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OUR COAST BEACONS, Cheering Lights That Warn and Guide the Mariner. A BLAZE OF KEROSENE OiL The Wonderful Lamps and Lenses That Produce the Brilliant and Far reaching Flame—Why Electricity Is Not Used Sn Lighthouses. The goal toward which the light¬ house board of this country *s striving is a continuous chain of lights com¬ pletely encircling the United Suites and possessions and In the case of riv¬ ers and Inland seas bounding the wa¬ ters on all Bides, so that a ship may never leave the area of a light thrown by one lighthouse before entering the circle of the light of another. As fast as congress will appropriate the money the gaps are being filled. But what makes the light? When the curious inquirer is told “kerosene" he naturally wonders why his own student lamp does not give a bettor light* If the same oil In the lighthouse sends Its beam from five to twenty-five miles. Various methods of lighting were In use until 1840, when a new system was introduced of employing nearly true paraboloid reflectors and better glass lenses. In some cases these re¬ flectors gave a light which Is not sur¬ passed even today except when han¬ dled with Intelligent care. In 1852, when the present lighthouse board was instituted, the Fresnal system of len¬ ticular glasses was Introduced from France and still remains. The first cost Is great, but by the saving of oil over the reflector system this Is soon reduced. With any reasonable care a fine ligbt always results, and It is im¬ possible for a keeper to maintain a poor light with this apparatus without flagrant disobedience of instructions. Even with such an apparatus no common lamp can supply the light. First order lamps have five wicks, one inside the other, and are fed with oil by a pump and pipe system. The oil Is fed to the wicks so that it reaches the ends where the flame Is In the right time and in the right quantity. It Is difficult to look at it, so lutense Is the light. In the lenses rather than In the lamp Is the secret, for they pick up and utilize nearly all the rays of light which ordinarily go astray. The Fresnel apparatus collects almost all of this waste light and reflects and refracts It out in one great broad beam of light, parallel to the surface of the sea, where It is needed. The flames which come from the lamps are largely transparent. So, of course, are all other similar flames. If flames were not transparent there could be no advantage in having one flame Inside another and a third inside the first two, etc. The lights from the inner flames could not get out and would do no good. In some lighthouses, usually for range light purposes, the light Is all to be concentrated in one beam. This is done by concentric rings of prisms and a central bullseye and a reflector. Vessels getting such a light th range, either by itself or with another light and running down the beam, are safe from obstructions which may be near by, the range lights or beams of light marking out the channel to be fol¬ lowed. It is frequently asked of light keep¬ ers why electricity Is not used in place of mineral oil. An electric light Is expensive to Install and difficult and expensive to maintain. There Is al¬ ways difficulty In keeping the arc ex¬ actly lu the focal point of the lenses, the carbons never burning twice alike and constant watching being neces¬ sary. Failure to havewhe light source exactly In the focal point of the lens results In sending the light rays up or down Instead of straight out, where they are wanted. Electricity, while superior in penetrative power In a fog. has no advantage over a power¬ ful oil lantern In clear weather. Min¬ eral oil, colza oil or lard oil lights of the first order could be seen a hun¬ dred miles were It uot for the curva¬ ture of the earth, and as long as the light Is visible long before the coast is all purposes are served. It Is only within recent years that mineral oil has been in use. Lard oil succeeded colza oil and was used ex¬ clusively up to 1880 and with mineral oil up to 1889. Since the latter year mineral oil has been used entirely, ex¬ cept where electricity has been experi¬ mented with, or coal or acetylene gas. So far coal oil, for pow'er, efficiency, cleanliness, ease of eperation and cheapness, holds Its own against all other means of light making. Electricity, If It can be successfully installed, Is the best light, but through expense of maintenance and in the in¬ ability to get skilled attendants for such a light for the price set on keep¬ ers’ services It makes slow headway. The traveler who cruises up the coasts and who sinks one light before picking up another must know that somewhere In the dark circle Is a spot picked for the foundation of a light tvhieh will be erected as soon as funds and time allow.