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vote Enterprise.
ESTABLISHED 1865.
THE COVINGTON STAR EST. 1871
CONSOLIDATED 1902.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY.
By ENTERPRISE PUB. CO.
JAS, P COOLEY, Editor and Proprietor.
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Covington, Ga., April 19, 1907,
Nearly everyone has an occupa
Even the tramp is on the
If you are engineering a train of
thoughts, be sure you know when
and where to use the throttle.
If all the milk of human kind¬
ness some people possess was con
riens“<!. the product would be lim
burgi-r cheese.
A Nebraska man has married the
widow of his two brothers b cause
he beiUves in keeping a K°° ■
The best advertised merchant is
• the greatest in his particular line.
Great and good results come from
an Enterprise ad. Try our columns.
Shut yourself up in a room and
break the mirror if you don’t
want to see a fool every day you
live, lor the world is full of them.
If is said that every time a wo¬
man gets mad she adds a wrinkle
to her lace. Maybe so, and some
are there 111 countless numbers,
too.
Miss Eiberta’s lovely complex¬
ion lias undoubtedly beeu badly
taken care of during the recent
cold weather. And to the sorrow
of all of us, too.
“Heart failure was the cause of
his untimely end.” Now, why
should anyone say the above when,
as a matter of fact, heart failure is
the cause of every death!
A young fellow' told his girl that
he would kiss her or die in the at¬
tempt. Oh, horrors! No, it’s not
horrible, for no one has heard of
the young fellow’s demise.
High living cannot everywhere
be the whole argument, for the
t ost of living bus been reduced in
ague districts—a pound of quinine
only costs as much as an ounce did
twenty years ago.
Senator Beveridge insists that
no man should be permitted to
own $1,000,000,000. The Senator
need not lose any sleep; those fel¬
lows are almost as scarce as the
proverbial hen’s teeth.
It is a regretable fact that the
country of I'araguuy is too far
away for Sunday excursions, for
there the social custom requires a
gentleman to kiss every lady to
whom he is introduced.
All eyes turn toward the Enter¬
prise agricultural college contest.
Subscriptions and votes are com¬
ing in more rapidly as the days
roll on, which shows that the con¬
testants are hustling, and aie go¬
ing to keep a-liustliu’.
( ( Not at present advised,” said
Mr. Bryan at Chattanooga, when
asked if he would nominate Mr.
Roosevelt for a third term. And
the sentence bids fair to be quite
popular in answer to different
questions in every day life.
1 i How can I 6 top biting' my fin¬
ger nails?” was the question asked
a contemporary recently, and the
answei given was “wear a muzzle.
Pretty good answer, but we think
it would be more convenient for
him to have his teeth pulled.
THE ENTERPRISE COVINGTON GA
THE DAY WE CELEBRATE.
The great Civil War was the most stupendous of all the ages. It
did uot find its genesis in criminal conspiracy or treasonable design,
ijhe southern states in withdrawing from the union were exercisiug a
wer which had been clainied from the very adoption of the Federal
Constitution In the early days of the republic the theory was recog.
lfized by American statesmen with substantial unanimity that the con¬
stitution was but a compact between sovereign states entered into for
their mutual welfare; that because of this sovereignty any state could
lawfully and peacefully withdraw from the compact whenever in its
judgment, its interest required it so to do ; that the government created
by the constitution was a federation possessing only delegated powers
and that it did not possess power to coerce the action of the states, and
that if a state chose to withdraw from the union it was entitled to do
so without control, question or molestation.
Acting upon this universally recognized principle, the southern
states seceded fr<mi the union in 1861. As to how firmly and thorough
ly they believed in that principle, let four long years of bloody strife,
2700 battles and 2,000,000 yankees decide. While we were finally
overpowered (or as some one said, “wore ourselves out whipping yan¬
kees”) yet the principle and truth for which we fought will live for
e y er - Natior.s die and races expire, but truth is immortal and prin
cjples based upon truth live forever. No cause is lost which in its
losing forms the bedrock and cornerstone of liberty. In “Lochiel’s
Warning” Thomas Campbell wrote these words: “Tis the sunset of
life that gives me mystical love.” And twenty years later he fiuished
the verse by adding: “Coming events cast their shadows before.”
The great conflict ot 1861 that shook a continent and made a na¬
tion tremble as an aspen leaf, cast its shadow almost a century before
—bacu to the very hall in which the constitution was framed. It was
there that the conflicting ideas clashed and continued to grow and be
intensified until hostile cannons boomed, and gleaming swords flashed,
a[)( j f ra ( eraa i blood inn like water. The conflict was over the reserved
rights of the states, and as to what rights and powers were ceded to
the general government, upon a state becoming a member of the feder¬
al coir. pact. It was Patrick Ilenry who saw this shadow as distinctly
as did Stonewall Jackson see the subptance when he said at First Ma
nassas, “Sir, we will give them the bayonet!”
