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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-04
What to Do in a Thunderstorm
Pels Can Be Eliminated the Proper Precautions Are Taken

the Straits Of Malaoca. the powder
magazine exploded and every soul was
lost except three sailors If that had
occurred in the middle of the ocean. no
doubt the ship would have been added
to the list of the mysteriously missing.
Modern iron and steel ships are in
little danger. They present broad,
conducting surface for the escape of
the electricity The latter like water
is only dangerous when it is, so to
speak. crowded into a narrow channel,
with a steep descent and no ready way
to escape. The flood that comes down
from a broken reservoir through mar
row ravine destroys everything in its
path but it spreads out harmlessly the
moment it enters a broad plain. So a
charge Of electricity disspates Itself
without violence if many ways of es-
cane are presented to it,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-04
Lightning Stroke Is
From / to 10 Miles Long.

The spark from an electric machine
is a baby lightning stroke. AS the disk
of the machine is turned. more and
more electricity accumulates on the
polished knob, called the conductor
until the surrounding air can no longer
resist the strain, and then a spark
passes between the knob and some OBJ
ject placed near, on which contrary
charge has been produced By the Gu
rious property of induction.
But the spark from the most power
ful electric machine is but a few inches
in length while a lightning stroke may
be from a mile to ten miles long No
sudden phenomenon Of. nature. except
perhaps volcanic explosion. is more
startlingly suggestive of terrific power
than bolt of lightning Considering
the immense number of strokes that fly
from cloud to cloud and from cloud tc
earth during a severe thrunder storm. it
seems wonderful that lightning is not
more destructive than experience has
proved il to be our relative security is
due 10 the fact that most Of the dis
charges take lace between clouds, aud
that when the lightning strikes earth-
ward it usually has an nfnity of points
presented TO it, which offer ready ways
for its escape and DISSIPATION This is
why isolated objects, especially il they
are long and pointed at the top, are the
most liable to be struck Tail. pointed
objects, especially if they are metallic
serve to draw off the electricity from
the clouds Without an explosive dis
charge
The danger from lightning at sea was
greater in the old DAYS Of wooden ships
Then serious damage. or even desuuc-
ton from lightning was not a very IN
common occurrence 1t .has beer
thought that some cases Of the disap-
pearance Of ships at sea may have beer
due to lightning = British ship. tbs
Resistance. was struck by lightning II
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-04

TIME season of thunder storms has
opened and in no country are
the electric marvels of the at
mosphere more imposingly displayed
than in the United States. They are
among natures most magnificent spec
tacles.
We should learn to look upon these
without fear They are full of danger,
but their perils can be almost com
pletely eliminated by proper precau-
tions. All fatal accidents from light
ming are due to neglect of such precau-
tions. Lightning rods properly placed
and cared for, furnish an all but abso-
lutte protection for buildings, Great
cities are SO full of ready made tracks
for electric discharges that violent
thunder storms passing over them
seldom cause any serious damage by
lightning The sudden gusts of wind
do more harm than the electric dis
charges.
statistics show that the danger is
greatest in the open country, and par
ticularly in billy and mountainous dis
tricts. In the year 1900 7lS persons
were killed by lightning in the United
states. and the greater number were
in the Rocky Mountain district and
the upper Missouri valley. In the same
year l,S42 domestic animals We're killed
in the United States by lightning. and
1S47 buildings were struck. Cattle
and sheep are ant to gather about iso-
lated trees on along Wire fences dur
ing thunder storm. and they are
sometimes killed in groups \ person
caught in a thunder storm While in the
open country should keep 100 yards
away from any tree that may happen to
stand in the field In dense woods he
is safer if he does not place himself
under some tall Tree Eight or nine
persons have been killed by single
stroke Of lightning while sitting under
an isolated tree. such a tree invites
lightning and offers il q ready path to
the ground one should also avoid the
neighborhood Of a body of water
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-04
By GARRETT P. SERVISS

particles We're separate It follows that
the combined charge on the surface Of
the larger drop is more intense than
were the charges on the separate parti-
cles In other words the potential Of
the charge is increased The whole
cloud becomes heavily charged as its
countless multitudes of drops grow
larger and larger
At the same time. through the eff
fects of what is called induction a
charge Of the opposite kind is produced
on neighboring cloud, or on the earth
beneath. As these charges increase in
intensity they strive to burst across
the Intervening air. and If the potential
becomes sufficient they do SO. The re-
suit is a lightning stroke.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-04
Now Is the Time For
Voters to Use Their Brains