—Scientific American. Climate and Weather. One day at school small Lola was called upon to explain the difference between climate and weather. “Climate,” answered the little miss, “is what we have with us all the time, hut weather only lasts a few days.”— | Chicago News. Lightning never strikes twice In the same place because the place Isn't there after the first visit.—Judge. THE OLD MASTERS. How Modern Artist* Make a New Painting an Antique. Europe is full of artlst3 who, as far as line and color go, can turn ad¬ mirable copies of anything. These copies are made on old canvases mounted on a framew'ork of old wood, and when the paint Is dry the picture is put through an Ingenious aging process. A certain kind of varnish gives a ripe golden tone, and deepen¬ ing of shadows, with a suggestion of the soil of centuries. Is had by the smearing of licorice juice. As for the cracked paint surface—sure sigii of age—that is obtained by baking the picture carefully In an oven or by laying a plnque of metal on the can vas and striking It gently with a ham¬ mer. Worm holes in frame or panels are merely a matter of flue shot fired In and afterward picked out. And fly specks to deceive the flies them¬ selves may be had by the Judicious spatter of India Ink. No doubt to the sure connoisseur there is something hard and cold about the copies, something vaguely unsatis¬ fying, but no one can deny that they are enormously like the originals—so much like them that the great mu¬ seums of Europe, all uususpecting, have hung their walls with these mel¬ low masterpieces of yesterday. It Is said, for Instance, that Rembrandt's portrait of Sobieskl in the Louvre is not the original at all, but only a copy, the origlual being in Russia.— Cleveland Moffett lu Success. ANOTHER WORLD. Thi* Charming Bit of Philosophy Points tho Road to It. I live in two worlds—one In which I must consider the weather and clothes and meals and bills coining due and o host of duties and obligations, some of which weary me. It isn’t really a had world, and I haven’t much ground to complain of it. It Is comparatively a poor world, however, when set against that other world into which I retire with every opportunity—tne glorious, free and perfect world of my Imagina¬ tion. The common world, the world of meals and clothes and weather, I share with everybody. No preference or spe¬ cial consideration Is given to me. I often get a kick or a cuff that I de¬ spise, even though I know that I earn¬ ed. it. But the other world is all my own. I am Its creator, king and mas¬ ter. Nothing happens In It that does not please me; nothing exists without my consent. It revolves around me. I am Its sun and center; all else is sub¬ ordinate. There is no order, system or law lu it that gives me the slightest trouble, for I alter, change or abolish these at my pleasure. Of course I es¬ cape whenever I can from the common everyday world In which I am so in¬ significant Into the world which Is wholly my own.—Orlando Jay Smith. The Journey. A little work, a Uttie sweating, a few brief, flying years; a little Joy, a little fretting, some smiles and then some tears; a little resting in the shad¬ ow, a struggle to the height, a futile search for Eldorado—and then we say good night. Some moiling in the strife and clangor; some years In (\oubt and debt; some words we spoke in foolish auger that we would fain forget; some cheery words we said unthinking that made a sad heart light; the banquet, with its feast and drinking—and then we say good night. Some questioning of creeds and theories and judgment of the dead, while Qod, who never sleeps or wearies, is watching over¬ head; some little laughing and some sighing; some sorrow, some delight; a little music for the dying—and then we say good night—Walt Mason in Em¬ poria Gazette. Syringe Bearing Firemen. A studious fireman looked up from his book. “In place of all these here electric engines, automatic chutes and so on," he said, "the only Instrument they had to fight fire with lu the seventeenth century was the syringe. Under tho roof of every building that they thought worth saving—like cathedrals and such—there were big tanks to catch the rainwater, and beside each tank hung a syringe a yard long. Then when a fire came—squirt, squirt, they went with their syringes, and the building quickly burned down to the ground."—New Orleans Tlmes-Demo erat. One on the Court Jester. Tlmon of Athens had just been mar¬ ried. As. he wafted down the aisle of the chapel with his bride the court jester cried: “Walt, Tlmon. I would have a word with you." The misanthrope turned Here was the one chance of his life for a quip. "Tlmon tied waits for no man,” he said. “There, now; I’m square with you." And- he drifted out the portal.