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METHODS DIFFERENT
IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Killing a Beef There is a Cold Blooded
Business With the Butchers, and
They Always Notify Patrons.
Travelers in Africa film the standard
of living somewhat different from
what they are accustomed to at home.
Mary Hall in her book, “A Woman’s
Trek From the Cape to Cairo," throws
a strong light upon the condition of
market and kitchen in British Central
Africa:
When the native butcher proposes to
kill an ox, notice to that effect is sent
round to the white people on the pre¬
vious day. Once they* were apprised
of the fact by the following startling
announcement: "A bule will be mur¬
dered tomorrow morning at C a. m.”
This cold blooded crime, so carefully
premeditated, even to the exact hour,
was, however, not committed, as the
next morning a second notice was is¬
sued as follows: “The bule ran away
this morning, so was not murdered.”
But this was an exceptional case.
1 heard one story which is so char¬
acteristic of the native that I repeat it.
The man who related it told me that
the incident occurred when he was on
a journey and was suffering from a
bad attack of fever. One evening he
fancied he would like some eggs and
told his boy to get two and boil them
lightly.
After a time they were brought to
him as hard as bullets. lie told the
boy he must get some more and boil
them less; but, alas, these were brought
to him in the same condition, and the
poor fellow wished he had never or¬
dered them at all.
Being unwilling to give in, he made
another attempt and told his boy,
“Come to me when the water boils."
The boy did so.
“Now,” said his master, “put the
eggs in, and when you have counted
fifty take them out.”
The native method of reckoning is to
count up to ten and then begin again,
arriving at the total by the number of
the tens counted. The sick man heard
the boy start fair and get as far as
four tens, when a second boy inter¬
fered and questioned whether it were
the third or fourth ten.
This started a discussion, and as
they could not agree It was decided
to begin all over again. Meanwhile
the eggs were still boiling and getting
harder and harder. This was about
the last straw, and, 111 as the man
felt'i he was compelled to get out of
bed and put a summary end to the
cooking operations.
SOME SURE THINGS.
Do Not Det on Your Ability to Per¬
form These Feats.
Bets to be avoided by those who are
cocksure they can do all things are
those relating to athletic feats. It
would seem that a good runner could
easily give a start of fifty yards in a
hundred to a man who was doing the
fifty yards by hopping on one leg. But
few runners, if any, can afford to give
that amount of staitf to any man who
is at all strong on his legs. For the
first five yards or so they go at prac¬
tically the same pace, so that to run
ninety-five yards while his opponent
Is hopping forty-five lie has to go more
than twice ns fast, and it is a weak
man indeed who cannot hop fifty
yards In ten seconds.
An ordinary wooden match is easily
broken in the fingers, but, although
there are many who will bet they can
do it, none succeed in accomplishing
the task If the match is laid across the
nail of the middle finger of either hand
and pressed upon by the first and third
fingers of that hand, despite its seem¬
ing so easy at first sight.
No one can crush an egg placed
lengthwise between bis clasped bands
—that Is, If the egg be sound and has
the ordinary shell of a hen’s egg.
It Is safe to bet a man that he can¬
not get out of a chair without beuding
his body forward or putting his feet
under it if he is sitting on it, not at
the edge of it.
Another equally certain wager is
that a ma,n cannot stand at the side
of a room with both of his feet touch¬
ing the wainscoting lengthwise.
It Is safe to bet any mau, save one
who is blind, that be cannot stand
for five minutes without moving if he
is blindfo’ded.
Very Different.
It is never embarrassing in a novel
for a rich man to find a lot of poor
kin. There is always a vacancy jn a
bank, where the rich man finds a good
position for the oldest son, who soon
becomes the bank’s president. An¬
other child shows a genius for paint¬
ing, and the rich man sends him to
Italy to study. In a month or two the
child returns a great artist. But how
different in real life: Ah, how vastly
different!—Atchison Globe.
She Had Ofjen Studied It.
Little Marie had returned from her
first visit to Sunday school.
And what lesson are you to study
for next Sunday?" her mother asked.
“Nuffin’ much,” said the four-year
old rather scornfully. “Her jest said
to learn all about the catakissin’, and
tne knowed that already.” — Lippln
eott’s.
The Contrast.
he elderly bride regarded In the
mirror her wreath of orange blos¬
soms, ber gown of Ivory satin and old
i onciennes and her long rope of ner
fe ot pearls.
, "^mres she only murmured. one trouble about fine
,0 “They make
^ ° k S ° shabb y ”~New York
Press
TOO CLEAN.
African Natives Who Were Lavish In
Their Use of Soap.
Miss Mary Kingsley, who made many
journeys In the wilds of Africa, used
to relate how once, finding it necessa¬
ry to cleanse a much soiled and stained
blouse, she carried It, with a cake of
soap, to a neighboring spring, where
an interested group of native women
watched her wash it. They were much
impressed by the way in which the
spots disappeared, and it emerged as
good as new.
