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asylum until ihe state appropna
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day last week leaves s veil wnit
women in the penitentiary. 1 i-e
nf ot tbU this numoer number are arc up Y for life on
conviction for niu'cer.
Tomorrow. th<? 2 nd inst will he
observed at 1 he Covington Public
School and the schools over the
c unty as Arbor Day and approp
riate exercises will be held, In
ferest is centered in the exercises
of the day because of the prizes
ottered by commissioner Adauis.
Tom Watson talks about that
Parker-Hill combination as if he
Jcnew some of the inside workings.
President Roosevelt will proba¬
bly visit the South at an early
date. The Washington dispatches
tel! us that lie will define his ne¬
gro policy while here.
Watson Bays 11 the Democratic j
mir’Y started with a tele “ram and 1
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ended With a telegram, , and m
this assertion, at least, he lias not
Leen contradicted.— Mallcd^eviile
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All For Governor.
Clark Howell, editor of the At¬
lanta Constitution, J. H. Estill,
editor of the Savannah Morning
News and Hon. Boykin Wright ,
Attorney at Law of Augusta, have
announced their candidacies for
Governor. The race while two
years off will give the three above
iintned gentlemen plenty of time
in which to limber up 'and run a
swift race. All three are able
men with state and national repu¬
tations and the successful one will
be determined probably by the
platforms to which best conforms
to the wishes of the people.
Many Farmers Make big Crops,
__
According . tc reports received ,
here this week from different sec
tions of the county, some excep
t tonally lug cotton crops have her n
made in Newton this year. The
largest yield yet reported is Lom
Will Childs, at Newborn, who has
produced on a two-horsa farm 48
hales, each weighing nearly six
Hundred , , pounds, . making . .
some
where m the neighborhood of 50
bales of the average weight of 500
Iba. por bale.
From the northern part of
Wyatt district comes the report
that J. B. Ellington, a prosperous
farmer of that section, is gather
mg from 200acres, cultivated with
eight horses, 95 bales.
Press Stanton, an extensive
planter at Brick Store, is making
a record-breaking crop of 18 bales
^ to the plow.
* e woman followed fait’, fully,
fjbbcrs walked back and iortii all
Sight through the giant millet. At day
light one of the Chinese motioned th.it
h - had found some one. It was tie
wounded Cossack, almost dead from
his wounds and starvation. He had
drunk water from a pool made by the
rains in the held and had kept from
actually starving by eating the raw
klalisang grain. He had been afraid
to call aloud when any one came near
tie. au.se lie relieved the Jap inese would
kill him, and he knew if the cbuncbus
es found him he would certainly be
murdered. Sj be had lain through the
j ong da} s and nights since the battle.
The two chunchuses picked the man
up and carried him back to the camp.
There the nurse did what she could for
him, and the Chinese gave him tea and
*-?• "The r two rested all s-vts. that day In the
^ and at nIgllt the C hi
aa uear as the , dare J
*
. the Russian „ . lines, .. both of .
o carrying
“ eul * The way to the Russian out
-
3ts , out . . b lt . , fe . f
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they might miss the way and , fall into
the hands of lurking chunchuses the
captain of the robbers gave the nurse
the paper, w hteh she st 11 clutched
" hen she came back to the hospital
and which was a safe conduct that all
Chunchuses were compelled to recog
u * ze under penalty of death. So the
D vo reached our lines In safety and
were put into an ambulance and bur
rle,i to Mukden. That is nil. only I
wish that If there is another cigar in
the last box In Mukden you would
please pass it this way.”
The doctor was hastily given the ab
story we again resumed recumbent at
titudes and once more gave ear.
The English correspondent toughed
apologetically and spoke in part as fol
lows:
“Well. now. really, I'm no hand at a
story, you know. Oh. yes. of course. 1
was pretty well toward the front all
during the four days’ fight at Liao
yang, got In a lot of rather rum places.
too, but there's nothing, you know, to
make up a story about. There was
one little thing, however, I saw that 1
rather fancied.
’Wo,I, this was over on the right.
lou know, 1 was with the firstocorps,
and we were holding old Kuroki, who
was buck jumping, you know, something
awful and trying to come through,
but we were holding him: in truth
we thd hold him. Kondratoviteh—you
know wliat a plucky little beggar he
is—he was right in the hole that Ku
rokl bad picked out as tbe place he
was going to come through. The lit
Tic general was being pounded fear
fully hard. Oil, crumbs, but Kuroki
was hammering him!
“He sent word to Stakelberg that he
just had to have re-enforcements or he
would jolly soon be done for, and old
‘Stack’ didn’t have a man to spare, hut
he did send over the Twenty-third regi
ment. It -treat in tmhrnd IvoadratovitCh’S
guns and lay down In reserve behind a
hill. The Japanese shells were simply
raining down. It was an awful lire.
a shell killed four men right by me
and a great big piece went between my
knees.
