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m he Covington Star.
ELIABLE FARMER GIRL
ARE THE BEST.
n you need a stove, try one of these and be convinced.
We have received another lot of
I
3AUTIFUL REGS
^■a-great many other beautiful goods. We would be before de
't' ■ ed to have you call and examine our elegant stock
> ro¬ purchase. No trouble to show goods.
t- W. B. & c© •9
SOUTH-EAST CORNER PUBLIC SQUARE,
COVINGTON, - GA.
1898.' 1898.
T. C. SWANN.
an enormous stock of goods of every description, where
■ can buy tor cost or on time almost anything, at prices
wMch you can’t afford to not see before supplying your wants,
instance, you can buy a keg of steel nails for $1.65 ; steel
and scooters for 2 cents a pound ; pair of cassimere pants
H75 cents; the goods they are made of is worth more
money. Everything on same'basis. See the goods and prices
Hi be convinced. No trouble to show you through.
.A*
t. a. sw-A-isrisr,
■ovington, Georgia.
R.EEVER1TT 1
-WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
MANUFACTURER of fine harness.
-DEALER IN
flw clouting, Buggies, Wagons, Surreys, Pliactons,
Ha by 1 aiTiages, Sewiiig Machines, Mowers, Binders,
Hakes, lane Mills, Pianos and Organs.
t ■ wo large store rooms filled to overflowing with well select¬
ed goods, and at prices to please you. 1 manufacture all my
^■knkss a* made and of the guarantee best material every set and to in give the best satisfaction. style. I do J hey all
^■ds H keep of Harness selected repairing stock at very of moderate Saddles, prices. Collars, Robes,
Hmkets, a well
^Kl Dusters, Storm Aprons, Buggy Cushions, l ops, Um
His, as, Whips, Combs, Brushes, Oils, Paints, Back Bands,
&c.
9VAGON MATERIAL.
1 carry wagon material, such as wheels, axles, spokes, rims,
—shafts, bolts, iron, dash leather, &c.
EIHCLES. VEHICLES.
■My vehicle department is filled with the best styles of open
top buggies, phaetons, surreys, road and farm wagons,
^■ase ears of experience has. taught me how and what to buy to
my trade. 1 have now in stock more than three car
ol fine buggies.
9 SEWING MACHINES.
I keep a good stock of standard sewing machines, which
» up-to-date in every respect. Guaranteed to give satisfaction.
CHAMPION MOWER.
■My Champion Mower is without a doubt the best machine of
^Bng kind on the market,—strong, simple, last cutting,—every
needed to make it the best mower on the market.
PIANOS AND ORGANS.
jMusic lovers are invited to examine my stock ol pianos and
bans. 1 have the goods, and at correct prices on easy attord terms.
i\ ou can’t afford not to examine my stock, I can t to
ps your trade. Yours to please,
R. E. EVERITT,
OVINCTON - - - CA.
’Job Work done with Neatness and Dispatch.*^^|f
Covington, Georgia, Tuesday, April 5, 1898.
GEN. FITZHUGH LEE
FOR PRESIDENT.
A Concert Star Starts the Boom for the
Consul General, and it Spreads Like
Wild Fire.
H Our Next President, Fltzhugh Lee,
a True American.”—How Ameri¬
cans Appreciate True
Manhood.
Newport, R. I., March 30.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee the gallant
consul general of the United
States at Havana, has been boomed
for the presidency.
And his boom has been started
in a New England state, many
miles Irom the home of the gallant
cavalry charger of the confeder¬
acy.
At a performance given here
last night by a variety company,
Miss Alice Willard, one of the
young women of the organization,
wilked across the stage, bearing a
banner upon which was painted a
picture of Gen. Lee and the words :
One Cent a Mile.
The rate agreed upon by the
railways of the Southeastern Pass
enger Association, for the eonfed
erate re-union, in Atlanta, on July
20-23d.
is one cent per mile each w r ay.
