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‘•MADE MY BLOOD RUN COLD.’ 1
A Comtr>cn Express sn That States a
Hb>sical Impossibility.
"My blood pups poll I at ili<* vert
thought". is not a novel expression
You often cither hear some one else
eiiy it or aver it yourself.
Your blood cannot “run cold" ns long
as you arc alive and well. If the btoo I
really bo dues colder than "blood
heat" something serious happens to
your health.
When you feel cold it is a sensation
u< t necessarily the temperature of 111
tissues Often with the blood feverish
or away above iis normal warmth you
feel chilly. So much of the superheat
ed blood is then at the surface of the
skin that an extra normal amount of
hint leaves too quickly.
On the oilier hand, men and women
who drink beer. yin. whisky and simi
lar alcoholic bevci-nyes "feel the glow
of warmth" and believe they are hoi
when as a matter of course their blood
is u trifle below blood heat tempera
lure at times manifestly a dangerous
thing.
True enriu.-h. the blood lias much to
do with how you feel This, however
Is not lo nine it "blows hot or blows
cold hut because that part of it In
the skin where the sensations of heat
and cold arc m ated retie Is the out
side suiTouudin :s nceording to Ihe pro
vious c\| ci ci, e and bale's of each in
dividual's skin.
If a stoker . nd an employee of a re
frlgeraiion plant are put in n col i
draft / or before an open grate lire
each will feel . hiliv or Inf according
to his previous experience and hnbils
The stoker will "eat- b a cold' in the
“dra ft." which "ill have no effect
whatsoever upon the man used to cold
storage temperature. San Frahciseo
«'hronlcle
TALK AT NANTUCKET.
Where OIJ Salt Sea Phrases Come as
Natural as Eating.
There has always been a charm
alsmt Nantucket for outsiders because
of the sleepy qunintness of the place
and the Islanders' odd sea phrases so
pciieiwisly Interlarded in their comer
nations These phrases are so much a
part of their talk that their use is tin
conscious
They never pull, they always “haul,'
they do not tie or fasten anything
they "splice" or "belay" it; they do not
arrange to fix u thing, they "rig it" or
“rig it up;" they do not throw any
thing away, but “heave it overboard ''
they “back and lid," they “luff,'
“lark," "come about" and “square
away" on any and all occasions.
r.cfore engaging in any venture they
first "see if the coast is clear.” then as
they proceed they "keep the weather
eye peeled" and always "look out for
squalls." Then they "sound it out" un
til they "fathom" it. If they don't
tike the “lay of the land" they "give il
a wide berth."
All Ibis is acordiug to "The Nan
tucket Scrap Basket." a book compiled
and edited by William F. Macy and
liolaud I! 11 ussev.
The authors tell the story of a certain
Quaker mother of Nantucket, who once j
denied that she ever used any of Ihe
nautical expressions so common there,
and told her children to remind her if :
they ever caught her doing it. The very j
next morning she gave them some eggs
to leave at the home of a relative on
the way to s-hool with the words;
“Take these into Cousin Pitches and
tell her 1 think this squares the yard
with m. and thee must scud, for It's
aJniust school lime."
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For Testing Gold.
The acid used by jewelers for testing
gold is extremely powerful and has to
lie very carefully handled To pre
vent any considerable quantity of the
,»eld being spilled a specially construct
bottle .s employed. The stopper of
this is made of glass and contains a
long pointed glass rod which passes
down the center of the bottle. When
an article of jewelry Is to be tested
the stopper is simply removed, and
the article is touched with the point of
the glass rod. to which a very slight
quantity of acid has adhered. Gold is
not affected by the acid, but imitation
metal turns green.
Young Men “Horse Shy.”
The discovery is being made that
many young men who have reached
man howl in the last ten years do not
know how to harness and attach the
horse to the buggy, crank the beast
step on the horse starter eng; re the
clutch and ger across the country tin
dor one horsepower. Minneapolis .Tour
mil.
Knovvn b> Their Fruits.
A small boy was discussing the dif
fercncos in members of the vegetable
world.
“How did people first know an apple
tree from a pear tree?" be asked. "By
the bark?"
