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TACKLED THE
TELEPHONE TRUST


Portland. Ore. July Dlssolu-
ton Of the alleged telephone monop-
oily on the Pacific coast BIT the Am
erican Telephone and Telegraph CO..
the so-called Bell Telephone Trust. is
sought by Attorney General Mercy
nolds. in an antitrust suit filed here
today The government charges the
giant corporation and its subsidiaries
with absorbing sixty or more compan-
les to destroy competition and create
a monopoly in Oregon. Washington.
Montana and Idaho, in violation of
the Sherman law.
This is the first attempt ever made
TO apply the federal antitrust statute
TO the situation. The telephone COM
panies have claimed that the tele-
phone. like the railroad. is a natural
monopoly and that a single system is
conducive to the best interests of the
public. The Department Of Justice
contends that is a question Of public
policy for Congress to determine.
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MANY FARMERS MEET


Leesburg. July 24.-The. farmers
institute meeting here today was we'll
attended by an earnest body OF
growers, approaching the bringing of
the University Of Florida extension
work into Lake county. The pro-
gram was. enthusiastically received.
Professors Rolf, Spencer and Scott,
Jack Peters. Lake county's agricul-
tural adviser. and B. L. Hammer, sec
rotary Of the Florida Growers and
Shippers League were the speakers.
The message was diversifcation OF
crops, to build up the soil, the rails
ing OF better live stock, and organi-
zation. B. L. Hammer gave a fine
demonstration Of organization ability
by securing every man present as a
member of the new league
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There is more catarrh in this Sec
ton of the country than all other dis
eases put together, and until the last
few years was supposed to be incur
able. For a great many years doc
tors pronounced it a local disease
and prescribed local remedies, and
by constantly failing to cure with To-
cal treatment, pronounced it incura-
BILE. Science has proven catarrh to
be a constitutional disease and there
fore requires constitutional treat
ment. Halls Catarrh Cure, manu-
featured by f. ]. Cheney & Co., To-
ledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional
cure on the market. 1t is taken in
ternally in doses from 10 drops to
teaspoonful. 1t acts directly on the
blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. They offer one hundred dol
lars. for any case it fails to cure
Send for circulars and testimonials.
Address, F. ]. Cheney & Co., Toledo,
Ohio. Sold by drugstores. Take
Halls Family Pills for constipa-
ton. Adv
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JAMES GAMBLE

The Wildwood section and his wide
circle Of relatives and friends were
shocked when the news went out
that Mr.. James Gamble had died sud
denly while sitting in a chair at his
home near Wildwood a short while
after dinner Friday July IS.
Steven James Gamble was born in
Lancaster, 5. c.. May %, 1889, and
moved to Florida in the early Sos
Bushnell Times
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If you are a housewife you cannot
reasonably hope to be healthy or
beautiful by washing dishes, sweep
ing and doing homework all day,
and crawling into bed dead tired at
night. You must get out into the
open air and sunlight. If you do this
every day and keep your stomach
and bowels in good order by taking
Chamberlain Tablets when needed,
you should become both healthy and
beautiful. For sale by all dealers. ad
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Citrus County Chroniclel

tCItrus county Lhr0nlcIe1
We are authorized 10 state that
superintendent Turner has conclud-
ed 10 abide by the wishes OF the peo-
pie and not resign a. school superin-
tendent 20 take the position of state
fish and game commissioner. He says
that positively he did not solicit the
place, and realizing and approaching
the confidence the people OF Citrus
county have in him, and the high re-
gard in which his family is held. will
remain with them and not allow any
tempting salary and nice position in
Tallahassee to draw him from their
midst
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TWO MEN KILLED BY
LIVE WIRE IN TAMPA

Tampa, Fla. July 25.-John Whit
aker, aged 80, and Joe Lawrence,
aged 10, drivers of a milk delivery
wagon, were instantly killed here
last night by contact with an electric
light wire blown down from a pole
during a heavy storm
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WALL STREET WOLF
May Soon Find Himself in the Gov
vernment'S Trap

New York, July 24.-The indict-
ment of David Lamar, the Wall street
operator, on the charge of imperson-
ating an officer of the government.
for the purposes of fraud, is announc-
ed by Federal Attorney Marshall
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Sir Thomas Upton has decided
that the old name under which three
of his yachts sought to lift the Am
erica's cup is good enough for the
challenger he will build for the race
in the fall of 1915, so he will make
it another Shamrock
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BACON SPENT
But LITTLE DOODLE