Whatever conclusion patriotic
citizen may arrive at THIS a. arE
rate, is obligatory upon him ih4j
he do soue sald tainking tnat
break free from The onstra iHts r.
mere persona! prefereRe aud
noT That There IL H4 more ass
pauaing JUST ar present r-qmrse
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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-04
Electrical Charges in
Clouds Cause Lightning.

The cause of lightning is the accumu-
lation Of electric charges in the. clouds.
These charges grow stronger as the
particles Of water in the cloud coalesce
TO form larger drops. Electricity re-
sides on the surface Of the charged par
ucles. and Is they coalesce the surface
increases proportonallv less than the
volume The consequence is that the
electricity contributed by each particle
70 The united mass has less space to
spread itself over than il had when the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-04
DR.. Parkhurst's
What the Voters Must
Now Decide
and
Public Opinion as a
Moving Force
Written For The Georgian
Bv the Rev. DR.. c. H. Parkhurst

Il = ~ L
porting with the urgency Of the
crisis.
We are not pleading FOR or
against either candidate Of either
party, but are urging that in view
of the unsettlement Of mind Just
now prevailing in regard to almost
every great question, a blunder
committed at this juncture IS GER
tain to be a momentous blunder
and liable to be fraught with in
calculable disaster.
If man has brains. now Is the
time to use them, and if he has a
conscience, now is a good time to
Set il to work.
a NEWSPAPER criticism was
n passed the other day upon
Police Commissioner Waldo
Of New York for giving to the pub
lie his information regarding the
delinquencies of certain Of our
courts. instead Of putting tina, IN
formation in the hands Of the bar
association or Of other parties quail
ihed to take action in the premises.
To criticise the commissioners
policy in the matter is TO forget
that it is public sentiment really
that is the moving force in all civic
operations. a force that extends IL
self to the three departments Of
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, judi
eial and executive.
In a country like our own. any
movement that can be named. hav-
ing for its object the enactment
of law. its Interpretation or its ex-
ecution, VIII succeed if it has pub
lie sentiment behind It.
It is the people really that gov
ern. and if at times it seems 10 he
o+oor-,-is1 l. l.;
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-04
HE NEVER HAD A CHANCE

Yourself
By TAD
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-04

Yum's job IN the cafe held out until his voice
went back bit. The boss came up one evening
and told him that No bloke with cracked pipes
could chirp there so Yum was given the gate
and forced to seek pastures new He was smart
young fellow though and knew that he could get
in around the gambling district A fellow didn
need to know the war was over to horn in there,
so Yum grabbed job as lookout and assistant
stick in crap game.
All he had to do was to watch for suspicious
persons who might want to shoot craps, and then
when the stick man was out he would handle the
coin and call the dice.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-04

It was soft job There was really no hard
work about it Every night from to 10 you
could hear Yum calling out Who shoots (?
There YOU are; hands up and money down. boys;
he's coming out Ha. ha he shoots seven;
that 5 the old house number, boys. Get down on
the line the next man is ready Hands up and
money down.
Yum, of course. was merely the assistant up
there but he had enough for eats and haypile.
In his opinion it was better than Job at 500
per week working from 8 till 3 Yum knew you
couldn t fool him
TO be continued)
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-04

