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The Covington Star
\V. Anderson, } Eiliior anti
. Proprietor.
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-Near Georgia Railroad Depot
eneral Wood and Repair
COVINGTON, GA.
I am better prepared to do work in my line than
lefore, at prices very reasonable. I make a specialty of
lairing- Buggies and Wagons, and guarantee every piece
fork that leaves my shop. None but the very best of
[al used. I have in connection a Blacksmith Shop which
\ charge of one of the best smiths in this section. Try
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WILLIAM BOLLMANN,
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Spectacle^
No. 6 , South Broad Strcat,
Atlanta, Ga,
OR 30 MYJ AAA J
I! ......I WILL Hik&l Y3J A.....
! LIFE SIZE BUST A^D FULL
For 88 to 84.
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ALL FRAMED AND COMPLETE,
! So send in your Photograph or Tintype
by mail, with Express order for the
J amount you want to pay, and it will be
returned to you in from 12 to 24 days.
Address,
Dp. J. W. MIGliATII’S
Portrait Copying and Picture Framing
House, No. 212 Cotton Avenue,
MACON, GEORGIA.
BEDINGFIELD BROS.,
DEALERS IN
ONE BUT PURE LIQUORS
6 Poplar Street, Macon, G .
We respectfully solicit the trade of Covington and vicin
r and if intrusted with your orders, promise to strive to give
pisfaction L'itimate by sending you what you order. \Ye are doing a
business and will treat you fairly. Below find our
ices for pure liquors:
[ilson Pure Rye, per gallon $3-5°
rUthern Bouquet, per gallon 3.00
IB. Ripy, per gallon......... 2.50
fclson County Rye 2.00
P N. C. Corn, per gallon 2.00
PX Corn and Rye, per gallon 1.50
f X Gin and Ru m 1.50
IE COVINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS
fie^ust BESSION 7
Monday, Jana ary 2, t 900.
L; TTL LU Z^T NT* 3 *
rimary--F lr8t and Second Grades.
'■ < rmediate Third and Fourth Grades.
P'gli ‘ iimar School—Fifth and Sixth Grades.
School —First, Second, Third, and Fourth Grades. (Third Grade digeon
H'J for tlii ls year.
CORPSOE TEACHERS :
II ^ ^RKvHT,.—H V ^’k'NCKK—Fifth igh School Grades.
[i — '-BLANTON—Third and Six tirades.
Ij. ' and Fourth tirades.
IA ^ PERRY, First and Second Grades.
‘ ^ OUSLEY, Teacher of Music,
iie^s j?"* ’ 08 bl,dd tau,{bt ' ' u magnificent l,,e grades. brick of the latent design
n k' 8 a structure
Ir ” t architect.
> The building is equipped with the best furniture,
'the ’ 0,r * s in all svaiiiible large Peek
space, six windows to each room.
°f heating and ventilating.
| n 1,1 ^ nm*. ,. Intermediate and Grammar School IAepartments is Free
[ 1 tnts between the ages of si* and eighteen years. Non-residents
r month. Tuition in High School Department mouth to
, tnd ip (i2.4)0 per
,,C non-residents.
P #r month, $3 50
.
w. c WRIGHT, Snogrintendent-
Covington, Ga., Tuesday, January 1G, 1900.
A Tonfth, Tough Fi*k.
Fish scum to have no sense of
ing, and many people believe that
angry and energetic movements of
3 sh when It is caught are due rather
annoyance at losing Us liberty than
in.v sense of pain. 1 can confirm
•teeause 1 have over and over
taken an undersized pike that lias
mce or twice eaifght and put back
the water.
Upon one occasion three of
of the Old brigade—were fishing in
small pool in a narrow, sluggish
Jones caught a small pike, and as
was undersized. being barely
pounds, he cut the hooks out of its
■ ‘t and threw the fish in again.
U 0 seconds Jones caught the same
o h again. Once more he out out the
hooks, and this time he had to maul it
very much. Once more it was kicked
u.