Washington. July Ex-senator
Bacon's campaign expenses for re-
election to the senate were SIS, ac-
cording to his sworn statement to the
clerk of the senate. The money was
expended for printing tickets.
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BEARING DOWN
ON THE BULGARS


to Protect His Frontier
London. July 23.-Without declar-
ing war, and apparently trusting that
the iealousies OF the powers will pre-
vent European interference, Turkey
has begun an invasion of Bulgaria
The Turks have occupied and burn
ed many villages and have pushed
their forces to PhilippoIis.
No information has been received
as to the strength of the forces that
have crossed the frontier. Probably
they are only comparatively small
bodies of Enver Bey's cavalry. Some
skirmishing has occurred on the
frontier, but seemingly the Bulgar-
fans have offered no serious resist
ance.
King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, has
entered protest to the powers and
appealed for European Intervention
but there is no sign that Europe will
act. Both Greece and Seryia are
throwing obstacles in the way Of an
armistice, while pushing their at
tacks in the direction Of Sofia. 1t is
reported Roumania has warned Ser
via and Greece that if they continue
their advances the Roumanian army
will be ordered to occupy Sofia first
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-07-25

Buy 1t now. Chamberlain Collie
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is al
most certain to be needed before the
summer is over. Buy it now and be
prepared for such an emergency.
For sale by all dealers.-Adv.
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Wonderful
Blood Remedy
Brings Health to a Host Of
Sufferers.

The Temarka BILE
action OF 5. 5. s. in
the blood is given
impetus by a letter
received from Earl
Q. Cook, 708 South
Center St, Bloom
ington, III. He says,
II suffered several
months and took
treatment here, but
obtained relief only
for q few days at q
tim e. Becoming
doubtful of results.
I cult the doctors,
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How wilson Organized the short I,aIot Movement

Up to 1910 Mr.. Wilson's doctrine of simplifed, re-
sponsble government had only extensively dis
in intellectual circles Every serious
American government later had deplored the
of them had suggested any constructive remedies. No
attempt had been made convince the great American
public of their folly the people considered hope
lessly welded the notion that eecting multitude
officers is the very essence of democracy.
july 1909, article by Richard s. Childs had ap-
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DunneIIOn


DunneIIon
Lots, 1876 1917 Z. F. Bean, from $3.50
NeI4 of sea and nwA Of sea north
of river, 35-16-lS, Croker, T. NJ, neirs,
5000 10 $500.
SEA Of sea north of river, 35-16-1S,
Dunnelion Phosphate Co, from $500 to
Eel Of neA and SO. 1-16-19, Clark
Eay-Johnson Co. from $3.50 to $500.
phaIe Co, from $50 to $500
Center Id Of lots l341, 1912, 1343, ].
T. cocowitch, from $3.50 TO $500.
+ r Of lots 1871, 1912, 134S, unknown.
Lots l$lS, l3l9. 1850. 1851 1852, 1853.
1896, J. I. COcOWitch, from $500 70 $3.50.
Lot 1858, r. Fl. Sanders, from $50 TO
lot 1874, Mr.. ". W. Lindsey, from
$500 TO S300.
Lot 1881, Denver Morrow. from 800
Lot 1893, J. l. Morrow. from 500 to
Lot 1895, Mrs. NJ F. Metcalf, ex. al
lowed. from $50 10 $1O0
Lots 1914. 1915, f. L. Anderson, from
Lot i416, Morgan i. Dixon. from $50
Lots f417, 141S, 1919, 1920, Titconb &
Tullis, from $3.50 to $500.
Lots 1928 TO 1928 inclusive, w J. Wa
Lots 1897 .o e 1852. Camp Phosphate
". ~
from 5000 to $500
Lot 1871, b. J. Benson. from $50 to
Lots 1872, 1913, 1852, A. b. KILLER,
from $400 TO $500
Lots 1853, 1854, 1855. 1856, Anna c.
MiXsOn. from $500 TO $500.
$3.50, '.' ~ :
Lot IS, Dunnellon, Harriet Washing
ton, from 500 TO $3.50.
Lot ~. DunncIlon, II. J. Watkins Est,
from $1,000 to $500
Lots 43 and "A. Dunnellon, Petteway
& Guess. from $1,000 70 $1,000;
Lot AZ. Dunnellon, ". G. OBannon.
Lots los TO 1872 and 143 to 147 and
161 TO l66 and 1879, 266 to 29o. Camp
Phosphate Co, from $1,000 to $500.
Lot 326, Dunnellon. d. A. English,
Lots az, s4ss s44, John Armstrong.
Lot $50 DunnelIon. B. Nef. from
$1,000 to $500.
We Of lot S64 Dunnellon' J. F. CO.
Lot 367, DunneIlon, KILLER Bros.
from 500 and $3.50
Lot 36s. DunneIlon. Morgan F. Dixon
Lots 81, 372. Dunnellon, Eta Myers
from 500 TO $3.50.
Lots 373. 374, Dunnellon, ]. d. Bas-
kin. from $500 to S400.
Lots 379, $50, Dunnellon, Mrs. R E.
Vann- from 5000 TO $3.50.
Lot 39l. Dunnellon, c. L Dean, from
Lots 1913, 394. 395. 3s6, Mrs. F. H
Guess from $500 to $500.
Lots 399 to 401 and 427 to ABS Asst to
46S and Ar to $50, asa, asa H Thai
gOrt from $500 to $500.
Lots AL to 421. Dunnellon, Cocowitch
& VanDrackle. from $500 TO $500.
Lots 4s7. 4ss. 495. Dunnellon, w d.
Edwards. from $500 to $500.
Lots 424. 425, J. NJ Patterson. from
$50 to 500.
Lots 48s, 40, unknown, from 500 to
Lots !ss, 4s7, George ohnmacht. from
Lots sol to 5O7, H. Thalgott from
/ $50 to $500.
Lots 523. 524, 525, Sam Myers from
$3.50 to $500
Lot 533. VIM. Griffin, from $50 to $50.
Lots 534, 535, John Armstrong. from
Lots 542. 543. 544. 545. J. F. Coco
. witch. from $3.50 to 5000
Lot 55S, J. T. Griggs. from 500 to
Lots 5s2. $50. 5s4. 5s5. Sam Myers,
from $500 to $500
Lots go. so4: Camp Phosphate Co,
Lots 1000 TO 1911 ex lots 101l. 4915
1893. 1875, 1915, 1916. 1917. DunnclIon
Buttgenbach & Company, from $1,000
to S27200.
Sell Of sw14. 35-i6-.s. ButtgenNo II
& Co. from $4,000 10 $4,000.
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MARIoN-DUNN Masonic LODGE