a LTHOUGH the American mind
n is liable to violent spasms of
h-steria, it is naturally sound
in its operations and ordinarily re
turns pretty promptly 10 its normal
condition.
1t may do a good deal that is ir-
rational and silly while its intelh-
gence is out of commission, but is
thing that is, on the whole and in
the long run, to be trusted.
At any rate. that has been the
case in times past.
A whirlwind campaign, like that
through which we have recently
been passing. in which the two
most conspicuous figures in our
national life have met in combat
as critical as that of David and
Goliath of Gath. has been as fran
tic as it has been barren Of sub
stantial results, and has thrown
the general mind into a turmoil of
distraction, absolutely disqualify-
ing it for reaching weu-thought
out conclusions.
a man can not think and shout
at the same time.
The case is like that of a certain
big locomotive. said to have been
built for one of the Southern rail-
roads, in which the whistling ap-
paratus was so immense and re-
CURED so much steam to fill it that
when the engineer wanted to whis-
tie he had to stop the engine.
It wouldn't whistle and go at the
same time.
The nominating stage of the cam
paign is now nearing completion,
and il is to be expected that the
general condition of exhaustion
consequent upon the performances
of the past month will be followed
by a lull precedent to the election
eering campaign proper.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-04
Time to Think, Now
That Engine Is Silent.

And now that the engine has sus-
pended its whistling and the people
their shouting. it is devoutly TO be
hoped that conditions of political
feverishness Will be so far abated
as to allow for brief season. at
any rate. Of temperate and serious
thinking.
Enthusiasm is not state Of mind
to be utterly decried; at the same
time. great and complex problems
require for their solution dehbera
ton that is quiet, careful and free
from heat and passion, and that is
something which we have had little
or nothing of.
We can NOT suppose that the
great majority of our citizens are
50 destitute Of patriotism as not 10
desire what is best for the country
or so intense in their personal likes
and dfslikes as not to be wiling 10
take into serious consideration the
revolutionary and turbulent temper
of the times the world over, and in
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-04
Two Enemies of Us All

On the Road to Success Almost Every These
Enemies: ConqueTing VICE and Sothful PROCRASTINA-
TON Few Succeed in Passing Them.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1912-03-29

A petition signed by twenty leading
citizens of Nicholas county was pub
lished in Carlisle Tuesday calling a
mass meeting of the citizens of that
county to be held at courthouse Mon
day, April 8, for the purpose of dis
cussiDg the proposition of returning to
toll gates on the turnpikes Of the coun-
ty. An investigation shows that there
is considerable toll gate sentiment in
Nicholas, but CORES bonding opposi-
ton is also found. The cause of the
agitation now is said to be the awful
condition of some of the roads which
is said to have resulted from the heavy
hauling of tobacco during the winter.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1912-03-29
DIAMOND NOTES.

Frankfort fans are very much en-.
Unused over the prospects for their
club during the coming season. A
meeting was held few nights ago
and much enthusiasm was manifested.
and all doubt removed that Franfort
will have a club in the Blue Grass
League this year.
Richmond fans have raised the
81. 900 necessary to support the club
this season and there is much reioic-
ing in the Pioneer town from the fact
that Al Grohe, who two years ago
managed the club so successfully will
again be at the helm. Grohe discover
ed Bill Allison and Roy Golden two
shining lights in the league, who have
since advanced to higher company.
and is expected to have a pepnant
winning bunch together when the bell
taps on May /.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1912-03-29
A Reader Cures His Constipation Try II Free
Simple way for any family retain the good health Of all Il. members

The editors of Health Hints" and
Questions and Answers" have one
question that is put to them more Of
ten than any other, and which
strangely enough, they find the most
difficult to answer. That is How
can | cure my constipation"
DR.. Caldwell, an eminent specialist
IN diseases of the stomach, liver and
bowels, has looked the whole field
over, has practised the speciality for
forty years and is convinced that the
ingredients contained in what is
called DIR. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin
has the best claim to attention from
constipated people.
It's success in the cure of stubborn
constipation has done much to dis
place the use of salts, waters, strong
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1912-03-29
New York Preacher Talks About
Next World.

