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TO THE FIRE INSURING PURLIC.
The New Year is approaching and the time for the business men of this and the surrounding community
to take stock and check up their values is here. With this season comes the time to place additional In¬
surance on your property if you find that you are not fully covered. Below I give you a list of Companies I
represent, together with the total assets of the entire number, and by their names and standing an
equitable settlement in case of loss is assured. They are all good, strong Insurance associations and al.
ways PROTECT their policy holders—the thing you want to look for in buying Insurance.
Home of New York . North British Mercantile
St. Athens Philadelphia Hartford..... Fireman’s Paul..... Mutual Association Underwriters ’; . . 179 , 287 , 033.00 . . .....Equitable . . Williamsburg Home North of American Florida City
. . .
From one of the above companies any money-valued property can be insured regardless of where it is located.
I have been in the Fire Insurance business here for the past seven years and have always used my effort for the interest
of our clients. During this period there has never been a settlement made by me that was questioned. This is another
thing you should take into consideration when you buy Fire Insurance.
If you want good Fire Insurance that will protect you and at the same time written by a man who will appreciate
your business and make your interest his interest, I want to write it for you.
Thanking you for past patronage and Soliciting a continuation of same,, I am, very truly
HENRY T. HUSON, Fire Insurance and Real Estate Agt,
COVINGTON, GEORGIA.
ROYAL STRONG ARMS
Famous Monarchs That Rivaled
the Mighty Samson.
The Emperor Maximianus Could Lift
Threa Men With One Hand—Augus¬
tus the Strong of 8axony Carried a
Horsa and its Rider on Hie Back.
Curiously enough, a large perceutage
of the notably strong men of history
have been of royal blood. One of the
earliest of these royal athletes was
Maximianus, called “Maximianus Her¬
cules’’ because of his great streugth.
He was the son of a peasant and had
an enormous physique. He became a
common soldier and was finally made
emperor by acclaim of his fellow sol¬
diers during a stormy period of Ro¬
man history.
Maximianus’ strength was prodi¬
gious. It was said that on foot he
could run down a fox, that he could
lift three men with one hand and that
by gripping the wheel of a chariot
with one finger he could resist the pull
of three horses. Like most men of
great physical strength, Maximianus
was a heavy eater. History records
that his dally allowance was forty
pounds of meat and eighteen bottles of
wine.
Augustus the Strong of Saxony was
another of these royal Samsons. He
would often seize two of his courtiers,
grasping one with his right hand and
another with his left, holding them up
at arm's length and playfully twirling
them about.
On one occasion the horse ridden by
one of his attendants became balky
and refused to budge. After some min¬
utes of coaxing the king dismounted,
placed his Herculean shoulder under
the horse’s chest, grasping It by the
fore legs, and calmly walked away
with both horse and rider. This re¬
markable performance was witnessed
by a number of courtiers and attend¬
ants.
King Richard of England ("Coeur de
Llou”> had tremendous streugth. Dur¬
ing his captivity iu Germany he gave
a terrible demonstration of his physical
powers. The son of one of the ward
cus was a youth locally renowned for
his muscular streugth and in his as¬
surance Invited the royal captive to an
exebauge of buffets. The young man
by a cast of the dice won the right to
the first stroke and struck the king a
staggering blow on the side of the
head. It was then the king's turn, and
he landed a blow just behind his op¬
ponent's ear so heavy that the man
was instantly killed.
This incident is used iu Sir Walter
Scott's famous historical novel “Ivan
hoe,” where lviug Richard, the “Black
JCnight,” and the jolly outlaw Friar
Tuck have an exchange of buffets,
without, however, any fatal result.
Dom Pedro I., emperor of Brazil, is
also on the list of royal strong men.
On the occasion of a carnival he ar¬
ranged matters so that he was stand¬
ing on the bow of the royal barge be¬
tween two of his stateliest courtiers.