— Exchange. May bo. “Young man," said Mr. Bluffklns, “when 1 was your age I always stood at the head of my class.” “Well,” answerec the fearfully pre¬ cocious boy, “maybe teachers were easier to fool then than they are now." —Exchange. Power of the Will. ‘Tve just been reading about the power of the will. It’s a wonderful thing.” “Yes. I know of a will that»makes seven children and thirty-two| grand children behave’’—Puck. 'Tls an ill cook cannot lick hla owi fingers.—Shakespeare, THE COVINGTON NEWS JOHANN’S COURTING. One of the Royal Romances of the Hapsburge. More than one royal romance has oc¬ curred in the family of the Hupsburgs. The best of all, perhaps, is that of the Archduke Johann, brother of the Em¬ peror Francis I. One day he was traveling incognito when he arrived in a village where he desired to take a coach for Vienna. He looked around to hire a carriage, for which, having been obtained, lie sought a driver. At length a lad was brought to him. "Your name?" queried the archduke. “Johann, sir,” answered the lad. The archduke was cute. lie had seen at a glance that this was no boy before him, but a girl disguised. “What do you cull yourself when you are at home helping your mother In the kitchen?” he asked, smiling. “Anna Florid,” she answered. “And tvhat Is your name?” | “Johann too. I am an archduke.” | “I suppose you will say that you are j the emperor himself next?” she laugh¬ ed back at him. Then she drove his carriage into Vienna. Here, behold, the people saluted, and she made inquiries, thus finding out tho real facts. But she thought little more of the matter until a month later the archduke strode Into her father’s cottage just at the dinner hour and asked permission to join the family gathering. The girl began apologies, but the archduke laughed them aside and Insisted on being called plain “Jo¬ hann." The visit was repeated again and again, and at last the villagers began r o talk—unkindly. Anna at last asked ’ye archduke to come no more because if the gossip. That settled It. lie % asked her to marry him, and, despite the objections of the emperor, the two were married. Later the girl, once daughter of a jobmaster, was created baroness and countess and at last forgiven by the emperor. Philadelphia Ledger. QUENTIN METYS. How Love Changed a Great Black¬ smith Into a Great Painter. Love made Quentin Metys a painter. This great Fleming, whom both Ant¬ werp and Louvain claim to have given birth, though the palm now rests with Louvain, was the sou of an able black¬ smith. Trained in his father’s craft, the younger Quentin soon distinguish¬ ed himself by his work in tills base metal and among other matters turned out the wonderfully delicate Ironwork that surmounts the well outside the Cathedral of Antwerp. Already an ac¬ knowledged master of his guild. It came about, writes Helen Zitnmern in the Metropolitan Magazine, that the young artisan fell In love avlth the daughter of a rich Antwerp burgher. When asked to consent to a marriage, however, the father would not hear of it, saying he could not let his daughter wed a blacksmith. Quentin next in qunvd If he would feel the karne objec¬ tion to a painter? The good burgher, who anticipated no change of craft on the questioner’s part, replied that there, indeed, was a more refined profession. What was his surprise and perhaps se¬ cret dismay when some months later Quentin Metys reappeared and asked for the fulfillment of the old burgher’s promise. He had, indeed, become a painter and one already held In high esteem. To commemorate his love and his serving on her account Metys limned an “auto-portrait” that now hangs In the Uffizl, at Florence. Those acquainted with the secret know that if they touch a little spring in this frame the panel opens like a door, and behind the shelter of Metys’ own por¬ trait is concealed that of his love and wife, a sweet Dutch face for whom doubtless he deemed It well worth his while to have played the part of the patriarch Jacob. Bled Him. He—Yes, the rascals bled me. She— Bled! I’m surprised to hear you using slang. He—Who says It’s slang! They took away my circulating medium, didn’t they?—Boston Transcript. He that waits to do a great deal at • nee will never do any.—Johnson. e: Genuine Peruvian Guano 3 3 B B B Untouched B B by the Chemist or the ^Manufacturer For TOBACCO 3 3 I COTTON, TRUCK 3! 