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lawful Experience of a Railroad
Man In Africa.
IN THE JAWS OF A MAN EATER.
fragged From His Bed Mangled by the Fierce and
Monster, He Was
Gashed and Carried Off Bodily by
the Brute.
The following description of an at¬
tack by a lion, as related to Mr. St.
Michael roflmore, F. Z. S., while he
was returning from a sojourn in the
wild places of the earth, Is so terribly
realistic that we offer no apology fox
printing It. Mr. Fodmore met the
hero of this story while on a trip
across the Pacific ocean and was
shown the terrible scars on the man’s
body: transconti¬
I was engaged on the
nental Cape to Cairo line, and our
gang consisted of two,white men and
fifty blacks. We each occupied a sep¬
arate hut.
One dark night I was aroused from
sleep by hearing something moving
backward and forward beneath my
bed. Becoming alarmed, I listened
breathlessly to a loud, long and inde¬
scribable sulff-snlff which broke the
stillness of the night. My experience
i of Africa was not extensive, but I
Instantly realized that some w-ild ani¬
mal was under my bed. Every one of
my faculties became immediately par¬
alyzed with horror. I was unable to
utter a sound.
After a moment or tw T o I became
aware that a man eating lion was sniff¬
ing his way along the edges of the
bed, perhaps a little puzzled at the
mosquito curtains. I then felt I must
do something, and instinctively, yet
noiselessly, I huddled all the pillow's
and bedclothes over my head. No
sooner had I done this than the lion,
with a horrible pur, grabbed me by
the right shoulder and dragged me out
on to the floor and immediately began
to suck the blood which streamed
down my neck and chest, and every
time I moved he bit me more savagely.
As I raised my knees to get into a
crouching, protective position he gave
me a little pat with his paw- which
nearly broke my leg and inflicted a
dreadful wound. Then suddenly the
monster dropped me out of his mouth,
placed one massive paw on my chest,
and then, throwing back his noble
head, he gave four terrible roars of
triumph and defiance.
My chum walked round the hut and
then saw with horror the hole made
by the Hon, who had torn out the mat
walls and crawled under my bed.
Then It daw-ned upon him what had
happened, so he ran round to the other
side and kicked the door down.
All this time the only thing I seemed
to take Interest in was the loud sip¬
ping suck, suck, made by the lion as
he drew my blood into his reeking
Jaws. I remembered, with a pang of
regret, that I had not lived a model
life recently, and I began to pray as I
had never prayed before. As I prayed
I thought how curious it was that I
did not feel the slightest sense of
pain with a man eating lion chewing
my flesh and drinking my blood.
1 had been lying on my back, with
my neck and head resting against the
side of the hut, when my friend
smashed the door. As he did so the
Hun dx-ove his terrible fangs into my
right groin and leaped out of the hut
Into the darkness. As he ran w ith me
he' seemed to be twisting and jerking
me round sideways, as though striving
to get me on his back.
The Hon ran across the clearing
with me for about thirty yards and
put me down under a big boabub tree.
I lay on my back with the lion on top
of me, occasionally gazing with his
great luminous, greenish yellow eyes,
which filled me with unutterable loath¬
ing, so expressionless and cold were
they, yet so diabolical in their ruth¬
less cruelty.
The lion seemed perfectly content
with ills prey. I felt his long, rough
tongue scraping up my thighs and ah
domen, and as it crept higher and
higher I felt little gusts of his hor¬
rible breath. 1 half turned my head
away, hut still the loug, greedy tongue
worked Its way toward my throat. I
could distinctly feel each bite, because,
although It did not cause the slightest
pain, yet as the fearful faugs were
driven into a fresh place 1 was con¬
scious of a strange numbness In that
particular part.
During all this time the negroes kept
screaming, “Nkanga, nkanga!” My
friend kept running round the clearing
in utter bewilderment. The appalling
blackness of the night added horror
to the thing which no pen could de¬
scribe.