The next morning when it came time
to break camp Miss Kingsley missed
her soap—a precious commodity in the
wilderness. Suspicion soon pointed to
a certain woman, who, on being ac¬
cused, confessed boldly that she bad
taken it and cast it into the spring
that its extraordinary powers of re¬
newing old garments might be perma¬
nently Imparted to the waters. She
was deeply mortified to learn that her
effort had been in vain.
The Rev. Teter McQueen of Charles¬
town, Mass., tells a kindred story. His
soap, however, was not lost, although
misused. He still had it with him.
“I told our native servants to be sure
to lay in a supply of clean water
when we crossed the Taru desert, a
scorched belt of sand stretching some
seventy-six miles,” he relates. “Tid
Ingsi bad reached us that an English
explorer who had attempted to cross
that desert shortly before us had per¬
ished from thirst, so we wanted to be
careful.
“You can imagine my surprise when,
upon taking *my first draft of water, 1
discovered that it tasted strongly of
soap. All the casks were similarly
tainted, and we rounded up the natives
and held a hasty court martial.
“It was a tough predicament, hut 1
couldn’t refrain from smiling within
when the leader of them meekly con¬
fessed that as the master had instruct¬
ed him to lay in a supply of clean wa¬
ter he had seen to it that bars of soap
were added, for soap, he said, was
used to clean things.”
They did not perish of thirst, but
after sixteen days of drinking soap¬
suds, which agreed with neither palate
nor stomach, no native of that partic¬
ular gang was again likely to try to
purify water with soap.—Youth’s Com
panion.
ON THE DEAD RUSH.
An Experience In Getting Acquainted
In New York.
Getting acquainted in New York is
thus described by a man from Atlanta.
He brought a letter of introduction to
the person he was to meet at the lat¬
ter’s office in Nassau street.
This is the Atlantan's report to his
house:
“Called at 2 p. m. Boy on the gate
asked my name and business. Gave
him the letter of Introduction. Boy re¬
turned and told me to sit down.
“Sat down twenty-five minutes. Saw
a man come out of his office and break
through the gate as If he was chased
by hornets.
“ ‘Who’s the mau from Atlanta who
wants to see me?’ asked the hurried
Individual.
“ T am the man,’ I replied, trying to
act as If I was also hurried.
“ ‘Come along with me,’ said the mau
as he grabbed life by the arm. He
dragged me through the main door Into
the hallway. He caught sight of a de¬
scending elevator and shrieked to the
man In the car to stop.
“The door of the car slid ajar, and
the man who had me by the arm said,
‘Come along; let’s get acquainted as
we go down.’
“By that time the car had reached
the landing on the main floor. As the
door of the car was pushed back the
man who had my letter in his hand
said:
“ ‘I haven't had time to read this let¬
ter. but we know each other. Come In
day after tomorrow. I’ve got to make
a train. I'll know you when we meet
again. Goodby.’
“Before 1 could say goodby he bad
turned the corner and was out of sight.
That’s business In New York.”—Suc¬
cess Magazine.
Had Two Faults.
Uncle Remus, besides being an In¬
veterate horse trader, was something
of a wag. One day, after swapping a
rather disreputable looking nag, he
said:
“Now, stranger, I’ll tell yer falr-dat
boss hah got two faults.”
“And more, too, I guess,” assented
the other. "But what are they?”
“Waal, ef he gits out lu de field he’s
de halides' hoss ter ketch ye ever seed,
an’ when yer ketch 'lui he ain't wuth
a cuss.”—Judge.
A Versatile Fellow.
A yoting man wants situation as
odd man or pair of horses.—Kirkcud¬
brightshire Advertiser.
AVe have an old revolving cage. If he
would care to come as three white
mice.—London Punch.
Trials of the Road.
Mrs. Farmer—Say, mister, don’t you
never do no work? Dewey Eve—Well,
if youse knew’ how bard It wuz fer a
college bred man to answer questions
asked by ungrammatical females yer
i/>«!dn’t ask dat—Judge.
Warm.
Mrs. Bugglns—Before we w*ru mar¬
ried you used to say I was the sifn
shine of your life. Mr. Buggins-Well,
I admit that you still do your best to
make things hot for me—Philadelphia
Record.
__
Captain of Signalers—G—G—G, what
the deuce does the fellow mean?
There’s no word with three G’s run¬
ning. Corporal—Beg pardon, sir, but
I Signaler Higgins he stutters!—London
Punch.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
EDWARD THATCH, THE
DARING BUCCANEER.
After the Battle With Maynard His
Head Hung From the Bowsprit of
the Lieutenant’s Sloop.
It is almost 200 years since Edward
Thatch, better known ns the pirate
Blackbeard, was a name with which
to terrorize the Atlantic coast of the
then new country of America. As a
buccaneer whose deeds of desperate
daring made him feared wherever his
name was known he stands a close
rival of the famous Captain Kidd, if
indeed in some respects he did not sur¬
pass that notorious freebooter.
