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. l'l'-i-l-H-H-H-r 1 t-M-l-i ■l"t"!: ■!'l 'M Ii I i :: We have moved in our new place at 845 :: ® I :: Broad street, Rome, Ga. If you are wanting ;; i | ;; £J| H | I JIL GOOD GLOTHING H s i /\vT W w//7t •V. •A :: E n'i \v v « Clothing that will fit you and your boys, come •• ® I I 'l l V tO See & OWENS, but if you want shod- ;; | | | (• | dy goods you can get that in Rome at OTHER j- i II PLACES. We also keep the best line of ii I I Fv iI I • jM* .1 J ™.y.rT LEATHER SHOES, ;; I i I r /mDSIi AND WE ME2IN ABL LEATHER. We know ;• | S| Mis fS"" rl vvi what the people need and if you will come to :: | m ? r/j Wj us we will give you the worth of your money | * "°'.' ■ 11 I* p HILL &c OWENS I | •J 245 BROAD STREET, ROME, GEORGIA THE 34 GREATEST DISCOVERIES And Achievements of the Past One Hundred Years. 1. Anaesthetics. —The first practi cal application of anaesthetics was in 1844, by Dr. Horace Wells. of j Hartford, and later by Dr. Morton in the Massachusetts General llospit-j nl. Formerly surgeons did not dare oiwri the skull, chest or abdomen be cause pain killed the patient. Now those regions are "the playground of surgeons." 2. Vaccination. —It was about 1890 that pr. Honeh, of Gottingen, discov cred among othr serums, the anti toxin for dlptherla, thereby render Ing the disease practically harmless Vaccination for smallpox was first practiced by Jenner In 1769, but was regarded with such suspicion that It was not generally resorted to un til far into the nineteenth century. 3. Electric Light.—Sir Humphrey . Davy produced the first electric light In 1802 but was th.irt v years after ■ that the first electric light that could be regardtsl as practical was seen — that of Jules Duson. Thomas A. Ed ison Invented in 1880 the incandocent [ light, now practically universal, and Nicola Tesla alternating current. 4. Sewing Machine.- Elias Howe’s patent for his sewing machine—the first of much practical value —was in • sued in 1848. Thomas Saint, of En- . gland, had the idea as early as 1790. The sewing machine is now an as- ; \ resaory of nearly every home and is used in thousand* of clothing facto ries. It has greatly lowered garment prices. 5. The Atuomobile It was in ISS4 that Gottlieb Daimler invented his small light speed ga- ! engine. Horse less carriges have been known since WANTED Girls to Work in Knitting Mill. Nice, Clean, Healthy Employment. Good wages. (Good Churches and Schools and pleasant sur roundings. For full particulars address DAVIS HOISERY MILLS, East Chattanooga, Tennessee. m 1790, but the modern automoible dates from 1887. There are now up ward of 150,000 automobiles in use In the United States alone. The speed record is ten miles in eight min-: utes and twenty-three and one-fifth 1 seconds. 6. Diamond Drill. —The present dia mond drill Is an improvement upon 'the first drill with a hollow boring rod in vented by Eauvelle and exhib-I ited in Eranee in 1846. It is indis i pensable in modern mining and oil well work, it will sink 2,000 feet, 1 giving a complete core of the strata ' through which it cuts. 7. Tunnels. The first great tunnel ' project of the century was to bore I a railroad tube under the Ilritieh ehan i nel. It was abandoned in 1893. but may yet be done. The boring of Sim pion Tunnel. 21.576 yards long, was completed in 1905. It cost $14,000,- 000. The tunnels under the Hudson and East rivers are among the great est teats in engineering. 8. Antiseptics.—Antiseptics for the ; prevention of disase were discovered ' by Dr. Joseph Lister, of Edinburg, in 1879. The mortality in serious surgi- I cal operations has been reduced from I 60 to barely 15 per cent., which fact is regarded as largely due to the use of the protective antiseptic now always used. 9. Wireless Telegraph.—Prof. A. C. St einhell, of Munich, gave the world i the first clear anticipation of wire less telegraphy in 1840. but nothing practical resulted until Shoemaker, the inventer, and Marconi, aliout 1898 ; made the "wireless’’ a solid and substantial success. It saved hun dreds of lives in a recent steamship collission. Messages are now trans mitted 2.500 miles. ’ 10. Phonograph.—The first phono graph was patented on June 13. 