“No." replied bis mother gravely, “by
the bite."—Philadelphia Ledger.
What Won't They Say?
“Did he tell you that you are the
only girl he has ever loved?"
“Yes. and he went further than that."
“He did? What else did he say?"
“He said that 1 was also the only
girl he ever intended to love.”—De
troit Free Press.
More Important.
“What? A strange man walked off
with my umbrella? Why, I have my
name ou it."
“That may lie. the other fellow
bas his band on it."—Boston Transcript.
A propensity to hope and joy is real
riches; one to fear and sorrow real pov
erty.
EXPLORING A RIVER
The Niger, the Mystery of Africa,
Was Long a Puzzle.
SOLVED IN A CURIOUS WAY.
Two “Armchair” Scientists, Who Never
Set Foot In the Dark Continent.
Worked Out the Problem of Where
the Great Stream Entered the Sea.
The .Niger Is the third greatest river
in Africa and the eleventh in rank in
the world. A century ago nobody had
found where the Niger river reached
the sea. and as the mystery grew the
theory became popular that the Kongo
or Zaire river was the lower part of
the Niger,
The most impressive fact known
about Hie Kongo was that the majestic
flood it poured into the Atlantic fresh
ened the sea several miles from the
shore. It certainly was a great river.
Mutigo Park, the splendid and in
ttepkl \oung Scotchman who iuaugu
rated the modern era of African ex
ploration. v a> largely responsible fot
(be theory that the Kongo might no the
outlet of the Niger lie was entbusi
itsiic over the idea He wrote that if
the theory tar tied out to be true the
fact, in ti commercial sense, would lie
second in importance only to the dis
covery of the Cape of Good Hope.
The German geographer Iteichnrd
became intcrcste I in the problem ol
the Niger, and. gathering all data
available with regard to the waters
in the equatorial regions of West Af
t'ica, he came to the conclusion that
the Niger must find its way to the
ocean through the streams of a delta
and that this delta was probably on
the const of the bight of Benin, where
a large ntimber of small streams were
known to enter the Atlantic.
The eminent geographer bit the nail
on the bead. His theory told the trillh
The problem was solved in an arm
clmir, but the Kngllsh gentlemen, who
at that lime were organizing the Turk
ey (Kongoi expedition, laughed to
scorn the German hypothesis, declare 1
that Reichard's deductions were "on
titled to very little attention" and that
his data were "wholly gratuitous."
James McQueen was another arm
chair investigator but the books he
rend were hundreds of black slaves
taken to the West Indies from the Ni
ger river region. He had read Mungo
Park's fascinating story of his jour
ney down the Niger for hundreds of
miles and thought it very strange that
no explorer had ever found where the
great river reached the sea. McQueen
began to question every native of the
lower Niger be could find and kept ac
cumulating this testimony for five
years before he was ready to publish
his results.
In IS2I. when lie bad solved the puz
zle to bis satisfaction, be issued a book
in which he announced as a fact and
not as a theory that the Niger reached
the sen through n wide spreading delta
in tlie region of the "oil rivers." As a
fact, the delta front is exactly where
McQueen said it was. The oil rivers
are the delta streams of the Niger.
McQueen's book made more fun for
the learned geographers than any
condo newspaper. The idea that an
obscure trader In the West Indies
should dream that his confabs with
ignorant slaves had solved the Niger
mystery was a most amusing joke.
MoQuoeu lived to see the day when his
joke was recognized as a solemn geo
graphical fact
The Niger delta, one of the largest in
the world, stretches 250 miles along
the coast. Most of Its streams are
small, and. skirting the coast, one can
hardly observe them so completely
are they bidden in the dense region of
mangrove swamps. Explorers soon
found that they might struggle for
weeks up a stream only to (trove it a
blind alley, for a peculiarity of the
Niger is that not a few Independent
rivers form between tthe delta branch
es and have no connections with the
Niger Itself. Most of the delta is a
network, difficult to enter or to retreat
from.
All nature is hideous there—the
brown waters lazily coursing, the evil
odors of the slime and ooze, the repul
sive animal life from crocodile to
pythons, lurking in the shadow for
their prey, and a choice collection of
insect plagues. Including the anopheles
mosquito, with its poisonous sting.
