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FRESH AND i
RURAL NEWS
SPARKLING FOR PERUSAL j
The News of the County by Alert Correspondents.
WEST END.
Harvest time has come and the
farmers are busy gathering the
fruits ot their labors through the
long hot summer days.
With the coming of Fall the
merchants and business men begin
to hustle around and prepare for
business anew. Let’s all get busy,
then we won’t only help ourselves
but hefp the country in which we
live.
Mr. R. L. Hicks and family vis¬
ited at the home of Mr. E. C. Hull
Sunday last.
Mr. Dock Chafin, of South Geor¬
gia, was in our midst one day last
week shaking hands with his old
friends of long ago.
Mr. J. J. Moseley has a good j
milk cow for sale.
Mr. E. F. Smith and wife visi- j
ted Mr. \V B. Sims and w.fe last
.
Sunday eveniug.
VVe are very sorry to note the
illness in Mr. YV. M. King’s fam¬
ily: there being four cases c f tever
in bis home.
Mr. YY r . B. Sims is in Griffin on
business.
Mr. Rosser Maloy has accepted
a job with the J. WE Maddox gin¬
nery and we wish him success.
Messrs. E. T. Hull* and YV. A.
Scott visited at the home of Mr.
W. NL King’s Sunday.
Mr. F. J. Moseley and wife vis
ited the former’s brother, J. J.
Moseley, Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Robert L. Hicks will now
be found in the merchandise busi¬
ness near Magnet.
Mr. Tom Smith and wife spent
the night at Salem last Friday.
Miss Lizzie Moseley had as her
guest last Sunday afternoon Miss
Clara Smith.
Miss Belle binis is teaching mu¬
sic near Decatur.
Mr. Wood Piper will soon begin
the erection of a tenant house.
J. J. Moseley & Sons are getting
ready to enlarge their place of bus¬
iness and will carry a larger as¬
sortment of goods.
Mr. Jayson Sims was in McDon
»ugh recently.
Mr. E. C. Hull is having some
repair work done on some of his
houses. Let all who have land to
rent fix up their houses and get
good citizens in tlje community.
MIXON.
Mrs. Emmett Nash, of Alabama,
is visiting home folks here for quite
awhile.
Mies Bessie Hodges spent the
week-end with Miss Lucy Turner,
near Rocky Plains.
Miss Flower Polk returned home
last Sunday after a two week’s vis
it to her sister, Mrs. D. M. Thomp¬
son, at Snapping Shoals.
Mr. and Mrs. YVtil Thomas and
two girls, Mabel and Inez, speut
Sunday with parents, Mr. and Mrs.
T. G. Heard.
Mr. YYest Polk was the gu^st of
relatives at Snapping Shoals Sat
nrday and Sunday’.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew P'incher
Spent Sunday with Mr. I. W
Pope’s family.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Heard
were admired guests ot the former’s
parents Sunday.
Miss Nellie Parker spent a couple
of days last week with Miss Don¬
nie Pennington at Gaithers.
Misses Pearl and Ganger
attended preaching t at Mt. Zion,
in Jasper county, and dined
Miss Maude Key last Sunday.
Mr. atad Mrs. Lewis Yaucy
daughter Iva, visited relatives
Jasper county last Sunday.
Brother YY’inburn and
Smith closed the protracted
vices at Stewart church last
day night with fourteen
Just received a large line of
Rogers Knives, Forks, Sp )oua and
pieces. Bert plated goods mane.
Sain the Jeweler.
The Soul of Man.
Editor Enterprise: The location
0 f gcm i () f tuau i a a problem of
some magnitude. It has baffled j
the efforts of science and the deep
thickers. As tln-re is no part of
the structure but what is mortal,
and passes away, it cannot be lo
cated m the brain, heart, nerves or
muscles, as all alike go back to
earth from whence they caine. So
the first consideration is to find
whether or not man has a soul.
YY'e read in the holy Bible thus:
t * What profit is there if a man
gain the whole world and lose his
own soul? I I The wording is very
explicit and personal, and we take
it for granted from this statement
that he has a soul and that it is
his, ana further that his make up
and capacity is superior to the
j ower orders of creation, he being
accor( jj t ,g , 0 the Scripture record,
a form in the image of his Maker.