Marion-Dunn Lodge No. 10, f. & A.
VI. meets on the first and third Thurs
day evenings OF each month at 1880
o'clock, until further notice.
c. E. simmons, w NJ.
Jake Brown, Secretary. Nd.
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Legislature Representative Snyder
office would
Railroads.
Genera lando once mmi OF Agriculture
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CONCoRDTA LODGE It. Z. OF A.

Concordia Lodge. Fraternal Union Of
America, meets in Yonge's Hall on the
second Thursday evening of each
month Geo. L Taylor. F. NJ
Chas K Sage Secretary Ad.
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THE BEST HOT WEATHER tonic,
GROVES TASTELESS Chill TONIC
The Old Standard General Tonic. Drives out Malaria
Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System.
FOR GROWN PEOPLE AND CHILDREN.

a
strengthens foifes Withstand depressing
Weakness gener1debi loss
oNursng
Strengthened by Druggist
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-IANUSCRIPT COVERS

An elegant line or lawyers manu-
script covers, in any color that could
be desired. just received at the Star
office.
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OPEN DAY AND NIGHT

Merchants Cafe, A. c. L. depot
corner. Meals a Ia carte and lunches
at any hour.-Adv.
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Notice Is hereby given that the fol-
lowing changes have been made in the
assessment rolls for 1913 axes by the
board Of county commiss4ouer at their
meeting ON july 1tn. lsla. to-Mit:
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JACKSONVILLE TO
Baltimore, Philadelphia,
Boston and Providence
Fine steamers; best service; low
fares; wireless telegraph. Through
tickets to and from principal points.
Send for booklet.
H. c. AVERY, Agent,
Jacksonville, Fla.
L. D. JONES, c. A.
Seminole Hotel. Jacksonville, Fla
Finest cOastwise Trip in the World
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Lots 1876, 1877, Z. F. Beall, from $3.50
TO $3.50.
Nel4 of sea and nwA Of SEA north
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-08-08
little Eemlnlsts.

The feminist movement extends 10
the young. The recent census of play
upon New York streets made by the
Peoples institute revealed the boys
playing only one game not also played
by girls-to wit, foot ball Baseball
proved to be the favorite game of the
girls. as it was of the boys. And
every other game favored by the boys
was also enjoyed by the girls, With
the one exception of football.
Even the boys vices are no longer
taboo to his sister. In this census of
play on the streets eight girls were
found shooting craps Eight girls
were also cought smoking
And while we note this further evil
dence of the triumph of the sex let
us ask what has become of that good
old word "tomboy'? Has any one
heard it in a decade? 1t used to have
its terrors for the precursors of the
woman's movements, the early rebels
against restrictions based on sex, a
generation ago. Do the dictionaries
now mark it as obsolete? Or has it
now become term of approval? The
tomboy has come to her own.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-08-08
CITY OF BENARE
Scenes on the Banks of the Sa-
cred GangeS.
Bathers in the RiVer-The Devotion
Of the Hindus-The Regeneration
of India-Relieious Ideas
Along Waterway.

