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Devoted to Local, Mining and DsneralInformation.
DA! I LON EG A, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16. r 9 28.
$f.50« Per Annum
W. B. TOWNSEND, Editor and Pro
m
Use of Cardui Helped
to Relieve Suffering.
"I have taken Cardul
ond have found it a very
helpful medicine,” says
Mrs. Minnie Rocher, of
Lynn Haven, Fla. “After
n course of Oardui, I felt
like I had been made over.
“For n while I suffered
with bad pains in my back
and sides. At times, these
would distress me so I
would seem past going.
“We had known of Oar
dui in our family for a
long time, so I thought I
would try taking it. I soon
began to improve. I grew
strong and well, and was
able to resume my house
hold duties without the
least inconvenience.”
Cardui is a mild, harm
less extract of valuable
medicinal herbs. Try It.
Used. By Woman p§f
For Over 50 Year* ^ j.||
G. H. McGUIRE
DAHLONEGA, GA.
Repairs watch,'.., clocks, pianos, or-
ans, sewing macliiiies, Jewelry, &c.,.
Next to Barns’ Barber Shop.
Georgia. Lumpkin County.
To all whom it may concern :
D. A. Summerour having applied for
permanent letters of administration
on the estate of John H. Suminerour,
deceased. This is to cite alLpersons
concerned to appear at my office the 1st
Monday in lice, next, and show
cause if any they caigwhy peramanent
administration should not be grant
ed, This5th day of Nov. 1028.
\Y. 13. Towv'.uno,
4 ' Ordinary.
f REUSING CLUB.
Wo have east ailed a Dry
Cleaning Machine ami tire
able to give you first class work,
b’.ir Dry Clean i tig Sec.
S trubboi and pressed 0)o.
flats blocked and cleaned
6') conl3.
Mailorders given special atten
tion,
A BEE & JOHNSON.
LEGEND EXPLAINS A
PETRIFIED FOREST
Navalios Cal! Stono Trees
Bones of Monsters.
Holland Turning From
Wind to Electricity
Tito Hague.—Electricity Is playing
ft rapidly Increasing part lit the In
dustrial life of Holland, ns it is being
found that, in spite of their pic
turesque character, windmills are
falling very much behind in their out
put enpn
:l! v - The capital for finan
cing conversions r.'b'd power to
electrical power and for creating'
electrical power for other purposes is j
not always available and, therefore, ‘
an international finance corporation
lias been founded, with a capita! of
10,030,000 tlorins, at Amsterdam.
. The holders of this capital are * 1
Plioebl and Gutmnnn and Teizeira de
Mattos of Amsterdam; Chase Securi
ties corporation and Speyer & Com- |
pony of New YorkDresden hank and
Dnrmstndter and National linnl; of
Berlin, and Hambros bank, London.
Activity will not lie restricted to
Holland, although the VjVa and (tie
central organization have originated
here, but will be spread wherever
there Is need of capital for electrical
enterprises. It is possible Hint shares
iii electrical undertakings will be pur
chased, but the chief aim Is to be able
to supply loan capital of either a per
manent or temporary character.
Howe’s Hair Sold
Ticonderoga, N, Y.—A lock of Imir,
preserved as n memento of Lord
Howe, who was killed near here, lias
been purchased by S. H. 1’. Pel! and
placed on exhibition in the inusettm
of old Fort Ticonderoga. The lock
(was divided among tlie officers of
Lord Howe's regiment, hut tv:is later
'collected by William Lupinft. quarter
master ef ilie regt *. t- •> «
scciulm-i, *i v.l.iiui tj . i
by Pell.
Rocket Cars Coming
i:w York.—Rocket cars are being
buiit in Germany for demonstration
at Daytona Iteacli, Fla., next winter,
and the inventor hopes to get a speed
of 4GO miles an hour.
Tucson, Arlzo.—The Nnvnho Indians
of the southwest have a strange and
fantastic legend to account for the
great stono tree trunks whose broken
columns strew the desert in the region
of the famous petrified forest.
In Hie early days of the world, the
Indians say, the sun did not ride
tranquil and undlmmed through the
sky as lie does now. At that time
there was a black monster that was
continually contesting ids supremacy.
Iiis name was Yietso, and many were
the battles that lie and the sun fought.
Lived iii a Cave.
This Yietso lived in a cave In the
big mountains, and from thcro fie
would sally fort!) and contend with
Hie sun. Ho had long and strongly
muscled arms and powerfully clawed
hands. And his lionos were of stono.
When he stood erect lie .could rencli
the sun at any place in the sky.