Buffan's definition of man gives
latitude and capacity, It reads
thus: Man by his form and the
capacity of his organs seems prop¬
erly placed at the head of the
kingdom of nature; all in him an
nounces the lord of the earth ; his
form marks his superiority; he
stands erect in the attitdue of com¬
mand ; he can gaze upon the
heavens aud the lma-e of his fea¬
tures penetrates through his mate¬
rial organs and animates the ex
pression of his countenance; all
in him announces the lord of the
earth. ~ Thus we are forcibly Im¬
pressed with soul possession and
soul capacity, yet what and where
is the human soul?
These are not edicts by anv
means but merely the view’s of an
humble citizen, aud we read in the
Holy record, the book of books,
that mar. was formed out of the
dust of the ground, by bis maker,
God, aud that he breathed into his
nostrils the breath ot life and he
became a living soul. So it is a
very potent fact that the breath is
the soul. In other words, it is the
only thing connected with the
body that does not die. It is the
life of the whole kingdom ot na
ture, not only the animal but the
vegetable also. Even the latent
seed possesses it and when the sur¬
rounding are such as to cause ger¬
mination, like produces like indef¬
initely. The trend of thought here
is to show man’s advantages, so to
speak, aud the harmony of the
whole theme. We read in this
book that my ways are higher than,
man’s ways and pas^ his finding
out, yet having the capacity of
reason, we are able to discern
dimly a few plain facts and draw
from the fountain of wisdom day
by day. Knowledge and wisdom
far from being one, oftimes have
n > connection. Knowledge is
proud that shn knows so much;
wisdom is humble that she knows
no more; weakness is arrogant;
power is modest. B. F. CAMP.
Letter to N. Z Anderson.
Covington Ga
Dear Sir: Take a two-8*ory
bouse aud reckon the cost with
different paints; you will be sur
prised Say the house has a total
of 8210 square feet.
Divide by 300; you buy 11 gal¬
lons. That’s the rule; but it
• •ever comes out so.
Buy any other paint than Devoe,
vou will have to buy more, up to
possibly 22 gallons. Paint Devoe,
and you’ll have a gallon or two to
return. Here are some experi
ences.
N. R. Watkins, Lott, Texas,
used 13 gallons on his house be¬
fore; bought 13 gallons Devoe for
same house and had 6 left.
C. B. Edwards, of Edwards, &
Broughton, printers, Raleigh, N.
C. used 30 gallons paste paint on
hia house ; bought 30 gallous De¬
voe for same house anc^had 16 left.
Go by the gallons.
Yours truly
F. YV. DEVOE 8c CO
Fincher, Norris Hard ware Co
sell our paint.
COUNTY LINE next Sunday after
noon. Baptism if the candidates are
ready-
THE ENTERPRISE, COVINGTON, QA
What We Think of I
What We See.
As I am out of the county this
week and have nothing of local in¬ i
terest, I am handicapped to knov
just what to fill my column with
As I have said through this col
umn heretofore, I feel that I knovr
something of the rural school prob¬
lem and the trials of rural teachers,
having taught in the rural schools
myself for several years.
The rural teacher I wish to call
vour attention to (my own expe¬
rience) had just entered the arena
ot life from the classic halls of a
college, where for three short years
he had breathed au atmosphere
saturated with culture and refine,
meat. By nature, as well a3 by
education, he was an idealist, high
ly romantic and very unpractical. I
Spending his vacations with the
philosophers and poets ol other
ages, and like Wiiken and McCaw
ber, never giving a passing thought
to “pecuniary emoluments,” he
wa3 greatly surprised to learn that
after leaving school, he must begin
lite handicapped by heavy finan¬
cial embarrassments. But when
confronted by the pressing neces¬
sity of fighting this gigantic mon¬
ster, he began with an energy and
earnestness which would have done
credit to one of far greater practi¬
cal pretensions, to investigate the
various possible fields in which the
necessary ( ( mother of all evil”
could be accumulated in a suffici¬
ent quantity to satisfy the obliga¬
tion incurred while sitting at the
feet ot Minerva.
