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FRAUD BY TELEGRAPH Bold Swindles Perpetrated by Use of the Wire. THE WAY A BANK WAS FOOLED A Lot of Nerve and a Little Telegram That Wai Properly Delivered by One of the Company’s Messenger Boys Mads a Winning Combination. Ninety-nine men out of a hundred will accept as gospel truth the contents of a telegram when it comes from the bands of a messenger boy. They buy and sell, pay out large sums of money, start on long journeys and do countless other things upon the suggestion of the little yellow or white paper slips with their condensed messages without In the least questioning their authenticity. This is an Interesting fact, upon which binges an enormous amount of the country’s business, and it is also a fact upon which hinge some of the clever est and boldest frauds In criminal rec ords. A lot of nerve and a little telegram was a combination that made possible a smooth swindle on a Des Moines bank. A well dressed man, apparently a business man of large affairs, called at the paying teller’s window with a draft or check on an Omaha bank and asked if the Omaha bank had tele graphed notice that the draft was good. He got "no” for an answer and then informed the teller that such a telegram might be expected at any moment. Soon afterward the telegram arrived, delivered by a messenger boy, ap)>eiiring to have come from the Oma ha bank and authorizing the Des Moines bank to pay the draft. When the stranger appeared again he was given the SSOO. When the Des Moines bank people took up the matter by wire with the Omaha bank It found that the latter institution bad not sent , the telegram, and then it was discov ered that the whole transaction was a fraud. But how could the swindlers send a telegram from Omaha bearing the bank's name? They did It In this manner: An accomplice of the Des Moines man stepped to a telephone booth In Omaha and called the tele graph office. "This is the bank," : he said. "Send a messenger nt once to get a telegram for Des Moines.” Then this accomplice hurried to the entrance of the Omaha bank to meet the messenger and there handed him the message for Des Moines. The telegraph company lind no reason to believe otherwise than that the bank had actually signed the message, and it transmitted It. The Dos Moines bank also accepted the telegram as genuine because it bore every mark of genuineness, and It paid out the money to the swindlers, who timed their fraud so that they got out of reach of the law on trains that left Immediately after their game bad been worked. In two smaller western towns a sim ilar game was worked, only for seven or eight times the amount. An alleged horse buyer appeared In one of the towns and made purchase of a carload of tine animals to be delivered and paid for at a later day, preceding which he made the acquaintance of the officers of one of the banks. On the day fixed for the delivery of the horses the alleged buyer deposited In the bank a draft for n large amount drawn on a bank In another town a hundred miles away. At the same time the bank received a telegram purporting to come from the distant bank author ising the payment of this draft. The bank believed the telegram, paid out the money and then discovered that the telegram was fraudulent. It had not been sent by the second bank, but by a confederate of the alleged horse buyer Later developments disclosed that this accomplice bad called up the telegraph office In the distant town by telephone. “This Is , cashier of the bank," he said. “I’lease send this ' telegram for me." Then he gave the message authorizing the first bank to pay the bogus draft, and this message the telegraph company sent without suspecting that. It was fraudulent. Some years ago an eastern man was Induced to invest In worthless mining stock on the basis of a fraudulent tele gram purporting to come from an ex pert he had sent out to investigate the mluing property, but which was in reality sent In a manner similar to the above by a confederate. This eastern man’s faith In telegrams cost him some thing more than SIO,OOO. The story of a fraud with an amus ing side comes from across the water, with a London man of rather convivial habits as the victim. This man was forgetful and used to leave at home his office and safe keys. He also had a practice of leaving the city surrepti tiously for a day uow and then for a convivia! time with friends, all un known to his wife. One day this busi ness man went on one of his periodical jaunts, and a rogue who knew his habits ventured to send this telegram to his wife: “Please send my keys. Love. Freddy." In due course of time the keys were delivered at the office door, and the rogue was there to re ceive them. He ransacked the whole office at his leisure, safe aid ail. Late that night the business man came home and was teased by his wife for his for getfulness. This was news to him. but he kept his counsel. The next morning he discovered that his office had been robbed. —B. K. Mann in Pitts burg Dispatch. The affections are like lightning. Tou (ysr.not tell where they will strike until tkay have fallen.