This low rate will insure a large
attendance of veterans in Atlanta,
and will enable hundreds of the
old soldiers to attend who would
not otherwise be able to meet their
old comrades on that pleasant oe
casion.
One cent per mile each , way,
seems to be reasonable enough.
0 New Orleans’' and “Albany.” 17
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1 lie . just .
two new cruisers pur
chased by the United States from
the Armstrongs, in England, and
which were built for Brazil, will
be named “New Orleans” and
11 Albany. » »
The “Amazonas” and 1 4 Abrou
all” were the Brazillian names of
the two vessels, but now their
names, as well as their ownership,
have been changed.
The Amazonas has already been
equipped and delivered, and Old
Glory now floats at her masthead,
as the New Orleans.
The Abrouall, now the Albany,
is not quite ready for service.
Check for $ 288 , 000 .
On Monday last the United States
treasury department , at , \V ir ashing
ton sent a check for $ 288,000 to the
Methodist publishing house, at
Nashville, in settlement of a claim
for „ damages , done , . during , . ,, the
it
war.
The claim has been a long time
peuding, but its payment comes
now as a real sugar plum to the
publishing house,and ought tocov
er a very large amount of damage to
the property.
Butitissaid that “everything
those , who , wait, . ,, and ,
comes to as
the Methodists have waited long
and patiently, we are glad to know
that justice has come to them at
last.
OA.STOR.IA.
Tit flO- -*■* 1* 01
limilt ertry
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DENTJST.
(Iffiff up stairs in tlir Swords
OQT 7 -iosrGrT 03 sr. ga.
My You will lose
advertise. never
I by it,- Ben branklin,
4 ( Our Next President, Fitzhugh
Lee, a True American. » »
The appearance of the young wo¬
man and her banner provoked the
most remarkable outburst of enthu¬
siasm seen here in many years.
Men arose to their feet and cheer¬
ed, then settled down, only to
1 break loose again in a minute or
two, while the ladies shook their
handkerchiefs and clapped their
hands. The enthusiasm lasted for
ten minutes.
< ( It was my idea » > said Miss
Willard, after the performace had
closed. ( ( I hae a brother who was
imprisoned at Cabanas fortress, and
Gen. Lee secured his release.
Gen. Lee was a confederate, but
now he is an American—the tru¬
est and best of them all. I was
not surprised at the enthusiasm
j which the banner I carriedprovok
ed. > y
The Ethnology of Biasing.
The kiss was unknown, 1 think,
among the aboriginal tribes of
America and of central Africa. From
the most ancient times, however, it
has been familiar to the Asiatic and
European races. The Latins divided
it into three forms—the osculum,
the basiuin and the suavium, the
first being the kiss of friendship and
respect, the second of ceremony and
the third of love. The Semites al
ways knew the kiss, and Job speaks
of it a 3 part of the sacred rites as it
is today in the Roman church,
The Mongolian kiss, however, is
not the same as that which prevails
with us. In it the lips do not touch
the surface of the person kissed.
Tb(j nose jg brought into ligl)t cou
tact with the cheek, forehead or
hand. The breath is drawn slowly
throu g h the nostrils, and the act
ends with a slight smack of the lips.
The Chinese consider our mode of
b j sg j D g 0 f coarse suggestiveness,
an( j our writers regard their method
with equal disdain.
Darwin and other naturalists have
attempted to trace hack the kiss to
the act of the lower animals who
seize their prey with their teeth, etc..
An interesting recent study of the
subject is by M. Paul d’Enjoy, in
4 I The Bulletin” of the Paris Anthro¬
pological society, volurno 8 , No. 2.—
Dr. Daniel G. Brinton in Science.
The Old Marine Band.