1863. THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1909. but it was not until Thomas A. Ed ison announced his patent in 1877 that the world may be said to have possessed real phonograph. The mod ' ern instruments are so excellent as ' to preserve almost perfectly the voice !of the greatest singers, j 11. Trolley Car. In 1881 an elec tric tramway one and a half miles long was built in Lincterfelde (Berlin • The first trolley car line operated with success in America was built in Richmond, Va., by Lieut. Sprague, ! in 1887. There is no considerable ' city in the world today without its i electric traction service. 12. Friction Match. —John Walker, of Stockton-on-Tees, was the man ' who achieved in 1829 the wonderful invention of the Lucifer or friction match. Up to that time the most | primitive methods of making fire — ! the flint and steel and the tinder' box —were in use. The most highly developed form of the modern match is the safety match, made in Sweden and Norway. 13. Flyyig Machine. —The first to demonstrate the practibility of navi gating the air with a heavier-than-, , air machine were the Wright brothers' of Dayton, Ohio. They made their first great achivement in 1908. Glenn . Curtis holds the speed record of for ty-nine miles on hour. Bleriot the distance record of 140 miles, and the Wrights the height record —700 feet. 14. Round-the-World Record. —Two New York school boys. Walter Brown and John Munnich. under the patron-' age of the New York American, made a new record for circling the globe only last month. They completed the trip in forty-one days and eight hours—a little more than half the time predicted by Jules Verne in his famous book. "Around the World in Eighty Days." 15. Four-day Ocean Liner. —The steamship Lusitania, on its trip end ing in New York September 3. last made the course from Dunt’s Rock to the Ambrose Channel lightship in four days eleven hours and forty-two minutes, at an average of 25.85 knots an hour. In the early years of the country it took thirty days to cross 16. Telephone.—To Alexander Gra- 16. Telephone.—To Alexander Gha ham Bell belongs the credit of the invention of the first practical tele phone. in 1875. It was at first consid ered a toy. Now more than $1,060.- 000.000 are invested in its indispensa ble use. It is regarded as having reached perfection in its present torn but experiments with wireless tel ephone are promising. i 17. Locomotive. —In 1814 George Stephenson's locomotive was run in England at six miles an hour. The ! modern engines of highest develop . ment have a speed of ninety-nine ) miles an hour. There are 58,301 lo comotives now operated in the Unit ed States over 254,982 miles of track. Peter Cooper built the first locomo tive in America in 1830. 18. Atlantic Cable. —To Cyrus W. Field belongs the main honor of lay ing the first ocean cable. He con ceived the plan in 1857. A cable was laid in 1858 and a few messages sent, but it was not until 1896, that permanent success was gained and the practicability of marine telegraph assured. Cables now underlie all seven seas. 19. Harvester. —Henry Ogle, of En -1 gland, conceived the key idea of the ' modern mowing machine in 1822. The machines of today are simply ini provements of Ogle’s idea. A single steam reaper on the Dakota wheat I farms does the work of eighty men with far greater dispatch and efficien cy than could do. 20. Rotary Press. —The first cylin -1 der press was patented in Germany in 1811 by Frederick Konig. The ro i tary press, in primitive form, was patented by Nicholson in 1790, but the Walter press invented by McDon ald and Calverly (1862-63) was a great practical advance. The best modern machines print, paste and fold 60,000 papers an hour. I 21. Electric Motor. —In 1837 Robert i Davidson experimented on theE din ' burgh and Glasscow railroad with a i car run by an electro magnetic en gine supplied by a galvanic battery. Siemens, in Berlin, constructed a car ' that ran seven miles an hour with a ' dynamo. The present highest power electric locomotives have a speed of ninety-two miles an hour. 22. Submarines. —Although a prim itive submarine boat was built by a Dutchman named Drebell in 1771. and Robert Fulton experimented with a i similar boat in Frannie, the effect ive war submarine is a development of the last fifteen years. The Hol land and Lake submarines descend fifty to seventy-five feet and remain under indefinitely. I 23. Skyscraper. —The construction ‘of lofty buildings is a development of the last t venty-five years. They i were made practicable by the inven tion of the electric elevator. The loftiest skyscraper in the world was • completed only this year—the Met iropolitan building in New York. It [is 657 feet, 5 inches high. 3 ' 24. X-Ray.