These terrib e conditions, persisting
for about forty miles inland, aie then
succeeded by solid earth, noble trees
and sweet air. but the swamp region
of ilie tower delta is one of the most
forbidding ('aits of Africa.
Richard I.ander at last in 1830.
floating down the Niger, was taken by
natives into the Nun branch of the
delta and descended it to the sea. The
Niger problem was solved.
England gave the Niger a wide
berth till after ISSO. it wtfs thought
to lie a plague stricken region from
which no good would ever come. Its
terrors have fled today before the ad
vauce in knowledge. Large vessels
ascend the Forcados branch, carry
iug commerce to and from the far in
terior of Africa, and Nigeria, a com
ing empire of industry, with its great
cattle, oottou. tin mines and other re
sources. is joined to the sea both by
rail and river.—Cyrus C. Adams in
American Review of Reviews.
Diplomacy.
“Pa. what is diplomacy?"
“Diplomacy, my boy. Is the art of be
ing disagreeable pleasantly.”—Detroit
Free Press.
Cleanse the fountain if you would
purify the streams.—Alcott.
COFFEE COCNIY PROGRESS
NOTICE.
GEORGIA, —Coffee County.
Alter four weeks notice, pursuant to section 3063
of the C ivil Code, a petition, a true copy of which
i a :bjf ir.ed will be presrrted to the Hor orable J .1
Summerall, Judge of the Superior Courts of the
Waycross Judicial Circuit, at Chambers, Waycross,
Georgia, on the 21st day of October. 1916.
E. CORBETT.
Guard an of Dennis Peterson.
GEORGIA, —Coffee County.
To the Honorable J. |. Summerall, Judge of Su
perior Courts for said county
The prt tion of Elisha Corbett, guardian of the
peis in and property of Dennis P. Peterson, hereto
.ore duly appointed and regularly qualified as
such shoAA s;
I That he desires to sell, as guardian at private
sale for the purpose of re-investing the proceeds of
said sale, the ollowing property, the same being a
part of the rea! estete of said ward, tc. wit: One hun
dred twenty-two and one half (122 1-2) acres more
or le« ->f lot of land number one hundred and forty
si* (!4>), said tract being situated in the south
west corne r oi »aid lot and bounded on the south and
west by original lines, north by a public road and
east by a line running north and south through the
center o f said lot; also one hundred twenty two and
one half (122 1-2) acres, more or less, of lot land
number one hundred and forty seven 1147], said
tract being the nothwest quarter of said lot. Both
of said above mentioned tracts of land being situa
ted in the sixth J6th J land district of Coffee County
Georgia, and containing in the aggregate twe hun
dred and forty-five acres, more or less. Also all of
the following tracts or parcels of land, being parts of
lot number one hundred and seven y-seven 1 177 J
inthe sixth (6th) district, according to a subdivision
tb ereof by D. H. Peterson, C. E. all of which is lo
cated within the corporate limits of the city of Doug
las, Coffee county, Ga., to-wit;
Lot Acred
XA 5
XM 5 9-10
N 1
XJ (5 1-15
XG 14 .‘5-10
Q 1
Z 5
O 6 1-15
XD 5
mock 46 West 1 1-12
Lot Block
14 07
16 96 West
18 54
8 77 East
9 97
9 99
1 126
1 129%
4 70
(1 ..105)
(Corner Elk and Jacksion Streets)
2 128%
4 F
1 46 East
10 53 East
3 F
9 74
13 100
6 94
14 103 East
3 77 East
8 ..127%
3 73
21 100
7 128 %
8 70 West
9 :.,.d
14 D
13 D
8 F
9 45
14 103 West
5 72
3 129
2 96 West
2 129% West
5 76
5 124
5 ~128%
8 A
9 72
16 C
7 ~98
15 00
1 101
7 96 West
6 102
6 79
1 71
15 30
6 D
3 E
10 74
5 B
12 1)
9 B
5 129%
8 45
9 63 East
8 .30
9 128%
2 46 East
2 126
5 F
15 127
1 99
10 76
4 127
20 45
13 99
1 F
8 -.B
2 7 104
8 72
7 100
20 102
G 77 West
22 54
1 E
10 101
3 72
1 78
4 102
4 46 East
1 76
6 A
10 96 West
6% v 45
2 I 73
11 127%
1 75
4 77 West
3 70 East
1 LI 94
7 102
•> 70 East
7 97
5 77 East
*f9 D
13 54
1G 103 West
16 97
17 102
6 99
21 30
I io 103 East
6 46 'East
8 79
5 A
4 76
10 72
22 100
13 127
9 127%
13 97
11 9»
3 69
11 103 East
