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THE ENTERPRISE
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JAS. P. COOLEY, Editor.
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Cwyi.ng ION Ga , June 28, 1907.
N ov win. -oiys the “hot-enough
f<>r-\ou” fellow isn’t having his
inning!
Great is the season of red bugs,
hard bifid eggs and Sunday
s> liiiol lemonade!
Ob. in\ ih» Japs don’t want a
m rap with Uncle Sain. Nor any
other nation, for that matter.
An exchange gives a good defi
ni'b>n of “faith”—buying hair re¬
storer from a bald-headed barber.
Wi'l ih* scientific gentleman
who found the germ of laziness
hurry up and find the proper toxin?
Saturday will be a Hoke Smith
day proper in Atlanta. The Hoke
ites will be t here in countless num¬
bers.
An Ohio man swallowed a bob¬
bin from his wife’s sewing ma¬
chine and his life hung by a thread
lor several hours.
Gov. IIughps doesn’t agree with
1 he New York legislature. He
has vetoed ihe 2-cent railroad rate
bill recently passed.
Indications point to a 12,000,000
cotton crop this year. The crop
throughout the South is said to be
ttic pooivst in 18 years.
As a good citizen of Covington
it becomes your duty to help ad
Vfl tire very public interest—so
talk and vote waterworks.
President, Roosevelt carries a
pistol in his hip-pocket and by so
•fifing hi« “big stick” ha9 kinder
fcki.looed from ihe limelight.
Mouuligbt rides in an airship
will never become popular with the
American girl unless the machine
can be managed with one hand.
Auv time is a good time for pay¬
ing your subscription to this paper.
An expense account of more than
;f 100.00 has to be paid every Sat¬
urday afternoon in the year.
That Boston professor who dis¬
covered that musical vibrations
would kill mosquitoes must have
1 naked into the rain barrel after
b(% little daughter’s piano practice.
Recently a Wisconsin man at¬
tempted to hypnotize a bull by
looking it in the eyes. He went
to the hospital but is now able to
be out and says he is “feeling
bully. y y
The good old county of Lowndes
turned her back on whiskey Mon
day and voted 1,000 majority for
prohibition. Thus we see what
'!"> other " h ' ske >' coul ‘ li * 9 i»
a nl soon do—then prouder
still will we be that we live in the
Empire State of the South.
Nearly a million people in Geor¬
gia iive m one room cabins. The
pity of the story is not that they
are poor, but inefficient as well.
What is lacking to make them
worth more to the church, to the
stat a , and to themselves? Two
words is the answer: Better
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GOVERNOR SMITH.
Tomorrow Hon. Hoke Smith
will take bis seat as Governor of
Georgia. He goes into office with
more pledges to redeem than any
governor Georgia has had. We
hope he will succeed. He made
his position very clear on the vital
issues of the day when he was
stumping the state, and the peo¬
ple of Georgia acquiesced i n
his views with a unanimity which
is without a parallel in southern
politics. The legislature may or
may not be with the governor, but
• there is one point upon which
there can not r a st the shadow of a
doubt, and that is that the major¬
ity believe with Governor Smith
and are anxious to see his ideas
embodied in legislation.
The people expect the new gov¬
ernor to receive the support of the
legislature, We shall watch and
see.
EX-GOVERNOR TERRELL.
After serving longer than anv
governor has ever served Georgia,
Joseph M. Terrell retires, yet a
young man, but full of honors.
IDs administration has been
marked by unusual prosperity and
contentment. Progress has been
noted along the line in every in¬
dustry. He has made no pretense
of reform, and yet during his ad¬
ministration real reforms have
been realized. Among some of
the more notable things accom¬
plished during his terms, may be
mentioned the reduction of the tax
rate, the establishment of a juven¬
ile reformatory, and the district
agricultural colleges.
Governor Terrell may have made
sou e mistakes—as all of us have—
but on the whole his administra¬
tion has been one in which the
whole state takes pride.
There are those who predict that
the ex-Governor has yet political
ambition and that he will be heard
from again. He will prove to be a
formidable opponent should he
again enter the political arena.
A NEEDED LAW.
We all agree that cigarettes are
dangerous, that our boys and
young men are blighting what
would otherwise be promising ca¬
reers, by the frequent use of the
pesky little things rolled in white
paper.
This legislature will probably
take the matter up and pass such a
law as the states of Tennessee and
Indiana have. The forbidding Ihe
sale and manufacture of the deadly
poison iu the state is the only
Safe remedy.
There be those who protest
against so radical a measure on the
ground that it interferes with the
liberty of the citizens. The prov¬
ince of the state is to protect its
citizens. The people make the
state, and if the people aie dwarfed
and hurt by the use of the cigar
ette, the state suffers. Sometimes
it is necessary to protect people
against themselves.
It is the universal habit of cigar¬
ette smoking among small boys
that is causing so much alarm at
this time. VV bile we do not believe
that cigarettes help a grown per¬
son, we know ’ris positively dan
! for boys. We have a law
now m regard to to minors buying
cigarettes or cigarette paraphanalia,
or the furnishing of such to them
by an adult, yet the law is a prac¬
tical nullity. So it would seem
I that the only sure way is to stop
| the importation, sale and rnanu
f ac ture of the things into the state.