“Well, the regiment wasn't used to
this sort of thing— being killed off with
out the c hanre of firing a sbot-and ]
didn’t blame tliem a bit. The regiment
got very uneasy and the men in the
rear began to sort of disappear. Stakel
berg heard of it and he trekked right
over. He came walking right into shells the
midd | 0 of the regiment, with
everywhere.
"The men were getting real panicky
and i was wondering what in the
world the general would say, what
argument he would make, don’t vou
know, that would be more powerful
tban those shcIIs that , rere b urstiag
everywhere. The general walked slow
\ y through the regiment saying somc
thing to the men as he passed. Finally
b e came near to where I was, so that
I could hear what he said, although it
wouldn’t have done me much good if
there hadn’t been an officer right by
me who translated. A shell had just
exploded close to where I was and
there were half a dozen wounded men
on the ground and the rest looked ju 3 t
ready to make a run for it the very
next minute.
“ ‘Men,’ said the gen rai, and his
voice was as calm as could be and ns
elear as a bell, ‘remember who you
! are.’
“I thought that rather odd, you
know, because, don’t you see, they
were nothing more nor less than inen
who were booked to die in a very short
time if they stayed in that hole. But
the general went on: ‘Remember that
the emperor has made you godfathers
to his son, the son who wilt some day
sit on the throne of all the Bussias.’
‘Tiy George, you ought to have seen
those men quiet down. 1 couldn’t think
of what the general was driving at
and then it flashed over me that 1 had
been told that the czar had proclaimed
that every man serving in his army
lighting the Japanese was a godfather
to his infant son.
“ ‘You arc godfathers of the future
emperor,’ went on the general, ‘godfa¬
thers to an emperor. Shall lie some
day blush for you? Shall he some day
hear with shame that ye did not stand
firm’—
" ‘No, no, no,’ burst from every
throat. A .wounded man by me drag
g*Kl himself up and tried yell ‘no,’
but the blood choked him, und he fell
back, still waving his cap.
“ n * v * r doubted children,’
you, my
went on the general, ’I neter doubted
you. I leave you now, but stand firm.'
Here tbe general’s voice rang oat like
a bugle call. ‘Godfathers of an era
peror, stand firm!*
’They did stand firm, yon know; sat
S;ke blessed rocks all the afternoon and
took their wounds with e smile and
died with a laugh; sort of noblesse
oblige thing, you know.*
SIDE SCENES GF WAR
Episodes y of the Great Battle
of Liaoyang.
HEROISM OF A RUSSIAN NURSE, __
Warned by a Dream. She Rescued a
Cossack Who Was at Death's Door.
Experience With Bandits Who
Helped Her—Hon General Stakel*
im-i-k's i »i«ne Appeal to a iie*i
meat Checked Karoki'a Assault.
It was after dinner. The last box of
Manila cigars in Mukden had been sol
rxTiFs&’Sat
Czars , army, writes .. Kichard IL Little, ,....
»P«W correspondent of the Chicago
News. They had seen many strange
th . ngs aiul aftor the manner of thelr
kind, out of the fullness of their recol
lections, and comforted by the first
wanu meal tbev Uad had f 0r days,
and jM)0tIiea by tLe fragrauce of the
Harana cignrs they ]o]Jed like eastenl
rajahs and listened to these plain tales,
'ji,,, w as told by a Russian doctor,
8ai(1 .
"it was three days after the fight at
Liaoyang. Thousands of cases had ,
pa8 sed through the base hospital here
^ Mukden. It was a terrible strain on
the doctors and nurses. Some had not
slept at all and others only a little now
and then \t the end of the third dev
there caiue t0 me oue of the nurs i ng
sisters. Overcome by weariness, she
for long days and nights. When she
awoke she came to me in great excite
ment.
" S he said she had three times dream
Pd tbe same dre anp in the dream she
thought she was walking through the
klaoliang (millet) fields cast of Liao
yang, where Kuroki made such a des
pernte effort to turn our left flank. She
said the kiaoliang fields were filled full
of wounded men dying alone and uu
cared for. She said she saw iucn crlm
son with blood crying out for some one
to kill them and put them out of their
misery. The sister said that a hospital
corps must be sent at once to the kiao
linng fields to save these men.
"I saw that the poor sister was quite
mad from overwork and the awful
strain. I tried to soothe her and told
her that any wounded left in the kiao
Jiang had in all probability been found
and kindly cared for by the Japanese,
She would not listen to me, but began
to cry and became hysterical. I had
her taken to a ward and put in bed,
hut she arose, dressed, went over to
the station and demanded a special
train put at her disposal. Every officer
she applied to hurriedly sent her to
somebody else as the easiest way to be
rid of the poor woman.
