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PERIS OF THE X R}
EDISON SAYS HE IS AFRAID OF THE
NEW LIGHT.
myentor Tells How an Employe Was In
jured by the Rays. Will Have Noth- {
ing to Do With Radium. '
That @aired sight, cancerous dis-!
ease and even death may come to him |
who is continuously exposed to or in- E
experienced in the use of Roentgen
rays has been demonstrated in a piti
able manner in the laboratory of
Thomas A. Edison at Orange, N. J.
Clarence Dally, an assistant to the
“Wizard of Menlo Park,” has con
tributed an arm and a hand to this
" demonstration. while Mr. Edison him
self suffers from the disturbed focus
of one of his eyes through experiments
with the mysterious light in an en
deavor to find for it some commercial
utility.
Mr. Edison was recently seen at his
home in Llewellyn Park, Orange, by a
New York World reporter and asked to
tell the story of the experiment which
flisubled Dally and came near making
Mr. Edison sightless. |
“Don’t talk to me about X rays,” he
said. “I am afraid of them. I stopped |
experimenting with them two years |
ago. when I came near losing my eye- ‘
sight, and Dally, my assistant, prac- |
tically lost the use of both of bis arms. ’
Y am afraid of radium and polonium,
too, and I don't want to monkey with t
them. l
“Up to two years ago I was deeply |
tnterested in X rays. I used a fluoro- |
scope which 1 invented, a pyramidal |
box with one open end, the smaller,!
and a larger closed end, the covering ;
being a chemical sheet against which
the object to be examined is placed, the
rays being focused upon it. I was
making experiments in a dark room |
that I had constructed in one end of |
the laboratory. I was looking for an !
improved crystal, and there were daily |
results that fascinated me and kept my t
ore gloned to the fluoroscope virtually }
all the time. {
“lI used my left eye, and one day
when I came out of the dark room and
vlosed my right eye for a moment ev
orything looked double. I hastened to
an oculist, who said that my eye was
samething over a foot out of focus.
it is still imperfect, and I do not think
that it will ever be entirely well.
“When I noticed the effect upon my
eve I cautioned Dally. I told him that
there was danger in the continuous use
of the tubes, but he persisted because
he was so enthusiastic upon the sub
ject. The only thing that saved my
wresight was that I used a very weak
tube, while Dally insisted in using the
most powerful one he could find.
“The box of the fluoroscope only pae
tially covered his face, so that the light
fell upon his hair and made it fall out—
that is, what was left of it after expos
ing his head to the light in a reckless
way toillustrate its power. Parts of Lis
hand and arm were also exposed to the
action of the light.
“I am keeping him on the pay roll,
although he is not able to do any work,
and 1 expect to take care of him as
long as he lives. I have sent him away
on a vaeation to Woodbridge, N. J.,
where the change may do him good.”
“Speaking of raditun, Mr. Edison,
what is your opinion of it?’ asked the
teporter. :
“I have had several pieces of it from
Mme. Curie in Paris, and I have ex
perimented with it.s I do not see its
commercial utility, but it opens up a
great field of thought and scientific re
search. It overturms all the old the
ories of force and energy and has set
scientists to thinking. Do I believe
that it is the solution of perpetual mo
tion? No. I have a peculiar theory
about radium, and I believe it is the
vorrect one.
“I believe that there is some mysteri
ous ray pervading the universe that is
filgorescing to it. In other words, that
all its energy is not self constructed,
but that there is a mysterious some
thing in the atmosphere that scientists
have not found that is drawing out
those infinitesimal atoms and distribut
'l;g them foreefully and indestrueti
ly.’l
“Did you ever find any commercial
utllity in the X rays or radinum?”
“My researches, I might as well tell
You now that [ have abandoned them,
were in the direction of making a flu
orescent lamp. I obtained results which
brought me each day nearer to the ob
ject of my desire. I found a crystal
that was fluorescing 12,000 times, and
I thought I had my lamp. Then came
the question of practical use. I could
make the lamp all right, but when I did
so I found that it would kill everybody
who would use it continuously.
