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LEGUIN.
Saturday afternoon at
gt J \V. Meadors
ie of Mr. Sunday,,School
ldren of our It
°n% hunt. was a
etiste f Thirty-eight
easaut affair.
were l' re sent, and many
D Every child’s
ere found- with , and
filled joy
ess. found the silvei egg
r Speer Bailey found the
la Belle showed
egg- 'heir faces
After the eggs were
»y- served.
icecream was
Sadie Lassiter Sadie
8es Thompson and
l„ Alice
Meadors were the con
ia home
g very child went
heart full of joy.
nd Mrs P. T. Austin were
.
fnends and relatives here
ay and Sunday.
Irene and Clara Meadors
eS of Miss
ie adfflir ed guests
Thompson last Sunday.
Joe Meadors and wife visit
jj B. Meador’s family last
Waters Ballard, of Mixon,
guest of Mr. Jesse L
e
Saturday.
ire sorry to note the illness
John Wright. We hope he
bu be well.
ire sorry to note the death
George Coggin, which
} last Thursday at one
His remains were laid to
Lovejoy cemetery at eleven
Friday morning, His
i ties have the deepest sym
if his many friends in this
baity.
n dark clouds gather around
je seems sad,
lember the heavenly Father's
Sill make you glad.
his May Interest You.
me is immune fr >m Kidney
, so just remember that
S Kidney Cure will stop the
arities and cure any case
puev and bladder trouble
(not beyond the reach of
,ue
—4* •>——
■Day Singing at Almon.
mill hold our first quarterly
cat Almon Baptist church
fc third Sunday in April,
tody is invited to come and
[well bate filled baskets, for we
a great occasion, We
be Windows of Heaven and
pi No. 4 in the forenoon and
I Harp in the afternoon,
tody bring books of the
binds. A large delegation
feted from Atlanta, Lithonia
buglasv ille. Singing begins
p a. m.
S W Everett, President.
Pool Secretary.
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-otton Seed For Sale.
S Bier B 0 n 75c per bu.
! s “ 11 75c
per bu.
Breen Seed 50c per bu.
VP seed have been kept dry
in good condition.
J S Wright,
Covington, Ga.
^ A Day, Saved $10,000
d Reared 13 Children.
town of Ware, Mass., pos
a 01311 who lias had a re
hie career in the person of
Girard. He is now 72
-*» w ;rked for 27 years at
f'| re *wed lo children, and
f read or write, yet has
r 1 1 '■ and gives the cred
M wife. He says, among
that she bought raw
“I 'hade it into cloth to
1,16 - 1 n uly instead of wast
^ 11 clothing. His rules
urunl L'lg money
are:
Wi )f k at low wages
tennitteut work at
your expenses
increase.
rrv v and don’t j
marry j
W() man.
ne. !
wn home.” i
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A PLOT THAT FAILED. '
The Scheme to Blow Up Napoleon III.
With Gunpowder.
An interesting story is that of a frus¬
trated plot against Napoleon III. which
has never got into the history took,
but which is one of the favorite stories
of M. Victorien Sardou.
In 1000, when the frontage of the
Theatre Francais was rebuilt after the
disastrous fire in which one of the
most charming actresses of the Maison
de Moliere lost her life, several shops
•disappeared, among them being that of
the famous Restaurant Clievet. It was
not properly speaking a restaurant.
Chevet used to sell liqueurs, groceries,
smoked meats, etc., and in a couple of
low ceilinged rooms on the first floor
he would serve a meal or two to con
noisseurs. One day in 18(55 or 18(5G
two young men of fashion, Russians
both of them, came in and called for
dinner in one of the little rooms which
were above the shop. They asked for
caviare, but when they got it they pro¬
tested loudly that the caviare was of
inferior quality and called for the own¬
er of the shop. He came, apologized
and was met with the remark, tender¬
ed laughingly by one of the diners,
that next time they came they would
bring their own caviare. They came
again and brought it iu a little white
wooden barrel, and when they left they
had it put on one side for them. From
time to time the two young Russians
came and dined cliez Chevet, dined in¬
variably in the same room and always
began their dinner with their own ca
viare. One day they finished the bar¬
rel, and a few days later, in the after¬
noon, one of them brought another one.
“Put it in the little cupboard in the
room we always dine in.” he said to
the waiter, “and do not let anybody
touch it until we come to dine.” The
waiter took it, but on his way upstairs
something peculiar struck him.
“Look at this barrel.” he said to the
restaurant keeper. “There is some¬
thing queer about it.”
“That is no busiuess of ours.” said
the master of the establishment, “and
I am not going to look at it, anyhow.
What will our customers say if they
find we have opened it?”
“Oh," said the waiter, “we can open
it and close it again, and they will nev¬
er know. It is certainly different from
the last barrel. It is heavier, to begin
with.”
