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LONDON’S PRISONS
ALWAYS EMPTY
The Tower is the British Parli
ment’s House of Detention.
Formerly a Prison.
If t!ie average sentenced criminal
were allowed to select Lis place of
confinement his choice would prob¬
ably fall on the Clock Tower prison
AVestminster, as that Is the very
finest prison In Great Britain and is
able to supply comforts and luxuries
quite unknown to the ordinary Bill
Sikes.
But the law decides that members
of parliament only may be confined
in that Jail, although rank outsiders
could be committed to the Clock Tow¬
er for certain offenses against the
rules and regulations of parliament.
The Clock Tower prison, as It ex¬
ists today, was ere<ted in connection
with the house occupied by the ser¬
geant at arms. This official is in com¬
plete charge of any member com¬
mitted to the Clock Tower, and a
member cannot easily make his es¬
cape, because, in order to do so, he
must pass through the house of the
sergeant.
Very few members of parliament
are committed to the Clock Tower in
these days. We have to go back many
years to find a precedent, Mr. Charles
Bradlaugh being the last member to
occupy the cells at the Clock Tower,
and he did not occupy them long. He
was handed over to the custody of the
sergeant at arms on June 23. 1880,
committed to the Tower and released
next day.
There are two sets of cells in the
Clock Tower, an upper and a lower,
but both suits of cells are mnch the
same. In each there is a sitting room
of very ample proportions, well car¬
peted and furnished and replete with
most of the things which go toward
making one comfortable.
In each suit there are two bedrooms
—one for the use of the imprisoned
M. P., the other for the convenience
of the jailer, who must always be on
the spot In order to see that the
legislator makes no attempt to escape.
Any member of parliament sent to
the Clock Tower by order of the
speaker would be required to pay for
his own food, and if he did not do
so he could be sued In court. Any
legislator incarcerated in the Clock
Tower would be allowed to rise In
the morning just when he pleased, and
he could rolire to bod when the spirit
moved him. lie could read to his
heart’s content and smoke as much
as he liked, there being no restrictions
over such matters; his whole punish¬
ment would lie In being prevented
from joining his fellows and mixing
with them.
lie would be taken out to exercise,
but would always have two officials
beside him to guard against any at¬
tempt at escape, and his exercise
would be taken on the terrace before
the house sat for the day. Under
no circumstances would he be al¬
lowed to hold converse with his fel¬
low men. One way or another an Im¬
prisoned M. P. would not have a bad
time of it, and he would not be kept
in confinement for any lengthy period.
But if the Clock Tower Is not much
used nowadays, the Tower—the prison
of the house of commons of a former
day—was much in evidence. In olden
times a passing remark, an observa¬
tion obnoxious to the house, or, Indeed,
any (rifle, was sufficient to send the
culprit forthwith to the Tower, and
not to the Tower only, for a member
could be committed to Newgate.
Sometimes the reason for committing
a member to the Tower was somewhat
amusing, as witness the case of a
member for Southampton who once
entered the house in a drunken condi¬
tion and, mistaking the speaker for an
owl sitting in an Ivy bush, addressed
him as such. Result—the Tower.
However, the member was released
next day and severely reprimanded
for his ridiculous behavior.
Hie Tower was made use of by the
long” parliament. In one day as many
as eleven Presbyterian mem tiers of the
house were committed to the custody
of the sergeant at arms and flung into
the Tower. And, to show that mem¬
bers were not committed for errors in
speech alone, one lias only to mention
the case of Captain Churchill, who in
"as committed to the Tower for
tefusing to take merchant ships under
the protection of his man of war unless
ho received a gift of £ 200
In .
those days they had to pay stiffly
( ,' r tlle Privilege of being sent to the
""or ns witness an extract from the
’ ai v of Ford Clarendon, written the
-
tower. aj Allowing his committal to the
He says: “Mr. Dial brought me
a note of the fees, which to £130
come
thp governor, £100; gentleman
porter, £20; gentleman gaoler, £10.”
'non a member offends In these
^ ' ays s .nnd a necessity requires before to be “named”—al
is not cornmittal-he
sent lo the Clock Tower, but Is
jnispeiulod ' enter from the house duty and Is not allow
ml,ers for so long as the
decree.—Pearson’s Weekly.
Notice.
intensive farmers, I have a few
'T- t'ivm 'r yet ,1Ve WiU bi make £ bo11 cotton
more ' enou K h
, l ny c °f fc °n., I know to
for set. v ^ , pay
and pay for $1-00 per bushel
200 lbs. guano per acre.