At last two negroes were induced to
make a couple of torches of dry grass,
and by the lurid aud uncertain light of
’ lese lion was seeu standing over
II prostrate body. He was an enor¬
mous brute, over ten feet in length,
aad with a luxuriant, tawny mane
ihat Imparted to him a most majestic
appearance. My friend told me after¬
ward that as he approached with his
Kim I was moaning and crooning
" *° myself. For time he
was afraid some
to shoot lest he should kill
Ill( Instead of the lion. He screamed
*’ u ’ ^ ee P cool. Jack, and I will
. ha: I see
can do for you!"
As he crept nearer the lion took Ills
" ug8 out of ray groin and faced about,
KTowiing and snarling horribly. The
e was leveled, there was a sharp re
Bnd the flrst sh °t ll *t the Hon in
th, * PL Tbe h»H it
t ns came out shat
S lo ’ ,Ver J aw Two more shots
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red , ’ an<1 the fle rce monster fell
dtiox ead i my side.—London
Ideas.
FOUR BOXES.
An Effective Quartet of Great Gov*
erning Powers.
“The world is governed by three
boxes,” said an American wit of a cen¬
tury ago, “the cartridge box, the ballot
box and the bandbox."
Between the first two of these great
governing powers no one questioned
the natural alliance, but that the sex
whose box was the bandbox should
also claim a right to use the ballot
box was in his day undreamed of. Half
a century later, during the civil war,
Horace Greeley, the famous editor,
held the old opinion.
“Madam,” he said bluntly at a pub¬
lic meeting to the pioneer suffragist,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “the bullet
and the ballot go together. If you
w-aut to vote, are you ready to fight?"
“Certainly, sir,” replied the quick
witted lady, to the delight of the audi¬
ence. “I am ready to fight just as you
have fought—with my pen."
Not all Qie early women suffragists
w-ould so readily have countenanced
warfare, even In jest, for a notable
number of them were Quakers or of
Quaker ancestry, to whom force was
abhorrent. In the Society of Friends
the rights of men and women have
been always absolutely equal, so that,
as Lucretia Mott declared, it seemed
but natural to wish to counsel and
act with men everywhere on even
terms, as she had always done in
Nantucket.
One Quaker philanthropist, Abby
Hopper Gibbons, w-ho bad never been
Identified with the “woman's rights”
women, yet acknowledged with de
mure humor that, although she talked
little about her rights, she had “been
In the habit of always taking them"
when she could.
Once, however, she failed to take a
very important one when she was
summoned to do so. She had a singu¬
larly bold and firm handwriting, easily
mistaken for a man’s, and often signed
business communications simply A. H.
Gibbous, so that she one day found
herself, as a citizen and a taxpayer,
Imperatively required, in the name of
the law, to furnish reasons why she
should not serve as a juror.
“I know of none,” she wrote serene¬
ly at the foot of this formidable docu¬
ment and sent it back. But the official
who read this apparently impertinent
response must have Investigated the
record of his correspondent and found
a reason, for A. II. Gibbons, house¬
holder of New- York, was excused from
service in that fourth box, so Impor¬
tant in civilized communities—the jury
box.—Youth’s Companion.
THE COBRA STONE.
A Ceylon Story About the Reptile and
Its Shining Lure.
Every one knows that Ceylon Is fa¬
mous for the amount of queer and rare
precious stones found in the sands of
its dried up river beds. Among these
is one called “chlorophane,” a rare va¬
riety of fluor spar, which shines at
night with phosphorescent light. There
has long been a tradition among the
natives that a certain species of cobra
makes use of this stone to attract in¬
sects in the darkness. Indeed, the
name given it is “naja-kallex,” or co¬
bra stone. A scientist resolved to test
this wonderful story during a stay In
the Island, so offered any cooly 5 ru¬
pees to point out a stone carrying co¬
bra. In about a week an old Tamil
came In and offered to show him one.
