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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. Covi vv - C. SALTER, gton , r (,a -. R- F. D. 1, box 52. R RENT ~ A R»r dwelling on p room " lr ' ,aCl street Apply to W. Coh. U| W S. - . Ramsey.—2t. 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.