Then I caught it, still bleeding. I got
’he hooks out with difficulty, and be¬
fore 1 could throw the fish In again a
errier dog bit It half through. Then I
licked the fish in, and Grown caught
t. At last we got so tired of catching
his fish that I threw It away in dis
riist. It caught in the fork of a willow
ree and staid there for half an hour.
A-hen a crow attacked It. dislodging **
from the tree, but no* *««’•>t nad re
uoved n»° toe eyes. The selfsame
isn was caught next day by the keep¬
er.—Fishing Gazette.
Pride of .be Poor.
Mrs. Clarence Burns, who Is so well
known for her philanthropic work.
-ays that in al! her experience in visit
ng the tenements of the poor of the
■ity she has never been asked for alms.
Mrs. Burns has made a business of vis
ting the poor with the hope of helping
hem whenever she saw the need, but
inds it almost impossible to make the
■eally deserving poor acknowledge that
hey are in need of anything.
One dav she visited a family who
were all huddled together in one bare.
■old room, and their faces were sa
.inched she knew they were starving.
But in response to her offer to help
them the mother said:
"No. thank you. The children have
liad something today. I am sure to get
>•
After questioning as to just exactly
what the children had had to cat Mrs.
Burns found that they had subsisted
for three (lavs on a few dried scraps of
stale bread. This experience, she says.
is repeated frequently.-New York
Tribune
Sb. Hndu't Dropped Off.
Delia!”
Yls, ma'am." to
“i am very nred, and l am going
He dowu for an hour.”
“Yls. ma'am.”
■ If I should happen to drop off, call
me at 5 o’clock.
“Yls, ma’ain.”
So my lady lies down, folds her
hands, closes her eyes and is soon In
the land of dreams, She is awakened
by the clock striking 0 and cries indig¬
nantly:
“Della!”
“Yls, ma’am.”
“Why didn't you call me at 5 o’clock,
as I told you to do?”
“Shore, ma'am, ye tould me to call ye
if ye had dropped off. I looked in on ye
at 5. and ye hadn’t dropped off at all!
Ye was lyin on the bed in the same
place, sound asleep!”
Mntnnllv Agreeable.
One day last summer a sour visaged,
iilildle nged, fussy woman got ou one
of tin* smoking seats In an open car
in the subway. Next to her sat a man
wlK) was smoking a cigar, More than
tbat. the woman, sniffing, easily made
out that the man had been eating on
ions. Stlll more than that, she had
the strongest kind of suspicion that he
had been drinking beer, Tlie woman
fussed and wriggled and grew angrier
and looked at the man scornfully.
Presently she could endure It no lou
ger. Sho looked squarely at him and
said: I’d
“If you were my hushaud, sir.
give you a dose of poison!”
The man looked at her. If I were
your husband,” said he, “I’d take it!”
—Boston Transcript.
Foeed His Auditor.
Professor Charles D. It. Itoberts, the
poet, reads tbe modern languages very
easily, but speaks them Imperfectly. At
a reception held in New York Just
prior to his leaving for Europe Itob
erts was introduced to a distinguished
French artist, who was here ou a visit.
The artist asked in his own tongue,
“You speak French?”
“No” answered the poet. “1 am
«orry I do not but 1 understand it well
W “i en am‘L S gS’ ropUed the French- 1 have
man. “Yott are the audience
long wanted, I enu talk to you all 1
please, and you cannot talk back.”—
Colorado Springs Gazette.
lionvxty.
“Young man,” asked the
of the store, who was making
rounds of the various departments,
“how can you afford to dress so
rateiy and expensively on the
we pay you?” answered
“I can’t,” gloomily sal
salesman, “I ought to have more
ary.”—Chicago Tribune.
Artlet _M D v n7;, picture**1 _ . t the
emy - will Trieod-Ah. lie entitled “Driven to
HI. some powerful
trayal of baffled passion. I suppose?
Artist—Oh, no; it’s a horse
ing a water trough!
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The hank checks passing
the clearing houses iu London and
York in one month exceed the value
all the gold and silver coin In
world.
Give a youth resolution and the
phabet P and who shall place Hmitt
his career?
Credit.