When lie was defeated in Ms fights
lie would have to rest many days and
often even many months before be
was able to renew the attack, but lie
was never vanquished. Also at times
during those terrible bouts lie would
get n finger, hand or limb so broken
that he would have to discard it, but
lie possessed the power to grow a
new part in the place of the disabled
one. Tlie bones of these disabled,
discarded parts, which were of stone,
lie threw out from Hie cave over a
ridge from time to time as they got
in ids way, and thus for years and
ages the stone-wood accumulated.
At that time a boy by tlie name
of Koe lived in a grass-tied feather
home with his mother, Siiemali, and
his sister, Zonule. One winter jt got
very cold. Finally, as they had no
fuel, Kee went to tlie mountains for
pitch wood. As tlie sun set before lie
readied the forest lie slept out whore
lie was. Then on the next day lie
went into tlie mountains and found
what lie supposed was pitcli wood, u
quantity of which lie chopped.
Bones Instead of Wood.
When lie reached his homo it was
growing dark tlie second night. So
lie slept outdoors in front of his
liogan, where Zonnie found him still
sleeping when she came home in tlie
morning. She .also noticed tho wood,
just as their grandmother came out
of the bouse. And instead of pitch
wood he had brought bor.es of Yietso;
whereupon his grandmother scolded
him and told him to throw tlie bones
away.
In time Kee grew <0 be ft great
■man. Time and again lie visited tlie
mountain where lie had obtained tlie
bone-wood, and there lie prayed to
ins god and made sacrifice. Then one
day lie discovered tlie cave where Hie
monster lived, and at tlie rising of
tlie sun on the following morning ho
told him, through prayer, of tlie
beast’s abode.
Just as lie was telling tlie sun tlie
news lie saw tlie great black tiling
leaping above Hie mountains to tlie
attack. Quickly Kee called tlie men
of his tribe together and they all
prayed for tlie powers of good to
aid tlie sun in this battle against
darkness.
Right against Hie face of the, sun
leaped the monster. It stretched its
fierce arms and clawing hands to
ward tlie sun’s rim. Then tlie battle
began in earnest. The sun attacked
him with his millions and millions of
rays, and, aided by tlie prayers of
Hie tlion good people of earll’i, lie
Anally overcame it.
Ill this battle of all battles tlie
sun’s rays pierced- Yietso’s body, and
his blood, on reaching tlie earth, was
congealed in lava flows. Finally lie
fell back to tho earth dead, and Hie
sun mounted triumphantly in tlie
heavens, as lie spread Ids invigorat
ing and cheering light over land atul
sea. And Hie I’latenu region is still
incredibly covered with its bones,
cnllod by tlie Navalios Yletsobitsln,
tlie bones of Yietso.
Trappers-Dead Fifty
Years Found in Cave
Sauit Ste. Mario, out.—A long-fur-
gotten tragedy of Hie fur-trading days
is believed to have been uncovered. A
prospector reported that lie had Found
two skeletons and n number of rusted
old fashioned muskets in a cave north
of itruce Mines.
The skeletons wen
of a small, weil-hhhi
I > found i ’vein. A
I lie w
cm..vet Ha- lake.
!’!•!.: V said 1:0 was pa: ’I
had visited tlie lake t.iiie
met ilicit dentil. The mu
of a type which lias not been used in
tlie Nortl for fifty years. No other
articles could Ik* found to indicate
when tiie men died or what caused
their death.
Sharpness of Shark’s
■Teeth Accounted For
The proverbial sharpness of a ser
pent’s tooth is declared to be wrong;
it should have been n shark’s tooth.’ ,
Not only is (lie shark’s asserted to
be tlie sharpest tootli in the world,
it appears also to lie both tlie sharp
est and the hardest of all animal sub
stances.
One enn even use the cutting sur
face of a shark’s tooth, says O. \V.
Barrett of tlie Department of Agricul
ture of Porto Hico, to scratch glass
as glaziers scratch it with a diamond.
Shark’s teeth are now collected,
says Mr. Barrett in describing In tlie
, Scientific Monthly of New York city,
(lie growing commercial Importance of
I lie shark-fishing industry, and are
used for watch fobs and other jewelry,
;for which purpose their extreme hard
ness Is declared to piake | tlieiq espe
cially suitable.
Tliis Jinrdnecs is ( duc, the Porto
Ricap export reports, to Ilio fact that
shark tcctji .pro unique it) tlio world
In being composed of .almost pure en
amcl, without .flic .softer inner por
tions, which make human tcefli, for
example, so subject to i’cca.7.
In many ancient rocks of tlie earth
geologists find millions of scattered
tectli from ancient representatives of
tlie slinrk family.