After much investigation and
consideration, he decided the
quickest way out of his financial
embarrassment was to become an
instructor of the untutored youth.
So we find him in the country,
duly installed with all the rights
and privileges pertaining to the
principal’s chair of a rural univer¬
sity. Sad to relate, that it was his
misfortune to secure a school in a
remote part of the moral vineyard,
where baseball, cigarettes, and
modern methods of cussing were
the only indications of enlightened
civilization.
The muse with whom he con¬
versed daily had never even hum¬
med a Eve tune in that neighbor¬
hood, so far as he could learn : and
thpre were other considerations
that seemed to him as great a mys¬
tery as the contents of the Gover¬
nor’s unopened letter. Of course
dear reader, you understand that
a country teacher is supposed to
kn>>w all things. Not only must
he have mastered the curriculum,
but he must be a horse doctor, a
weather prophet, understand local
politics, be a good singer, know
bow to conduct a prayer meeting,
or take the place of Sunday-school
superintendent if for any cause he
be absent.
This particular teacher didn’t
know that he was supposed to be a
past master in till tilings, so m ti.e
very beginning, he committed the
unpardouabie sir, of admitting that
there wtc a few things he didn’t
know, and thereby brought him¬
self into general dispute; in fact.,
was considered an ignoramus ot
the first water, which made his du¬
ties doubly unpleasant.
He was informed by a good sis¬
ter that her son was prepared to
begin a certain study at least tert
pages further over than he had
been started.
He was told by an old father
that it was unuccessaty to teach
arithmetic to girls. *
He received plenty of -advice,
thus verifying Shakespeare’s state¬
ment, 4 I It is easier to advise
how twenty
to do than to be one of the
twenty to follow that advice. » >
One evening as lie mended his
way homeward he was stopped by
the mother of one of h is boys,
a
red headed woman cf about forty
and five, whose vocabulary was
composed principally of uncom
plimeutary .
phed epithets which she ap
at the rate of about 150 per
minute. 1 he offense was the ap
plication ot the remedy which Sol¬
omon said spare no,., t0 the back f
her son who had violated certain
rules of the university.
Ha is now seriously considering
whether or not he will R0 to Pu
ama to help complete a .
miter politics* the canal o r
at hom». 8
.
9
One Person’s Three Experiences
With Ghosts.
I HE SPIRIT OF HIS SISTER.
Hew sn Apparition From the Unseen
World Aided the Brother In Deciding
an Important Legal Question—The
Phantom on the Grave.
Three times in my life, each instance
separated by an interval of years, have
the experiences here told been mine.
I come of a family to different mem¬
bers of which have become visible at
times those appearances which for
want of a better name are known as
“ghosts.” It is at least possible that
the superstition regarding the second
sight of one born with a veil may have
some foundation in scientific fact, for
my uncle was thus veiled at birth,
and ail his life from infancy vacant
space was peopled to him with forms,
which he would describe so accurate
ly in dress, appearance and manner
that listeners would instantly recog¬
nize departed friends, gone over years
before stances. my uncle's birth in many in- j
It was not till he was a large boy
that he realized that the forms seen by 1
him were not visible to others. Pages
could be written of his experiences,
but I am not here to give hearsay evi¬
dence,- but my own personal experi¬
ences, the sights seen with my own
bodily vision.
The first instance was so early in
my life that I do not recall it, but my
mother relates the circumstances.
Our home was in Brooklyn, and we
had gone for the summer to Green¬
field Hill, Conn. I was so young that
I still wore dresses and was in charge
of a nursemaid who was in the habit
of receiving visits from Aanie, a girl
of her own class, so that I was well
acquainted with Annie.
She died suddenly and was buried in
the country churchyard, but I was not
told of her death, being considered too
young to understand.
As I walked with my nurse past the
cemetery one evening in the edge of
dusk her superstitious horror can he
imagined when I cried, pointing di¬
rectly to Annie's grave: “Oh, Maggie,
there is Annie! She is waving her
hand for us to come over to her!” I
broke away from my nurse and ran to
the cemetery fence. She caught me
up and ran in a panic to the house,
nor would she ever again pass the cem¬
etery after dark.
