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"VI *■&*■ 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 ■ |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. I Genuine Peruvian Guano 1 ... vs* Untouched by the Chemist or the SManufacturer For TOBACCO =3 33 33 =3 COTTON, TRUCK 3 | 33 Peruvian Guano C orpor ation | CHARLESTON, S. C | ^iiiUiUiiilUlUiUUiUiUUUlUUUUiUUUitR^iiUUUUUiUUUUUiUUiUUUUiiUiUiiUUiUUiiUUiiUUiiUUiiUiUiiiiUiUUiUUUr'C 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.” _ 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.