“No, I do not want to know anything
‘more about X rays. In the hands of
experienced operators they are a valu
able adjunct to surgery, locating as
they do objects concealed from view,
and making, for instance, the operation
#or appendicitis almost sure. But they
are dangerous, deadly, in the hands
of the inexperienced: or even in the
bands of the man who is using them
continuously for experiment. There
are two pretty good object lessons of
this fact to be found in the Oranges.”
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Suicige Prevented.
The startling announcement that ‘a
preventive of suicide had been dis
coyered will interest many. A run
down system, or despoundency inyvaria
bly precede suicide and something has
been found tha® will prevent that
condiiion which makes= suicide likely.
At the irsttoouzhtof self destruction
take Electric Bitiers. It beicg a greati
tonic and nervine will strencthen the]
‘Derves anu yuild up the svitem. It's|
also a great Stomaeh, Liyer and Kid- ‘
uey regutator Only 50:" Satisfa ‘tion
Kuarauteed by Dawson Drug Co., \
MILES AND THE PRESIDENT.
A Story of the General’s Ambi
| tion Recalled Recently.
i Apropos of the retirement of General
Nelson A. Miles from the command of
the United States army, an interview is
recalled which occurred some years,
ago, in which the general told a story to
illustrate his attitnde on the question
of being a candidate for the presidency.
He was then stationed on a western
frontler, and was approached by the
representative of an eastern paper, who
said:
“They say in the east that you are
aiming for the presidency.”
“Do they?’ the general replied.
“Well, we won't take much time for
an interview on that subject. The
thing reminds me of an experience
! that a scout had in the old days when
'we were fighting the Cheyennes in
’1875. That scout was a clubfooted
Frenchman, a plucky, good fellow too,
'He had to make his way from Fort
Keough to a cantonment on the Mis
gsouri, and the Cheyennes were after
him. They pushed him like Satan, and
after a time his horse gave out, and he
had to hoof it. Well, it was a rough,
bad country, and his poor clubfeet
slipped and stumbled and slid so that
his trail must have been something
awful to contemplate. An Indian can
read marks in the ground as well as
yvou and 1 can read a book, but they
had never dogged a clubfoot before.
He got into the cantonment all right,
and pretty soon the Cheyennes came
along. They pointed to the trail and
asked our people to look at them. ‘We
can’t make out which way that fellow
was going,’ said they. New, that’s the
case with these people who busy them
gelves about me. They dont know any
thing about me, and they carn’t find
out.”
After a pause General Miks turned
s head and spoke a fesy woards over
his shoulder. “My ouly ambition is to
command brave men,” said be, “and
I've been doing that for thirty years.”
A Physician Healed.
Dr. Geo. Ewing, a practicing of phy
sician Smith’s Grove, Ky., for over 30
vears, writes his personal experience
with Foley's Kidney Cure: “For years
I had been greatly bothered with kid
aey and bladder trouble and enlarged
prostrate gland. [ used everything
known to the profession without relief,
until T commenced to use Foley’s Kid
pey Cure. After taking three bottles
I was entirely relieved and cured. I
prescribe it now daily in mv pracrice
and neartily recommend its uge to all
physicians for such troubles. I have
prescribed it in hundreds of cases with
perfect success.”’
KENDRICK'S DRUG STORE.
The Latest Sport in Paiis,
sailoon chasing In automobiles is the
latest amusement in Paris, says the
New York World. The initial race was
run a few days ago, when four bal
.oons sailed away, followed by a dozen
automobiles, The fun was fast and
furicus below and aloft until a sudden
change of the wind altered the course
of the balloons, leaving the baffled
automobilists in perplexity. Nothing
dauuted, they chased about in all direc
tions, two of them finally sighting one
balloon on the horizon and arriving
just in time for the descent. With a
cheer for their success, they rushed
upon the astomished aeronauts, only
to discover that the balloon was not
one of the competing ones.
- Not Dver-Wise,
There is an old allegorical picture
of a girl scared at a grass-hopper, but
in the act of heedlessly treading on a
snake. This is paralleled by the man
who spends a large sum of money
building a cyclone cellar, bul neglects
to provide his family with a bottle of
Chamberlain’s Colie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy as a safeguard
against bowel complaints. whose yie
tims outnumber those of the cyelone a
hundred to one. This remedy is every
where recognized as the most prompt
and reliable medicine in use for these
diseases. For sale oy Dawson Drug
Co., Dawsoun; Williford & Co., Parrott.
