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STORIES OF TIE SEA
Quenching a Blaze In a Hurry on
Board a War Vessel.
f NK OF A TRICKY MASCOT.
; Bfhen HBr pa Were Lively Times on Deck
the Big Monkey Got Himself
|f ix ed Up and With Took Hot Trip Pitch Aloft. and Gun
•Cotton a
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|Te were making passage from Nor
Va., to Lisbon, Portugal, in the
|ted States steamship Alliance. It
shortly after 4 o’clock. I had just
to my room for a pipeful of to¬
co when the sailmaker came to my
with a scared face. “Got any wa¬
in your room. Mr. Du Bois?” he
es; here’s a pailful.”
For God's sake give it to me quick!
sail room's afire, but don’t say
I’ll have it out in a min
handed him the pail of water, but
Wls not going to take any chances of
a fflre on a man-of-war with fifteen
tolas of powder not six feet away, so
ii||an to the ship’s furiously bell and I could. rang the In
fige alarm as as
time than it takes you to read this
grenades were being thrown and
witer was pouring into the now sti
fli^g mass of burning canvas. Men
jU|nped in among the great bundles of
llp wlen rled sails and passed them cut, and
one could not endure the smoke
any longer another took his place. At
]a*t the danger was over, and I began
tollook around and take stock of the
affair.
I had often wondered what I would
do in case of a fire on the ship. I
wfiuld save my watch. A watch is
neper used at sea, so it hung from a
bqok over my desk. I would be sure
.toltake along my best girl’s picture,
and there were a few other little be
Ioj|gings which must not be parted
with. Well, w r hen the thing was over,
wfcat had I gathered together? Not
my watch, not my best girl’s picture,
not anything that I had thought I
would, but I had filled my pockets
w|th extract of beef and nothing else.
Dfijmb Instinct, not a thought of any¬
thing but of something good to eat In
dljpe extremity.
mjker, How did the fire start? The sall
whose duty It is to keep the
aBs in good order, is privileged to go
to the sail room at any time, but he Is
supposed la|fern, to always carry a peculiar
consisting of a common candle
set in a globe of horn, sufficiently
oAque to give enough light for his
.fifth Mjfcds there. The candle does away
^spilled any danger from oil that might
and catch fire, and the globe,
Sing of horn instead of glass, pre¬
cludes a possibility of breakage. This
tfi»e the sailmaker, desiring a little
light, had taken out the candle,
lad dropped from his fingers away
n into the bight of a furled sail,
the cloth had caught fire. There
a terrible mess of burned and
•ky sails in there, and they were
hauled up on deck and spread out
:he sun to dry and to find out Just
,t the damage was. In the bottom
the room on the floor one of the
found the stump of candle and
it in his pocket. The sailmaker
a favorite on board, and the offl
never found out how the fire
ted. They thought they knew,
captain “broke” the sailmaker—
it is, reduced him to the decks. But
couldn’t prove anything. So after
veelt or so he restored him to his old
ik.
Ce came near having another fire
•e, and, while it might have been
serious, it was really funny.
'e had several hundred pounds of
cotton on board, and, fearing that
night have gathered dampness, the
mer's gang got up the cases from
magazine, pulled it all out and
wd it on the warm decks far aft in
sun to dry. Away forward the
jtswain’s with mate and his gang were
tar pots and ropes putting
|e of their stuff in order.
r e had on board mascot in the
a
^Have a monkey, one of the largest
ever seen. lie would stand
qul^e three feet high, and he was the
vert Old Nick for mischief. He was a
gre|b nuisance, that monkey, and must
a the ^T‘ [men VS doing. dol »g what he saw any of
41, Mr. Monkey saw the men with
|warin tar, and nothing would do
he must have a hand in the Job
lly, so he ran forward and dipped
lands into the pot and in a minute
all besmeared with the sticky
then he bolted aft as fast as he
scamper and rolled in the gun
>n. got himself well covered with
id ran aloft into the rigging. Sall
“iave a saying. “The devil to pay
no pitch hot.” but the pitch was
[this time, and the condition was
illy appalling. Some of the men
fter him, but it was impossible to
him. He was too shrewd for
The gunner’s gang gathered up
gun cotton as men never did so
in their lives before and put It
into the cans, for had that fool
e.v dropped from aloft Into it he
Id have blown the ship to king
come. They got it out of the way
>ut disaster, but for several hours
creature sat up there picking gun
>n from himself and throwing it
l»oard. As I said, the episode
1*1 have been comical had It not
fraught with bo much danger. It
it have been “another sea mys
but it was not.—Stanley Du Bois
Angeles Times.
bears misery best who hides It
t.-~Shakespeare.