—Lacordaliv ATHLETIC TRAINING. To Acquire an Excess of Muoolo May Prove Injurious. Nothing could be more elusive than the Idea that by a period of athletic training a man can lay In a stock of health and strength upon which he can draw later while engaged In a seden tary occupation. The truth is that the big muscles and hypertrophied heart of the athlete are perilous possessions for the man who no longer has the time or the Inclination for using them. When he stops the exercises by which be gained them. Instead of simply re turning to their original size they suf fer one or another of the many forms of degeneration and become incapable of performing their original services. It Is not quite true that all exercise for Its own sake is harmless, for it Is well to be prepared for the meeting of life's little emergencies as well as Its ordinary and dally demands, but It probably is true that, the emergencies apart, every man does enough In going about his customary business and pleasure to keep himself In the condi tion which that business and pleasure demand and that anything besides Is superfluous or injurious. That athletics take one Into the open air is less a commendation of athletics than an in dictment of our houses, offices and stores for lack of adequate ventilation. If all the air we breathe was pure air we could get along well enough with out any open air at all. Any man who has the muscle he needs for doing the things ho wants to do and should do has all the muscle he ought to have. To acquire more is a silly waste of time and perilous-besides.—New York Times. FEET OF SEA BEASTS. Their Appearance When the Skin Is Stripped Off. Os all the feet that I have looked at I know only one more utterly ridicu lous than the twisted flipper on which the sea Hon props his great bulk in front, and that is the forked fly flap which extends from the hinder part of the same. How can It be worth any beast’s while to carry such an absurd apparatus with It just for the sake of getting out Into the air sometimes and pushing oneself about on the Ice and being eaten by polar bears? The por poise has discarded one pair, turned the other into docent fins and recovered a grace and power of motion In water which Is not equaled by the greyhound on land. Why have the seals hung back? I believe I know the secret. It Is the baby! No one knows where the porpoise and the whale cradle their newborn Infants—it Is so difficult to pry into the domestic ways of these sen people—but evidently the seals cannot manage it, so they are forced to return to the land when the cares of maternity nre on them. I have called the feet of these sea beasts ridiculous things, and so they nre ns we see them. But strip off the skin, and, 10. there appears a plain foot, with Its five digits, each -of sev eral joints, tipped with claws, nowise essentially different, in short, from that with which the toad or frog first set out In a past too distant for our Infirm imagination. Admiration Itself Is paralyzed by a contrivance so sim ple, so transmutable and so sufficient for every need that time and change could bring.—Strand Magazine. A Willing Scot. Dean Ramsay has a story of that border hostility between English and Scots which used to go to halter lengths. A Scottish drover was re turning from the south in particularly bad humor with the English, having done poor business, when he saw in Carlisle a notice offering a reward of £SO to any one who would volunteer for the unpopular task of hanging a condemned criminal. Seeing his chance to make up. for his bad market and comforting himself with the thought that he was unknown there, he did the job and got his fee. As be was leaving he was taunted as a beggarly Scot, doing for money what no Eng lishman would. But he answered, with a cheerful grin, “I’ll hang ye a' at the price," Ways to an Untimely End. The catalogue of the ways and means employed by otherwise sensible people to incur the risk of disease and an untimely end include running to catch trolley ears, breathing rapidly through the mouth Instead of deeply through the nose, eating too hastily and overeating, "slouching" Instead of standing and walking in an ereet attitude, using un necessary stimulants, failing to oxter minate the pestilential housefly, which goes blithely about carrying the germs of disease; sleeping in 1U ventilated rooms and falling to protect food from files and other insects by proper screen ing.