Charles E. Jefferson, pastor of
Broadway Tabernacle in New York
City, writes in the April Woman
Home Companion wonderf lilly
interesting article, in which he says in
part:
"When one is tempted to complain
because God does not let us know in
this world what we are going to be
and do in the next, let him remember
that it is the nature of love to delight
in the giving ard receiving of sur
prises. Parents do not tell their chill
dren in alvance what they are going
to give them for Christmas. By keep
ing their children in suspense they add
to the measure of their children'S joy.
1t is with ignorance and knowledge
intermingled that boys and girls
awake on Christmas morning. They
do not know what Santa Claus has
brought; they are sure. however, that
it is something fine. The knowledge
and the ignorance are combined in
such proportions as to create lofty
form of rapture. What delight fathers
and mothers take in preparing sur
prises for their children. If we are
created in the image of God. and if
our nature is like unto the divine
nature, then why should we hesitate
to believe that God Himself rejoices
in surprising his children. If it would
make us better and happier in the long
run to know in this world what we are
to do in the next. He would undoubted-
ly tell US. Our ignorance is intended
to minister to our joy. We do not
know the precise things We are going
to receive, but we are certain they are
going to be fine. If we, being evil,
know how to give good gifts to our
children, and understand how to
arrange the giving of them in such a
way as to produce the highest possible
measure Of joy, how much more will
our Heavenly Father take delight in
those who love him, when
they awake on the eternal Easter
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1912-03-29
Oldest D. A. R. in State is Dead.

Mrs. Elizabeth Susan Switzer, aged
ninety-siX years, died at her home near
-Cynthiana Tuesday morning. Mrs.
Switzer was Kentucky's real Daugh-
ter Of the Revolution ard one of the
oldest women in the State.
She was an active member of the
Samuel Mcdowell Chapter, D. A. r.
of Cynthiana. and was the honoreo
guest of the State conference of the
Daughters four years ago. She was
born in Harrison county, KY. October
q, 1916, and was perhaps the oldest
active member of the revolutionary
daughters in the United States.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1912-03-29
The Question of Broken Rails

The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has full power to investigate rail-
road accidents and their causes and
make recommendations The Public
Service Commissions of this State
have similar powers, and so of the
Railroad Commission of other States.
If there be lacking in these bodies
power to prescribe in the manufacture
of rails, there is not lacking power to
expose carelessness and neglect and
false economy, either with railroads or
railmakers. in the purchase or con-
structinn of rails.
The situation demands sharper ex-
ercise of this admitted power. Hardly
a day now passes that does not bring
more or less disastrous accident from
breaking rails. The record for decade
extends to above 1000 casualties, to
mors than 100 deaths and to more than
1000 injured.
We know the cause. Railroad mana
gers and railmakers continue to juggle
with this issue of death to the travel
ing public in quarrel of shifting re-
sponsibility, and accidents from snap
ping rails go on. We have public bod
les clothed with authority to locate
this responsibility and to let the light
of publicity at least shine upon the
spot. Why are they not bringing this
power into active exercise.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1912-03-29

eathartics and such things. Syrup
Pepsin. by training the stomach and
bowel muscles to again do their work
naturally, and with its tonic ingredi-
ents strengthening the nerves, brings
about lasting cure. Among its
strongest supporters are Mr.. John
Graveline of 90 Milwaukee Ave-, De-
troit, Mich, and Mr.. ]. A. Vernon OF
Oklahoma City. Thousands of others
of both sexes have written to DR..
Caldwell telling of gratifying results
1t can be obtained of any druggist al
fifty cents and one dollar a bottle, or
if you want to try it first a free sam
pie bottle can be obtained by writing
the doctor.
For the free sample address DR.. w.
B. Caldwell, 402 Caldwell building,
Monticello, Ill.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1912-03-29
One Year. SO. 0O-Six Months. 81. 90
Payable in Advance
Entered at Postoffice at Paris, KY,
as mail matter of the second classl
ADVERTISING RATES

Display advertisements, $1.0O per
inch for first time; so cents per inch
each subsequent insertion.
Reading notices, 10 cents per line
each issue; reading notices in black
type, 20 cents per line, each issue.
Cards of thanks, calls on candidates,
obituaries and resolutions, and SINH
lar matt er. 10 cents per line,
Special rates for large advertise
ments and yearly contracts.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1912-03-29
Tax Wealth Instead of Poverty