The big man in . ,, the , band . of former „
days in the Marine band in its in
fancy was the man who marched in
the front and played a chime of
bells which was rigged up on a long
nole. He was an entire band in
himself. Behind him marched two
or three others who had similarly
arranged chimes, though of smaller
proportions. There may have been
cornets toiueis, trombones uviuu.uc and bass horns
m existence then, but certainly none
of tbem waa ever can .jed by the
Marine band until after 1835. I was
married that year and remember
very well seeing the band parade a
day ^ or so before my marriage, and
1 ther0 were uo Lo rns
carried by the band except bugles
0 r trumpets. I don’t know that
their music was not as sweet as it is
^beJsiem*! j
tQ be more masic the strjng an j
r eed instruments than in the various
horns of today, and the men who
carried the chime bells could, for
sound at least, double discount any
the performers in the band to
day.—Washington Star,
A Yard of Ale.
t 4 At Eton, ” says the London Globo,
1 4 any ouo who is so minded may at
‘tap’ essay the feat of drinking a
yard of ale. This is only a pint in
liquid, but a yard in linear measure,
being contained in a long horn
shaped glass, so constructed that un- j
less the drinker drinks with oaio
most of the contents arespilled over
i him. A hook is kept cf the time in
which the yard can be drunk, and
for years until lately the ‘record’
was ten seconds, This is an icono
clastic age, however, and somo one
lately disposed of his three feet of
ale in nine seconds. ♦ t
An Old Idem,
Every day strengthen* the belief of emi¬
nent physicians that impure blood is the
cause of the majority of our diseases.
Twenty-five years ago this theory was used
as a basis for the formula of Browns* Iron
Bitters. The many remarkable cures effected
by this famous old household remedy are
sufficient to prove that the theory is correct.
Brown*’ Jrou Bitters is sold by all dealers.
CONFEDERATE
ASSOCIATION.
Eighth Annual Reunion of the United
Confederate Yeterans to Meet in
Atlanta, July 20,-23,1898.
Comrades : During the reunioiv’
of 1897, in the city of Nashville,
of the United Confederate Vete
rans, the mayor of Atlanta, the
Hon. Charles A. Collier, witl^ the
hearty concurrence of the council,
and of all the people of the city,
extended, through General Evans,
an invitation to hold the eighth an¬
nual reunion in Atlanta.
This invitation was forcibly
emphasized by addresses on the
part of General Evans, Honorable
T. R. R. Cobb, and Colonel A. J.
West, and by a most flattering
vote the invitation was accepted.
Under a call from General Ev¬
ans, commander of the Georgia
division United Confederate Vet¬
erans, a number of enthusiastic
citizens of Atlanta assembled, and
effected a Confederate Reunion As¬
sociation, with General Clement
A. Evans as president W. A.
Hemphill and others as vice-pres¬
idents, and John O. Waddell as
secretary. They are all battle
scarred veterans, having served
from the opening to the closing of
hostilities.
Under this organization all nec¬
essary committees have been ap¬
pointed, and are actively at work,
with the fixed purpose to make the
occasion the fullest and most en¬
joyable ever held by the glorious
old heroes who will honor the oc¬
casion by their presence. These
assembled hosts of veterans will
be Georgia’s guests, and while At¬
lanta, the capital city, was select¬
ed as the place, this was due main¬
ly to the fact of its accessibility to
the greatest number who will at¬
tend, and because for a long time
it was the center of operations in
this part of the confederacy.
To the people of Georgia we de¬
sire to say that large contributions
in money and supplies will be re¬
quired to entertain our visitors in
a manner which they have a
right to expect, and which will be
creditable to the state. It is pro¬
posed to raise the bulk of the
money needed in this city, but we
know there are thousands of pa¬
triotic citizens of Georgia who will
deem it a privilege to contribute to
this cause.
For provisions to feed such wor
thy J old veterans who cannot afford
the expense of hotels and boarding
houses, we shall call on our agri
cultural friends in the state for aid.