Patrick Henry wanted it placed in the constitution of his country
in black and white so there could be no controversy about it, ihat all
the rights, powers and prerogatives not expressly ceded to the general
government were reserved by the respective .states. His arguments
were met with the sentiment that “of course” the powers and prerog¬
atives not expressly granted were reserved. Then it was that the
grand old statesman, the father of independence, whose eloquence had
electrified the colonies and made liberty certain and the constitution a
possibility, stood upon the floor of the hall with the shadow of inevit¬
able conflict falling tally upon his mind and heart, tears coining down
his wrinkled cheeks, with prophetic vision sweeping the space of a
coming century, when he said: “I see it, I fe«l it. I see the beings
of a higher order anxious concerning our decision. When I see beyond
the horizon that bounds human eyes and look at the fiual consutnma
tion of all human things; and see these intelligent beings which it -
habit ethereal mansions viewing the political decisions and revolutions
which in the progress of tune will happeu in America, and the conse
quent happiness or misery of mankind, I am led to believe that much
of the account on the one side or the other will happen on what we
decide.”
At what fearful cost did it become the unwritten law of our con
stitutiou that the rights and prerogatives not expressly reserved by the
states are granted upon a states’ becoming a member of the federal
compact.
In contemplating this fearful cost our minds go back to the bloody
fields of Big Bethel, Bull Run, Leesburg, Dronesville, Yorktown,
Williamsburg, Seven Pines. Mechanicsville, Gaines Mill, Cold Harbor,
Savage Station, Frazier’s Farm Malvern Hill, Second Manassas,
South Mountain, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Shiloh. Corinth, Ft.
Donaldson, Island No 10, Murfresboro, Stone River, Perryville, Vicks¬
burg, Chicamauga, Atlanta, Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mt. Kennesaw
Mt., Franklin, Tenu.. Knoxville, Nashville, Chancellorsville, Gettys¬
burg, Hagerstown, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Second Cold Harbor.
Beverly Ford, Trevillion Station, around Richmond, Petersburg, and
last, but not least, Appomattox and Greensboro,—where men fell like
leaves in autumn ; where the pride and chivalry of the nation rushed
wiilingly into the jaws of death, yielding up their lives for what each
thought was right. Think of how many homes were made desolate,
how many mother’s hearts were broken, how many aged fathers
trembled when the reports came from these bloody fields, where wives
were made widows, and children fatherless. Some darling son or
loved brother had fallen for a principle he thought was right, All of
this might have been avoided hud the thirteen words contended for by
Patrick Henry been added to the Federal cohsitution—only one word
for each of the original thirteen states, to-wit: “Rights not expressly
ceded to the general goyernment are reserved by the states. 9 9
The flower of the southland composed the confederate armies
This cannot be said ol the northern army—only as it is shown that
large number a
of Southerners were in the federal army.
The statistics show the following facts relative to both armies:
In the Northern army:
Whites from the North 2,272,338,
Whites from the South 316,421,
Negroes 186.017,
Indians - 3,530,
Total Northern army, 2.778,301,
Total Southern army, 600,000,
North’s numerical excess, 2,178,301,
The composition of the Northern army was as follows:
Germaus, 176,800,
Irish, 144,200,
British Americans, 53.500,
English, 45.500,
Other Nationalities, 74,900,
Negroes, / . 180,017,
Total, 480,917.
With all of the facts in hand, it is easily understood why the
pie ot our Southland from the Potomac peo
the gulf to the Ma and Dixon’s meet'h” d "hfamifTl
.00 line should , ho
spring time while all natuee is clothed in her royal a „ir, and flower,
tke most delightful hue3 and sweetest fragrance givi f
their pleasant odors to the are the*win ^
gentle breeze to be wafted on f
the to the wind^o “city cheer of the all dead,’ nature’s and living amid being*. Then it is tbat^ "leastu^ 0 ^ 3 °
memories both sad md
strew flowers upon thegraves of men who died, many of them more
than a generation ago. It must be an unusual sentiment that animates
our people to thus meet and decorate these graves. Whose graves are
they? There can be but one reply, they are the heroes who lived and
died for their country. They died for you and me and the thousands
who will on the 23th pay the same grateful tribute. They died for
what was true, just, and right. Their memories are enshrined in our
hearts and we will never forget them, and the floral tributes that we
may bring will never be forgotten nor discontinued as long as patriots
live and generations are taught to veuerate the cause for which they
died.
No more sacred trust could fall to the keeping of the Ladies Mem¬
orial Association than the annual decoration of the graves or the Con¬
federate dead. It is a sacred trust and it is in worthy hands.
Bright angels looking from the skies
Behold no holier spot of ground,
Than where defeated valor lies
By woman’s love and beauty crowned.
Of all our gallant dead whose graves we are to decorate with flow¬
ers and water with our tears we will say:
Sleep on. brave heroes of the past,
How sacred is this spot;
Altho no marble marks the place
You’ll never be forgot.
Like gems of flowers hid away
Within old mother earth,
The marble waits the sculptor’s hand
To speak it into birth.
The grass kept green above your heads
Through ail these w«ary years,
And loving hands have garlands spread
And watered them with tears.