Embarrassed country dealer In
Boston wholesale grocery:
"I would like to make a settlement.
“How much can you pay?”
"Seventy-five cents.”
' Very well,” said Wholesale, “we
close the account. 1
“1 suppose you will continue to
me have goods?” said Retail.
“Not a dollars worth.
Wholesale, and the former, discour¬
aged, dropped into a chair.
Embarrassed retailer No. 2 stepped
to the desk and wanted to settle.
“How much do you offer?”
“Five cents.”
“All right. said the unembarrassed
Wholesale.
“Can I have any more goods?”
.. All yon want,”
Retail No. I, rising:
“How Is this? ! propose paying you
75 cents on the dollar, and you refuse
me credit. This man offers yon only 5
cents, and. you will trust him*;wlth all
he wants.” j .v ••
"My dear sir,” exclaimed iolesale,
“you are paying too much, iu won't
have any capital left with kh to
commence busine»- -*w a m. wbere
npon »*•* credit less retailor tent his
way. wondering who originated the
proverb. “Honesty !e the best *olicy."
—New York Observer.
Fool Lack*
, h,ok “J™ sald *** tUe 11 raan is al who ™- r9 has 8 f(wl lia d bis
’
nose to the grindstone all his life.
" Now ‘ there was Jack Sliall ° of Ten
" essee ; who <lrew § - >5 - 000 ln a lottery,
Jack dldn 1 kuow enou « l1 t0 111 out
I of ‘ be but be bad 8 little ^ney.
! and he bou?bt a t,cket tl,at woc ' w ’ lllle
1 1 f ot ,en and didn ' t ft ‘ tch a ceDt - Tbe
,rlnu , T llber 1 42 and 1
! ed saw t0 • Ia( ,ake ' !< , 1 a ,bat f ed n,miber w,n bow he ba ! J •’ P en !** -
'
said, ‘you see it was th s way: l had a
dreaal 0Ii, ‘ ni - ht ‘ and 1 dr, “ alu< ; < tbat
th * ‘ 3oor °, f u iy room opened al! f a
sudd ™ ;,m,abi , « n " mbpr 8even " alked
right after It came other sev
ens nad * n « r *," nd more *' 1 ,ht ‘ ro0SJ
wafi • chuck full and 1 was about smoth
f ed und ! >r «»««• Then woke up and
began thinking it over. 1 knowed that
on< * ?r‘‘ n ALT * thp n “ raber t0 draw
, llon aor ‘ of ‘ n lbeal « r and \ tor D0 tbere °‘ tery was bfld ■ rhat “«•
‘
many , ’ ,n,>b, ' rs Bnt 1 fl * ur ed a ' vhlle
and at last made l 11 » ™y mind , that v sev
en times , seven was 42 . and 42 w»t the
number, so 1 drawed that one. Tliat
was all there was to It.’
“Now,” concluded the talker, "if that
isn’t a case of a fool ibe
diolrpna la !»»■>_«• .Oil
X.v.gf Crabs.
The most savage specimen of the
crab species Is found In Japan, seeming
to dream of nothing but fighting—to
delight in nothing half so much. The
minute be spies another of hlB kind he
scrapes his claws together in rage,
challenging him to the combat. Not a
moment is wasted In preliminaries, but
at it they go. hammer and tongs. It
sounds like two rocks grinding against
one another as their claws rattle
against the hard shells. The sand flies
as the warriors push each other hither
and thither until at last one of them
stretches himself out in the sun. tired
to death.
Bnt he does not beg for mercy or at¬
tempt to run nway, only feebly rubbing
his claws togeUier in defiance of Uie
foe. That foe conies closer, and, with
his claws trembling with joy at his vic¬
tory. the conqueror catches hold of one
claw of the vanquished crab, twists It
until it comes off. and boars away the
palpitating limb as a trophy of bis
prowess, Such Is a battle between
warrior crabs.
A Bibliophile’s ne»lr.
Mnndell Creighton, the bishop of
London, has a horror of lending his
favorite books, says a London corre¬
spondent. The bishop Is a charming
wit as well as a great scholar. A fel¬
low clergyman once visited the bishop
and took a fancy to an old edition of
Shakespeare. He borrowed the volume
and did not think to return it for sev
erul months.
