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MEXICO AND HER
HAUNTED SPRINGS.
To See The Fabled Custodian of the
Royal Jewel is to Die and Help
the Siren Guard
Malinehe, or Maliutze, as some or
the old Mexican writers spell it, is the
water sprite, the mermaid, who lives
in two famous springs in Mexico that
are said to be connected by natural
underground waterways.
She is invisible to all except those
who never rettirn to tel! the tale, yet
it is easy to see her, they say.
In the daytime Malinehe lives in the
little spring bed pool just within the
iron gates of Chapultepec. Here she is
a sweet spirit, always wooing the
passerby with the music of her gentle
voice.
At nighttime she is miles away,
and her voice is wicked and mournful.
It will add interest f o this legend of
the Malinehe If the traveler when he
starts out to visit Chapultepec for the
first time will pause at the Cuauhte¬
moc statue in the second glorieta of
the Paseo and take a long look at it.
not only because it is a noble work of
art, but because this Indian hero was
the last ruler of his race, the Aztecs,
and in the final struggle called Ma
llnche to his aid.
A bronze relief in the base of the
pedestal on which the statue stands
shows the chief being tortured to com¬
pel him to reveal the hiding place of
the wealth of his kingdom. Cuauhte
moc’s stoical bearing rebukes the com¬
plainings of his comrade, whose feet
are also roasting over the slow fire In
the brasero beneath them, and when
he at last cries out in anguish Cuauh¬
temoc reproves him. “For shame,
faint heart. Do you think I am taking
my pleasure in my bath that you ap¬
peal to me?”
The magnificent old cypress trees
that surround the rock of Chapultepec
on a slightly lower level than the
spring were old before the conquest,
and among them Cuauhtemoc and his
plumed and painted warriors guided
their canoes to the enchanted spring
when they came to quench their bat*
tie thirst. Protected by these brave
old trees, Cuauhtemoc climbed the
rocks and from the heights watched
the maneuvers of his enemies on the
lakes. Close by the storied spring
stands the monarch of them all, Mon¬
tezuma’s tree. It Is awe inspiring to
follow with the eye Its rugged bole up
over the growth of centuries and try
to measure with the mind the history
that has been enacted beneath Its wav¬
ing boughs. Perhaps the magic spring
at its feet caused it to .grow higher
and more majestic than its fellows.
Here in Its shade Montezuma sat and
wept when he foresaw his downfall.
Here Cuauhtemoc vowed that if he
could not overcome the Spaniard he
would give the Aztec treasure to Ma
lluehe.
She overheard him make this vow
and whispered from the fringed brink
of the mirroring water that she would
receive the trust at the spring of Atz
capotzalco, three or four miles away.
This town,, whose name looks so un¬
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V ou 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.
pronounceable to the strangers, but
sounds so smooth when uttered by a
Mexican, has a little suburb, Zanco
pinca, that has been made famous by
Mallnche’s spring. It is here that Ma
linche loses the sweet nature by which
she is known at Chapultepec and be¬
comes a wicked spirit. The legend re¬
lates that she grew savage because
she was set to guard the treasure that
Cuauhtemoc secretly conveyed to her
when the hour of despair had arrived
for his people, though another tradi¬
tion says that he selected that hiding
place because of her wild and brave
spirit.
However that may be, it was there
that he carried the royal jewels of the
Aztecs and much gold and silver when
he knew that he was about to be de¬
feated by Cortes. Calling up the Ma
linche, he gave all into her keeping
and then went to his doom. Down
deep into the hidden grottoes of her
home Malinehe dragged the hoarded
treasures.
Long passageways connect these
chambers and by many tortuous wind¬
ings reach either spring. The walls of
rock crystal and chalcedony have been
polished and worn into fatitastic
shapes by the running water. There
are long, narrow shelves on which the
treasure is strewn and glittering sta¬
lactites that catch long strings of pearls
and emeralds and hold them swaying
in the winds of the caves.
Glowworms and electric fishes light
the fairy scene, and the water makes
constant music, but the Malinehe Is
not happy. If you go near the pool at
Zancopinca you will hear her voice
lamenting, and often in the nighttime
It may be heard afar off. If the un¬
wary traveler pauses to listen he will
hear cries of distress and anger and
sad moanings that attract him to their
relief. He will come nearer and near¬
er to the spring and, bending down
that his ear may he close, he wid hear
troubled waters rushing among hid
den rocks. When his face is above the
pool a pair of white arms will rise up
mif out Af of I the Pin water ytt ntnr and nn<l nloen clasp lilm him about o hnnF I
the neck. He is never seen again. He
has gone to help the siren guard the
treasure of Cuauhtemoc.—Mary Wor
ral Hudson in Mexican Herald.
Glacial Wonders.
The grandeur of nature’s forces may
be understood when one of the gla¬
ciers of Disco bay, Greenland, Is stud¬
ied. Helland estimated that it had a
thickness of 920 feet, with a breadth
of 18,400 feet, and was found to be
moving at the rate of forty-seven feet
per diem. And this Disco bay glacier
was only one of the many. Kink esti¬
mates that on the west coast of Green¬
land there are 120,000 square miles of
territory, all contributing their supply
of icebergs.
A Difficult Position.