Should a fiscal system which permits
those who own 80 per cent Of the
wealth of the United States to shout
der but ten per cent Of the burden of
taxation be remedled. The Democrat
lc House believes that it should, and
hence the passage of the excise in
come tax bill which Ievies a tax of
per cent On incomes in excess of S.. 600
year.
This does not mean that all persons
having more than S., 900 must pay a
tax On the excess of that sum. 1t
means that these who have an annual
income or profit of more than SIS, 600
must pay the per cent tax on all in
comes or profit exceeding $4,000. 1t
will be necessary in most cases for a
person to have a capitalized sum of
about 500, 900 before he is called upon
to pay ! per cent tax on that portion
in EXCESS of $4,000.
The standpatters, however, say this
plan is class legislation. They were
never heard to complain of the pres
ent system of raising revenue to run
the government as being class legis,a-
ticn, although it is even more class
legislation than that proposed under
the excise income tax bill. Under the
present system the burden falls entire
ly upon the masses, wealth alone being
the one thing untaxed for federal reve-
nue..
The masses of the people produce
the wealth and by legislative advan-
tage few get possession of it, and
now these few object to the transfer
of the tax from but one article of gen.
eral consumption-sugar-to wealth.
They would prefer that the govern
ment continue to tax sugar instead of
wealth. because they eat no more sug-
ar than the section hand or the mill
worker and therefore under the pres
ent system are compelled to pay no
greater tax to the government than
the poorest man.
The United States is practically the
only one of the great nations today
that raises practically all it's revenue
by taxing the people according to their
needs and practically according to
their poverty, and allows wealth to go
untaxed.
The government now raises S314,-
900, 900 annually by placing an import
duty or tariff on the ss the people
eat, wear or use. Banks, railroads and
steamship lines pay nothing because
they do not come in through the Gus
tums houses. Mr.. Rockefeller pays no
more taxes than the average citizen
because he uses no more of the things
the people must have in order to live
than does the average man.
If system which requires a mil.
lionaire to pay no more tax to the fed.
eral government than the section hand
or the mill worker is fair and Just,
there is no need of reform but if such
a system is unjust the excise income
tax bill is move in the right direc-
ton to remedy it.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1912-03-29
Educational Conference.

The Conference for Education in the
South will hold its annual session in
Nashville. Tenn, April 8. and 5. In
this conference leading educators.
statesmen, editors. lawyers, etc., meet
to discuss in broad, practical way
the fundamental problems of educa-
tion and life in in their application to
conditions in the Southern States.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1912-03-29
Old Whiskeys.

Sam Clay and Vanhook made in
spring of 1914 both in bulk and bottled
in bond. All other first class bottled
in bond goods. Champagne, and all
kinds of domestic wines.
tt ED. SLATTERY.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1912-03-29

The right Of publisher is reserved
to decline any advertisement Or other
matter offered for publication.
Space is a newspapers stock in
trade, its source of revenue.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1912-03-29
Fine Beers.

The best line of fancy beer in the
city, MoerleIn's liarbarossa. and Vie
demands bottled beer. The best
draught Leer in town, both light and
book on Tap at all times. Give us a
call.
If ED. SLATTERY.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1912-03-29

Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has
won its great reputation and extern
sive sale by it's remarkable cures Of
coughs, colds and Group. 1t can be
depended upon. Try it. Sold by all
dealers.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1912-03-29

You can say goodbye to constipa-
ton with a clear conscience if you
use Oh .ihberlain's Tablets. Many
have been permanently cured by their
use. For sale by all dealers.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1912-03-29
FOR SALE PRIVATELY.

Eight room frame residence and LOT
fronting seventy feet and ten inches
on Higgins avenue, and two hundred
and eight feet deep; bath room, new
roof, gas leading to house; large gard
eu and good cistern.
VIM. A. GRIMES,
L. T. phone 40 or 1854.
70 tt Paris, KY
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1912-03-29
G0'fO Ruck'S.

For nice bath, hair cut or shave,
go to Bucks barber shop. Three first
class BARRIERS. Is If