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Arnold’s Wife Shared
in Hutband’s Disgrace
April 8, 1779, Gen. Benedict Arnold
and Margaret, better known as Peggy
Shippen, were married in Philadelphia.
The marriage was the culmination of
a wartime romance. The groom, then
a trusted subordinate of General Wash
ington, was later to become the most
excoriated man in American history.
Most every one lias heard of Arnold’s
unspeakable treason, and even of his
love affair with the charming Peggy.
It was certain that his wife was in
absolute ignorance of Arnold’s sad ad
venture. Indeed, as soon as the traitor
was sure of his own safety he wrote
to General Washington asserting bis
wife’s innocence, an'd saying: “I beg
she may be permitted to return to her
friends in Philadelphia, or come to me,
as she may choose." Washington, who
was a just man, believed In her Inno
cence. He offered to send her with
an escort to Philadelphia, or to, put
her under a flag of truce on the king’s
ship, Vulture. She chose the former
and arrived in Philadelphia about Octo
ber 1, 1780, says the Detroit News.
But she had not been there a month
jvhen the < «incll adopted a resolution
ordering her to leave the city and not
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—WHERE YOUR DOLLAR DOES ITS DUTY—
AUCTION
50-Kentucky Mules-50
ELBERTON, GA.
Saturday, January 10,11 A. M.
A nice bunch of Extra Quality good-adeg Kentucky
Mules weighing from 900 to 1200 pounds will positively be
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and sell at this auction at
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Pnone 11 Elberton, Ga. Phone 11
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to return during the war. Five years
later she came home again, but was
treated with so much coldness and neg
lect, even by those who had encour
aged her marriage, that she left again,
never to return. She remained with
Arnold during the remainder of his
broken and disgraced life. He died In
London, an embittered and sad man,
without a country.
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Hold Tortoise in Esteem
The tortoise, In the flowery empire
of Japan, Is regarded as a symbol of
youth and is venerated. Wedding gar
ments have tortoises painted on them,
as also have New Year's gifts. A
legend heard in China states that the
tortoise is supposed to have borne
upon its shell the basis of moral teach
ings and the secrets of the unseen.
It is more revered in China than
among practical Japanese. When
fishermen around any of the seaports
haul a large one In with their catch,
they find a Chinese merchant to buy
It. The Chinaman then carves his
name on the shell, that the animal
may know to whom it owes its life,
and taking It out into deep water al
lows it to go free, thus Insuring a
prosperous long life for himself.
THE HARTWELL SUN, HARTWELL, GA., JANUARY 9, 1925
Recorded Their Fear
of Premature Burial
Fears of premature burial have re
sulted in the formation of a society to
effect reforms in the law of death cer
tification, writes Arthur I’endenys in
John o’ London’s Weekly. There Is,
however, nothing new in these fears.
The Egyptians kept the bodies of the
dead under careful supervision by the
priests previous to embalming and un
til satisfied that life was extinct. The
Greeks were aware of the dangers of
premature burial and often cut off the
fingers of a person believed to be dead
before cremation.
In modern times, the fear of being
buried alive has haunted many. Wilkie
Collins had this fear, and always left
overnight on his dressing table a note
solemnly enjoining that, should he be
found dead, his supposed death was to
be carefully tested by a doctor. Hans
Andersen always carried a note in his
pocket to the same effect. Harriet Mar
tineau left her doctor SSO to see that
her head was amputated before burial.
Have Yet to Learn
Much About Disease
What is disease? Everybody knows
that disease Involves a physical injury
to tissue cells, but what and how?
The truth is, we are really only at
the beginning of our knowledge of the
cause of disease. We must be able
to measure exactly the injury, the vi
tality and the degree of recovery of
body cells to find the answer, writes
Paul H. De Krulf In the American
Mercury.
Recently a man named Osterhout,
obscure save among biologists, has
made a step toward answering the
question. Working with a common
sea-weed, laminaria, he has begun to
give exact meanings to the hitherto
vague terms, vitality, Injury and re
covery. He has found (hat normal
weeds possess a certain resistance to
the passage of an electric current,
that this resistance may be accurate
ly measured, and that it is always of
exactly the same order of magnitude
for the cells of healthy laminaria. But
Jake the cells out of their natural en
vironment in sea water and put them
In solutions of different content and
density, and their resistance to the
electric current falls at once. The
greater the damage to the cells the
greater the fall.