He followed this guide, and, sure
enough, there, under an immense tama¬
rind tree, he saw- a little point of steady
greenish light and could faintly distin¬
guish behind a cobi’a coiled and slowly
waving its head from side to side. It
would have been desperately dangerous
to approach the reptile, and the cooly
begged him not to do so, saying that
next night he would himself get the
stone. He did so, aud in rather clever
fashion. Before dark he climbed into
the tree, carrying a large bag of ashes.
After nightfall the cobra turned up, as
usual, and deposited Its treasure, which
it carried In Its mouth, before It.
Thereupon the cooly emptied his bag
of ashes over the shining object, and
the frightened reptile after a wild but
fniitless search crept back into the
jungle. The cooly descended, searched
the ashes, found the stone and re¬
ceived his promised reward.—London
Telegraph.
Scotland's Patron Saint.
Why was St. Andrew chosen as the
patron saint of Scotland? This ques¬
tion has been asked many times, but
the archdeacon of whom Dean Hole
tells may be considered to have discov¬
ered the most satisfactory solution of
the problem. “Gentlemen,” said he (he
was speaking at a St. Andrew's day
banquet at the time), “I have given
this difficult subject my thoughtful
consideration, and I have come to the
conclusion that St. Andrew was chosen
to be the patron saint of Scotland be¬
cause he discovered the lad who had
the loaves and fishes."—Dundee Ad¬
vertiser.
Lively Cheese.
“How dill you find the Stilton I sent
you ?”
“Find it? We didn’t find It! As
soon as ever my wife’s hack was
turned It jumped from the pantry
shelf, ran down the garden, out of
the gate and was last seen chasing a
frightened dog down the road.”—Lon¬
don Scraps.
Hard to Choose.
“Whom would you rather entertain,”
asks the philosopher of folly, “a per¬
fectly stupid bore or a clever fellow
who lias just been abroad for the first
time?”—Exchange.
The nets of this life are the destiny
of the next.—Eastern Proverb.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
Starrsville News.
Mrs. S. H. Johnson, of Covington,
is spending this week with her daugh¬
ter Mrs. L. J. Epps.
Mrs. Pearl Harw-ell and little daugh¬
ter Frances spent last Thursday with
relatives at Mansfield.
Mr. and Mrs. Whitfield Fleniister, of
Covington, w-ere guests of Mr. H. H.
Evans’ family Sunday.
Mrs. Nannie Starr spent last week
with Mrs. F. S. Belcher near Eudora.
Miss Lizzie Hill, of near Covington,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. M. C.
Lazenby.
Misses Ellen Harwell and Gladys
Skinner, two of Mansfield’s popular
young ladies, spent the week-end
with the latter’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. A. Skinner.
Mr. W. T. Corley and Misses Fannie
Kate and Eloise Corley spent Sunday
afternoon with relatives in Covington.
- Mr. Clarence Crenshaw-, of Coving¬
ton, spent Sunday with his parents
here.
Misses Minnie Harwell and Althea
Hodgins, of Mansfield, spent last Fri¬
day night with Mrs. Pearl Harwell.
Mr. Harvey Lassiter spent several
days last week in Atlanta.
Mrs. J. C. Morgan was visiting rela¬
tives in Oxford the latter part of the
past w-eek.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Skinner and
little son, of Mansfield, spent Sunday
with Mr. W. A. Skinner’s family.
Mrs. L. T. Biggers and daughter,
Miss Annie Mae, spent Sunday with
Mrs. J, L. Skinner.
Mr. C. W. Wright, one of Leguin’s
most popular young men, visited
“friends” here Sunday evening.
Mrs. A. O. Belcher and children
spent the latter part of last week wit h
her parents at Eudora.
-
Glad to see so many at prayer meet
ing last Sunday evening, and hope
they will continue to come.
Mr. and Mrs. E. C Lasseter spent
Sunday with the latter’s , parents, , Mr. ._
and Mrs. J. M. Jones, at Hayston.
Mr. C. C. Epps went up to the Gate
City Monday on business.
Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Harwell enter
tained the young people with a Valen
tine party- last Friday- evening. Many
interesting games were played, and
the crowd dispersed at a late hour de¬
claring they- had spent a most pleas¬
ant evening.