Soft winds have sighed their lonely lay
The bending skies have went,
Since you have fallen in the fray.
Crowned heroes you have slept.
One day a granite marble shaft
In grandeur here did rise;
To tell how fought Newton’s sons
Beneath their native slfies.
Let stars their silent sentinel keep,
And dews of heaven descend.
Upon the graves of those who fell,
Home altars to defend.
It matters not though stately spire
Did never here arise;
Their deeds will live in every heart—
True valor never dies.
Sleep on, brave heroes of the past,
There is no holier ground
Than whore defeated valor rests,
And heroes sleep uncrowned.
SOME OBSERVATIONS ON
THE THAW CASE.
After or.e of longest trials, the
most shockirg details and the ex¬
penditure of the largest amount of
money in the history of jurispru¬
dence, the celebrated Thaw case
oitue to a temporary end last Fri¬
day. In it one can see many things
that should be amended.
One of these is the practice of
securing experts—by both sides
They were called alienists in the
Thaw trial. A* first it would seem
that their testimony should be
convincing and decisive. An ex¬
pert’s representation ought to be
above money or price; but in the
Thaw case it so happened that the
experts testified for the side that
employed them. They remind 11 s
of the prophets the resourceful
Ahab had brought before him In
recent times experts and specialists
have cast a reflection upon expert
testimony. Men of equal ability
in their special fields give contrary
opinions, thus leaving a jury as
much in the tog as before.
It would seem that the proper
thing would be for the courts to
appoint expert talent, and let the
expert draw his compensation re¬
gardless of the opinion be may
give. The employment of experts
by the prosecution or defense leads
to bitter partnership. The people
at large believe that money influ¬
ences tlie opinions of the experts.
If the expert were a county or
state otlicial he would be above
suspicic*.
OUR JURY SYSTEM.
Every once and a wdiile some
fellow will bob up and criticise
our jury system, because of sou e
erroneous or unjust verdict the jury
may make. But as a whole the
jury will do what they think is
best for the State and community,
and as long as they do lhat the
purposes for which they were
chosen will be maintained. \Ye
can never have ideal juries and
ideal verdicts without a healthy
public opinion. The jurors come
from the people and go back to
the people. The intent and pur¬
pose of the system is that the ac¬
cused shall have the judgment of
his fellows, any one of whom
might be in the same plight but
for circumstances.
Judge Strong said recently:
“The State, the public have an
interest in the preservation of the
liberties and the lives of citizens
and will not allow them to betaken
away without due process of law
when forfeited, hs they may be, as
a punishment for crime.”
The giant 7-foot negro who
knocked McKinley’s slayer down
with hi 3 bare fist and effected his
capture is cow in prison on the
charge of vagrancy, a mental wreck
Ton much glory and riches is said
to be theca use of his undoing.-Ex,
‘‘The day of the tramp is over
in the South 9 9 remarked Judge
Andy Calhhoun, in Atlanta the
other day, when he gave twelve
months on the ohaingang to a typ¬
ical tramp of the old school. Thus
is shown the eff-cts of Georgia’s
continued effort to finally rid her¬
self of vagrants of all classes.
The kickers on the farm are not
as hard to get along with as the
kickers in town On the farm
there is the kicking cow, and our
long eared friend, the mule, while
in town there is the old mossback
who wants all the town improve¬
ment-; without paying for them.
The cow may be sold for beef, the
mule traded for a shot gun, but
nothing but a funeral will get rid
of the town kicker—Jones Coun¬
ty News.
Mr S L Bowen, of Wayne, W
Ya, writes: “I was a sufferer
from kidnev disease, so that at
times 1 could not get out of bed,
and when I did I could not stand
straight I took Foley’s Kidney
Cure One dollar bottle and a
part of the second cured me en
tirely” Foley’s Kidney Cure
works wonders where others are
total features C C Brooks drug
gist
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Hendrick Council \
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Meets Second and F,
day evenings. )B „
C. A, Society E u,s
T. J. Shields, s e( '‘retarv.
Covington Lodge n
Royal Arch 1%
Meets Second and Foj
day evenings.
M -G. Til
R. R. FOWLER, Hi(r
Secretary,
ft &lw ers
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Meets every First a B1
Friday evening.
A. S. Hopkins,
Tno. W. Peek, Sec
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Meets every Wednesdd
at 7th run and 80th bread
ing brothers are invitedts
N. Z. Anderso.v.SJ
J. W. Harwell,
Chief of Ba
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Meets every Thursday
Visiting brothers in the a
dially invited to meet ■
Work in one degree Noblafj each j
Jas. P. Sain,
J. W. Peek, Ree. Sect'y.l
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Meets every First aul
Monday evenings. Frate
come extended all visitmi
ers. E. W. CARROW
R. R. Fowler, K. ofl
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Meets every Seconds* •*U~
Tuesday evenings.
J. J. Com
W. N. Rainey, Clerk.
Jefferson Lamar
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Meets First TuesdaV|
month at 2 o’clock, p ij.
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