—Philadelphia Press. Hard Luck. Bob Footlite (actor) Failure? I should think it was! The whole play was ruined. She —Gracious! How was that? Bob Footlite—Why, at the end of the last act a steam pipe burst and hissed me off the stage. The Telegraph. The first royal speech transmitted by telegraph was that delivered by the late Queen Victoria when she opened parliament on Nov. 15, 1837. The specs! of transmission was fifty-five words a minute. A Useless Effort. Visitor—l suppose you men in public life weigh your words? Senator— What’s the use? Some newspaper fel low is sure to come along and monkey with the scales —Judge. Exhaustive observation is an element of every great achievement.—Spenser THS SVMMSXVHXS MBWB THVMDAT, SEPTEMBER M. lIM. SUBMARINE RIVERS. Cold Water Currents Flowing Along the Deep Sea Bottom. The bottom currents of seas and oceans, such as those which possibly bring amber to our shores, are strange ly disposed. The seigneur of Sark some fifty years ago was shipwrecked in his yacht near the island of Guernsey. He lost, among other things, a well fas tened. strongly made chest containing silver plate. It was found a year later in deep water off the coast of Norway and restored to him. In the really deep sea over a thou sand fathoms down there are well marked broad currents which may be described as rivers of very cold water (only 4 degrees or so above freezing point). They flow along the deep sea bottom and are sharply marked off from the warmer waters above and to the side. Their inhabitants are differ ent from those of the warmer water. They are due to the melting of the polar ice. the cold water so formed sinking at once owing to Its greater density below the warmer water of the surface currents. These deep currents originate in both the arctic and antarctic regions.—Sir Ray Lankester in London Telegraph. Go With A Rush. The demand for that wonderful Stomach, Liver and Kidney cure, Dr. King’s New Life Pills—is astounding. say they never saw the like. Its because they never fail to cure Sour Stomach, Constipation, indigestion, biliousness, jaundice, sick headache, chills and malaria. Only George IV.’s Hoardings. One of the most inveterate boarders on record was George IV. Not only was he averse to destroying books and papers, but he preserved everything that could possibly be kept. When be died all the suits of clothes he had worn for twenty years were discovered and sold by public auction. His execu tors also found secreted In various desks, drawers and cupboards numer ous purses and pocketbooks crammed full of money to the extent, it is said, of £20.000. together with more senti mental treasures In the form of locks i of hair from the tresses of forgotten , beauties of the court.—London Graphic. A Sprained Ankle. As usally treated a sprained ankle will disable the injured person for a month or more, but by applying Chamberlains Liniment and observing the directions with each bottle faith fully, a cure may, in most cases, be effected in less than one week’s time This liniment is a most remarkable preparation; try it for a sprain or a ' bruise, or when laid up with chronic or muscular rheumatism, and you are certain to be delighted with the prompt relief which it affords. For sale by Summerville Drug Co., Sum merville, Ga. A Lesson In Physiology. The school superintendent was in | the habit of dropping in to the dlffer- ■ ent class rooms and demanding a re i cltal of lessons from the pupils. One day her active mind bit upon physiol ogy as the study for examination. It happened that the teacher did herself not like the study of the hu | man anatomy and therefore had not drilled her scholars as she should have done. But the little girl to whom the first question was put so bewildered the superintendent and made her lose her patience that there were no more questions of a similar nature asked. "Tell me." said the superintendent. ' “what a skeleton is.” The little girl thought for a short time. "A skeleton?" she asked. “A skele ton? Why. a skeleton is a man with his insides out and his outsides off.”