Women in the Orchards.
Women and girls are wanted in Cali
fornia to harvest the fruit crop, says
the New York Evening Journal. A rep
resentative of the fruit growers is in
the east looking for help. The men
are pald on an average $2 a day for
picking fruit. The women and girls
are paid $1 to $2.50 a day for cutting
and drying the frunit, while the men
and women who work in the packing
houses recelve sometimes as’ high as
$2.50 a day.
The Death Penalty.
A little thing sometimes results in
death. Thusa mere scratch, insignifi
cant cuts or puny boils have paid the
death penaity. It is wise to have
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve ever handy.
I[ts the best Salve on earth and wili
prevent fatality, when Burns, Sores,
Ulcers and Piles threaten. Onily 25e.
at Dawson Druyz Co.
4 * Bend and twist,
/ at work or play
you can’t break the
and they wont break you.
Trimmings cannot rust. Guaran
teed. If “President” is_on bucklies.
soc at dealers or by mail postpaid.
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Miss Alice .M. Smith, of Minneapolis,
T ' ’ hly suffer:
Minn, tells how woman’s monthly suffering
may be quickly and permanently relieved by
Lydia E. Pinkham’s V ble C d
ydia E. am's Vegetable Compound.
“Dear Mrs. Pixgmay: —1 have never before given my endorse
ment for any medicine, but Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Coms=
pound has added so much to my life and happiness that 1 feel like
making an exception in this case. For two years every month I would
have two days of severe pain and could find no relief, but orie day when
visiting a Triend T run across Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com
pound, —she had used it with the best results and advised me to try it.
I found that it worked wonders with me ; I now experience no pain and
only had to use a few bottles to bring about this wonderful change. 1
use it occasionally now when I am exceptionally tired or worn out.”
Miss Avice M. Syirri, 804 Third Ave., South Minneapolis, Minn., Chair
man Executive Committee Minneapolis Study Club.
Beauty and strength in women vanish early in life because of
monthly pain or some menstrualirregularity. Many suffersilently
and see their best gifts fade away. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege
table Compound helps women preserve roundness of form and
freshness of face because it makes their entire female organism
healthy. It carries women safely through the various natural
crises and is the safeguard of woman’s health. /
The truth about this great medicine is told in the letters from
women being published in this paper constantly.
Mrs. C. Kleinschrodt, Morrison, 111., says:
- “Dear Mrs. Pixknayw:—l have suffered ever
q@r ’f)/'\ A since I was thirteen years of age with my menses.
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\!&:\\ S Q doctored a great deal but received no benefit.
R \,g@‘ “A friend advised me to try Lydia E.
1 ~~ &8 Pinkhaw’s Vegetable Compound, which I
WD) @ BY did,andafter taking a few bottles of it, I found
A i/ great relief.
A *’; e 5 L )I(‘Ilfi[i‘llfl‘(lfl!l is now regular and withont
S L = pain. lam enjoying better health than I have
<t -"v for sometime.” ;
‘ How is it possible for us to make it plainer
‘ that Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com
pound will positively help all sick women ?
All women are constituted alike, rich and poor,
high and low, all suffer from the same organic
' troubles. Surely, no one can wish to remain weak
and sickly, discouraged with life and no hope for the future, when proof is so
unmistakatle that Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound will cure
monthly suffering —all womb and ovarian troubles, and all the ills peculiar
to women.
FORFEIT if we cannot forthwith prodnece the original letters and signatures of
above testimonials, which will prove their absolute genunineness.
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass,
SCOUT IN A SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Col. Jack Crawford Now Teach
es a Class of Youngsters.
It is not often that an old frontier
scout becomes transformed into a Sun
day scliool teacher, but Coionel Jack
Crawford, erstwhile companion of Buf
falo Bill, “Wild Bill” Hickok and oth
er of the plainsmen, teachies a class of
youngsters in a Grant's Pass (Ore.)