Mixon News.
“We never seed such weather since
we’ve been liv’ sho’;
It’s as much as a feller’s life is worth
ter git outside the door,
An the sun, he’s had the measles, tin’
that thar ain’t no doubt,
Fer he’s feared un’ a relapse an’ w on’t
even stick his ol’ nose out.”
On account of so much sickness we
haven’t done our duty- toward the
News, but hope Mr. Editor will let us
take our place again.
Grand-mother Barker lias been on
the sick list quite a while, but is somt
better at this writing. We hope sin
w-ill continue to improve.
Mrs. Jim Morris visited Mrs. J. G.
Reynolds Thursday, p. m.
Mrs. T. G. Aiken spent Friday p.
m., w ith Mrs. Potts %nd Mrs. Hugh
Aiken.
We a re being alarmed most every
day- by- the blasts of the “Dam j
Crow’ll.”
The many friends of Mr. John |
Kitchens near Stewart are glad to
know he is much better after a severe
illness.
Mrs. John Reynolds spent Monday
with her father, Rev. A. C. Mixon.
The work on the Stewart Baptist
church is being pushed forward and j
will soon be completed, ’the people j
will lie pleased to have this new I
church for it will hi a great help t< > j
the community. Prof. Herring, prin- j
cipal of Mixon High School, will •!<•
liver some interesting sermons at this |
church every second Sunday. He j
ami Rev. Smith arc new dcli-ering
tne.se goon sermons in me out senuet
house . near the church to a large and- .
lenee every second Sunday .
The Sunday school is very good at ;
this place and will welcome other
schools any time. j
Mrs. Henry Pope spent one night
last week with her mother Mrs. I. L.
Parker.
All the friends in andut>iiu.(l Mixon ;
are so glad to know that little »a j
Mae, the daughter of Mr. \Y. H. l wy
is improving from a ),oig- iiiu ss.
Mr. Jim Hodge and wife spent Fri¬
day- at the big Dam. They r, port
grand time and say a li t of things
to he seen at that “Dam plaee.”
Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Kitchen -
rejoicing over a little girl visitor.
Quite a crowd of young people from ,
this place will attend Sunday s ’n>,. 1
at Bethlehem n» xt Sunday.
--I
Read the advertisements in Tin:
NKW 8 and trade with home merchants. I
The Size She Wanted.
The woman went in the bookstore
and asked for a globe.
“What size do you want?" asked the
clerk, turning one on its pivot for her
to look at the various and sundry coun¬
tries in pink and blue.
“I think,” said the woman, "that you
may give me one life size.”—New York
Times.
Application to Ctiange Name.
Georgia, Newton County: To the
Superior Court of said county.
The petition of Harrison Com¬
pany, a corporation of said State
and County, showeth tin to the
Court as follows, to-wit:
1 . That it is a corporation of
said state and county, having been
duly incorporated by an order of
court granted oli the 21 st day
September, 1900.
2. Your petitioner further shows
that on the 2nd day of Jan. 1909,
the directors of said Harrison com¬
pany, at a meeting at their office
in the city of Covington, County
and State aforesaid, adopted a res
O l ut i on asking the Superioi Court I
0 f sa ; t { county to change the name
of said Harrison Company to “The
Stationery & Novelty Company. ” l
3 Your petitioner pray s action! the;
Court, \ in conformity to tin
'
, )f saif directors o! said Harrison
Company, ^ Y, charter'hm-tofori- to grant an order i anunul- r!
t e ntei: i
, to said •, TT Harrison „ ■ . Com pane , bv ;
" '
changing the name , , of .- said • , com pa
ny to The Stationery- N Novelty
company. ’ ’
4. Your petitioner prays the
court will grant the order amend
ing the charter of said Harrison
Company by changing its name
to The Stationery & Novelty
Company,” with all the rights, j
powers, privileges, immunities and
authorities, as set forth and con- i
ierreil upon the said Harrison Co.
as shown by its petition or applica- j
tion for incorporation, and said !
order of said Court allowing the ]
same.