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JURORS DRAWN FOR
MARCH SUPERIOR COURT.
Names of The Gentlemen Who Have
Been Drawn to Serve as Jurors at
Spring Term of The Court.
The following named persons were
drawn to serve as Grand Jurors, for
March term, 1909, Newton Superior
Court, to-wit:
GRAND jurors:
Evans Lunsford W. H. Boggus
C. H. White T. G. Berry
Tom C. Cowan F. E. Heard
A. H. Smith E. C. Hull
Leonidas Loyd A. O. Ellington.
J- W. Stephenson J. H. Willingham
H. A. DeLoach L. W. Jarman
L. D. Adams T. D. Speer
J. L. Skinner J. W. Anderson
Feilder Ozburn W. T. Corley
C. E. Cook R. E. Lee
M. G. Turner C. I. Ogletree
A. C. Belcher F. M. Hays
E. H. Jordan Geo. T. Smith
C. I. Cash J. H. Wood
The following named persons were
drawn to serve as Traverse Jurors, for
March term, 1909, Newton Superior
Court, to-wit:
J. N. Epps L. S. Wright
S. R. Campbell L. A. Patrick
E. T. Hull W. E. Lunsford
C. D. Ramsey J. W. King
R. D. Dial A. J. Wingate
A. S. Fowler W. E. Harwell
W. T. Smith R. E. Everitt
C. A. Cannon P. jH. Henderson
C. I. Biggers A. J. Parker
J. K. Guffin R. H. Christian
S. H. Avery J. W. Pope
J. C. Harwell J. J. Owens
J. E. Dobbs W. P. Hooper
C. O. Kimball T. W. Heard
E. E. Lunsford P. W. Turner
C. E. Hardeman W. P. Odum
S. S. Starr C. M. Griffin
Newt Stedham Chas. G. Smith
A Land Sale in Bolivia.
Our remote ancestors did not sell
land as It Is sold nowadays, the seller
merely giving to the buyer an ac¬
knowledged deed of the premises.
According to their customs, no land
title could pass except by “transmuta¬
tion of possession,” and this they ac¬
complished by a solemn ceremony,
called by an old term a “feoffment.”
The seller and the buyer went on
the land together in the presence of
witnesses, usually most of the village
folks. The seller took a tuft of grass
or a clod of earth and handed it to
the buyer, declaring with a loi:J voice
his intention to transfer to him the
possession of the land in question.
Centuries have elapsed since the
English race has sold land in tills
way, and It has been supposed that
the practice had become extinct. A
few years ago, however, a New Eng
land lawyer, returned from Bolivia,
gave the following account of a land
sale within 100 miles of La Paz, the
Bolivian capital:
The American had climbed the An
des to height of 1,400 feet, accom¬
panied by a native Bolivian who had
agreed to sell some mining property
The subprefect of the province and a
notary went with them. The Indians
living on the route were calk'd out
as the party passed along, until finally
the complete company numbered about
300.
When the party reached its destina¬
tion the prefect called the assembly
to order, declared what was to be
done, and the notary wrote It down
The seller then tore up dirt and
grass with his hands and handed it
to the buyer, who at once began to
run wildly about the land, turn somer
nssaults and cut up all manner of
funny capers.
This, the notary told the party, was
to convince the native Indians that the
purchaser had actually taken legal
possession of the land, and he further
stated that the Indians and their de¬
scendants would defend the newcom¬
er’s title against any and all intruders
until lie or his heirs should see fit to
transfer the possession of the land
to still others in a similar manner.—
Boston Post.
Threatened the Deity,
Among primitive peoples gifts are
made to the gods in the hope of se¬
curing their favor. Quite logically,
also, wheu a god does not respond his
worshipers cut off their gifts to him
aud sometimes even desecrate his im¬
age. But it Is odd to find a survival
of this notion among Christians, how
ever simple minded they may be.
A very curious Instance is contained
in a report filed in tlie Smithsonian
institution at Washington. It tells of
what happened in Arizona while un¬
der Spanish rule aud is amusing!}
naive in its story of how the people
of one department tried to threaten
the Deity and thereby make him give
them rain. The report says:
Considering that the Supreme Creator
has not behaved well In this province, as
In the whole of last year only one shower
of rain fell; that In this summer, not¬
withstanding all the processions, all. prayers
and praises, it has not rained at anu
consequently the crops of Castanas, on
which depend the prosperity of the whole
department, are entirely ruined. It Is de¬
creed—
Article I. If within the peremptory this pe
rlod of eight days from the date of
decree rain does not fall abundantly no
one will go to mass or say prayers.
