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CHAMPION
BARGAINS
Covington, Georgia
The recent Panic in the cotton market had the tendency of slack business and the result is disasterous to the merchant with
a heavy stock left on hand, and no other way open to raise money except by slaughtering goods, to induce the people to
loosen the strings and open their purses to dispose of this heavy stock to raise money is the only way, hence this
GREAT MONEY RAISING SALE!
Where prices will be no object; profits not considered, values not regarded, liaise money, let the goods go. liaise money
is the object. $35,000 worth of merchandise, all seasonable goods. Just the right kind, suitable for your whole family and
the house. Must be sold regardless of its market value or cost.
This GREAT SALE is now going on under the management of A. H. Mason, the Western Sales Promoter
Bargain Givers of the Entire Stock of high grade Clothing, Shoes, Hats, and Dry Goods, Millinery and
Notions to be sold as this Sale Only Lasts 10 Days. Everything will go rapidly. Positively must be sold.
We merely ask
you to come and
test our
Statement.
GEORGE H. BELL
WANTS FREEDOM.
He Writes Pathetic Letter Regard¬
ing His Incarceration at The
State Sanitarium.
Mr. Goerge H. Bell, at one time one
of the brainiest young men of the
Wiregrass section, and who has been
in the State Asylum at Milledgeville
for the past two years, has been writ¬
ing some strong letters from that
place and we reproduce one just pub¬
lished in the Dublin Courier-Dispatch.
We don’t know anything whatever
about the conditions Mr. Bell refers
to but if they are like he says he
should certainly have a hearing. Mr.
Bell has a host of friends here, he
having been a student at Emory col¬
lege several years ago. He was a
representative from Emanuel county
at the time of his incarceration at the
asylum. Following is his letter:
“I beg a little space. In more than
two hundred communications I have
sent out to the state and federal offi¬
cials, newspapers and individual citi¬
zens, I have begged only a hearing in
the courts—-a privilege guaranteed the
meanest citizen—but given to very
few of those imprisoned in this asylum.
As a result of this general habit of
denying to the citizen this “inaliena¬
ble right,” there are now no less
than a thousand men and women
unlawfully held here—and ‘liberty
hangs her head, and acknowledges
oppression as her sister.’
“During more than two and a half
years of excruciating torture in this
living inferno, I have appealed to
every official from whom I could hope
to obtain assistance, and received not
a single answer to my appeals. It
seems too, that the Georgia newspa
papers are in league with a gang of
criminals, whose sway in this state
is more complete than the bandit Rais
sulis in Morocco.
This asylum, established and sup¬
ported by the tax payers as a public
charity, is prostituted to the uses of
heartless and conscienceless friends
incarnate, in housing their unfortu
nate victims, in “compounding” their i
I crimes, and in protecting them in
their criminal operations. (I have
been taught by a melancholy expe¬
rience of nearly three years, during
which time I have lived in it, or ra¬
ther have not died in it, that these
are the chief purposes of the asylum.
It is a fact that no man—and the
men embrace the women—can be dis¬
charged without the consent and sanc¬
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tion of the one placing them here—
his mental condition not being a con¬
sideration. ) And here we have pre¬
siding over these helpless, hopeless,
guiltless victims, merciless and re¬
morseless imps of hell in human form,
who pursue them day in and day out
with every method of cruel persecu¬
tion, imposition, humiliation, and
abuse e’er devised by the malignant,
malevolent brain of the master Me
phisto of all time!
“Great God! What crimes are per¬
petrated in the name of charity!
“I have seen frauds and fakes, fa¬
kers and four-flushers, white Mahate
mas, and some not white; artists,
black and otherwise; the man with
‘the nuts’ and the ‘fish pond’ chap;
the wheel-o’-fortune and the ‘pick
out’ graft; professional pocket pilfer¬
ers and tradin’ and traffiekin’ trick¬
sters; medicine lecturers and ‘high
pitch’ plunderers; houkatouk ham
fatters and bum hamboozlers; fly-by
nights and get-away-quicks; and
many other ‘sich’ in perambulations,
from ‘Hell’s Half Acre’ to the Great |
White Way, but sum them all up—
congregate, combine, consolidate,
multiply and add to—in this, the one 1
grand and only stupendous, colossal,
monumental, pyramidal fraud of
frauds and fake of fakes of the entire
universe. I had never dreamed that
such a thing—such an institution of
barbarism—could exist in a civilized
state. But enough of that.
‘ ‘ I am in purgatory and want to get
out. Will some one lend me aid? I
need it, aud I think I should have it.
I am a citizen of Georgia, unaccused
(note it) of crime, lunacy, vagrancy
or pauperism. Why force a man,
who wants to be a good citizen, to be¬
come an ararchist?