5. Wherefore, the premises con.- j
after filing an plication
of the above and foregoing petition
as required by law in such cases.
petitioner prays that its said char
ter be amended in manner and form
as set forth in the altove and fore
going petition.
CoFRTLAND S. Winn,
Att’y at Law for Petitioners,
Almon News
Mrs. E. P. Hamden spent last Sat
unlay afternoon with Mrs. J. W.
Mi-, and Mrs. D. F. Rice spent last
Friday-at Haw-kins vide with Mr. and
Mi's. J. T. Rice.
On last Wednesday afternoon Miss
Carrie Gofer and Mr. George Robert¬
son were happily united in marriage.
We wish for them a long and happy
life.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed MeCar: spent last
Saturday with Mr. and Mis. J. W.
Ellis.
Mrs. G. H. Rice spent a few days
last w-eek with her sister, Mrs. Jim
Yancey at Hawkit.sville.
Misses Lottie Rice, Dover Moon,
Clyde Heard and Messrs. Woodie
Moon and S. P. Rice were visitors to
Hawkinsville this week.
Mrs. J. W. Ellis and Mrs. J. L.
Ramey spent last Sunday with Mrs.
Sockvvell.
Mr. and Mrs. George Robertson
spent last Sunday night with Mr. and
Mrs. G. H. Riee.
Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Brown, of Fair
View, spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. I). F. Rice.
OUR FIRST MUSTANGS.
They Were Probably Brought to This
Country by the Spaniards.
The first horses of the western plains
were probably brought then' by the
Spaniards. In 1545, almost fifty years
before Jamestown was settled,
undo, the Spanish captain, was roam
ing about the plains of New Mexico,
and lie tells of the dogs used by the
Indians to haul their plunder on lodge
poles, indicating that tiiey had no
j horses at that date.
In 17Id the Spanish again worked
their way eastward across the plains.
and their letters tell of the nstonish
ment of the Indians at seeing the
horses they had with them. The ex
pedition was constantly losing horses
and tbert ; iS Ut ? e do ubt tl,at \ h ? firs l
droves of western I horses originated
from these strays.
In the early days upon the plains
they w-ere a great pest to travelers
Woe be unto the luckless camper who
allowed a band of wild horses to get
close enough to his gentle horses,
turned out, for the night, to sweep
them off. It was almost useless t
follow, for the call of the wild conies
to the gentlest of horses when he is
thrown with a band of his kind that
have been born and raised free of all
restraint. It is a well known fact that
the hardest one to “cut out," the lead¬
er of them all in a mad race across
the prairie, is the old. gentle, weli
broken saddle or work horse once he
gets a taste of such freedom.—Will O.
Barnes in McClure’s.
STATEMENT CONDITION OF THE
^ PLEo E3/\ N K
Located at Mansfield, Ga„ ai the close of Business, February 5, 1909.
Resources
Loans and Discounts $ 14080.68
Overdrafts.. 241.88
Banking House.................................. 17 . 40.48
Furniture and Fixtures...................... 1180.15
Due from flanks and Bankers in State 4662.18
Due from Banks and Bankers in other
Slates............................................. 204'-’.00
Currency........................................... 560.00
Gold............................................. 40.00
Silver, Nickels and Bennies ............... 830.60
Checks and cash items........................ 278.41
Total $ 25652.31
T Ur rcADri UtAJKcil A—Newton . M n Uounty :
f Before me came H. G. Smith, Cashier, of The People’s Bank,
who being duly s worn, says that the above and foregoing statement is a true
condition of said Bank, as shown by the books of file in said Bank.
H. G. SMITH, Cashier.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 13th day- of Feb., 1909.
J. W. HENDERSON, C. N. P., Newton County Ga.
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ETIQUETTE.
An Old Fashioned Men Frees His Mind
About Its Absurdities.