RULE OF THE ROAI>.
A London Policeman Explained the
Matter Very Clearly.
“The first day in England,” says an
American traveler, “my heart jumped
into my throat several times. Riding
on top of a bus, the driver would al¬
ways turn toward the left when we
were about to pass another vehicle,
and, although I knew that that was
the English custom, I held on tight
and got shivers anticipating a collision
every time. One morulng I stepped
up to a policeman at King’s Cross to
get my bearings, and, as he was dis¬
posed to be talkative, I kept him com¬
pany.
“Among other things, I asked him
whether there was any rule requiring
pedestrians to keep to the left. No, he
told me; it was only for the roadway
that the rule held.
“I then asked him why it was that
In England they always turned to the
left, whereas In all other countries the
rule wms to turn to the right.
“ ‘Oh, it’s very important to keep to
the left,' he said seriously. I knew It
was very important to observe the
rule of the road, but why turn to the
left?
“ ‘Wen,’ he said, ‘I’ll show you. Now
you come here,’ and he led me to the
middle of the roadway. ‘You see,’ he
continued, ‘bow the traffic moves along
the two sides of the road?’
“Yes, I saw, and a pretty sight It
was, too—r. string of all sorts of con¬
veyances coming toward us on our
right and another moving away from
us on the left as far as the eye could
see.
“ ‘Well, now’—and he was very im¬
pressive—‘suppose you were driving
along in the middle here and another
kerrige was coming the other w’y, and
suppose you turned to the right, don’t
you see you would be getting in the
w’y of all those vehicles?’
“Yes, I saw that.
“ ‘Well, that’s why we always turn
to the left’
“I learned afterward that the ‘bobby’
exi>ected a tip for all the information
he had given me.”—Youth’s Compan¬
ion.
A ROYAL DESPOT.
Wurttemberg Prince Who Sold His
Subjects Like Cattle.
Cruel and despotic were some of the
petty princes who ruled the father
land before the Napoleonic wars swept
them away. Charles Eugene of Wurt
temburg, born in 1728, died In 1793
and during his sixty-five years of life
tormented his parents, his wives and
his subjects. His first consort. Frail
ericka of Beyreuth, was worthy of
him. When entering Wurttemberg
soon after their marriage the girls
threw masses of flowers in front of
them. “What do those dogs want?”
the princess asked her husband. They
were always quarreling and never
spoke to each other without snarling.
The prince was always short of money
and sold 6,000 of his subjects to Eng¬
land to raise the wind. He took the
poor wretches from the fields, clapped
a uniform on them and sent them to
their destination as if they were cattle.
Once he called all the young men of a
certain district before him and made
the following speech: “My brave boys,
do you want to go to fight In the ranks
of the English heroes against the sav¬
ages of the continent?” No reply was
made for the moment. Then a number
of the youths stepped forward, and
one of them said, “We do not want to
be sold like sheep.” The prince prompt¬
ly gave orders for two of them to be
seized, put against a wall and shot at
once. Then while the blood was run¬
ning from the mutilated bodies of the
two unfortunates the prince by divine
right said: “Run away. You see I do
not want to Impose my will on you. I
think of your welfare like a father
does of his children. .You want to
fight by the side of the valorous Eng¬
lish." All consented. Schiller heard his
father tell this story, and he himself
related it In a scene of one of his
plays.
Phil May’s Drawings.
The late Phil May was popularly
supposed to be the “lightning artist”
par excellence of England. It is quite
true that he could draw many wonder¬
ful things “straight off.” But when a
subject had been chosen for a Punch
illustration many drawings were made
from a model or models who first had
to be discovered. By a process of se¬
lection each drawing of the subject
bore fewer lines. When the drawiug
was published most of those who look¬
ed at It thought that it had been done
with a few rapid strokes of the pen,
whereas it probably represented a
week’s hard work.—London News.