“Since April 18, 1906, when I was
kidnapped from Swainsboro, Emanuel
county, (“God with us!”) I have been
deprived of my liberty, property, pros¬
pects, pride, honor, hopes and hide
through what I contend is a criminal
conspiracy. What chance has a man
at the mercy of such unscrupulous
hellions? (It may be remembered that
I escaped from here in April last, and
broke a window in the Macon post
office—not ‘because I wanted to get
mail I had there,’ as the press unjust¬
ly reported, but to get a hearing in
the federal courts, so as to establish
my sanity, regain my rights of citizen*
ship, and bring several felonious crim¬
inals to justice. I was returned here
without an interview with a federal
official or newspaper man.) If anj
one should take enough interest in my
case to visit me, do not let him be
prevented from seeing me by the soft
pretense and suave excuses—‘fore¬
warned’—of the management of this
stinking Ananias. I can be found
THE COVINGTON NEWS
here, in spite of reports to the con¬
trary, not only taking very fair care
of myself, but looking a little after
‘the other fellow.’ No, I have not
‘sworn so destroy the world’ upon my
liberation, nor do I foam freely at the
mouth. Yes it is true there is a negro
here of the same name, but he is not
the ‘only one we know.’ This fool¬
ishness is tiresome, though were it
not so ghoulishly tragic, it would be
clownishly ‘amoosing.’
‘ ‘ I beg assistance to secure a hearing
in the courts through a habeas corpus
—that open sesame of the wrongly
prisoned.
“ ‘The hell it is in swing long to
bide.’ Yours very truly,
“George H. Bell.
“Note.—The Count de Warren, in
his notable book on ‘British India’
(London, 1844), tells interestingly of
‘Phanugars’ or Thugee Society—a re
ligious and economical organization
which speculated with the human
race by exterminating men: ‘The ba¬
sis of the society is a religious belief
—the worship of Bowanee, a gloomy
goddess, who is only satisfied with
carnage, and detests, above all, the
human race. Her most agreeable
sacrifices are human victims, and the
more of these her disciples offers her,
the more he will be recompensed here¬
after by all the delights of soul and
sense, and joys eternally renewed.
To obey his divine mistress, he mur¬
ders, without anger and without re¬
morse, the old man, woman and child.
The destruction of his fellow creature
is the primary object of his life. De¬
struction is his end, his celestial mis¬
sion, his calling—the most captivating
of all spirits, the hunting of men;
Whoever was in India during the
years 1831 and 1832, must remember
the stupor and affright which discov¬
ery of this vast infernal machine
spread among all classes of society.
A great number of magistrates and
administrative officials refused to be¬
lieve in it, and could not be brought
to comprehend that such a system
had so long preyed on the body poli¬
tic, under their very eyes, silently
and without betraying itself.
“G. H. B.”
NOTICE.
I am now back in my old office over
Cohen’s. Have two rooms, one for
white, the other for colored patients,
and am fully prepared and capable of
doing better work than ever before.
Your patronage solicited.
Very respectfully,
W. J. Higgins, Dentist.
Alabama Now In Dry Column
The ringing of bells, screaming of
whistles, bursting of firecrackers and
shooting skyrockets which in Alabama
announced that a new year was born,
also marked the advent of state-wide
prohibition. With the passing of the
old year went the saloons in the state
where it had not been voted out by
local option.
As far as known the saloons through¬
out the state closed their doors at
midnight December 31st, and the new'
law will be strictly enorced. For the
past few days the liquor trade has
been heavy at all the open saloons,
and most of the dealers sold out their
stocks.
The Only Safe Way.
“No, I can’t stay any longer,” he
said, with determination.
“What difference does an hour or so
make now?” asked a member of the
party. “Your wife will be in bed and
asleep, and if she wakes np she won’t
know what time it is.”
“Quite right, quite right." he re¬
turned. "I can fool my wife almost
any time as long ns I get home before
breakfast. Why, I've gone home when
the sun was up, kept the blinds shut,
lit the gas and made her think that it
was a little after 12. But. gentlemen,
I can’t fool the baby. I can make the
room as dark as I please, but It won’t
make the baby sleep a minute later
than usual, and when she wakes up
hungry it comes pretty close to being
morning, and my wife knows it. Gen¬
tlemen,” he added as he bowed him¬
self out, “I make it a rule to get home
before the baby wakes. It’s the only
safe way.”
A Dog Story.
At a farmhouse at which we have
been staying a terrier, Rough, shares
always his master's first breakfast,
the bread and cream accompanying a
cup of tea. Three corners he breaks
off and gives to Rough, who eats the
first two. Off the third he licks the
cream, then carries the crust to a
hen who each morning comes across
the field where the fowls are kept
and at the gate awaits her friend’s ar¬
rival. Should others of the hens ap¬
pear, Rough “barks them off” while
his favorite devours her portion. —
London Spectator.
