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OBEYED THE DOCTOR.
Did His Best In Keeping a Watch Upon
the Patient.
The late Dr. Drummond, the habit¬
ant poet, once related an amusing an¬
ecdote Indicative of the simplicity of
the rural French Canadian.
He was summering in Megantlc
county, Que„ when, early one even¬
ing. tie was visited by a young farm¬
er named Ovide Leblanc.
“Kon soir, docteur,” said Ovide by
way of greeting. “Ma brudder Moise,
heeiu ver’ seeck. You come on
d'house for see heem, doc?”
Drummond, always kind hearted and
complied with the request of
and found the unfortunate
Moise suffering from what he diag
nosed as a fairly severe case of ty
•Wishing to provide Moise with some
medicine,” said the doctor-poet, “I ask
Ovide to accompany me back to the
The prescription compound¬
ed, I proceeded to instruct Ovide. The
dose was to be administered every
three hours during the night, and. try¬
ing to lie as brief, plain and explicit
as possible, I said: ‘Be sure and keep
watch on Moise tonight and give him
teaspoonful of this at 9 o’clock, 12
kvioek Tome and at 3 and 6 in the morning,
and see me about 9 o’clock in
[he morning.’ ”
Ovide understood and departed. The
lollowing linielf. morning he again presented
and Drummond asked: “How’s
|loise? Did you do as I told you?”
“Ma brudder Moise. I t'ink he some
letter dan las’ night.” replied Ovide.
1 give heem de medeeine. but I doan
,ave no watch in d’house, doc. I tak
’lectle clock—d’one what mak d’beeg
eesturb for get up. I keep eet on
ees ches’ alt night. T’ink eet do
eem good dut, jus’ lak d’watch. W’at
km t’ink. doc?”—Harper’s Weekly.
THE QUEEN BEE.
|*r Household Service the Most Per¬
fect In the World.
j“We ration must of the go to the bee question," for the said real
servant
[housewife. is “The queen bee’s serv
the most perfect in the world.
Ihy, she even has servants who di
Ist her food for her.
[The pd iu queen bee is so entirely oecu
|k egg laying—she lays 2,500
s . twice her own weight, dally—
it all other things must be done for
[And toilet. so a corps of servants makes
This corps all day long
Ians and brushes and polishes her
T s,m - It is as though her life were
|sed divinely in a beautiful parlor.
■Another corps of servants has
[■'ge of the air she breathes. The
must be the purest, that her eggs
l> lie the finest. So, standing in a
»!e about her, fanning with their
Ten. these bees make a living ven
I'ing system.
|ier flips most her feeders. important Thilr servants training are
P they S!l *d to begin before birth,
r' must he born, from special
r 0)ded <‘«?s, with glands in their
p chosen for the predigested reception of bee milk,
l>> food of the
The feeders stand always at
I"." 1 n lr ' Presenting, like a brimming
hea ‘1 glands, swollen with
|i , estiHl food,
n to the queen bee,
H her task of laying a dozen
loorat. ! minute.”—New Orleans Times
The English Three R',.
ure constantly being misunder
l 4he foreigners, says Clarence
|.,n the Frenchman of whom
L * WlnR , s,or >’ is told contrived to
F something loss than justice.
0,1 a vlsit to this coun
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I Vsked rltZT I" 1 * ° ,0 f the h ’ English natlVe people.
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LEE AT APPOMATTOX.
One of the Most Notable Scenes In
the History of the War.
Men who saw the defeated general
when he came forth from the chamber
where he had signed the articles of
capitulation say that he paused a mo¬
ment as his eyes rested once more on
the Virginia hilts, smote his hands to¬
gether as though in some excess of
inward agony, then mounted his gray
horse, Traveler, and rode calmly away.
If that was the very Gethsemane
of his trials, yet be must have had
then one moment of supreme, if chas¬
tened, joy. As lie rode quietly down
the lane leading from the scene of
capitulation he passed into view of his
men—of such as remained of them.
The news of the surrender had got
abroad, and they were waiting, grief
stricken and dejected, upon the hill¬
sides when they caught sight of their
old commander on the gray horse.