Bank of England Watchers.
When you enter the Bank of Eng¬
land by any door four pairs of eyes
watch you, though you are unaw’are
of this fact. Situated close to the
doors are hiding places In which are
four guardians of the bank. You can¬
not see them, but they can watch you
with the aid of reflecting mirrors in
which they can see your entrance and
exit and every movement from the
time you enter the portals of wealth to
the moment you leave them.
Her Version.
Mr. Highbrow—It was Michelet, I
believe, who observed that “woman is
the salt of man’s life.” Miss Keen—
Quite true. Young men aren’t half so
fresh after they get married.—Boston
Transcript.
History Revised.
The Professor—What was it defeat¬
ed Leonidas at Thermopylae? The
Bright Student—The new rules. He
held the pass too long.—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
ANATOMY.
A More or Less Helpful Lesson For
Beginners.
Proceeding in a southerly direction
from the torso, we have the hips, use¬
ful for padding, and the legs. The
legs hold up the body and are some¬
times used In walking, but when rid¬
ing In automobiles they take up valu¬
able space which otherwise might be
employed to better advantage.
Attached to the legs are the feet.
Some varietifti of feet are cold. Some
people are born with cold feet, others
acquire cold feet, and still others have
cold feet thrust upon them.
The surface of the body Is covered
with cuticle, which either hangs In
graceful loops or Is stretched tightly
from bone to bone.
On the face it Is known as complex¬
ion and is used extensively for com¬
mercial purposes by dermatologists,
painters and decorators.
Between the cuticle and the bones
are the muscles, which hold the bones
together and prevent them from fall¬
ing out and littering up the sidewalk
as we walk along.
Packed neatly and yet compactly in¬
side the body are the heart, the liver
and the lungs; also the gall, which In
Americans is abnormally large.
These organs are used occasionally
by the people who own them, but
their real purpose is to furnish sur¬
geons a living.—Thomas L. Masson in
LIppincotfs.
A Free Handed Prince.
The following is told of the famous
Prince of Conde. He left his son,
aged nine years, 50 louls d’or to spend
while he himself was absent In Paris.
On his return the boy came to him
triumphantly, saying:
“Papa, here Is all the money safe.
I have never touched it once.”
The prince, without making any re¬
ply. took his son to the window and
quietly emptied all the money out of
the purse into the street. Then he
ss id:
“if you have neither virtue enough
to give away your money nor spirit
enough to spend it, always do this for
the future, that the poor may have a
chance of it.”
The Bab.
The East Indian teacher who founded
the cult known as "Babism” was “the
Bab”—Mirza All Mohammed. He was
born In SL -az, Persia, in the year
1820. He was trained at first to com¬
mercial life, but a pilgrimage to Mecca
awakened in his heart the religious
zeal which made him devote his life
henceforth to developing the faith
which he held. Upon his return to his
native city in 1844 he assumed the
title of Bab, or “Gate” leading to the
truth. In the eyes of the orthodox
Mohammedans the tenets of the B.,b
were rank heresy, and he was taken
to Tabriz and shot.—New York Amer¬
ican.
The Anchor.
“Captain,” remarked the nuisance on
shipboard who always asks foolish
questions, “what Is the object in
throwing the anchor overboard?”
“Young man,” replied the old salt,
“do you understand the theory of seis¬
mic disturbances? Well, we throw the
anchor overboard to keep the ocean
from slipping away In the fog. See?”
Overdoing It a Little.
“Speaking of economy,” says a char¬
acter in one of Life’s stories, “Gillett
says that he is saving up for a rainy
day.”
“H’m!” came the response. "His
wife thinks he must be saving up for
another flood.”
Leading Up to It.
A young man married against the
wishes of his parents and in telling a
friend how to break the news to them
said:
“Tell them first that I am dead, and
gently work up to the climax.”—Lon¬
don Tit-Bits. '
Like a Streak.
“Was his auto going so very fast?”
“Your honor, it was going so fast
that the bulldog on the seat beside him
looked like a dachshund. — Houston
Post.