While the i importation cannot be
I stoppfd only by an act of congress,
yet Georgia c.n p,» , taw forbid
,|f„ g the 9ak . aod roa „„ facture
them within her borders
The rest w ill follow.
A western justice of the pe; if
held an quest over a man
bad fallen from a bridge and Was
killed. He found a pistol and 11 ) )
on the deceas- h He found t!
the fellow came t
dentally, fi ued the corpte |
carrying concealed Weft do
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THE ENTERPRISE COVINGTON GA
FOURTH OF JULY.
Within a few days the United
States will reach its national birth¬
day, the anniversary of the day in
which the courage and foresight ot
its founders launched a new power
in the world, and this greatest, of
national holidays will be celebrated
in all parts of the country.
The Fourth of July comes at a
season when green fields and ri¬
pening harvests may truly proclaim
it; when a bright summer sun
cheers it, and when thn hearts of
millions of American people bid it
welcome. From the lisping babe
in the cradle to the aged citizen
who has learned the love of liberty
in its fullest meaning—all voices,
in fact, should be turned to the
accents of liberty.
The Constitution of the United
States is the rich prize that re
wards the toil of eight years of war
and blood and is, therefore, the
purchase of American valor. It is
the great memorial of the deeds ot
our ancestors, and on it their
names are written and their
achievements recorded.
Great Britain had carried the
fame ot her arms far and wide;
had reached across the eastern con¬
tinent and humbled France and
Spain, and planted the fiery ban¬
ner on soil thousands of miles
away; hence, it, was a great under-;
taking on the part of the compara¬
tively small band of American
colonists to overthrow the yoke of
British oppression. And in con¬
tending against such a foe, tl ?
courage and union which our ga
lant forefathers manifested should
be revered and the glorious Fourth
celebrated until the wheels ot time
shall cease to turn.
The seed of our now great re¬
public were sown by Captain John
Smith and his followers on the
Virginia shore m 1007, but the
nation has grown and flourished
during all the years since that
time until it has become like a
tree whose branches and shade
have overspread the western con¬
tinent, and whose fruits are culled
by eager hands of the patriotic all
over the world, that they may be
planted in other souls and bear
fruit in other climes.
Let us ever look forward with
happy anticipation to the dawing
of the Fourth of July morning and
teach each lising generation to
properly observe the day made im¬
mortal 'ey Washington and his
armies as the close of our victorious
revolutionary struggle.
REGISTRATION OF
TRAINED NURSES.
A bill will be introduced in the
present legislature which has for
its object, the registration of all
trained nurses in the state. It is
a good bill and will receive the
support it deserves.
An indiscriminate system, such
as the present, is not calculated to
improve the efficiency of nurses or
to inspire anyone to enter the ser
vice. It is not fair to the young
woman who has spent yea.s in
training to have to compete with
the novice who perhaps spent a
few weeks and is placed upon an
unsuspected public.
Let a system of registration be
initiated setting forth the experi¬
ence and qualifications of each
nurse, and allow’ no one to register
who does not come up to a “high
standard.
The position of trained nurse
is one that requires the highest and
best talent and skill.
VV e believe that no nurse who is
honestly endeavoring to maintain
a high standard of efficiency will
object to the proposed registration
law, but on the other hand will
support and welcome it. j
R'.ad th - substance of the bill in
another column of th e paper. j
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The best way to keep from get
? L>o’.ed on a Panama hat is—
not to buy one.
Wanted —Good, large sacks,
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DO WE PROPERLY APPRECI
ATE OUR SURROUNDINGS?
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The city of New York maintains
; right in the heart or the „ city an
old farm house. It is just an or
dinary typical old farm house, of
not much value vou may say, yet
the city of New York, at a consid¬
erable expense, keeps it up. An
old lady occupies it. She has
ducks, chickens, pigs, geese, sheep,
etc. The house and lot are kept
ns an object lesson to the citizens,
lest they forget. Now when we
remember how the dwellers in the
cities are practically shut out from
such inspiring views as the old
farm houses present, surely we
who dwell in the country ought to
feel a greater pride m our homes
and have a tense of deep apprecia¬
tion for the rural blessings we en
joy. There is something about a
farm and farm house that develops
and trains the finer sensibilities of
one more than any other ob
ject on the face of the earth. Lets
reverence and appreciate the old
home. If one old farm house, kept
iiy the city of New York, serves as
an inspiration, how much more
should the old homes of ours, with
all their added charms, appeal to
us.
Farming as a Definite Aim.
So often, like school teaching, a
man takes up farming as a means
to an end, not as a definite aim on
which to concentrate his powers.
What greater aim can a man have
in life than to be a successful far
mer? The highest duty of each
man is to have a definite aim and
to make a success of it. A life’s
work is a great whole made up of
many parts. This great whole
cannot be planned and executed in
a moment. The child has no clear¬
ly developed idea what he will be
when a man. As one little boy
expressed it, “I am going to be a
preacher or a cowboy; but I do not
know which yet.”