— New York Times. WHY? From a small beginning the sale and use of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy has extended to all parts of the United States and to many for eign countries. Why? Because it has proved especially valuable for coughs and colds. For sale by Sum merville Drug Co., Summerville, Ga. Disappointment. Head Waiter-What’s the matter with that dyspeptic looking old chap over there at the fourth tabla? Assistant—He’s got a grouch. He was getting all ready to make a kick about that cantaloupe, and he found it was a good one.”4-Chicago Tribune. Two Painters. Highbrow (boastfully)-I get 20 cents a word for my stuff. I’m a word painter. Lowbrow (scornfully)—That's nothing. I get $2 a word for mine. I'm a sign paicrer Exchange. Testifies After Four Years Carlisle Center, N. Y. t G. B. Bur hans, writes: “About four years ago ■ 1 wrote you that I had been entire ly cured of kidney trouble by tak ing two bottles of Foley’s Kidney Remedy, and after four years I am again pleased to state that I have never had any return of those symp tc ms, and i am oveidcntly cured to stay cured.” Foley’s Kidney Remedy will do the same for you. Sold by all druggists. There Must be Merit In the easiest selling Policies on the Market. When Placed they Insure Satisfied Policyholders who are Pleased to Continue as a Part of, and a Helping Factor in the Company s Further Devel opment. The Rapid Growth Since Going on a Legal Reserve Basis and the Present Financial Strength of the STATE MUTUAL OF GEORGIA Testifies to this Fact. Organized as Legal Reserve Company under Georgia Laws September, 1905. Outstanding Insurance in Force Over $40,000,000 HERE IS RECORD OF PAST YEAR’S GROWTH: June 30, 1908 June 30, 1909 Amount gained Percentage gain. Admitted Assets $1,566,371.10 $2,337,577-52 $771,206.42 49% Legal Reserve 1,440.683.32 2,068,581.97 627,898.65 44% Net Surplus 81,107.49 204,957.85 123,550.36 152% THE STATE MUTUAL has atttained a distinction in its field of operation for Progressiveness, Tem pered with sufficient amount of conservation to be conducive of a healthy growth and to insure the Safety of the interests of its policyholders. It stands pre-eminent among southern companies in size and substantiality. State Mutual Policies are the Quintessence of the Best there is in Life Insurance. All Standard Policy Contracts are Issued, Including Four Different Guaranteed Dividend Policies which Provide for Liberal Returns in the Shape of Dividends to be Insured. During the Past Year the State Mutual has Paid to Policy-holders in Dividends over $220,000.00 which is an Increase of 217 per cent over the Preceding year. Besides this It has, During the Same Period, Paid in Death Claims and other Payments to Policyholders $332,000.00 and at the same Time Gained in Surplus as shown above. Write for Particulars Concerning our Policies, and Cost * You. State Your Age. STATE MUTUAL LIFE INSURzANCE CO. W. M. JONES, Agent. C. R. PORTER, President. Lyerly, Ga. Head Office: Rome, Ga. PETITION FOR CHARTER. Georgia, Chattooga County. The petition of D. G. Crabtree, L. S. Colyar of Hamilton county, Tenn., and J. M. Bellah of Chattooga coun ty, Ga., respectfully shows: First. That they desire for them selves, their associates and succes sors, to be incorporated and made a body politic under the name and style of TAYLOR’S RIDGE MINING COMPANY, for a period of twenty years with the privilege of renewal at the expiration of said term. Second. That the object of said corporation Is pecuniary gain to its stockholders. The principal office of said Com pany shall be Summerville, State and County aforesaid, but petitioners de sire the right to establish such branch offices either in this state or else where, as may seem expedient to the stockholders and directors of said Company. Fourth. The business to be car ried on by said Corporation is mining iron ore, shipping and selling the same, buying and selling and leasing mineral lands and to deal generally in the sale and purchase of lands for all purposes; to manufacture lumber, buy and operate saw-mills, build houses, to build and operate tram rail roads and dirt roads and areial rail roads for the purpose of mining and hauling timber or ores. To carry on a general merchandising, to buy goods and operate general store or stores In connection with said busi ness. Fifth. The capital stock of said Corporation shall be Two Hundred Thousand Dollars with the privilege of increasing the same to Three Hun dred Thousand Dollars, said stock to be divided into shares of One Hundred Dollars each. 10 per cent of said capital stock has been paid in. Petitioners further de sire the right to issue both common and preferred stock in such propor tion as the stockholders may deter mine. Sixth. Petitioners desire the right to mortgage their holdings of real estate or such interests as they may have therein for the purpose of se curing such bonds as they may desire to