Finally the minister returned It with
a letter, saying: “My Dear Bishop—I
have great pleasure ill returning tne
volume you loaned me.”
The bishop answered: “My l ear
Brother— All the joy is mine. Leuver
Republican.
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A Book She Wouldn’t Road.
“There is one book of Mr. * tev ®°;
sons that * myself have ni\tr ru .
said Mrs. Stevenson. 1 refused to
read
scene of which is laid in a bygone age.
The author always deems It his duty
to make his characters talk Iti what
he considers the language of that pe
riod, and I am always sure that he
doesn't know positively how they did
talk, so 1 won’t read such books. I
would never rend the ’Black Arrow,’
gud Mr. Stevenson thought It such a
good Joke that he insisted upon dedi
eating it to me.’’—Illustrated luoiaua
Weekly.
Wilt Man.
“Great Idea, that of Mike’s,” said the
enthusiastic heeler of the better sort.
1 "He isu't satisfied with shaking hands
W ith his constituents In tbe ordinary
; way. When he m^ts one of them,
grab# both hi* band*.
“Ain’t tbat rather overdoing ItF «rid
the cautious person. but
“It might look that way to you,
Mike knows hts business. As long as
holds tbe fellow’s hands his watch
Is safo*”-lndianapoll8 Journal.
,
i Tbe Sfcaoie »l It.
! «l Doesn't It hurt your conscience
1 wear those pretty bird wings on
hatr they
..j t does a little, because
not genuine wlnp- Thej w
(lever lroltatloo*.’ , -Chtc*«o Trffiuae.
A Prriion Romance.
A Persian plaque in the South
sington museum, London, I tears
means of clever relief and brilliant
or a romantic tale, part legend and
part history. Nobody knows the pro¬
portion of each.
At all events. It Is declared to be an
incident In the life of Baharntn V
the Sassanian dynasty. Babaram. ac¬
cording to legend and plaque, was a
wonderful archer. During one of his
hunting expeditions, on which bis fa¬
vorite wife had accompanied him, he
shot a sleeping antelope with such pre¬
cision as to graze the animal’s ear.
The antelope awoke and. believing
himself annoyed by a fly, put his hind
hoof to his ear to strike ofT the fly. A
second arrow sent by the royal hand
fixed the antelojte’s hoof to his horn.
The king’s wife merely said. ‘Prac¬
tice makes perfect,” which touched the
pride of her royal spouse.
Indeed, as the penalty for her plain
speaking, she was sent out into the
mountains to perish, but instead found
shelter In a village. Here she lodged
in an upper room ascended by 20 steps
and. having bought a calf, carried it
un and down every day. The king,
passing by four years later, was amaz
ed at seeing a young woman carrying
a cow up a flight of 20 steps. The lady
again took occasion to remark. “Prac¬
tice makes perfect,” whereupon she
unveiled, was recognized and restored
to favor.
An Iniinlt Well Handled.
You can always trust the American
woman to take care of herself. The
friends of a girl who lives in Eight
eenth street are telling these days of
an adventure which befell her one aft¬
ernoon within the fortnight, She was
standing, this Eighteenth street girl, at
the corner of F and Eleventh streets
waiting for a girl friend. A very dap¬
per young man. a stranger doubtless ln
the town—for most Washingtonians are
too well aware of the girl’s social emi¬
nence to venture on any impertinence
to her—stepped up, bowed and said
airily:
“Waiting for somebody?”
The girl turned to look at him.
“Guess you’ve forgotten me,” he
went on with growing familiarity. “1
saw you at a dinner last week.”
The girl looked at him steadily for a
moment.
“Oh, I remember now,” she said. “It
was at Colonel Blank’s. Y’on are Colo¬
nel Blank's butler, of course. No. 1
don’t know of anybody who wants a
butler. Have you tried the employ¬
ment agencies?”
yVay.-Wasruinfcfbn ihj*. ’
Tallow Candles as Medicine.