14 99
5 101
5 79
! 4 69
5 97
6 127
, 4 75
• li 69
The Boston Store
Marvelous Offerings in New up-to-date
Coats for Ladies’, Misses and Child
rens
#
Monday Specials
3,00 Ladies’high Shoes
pattent and kid 3) I ■%J O
12 l-2c Bed Ticking Qf*
special per yard Of#
All-wool Ladies’ Sweaters jf|o
4,00 value, special •&» ■ Q
1.50 Ateman 50-inches QQ -
wide, special wOv
75c striped and fancy
Serges, special HOC
With each $5.00 trade we pp pp
give a piece China ware * lvtiCi
We Will Be Closed Saturday
The Boston Store
We sell the Best for Less
DOUGLAS, GA.
We give Premiums, ask for tickets
5 120
14 127
12 98
6 - 14
1 97
4 100
10 127
5 127
8 75
20 101
2. That said property is wild land
and unimproved city property in the i
City of Douglas; that it produces nt>-.
income; that it has produced no in
come since title was vested in said
ward; that it will produce no income
for several years yet, owing to the j
fact that the City of Douglas is riot
building in the direction of said sub
division property, and owing to the
further fact that the two one hundred
twenty- two and one-half acre tracts
are situated a long distance from the
place of residence of said ward and
this petitioner; that the city property
will not enhance in value rapidly en
ough to warrent payment of taxes on
same, and that it is in no position to
be handled advantageously by anyone
without aagreat expenditureof money
because it consiste of alternate lots
separated in almost every instance by
property belonging to other parties.
3. Petitioner shows that he desires
to invest the funds to be derived from
the sale of the aforementioned prop
erty in other farm land nearer the
home of said ward, and so situated
that it can be handled and manipu
lated profitably to said ward’s estate,
and in improvements on four hundred
and forty (440) acres, more or less,
of lot of land number four hundred
and thirty-eight (438) in the fifth
(sth) district of Coffee County, Ga.,
said property being the home place of
taid ward and the place whereon he
now resides.
4. Petitioner shows that it is nec
essary to improve said four hundred
and forty acre tract of land so as to
render it productive sufficient income
to support the said ward and his fam
ily, he being a married man with a
family to support.
5. Petitioner shows that notice of
his intention to make this application
has been published once a week or
4 weeks in the Coffee County Progress
being the newspaper in which county
advertisements are published, as re
quired by law.
Wherefore petitioner prays that
this court grant an order allowing the
sale of the property first mentioned
herein, for the purpose of reinvest
ment, by said guardian, at Douglas,
Georgia, on the 23rd day of Octo
ber, 1916, at private, sale, or at such
other time or place as to the guardian
may seem expedient, at private sale.
E. CORBITT,
Guardian of Dennis P. Peterson.
LANKFORD & MOORE, Attorneys
; at Law.
GEORGIA. Coffey County.
You, Elisha Corbitt, do swear that
the recitals contained in the within
and foregoing petition are true, so
| help vou God.
E. CORBITT.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this the 27th day of September, 1916.
R. J. CORNELIUS, N. P. C. C. Ga
American Inventive Ingenuity.
Of the epoch making inventions of
the world during the past fifty years,
forty-eight in number, Americans are
credited with thirty-five, which include
the telephone, typewriter, cash register,
incandescent lamp, talking machine,
electric furnace reduction, electrolytic
alkali production, transparent photo
graphic film, motion picture machine,
sewing machine, carborun
dum. chain stitc-h shoe sewing ma
chine. single type composing machine,
continuous process match machine,
chrome tanning, disk plow (modern
type), writ machine, electric lamp, re
cording adding machines, celluloid, au
tomatic knot tying machine, machine
for making barbed wire, etc.—Popular
Science Monthly.