The only idea in my mind was that
of a familiar friend whom I had not
seen for some time.
The second instance was at the most
unromantic age possible to a boy—
about thirteen. I was attending board¬
ing school in Dedham. Mass.
A school friend, a boy of about my
age. had left the school some days
before for his home in the west, leav¬
ing in perfect health.
At 'about fi in the evening I sat on
the edge of the bed removing my
shoes when the wail of the room
seemed to part and open, showing
the night outside, with the dim forms
of the trees gently waving in the
wind. As I sat spellbound at this
strange sight in the rift of the wall
against the background of the night
stood my friend as I had last seen him,
just as in life. He waved bis hand to
me in token of farewell, stood looking
at me a moment, and gently the vision
faded.
I said to my roommate, who had
seen nothing: “Charlie is dead. I have
just seen him.” The next morning a
telegram to the school said that he had
died the night preceding.
In the third instance I had grown to
manhood—a normal, healthy man, over
six feet tall and weighing nearly 200
pounds. I am a civil engineer, the
hardy outdoor life being far removed
from dreams and morbid imaginings.
It was on one occasion necessary for
me to consult a lawyer, and one even¬
ing I met the lawyer in liis Boston of¬
fice to talk over a matter of business.
In the course of the conversation he
asked me a question which I was un¬
decided about answering, I stopped
a moment before replying, for consid¬
eration, lowering my eyes, and, tvhen
I raised them, there stood behind the
attorney a favorite sister, dead many
years.
Her eyes were fixed on mine, her
fingers on her lips, I instantly ab
sorbed the idea conveyed by her sug¬
gestive pose and did hot give the law¬
yer the information be asked, As it
afterward proved, it was greatly to
my interest not to do so.
The lawyer shivered slightly as the
visitant stood behind his chair and
said that there was a draft through
the room.
He never knew that the sensation of
cold conveyed to his nervous system
was a breath from an unseen world.
Science has proved that light, sound
and color are all the results of vibra¬
tion of greater or less rapidity. Some
of these \ ibrations affect our senses and
we see. hear or feel their effects, But
what of the vast space filled with those
vibrations which affect none of our
senses, yet are unknown to science?
Could our senses respond to them what
secrets of the unseen might not be
revealed, and who can say but the
secret of these strange sights which
sometimes greet the eye of mortals Is
hidden In this unknown range of vi¬
brations. hiding a world that is all
about us, mingling with and overlap¬
ping. surrounding and telescoping our
common humdrum daily life and o D ly
In rare moments of attunernent draw¬
ing the veil aside for a glimpse .Into
the unknown.—New York Herald.
l
NEW
New goods in season arr ‘ Vmg
(A tew days and A marked . . ev «
cash prices which are at lowest cr> -a '
with the we best are willing f or offer!
to compare values
& either in this other
by or any market; callei
@ any name, cut prices, special b argain on!
or any other name. We think the
reason you have not bought more g j
of have tried 00(
us you not US.
Yours very truly,
^ ^ w a
A.Statemen from Emory.
In soliciting subscriptions
further .investment, it is customary
to make an exhibit of the surplus,
undivided profits, aad interest paid
aunually on the capital invested.
The Campaign Committee of
Emory College would therefore
call your attention to the following
statement:
."“Fifteen hundred and thirty two
(1532) young meu have received
diplomasfrom the college.
The alumni Roll includes two
hundred and eighty-eight (288)
ministers of the Gospel:
^Twenty four (24) College Presi¬
dents ;
Forty six (46) College Pro¬
fessors:
Twenty six (26) Foreign Missio¬
naries;
Three (3) Rishops of the M. E.
Church, South.
Moreover, nearly, or quite, two
hundred of the members of the
North and South Georgia Con¬
ferences, now serving in this State
have received full, or partial,
courses here.
Besides the enumerated list of
ministers, college presidents, pro
fessors, missionaries, bishops and
pastors, twelve hundred and forty
four (1244) laymen have been
graduated fi6m the College among
whom are numbered State School
Commissioners; Congressmen; U.