His insistence prevailed, and the bar¬
rel was opened. The restaurant keep¬
er and the waiter started back iu
fright. There was no cavaire, but gun¬
powder iu that little barrel, which was
an infernal machine. The little dining
room was exactly underneath the impe¬
rial box, and there is little doubt that
the emperor’s next visit to the Comedie
Francaise would have been his last had
the carefully laid plot not been discov¬
ered. Tbe plotters never were caught,
although the secret of the plot was
carefully guarded and traps were laid
for them in Chevet’s restaurant for
several days.—St. James’ Gazette.
Turkish Political Prisoners.
When a Turkish political prisoner is
sentenced to be deported to Tripoli or
to the Euphrates, his friends bid him
farewell. They know that they will
never see him again alive and iu all
probability never hear of him again
unless enormous sums are forthcoming
to bribe scores of different oflic-ials. In
fact, the only dilference between a
death sentence in Turkey and one of
transportation is that the former is
more rapid and more merciful. The
government prefers the latter because
it is less public. Now and then, how¬
ever, news leaks through. Of poor
Midhab Pasha, for instance, it is
known that near Bagdad his brutal
guards beat out his brains with the
butt end of their rifles.—London An¬
swers.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
“The largest, broadest, deepest and
most ineffectual genius of the nine¬
teenth century”—thus has Coleridge
been described, and probably no bet¬
ter description of the great philoso¬
pher and litterateur can be found. lie
was a youth of impulses and tried in
turn to become a cobbler, a surgeon
and a soldier before he settled down
and gave proof of his vast literary at¬
tainments. Some of his poems have
been accepted as the noblest pieces of
imaginative writing produced by a
modern poet, while as a literary critic
he had few equals in his generation.
He was a torn journalist and lecturer
too.—Pearson’s Weekly.
No Coat For Nineteen Years.
During the journey from Victoria
falls to Kimberley a big, sun browned
man boarded the Zambezi express mi¬
nus his coat, with his shirt sleeves rolled
up. lie took a seat at dinner, and the
chief steward remarked to him that as
there were ladies present perhaps he
would have no objection to putting
on liis coat, “Great Scott,” the man
replied, “I haven't worn a coat for
nineteen years. You will have to wait,
rny friend, until I can buy one at Kim¬
berley.”—South African Railway Mag- #
a zinc.
“III 18(*7 I had a sb mach disease
Some physicians said Dyspepsia, sonc
• Consumption, and one said I would no
live until Spring For four .years I exist
ed on boiled milk, soda biscuits and doc
tors' persciptions I could not digest any¬
thing 1 ate; then I picked up one of your
Alnianij.es and it happened to be my life
saver- I bought a filtj-cent boyje of KO
DOL and thebenlfit I recieved treni thai
bottle, all the gold in Georgia could not i i
buy. Tn two months I went back ti my
work, as a machinist, and in three
f was well and heatty- M ay v< i live
long and prosper.. N. Connell Rod- i
! pie ■ r. of Ga the . the al | ha )V e is is only daily don, !
great go t ; [j
everi where b v Kodoi For Dyspepsia. 1
is s dd here h ly-l.'A Wright.
THE ENTERPRISE COVINGTON Ga
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A LUCKY ESCAPE.
Qnipk Wit and Raring Ilnse of a
Rnnnian Revolutionist.
Nowhere outside of the pages of fic¬
tion would we expect such an incident
us the following from the personal
story of the Russian revolutionist Na
rodny. Narodny had just jumped from
a window to escape the police. “When
I scrambled to my feet I discovered
myself in the yard and among half a
dozen soldiers, I was without over
coat and hat—-a very suspicious figure
—and, having neither, I could not es¬
cape even could I get by the soldierH
who surrounded me,” he said.
“I jerked a card from my pocket—to
this day I do not know what it was—
and handed it to one of the soldiers.
‘Here is my card,’ I said rapidly. ’I
am a member of the secret police. One
of these revolutionists is trying to es¬
cape. I am after him. Quick! Give
me your coat and hat!’
“He automatically obeyed. I slipped
on his coat and hat and to all appear¬
ances was a soldier of the czar. I
walked past the guarded gate of the
yard, out into the street. Before me
were thousands of soldiers. I saw my
friends being brought down from the
hall and put into the black vans, about
which stood guards of Cossacks. I
marched through my friends (all of
that group are in prison today save
only T myself and the friend who es¬
caped with me) with the air of a sol¬
dier on a very important message and
pressed on through the mass of other
soldiers that filled the street.”—Amer ;
lean Magazine.
BARBER SURGEONS.
When (lie Razor ami the Scalpel
Were Linked In One Trade.