“Finally she gave up the idea of a
Special train and demanded a hand
ear. The station nsrent wildly ran the
only hand car in sight down the track
nni1 lli(1 it: beilln<1 S0111e freight ears,
Then in despair the unhappy nurse
started down the track, declaring she
would walk to the battlefield and
® ei T cl1 JJ ,on f tbrou " b tlie kiaoliang
fie.d. iiio last seen of her she was
disappearing down the track in the
direction of \entai.
1 hurriedly sent a detail to bring
her back. Ihe men went as far as
our advanced outposts and then had to
return. The sentries on the outposts
said a nursing sister had passed them.
They would have stopped her, but she
declared she had orders to go outside
the lines to take care of some wounded.
and they let her go on.
1 lie woman s disappearance alarm
ed us \erj much. In her state of mind,
worn out by work and lack of sleep,
we did not know where she would go
or ho'A long she could keeji on her
f ng eet . be Besides ween the chunchuses lines, and were she swarm- was al
most certain to fall into their hands.
Two days passed, and we almost gave
up hope of seeing the sister again.
Suddenly she walked into the hospital.
Leaning on her arm was a muddy, pit¬
iable wreck of a man, one of the Don
Cossacks, terribly wounded and so thin
he was nothing but bones.
“The nurse was too feeble to talk.
In her hands she clutched some sort of
a paper with Chinese characters on it.
The nurse was hurried off to her room
and the Cossack sent at once to tbe
dangerously wounded ward. After a
few days both had recovered suffleient
t v to tell us bits of Information, out of
which we wove a strange story.
“The woman had been accosted by
several Japanese outposts and scouts
and, strangely enough, had been per
mitted to pass. She reached the Lat
tieground east of Yentai and north of
Liaoyang. She did not know what
time or how long after she left Muk¬
den, but it was dark and raining. A
gun was fired, and something whizzed
r , ast i, er h , ;td and took off a little lock
of her hnir, but she did not care. She
went on. There was a fire burning.
There were men with guns around it.
“They were not Russians or Japa
&<*«.*; they had cues and —yes, they
were Chinese. They had little books
and trinkets and pieces of uniforms
they were examining by the fire light.
They were frightened when she came,
but tbt J off ered h * r no barm told
-
them her dream , and begged them to
come with her and help take care of
the wounded. They sat stiH awl looked
ot her wonderlngly. Then she knew
they did not understand.
•There iru a wounded Chinese lying
near the fire groaning with pain. She
^ pnt t0 b,m ' H!s wotm, to were foil of
. dirt, and nothing had been done for
him. She washed the bandit’s wounds,
dressed them neatly and put him In ii
comfortable position; then by sign*
she told them her mission and. touch¬
1 ing two of the ebnnehnses, asked them
1 to g3 with her. The men w*.nt, and
COV.NGTJ-V. CA.. FKID \Y MORNING. ,
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Petty Quarrels Cause
Many Divorces
By Mrs. FRANK LESLIE
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subject. They agree in saying that, while “counsel often SUS
PECT impurity as the cause of divorce where it is not alleged,” a
great manv divorces occur in which they are convinced beyond pos¬
sibility of a reasonable doubt that infidelity cannot have anything
to do with the case. One says that any estimate of the proportion
of divorces where disloyalty does not exist would bo untrustworthy,
BUT IT IS LAR&E. Others say that infidelity probably does
not exist in a majority of cases. Their opinion, in the exact words
of one of them, is that “the cause of divorce in the very large ma¬
jority of cases is the PETTY QUARRELS between the parties.”
And whoever lias paid any attention to the matter knows that there
is a great deal in this latter cause. Byron's significant remark to
Moore apropos of his own celebrated case was that the REAL cause
of his separation from Lady Byron was “too trivial ever to be found
out.”
If generally ,, set up for , toe . women they ,, marry a r far hig.ier .
men
standard than they ever think of applying to themselves, it is also
t™ ‘hat the common error of these wive* b to EXPECT TOO
MUCH of marriage. Too often they seem to think that as soon
t bi 3 Rubicon is crossed everything . » will » go magically o . right » and
they will “live happily ever after.” Why, DISILLUSIONMENT
one 0 f ^j ie ^ rs ^. conditions of conjugal contentment! If deals were
p(1 , »t the , t9ct . the . would ,, furnish , . , incentive . ...... to that aspiring
pr as P °" y no
struggle and self sacrifice which are the INSPIRATION of everv
* rue rf *f e married . , or single. . , tu Tlic n.oal • i i must . cut . he -r»T-xr/-vxT-r\ LI.\ OND
>
AND ABOVE us, while we push on and do the best we can with
,j T?IT ‘ A T < c i s.