The coincidence of the fall in re
sistance with the degrc<» of injury
has enabled Osterhout to construct
equations which predict the exact
amount of injury that the cells of
laminaria will suffer. He can write
down just how much and how long
a cell can be exposed to damage and
still recover completely. In brief, Os
terhout measures Injury, vitality and
recovery. That is the beginning of
science. That Is the real beginning
of the answer to the question: “What
is disease?”
Athens Michael’ g inc. Georgia
Beginning Next Monday, January 12th
The 43rd Annual Silk Sale
This sale lasting for one week only— represents
our greatest Sale Effort in 43 years of store-keep
ing. More than 5,000 yards of New Silks are
here for selection. Brand new fine quality, stylish,
Spring Silks. No old stock, no shoddy Silks.
EVERY YARD GUARANTEED PERFECT
Just a Few of the Remarkable Values to be Found
Are Listed Here
Japanese Pongee 74c yard China Silks 64c yard
New Printed Crepes Si.9B yard Silk Chiffon $1.59 yar ,j
40 inch Crepe de Chine 51.59 yard 40 inch Georgette 51.79 yard
Satin Charmeuse $1.79 yard Foundation Silks 49c yard
Heavy Wash Satin $1.79 yard Silk Broadcloth .• $1.79 yard
Skinner’s Satin $1.98 yard Corticelli Crepe $1.98 yard
Printed Silk 49c yard Spiral Crepe $1.98 yard
Canton Crepe $2.39 yard Flat Crepe t $2.39 yard
These silks to be had in more than 25 colors
and new Spring printed designs
BEGINNING MONDAY, JANUARY 19TH
THE WHITE SALE
Uncharted Rocks Are
Terror to Mariners
Uncharted rocks and islands of the
sea have mysterious ways of dodging
and befooling mapmakers. Some
times they are dangerous.
One of the worst, Lamb rock, was
found about thirty years ago coming
straight up to the surface in water
200 feet deep, it was like a cathe
dral spire and rose straight into the
middle of the Canadian liner lane into
the St. Lawrence river. In calm
weather Its tip was 33 feet below the
surface. This is a bare margin of
safety, but in rough weather the rock
was a lurking peril to any big ship
that might come along.
The Avocet rock, in the southern
end of the Bed sea, also stands in the
middle of the steamer lane to India.
The steamer Avocet struck it and sank
in 104 fathoms. It looked like pure
carelessness on the part of the cap
tain.
The British vessel Flying Fish was
sent to investigate. It could find no
trace of any rock. Then another ship,
the Teddington, sank at the same
place. Another British vessel went to
investigate, and it, too, could find noth
ing. Then a third vessel nosed about
in the vicinity for six weeks with
equal ill success.
Finally H. M. S. Stork made an in
vestigation and located the rock only
three hundred yards from the place
where one of its predecessors had an
chored. The rock was covered by a
bare fifteen feet of water at low tide.
Silk Worms Weave Dyes
A French scientist has succeeded
In making silkworms weave dress dyes
Into their own output. He is re
ported to have injected dyes into the
cocoon and the result was colored
tn reads being spun. Not only the or
dinary shades, but the tones and hues
that are made from combining various
tints, are produced by the little work
ers receiving treatment by this proc
ess. Silk is usually dyed after it has
been wound and twisted into floss,
but the new method is expected to
grow It in colors that will not fade.
All the Details
Young Si had just returned from
the city, and his chum was asking
him about the experiences, in par
ticular how he enjoyed eating in an
automat restaurant.
“How do they work?” the friend
asked.
“Well, you put your nickel in the
watchemacallit and press the thing
umbob, and thv doohlnkus turns
around and gives you your food.” ex
plained Si.
“Isn’t that marvelous?” echoed the
chum. “I knew they were wonderful
things, but I ain’t heard the details
before."
Great French Dictator
Typical of His Race
Napoleon’s character and personal
ity are still under the microscope. One
of the best of recent analysis of the
great commander is “Napoleon,” by
Herbert A. L. Fisher, at one time Brit
ish minister of education. Mr. Fisher
has made the French dictator luminous
by his phrases. Here, for instance, is
a passage on Napoleon as a young
man, portraying him as a turbulent
example of the people from which he
sprang:
“The Corsican bore a character for
sobriety, courage and hardihood. Hate
was for him a virtue, vengeance a
duty, pardon an infamy. He felt the
call of the clan like a Highlander, an
Albanian or a Zulu, and was full of
the pride and self-assurance common
to gallant men who have never met
a superior.