A Tremendous Task.
“So you are going to study law?”
“Yes.”
“Going to make a specialty of crimi¬
nal law?”
“No.”
“Corporation law?”
“No. Both are too easy. What 1
want is to be accurately and reliably
Informed as to what months in the
year and days In the week it is per¬
mitted to shoot certain game in the
various sections of the country.”
Champion of
BARGAINS
Covington,
Georgia.
Flowers of Speech.
The influential Englishman In Siam
flattered himself that he had a very
decent knowledge of the language aud
was ready to do great things. He had
already ordered coffee from his hotel
waiter with success aud asked the
boy to bring up his boots.
Now, influential Englishmen in
Siam are not as common as cock¬
roaches, and that afternoon the dis¬
tinguished • visitor was requested by
a friend to deliver an address on
“England” at the only ladies’ sem¬
inary in the country. Confidently he
accepted.
He began famously. Every one ap¬
plauded and smiled. But gradually as
he proceeded he noticed consternation
overspreading the countenances of his
listeners.
“What’s the trouble?" he whispered
in English anxiously to his friend on
the platform.
"Trouble!” exclaimed the friend hot¬
ly. “Why, the trouble is what you
are saying.”
“But,” protested the speaker, “I am
saying, ‘I am delighted to see so many
young ladies rising to intellectual
heights, with fine brains and large
appreciation.’ ”
“Oh, no, you’re not,” corrected the
friend. “You're saying, ‘I am pleased
to see so many small lionesses grow¬
ing large and fat, with big noses and
huge feet!’ ’’—London Tit-Bits.
WHEN YOU WEEP.
The Way That Tears Act Upon the
Human Organism.
Professor Waynbaum, M. D., of
Paris publishes some queer facts re¬
garding the nature and purpose of
tears, conning to the conclusion that
tears act upon the human organism
“like chloroform, ether or alcohol.”
“When a human being gives way to
sorrow.” says Dr. Waynbaum, “the
blood pressure in the brain decreases.
The tear helps in this process, which
benumbs the brain for the time being,
causing passiveness of the soul al¬
most approaching indifference.
“Tears are blood, changing color by
their passage through the lachrymal
glands. One can drown his sorrow in
tears as one can benumb his senses
by the use of alcohol or drugs. When
a person cries the facial muscles con¬
tract and the appearance of the face
changes, which action facilitates the
white blood letting, driving the blood
particles into the lachrymal gland,
from which they issue in the shape of
tears.
“Children whose nervous system Is
particularly tender derive great ben¬
efit from crying occasionally. The act
of crying relieves their brains. The
same may be said with respect to wo¬
men.”
The professor likewise explains why
laughter sometimes produces tears,
but the explanation is too technical
for reproduction.
EGGS . . .
From Prize Winning Barred
and White Plymouth Rocks
at $2.00 per setting. White
Leghorns at $ 1.00 per setting
and Spangled Games at $4
per setting. Put in your or¬
ders now for spring delivery.
MODEL POULTRY FARM
Conyers, Ga.
THE WRONG NOTE.
Mozart's Outbreak at an Opera Per¬
formance at Marseilles.
Mozart, being once on a visit at
Marseilles, went incognito to bear the
performance of his “Yillanella Rapita.”
He had reason to be tolerably well
satisfied till in the midst of the princi¬
pal aria the orchestra, through some
error in the copying of the score,
sounded a D natural where the com¬
poser had written D sharp. This sub¬
stitution did not injure the harmony,
but gave a commonplace character to
the phrase and obscured the sentiment
of the composer.
Mozart no sooner heard it than he
started up vehemently and from the
middle of the pit cried out in a voice
of thunder, “Will you play D sharp,
you wretches?”
The sensation produced In the thea¬
ter may be imagined. The actors were
astounded, the lady who was singing
stopped short, the orchestra followed
her example, and the audience, with
loud exclamations, demanded the ex¬
pulsion of the offender. He was ac¬
cordingly seized and required to name
himself. He did so, and at the name
of Mozart the clamor subsided and
was succeeded by shouts of applause
from all sides.
It was Insisted that the opera should
be recommenced. Mozart was installed
In the orchestra and directed the
whole performance. This time the D
sharp was played in its proper place,
and the musicians themselves were
surprised at the superior effect pro¬
duced. After the opera Mozart was
conducted in triumph to his hotel.
“So you enjoy reading all the extrav¬
agant praise that is printed about that
opera singer?”
“Yes,” answered Mr. Cumrox. “It
kind of helps me to feel that maybe
those tickets were worth what I paid
for ’em.”—Washington Star.
Missionary—Can you give me any in¬
formation about Deacon Jones, who
labored among your people three years
ago? Cannibal—Well, the last I heard
about him he had gone into consump¬
tion.—Judge.