‘Even millions of years ngo sharks
evidently had such hard and Inde
structible teetli that even when all
, other bones and body partly decayed
tlie feetl: lasted and were preserved
In tlie rocks.
Evil Reputation of
Sargasso Sea Myth
Tlie Sargasso sea is a region of the
Atlantic ocean lying o(T tlie American
coast about tlie latitude of Florida,
'it is composed of floating masses of
.brown seaweed, characterized by
numerous smaH berry-like •bladders.
Tills dense gulf weed <Sargnssumbac-
rfferum) 1s tlie home of many small
marine animals, crabs, prawns, eic.
'It Is supposed that tlie weed grows
on the American coast, is torn own.v
by the waves and washed by (ho cur
rents round the North Atlantic ocean
into tlie comparatively still waters
where it floats in accumulated masses.
Tlie older masses of weed slowly lose
their power to float and (lion sink and
perish. Columbus was becalmed in
the Sargasso sen, and tliis made bis
men despair of over reaching land
For n long time tliis son had an un
enviable reputation, as’it was thought
that the slap which v.as forced into
it was (loomed. Keenil scientific ex
peditions have demonstrated that
ships need have little fear of til'.’,
tmiscGs of weed.
Vindication
A dignified-looking man stopped at
a news-stand and purchased two very
conservative newspapers, and nn ex
tremely liberal literary monthly.
He paid for them, but after ft mo
ment’s hesitation asked 111 addition
for a certain monthly bearing n de
cidedly zippy title.
ITe must have sensed something of
Hie inconsistency of his purchase, and
felt that some kind of explanation
was due, even to so unliterary a fel
low as tlie particular news dealer In
question:
“Dr—I hope,” he said, ns lie laid
down tlie necessary sum for tlie mag
azine, "that you don’t think I read
tliis paper. I am just a contributor.”
—Kansas City Times.
Awful Waste of Food
“With only,55 per cent of tlie 28,-
750,000 American homes having re
frigerators, and with only 20 per cent
of these using refrigeration nl! (lie
year, housewives in the United States
waste $700,000,000 in food annually
through spoilage," according to nn
engineering official, who figures spoil
age at 10 cents per day for most fam
ilies. Were It possible to check the
needless waste it would lie found Hint
values would lie sufficient to feed one
of tlie major nations of western
Europe.
lying by the side
■ii. hike ami, until
13. Frazer. I he
lie w : : the d:a-
e nn one
i lie men
ets were
Ancient Industry
In the village of I’arson Drove, iii
the fen country, near Wisbech, on Hie
borders Of Lincolnshire and Cam
bridgeshire, England, a wood mill Is
still in seasonal operation, and Its
processes differ little probably from
those in vogue in prehistoric times.
Huge cumbrous wooden rollers drawn
by horsea are still used to crush tlie
plants, and the dye extracted now has
for certain purposes its value still re
mains superior to all modern substi
tutes.
As Englishman Sees
Oar, American Humor
In bis book of stories and anecdotes,
“Tell Me Another,” Lord Aberdeen, n
former governor general of Canada,
devotes a diopter to “Samples of
American Humor.”
“It is well recognized that tlie typi
cal humor of America is usually of
the dry quality,” ho says, disavowing
any connection between ids assertion
and a certain amendment to tlie Con
stitution.
As n shining example of American
dry humor, he offers tliis:
A stranger who happened to be in
one of the New England states, being
doubtful about his exact whereabouts,
aeked some one whom lie met; 1
“Can you te|l me how far .Jt .is to
Hartford?.".
.‘■‘Well, the way you are now going
it’s about 24,000 miles; but it you turn
around and go tlie oilier wny^tt's
about (i mile and n ‘ half,” wgg tho
, answer.
Another characteristic of American
. humor, declares Lord Aberdeen, is a
Sort of subtlety, which suggests an in
ference, not always too obvious, but
. which creates amusement even before
for without analysis. A “perfect spcci-
; men” of this particular type of humor
i3 furnished by n conversation over
heard between two men.
“Do you play golf?" asked tho one.
“No; but I can’t give it. up,” an-
I swered tlie other.
HISTORY IS TAUGHT
BY MUiMY FAMILY
S3S3SS 1 SSsSSSsSSSg
>0
§
Bolivar Well Earned
Title of “Liberator”
; Simon Bolivar, who was born nt
Caracas, Venezuela, on July 24, 1773,
lias been called tlie “Liberator" in rec-
; ognition of the heroic part lie played
ns a valiant soldier and a wiso states
man, in gaining tlie independence of
•Venezuela, New Granada and Bolivia.