A young captain who was drilling
the awkward squad commanded thus:
“Now, my men, listen to me. When I
say ‘Halt!’ put the foot that’s on the
ground beside the one that’s in the air
and remain motionless.”—Success Mag¬
azine.
He Mingled.
“Did you meet any of the members
of the nobility when you were in
Europe?” asked Miss Gushleigh.
“Sure. I sat between an earl and a
viscount at a prize fight one evening.”
—Chicago Record-Herald
THE COVINGTON NEWS
THE ELIXER OF
PERPETUAL YOUTH,
There is Only One Way to Retain It
and That is to Be Imparted
Through the Mind.
The elixir of youth lies in the mine
or nowhere. You cannot be young lr
trying to appear so. by dressing you'll
fully. You must first get rid of tilt
last vestige of thought, of belief, that
yon are aging. As long as that is in
mind cosmetics and youthful dress will
amount to very little in changing your
appearance. The conviction must first
be changed; the thought which has
produced the aging condition must be
reversed.
If we can only establish the perpet
ual youth mental attitude, so that we
feel young, we have won half the bat¬
tle against old age. Be sure of this,
that whatever you feel regarding your
age will be expressed in your body.
Nothing else more effectually retards
age than keeping in mind the bright,
cheerful, optimistic, hopeful, buoyant
picture of youth in all its splendor,
magnificence; the alluring picture of
the glories which belong to youth
youthful dreams, ideals, hopes and all
the qualities which belong to young
life.
One great trouble with us is that our
imaginations age prematurely. The
har(]> exacting conditions of our mod
ern> stren uous life tend to harden and
dry up the brain and nerve cells and
thus seriously injure the power of the
imagination, which should be kept
fresh, buoyant, elastic.—Success Maga¬
zine.
Eating the Pie.
“I remember one man from my home
town,” a western senator said recent
ly> .. ]n the good 0 ld days before civil
servic e examinations, whose dream of
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earthly attainment . was a government
place. When Ills party was finally
successful he immediately set out for
Washington and was ‘on the job’ long
before the 4th of March, but there
seemed to be a hitch somewhere. All
through the spring he was about town
By June he was seedy, but still ap
peared to be ‘game.’ Finally I found
him In the gallery of the senate cham¬
ber apparently endeavoring to kill
time.
“‘Well, have you given it up?’ I
asked, trying to be sympathetic.
“ ‘Oh, I got the job, all right.’ he re¬
plied, with a satisfied smile. ‘I’m
working now.’ ’’—Success Magazine.
THE CROUCHING TIGER.
A Hunting Incident In the Jungles ot
India.
Now and then a soldier has been
found kneeling on the battLefield as if
about to take aim at the enemy, bui
stone deatl. A bullet in the brain bad
converted him into a statue of him¬
self. Captain Forsyth in his "High¬
lands of Central India” tells of a sim¬
ilar effect produced by an explosive
shell on a tiger.
The captain while in the howdah of
his trained elephant hunting a tiger
saw the beast crouching under a bush
on the bank of a ravine. He took aim
and fired a three ounce shell at the
tiger’s broad forehead. To his sur¬
prise, for the distance was but thirty
yards, there was no result. Not a
tion of the tiger acknowledged the
shot. He rode round a quarter of a
circle, but still the tiger remained ino
tionless, but looking intently In the
same direction. Growing more and
more amazed, the captain rode up near
er with his rifle at full cock, but the
tiger did not move. Then he caused
the elephant to kick the beast. The
tiger fell over. He was stone dead.
The shell had struck him full in the
center of the forehead, burst in his
brain and killed him
change.
Know thyself and your own place in
the universe about you. Fear no phan¬
toms, but face realities.—Grant Allen.
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
Fenn.: N. Z. Anderson, Jno. M.
\\ right, T. G. Callaway, J. R.
Stephenson, b. E. Heard, of
ton county, respectfully shows :
lst. 1 hat petitioners are citizens
of said state and of Tennessee and
that they desire for themselves,
their successors, heirs,
and assigns, to be incorporated un
der the name and style of the
TX)Y INGTON BI GG\ COM PA
NY > for the term ot 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
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
propose to engage in the bus¬
iness of manufacturing carriages,
wagons and other vehi-
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Ten or Fifteen Different Makes.
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$10 Profit on Factory Prices.
See This Line Before You Make
Your Purchase.
It Means Money To you.
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Leader In
Furniture and Undertaking
Covignton, Ga.
cles, and to maintain and conduct
a factory for the manufacture of
the same, to repair, renovate,
paint and remodel carriages, bag¬
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 necessarv for the
successful carrying on of their
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
I and selling merchandise.
6th. The principal office and
I 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
an d immunities allowed snch cor
porations under the law, and to be
subject to all the penalties fixed by
the law.
Wherefore, your petitioners pray
t G be made a body corporate under
the name and style of the "Cov
jngton Buggv Company,” 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.
February 1, 1909.
Clerk’s office of Newton Superior
Court: I, Jno. B. Davis, clerk of
the Superior Court of said county,
dodiereby certify that the above
and foregoing is a true and correct
copy of the application for charter
of the Covington Buggy Company
as appears of file in said office,
Witness my hand the day and year
above mentioned
Jno. B. Davis,
Clerk Superior Court.
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