Also Spoke In Devon.
Though “some” is recognized as an
Americanism today, it has really been
borrowed from us, one of our verbal
emigrants that have found a wider ap
plication in a new environment and
visit us now with a “Made In U. S. A."
stamp on them. The word is still part
of the vernacular of Devon (Teign
valley district), where you may be
greeted by “It did rain zum (some).”
to indicate the extent of a recent down
pour. Devonshire has furnished the
United States with other verbal emi
grants, such as “guess," “calklate”
and “reckon." all now branded as
American goods.—London Chronicle.
He Got a Hough.
The agricultural education that we
hear about should not be confined to
the country. The city needs it too. A
man went into a Boston department
store one day and asked for a hoe.
The young woman at the counter pass
ed him a trowel and. finding that it
was not what he wanted, asked him to
pick out a hoe from the pile of garden
tools. He did so. Then the saleswom
an made out the slip. “One hough. 75
cents.”—Youth's Companion.
Putting Out Garoline Fires.
Experiments by the British fire pre
vention committee show that the best
way to put out a small gasoline fire Is
to spread over (he hunting liquid a
mixture of ten pounds of bicarbonate
of soda and twelve pounds of common
sawdust, free from chips and shav
ings.
Keep It Dark.
May—Of course you know that our
engagement is secret. Jane —Oh. yes;
so I am told by everybody!—Pearson's
Weekly.
The man who drops his anchor in
the Slough of Despond never gets any
farther.
$5 Sport Coats in new QO
plaids and checks
Children’s Teddy Bear A 0
Coats, going at I b*tO
$4,50 Misses Coats with OQ
Belts, going at O
Ladies’ long Coats, black A O O
and fancy "f ■ *3 0
$25 Al-wool Poplin suits A O C flj
newest fashions I OivU
With each and every $40.00 pn p p
trade, we give 40p dinner set * IxILJIL
SACKING A THEATER.
What New Yorkers In 1765 Did For an
Offensive Play.
Here Is an account of the sacking of
a theater in New York from the Ga
zette of that city of May 3, 1703:
“The play advertised to he acted last
Monday evening having given offense
to sundry and divers inhabitants of
this city, who thought it highly im
proper that such entertainment should
be exhibited at this time of public dis
tress, when great numbers of poor peo
ple can scarce find means of subsist
ence. whereby many persons might be
tempted to neglect their business and
squander that money which is neces
sary to the payment of their debts and
the support of their families, a rumor
was spread about the town that if the
play went on the audience would meet
with some disturbance from the multi
tude.
“This prevented the greatest part of
those who intended to have been there
from going. However, many people
came, and the play was begun, but
soon interrupted by the multitude, who
burst open the doors and entered with
noise and tumult. The audience es
caped in the best manner they could.
Many lost their hats and other articles
of raiment. A boy had his skull frac
tured and was yesterday trepanned.
Death is his. Several others were
sorely set upon and injured. But we
heard of no lives lost. The multitude
immediately demolished the house and
carried the pieces to the common,
where they consumed them in a bon
fire.”
Origin of the Pitcher.
Some of the earliest drinking vessels
were made of skins, sewed together
In such a manner ns to lie water tight.
The skins were well tanned, and the
vessels made from them were well
nigh indestructible. Leather drinking
vessels in England were called “black
jacks” and were made in about the
same shape as the pitcher of modern
times. The inside was coated with a
layer of pitch, thus giving rise to our
word “pitcher,” it is believed.
Inherent Dread of Cats For Dogs.
The instinctive fear which cats have
of dogs is illustrated very amusingly
by stroking a dog and then caressing a
blind and newborn kitten with the
same hand that has touched the dog.
At once the kitten will spit and fluff
itself up in the most absurd way, dis
tinguishing the smell of the beast
which experience for thousands of gen
erations has taught it most to dread.—
London Standard.
So Unexpected.
’"ls Plonkers a confirmed pessimist?"
“One of the worst you ever saw. If
a happy thought should strike him he
would he stunned *or a week.”—Ex
change.