Amos Fox, commissary gener
al ot the Geor ..... dtvis.on, and ,
S ,a
chairman of the commissary coin
mittee of the association, will have
c ii ar g e G f this feature of the re
. and , at . the time .. , he
union, proper
willissue an appeal to the people
of the state.
it j s proper to give the main rea
sons f or g x j n g on exposition park
as the P lace for holding ... „ the reun
ion. This place was selected be
cause it was a necessity. No oth
er pj ace j n the city offered advan
ta S es a PProaching those which ex¬
isted at the park. The sixteen (ti¬
visions, the commissary depart
meik t, the hundreds of sons of vet
erans and daughters of the eonfed
eracy, all can be assembled there
in a space occupying less than fifty
acres of land, and thus afford the
pleasure of social intercourse so
much enjoyed by veterans.
OASTORIA.
Th3 f»e- —■*" li n
timiit ttttj
tlgsaturt 'J rrtfpa.
of
LIMTE.V !
W hen you want a nice buggy and
reliable horse, come to our stable. We
have nothing but the latest style vehi¬
cles Prices reasonable.
We also buy and sell horses and mules,
and guarantee satisfaction.
ANDERSON & CONNELLY,
Phone 7 . COVINGTON. 3 a
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee is said to be
“the right man in the right
place,”
The street car company has en¬
tered into an agreement whereby
visitors from every section of the
city will be carried to the park for
one fare—five cents. Instead of
extra expense to our visitors, the
meeting at the park will be more
economical than if held in the city.
In addition to the buildings secur¬
ed at the exposition park, the com¬
mittee has arranged for all avail¬
able buildings in the city. It has
done this with view to contribut¬
ing both to the comfort, business,
convenience and enjoyment of our
visitors.
This explanation is not necessa¬
ry in Atlanta, for our people are
not divided, but we think it proper
to say this much because of the er¬
roneous impressions which have
gone abroad growing out of incor¬
rect newspaper reports. Our peo¬
ple are united, and will do their
full duty. All Georgia will be on
review, and Georgia will come up
fully to the highest expectations.
JOHN O. WADDELL, Sec.
N. B.—Newspapers friendly to
the cause please copy.
IN PICTURES AND PRINT.
Ad vantage* of the Author Artint Over tti*
Men Writer.
The artist author has something
that he wishes to tell, and to do this
he has at his command two modes
of expression, each of which supple¬
ments and supplies the shortcom¬
ings of the other. Where the lim¬
itation blocks the way of words he
can imagine out bis idea with his
pencil. When it fails, words can
supply its need, and so he can pre¬
sent his idea before the world at a
tremendous advantage.
It seems as if he must be better
fitted than any one else for that
presentation of what he means. He
has lived and moved with his char¬
acters. He has eaten and drunk,
slept and wakened with them, and
to liiiu as to no one else they are
visible personalities. But let him
describe them, however minutely
and accurately, and they will not be
impressed on the mind of the casual
reader as they would be if be saw
them in a picture, or, if the reader
is imaginative enough to clothe
those characters with a body, it is
probably not at all what they were
really meant to be.
How intensely interesting it
would have been if Poe, lik* Blake,
had been able to imagine out some
of those strange visions that filled
his brain not only in words, but in
actual lines as well, or if Cervantes
had left us some idea of how Don
Quixote and his Spanish squire real¬
ly looked, however roughly drawn
they might have been I
It is under the Byzantine em¬
perors that the earliest manuscripts
of modern Europe were produced,
and they exist in great numbers and
are of surprising splendor. A timid
suggestion may indeed he ventured
that the Byzantine scribes were less
careful of their calligraphy than of
their paintings. That may he true, j
and it may yet remain true that the
Byzantiues had a splendid cal¬
ligraphy of their own and a splendid
notion of how to adorn their pages.
