shovel-tusks extend from the lower jawbones In this elephant, while in other elephants tlie tusks extend from the upper jaw. Doctor Barbour makes a guess that the upper tusks may have been dwarfed or possibly aborted altogether In this new main- First Indications of tlie presence of tlie fossil remains of tlie big “shovel” tusker were reported to the university by A. S. Keith of Freedom, Frontier county, nnd a geologicnl expedition was sent to that county to search for other remains. It was tills expedition tlmt gathered the lower jaw, tlie tusks nnd molars, the ribs nnd tlie toe bone. It Is hoped that additional remains will eventually lie found of tlie “steam shovel” elephant. Orangfe Juice Ousts Lime in British Navy London.—Tho British seaman luis lost Ids traditional name. Jack Is no longer a “limey.” Tlie admiralty iins changed tlie ra tion of lime juice—given to sailermen since time immemorial to prevent scurvy—nnd is now giving n daily por tion of orange juice. The lime juice was always dealt out with 11 rum ra tion, but now tlie sailor must take ids orange straig.it. “Oranges possess more vitnndnos O—tlie “bottled sunshine,” said an ad miralty spokesman. “It is also less bulky and cheaper. Tlie navy spends about £0,000 sterling a year for lime 1 juice. It Is also heavily fortified with j rum. But orange juice wall he given plain.” Jack wants to know what becomes of Die rum. Rack Brains to Fi:id Names for Animals Giving names to tho thousands of animals newly discovered each year is a problem with which scientists are confronted. An International com mission on zoological nomenclature lms sinco 1805 been engaged in tlie gigantic task of working out the rules for assigning to each sort of protozoa, worms, cchinodcrms, mollusks and vertebrates its proper designation. Willi close analogy to the rules for priority of patents on man-made inventions- nnd trade-mark registra tions t he scientist who first recog nizes and describes n new zoological genus or species by publication lias ! tlie right to give It at time of its pub- j llcatlon its technical Latin name by ] which it will bo known for all time. 1 The commission lias decreed that bo- 1 ginning In 1931 the scientist must not ' only name tlie new genus or species, i but also state Its characters that dis- I tingulsh it from others with which it ! might be confused. It Is estimated that more than half a million different genera and species j have been named since Linnaeus In tlie early Seventeenth century created tlie beginnings of systematic zoology j and zoologists believe It probable that > there are still several million nddl- I Dona I that will be differentiated and named In the future. ;7P. 5 KG!iesbr Hi OQ Of English Origin Building and loan associations were first organized in England in Birming ham, in 17SL They became numer ous during the Nineteenth century and acts were passed in 1S3S and 1874, regulating thorn. The first associa tion of this character in tlie United States was organized in Frankford, a suburb of Philadelphia, in 1831, nnd known as tlie Oxford Provident Build lag association. Many wore organized In tlie period from 1S-10 to 1850, which may tie considered ns tlie real period of their inception in tills country. Fed by the Lions The staple diet of the African hush- man Is Die leftover kills of the lion. The animal Invariably announces Ids kill on (lie African night air and tlie bushman who hoars his cry indicates the direction by pointing an arrow. At daylight lie looks in that direction for tlie vultures, and in this manner lie ; locates tlie leavings of tho lion, and driving the bird scavengers away lie takes their place and eats his fill. Tito women and children follow'the men lo the spot nnd nre allowed to partake. If anything Is left the vultures may have it. 000000000 OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO co 9 9 p Invents New Lens to £ Take Colored Movies o Pittsburgh, Pa.—Using only a special lens attachment for or dinary cameras, a now motion picture optical color process was demonstrated here recently for tlie first time. Tlie process was Invented by Harold N. Cox of Pittsburgh, formerly connected with tlie Edison Research Laboratories. Cox said tlie new process calls into use “a simple lens attach ment which can he placed on any camera.” The pictures taken, lie asserted, can bo “developed In any laboratory fitted to turn out tho ordinary motion picture, printed on black and white stock, neither tinted nor toned, or in any way artificially col ored, with regular printing equipment, and projected on any projector or by again using sim ilar lens attachment or shown on any screen.” Tlie process according to its inventor can reproduce any color or shade that the eye can perceive. X Cox claims that with his in- O ventlon, color films can he pro- 5 duced with no increase in cost 2 over the present black and white 6 method. 000000-00000000-0 00-0 000 00000 Two Ceases Found to Predispose to Death For some time conclusions have been drawn regarding tlie times of day when most births and deaths oc cur. The question was studied in different countries, nnd tlie results in dicated that condltioVis differed with environment. No biological law was found lo exist. The Inquiry has been carried on in various hospitals for a year past. Hourly statistics of births at La Pltio hospital, kept under Professor Jean- nin, show that every month tlie- num ber of births Is greater between mid night and noon than between noon and tlie following midnight. As for deaths, they are more frequent dur ing tlie period of sleep, front six o’clock at night to six o’clock in tlie morning, tlinn during waking hours. In a single year 113 patients died in tiro night and only SS in the dnjv time. Besides, of the 0 113 deaths 59 oc curred between six o’clock and mid night, in (lie early part of tho sleep ing period. There is thus a cosmic Influence of night on births nnd deaths nnd perhaps sleep also does its part. These two causes, by increasing the excitability of tho pneuniogastrlc nerve, work together to predispose to death.