Sunday school, says a correspondent of
the Chicago Inter Ocean. Furthermore,.
as a Sabbath school lecturer he has
achieved a fame which has reached as
far as Portiand.
oOld Colonel Jack is a man of impres
give bearing. With his long, flowing
white locks and his goatee—a typical
frontiersman’s goatee it is, too—he pre
gents a picturesque appearance as he
gtands before a class of children and
Fectures them on the deeds of the
prophets.
Once upon a time the old man wag
known as the church building scout.
He broke many trails through the
mountains of Montana and Colorado
and at one time was one of the most
feared pony express riders in the west.
During his more active days he was
mixed up in many an affray. He saw
some of the most notorious bad men
bite the dust, and he was with “Wild
Bill” Hickok in some of the fiercest
fights that famous character had in the
Dakota Bad Langds.
Crawford is now a settled and stern
business man, owns thousands of acres
of Oregon land and is raied wealthy.
Yet he has not forgotten his «-uuningf
with a gun and ean draw bead on a
bull’'s eye at as great a distance as he
could in the seventies. ]
Boy Cured of Colic After Physician’s
Treatment Had Failed.
My boy when four years old was
taken with colic and cramps in his
stomach. I eent for the doetor =nd he
injected morphine, but the chi'd kept
getting worse. 1 thengave bim half
a veaspoonful of Chamberlain’s Colie.
Cholera and Diarrhoea Romedy, ard
in half an hour he was sleeping anu
soon recovered.—F. L. Wilkins, Shell
Lake, Wis. Mr. Wilkins Is boali
geeper for the Shell Lake Lumber Co.
For sale by Dawson DrugCo , Dawson;
Williford & Co. Parrott.
- MORGAN LIKE NAPOLEON.
British Paper Says Banker Seems
Unable to Stop In His Career,
The London Daily Mail recently pub
Hehed the first of a series of articles
about J. P. Morgan and his methods.
The paper calls him the most remark.
able financier of modern times.
In introducing editorially its serleg
of articles the Mail deprecates Mor
gan’s methods, saying the Americans
will not bhave his unattraetive shares
and that it remains to be seen if Brit
ish investors will. The editorial con
tinues:
It is a misfortune for the world that
such vast issues in stocks should hang
on the discretion and judgment of a
single man, for the failure of any one
of Morgan's trusts may mean financial
disaster.
“Yet, like Napoleon, he seems unable
to halt or rest in his career. Like Na
poleon, he may find the moment will
comme when the strain upon his systewm
becomes greater than he can bear.”
We carry in stock, along with scores
of other pills, the celebrated Ramon’s
Liver Pills & Tonic Pellets—in fact
we are headquarters for pills of all
kinds-—but we want you trv' Ramoa’s.
The manufacturers claim them to be
the best—our customers, who use
them, say they fiod them to be the
best, and we believe they are the best.
25c¢.
—I2. J. Senn wants to buy 400 Ibs of
beeswax. Highest market price paid.
The Old Standard :
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Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic
has st.ood the test. 25 years. Average annual sales
over One and a Half Million bottles. Does this record
of merit, appeal t.o you? No Cure, No Pay. e 50c.
Enclosed with every bottle is ¢’Ten Cent Package of GROVE'S BLACK ROOT LIVER PILLo.__ o
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Bronwood, Ga.
We announce to the farmers of Terrell county that we will again be
ready to serve them this season. All cotton stored with us will receive
our personal attention, and our best efforts will be used to secure the
highest market price for the staple. Our experience in the warehouse
business is a guarantee that our customers will receive the best Service,
We have purchased the interest ot Mr. S, W, Kennedy in the Key.
nedy Mill and Gin Co., and will continue its operation under i old
name and will give the public prompt attention and satisfactory serviee,
BRONWOOD. GA.
Embracing the newest novelties
and latest designs.
s WE ARE HEADQUARTES
We are the only dealers in this city
who offer the trade the new models
in Standard Grade Vehicles., We
have the production of the manu
facturers who are designers and
manutacturers of the highest grade
only. We have exclusive sale of
The Columbus, Coatland, Sun
mers and Babcock Buggies.
We also can suit you 'in medium
grade goods. Our prices are the
lowest and terms liberal,
Your triends.
LOWREY & DAVIDSON.
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