Suddenly In the midst of the festivities
the king reached out, grasped a court¬
ier with each hand, and, after holding
them for a few moments squirming In
the air and begging to be released, he
relaxed his grip and allowed them to
drop plump into the water, amid the
frantic applause of the huge crowd
that had assembled to view their mon¬
arch. The king joined heartily In the
general hilarity, but what the drenched
courtiers thought about this exquisite
Joke is not recorded,
Peter the Great of Russia, like Char¬
lemagne, possessed great physical as
well as mental power. His years of
work as blacksmith and ship carpen¬
ter had so developed a naturally pow¬
erful physique that he was believed to
be the strongest man in Russia.
The story Is told that a certain
blacksmith In a little country town had
boasted that he was the only black¬
smith in the world who could lift his
own anvil. The emperor, hearing of
the blacksmith’s boast, disguised him
self as a workman and with a single
companion set out for the blacksmith’s
village. On learning of their errand
the blacksmith without a word laid
aside his tools and. grasping the anvil
with his brawny hands, lifted It with
great effort about a foot from the floor.
Then Peter took hold of the anvil,
raised It a foot, two leA, three, higher
and higher, till he dually swung it to
his shoulder and calmly walked away
with It.
Charlemagne was said to be the most
powerful man physically of his time.
One of his favorite feats of strength
was to break the heaviest horseshoe by
gripping It with one hand.
A worthy successor of Peter the
Great was the late Czar Alexander III..
who was one of the strongest men In
the world. He was often called “the
Russian Samsen.” The czar’s regular
visiting card was a Russian coin some¬
what larger than onr silver quarter,
which he would beud almost double
with his powerful fingers.
Alexander was also fond of breaking
horseshoes, and it Is said he never
found on® he could not break In two.
Ha could take two fresh packs of cards
and by gripping the ends with his
hands tear them straight down through
the middle.
It Is said that on one occasion a wo¬
man companion expressed a wish for a
bouquet holder in which to place a
large bunch of roses. The czar took a
pewter tankard from a table nearby
and with a few movements of his pow¬
erful hands fashioned it into a rough
but picturesque and quite efficient bou¬
quet holder.—W. R. C. I .at son in New
Tork Tribune.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
POWER OF WATER.
Under Certain Conditions It Is Frao
tically Irresistible.
When a man goes In swimming at
the seashore and slaps the water forci¬
bly with his band or takes a back dive
from a pier and lands squarely on his
back he realizes that the unstable
liquid offers not a little resistance.
Yet, says a writer in the New York
Tribune, it would surprise almost any¬
body to see what water will do under
certain conditions.
A stream from a fireman’s hose will
knock a man down. The jet from a
nozzle used iu plucer mining in the
west eats away a large piece of laud
in a day, toys with great bowlders as
If they were pebbles and would shoot
a man over the country as though he
were a projectile from a cannon.
There Is a story of an eastern black¬
smith who went west and made a bet
that he could knock a hole through
the jet of oue of these nozzles with a
sledge hammer. He lifted his arms,
swung the sledge and came down on
the ten inch stream with a force that
would have dented an anvil. But the
jet, never penetrated, whisked the
massive hammer out of the black¬
smith's hands and tossed it several
hundred feet away into (he debris of
gold bearing gravel beneath a crum¬
bling cliff. After this the blacksmith
left out iron when h« spoke of hard
substances.
There is also a power plant near
Durango, Colo., where a United States
cavalryman oue day thought he had
an easy job In cutting a two inch
stream with his sword. He made a
valiant attack. The result was that
his sword was shivered iu two and
his wrist broken.
A little thinner jet of water descend¬
ing 1,000 feet to a manufactory at
Greuoble, Spain, and traveling at the
moderate speed of 100 yards a second
fractures the best blades of Toledo.
Of course some people will not be¬
lieve such stories without having seen
the thing, and one may think it a proof
of the scientific imagination to say
that an inch thick sheet of water, pro¬
vided it had sufficient velocity, would
ward off bombshells as well as ateel
plate.