—La Science Moderne, Paris. The Sheri-Lived Pin By a series of experiments conduct 'cd on his estate a French Investiga tor lias discovered that pins go the way of all flesh and are dissolved in to dust. Hairpins, which the experi inenter watched for 151 days, disap peared at the end of that time, hav ing been resolved into a ferrous oxide a brownish rust, which was blown away by the wind. Bright pins took nearly 18 months to disappear, polished sleei needles nearly two nnd a half years, brass pins had but liltlo endurance; steel pens at tlie end of 15 months had nearly gone, while their wooden hold ers were "still Intact. Pencils, with which lie also experi nientod, suffered little h.v exposure; tlie lead was unharmed and the cedar almost as good as new. They Would Come On This Lady And Last For Several Days. •"I have known Cardul ■for a long time,” writes Mrs. Hattie Bourk, of Jack- oonvillo, Fla., “Recently, I used Cardul for bad.spells which came on mo .... I would get very dizzy and would often bo out- of my head for- a short space of time,-from sheer weakness. “Having taken Cardul beforo as a tonic, I began to uso It regularly. I im proved at once. I kept on taking it and do not know how I should have got through this time, without it. I havo been feeling normal now for 6ome months.” Cardui has helped thou sands of others. It should help you. Buy it at your druggist’s. CARDIJI In Use 45 Years C 42 aEiggniBiiEiiii-±-iwi;miuiiii;;ii iiimawaiiiiiiiCTiiiwwdiiirwiim WANTED. Ambitious, industrious white per son to introduce and supply the de mand for Rawleigh Household Pro ducts. Gcol openings for you. Make s ales of $150 to $000 a month or more. Kawleigh Methods got business every where. No selling experience need ed. We supply Sales and Advertising Literature and Service Methods, 'ev erything you need. Profits increase (‘very month. Low prices; good val ues; complete service. W. T. Riaw- leigh Co.,jl)ept. G. A 2S03, Memphis, Teim, .a: Hastings’See ?fs Sympathetic Understanding A young American mother went to stay with Mr. and Airs. Kudyard Kip ling in England. Necessity had forced her to leave in America iiei two little girls, from whom she huh never been parted before. Upon nr tivul at the Kipling home, much war rled at not having heard from the children, she was handed a cable say ing they were well. Relieved tears arose In her eyes, G. 15. Burgin re lutes in “More Memoirs and Some Travels.” Kipling saw them and said to his wife: “Take Mrs. — up to tlie nurser;. and show her tlie children. What sin wants is baby talk.” Modern Business The business of the two brothers was distinctly bad, and had been fot some lime, so they decided to hold a board meeting of their own. “George,” said the elder brother, ”1 expect you’ve noticed that things are pretty bad lately?” “Yes, I have,” answered tlie other “We’ll go bust unless \ye have a—well a burglary.” “Burglary!" echoed the elder. “Wlij not tlie old-lnshioned bat. simple tire?' “No, no,” said Geoige. “Burglary*. Host, because if tlie insurance peoph refuse to pay up we don't lose any thing !”—Wallace's Farmer. Rusty Hands Alice, a liigli-seliool student, came home from school one afternoon and when she walked in her bedroom sli8 found her little sister evidently try ing to conceal the fact that she had been playing with her big sister’s cos metics. She Hastily picked up the bot tle of hand lotion, which she had often been permitted to use, and re marked casually: “I just thought that I would use some of this on my hands, they are so rusty.” Their Work Never Done There are 30 men working in Paris who never can hope to get their work done. They are painters who hoist their scaffolds to tho top of the Eiffel Power and, working downward, paint inch strut and girder until finally they reach tlie ground. This opera tion takes 12 months and then they must at once take their scaffold to 'ho too and bccin anew. Persona! Liberty Bank Teller—Sorry, madam, but your account Is already quite a bit overdrawn. Lady—Well, suppose It is? Haven't I a right to do what I please with my own accounts? The Silver Lining Wealthy Parent—What Is your prospects If you marry my daughter? Poor Suitor—Excellent, if I marry your daughter, sir.—Answers. % Free Erse TLovier Seeds for'Tim Hastings’customers will get 50c worth of beautiful flower seeds absolutely free with their orders this spring. Also they get 25c worth extra, of their own selec tion, with each dollar’s worth of vege table nnd flower seeds ordered. The row Catalog tells ail about it. This great value is the Hastings policy of giving more good seeds for your money than you can get any where else. The South’s PlantingGuidc—Hastings’ big, new, 120 page, 1928 Catalog of Beads, 1 Lints and Bulbs with valuable planting calendars, culture directions, hundreds of pictures from photographs and dependable descriptions of the best of “Everything That Grows”— comes to you by return mail. A post-* card will do. -Please write for it now. H. G. HASTINGS CO., SEEDSMEN, ATLANTA, GA. LG -

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The Dahlonega nugget. (Dahlonega, Ga.) 1890-current, February 10, 1928, Image 1