London.-At Benares you realize
that Hinduism is living thing, and
1t presents itself with beauty and
pathos which are astonishing to the
visitor who has thought OF it only as
antiquated idolatry.
Just now the Ganges is low, and
the long flights of steps. the CHATS, are
bare almost to the bottom, but in the
ruined colonnades and entertainments
and a temple actually sldden into the
water the power and ravages of the
river in fod are seen We embark on
a miniature boathouse and seat our
selves on the roof; and we are slowly
rowed up the stream. as far as the
tree-covered terrace where Warren
Hastings took refuge from the out
ragged people of the city; then down
the stream 10 the mosque with its tall
minarets which Aurungzeb erected to
fiout the Hindus and rebuke their
idolatry. But neither Warren Hast
ings nor Aurungzeb neither Noslem
nor Christian. neither east nor west
has made any appreciate change in
the customs, the rites, the religious
ideas which find their picturesque ex
preston in that mile or more of river
front
The bank is steep and rises to the
height of 200 feet On it rise temples
with their carved sikras and gided
SUBMITS, jumbled together with pal
aces, fiat rooted, piled high on solid
and imposing battlements, and a med
ley Of steps and terraces, and gate
ways, through which the river is
reached from the city. The buildings
are yellow, or terra Gotta colored,
gilded and otherwise, so that the eff
feet is hardly less beautiful than that
of the Grand canal. Sacred bulls are
tethered In many places. to which tho
people salaam. Everywhere are the
gay Colors in which India delights.
Garments OF bright orange, blue. mag
enta, iris colOrs, and dazzling white
make the whole scene brilliant in ths
morning sun.
The bandits recline under their UNI
brellas. comfortable and serene, exact
ing toll from the bathers who come
down to the water at the allotments.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-08-08

The right hand doubtless owes some
thing of it's pre-eminence TO the Bible
The Hebrews singled it out for special
honor, and the Scriptures contain
quite a hundred references in which
the right hand" is made the type
and symbol of everything noble
praiseworthy and desirable. 1t is
worth noting, however, that the tribe
OF Benjamin once boasted 100 left
handed singers who could sling
stones to a hairs breadth and not
miss" and that among the mighty
men and helpers" Of King David were
many who could use both the right
hand and the left in hurting stones
and shooting arrows with the bow"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-08-08

could be made easily on the Pacific
side some distance west OF the zone.
but between there and the canal the
Jungle is 50 dense as to be virtually
impassable that the dangerous dis
trict is that lying Immediately east OF
the zone on the Pacific side. On the
I last mentioned shores an enemy could
well land an army and the semi-open,
/ rolling savannas between there and
I the canal would give easy access to
the zone
+ The army officers on the isthmus
make no secret of the fact that their
investigations are being carried on
mainly with the Japanese in mind.
How those islanders could land there
and what they could do if they did
land are the problems engaging the
attention of Colonel Greene and his
men OF the Tenth
one defensive measure that has
been adopted is the clearing out OF
practically all Inhabitants from the
zone except at the ends of the canal
and N several OF the larger towns,
which as have said may be kept as
quarters for the soldiers All holdings
Of land ara being valued by a mixed
com mission and The residents moved
away When the canal is completed
the Jungle, much OF which has been
cleared out will be allowed to grow up
again for the experience OF centuries
has shown that that jungle itself is a
powerful defense against an invading
army The practicable roads through
It are few and az between, the
streams not uayigabl" and the growth
Of trees brush and great vines so
dense that IL is virtually impossible
for a body OF men TO say nothing of
cannon and supply wagons \ rapid
dash through the jungle would be en-
tirrly out Of the question. and when
the zone is deserted all food supplies
viii have disappeared.
Some fear has been expressed that
a fem men could land, make their way
+ quietly to the canal and blow up the
locks But il seems unlikely that they
could get ashore and transport to the
canal. Undecided enough explosives
10 do any great damage.
T On The whole the canal will be quite
( adequately rotected-proyded it IL
! not attacked TOO soon.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-08-08
Admirable ProdiqaI.