The date <^f Thatch’s birth is lost in
history, ana his native place is vari¬
ously given as Bristol and Jamaica
He first appears as a foremast hand to
Major Stede Bonnet, a gentleman of
Barbados, who, although a man of
property and having small knowledge
of the sea, thought proper to fit out a
sloop and take to a life of piracy, the
explanation of his being “a little dis¬
tracted” being charitably given by one
biographer. However that may he,
his crew missed in the major the qual¬
ities of a successful commander. They
deposed him and elected Thatch in his
place. Bonnet was tried and executed
lu 1711.
Thatch’s first independent exploit of
which we have a detailed account took
place in June, 1718, when he captured
two French ships near the Bermudas,
one laden with sugar, the other empty.
Transferring to the latter the crew of
the laden vessel and letting them go
their way, he sailed with his prize of
vessel and sugar for Bathtown, N. C.,
with the governor of which place,
Charles Eden, he had previously ar¬
rived at a pleasant understanding.
Thatch gave out that he had found
the French ship deserted. Governor
Eden received sixty hogsheads of sugar
as his share. Tobias Knight, his sec¬
retary, took twenty, and the remain¬
der fell to Thatch and his crew.
Thatch lingered there for some
months, plundering and insulting the
merchants of the place. These, under¬
standing at length tlie futility of ex¬
pecting redress from Eden, applied to j
the governor of Virginia to rid them
of the pest.
The governor, after consultation
with the captains of the I’earl and
Lime, then lying In the James river,
agreed to provide two sloops, the war¬
ships to furnish a complement of
men. Lieutenant Maynard of the
Fcarl was placed in command, and
the punitive expedition sailed on Nov.
17, 1718. On the 21st the pirates were
sighted in an inlet about sixty miles
from Bathtown. and Maynard anchor¬
ed for the night.
On the following morning Thatch,
maneuvering to elude attack, ran bis
vessel aground, but Maynard's sloop,
drawing more water, though she had
no guns on board, failed to get to
close quarters. The lieutenant, how¬
ever, threw out his bailast and in an¬
swer to a truculent defiance from
Thatch promised to be “soon aboard
him with his sloop.” Coming *t last
within close range, a broadside from
the pirate killed or wounded twenty
of Maynard’s crew and nine on board
his consort.
Maynard now ran alongside the pi¬
rate. when, under cover of a discharge
of grenades, Thatch and fourteen fol¬
lowers boarded the king’s ship. May¬
nard and Thatch, pistol and sword In
hand, engaged in a desperate personal
encounter. The lieutenant’s sword
broke, and more than once he narrow¬
ly escaped a fatal injury. But at
last Thatch, having received sixteen
wounds, fell dead in the act of cock¬
ing a pistol. His followers jumped
overboard and cried for quarter. May¬
nard hung Thatch's head at the bow¬
sprit end, sailed for Bathtown, where
he seized the governor’s storehouse,
and then, still with his grisly sign
of triumph swinging in the wind, re¬
joined his ship in Virginia, where thir
teen of the captured pirates were
hanged.
One of the Blackbeard’s crew who
obtained pardon was Israel Hands,
who makes his appearance in "Treas¬
ure Island.” Shortly before Thatch
met his death Hands had been lamed
for life by a pistol shot in the knee
fin'd by Thatch from under the cabin
table, at which he, with Hands and
others, was carousing, just to remind
his crew In genera! “who he was.”
Such an act was only one of the many
eccentric brutalities of Thatch’s ca¬
reer.
When he felt himself in the vein or
was going Into action his appearance
wms somewhat startling—his bushy
black beard tied up with ribbons, the
ends of which were thrown over his
ears; a fur cap on his head, with a
lighted match on either side, and three
brace of pistols slung across his shoul¬
der. Of the usual condition of himself
and his crew much may he gathered
from the fact that “our company
somewhat sober" was a circumstance
deemed worthy of note In the diary
found after his death.-London Globe.
Not Yet.
“Do you desire a room with a bath?”
asked the affable clerk.
“Gee whiz, no!” replied the gentle¬
man with the canvas telescope. “This
Is only Tuesday, ain’t it?”-Chicago
Record-Herald.
Children have more need of models
than of critics.—Joubert.
The Difference.
Marriage is a good thing for single
men,” said the bridegroom elect.
“num! Yes,” remarked Mr. Hen
peck. “for single men only.” — New
I York Times.
You Are The Bidder And Auctioneer
The M. SCHULZ CO., of Chicago, 111., has placed with
R. E. Everitt, Covington 5
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 eithhr 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
is the
Acme of
Perfection.
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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 essential 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¬
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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 you to give this instrument a most careful inspection, then make up your mind How
much you will bid for it as indicated on the form attached to this circular. REUEII ti6r tliis is Positively 3
$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 will 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................................................................
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