The longing is there to be some¬
thing which, to him, is very vague;
a something so far beyond his play
life that he cannot comprehend it.
It usually takes much time and
thought to decide what is best to
make our supreme aim, o’ertopping
yet containing all lesser desires.
When the decision is once made,
we must be willing to think out
carefully each detail. What? Air
castles a requisite of success? Ye?;
place your coveted goal far up;
make roomy air castles of what
you would like to do. The more
air castles the determined man
builds, all beating on the central
aim of his farming, the more near¬
ly will he reach success, for they
are incentive to greater efforts. As
Longfellow says, “Dreams are illu¬
sions, call them what you will;
they lift us from the commonplace
of life to nobler things.” True, a*
definite aim accompanied by airy
plans for its accomplishments will
not suffice to bring s«ccess within
the grasp of the farmer. There
must be something more—real,
honest, earnest effort. Many a
man has signally tailed to accom¬
plish any last good because he has
attempted too many things on the
farm,with talent and effort necessa
*
rv to do but one thing well. It is
the single aim that wins; men with
moonlight ambition rarely live in
history : they do not focus their
powers long enough to burn their
names indelibly into the roll of
honor. “Success” is the cry ou
every lip and finds an echo in
every farmer's heart. Then let
farming be chosen early as a defi¬
nite aim ; let it be considered so
noble, so high, that we may cling
to it all the days of our life till
night. No good is accomplished
in anything without meeting diffi
culties, but difficulties conquered !
create strength. 4 t When God
wants to educate a man he does I
not send him to school to the
Graces, but to the necessities.”
Work bath power to accomplish |
wonders; difficulties will sometimes
cause failures, but failures may be
the columns on which a grand suc¬
cess may rest. In the sweet now
and now is the time to try. The
worst defficulties met on the road
to success in anything is self. Too
often self has earthy ears and eyes;
the weakest link in the chain of
life yet remains to be discovered
and strengthened by each individ
ual for himself. Take for your
motto: “One today is worth for me
a thousand tomorrows.” The little
ways to success may be crossed by
the valley of difficulties and hedged
about by pitfalls of discouragement
but the sunshine of rejoicing falls
on the summit of Success Mountain.
“Do not then stand idly waiting,
For some greater work to do;
Fortune is a lazy goddess.
She will never come to you.
Go and toil in any vineyard,
Never fear to do or dare;
If you want a field of labor
You can find it anywhere.”
Let the farmer remember that
life’s pathway is up hill. He who
is making true progress is having
a hard time of it. If you find your
way an easy one, you may be sure
you are going down hill.—Arneri
can Farmer,
The New Orleans papers an¬
nounce the success, after ten days
of service, of the telegraphone, a
new combination of the telegraph
and telephone recently installed by
the Louisville and Nashville rail¬
road. The line is now in opera¬
tion between New Orleans and Mo¬
bile with connections at interme¬
diate stations. The peculiar feat¬
ure of this system is that only one
wire is employed in the transmis¬
sion of both telegraph and tele¬
phone messages, which may be
sent either interchangeably or si¬
multaneously without the slightest
interruption or confusion. Hav¬
ing proved successful for so long a
distance as that from New Orleans
to Mobile, confidence is felt that it
will be equally so for any distance,
thereby tending greatly to reduce
the cost of commun.cation by wire.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMT’S •
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Sheriff Sales.
W ill he sold before the court house door
iu the city ot Covington, on the first Tues¬
day in July, next, between the legal hours
• of sale to the highest bidder for cash, the
following described property, to-wit:
One black mare mule named Kate and
one brown colored mare mule named
May, said property levied on with a mort¬
gage fi fa issued from the County Court of
Nuwton county, Georgia, in tavor of the
Bank ot Newt on County transferred
against N. C. Eubanks. This June 1,
1907. N. M. HAT’, Sheriff.
Application For Dismission.
GEORGIA, Newton County.
Whereas W. A.Skinner, administrator of
Marvin 1. Skinner, represents to the court
in his petition duly filed and entered on re
cord, that he has fully administered Marvin
T. Skinner’s estate. This is therefore to cite
all persons concerned, kindred and credi¬
tors, to show cause, it any they can, why
said administrator should not be discharged
front his adminstration, and receive letters
of dismission, on the first Monday in Julv
1907. '
G. ~ D. HEARD,
Ordi nary.
4 NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that
there will be introduced at the
next ses-iion of the General As¬
sembly of the State of Georgia,
which" begins on the fourth Wed¬
nesday in June, 1907, the follow¬
ing local bills, to-wit:
An act to create the City ’Court
of Covington, in and for the Coun¬
ty of Newton, to prescribe all p o Iv¬
ers and duties thereof, to provide
for the officers thereof, and define
the manner of their election or ap
pointment, to provide for the com
pensation of said officers, and for
other purposes.
Also an act to be entitled, “An
act to abolish the County Court of
Newton County and provide the
disposition to be made of the re¬
cords of said Court and the busi
ness now pending in said Court.”
May 22nd, 1907. .
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R. R FOWLER, High
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Meets every First and
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