Examples of proud reticence and forbearance on the part of
Jnen ;UK ] women of noble or high social ran!: are apparent on everv
“
hand today. Take, for instance, the White T . House at Washington. T .
yQ 7 SCANDAL HAS EVER CAST ITS SHADOW THERE
in niore than a hundred years. 1 et every one acquainted with the
inner history of Washington life knows that on at least one occasion
"Tthm ... the , last such calamity . has been averted only by the
centum a
heroic resolution of individuals TO SUTFER IN SILENCE rather
tnan .i nsK . , natlonal . l disgrace. r
a , .
THIS IS THE SPIRIT IN WHICH TRUE MEN AND WOMEN
CUCHT T0 REGARD THE DUTIES AND OBLIGATIONS OF MARRIED
, TOWARD -r,-...,, ONE ANOTHCR AND A „,„ THE WORLD AT LARGE, _
How World Unity
Will Be Accomplished
By JAMES L. COWLES. Secretary of the Postal Protfrtss LeaSue
he day is coming when the postman shall eliminate the war
man ; the postal car, the field cannon; the postal transport,
'% mf / the man-of-war; the day when, through THE EVOLU
"l ION 01 HIE POSTOFFICE, we shall arrive at the
culmination of the poet’s dream:
When the war drums throb no longer and the battleflags are furl'd
In the parliament of man. the federation of the world.
And this is no longer a mere dream. It became A PRACTI
(AL SLOG ESI ION when the American Postmaster General
Bmir, in lbb2, amid the throes of our civil war, threw out to the
nations the thought of a world postal union. It became a triumphant
reality in 1814, when Dr. Stephan, postmaster general of Germany,
called the statesmen of the world around him and established the
universal postal union, with its capital in the beautiful city of Berne,
in the heart of central Europe.
Commencing in July, IS To, with the transport of half ounce
letters, in 1SS0 I)r. Stephan inauguarted an international parcels
po.^t union, handling seven pound merchandise parcels, In 1885
tbe common international parcels limit was extended to eleven
pound-. Today the trench postoffice handles twenty-two pound par
cels; Germany, Austria, Hungary, Servia, 110 pound parcels; Swit¬
zerland, parcels of any weight. Germany and Switzerland even go so
lar as to transport both passengers and their baggage by post.
THE EXTENSION OF A WORLD POSTAL SERVICE MEANS A
GRADUAL ELIMINATION OF INTERNATIONAL WAR. IT MEANS A
“UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD.” IT MEANS THE TUNNELING
OF THE MOUNTAINS, THE BRIDGING OF SEAS, THE CREAKING
DOV/N OF THE WALLS OF IGNORANCE AND OF PREJUDICE, THE
ELIMINATION OF TIME AND CF SPACE, TO THE END THAT THE
WEAKEST HAND, THE MOST TIMID VOICE, MAY REACH TO THE
ends of the earth and COMMAND ITS RICHEST TREASURES.
The development of our domestic postal service implies its
ex
tomqrm over the whole field of transportation and transmission. It
■will solve ° ur %exc< ^ public transport problem and with justice to
nil. It will _ put an end to rivalry between town and country, city
and city, man and man, for it will secure EQUALITY OF OP
PORTUNITY to all places and to all persons. It will end industrial
war. Postmen never strike. Their votep give them their due share
of power over their hours of labor and their remuneration for their
labor.
The Beneficent Effect
Of the School Library
By JOHN BAtUNCER. Chief Libr.rHn. Cardiff. Wales
^^IIE the reading establishment of penny of school dreadfuls libraries, ’ has practically ceased since
and the children who
BRIGHTER m ° re intelH & ent > ^ier to teach AND*
IN DISPOSITION. 1 hey develop better of
humor, a sense
can see a point and laugh more readily, than children who do
not read or read only MORBID TRASH.
X is a mistake to suppose that the GENERALITY of di
vorces are attributable to the most serious cause. An cmi
nent sociologist who has investigated this point in our own
eountrv quotes letters from lawyers and a number of other
professional men especially qualified to give opinions on the
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November 1901 Res|*ci
mitted,
T. C. Swann, G. C. /
B. Stephenson, Cai«ra
F A Perry, A. B. Sum
porators.
State of Georgia,
Newton,
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T. C. Swann, G. C.
Stephenson, Gapers B
A. Perry, A. I?. SimuM
porators of the Bank]
County located in th J a
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State of Georgia,
poBeth and salth
Thousand Dollars ($li
the capital subscribe_
actually paid hr the
and that the same is
and is to 1)“ used sell
liusiness and
poration.
T. C. Sivami,G-C.
Stephenson, Capers
A • Perry, A. B. Siwi
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Sworn to and suiisc
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Ordinary of Ns Its
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STATE OF
Office of Secretary of
I, Philip Cook, i
State of the State of,
hereby certify TM
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copy of the AppM Itar
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