S. Justices; U. S. Senators; State
Treasurers ; Confederate Generals;
U. S. Assistant P. M. Generals;
Justices of State Supreme Court,
and distinguished members of
every noble profession known to
our commonwealth.
The forces of Agriculture and
Commerce have also received valu¬
able etuiributions in the persons
of Em tv graduates, but one of
the prime claims of the College
upon the generosity of all Geor
gtms is the fact that in almost
every c'.as3 appear the names of
those who have filled the offio of
County School Commissioner;
Superintending of County Schools;
Superintendent of City Schools, or
principal of High Schools, the
further fact that an almost in
credible number of the marticu
lutes and graduates of this Institu¬
tion have devoted a large part of
their lives to service in the Com¬
mon Schools.
In addition to the service ren
dred in graduating 1532 young
men, the College has had under its
tuition thousands of students
w hose courses were interrupted be¬
fore completion; but, who, never
tbeless, have wrought well by rea
son of the benefits coufered bv
Emory.
So great a man as Dr, J. M.
Buckley has said that if he wished
to know whether or not a college
was worthy to live he would □ot
seek au interview with the Presi¬
dent or Trus-teess; he would not
examine the contents of the cata¬
logue as to curriculum, or as to the
academic hiatory of the Faculty,
but. would inquire as to, what con¬
tribution the college had made to
the 1 world P” thi9 in the dictum lives of itsalj
n Emory j j
ing to live What” 8
or die. says
people of Georgia?
JAMES. E. DICK-FV
Chairman of CamoaGnV ^
GRAND AND
TRAVERSE JURO
-
Drawn for September Ter
Newton Superior Court
Judge Roan.
The following named Grand] peri
were drawn to serve as
rors fer September term 1908 M
ton Superior Court, to-wit:
W H Ogletree J L Epps
J \V F Park YV L Gibson
G Q Livingston R \Y Camobe
W R King A X Hays
F D Ballard M D Sock wel;
G W Hill I W Meadors
J B Ellington A C Belcher
C W Jackson C E Cook
T W Hicks J W Giles
T G Calloway C U Skinner
L P Duke A S Floyd
H B Meadors W A Ellingto
H^rd piper* 6 ^ R YV G T Franklin Milner
^ ^ J H Echols
The following named per?!
were drawn to serve as Travel
Jurors for September term, 111
Newton Superior Court, Robert! to-wit;|
E H Lewis Jno W
G \V 7 Avery J T Wilson J
R E Lee W R Morgan I
Otis Hardeman R I Weaver I
Ii F Jackson E H Adams Morgan!
C H White J Tom
J W Morgan G D Sammons
L YV Jarman S B Fuller
I N Vaughn R D Dial j
B M Leach W H Boggns
YV J Cook J F Fiquctte Edwards!
E L King W H
J L omitn .1 H Childs
Leonidas Loyd W H Sharp
B G Guinn T E Sp*ei’
A II Smith P 1) 0<»ffee
YV A Ballard J V Mills
A S Murray H M Parker
m « -
The Farmeis’ Union has reach
Kentucky, Its usefulness will!
once ho manifested in that stat
A Watch Tip. ^
“So you lost your watch D .8
crowd, eh?” Lecoq, ashamed the of , yo J j
sneered. “Well, I’m
“You ought to know after youri
friendship with roe that there s j
one safe way for a man to cam o
ly watch-in the right hand vest
et, with the chain running 111
right and left pockets. snatches ^
, “The thief always
left pocket, and of course > • *
tom he gets only a key or a e P
pass.”—New Orleans Times-Den)
Quit* Unexpected. Suzanne,^
The Mistress—What,
to leave me? Going to go
This is most unexpected. buteeteesjj ,
Maid—Oui, madame. last night i
fault. Eet was only -Harp*
your son proposed to > Iie
Bazar.
Why Th.y Oou*« H, %rf
Hewitt-Figures won t »e.
That’s what I tell the P** 1 * 1
business, hut they won t J
Hewitt-Wbat is for your » busing S * 8 L a p*®f'
•tt— I’m collector
Town and Country.
A landlord can always ■
That is more than man/
can do.