More than 400 years old is the Royal
College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. At
the time it was founded the surgeons
and barbers of the city were united
as one of the fourteen incorporated
trades of Edinburgh. On July 1, 1505,
they received their charter from the
town council. The charter of the bar¬
ber surgeons was confirmed by James
IV., an early Stuart king of great en¬
lightenment and accomplishment, who
took much Interest in the progress of
the surgeons on account of the needs
of his army in time of war.
Iu the charter leave was given to the
incorporation to control the medical
education of the city, such as it was
in those days; of bloodletting, to have
the sole right of practice and to put
down quacks. They were to get every
year the body of a criminal who had
been executed to practice anatomy ou,
and they promised in return to do “suf¬
frage for his soul.” Of the first 158
members of the incorporation six wero
surgeons to the kings of Scotland.
As society improved and medical sci¬
ence developed the gulf between the
surgeons and barbers widened, and in
1772, as the result of a process iu the
court of session, the connection was
finally terminated. The deacon, or
president, of the incorporation of sur¬
geons was for more than 320 years a
member of the town council of Edin¬
burgh, ex officio, and several of the
deaeons were members of the Scottish
parliament.
February Legends.
Why February has twenty-eight days
is explained in the legends of the past.
One is of an old woman, who, tending
her flock, ridiculed the mouth of Feb¬
ruary because he had dealt so lenient¬
ly with her and her sheep. Then Febru¬
ary felt insulted and made leap year
and borrowed a cold day from March
and froze her and her flock. There is a
Norman legend which makes it out
that February had originally as many
days as the other months, but Februa¬
ry was a confirmed gambler and lost
at domino a day both to January and
to March. Strange to say, there is an
old story of Egypt, wherein the god of
February plays forfeits with the moon
and loses certain days.
Xot Wholly Ignorant.
An applicant for a position in the
public works department in a certain
city was undergoing a civil service ex¬
amination. With a view to testing his
knowledge of history the examining
officer asked him what he knew of the
Punic wars.
“The name sounds familiar,” said the
applicant, “but I can't just remember
when it was or where it happened.”
“Don't you know * anything about
Scipio?”
“No, sir.”
“Surely you Lave heard about Han¬
nibal?”
“Oh, yes, I know all about Hannibal.
That’s where Mark Twain used to
live.”
The “Here” of 1542.
It is curious to find in a “Dyetary”
of 1542 the information that “here is
made of malte, of hopps and water. It
is a naturall dfynke for a Dutcheman. j
And now of late dayes it is moche used
in Englande to the detryment The author of many j
Euglissbe men.” was
speaking of “beer,” the then new liquor
distinguished from “ale” by being bop¬
ped. In this sense a seventeenth cen¬
tury rhymer says that “turkey, carps,
hops, piccadel and beer came into Eng¬
land all in one year,” “piccadel” being
a kind of ruff or collar.
In Doubt.
Ethel (who is not famous for her
good looks 1 ~I don't see why you should
call Miss Whitmore plain. I'm sure I
only wish I were half as good looking
as she is. Fred—You are, Ethel; you
know you are. (And Ethel is wonder¬
ing whether he meant to compliment
her.)
Firmness of Purpose.
Firmness of purpose is one of the
most necessary sinews of character
and one of the tost instruments of
success. Without it genius wastes its
efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.—
Chesterfield. .
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think, wonder, guess, what a saving of 15 per cent, on ©
goods you bonght during life would mean—just this, none of us ©
would die paupers.
I buy in big lots, and am selling lots, got feed for the horses
and cows. Necessities for the old folks and soothing syrup for the
babies.
Its Georgia Cane reboiled and guaranteed to stand the hot
weather, if it doesn’t phone for the funnel and we will “pour it
back in the jug’’—Only 40c balance of this week.
Washburn Crosbys Gold Medal flour only $1.30.
Hfstings Water Melon Seed of all kind—l^ockyford Canta¬
loupe seed too.
Write me, phone me, come to see me. I don’t want to grow
to be a Marshall Field, but I want to take in the whole field and
grow. Yours for business and a square deal.
LOVE CLARKE.
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Where They Are.
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The National Liquer Dealers’
Association boasts of ats powers to
oon * r °l b°th the Democratic and
Republican parties. “The trade”
| ls a !so very jubilant over the re
j cei: t congressional election, ciaim
j ing large gains iu our national leg
I islature. It has developed that
j “the trade” has a secret political
| defeat organization, whose business i 3 to
: every candidate not friendly
! to “the trade,” and secure the
election of the friends of i t the
trade. ” Here is extract from
an
* I Champion of Fair Play,”
a
( « trade” organ, Chicago:
t * Let every man stand to his
guns and mit- the political
strength of the liquor trade so
powerful that no political party
can afford to incur its opposition
by unjust attack pon it. In this
wav only CRH the livuor trade
ill: •* t a i' i i '. ' he face ot the
fierce fight against it”.— Aiabam
Citizen.