He was a man ,0-f good birth and lib
eral education. During a visit to Eu
rope lie was seized with the passion
• for freedom nnd resolved to devote
ills life to tlie liberation of South
; America from the yoke of Spain. In
1810 he became tho first President
; of (he republic of Colombia, and In
11S24 was appointed dictator of (lie
newly formed republic of North Peru,
which was afterward known ns Bo
livia, after his name. Unable to con
trol the warring factions, and broken
in health, lie retired into private life
and was preparing to leave the coun
try when be died of fever, at San
Pedro, near Santa Marta, on December
17, IS30,
Veil Rclie:
Dizz’nevs
Attacks of ividden dizziness while
fl.\ ing In an airplane can sometimes lie
relieved by giving a loud, high-pitched
,yoIi, emitting as little breath as passi
ble, lliY.’.'.l bigot surgeons declare. This
forces blood into tlie smaller veins in
(lie region of Hie head. An aerial "jolt”
often causes (lie blood (o leave Hie
veins temporarily, resulting in a sen
sation of dizziness. During certain
mnncvnvp nt i,i„ tl speeds a' decrease
in a blood supply to (lie brain may
cause fainting, nltbougli Hie 'offecis
vary with Hie individual. Yelling con
tracts tlie abdominal muscles, tlie ilia-
phagm and chest muscles, and tlie
pressure forces mo?! blood toward ihe
Lead.
Mimics
A Londoner was hurrying along the
embankment to* keep mi appointment
for which lie was already late. ilo
was stopped by a party of Americans
one of whom asked courteously if he
would point out Cleopatra's Needle
“Why, certainly,” responded Hie
Londoner; “it’s just here."
He Indicated tlie, famous obelisk
and at I lie same time removed Ids hat
to wipe Ids brow. Whereupon tlie
Americans also uncovered and gazed
at the needle with reverence.
Biology Omits This
A Chicago boy was visiting on n
farm in Indiana for Hie first Him he
was particularly Interested In tlie ani
mals and fowls o! I lie barnyard, al
though Ids knowledge of tlieiri Wits
scant.
Seeing some ducks and geese In ii
mixed Hock, he inquired:
“How long does it take ducks to be
come geese?”
Self-Created Slavery
Man lias made so many und such
marvelous machine?, thinks a modern
philosopher writing in the American
Maguzine, that he lias become en
slaved to them In thought as well as
in action, I.,*,-
«•••«'Vri*'V: f ■!-
One Way
Mrs. G. was busy making jelly, in
la i ween I lie ringings of the phone and
Hie doorbell.
Willi her patience worn just a little
tldn, she opened Hie door to tile fifth
salesman.
“Are you the indy of the house?”
she was asked.
“No. 1 Just work here,” she an
swered, closing tlie door on the hur
riedly retreating figure.
Scientists Study Remains of
Ancient Egyptians.
Detroit.—A family oi Egyptian mum
mies 3,000 years dead are teaching
history to a little group of studious
Detroiters.’
They are telling curious and amaz
ing things about themselves and others
of their kind, who walked the earth
fed centuries before' tlie beginning of
Hi’O Christian era, rolaling strange
facts', revealing'long sought mysteries,
bringing lo life again a splendid civili
zation that vanished "gonei'atlons ago.
Dr. 13. Edward Sanderson, Ddtyoit
physician,’ c,"d IienJ;\min March, cura
tor of Asintlp fiefs iu the Detroit Mu-
BCtttu of A>1i have' joined forces in
fho study of the nUmiihlcS. Doctor
Sanderson lias called upon tlie X-ray
to aid him in Ills search for further
'knowledge of these silent spokesmen
of tlie past and .March brings a com
plete and thorough knowledge of tlie
artistic side of ancient Egypt, to aid.
in the undertaking.
Possibilities Endless.
This is an exceedingly novel and
original experiment and both men in
sist that they have accomplished very
little In spite of their intensive stud
ios. Both believe, however, that tlie
possibilities of tlie venture are end
less, and express tlie hope that some
thing of great value may some day
come out of Hie undertaking.
“If wo are to know and understand
the men and women of ,ihe ^present,
we must know something.of those.who
Jived in tlie past,” .Doctor Sniidersop
says. “If we .took away all the knowl
edge we have acquired from our study
of dead races and vanished peoples
we would be very ignorant indeed.
“Egyptian mummies are especially
interesting to study because Egypt
was the great melting pot 3,000 years
ago. We can prove tliis racially. Tlie
old Egyptian was a masterful man.
