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PAGE FOUR Letter Found In Book Shows Ben Franklin’s Kite Claims 7o Be True Epistle Was Written By Frank lin Himself On the Result of Experiment CINCINNATI, Oct. I.—Lately American historians have been bombing the story of the flight of Benjamin Franklin’s electric ity detecting kite. They have attempted to relegate the legend to I the junk heap of historical fallacies. I Their claim has been that, had I Franklin tried the experiment, he j would have been electrocuted and) burned to a crisp brown crust. But a b ook has been discovered piled with 12,000 other volumes in a garage store room o wned by the Cincinnati public library, c ontain-l ing a letter written by Franklin i himself on the experiment and its' results. The volume is a c ompend-, ium of many letters written by Franklin and members of the Roy-, al Scientific Society of London. While the st ory handed down| placed the scene of the trial in the tower of old Christ Church in Phil adelphia. Franklin fails to mention. the locality. It is also evident that’ he had no intention of attracting lightning to his kite, but he mere ly wanted to prove the presence of of electrical energy in the atmos phere during a thunderstorm. I The letter was written p robably in 1752. His observation and in structions follow: “Make a cross of t wo light. strips of cedar, the arms so long, as to reach the four corners of a ( large silk handkerchief when ex- ( tended; tie the corners of the hand cross, so you have the body of a kite, which being properly accom-' modated with a tail, loops, and; string, will rise in the air, l'l <e thoaemade of paper, but this, being silk, is fitted to bear the wet and wind of a thunder guest without | tearing. To the top of the upright , stick of the cross is to be fixed a : very sharp pointed wire, rising a foot or more above the wood. To the end of the twine next to the hand, is to be tied a silk ribbon, .and where silk and twine join a key may b? fastened. This kite toj be raised when a thunder gust ap- ( pears to be coming on, and the per son who holds the string must stand, within a door or window or under, some other covering, so that the silk, ribbon may not be wet, and care ; must be taken that the twine does not touch the frame of the doer or window. "As soon as any of the thunder- 1 clouds come over the kite, the pointed wire will draw the electric fire from them, and the kite, with all the twice will be electrified, and the loose filaments of the twine will stand out ever and be attract ed by an approaching finger. And when the rain has wet the kite and twine so that it can conduct the electric fire freely, you will !ind it stream out plentifully from the key on the approach of your knuckle. At this key, a phial may be attached, and from electric tire thus obtained, spirits may be ignit ed and all the other electric experi ments be performed which are us ually done by a rubbed glass K looe or tube, and thereby the sameness of the electric matter with that of lightning completely demonstrated." CUT OFF Orphan’s Home Day was observed Sunday afternoon with an appro priate program, and Senator Ben Neal of Montezuma was the speak er for the occasion. Mr. and Mrs. James Maxley were Andersonville visitors Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Rob Holloway and family Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Hollo way and son, Murry, attended the barbecue dinner at La Crosse. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Rhodes and J® BOBBED or Butchered Bobbing the han is a most delicate operation. No surgeon takes on a great er responsibility in the sureness of his hand and the saneness of his under standing than does the haircutter. It is either done right or it's a sorry mess. Here you can be sure o! skill and taste and success ful execution. f Pelham’s Barber Shop Bell Bldg. I mar St. | .' children and Owen Barwick spent ■the week end at Waycross. Miss Eva and Howard Beden- ■ baugh, of Albany spent the week- ■ end with their mother, Mrs. Lizzie Bedenbaugh. Mrs. Gus Smith, and Mrs. J. H. Rhodes, were Montezuma Shopper:- , Monday afternoon. Miss Bessie Coker, left this week for Macon where she will er» ■ter G. A. B. C. j Miss Lizzie Bedenbaugh, Miss |Eva and Henry Bedenbaugh spent I Sunday ’aftelmoon :|t Oglethorftd with Mr. and Mrs. Watson Wicker. I Gus Kitchen, motored to Macon ,and Milledgeville Saturday. | Mrs. Julian Easterlin and chil dren, of Andersonville and Dallas Pennington of Pennington were visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Smith Monday evening. | Rev. and Mrs. E. M. Clapp and children, of Byron, were visitors here Sunday afternoon. I Miss Beula Pennington and Charlie Smith of Albany spent the week-end with Miss Mardelle Pen nington at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Coker. I Rob Holloway, Miss Frances, and Robert Holloway, and H. L. Brooks, were Oglethorpe visitors Monday afternoon. ■ Mr. and Mrs. 1. C. Smith, of ( Oglethorpe and Miss Mollie Smith t of Macon were Sunday afternoon guest of Mr. and Mis. Ernest Hol , loway, Mrs. Smith remaining for a few weeks visit. | I There w ill be Services at the Methodist church Sunday morning! |at eleven o’clock. • 1 , 60000 Miles Is Mere Trifle For Birds To Fly ! Many Species, Scientists Point Out, Fly From Pole to Equa tor Each Year — By DAVID DIETZ | An annual flight from the north or south pole to the equator—a dis tance of more than 6000 miles—is i a mere trifle for many species of birds. This is one of the amazing discoveries made by the Whitney South Sea Expedition of the Amer ican Museum of Natural History. I Under the leadership of Rollo H. I Beck, veteran naturalist, an inten [ sive study of the islands of the trop ical Pacific is being made. Beck and his associates have ■ found birds in thdke islands whose ' nesting places are in the arctic tundras. Yet other birds whose home is in the antarctic region and who fly toward the equator as t’m long night settles upon the south ’I COLD WEATHER ! AHEAD! 'H & H • o E ■ 1 A B 'M i Iferf T A IH E 11 s SSilr R T «’y^ k S ; WINTER’S iUST AROUND THE CORNER Make your home cozy and comfortable. Come in and let us show you! WILLIAMS-NILES COMPANY Cppoiile Port Office fl>o«e TOP i n— —mk—— Can He Free Mexico From Peons? ■P* 1 v v - t 'i'b AgS I ' F * 'TV * 4 A ■ z* ; z ■< r m \l? JI ■ .slWwh >4Mi Z 1 "" era tnuaw; The people of Mexico now are calling President Calles "the Latin Lincoln,” because of his efforts to J emancipate the thousands of peons I in his country. 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Crowding of pearl fishers and copra gatherers upon small islands haa completely changed the original plant and animal life of many of them. Whole tribes of natives have disappeared from the face of . the earth. That is why scientists regard the Whitney expedition as being so im portant. The survey of the islands had to be made at once or it would have been impossible forever. Among the unusual birds gather ed by the expedition is the fairy tern. It is probably the most deli cate and ethereal of all sea birds It is pure white with unsually large eyes. The bones are thinly covered and when seen against the tropical ' sun, the bird looks as though it were being X-fayed, for the bones of the wings become visible through the plummage. ww Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Hawkins have as their guests for several days at their home on College street Mrs. Hawkins’ brother, Dr. C. E Murphy, of Atlanta. Miss Ruth Wootten, of Miami, Fla., is visiting her mother, Mrs. ‘ J. T. Wootten at her home nepr, . 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