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Application for Charter.
State of Georgia, Newton County.
To the Superior Court of said
County:
The petition of Tom Bgaley ; J.
H. Norman, of Lincoln county
Tenn.: N. Z. Anderson. Jno. M.
Wright, T. G. Callaway, J. R.
Stephenson, F. E. Heard, of New¬
ton county, respectfully shows:
1st. That petitioners are citizens
of said state and of Tennessee and
that they desire for themselves,
their successors, heirs, associates
and assigns, to be incorporated un¬
der the name and style of the
“NORMAN VEHICLE AND
MANUFACTURING COMPA¬
NY , ’ ’ for the term of twenty years
with the privilege of renewal at
the expiration of that time on con¬
forming to the law in such cases
made and provided.
2nd. The capital stock of said
corporation is to be Six Thousand
Dollars with the privilege of in¬
creasing the same to the sum of
Twenty five thousand dollars when
desired by a majority of its
stockholders of said corporation.
The stock to be divided into shares
of One Hundred Dollars each.
3rd. The object of said corpora¬
tion is pecuniary gain and profit to
its stockholders and to this end
they propose to engage in the bus¬
iness of manufacturing carriages,
buggies, wagons and other vehi¬
cles, and to maintain and conduct
a factory for the manufacture of
the same, to repair, 'renovate,
paint and remodel carriages, bug¬
gies and other vehicles ; to buy and
sell the same, to buy and sell all
meterial used in the manufacture
of said vehicles, and to buy, build,
rent or lease any and all buildings,
founderies or warehouses that may
be necessary to the successful con¬
duct of their business.
4th. Your petitioners desire to
adopt rules and regulations and
by-laws as are necessary for the
successful carrying on of their bus¬
iness from time to time and to elect
such officers as they may deem
necessary.
5th. Your petitioners pray fur¬
ther that they may have the right
to borrow and loan money, and to
buy, sell, lease, mortgage and oth¬
erwise deal in, convey or hold such
real estate, personal property as
ever is necessary or may need in
their business and to do with such
property whatever is necessary as
fully and completely, as could an
individual and your petitioners fur¬
ther ask the privilege of buying
and selling merchandise.
6th. The principal office and
place of business of the said corpo¬
ration will be in Covington. New¬
ton county, Ga., but petitioners
ask that the right to establish and
maintain other offices and factories
in other places where and when
they desire. They also ask the
right to sue and be sued, plead and
be impleaded, to have and use a
common seal and to enjoy any and
all the other rights and privileges
and immunities allowed snch cor¬
porations under the law, and to be
subject to all the penalties fixed by
the law.
Wherefore, your petitioners pray
to be made a body corporate under
the name and style of the "Nor¬
man Vehicle and Manufacturing
Co.,” entitled to all the rights and
subject to all the penalties fixed by
the statutes or said state.
A. D. Meador,
Petitioners Attorney.
State of Georgia Newton county.
January 12, 1909.
Clerk’s office of Newton Superior
Court: I, Jno. B. Davis, clerk of
the Superior Court of said county,
NICE FRESH GROCERIES
You will always find at my store as nice and fresh Gro¬
ceries as can be found in the city, and when you purchase
them from me I make it a point to get them to your home
just as quick as it is possible for me to do it.
FRESH MEATS
I also have in connection with my store a first class Meat
Market and can furnish you with the choice kind of Meats
yon like so well. Giveme an order. I will appreciate it and
will try to please you.
Cigars aud Tobacco. Cash Paid for Hides.
R. F. Wright,
Covington, Georgia.
do hereby certify that the above
and foregoing is a true and correct
copy of the application for charter
of the Norman Vehicle and Manu¬
facturing Company as appears of
file in said office. Witness my
hand the day and year above men¬
tioned. * Jno. B. Davis,
Clerk Superior Court.
SPEARING A BEAR.
Bruin’s Sharp Teeth Bit Through the
Copper Sheathed Weapon.