“Some of Hie mummies are so per
fectly. preserved (lint it is still possible
to detect Hie presence of fond in tlie
stomachs of the children nnd to tell
something of their diet. We find
grains, an old form of millet and deli
cate bits of young mice. 1 ’
Two passive bodies lie still and quiet
upon the dissecting tables in Hie art
museum but even in thoii* silence nnd
Immobility they give up many secrets
in response fo tlie proddings of skilled
scientific fingers, tlie searching eye of
X-ray machines.
Brain Tissues ^' ..CYC '
March describes tlie procedure of an
Egyptian burial. The embalming of
Hie body so perfectly Hint today, after
the lapse of centuries, (lie bones, tlie
muscles and sometimes tlie skin are
to be seen. Tne vital organs were re
moved and placed in four 'canopic
jars, each guarded by Its particular grid
and so placed that it would Tie easy
for tho whole body to reassemble
itself when tlie time came to enter
into a new life.
Tlie X-ray has accomplished one
tiling of definite value. It lias demon
strated tlie method by which tlie brain
tissues were, removed from tlie head
without breaking the skull. Tiny bor
ings through the nostrils are now be
lieved to have freed tlie lira in sub
stances which were placed In thoir
designated canopic jars.
It has long beep assumed by many
scientists Hint tills was tlie method,
but it needed Hie X-ray to reveal It In
Undisputed actuality. The X-ray plates
which demonstrate tills method will be
loaned to tlie University of Michigan
for class room study.
And Other Common
Troubles Helped by
Biack-Draught.
“I think we owe the re
markable healthy record of
our family to the use of
Black-Draught,” says Mrs.
J. II. Luther, 514 W. Bel
knap St.„ Ft. Worth, Tex.
“I was suffering from
an attack of indigestion.
Somebody recomm’ended
"Black-Draught to me, and
I got' 's6#n6> arid CflecDlfe.
I felt so much bettor, af
ter f Dad taken It,’that I
used ! It the next tlmfe
was sick, and then tUe
next. I soon found it to
bo a dependable medicine
to “use for my family."*^
“Whenever the children
had colds, or an upset
stomach, I treated them
with Black-Draught.”
Sold ev^LyWhere- 255,
Thedford’*
BUCK-DRAUGHT
For Constipation, Indigestion,
"Vj Biliousness
C-48al
Amputates Frozen Toes
With a Kitchen Knife
1‘rince George, I’.ritisli Columbia.—
A trapper who amputated four of
bis toes with a kitchen knife when
they became frozen Inst winter lias
arrived here for professional surgical
attention, but was told iic had donfc
tlie job so well uo further treatment
was needed.
While inspecting his trap line on llie
upper Finaly river, .!. timera suffered
frost bite in his Fight foot. On re
turning to Ids cabin, which Is 50
miles from tlie nearest neighbor, tie
too!: three days to perform Hie opera
tion. lie then washed the wounds
In antiseptic and hound them up.
Diagnosis '
Little Bettie Easierday of Indiannp
nils bad been visiting her grand moth
or at Scipio and bad contracted a case
of mumps from some of her little plnv-
Mumps must have been paintui i- i
Utile Ret tie because she diagnosed
tin* pain, when asked how they felt by
. saying:
“They hurt just like having the tum-
inyaclie iu my neck.”—Indianapolis
News.
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“ Jo, Yalioola, 1 to 3.
“ 15, Porter Springs, 4 to>5.
“ 10 Chestatee, 9. to 11.
16. Frog Town, 1 to 2,
“ 10, Crumby, 3 to 4.
“ 10, Shoal Creek, lo to f2.
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Bus Station 17 North F6rsVth Bt.
See
FRED JONE S,
Dahlonega,
lalkjjn Your Telephone;
The telephone user some times
wonders why he does not hear the
person at the distant telephone
clearly. Tho chances are that the
distant party is directing his con
versation away from rather into
the telephone.
Tlie mouthpiece on the tele
phone transmitter is designed to
concentrate the sound waves when
you speak directly into it. It
merely talk at your tel’ephbne,
holding tlie thinsmittefr to onb
side or several inches away from
your lips, the mouthpiece carinot
delp you.
Dahlonega Telephone Co.
Ain’t It the Truth?
Some people seem to feel bound to
discover family resemblances between
children and their parents.
“How much like you your little
girl is, Mrs. Brown,” remarked an ac
quaintance who met them on the street
one afternoon.
“How odd that you should think
so,” replied Mrs. Brown. “She’s my
first husband's child by ills first wife.”
‘T:v’ 1' At all f don’t think
1 ( m;:;: ::i it;* your iittie boy
is Hie image of Mr. Drown.”
“He’s my son by my first husband,
Mr. Green!”
“Ah, yes. Well, good afternoon, Mrs;
Brown.”