The Irish monks of the sixth and
seventh centuries, the English
monks of the ninth century ami the
French of a somewhat later time
were the fellows for beautiful let¬
tering. The splendid manuscript
which is called by the name of King
Knut and which lies in the British
museum contains lettering which
is so beautiful in its strange niodifi
cation of *.lie classical Roman letter
that even the splendid renaissance
work of five centuries later scarcely
equals it. Every one knows the
"Gothic” character of the twelfth
and thirteenth century manuscripts,
a character which the modern Ger¬
man typographer has preserved for
our sins and to punish the eyes of
those who would fain study German
thoroughly, but few persons know
the pre-Gothic character, the beau
tiful lettering founded on the an
tique forms, which was preserved
in the north and in the south alike
in Lombardy, in France, and in
England, down to a time at least as
late as the year 950. Take any in
itial page of a tenth century uiauu
script, northern or southern, and
see how much more beautiful is the
writing than are the figures of men
and animals which are supposed to
adorn it. The ignorance shown in
drawing these visible objects is
great, and the absence of any power
over their forms is really ugly am \
offensive, but the power of abstract
form, of making a letter into a
beautiful thing, is, however, so great
as to be quite inconceivable to a race
of people like ourselves, who have
lost the trick of decorative design.—
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Politics overshadowed by war
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ll THE WOMAN’S CLUB.
President—Mrs. Eugene I.ee.
Secretary—Mrs. James Rogers.
BY THE CLUB REPORTER.
The club columns of the daily
and weekly newspapers have come
to be such a feature of the press
all over the United States, that it
is well to consider it in its entire
length and breadth.
In 1894, the year when the club
spirit swept so generally over the
country, the Boston Herald opened
a club department, in charge of
Mrs. Elizabeth Merritt Gosse, who
was one of the best editors of such
an apartment in the country. In
October of that year the Boston
day Transcript evening established edition, in department its Satur¬
a
“Among the Woman’s Clubs,’’
which made its appearance every
week. These two were the leading
ones of the country, and we think
it is safe to say that they started
the fashion, for the hundreds of
others that are in existence today.
It was a year or so before the New
York papers took up this special
department work, although now
not only nearly all the city papers,
but the suburban weeklies, and
many important monthlies, have
established Woman’s club columns.
The New York Tribune, Harpers’
Bazarr, New York Sunday Journal,
The North Western Monthly, and
others too numerous to mention,
have such departments, and most
of them are edited by women, and
exceedingly well handled.
Our own state is not behind in
this work.
In Syracuse, N. Y. there is a
handsome society paper, called
“Remarques,” which is very ably
conducted.
Mrs. Jennie C. Croly edited for
along time “The Cycle.” Mrs.
Croly is now engaged in writing a
history of all the clubs. It is use¬
less to attempt to mention them all.
It is evident, from the fact alone,
that the newspapers see the neces¬
sity of giving up two to four col¬
umns a week to the work of wo¬
man's clubs, that even the most
conservative editors have come to
rea ij ze that the woman’s club is one
0 f tbe g reat forces of the present
age.”
The meeting, for February 9th,
was held at Mrs. Lee’s. There be¬
ing no important business before
the club, the afternoon was spent
most delightfully listening to selec¬
tions from gifted pianists, and the
sweet music furnished by the Ox¬
ford Mandolin club. After deli
cious refreshments were served, the
club adjourned.
At the next meeting, at Mrs.
White’s, it was decided to have the
Rose show in May, at the residence
of Mrs. Eugene Lee’s, the exact
date to be determined later. On
motion, it was decided to meet at
the homes in alphabetical order.
The ladies papers, on current events,
were indeed creditable.
February 23d. In the absence of
our president, the club was called
tQ order by Mrs A N Hays,
for the club
1
was discussed, and pink and white
I W ere decided upon, Several chap
^ ers were read and discussed in
^ S hattuck’s book, on parlia
mentary law. After partaking of
an elaborate luncheon, tendered by
our hospitable hostess, adjourned.
The ** Woman - s club” is ail in
stitutio|1 that has now come to
stay.
The public roads are now in fine
con( jition.
TOllxA.
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Frequent and constant ad¬
vertising brought me all I own.
—A. T Stewart.