"Twice in my chase of bruin I have
made use of a bear spear as my weap¬
on of attack,” writes Count Eric von
Rosen, “and I may take this opportu¬
nity to maintain that the use of a
| spear entails no greater cruelty than
any other mode of attack and that
every hunter should be armed with
one in reserve, since these powerful
beasts have a vitality that triumphs
over a stray bullet or more unless
lodged In a vital region, and when
wounded their retaliation Is redoubta¬
ble and easily fatal. In Karelia, Fin¬
land. the bear Is yet regarded as a
noxious horror. The great black balred
‘slagbjorn,’ or killing bear, is still ram¬
pant there, and a couple of winters
back I was able to wreak justifiable
vengeance on some beasts that had
killed over score of cows and nine
horses. News had been brought me
that some of these rascals were hiber¬
nating on a small marsh bound island.
“We found no difficulty In locating
their lair, and I took up my post at
the entrance to it, armed only with my
spear. I may explain that a bear spear
consists of an ash staff some two
yards long and about a couple of
Inches in diameter. There is a blade
of steel about twelve inches in length,
and the shaft is copper cased as a pre¬
vention against the teeth of bruin. As
soon as my gentleman appeared I tried
to stick him in the throat, but he par¬
ried adroitly, and I missed. I made
another lunge and succeeded in driv¬
ing my spear point through his breast.
“He started roaring furiously and
snapped at my copper cased staff, then
made an attempt to strike at my arm
with his huge fore paw. so that I
might drop my weapon. The powerful
brute hung on to my spear at the one
end, while I as grimly held on at the
other end. His bites went through the
copper plate, and he started shredding
the wood beneath. Strenuously I
checked his further advances, and
gradually, for his wounds began to
tell, his resistance weakened, and he
dropped at last over the aperture of
his den.
“I pulled out the spear, but so much
strength still remained in him that he
seized the blade and bit it with a
force that left deep indentations in the
steel. My companion then finished
him off with his own weapon. This
struggle from start to finish covered
five minutes.”
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QUEER ENGLISH TAXES.
Babies as Well as Windows Used to
Help Swell the Revenues.
In 1695 a tax of 2 shillings had to be
paid by the parents of every “little
stranger” born in England except by
people in receipt of alms. Curiously
enough, a measure proposing a tax on
babies was Introduced some time ago
In the local parliament of the German
princedom of Reuss by which it was
proposed that the parents or mother
when registering the birth of a child
should In each case contribute a sum
amounting to 10 cents.
Some time ago a good deal of merri¬
ment was aroused by a measure in¬
troduced In the legislature of New
Jersey by which it was proposed to
tax beards, but even this is not an
original proposal. Queen Elizabeth put
a tax on every beard of a fortnight’s
growth, while a couple of centuries
ago Peter the Great insisted that all
nobles who wore beards should pay
100 rubles for the privilege.
As chancellor of the English ex¬
chequer Pitt rendered himself very un¬
popular by the extraordinary means
to which he resorted in order to im¬
prove the state of the country’s ex¬
chequer. He It was who first intro¬
duced the income tax, and he also
levied a tax upon horses, which caused
a certain farmer to use a cow for the
purpose of riding to and from market.
Even more dissatisfaction, howeveL
was caused by Pitt’s increase of the
window tax, first imposed in the year
that the tax on babies was enforced.
This window tax caused property own¬
ers to wall up as many windows as
possible, in order to reduce the amount
for which they were liable.—Philadel¬
phia Ledger.
Buddhist Ceremonies.
Some Buddhist ceremonies present a
striking analogy to certain Christian
rites. An old missionary says: “The
very titles of their intercessions, such
as ‘goddess of mercy,’ ‘holy mother,’
‘queen of heaven,’ with an image of
the virgin having a child In her arms
holding a crescent, are all such strik¬
ing coincidences that the Catholic mis¬
sionaries were greatly stumbled at the
resemblances between Chinese wor¬
ship and their own when they came
over to convert the natives to Chris¬
tianity.”—London Standard.
Long Love.
The word “love” in one of the In¬
dian dialects is “chemlendamoughku
uagogagu.” Fancy a sweet forest
maiden telling her copper colored
brave that she “chemlendamoughku
nagogagus” him. The conjugation of
the verb “to love” In that dialect must
take at least a year to recite.—Path¬
finder.
It Is said that the Parisian gives up
about 20 per cent of his Income for
taxes.