Article II. If the drought continues
eight days more, the churches and chap
els shall be burned, and missals rosaries
and other objects of devotion will be de
stroyed. third period
Article 111. If. finally, tn a
of eight days it shall not rain, all the
priests, friars, nuns and saints, male and
female, shall be beheajed. And for the
present permission Is given for the com¬
mission of all sorts of sin In order that
the Supreme Creator may understand with
whom he has to deal.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
SOME VERY
QUEER PRAYERS
Curious Mistakes That Have Been
Made by Preachers. A Cau¬
tious Scotch Elder.
The most frequent cause of inappro¬
priate petitions is no doubt the per
sistence of habit. Certain phrases are
used again and again until they come
to be repeated without any thought of
their Immediate application, says the
Christian World. We may similarly
explain the stories of the workhouse
chaplain who prayed that those pres¬
ent might not trust in uncertain riches
and the prison chaplain who besought
the Lord that he conduct the worship¬
ers in safety to their respective places
of abode.
The sense of humor must surely have
been lacking in the old man of eighty,
supported by crutches, who regularly
Included among his petitions at the
weekly prayer meeting the request that
he might be kept from running with
the giddy multitude to do evil. Fa¬
miliarity with conventional phraseology
was the undoing of the minister who,
after the sermon on the Pharisee and
the publican, asked that there might
be poured out upon his hearers a dou¬
ble portion of the publican’s spirit.
Not very complimentary was the use
of a well known Scripture passage
made by a minister at a wedding:
“May these persons live together in
such harmony in this life that they
may finally attain unto that state of
felicity where they neither marry nor
are given in marriage.” As a conclud¬
ing example of the thoughtle.-s use of
familiar language one may quote this
remarkable amalgam: “O Lord, we
praise thee that we are thine: we feel
that we are thine; we know that we
are thine; Lord, make us thine.”
As in a sermon, so in a prayer, the
attempt to correct a hasty utterance
sometimes leads to surprising results.
A cautious Scotch elder, it is said, had*
taken supper at his pastor’s house and
in returning thanks after the meal en
tered upon a detailed exposition of
various causes of gratitude. He con¬
cluded by invoking the divine blessing I
upon the pastor's wife as his godly
helpmeet, who had always upheld his
hands in every good work—“at least,” j
he added in a saving clause, “us far
as we know.” It Is related of a com¬
patriot that in a moment of forgetful¬
ness he once thanked God for ’’the sal¬
vation of all men,” but immediately
redeemed himself from heterodoxy by
the qualification, “which, O Lord, as
thou knowest, is true in one sense, but
not in another.”
There are some men who seem to
think that an Indirect manner of ex- |
pressiou is especially suited to sacred
things, us the Scotchman quoted by
Dr. Boyd as saying, “For. as thou
knowest, men do not gather grapes of
thorns nor tigs of the national em¬
blem,” and the Englishman who thus j
pledged himself, “And, O Lord, if thou
wilt move the heart of any young man
to enter thy service, we will show our
approval in a way which thou wilt
appreciate.”
Father Taylor, the Boston sailor
preacher, was one of the most direct
of men and on the one recorded occa¬
sion when he essayed a roundabout
style nature triumphed over artifice.
It was the Sunday before the state
elections, and he was praying fervent¬
ly that a man might be chosen for
governor who would rule in the fear
of God, who would never be afraid of
the face of clay, who would defeat the
ringleaders of corruption, who would
defy hts own party If It yielded to wire
pullers, who—suddenly Father Taylor
paused and then exclaimed: “O Lord,
what’s the use of boxing the compass
in this way? Give us George N.
Briggs for governor. Amen!”
The temptation to use public prayer
as a vehicle for the conveying of infor¬
mation has sometimes been too strong
to resist. In his lively reminiscences
published some years ago In the Wes¬
leyan Methodist Magazine the late Dr.
Benjamin Gregory recalled how a cer¬
tain Methodist minister of an earlier
generation was accustomed “to convey
all necessary directions to Ids younger
colleagues through the medium of the
throne of grace.” Here Is an example:
“O Lord, bless thy dear young servant.
Thou knowest his appointment for to¬
morrow is at -. and he will have to
stop at Brother -’s, who keeps a lit¬
tle shop opposite the church. Oh. grant i
that thy dear young servant may not !
forget to let the people have the maga¬
zines and to bring home the moneys.”