“Whether to eat fish with a fish
knife and fork or a fork and a l it of
bread, whether to sene champagne in
a lumbler or a goblet-dt is quire ab¬
surd to regard one of these courses as
right and the other as wrong and to
admire or despise a person a orditsg
ly. The average rule of e i motto has
nothing to do with eouriesy. with
good breeding, and it is no, criterion
if courtesy or of g<-.-,d bnec.iag."
The speaker, an old fashioned gen¬
tleman from the country, I > i,;d the
ends of ids m in more firmly about
Ids neck.
"Smile at me. nephews and nieces,”
he resumed, “be ’iuvm i tuck my nap
W in under no chin. V t why . hou’.d
1 s P” n m - v hlm-k hr--ad tub G-at with
turkey stains or s:: - is of cranberry
sauce? It is a rule of efiquetie. you
^ >..... f'nVsv the 'I" 1 ’ knee ;n " absurd. n . !y b . e
P G'ntmtiai ,>hcmera! rrde' imi.
“It was a rule of o inner:c in France
during the rci-m of T.o l'.-.i r.< Gil.’ the
great Louis XIV.. tv-at when the king
visited a si-k subject the kin r. too.
must lit* down in a bed. on t', t > ground
that it would never do for a soldo t
to maintain a more informal attitude
than his master during the audience.
Louts XIV., visiting the Marshal de
Villars after Maiplaquct. lay in a bed
beside the suffering soldier in that
way.
“Behold the absurdities of etiquette
and let me do with my napkin what I
please.” — New Orleans Titnes-Demo
ernt.
Yet They Needed Exercise.
Two men whose cilices were on the
second floor were on the first floor
waiting for an -elevator. Long and
impatiently they waited.
“You're not looking extra well, Lond
remarked the lawyer.
“No, Uangle," replied the real estate
“Think I'll join an athletic club.
I need the exercise.”
“Me too.”
Still they waited for the elevator.
Liabilities :
Due Bank of Newborn........................ $ 9970.00
Undivided Profits; less current expen¬
ses and taxes paid......................... 241.97
Individual Deposits Subject to check 11811.87
Time 4'ertificates................................ 1129.'4
Bills Payable, Including Time Certifi¬
cates representing Borrowed Money 2500 00
Total. $25652.38
A SUNDAY STROLL
This Recreation Was at One Time
Unlawful In Maine.
Something of the exact behavior de¬
manded from young people by those la
authority in the early days of the nine¬
teenth century is brought to uetk-e in
the biography of Peter Edes, a pioueer
printer in Maine. Mr. Edes had an
nppentrice, James Orrock, who enjoyed
n walk on Sunday after a week of In¬
door employment.
Mr. Edes soon found out that this
was not permitted at Bangor and wrote
to a friend of the trouble caused him
by his apprentice’s apparently inno¬
cent amusement.
“You must kuow,” he writes, “that
the people are very strict on this day
and will not let men walk out, much
less boys. James was strolling about
and was ordered home by the tything
men, but he would not obey them. A
complaint was lodged against me on
the next day, and I should have been
obliged to pay a fine had not Judge
Dutton pleaded in my behalf that 1
did not approve of such conduct and
so got clear.”
Another Interesting Incident In con¬
nection with life in Bangor at this
time is an advertisement which ap¬
peared in Mr. Edes’ paper, the Bangor
Weekly Register, stating that “E. &
M. Ii. Edes have opened a school in
the room over the Register office for
the instruction of young misses aud
small children in the useful and orna¬
mental branches of education.”
The terms were; “Orthography and
plain work, 17 cents per week: writing,
English grammar, geography with the
use of maps, composition, ornamental
needlework, 25 cents per week." This
was probably one of the flrst schools in
Maine for teaching young ladles ex¬
clusively in the branches of education
and also including plain work and fan¬
cy needlework.
The Servant—You got cheated when
you bought that ehiny vase, mum.
The Mistress —How cheated? The
Servant—Why. it’s weak. It busted all
to smash the flrst time I dropped It.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.