"Vigilant and astute in his judgment
of character, he was a master of dis
simulation save where passion broke
in and spoiled the reckoning.
"His standard of honor forbade
theft, enjoyed hospitality and tolerated
woman as the drudge of the household
and field. In general his deportment
was noted as grave and social. He
was sparing of amusement, would sit
at cards without a word and suffer
torture without a cry; but when the
seal of silence was once broken, lan
guage would stream from him like a
torrent, an index of that uneasy, impa
tient, quarrelsome energy which was
a common attribute of the race.”
Probably Girl Never
Forgot That Lesson
Stories have away of accumulating
about the memory of famous wits, and
Dean Swift was no exception to this
general rule, according to the San
Francisco Argonaut. A hoard of Swift
anecdotes recently unearthed in
cludes "the illustration of the dean’s
mania for closed doors. Swift’s house
keeper hired his servants, but when
they came into his employ he always
told them there were only two rules
to observe. One was always to shut
the door after entering a room, the
other, always to close the door after
leaving the room.
“On one occasion a maid asked the
dean’s permission to attend her sis
ter’s wedding, when he not only gave
his permission, but lent her a horse
upon which to make the journey, and
another servant to accompany her. In
the excitement of the moment the un
fortunate girl forgot to close the door
after her, and Swift, allowing time
for her to get well away upon her
Journey, sent another servant post
haste to bring her back. In fear and
trembling the poor girl presented her
self before the dean, asking him w’hat
he wanted her for. ‘Only to shut the
door,’ was the reply, ‘after which you
can resume your journey.’ ”
Good Stories Told of
Famous French Writer
Max O’Rell, the famous French sat
irist, joked to the end. When he was
lying on his deathbed, and after the
doctors had informed him that there
was no hope, he wrote: "I fear that
lam doomed. The doctors give me a
few months, but I believe I shall last
longer. At any rate I shall try; for
I’d rather wear a hat than a halo.”
Max O’Rell, like all professional
men, was occasionally Imposed on with
regard to hospitality, hostesses Invit
ing him to an “at home” as a guest
and then expecting him to perform, In
other words to “tell a few stories.”
Once when this happened, he left the
drawing room hurriedly and went
down to the hall, whence he returned
In a few minutes in a state of great
excitement, and approaching his host
ess whispered agitatedly into her ear:
“Madam, what kind of people have
you here? The check you placed in
my overcoat pocket—my fee for to
night—has been stolen!” —San Fran
cisco Argonaut.
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Wars of the Roses 1
The Wars of the Roses were a series
of sanguinary contests for the posses
sion of the English throne, w aged by
the adherents of the houses of York
and Lancaster, whose badges were the
white and red roses, respectively. The
struggle, says the Kansas City Star,
commenced with the battle of St.
Albans (1455), and lasted until 1485
when Henry Tudor (of Lancaster) de
feated and killed Richard HI (of
York) at Bosworth field. The two
houses were finally united in the per
son of Henry Tudor (afterward Henry
VII), who in 1486 married Elizabeth
of York, daughter of Edward IV. It Is
estimated that the Wars of the Roses
occasioned*the deaths of 12 princes of
the blood, 200 nobles and 100 000 of
the gentry and common people of Eng
land.
The Lasso
Our word lasso is from the Spanish
lazo, meaning a snare. The lasso is
a rope from 60 to 100 feet in length
with a slip-noose at one end. It is
used in the Spanish and Portuguese
parts of America and in the United
States and Canadian West for catch
ing wild horses and cattle. When not
In use the lasso, called “rope” in the
West, Is colled at the right of the sad
dle in front of the rider. When an
animal Is to be caught the rider, gal
loping after it, swings the coiled lasso
round his head and casts it straight
forward In such a manner that the
noose settles over the head or round
the legs of the pursued animal, which
is speedily brought down. In order to
become skillful at throwing the lasso
great practice is required, and, If pos
sible, Instruction by an expert.
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