The famous Dr. McCosh of Princeton
was accustomed to meet the students
In the college chapel every morning,
when he would make any necessary an¬
nouncements as well as conduct devo¬
tions. One morning in the prayer with
which the service concluded he prayed
for the resident of the United States.
Hie cabinet, the members of both
houses of congress, the governor of
Now Jersey, the mayor and other offi¬
cials of Princeton, and be then came to
the professors and instructors in the
college. At tills point there flashed
into his mind a notice which hi.d been
communicated to him orally and which
he had omitted to Include In the an¬
nouncements made Just before. To
the surprise of the assembled students
President McCosh continued, “And, O
Lord, bless Professor Karge, whose
French class will be held this morning
at 9 o'clock Instead of 9:30, as usual.”
Hubby was evidently worried, and
wifey was trying to cheer him up.
“Cheer up, John, and don’t worry,”
she said. “It doesn’t do any good to
borrow trouble.”
“Borrow trouble,” echoed her hus
band. “Great Caesar’s ghost! I ain’t
borrowing (rouble; I’ve got It to lend!
The M. SCHULZ CO., of Chicago, 111., has placed with
R. E Everitt, Covington, Ga.
A beautiful high grade and artistic Schulz Piano which retails
at $450.00 by the host of dealers representing the M. Schulz
Co., throughout America. They positively offer this piano to
the highest bidder, and you are permitted to make either a
time bid or a cash bid which may be mailed or left at
R. E. Everitt’s Furniture Store
as explained below. This is one of their unique methods em¬
ployed to introduce Schulz Pianos in unrepresented territory.
An agency for Schulz Pianos once placed, means permanency.
Schulz
Acme of
Perfection
■ ,r -"V
In this age of evolution old methods have been discarded for new and better ones which tend to¬
ward improvement and refinement. The founder of the Schulz Piano and his successors have
by years of incessant study improved this piano in many ways, and step by step they have
brought it to a height of refinement and musical possibilities undreamed of. They have express¬
ed in their actions a permanent and logical law that the need of a thing developes creative force
to produce it. The increased demand for quality and purity of tone caused their scale draftsman
to delve into the laws of acoustics, and scientific research has proven to him that strings do not
vibrate theii full length but vibrate in nodes. The combination of these nodes form the funda
mendal tone. The essential to produce perfect node vibration is the correct point of impact of
the hammer on the string. The irregular lines of the scale of the piano will show you the intra
casies in accomplishing this. The principle of graduation of the sounding board is another scien¬
tific find. Each sounding board used in the M. Schulz Piano is tested before it is put into the
Piano. There is naturally some dead surface in each sounding board which is detrimental to the
balance of it. This is eliminated by the use of their laminated acoustic rim which is formed of
fifteen segments. This separates the dead surface from the live surface which is thereby made
more sensitive to the vibration of the strings and produces a tone to please the most esthetic ear.
These are the two escential points on which we claim an art production.
Design - Finish - Construction.
The piano is also a magnificent instrument, massive in appearance, beautifully carved and hand¬
somely finished both inside and out. It represents a form of architecture with the lines clear
cut, of pleasing contrast and will harmonize in any surrounding. The case is made from the
choicest figured wood, and the finest quality of varnish is applied and polished after the most
approved methods known to the trade. It is full standard size. Height, 4 feet, 8 inches; width
5 feet 4 inches; depth 2 feet 2 inches.
The Purpose of This Sale.
The sale of this one piano is of no importance except to establish a permanent business in your locali¬
ty. We invite ycu to give this instrument a most careful inspection, then meke ip ycur mind hew
much you will bid for it as indicated on the form attached to this circular. F.CR fIT.tfcT this is Positively S
$450.00 Piano. Tear off the attached coupon and mail it, or place it in a sealed envelope and leave it
at the above named store. You will have nothing to lose by making a bid, and you may get the
piano for only $250.00 or $275.00 or even less. All bids will be opened February 22nd and the
piano wili be awarded to the highest bidder.
COUPON. Date.
R. E. EVERITT, Covington, Ga.
I have examined the SCHULZ PIANO at your store and am willing to give you $.
Cash and my Notes for $ ........................... due as follows : .......................... .........
If this bid is acceptable to you please notify me, and upon receipt of a written Ten Year Guarantee
from the M. Schulz Co. I will take the piano.
• Signed................................................................
P. O..................................................County.........................................State................
ALL BIDS MUST BE ADDRESSED TO PIANO DEPARTMENT, EVERITT'S FURNITURE STORE.