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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
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.' 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
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60000 Miles Is
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! Many Species, Scientists Point
Out, Fly From Pole to Equa
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—
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
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these islands. They feel that in an
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seek traces of the n atural life
( which had previously endured upon
these islands for centuries.
Some of the islands are only jut
ting rocks rising out of the depths
of the o cean. Others are low-ly
ing atolls. Still o thers, like Tahiti,
are great volcanic peaks lofty and
forest-clad, surrounded by sandy
beaches and coral reefs.
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“Few men who come to the is
lands leave them,” he wrote. "They
grow gray where they alighted. The
palm shades and the trade-winds
fan them till they die.
But the islands have suffered i
from freebooters, slavers, whale-: ■
men and beach combers.
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.
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Mrs. Hawkins’ brother, Dr. C. E
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Miss Ruth Wootten, of Miami,
Fla., is visiting her mother, Mrs.
‘ J. T. Wootten at her home nepr,
. Americus.
’ Mr. and Mrs. Sam Coney who
! have been residing at the home of
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An old fashion spelling bee will
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Friday night. There be en
trants fro mall of the county
schools, the local schools and the
agricultural college, the faculty an
ounces. An invitation is extended
the general public to be present.
SENTENCED FOR LIVING
TOGETHER IN HOTEL
CHICAGO, 111., Oct. 1. —Thomas
Fisher Lawrence and Mrs. Jack
Gruer, St. Louis society widow,
Wednesday were sentenced to mor
als court to ttye house of correction
for thirty days.
They were arrested together sev
era] weeks ago in an exculsive hos
tel.
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PLANE CRASHES DOWN
IN RELIABILITY TOUR
ST. Joseph, Mo., Oct. ’li‘—Plane
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a Waco, piloted by Ed G. Knapp,
crashed late Wednesday, two and
one half miles southwest of Dear
born, Mo. The pilot and passenger
escaped with minor injuries. The
plane was badly damaged.
resdence of Mrs. Louise Fain on
Harrold avenue.
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