—Prof. W. C. Roent- i gen, on Oct. 8, 1865, while experi > menting with a Crooke’s observ - ed that some rays proceeding from 3 the tube passed through the black - paper and affected a fluotrescent - Thus he hit upon the great discov . ery of the X-Ray, by which the inte- - rior of our bodies is now photograph ed. . | 25. Spectrum.—The spectroscope, - so essential to astromical research - and by means of which is it pos- ■ sible to analyse the substances of i the most distant planets and say whether they are gaseous, solid or I liquid, was perfected by Gustav Rob ert Kirchoff, of Germany, working I in conjunction with Bunsen, in 1895. i 26. Discovery of North Pole. —Dr. . Frederick A. Cook, of Brooklyn, an . nounced on Sept. 2, 1909, that he , had discovered the North Pole on April 22, 1908. Five days later Com , mander Robert E. Peary telegraphed that he had reached the pole on April 6, 1909. American scientists . have yet to examine complete rec ords of the claims. 27. Origin of Species.—lt was by the publication of Darwin’s celebrat ed book, "The Origin of Species,” . in 1859, that biological science was revolutionized. The work at once changed the whole current of human thought and is regarded by many as the greatest epoch-making book ever written. : 28. Typewriter.—M. Foucault sent to the Paris exhibition in 1855 a writing machine for the blind. After . successive improvements the Rem ington typewriter, invented in 1868 by S. L. Sholes, of Milwaukee, was ■ placed on the market in 1873. The record for speed on a typewriter is • 208 words a minute. 29. Bessmer Steel. —Sir Henry Bes semer first made steel by passing ■ cold air through liquid iron in 1856. . Twenty tons of crude iron have been i converted into cast steel in twenty . three minutes. Steel bridges and skyscraper buildings were the chil dren of Bessemer’s brain. ! 30 Cotton Gin. —.Although the saw I gin for the separation of cotton • from the pod was invented by Eli Whitney an American, in 1793, the i revolution in the industry which it produced may be said to be a feat ure of the last century the export of cotton from the United States • alone in 1907 was 9.036,434 bales. The 1908 crop was 11.582,000 bales. j 31. Photography.—The first to • found a process of photography ! which gave pictures that light could - not dim was Thomas Wedgewood, - )London 1802( Niepee accomplish ed better results in 1814. Instanta- t neous photography was invented in < 1844 between Washington and Balti t J. Muybridge in the University of - Pennsylvania. 32. Telegraph.—The telegraph was - invented between 1832 and 1842 by Samuel F. B. Morse. He established , the first working telegraph line in i 1844 between ashWington and Balti . more. The fihst message was sent [ on May 24 of that year. More than • 1,700,000 miles of wire are now in ■ operation in the United States. -1 33. Steamboat. —The first steam- ; boat, Clermont, was built by Robert . Fulton in 1807. It made its maiden . trip from New York to Albany in thir - ty-two hours, its avreage speed be ; ing five miles an hour. The Cler i mont is now followed by the Lusita . nia, crossing the ocean in 108 hours I at a speed of almost twenty-six i knots an hour. ; 34. Wood Pulp. —The first patent for the manufacture of paper from ; wood puip was taken out in Italy in ■' 1828. Des Grand, Johnson and New- - ton added improvements. Houghton '' took out a patent about 1857. Volter, ; of Heidenheim, later produced a vast >| ly improved pulp paper. The annual i export of paper from the United , States is valued at $9,856,733. —Ex. Good yoke work cattle for sale. —H. D. Mallicoat. j □ Wood’s Descriptive Q Fall Seed Catalog Know ready, give# the fullest information about all Seeds for the Faria and Garden, Grasses and Cloven, Vetches, Alialfa, Seed Wheat, Oats. Rye, Barley, etc. Alio tells ill about Vegetable &. Flower Seeds that ean ba planted in the fall to ad ran tag's and profit, and about Hyacinths. Tulip- and other Flowering Sulba. Vegetable and Strawberry Plants. Poultry Supplies and Fertilisers. Tver? Fanner and Osrdonar sbaald bare this ’»talot Itt• InralaabU In 1U halpfqlnosi and tcsgMtt»e Wratfct I a profltabla and satlrfacscry Farm or Gxrdeu. Catalogue mailed free on request. Write for it- T. W, WBBBISBSS, I Seedsmen • Richmond, Va. O ■4