a man who lived in Raleigh, n. c.,
fell heir to about $4,000 and immedi-
ately spent it in high living. A second
and a third good-sized sum of money
came to him, and each time he PLAYED
prodigal son until he was without
funds.
One day Josephus Daniels, now sec
rotary of the navy, met this man on
the street in Raleigh. The prodigal
was in rags, looked hungry and was
evidently in very hard luck.
1T seems to me that you must have
u tough time" said Daniels. How do
you stand it after the good living, lux
uries and fine clothes you have been
accustomed to-"
Mr.. Daniels" the man replied. III
tell you how | do it; | have made ar
rangements to get along without what
can't get. Saturday Evening Post.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-08-08

Here long row of women with man
and "A Brahmin priest, naked but for
loin cloth, passes from one to another
and gives them the sacred mark. They
put the water of the river on his feet
and Kiss them; then they drink the
water which has touched him from
their hands. One woman rises up.
her arms straight above her head, and
makes obeisance- The priest gives
them some directions-mutterS his
mantras-and waves his hands in to-
ken of dismissal
Though it is not easy to distinguish
the ordinary washing and bathing
from the sacred function. there is
enough of the manifested act Of wor'
ship to give to the scene an air OF
solemnity. Men and women are mix
ed but no one regards any one else
Each Is engaged in his own ablution
physical or spiritual. Here a woman
crouches, splashing the water on her
face and making mystical marks on
forehead and breast Here a man
stands in the water, revolving and
folding his hands together ea,h time
in his revolution as he faces the sun,
Here is another. man in a red cloak
standing up to his waist and mutter-
ing with a whirring sound There ne
stands daily from 3 a. m. 10 noon
and has done so for nine years. His
eyes are bleared with the sun, all ex'
preston has left his face. He is like
a mechanism of devotion.
In another place young men, NUT.
tering their prayers. plunge into the
stream aud return to their little
matted platforms There must be
three dips to accomplish the necessary
purgation AS the bathers return
through the narrow street they shrink
from contact with the passerby, for II
hey touch they must return and re-
peat their washing.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-08-08

Lord Methuen's few words agains'
the woman who smokes recall the
fact hat wher tobacco was intro
duced into England toward the end OF
the siyCeeuth century, the woman
pufed her pipe with the best of men.
Then came one OF fashions changes.
She dropped her pipe, and in the sew
enteenth century the custom was so
far uncommon that the sight Of ladies'
with pipes in the theater sent Prynne
into Mysteries The pipe dropped,
snuf brought consolation to the
boudoir. and what Prynne would have
said at the spectacle of Mrs. Siddors
and Mrs. Jordan taking pinches on
the stage must be left to the imagina-
ton. And now, with the pipe cold,
and SNUFF in disgrace, it is left to the
cigarette to draw the rebuke of Lord
Methuen London Chronicle.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-08-08
Rims in History.

Signet rings are mentioned in the
Bible, and We find the ring in those
days, to have been a sign of honor as
it is with us. During the war lover
who wished to specially honor his
bride sent the gold money 10 the gold
smith with which to fashion the we'd
ding ring, for in those days the heavier
and broader the band the better, and
girls used to measure the width and
'heft" the circles to see whose was
the broadcast and heaviest, and there
by establish a social standing unim-
peachable
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-08-08
t4auptmann ana Aelne.

Gerhardt Hauptmann. the German
playwright, through the banning of his
new "Festspiel' at Breslau by the
agency of the crown prince, is now
suffering Tor the crime which entailed
far severer punishment on Heinrich
Heine, namely, that of being a great
admirer and eulogizer of Napoleon
the man who tramped Prussia in the
dust, and, above all, insulted Queen
Louise.
Heines "Grenadiers might be called
an apotheosis of the victor of Jena,
and on settling in Paris he accepted
the Legion Honneur from Napoleon
as well as a pension. When the pres
ent kaiser took over from the EN-
press of Austria the Achilleion at
Corfu the first thing he did was to
order the removal of a bust of Heine
from the entrance hall, and on being
sent to Hamburg it failed to find a
purchaser. a statue to Heine, the
most popular of all German poets. is
nowhere to be found in Germany.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-08-08
Trees Lightning Never Strikes.

Lightning is said to differentiate be-
tween trees as we'll as men and wom-
en-. Some years ago Mr. McNab, a
fellow of the Botanical Society of Ed
inburgh investigated into the gener-
ally received opinion that neither the
beech nor the birch is ever struck by
lightning. He collected information
regarding lightning trees
throughout Great Britain, and found
no single instance of either of these
species being struck Investigation in
North America save similar results.
He found indeed. that in the forest
regions there a beech tree was re-
garded as the safest place in thun-
derstorm.