Nevertheless many persons while
traveling have seen a brakemnn put a
small hydraulic jack under one end
of a Pullman car and lift twenty tons
or so by a few leisurely strokes of the
pump handle, and the experience of
riding every day in a hydraulic ele¬
vator tends to remove doubts of the
magic power possessed by water bitch¬
ed to a machine.
“Miss Dolly, you know the old ad¬
age”—
“I don’t want to hear anything about
add-ages,” she interrupted. “What we
girls want is some subtract-ages.**—
Woman’s Home Companion.
SIMPLE FAITH.
A Burly Burglar’s Confidence In an
Editor’s Business Acumen.
A man who admitted that he came
direct from state prison tried to sell
to the city editor of a New York news¬
paper a weird and startling story of a
missing will which he declared had
been revealed to him by a fellow con¬
vict. He was a burly fellow with a
prognathous jaw, and he had lost an
eye in battle. The mere look of him
would frighten a timid citizen into
tremors. Mr. White, the expert iu
criminology, cross examined the man
as follows:
“Why were you in Auburn?”
“Highway” (meaning, of course, high¬
way robbery).
“I suppose you were wrongfully con¬
victed.”
“Nuh; dey had me right.”
Such engaging candor made Mr.
White feel that the man was truthful,
and he was greatly disappointed when
strict investigation disclosed the fact
that the story of the missing will was
all fictitious. The man was disap¬
pointed, too, at the failure of his ro¬
mance, but he went away from the
newspaper office in cheerful mood,
with some remark about better luck
next time.
A week later Mr. White was sum¬
moned to the reception room of the
newspaper, and there he found his
friend, the burly highwayman, his
shoulders broader, his single eye fiercer
than ever. But his visit was quite
friendly, although somewhat tinged
with business. He evidently believed
he could rely on Mr. White’s good
faith and business acumen. Fixing
Mr. White with his glittering eye, the
strong armed one plucked him by the
sleeve over to a corner of the room
and there in a loud, hoarse whisper in¬
quired:
“Say, couldjer do anyt’ing wit’ a cou¬
ple o’ watches?"—Harper’s Weekly.
Bimini and the Fountain of Youth.
Bimini was a fabulous island firmly
believed in by the Indians of the An¬
tilles, though they could give no fur¬
ther clew to Its location than that It
lay some hundreds of leagues north
of Hispaniola. Gn this island was
the famous fountain of youth, giv¬
ing perpetual health and vigor. It
led was Ponce the search de Leon for this and fountain Hernando that de J |
Soto to Florida, on the outskirts of
which the island was generally sup¬
posed to be situated.
Only oue person with a mean ui»
position would have figured out this
little prose poem. It runs as follows:
Which do you think is the greatest
slur?
DID he kiss her?
Did HE kiss her?
Did he KISS her?
Or,
Did he kiss HER?—Cleveland News.
Ladies Jacket Sale!
In my store next to the First National Bank you will find the
swellest line of Ladies Jackets in the city and having bought
too heavily I am going to sell them at the lowest prices you
ever heard of before. They are beautifully made, both in
workmanship and effect and contain the best grades of Jacket
material. You should see them to appreciate the exceptional
Bargains I am offering for the next few days. Here are a
few price that will show you some of the
Big Reductions
Regular $5.00 values in Regular $10.00 values in
black, brown, blue „ ^ black, brown, blue
and castor _______ ’?'►.*)! and castor________ <$*). i O
Regular $7.50 values in Regular $15.00 values in
black, brown, blue „ black, brown, blue
and castor__________*50.UU and castor ^
I also have about fifty pairs of regular $1.50 full size 10-4
Blankets 1 am going to sell for the next 10 days at 85c pair.
Come around and look through my stock. I keep the pret¬
tiest line of Ladies Goods in Covington.
M. LEVIN, Covington, Ga.
Everything in Ladies W ear
* We Will Mail You the J
1 i Covington From until January News I j
now #
1st, 1910, for Fifty Cents 4
i 9
i § Better take advantage of this offer