3 B k 3 -y iMaiil P eruvian Guano C orporation CHARLESTON, 3J S. C 3 City Court Jurors. The following named persons were drawn to serve as jurors at the March term 1909, City Court of Covington. This Jan. 9, 1909. S. R. Thompson, C. A. Sockwell, E. W. Adams, I). J. Thompson, Jr. C. D. Terrell, Evans Lunsford, R. F. Jackson, F. D. Biggers, W. N. Blake, W. C. Bently, W. J. Cook, Woodie Piper, S. J. Mask, J. D. Boyd, L. A. Patrick, E. L. King, E. B. Carr, J. W. Robinson. | LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS, SHERIFF SALES. Will tie sold at the Court House door in New ton County. Ga., on the First Tuesday in March 1909, within the legal hours of sale for cash, the following property, to-wit: One bay mare about 8 years old, named Mollie. Said property levied on with a mortgage fi fa is¬ sued from the City Court of Covington in favor of I). A. Thompson against Alex Banks. Said prop¬ erty levied on as the property of Alex Banks. This Jan. 28. 1909. S. M. HAY. Sheriff. 2 acres of land on which Bethel Grove churcii is located, and bounded by lands of Robt. Daniel on the North and West: By W. C. Clark on the South, and by Public Road leading from Covington to Flat Shoals on the East. Said property levied on with a fi fa issued from the City Court of Coving ton, in favor of Oliver Henderson against John W.yatt et als. trustees of Bethel Grove church. Written notice given John Wyatt, he being ill possession’as required by law. This Feb. 2, 1909. S. M. HAY, Sheriff. Citation. GEORGIA. Newton Cotnty. Mrs. Alice Harvey, having made application for years support out of the estate of W. B. Har¬ vey Sr. and appraisers duly appointed to set same, having filed their report. All persons con¬ cerned are hereby required to show cause before the Court of Ordinary of said county on the 1st, Monday in March, next, why said application should not be granted as prayed for this Jan 18, 1909. A. 1). MKADOR, Ordinary. Citation. GEORGIA, Newton Countv : Jonathan Poison, a citizen of said State, having applied to me for letters of Administration, De Bonis Non, with the Will annexed, on the Estate of Mark Poison, late of said County, deceased. This is therefore to cite all and singular the creditors and next of kin of said Mark Poison to be and appear at the March Term. 1909 ol the Court of Ordinary of said County, and show cause if any they can why letters of Administration De Bonis Non, with the Will annexed should not tie granted to said Jonathan Poison on the Estaae of Mark Poison. Witness my official signature, this 2nd. day of February, 1909. A. I). MEADOR, Ordinary. Citation. GEORGIA, Newton County: Whereas, E. P. Carr, Executor of the estate of Alfred M. Curetuii represents to the Court in his petition duly filed, and emered of record, that he has hilly udmti.ivyrHl, Alfred M Curetou's es¬ tate, this is therefore to site all persons concern¬ ed, heirs and creoitors, to show cause if any they can, why said executor should not be discharged from his executorship, and receive letters of dismission on the first Monday in March 1909. A. D. MEADOR, Ordinary. Notice To Debtors And Creditors. All persons having claims against the estate of H. H. Armstrong, late of said county, deceased, are hereby notified to render in such claims for j payment within the time prescribed by law. And all persons indebted to said estate are requir¬ ed to make immediate payment. This, February, 1, 1909. JESSE P. ARMSTRONG, Executor. Citation. GEORGIA. Newton County : Jesse P. Armstrong, executor of the estate of H. H. Armstrong, late of said County, deceased, has made application to me for leave to sell the real estate belonging to said estate, and said ap¬ plication will be heard before me on the first Mon¬ day in March. 1909. Witness my hand and official seal, this February I. 1909. A. I). MEADOR, Ordinary. Notice. I hereby notify all persons to employ in any way Harvey Ellis, a he is under contract with me for year 1909. This Jan. 25, 1909. W. O. SALTER, Sr.— 4t LOOK AT THIS We are going to sell for a few days, Heinz Preserves in 3 lbs jars, regular $1.00 size at TOcts. California Dessert Peaches in 2 lbs cans the best to had 20c per can Pie Peaches 2 lbs cans at 10c per can. Fresh meats of all kinds in all seasons. Call 220 for everything to eat, and prompt delivery. Cook Bros iy Covington, Phone 220 Ga. j I The Only White Barber Shop In j | Co vi ngton, Georgia. Is better prepared than ever to serve the people of this section, with new equip¬ ment, hot and cold towels, and three • good White Barbers to wait on you. • Come to see us, always glad t^ see You. W . J. GOBER, Prpprietor. | * • • • •fv# • • • .•. Artistic Printing. The job department of The Cov¬ ington News is the only office in this section equipped to give you the same class of printing that you got in the larger cities. Then, too we put you up the right kind work just when you want, as you want it. That is something to consider when you want a hurry order got¬ ten out. We want the patronage of all progressive business men. Printing That Pleases.