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UNUSUAL RECORD
OF THE TURK.
Has Won and Lost More Land
Than Any Other Nation. One
Time a World Bugbear.
The “Terrible Turk,” who may be
taken as typifying the empire of the
sultans, holds one record at least
which he is not likely to be deprived
of. He has won and lost more terri¬
tory than any other nation.
There was a time when the sultan
was the bugbear of the world. Even
little children In England shook In
their shoes when they heard his name
mentioned, and those people who lived
anywhere near him dared not call their
lives their own.
But at last the tide turned. The
Turk began to lose, and one great mis
fortune followed another.
Spain was the first big bit of the
Turkish empire to break free. The
Moors, who were subject and paid
tribute to the sultan, were driven from
province after province until at length
they were cooped up in the solitary
kingdom of Granada.
The last Moorish king to reign in
Spain was Boabdil-el-Chaco, or Boab
dll the Unlucky. In 1482 Ferdinand
and Isabella, the king and queen of
Aragon and Castile, declared war on
him, and in 1492 he had to surrender
everything.
Hungary, which now forms half of
the dual monarchy of the Emperor
Francis Joseph, was a province of the
sultan for 150 years. Then it was torn
from him by the sword.
After this came the turn of the
czars. The Russians, whom he once
despised, have been the Turk’s worst
enemies. They have either robbed him
themselves or encouraged others to rob
him.
Peter the Great set the example, but
was not, on the whole, very successful
in his wars against the Moslems. At
one time the Turks could have cap¬
tured and massacred Peter and his ar
mv, but were frustrated by the slave
girl, Catherine, whom Peter had mar
ried.
Catherine the Great tore the Crimea
from the unhappy Turk, together with
thousands of square miles of territory
along the shores of the Caspian.
In 1821 the Greeks, who had been
slaves of the sultans for many centu
ries, rose in rebellion and drove the
Turks out of the country. But then
the Greek leaders began to quarrel
among themselves, and civil war fol¬
lowed. The Turk took the opportunity
to seize the country once more.
But the massacres and other horrors
which followed aroused Europe. In
1827 the Turkish fleet was destroyed
at Navarino. The combined fleets of
Britain, France and Russia took part
in the operation.
In 1828 Greece was acknowledged as
a free and independent kingdom, with
a king of its own.
Por nearly a century Egypt, which
the Turk conquered in G41, has been
part of the sultan's empire in little
more than name, and since 1882, when
the English occupied Pharaoh’s coun
try after Arabi Pasha’s rebellion, the
Turk has had practically nothing to do
with Egypt.
The Moorish corsairs who had their
lair in the pirate city of Algiers ac
knowledged the sultan as their suze¬
rain, but were defiantly independent as
regarded all the rest of the world.
Their swift sailing dhows preyed on
the commerce of all Europe, and from
start to finish they seized many thou
sands of white captives, many of
whom they ransomed, while others
they doomed to slavery.
When asked to keep his piratical
subjects in order the sultan declared
himself helpless to do anything. The
freebooters went on doing as they
liked for a long time. Then France
became weary of patience and forcibly
took possession of the city in 1830.
Since then she has annexed 307,9S0
square miles of Algerian territory once
subject to the sultan.
Then came the Turk's worst time
Russia made war on him, and the Bal¬
kan states, which had been held as
provinces by Turkey for hundreds of
yenrs, revolted, flew to arms and did
everything they could on the side of
Russia. Had the czar been left to him¬
self the Turkish empire would have
been practically destroyed. The other
great powers, however, were afraid to
see Russia too powerful. They Insist¬
ed on summoning the congress of Ber
lln.
By the terms of the treaty of Berlin
the Turk was almost swept out of Eu¬
rope. Bosnia and Herzegovina were
handed over to Austria to keep in or¬
der. Roumania, Servla and Montene¬
gro were declared absolutely independ¬
ent of him. Bulgaria was created into
a principality, nominally uuder the
sultan’s suzerainty, but in reality free.
And then Austria annexed Bosnia and
Herzegovina.—Pearson’s Weekly.
Eternal Fitness.
“I see a retired knockabout come¬
dian is going to buy a title and have a
coat of arms."
“Has he decided on anything?”
“I think he is considering two slap¬
sticks crossed over a seltzer siphon."—
Pittsburg Post.
The Poor Sheep.
Mr. Foolish—Why are sheep the most
dissipated animals? Mr. Silly—Be
cause they gambol all their lives, spend
most of their time on the turf, many of
them are blacklegs, and all are fleeced
in the end!
Endeavor to do thy duty and thou
wilt know thy capacity.—Goethe.
Dignity of Ownership.
“Many a time,” said a policeman in
the southern part of the city, "when
arresting men, especially intoxicated
men, I have been told by my prisoner
that he was a taxpayer and that he
helped pay ray wages.
“1 always regarded this sort of back
talk as merely drunken insolence and
never paid much attention to it until
about a year ago, when I bought a
house and lot and became myself a
taxpayer. I had always rented be¬
fore and never gave a thought to taxes,
but as soon as 1 moved into my own
house 1 began to appreciate the feel¬
ings of men who resented arrest be¬
cause they paid taxes.