In France the peasantry still stick to
medicines calculated to turn the aver¬
age doctor’s hair gray with horror.
Wine Is an ingredient of every pre¬
scription. ln fever cases It Is always
the predominant one. The French
peasant’s faith ln fermented grape
juice Is truly beautiful.
If his children are stricken with the
measles, he gives them wine well
sweetened with honey and highly spic¬
ed with pepper. For a severe cold he
administers a quart of red wine and a
melted tallow candle mixed. For scar¬
let or brain fever he gives eggs, white
wine and soot well beaten together.
Not *11 their superstitions are curi¬
ous. Some are pathetic. A mother, for
Instance, often buries her dead child
with its favorite toy or a lock of her
own hair In the coffin, “that it may not
feel quite alone.”
The Wrong Day.
The heartless landlord has come to
evict the widow with 18 children.
many of whom are teething.
But at the threshold the woman
waves him back Imperiously.
Not today I” she cries.
“Why Dot?” asks tbe landlord, with
pardonable curiosity.
Because,” the woman replied, “no
pitiless storm of rain mingled with Icy
sleet rages without!”
The landlord grinds his teeth In Im
potent rage, He may trample uDder
foot the promptings of his better na
ture. but not the conventionalities es
tabllshed by long usage.—Detroit Jour
nal.
jf 0t Hi* Destination,
A steamer was stopped ln the mouth
Qf the rlver ow j ng to a dense sea fog.
^n old lady Inquired of the captain the
cause of the delay,
“Can’t see up the river,” replied tbe
captain. overhead,”
..p„ t j cau see the stars
oon tinued the old lady.
„y es . but un Til the boilers bust we
ain’t a-goiug that way.”-World’s Com
,c ’
-
nnpptnca*.
Human happiness, according to the
n , ost received notions, seems to consist
of three Ingredients, action, pleasure
anf j indolence. And though these iu
gredients ought to be mixed ln differ
en , proportions, according to the par
ticular disposition of the person, yet no
one ingredient can be entirely wanting
evithout destroying in some measure
the relish of the whole composition.
llnbit.
Habit hnth so vast a prevalence
the human mind that tbere ls
anything too strange or too strong
be asserted of ft The story of
miser who. from being long
ed to cheat others, came at last
cheat himself and with great
and triumph picked his own pocket
a guinea to convey to his board la
Impossible or improbable.
Russian families, when moving
a new home, kindle the fire on
hearth with coal brought from tbe
, , residence.
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It is strange, bnt true, that
. ^ ^ ye8ter< j*y
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EXACT COPTOF WRAPPER.
THC CINTAUR COMPANY. NEW VORK CITY.
EISEfldN BR05.
We begin the Fall and Winter Season with a stock lar
ger and richer than ever before, We bought our stock lower
than we have been able to heretofore, and are in a jjosition
tv? mjn i iais it 11 vi x in iiioiuugvj
that ruled last year. The following quotations are proof:
Men’s Suits from $5.00 up. You’ve known
Children’s Knee-Trouser Suits from $1.50 up. us as the orig¬
Boy’s Long Trouser-Suits from $1 50 up. inators of cloth •
ing economies and fair, open, plain figure, one-price dealing.
For over thirty years this house has stood for honest methods.
In order to serve you better and cheaper, we manufacture all
the clothing we sell. This policy saves you the middle man s
profit. No other house in the south does it.
EISEMAN BROS, No's. 15 and 17
Whitehall, St.
A.“J. 1 T.«A. 3 XT , X b Aki - GA.
Send to
SAM WEICHSELBADM,
416 Third Street, MACON, GA.,
FOR YOUR
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YOU’LL FIND THE LEST THERE.
FOR THE LEA T MONEY.
KENTUCKY WHISKY CO.,
A. DAUS & Co., Proprietors,
............WHOLESALE............
Whiskies, Wines and Cigars.
FINE ASED GOODS A SPECIALTY.
Agents for Ehret’s aNTew York Beer
BOTTLES AND JUGS A SPECIALTY.
410 Third Street, MACON, CA.