issue, not to exceed in amount the authorized capital stock of said Corporation, under such con ditions and regulations as may seem proper and to the inter ests of said Company, to be deter mined by all of said stockholders in such way and manner as may be adopted by said stockholders at a regularly called meeting. ’ Seventh. Petitioners desire the right to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded; to have and use a common seal, to make all by-laws and regulations, and to do any and all things that may be necessary for the successful carrying on of said business; to do any and all acts that an individual could do, including the right to buy, hold and sell real-estate and personal property, and execute notes and bonds and secure the same by mortgage security, deeds or other wise, according to law. Eighth. They desire for said Cor poration the power and authority to apply for and accept amendments to its charter, by a vote of a majority of its stock. Wherefore, petitioners pray to be incorporated under the name and I style aforesaid, with all of the pow-I ers, privileges and immunities herein I set forth and is now allowed or may I hereafter be allowed a Corporation of similar cnarter, under the laws of Georgia. This August 23, 1909. J. M. BELLAH, Attorney for Petitioners. Georgia, Chattooga county. I, J. N. Rush, Clerk of the Supe rior Court of Chattooga County, here by certify that the above and fore going is a true and correct copy of the application for charter of the Taylor’s Ridge Mining Company, as the same appears on file in this of fice. Witness my hand and seal, this the 23rd day of August, 1909. J. N. RUSH, Clerk Superior Court C. C. Ga., Habit From the Dungeon. Convicts who were forced lo drag about a ball and chain at the galleys could often be detected when released by their habit of trailing one foot after the other. John Boyle O’Reilly, condemned to convict life in Australia for bis Fenian sympathies, had also in after years a habit which told a like sad story. One who knows him said: When walking abstractedly and me chanically he always went a short dis tance and then retraced his steps, no matter how wide a stretch he had be fore him. It was always three paces forward, turn and three paces back, exactly like the restless turning of a Hon in a cage. One day I asked him. "Boyle, what was the length of your cell when you were in prison—how many paces?” “Three.” he said. “Why do you ask?" “Because when you are absentmind ed you always walk three paces for ward and then retrace your steps.” Why Druggists Recommend Chamber lain’s Colic, Cholera and Di arrhoea Remedy. Mr. Frank C. Harahan, a prominent druggist of Portsmouth, Va., says: “For the past six years I have sold and recommended Chamberlain’s Col ic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. It is a great remedy and one of the best patent medicines on the market. I handle some others for the same pur pose that pay me a larger profit, but this remedy is so sure to effect a cure and my customers are so certain to appreciate my recommending it to them, that I give it the preference.” For sale by Summerville Drug Co., Summerville, Ga. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER’S C ASTORIA —— We Ask You to take Cardui, for your female troubles, because we are sure it will help you. Remember that this great female remedy— "CARDUI has brought relief to thousands of other sick women, so why not to you? For headache, backache, periodical pains, female weak ness, many have said it is “the best medicine to take.” Try it! Sold in This City „ KSLLthe couch and CURE THE LUNCS Dr. King's Blew Discovery fohCSlos 18 AND ALL THR3AT ANO LUNG TROUBLES. 5 GUARANTEED SATISFACTORY ■j OR MONEY REFUNDED. - 60 YEARS* H f ' L —T / A K @ B * I ■ s ■! k B Fw 1 H Trade Marks rWHERWV Designs 'FvtVT ’ Copyrights Ac. Anvone sending a sketch and description may qnlckly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is probably patentable. Communica tions strictly confidential. HANDBOOK onPatenta sent free. Oldest agency for secnrlDß patents. Patents taken through Munn ft Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American A handsomely Illustrated weekly. Lamest cir culation of any scientific journal. Terms. S 3 a year: four months, |L Bold by all newsdealers. MUNN &Co. 36,BrMd -’ f ’New York Branch Office. 625 F Bt~. Washington. D. C. FOLEY’S KIDNEY CURE WILL CURB YOU of any case of Kidnc p? Bladder disease that iS t beyond the reach of mt j. cine. Take it at once not risk having Bright's Ij IS _ ease or Diabetes. The*. <•_ nothing gained by dela' 50c. and SI.OO Bottf •• SOLD BY ALL DRJ>- ’'W*- f