“There is certainly a considerable ad¬
dition to the dignity of the man who
helps support the government. He
feels a degree of responsibility that a
renter or roomer never understands,
and my idea is that every man in the
country ought to become a taxpayer
as soon as he can. And the mere fact
that he does help support the govern¬
ment and bears his share of the ex¬
pense makes him a better citizen.
Habitual criminals are rarely taxpay¬
ers. They know they may have to run
any day and perhaps never come back,
so they do not buy real estate, but are
roomers and lodgers ail their lives.”—
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
A Whistler Dinner.
In the Pennells’ “Life of James Mac
Neill Whistler” is the story of a din¬
ner given by the eccentric artist in
which he was assisted by Mr. Luke
Ionides, who describes the banquet:
“I remember calling one early after¬
noon, when Jimmy was busy putting
things straight. He asked me If I had
any money. I told him I had 12
shillings. He said that was enough.
We went out together, and he bought
three chairs at two and sixpence each
and three bottles of claret at eighteen
pente each and three sticks of sealing
wax of different colors at twopence
each. On our return he sealed the top
of each bottle with a different colored
wax. He then told me he expected a
possible buyer to dinner and two other
friends. When we had taken our seats
at the table he very solemnly told the
maid to go down and bring up a bottle
of wine, one of those with the red seal
The maid could hardly suppress a grin,
but I alone saw it. Then, after the
meat, he told her to fetch a bottle with
the blue seal, and with dessert the one
with the yellow seal was brought, and
all were drunk in perfect Innocence
and delight. He sold his picture, and
he said he w T as sure the sealing wax
had done it.”
A Queer Trunk Problem.
One of the minor problems that pre¬
sent themselves to managers of homes
for elderly persons is the accumulation
of trunks. Each new arrival brings
one or more trunks, often several, and
it is not expected that these ever will
be taken away, as the inmates are to
remain permanently. It is not, how¬
ever, considered safe to sell the trunks
or give them away, as they are the
private properly of the Inmates, and
there is a possibility that the trunks
may be needed again through some
change in affairs or fortunes. The
trunks therefore pile up until they
become the despair of managers, and
It is a relief when some of the older
or least substantial boxes break apart
from mere decrepitude and can con¬
scientiously be consigned to the scrap
heap.—New York Press.
Napoleon's Bible.
An Italian Journalist has the copy of
the Bible which Napoleon used during
his compulsory sojourn in the Isle of
Elba. It is a copy of a cheap popular
edition, illustrated with rough wood
cuts, with the initial N. and the im¬
perial crown stamped upon its back.
A number of texts are underlined, and
the inference is that the exiled em¬
peror searched the Scriptux-es for pas¬
sages appropriate to his misfortune
and his hopes. “I will smite the shep¬
herd, and the sheep shall be scattered,”
is perhaps the most significant of them.
The Bible was discovered in the sanc¬
tuary of the Madonna del Monte, in
Elba.
Strategy.
Rodrlck—Great Scott! Has Bilkins
lost his mind?
Van Albert—I don’t think so. Why?
Rodrick—Just look at the illumina¬
tion in his house. He has had every
gas jet burning all day long.
Van Albert—Oh, that’s just a little
scheme Bilkins has to Increase his gas
bill this month. His wife is coming
back to-morrow, and he told her he
had been remaining at home and read
ing every night since she went away.
If she looked at the gas bill and found
it to be only 32 cents, he would be
cornered for an explanation.—Chicago
News.
The True Bohemian.
•a true bohemian is a man who bor
rows a dollar and then invites you to
lunch with it."
“Wrong again. A true bohemian Is
a man who invites himself to lunch
with you and then borrows a dollar.”
—Kansas City Star.
I think there is success in all honest
endeavor and that there is some vic¬
tory gained in every gallant struggle
that is made.—Charles Dickens.
A Raw Recruit.
Corporal (to town recruit on stable
guard for the first time)—Now, you’ve
got to patrol these ’ere lines an’ 'am
mer in any pegs that get loose an’ gen¬
erally look after the 'orses.
Recruit (whose knowledge of horses
is of the slightest)—And w hat time am
I to wake the horses in the mornln’?—
London Tit-Bits.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
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. j
Stephenson, F. E. Heard, of New¬ I
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
M A N UFACTU RI NG COMP A
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
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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
ine.ss 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 ixeed 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 Yehicle and Manufacturing
Co.,” entitled to all the rights and
Do You Ever Eat?
If you do and want the nicest, freshest and most
palatable groceries in the city, you will do well to
see our line. We keep all the little delicacies
that go to make up a tempting meal and then, too,
we keep the price down where it ought to be. We
believe in giving our customers the benefit of our
experience in buying groceries and are satisfied
with a small margin of profit. Our list of custo¬
mers is growing every day and it seems to us
“there’s a reason.” Meat Market in connection.
Cook Bros., Covington, Phone 220 Ga.
subject to all the penalties fixed by
the statutes or said state.
A. D. Mkadok,
Petitioners Attorney.
State of Georgia, Newton county. 1909.’
January 12,
Clerk’s office of Newton Superior
Court: I, Jno. B. Davis, clerk o'”
the Superior Court of said county,
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.
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