Then occurred one of the most notable
scenes In the history of the war. In
an instant they were about him, bare¬
headed, with tear wet faces, thronging
him, kissing his hand, his hoots, his
saddle; weeping, cheering him amid
their tears, shouting his name to the
very skies. He said: “Men. we have
fought through the war together. I
have done my best for you. My heart
is too full to say more.”—From “Rob¬
ert E. Lee, the Southerner.”
ERROR MEANT DEATH.
Typesetters and Proofreaders on Chi¬
nese Paper Careful.
China, with all Its vast population,
boasts not quite two dozen daily pa¬
pers. but among them are the two old¬
est papers in the world. The Kin PaD
used to be considered by Europeans
the oldest paper, but it has been issued
a mere thousand years. The Tsing Pao,
or Pekin News, was first published 500
years before the Norman conquest and
has been issued without intermission
for nearly 1,400 years. The Tsing Pao
has the appearance of a yellow backed
magazine of twenty-four octavo pages,
each page containing seven columns,
consisting of seven “characters.”
Two editions are published—an edi¬
tion de luxe for the court and the up¬
per classes at a cost of 24 cents a
month, and an edilion inferior iu paper
and printing, costing 1(5 cents a month.
It has a circulation of about 10,000 and
is really the principal paper of China,
chronicling the movements of the em¬
peror and of the court and printing
the ministerial reports. It is probably
the most exact newspaper In the world.
The punishment for an error iu print¬
ing was until recently, at least, instant
death.—New York Times.
Old London Cookshops.
Mediaeval London, besides being a
“city of taverns,” was famous for fits
cookshops, such as the place ou the
river bank described by Fitzstephen in
the thirteenth century: “There every
day ye may call for any dish of meat,
roast, fried or sodden, fish both small
nnd great, venison and fowl. If friends
come upon a sudden wearied with
travel to a citizen’s house and they be
loath to wait for curious preparations
and dressings of fresh meat let the
servant run to the water side, where
all things that can be desired are at
hand.” This particular place of public
cookery apparently did an indoor as
well as an outdoor trade, for Fitz¬
stephen further described it as being
used both day and night by “multi¬
tudes of soldiers or other strangers
who refresh themselves to their con¬
tent on roast goose, the fowl of Afri¬
ca and the rare gadwit of Ionia.” But
what were the two last mentioned
viands?—London Chronicle.
His Usual Way.
The new waitress sidled up to a
dapper young man at the breakfast
table, who, after glancing at the hill,
j opened forth that his sounded mouth, and like a the noise ripping issued off
of all of the cogs on one of the wheels
In the power house. The new waitiess
made her escape to the kitchen. "Fel¬
low out there insulted me,” she said.
The head waiter looked at hin, "I H
get it,” he said. “That’s just the tram
caller ordering his breakfast.”—Argo¬
naut.
Their Good Time.
Little Elsie was very disobedient
and mother was cross and scolding.
Suddenly the little one looked up and
said very sweetly. “Oh, mamma, ain t
we having a good time!”
“How?" asked the mother crossly.
“Oh, Just a-fussing.’’—Delineator.
THE COVINCTON NEWS
AN AFRICAN TITBIT.
Hippopotamus Meat Has a Strong
Odor and Flavor of Musk.
To the African traveler the hippo¬
potamus is a species of game particu¬
larly desirable, for its ivory and its
hide are both valuable, while the not
inconsiderable danger involved in its
pursuit provides the delicious emotion
without which every kind of hunting
is' tame and insipid. Moreover, the ob¬
ligation under which the leader of the
expedition lies to feed his servants and
carriers adequately makes oue of these
enormous beasts, twelve feet long or
so and disproportionately wide, a per¬
fect godsend. Not only does the hippo¬
potamus furnish a formidable amount
of meat, but that meat has the ines¬
timable merit of keeping fresh much
longer than any other, principally ow¬
ing to the fact that flies seem to have
an insurmountable horror of it. l
must admit that for a long time I
thoroughly sympathized with the flies.
Alive, the hippopotamus has a peculiar
odor, somewhat resembling musk,
which discloses the presence of the
animal from afar when he happens to
be to windward of one. In the flesh
of the dead animal this odor—or the
taste of it, rather—persists and is much
appreciated by the natives, though for¬
eigners take a long time to get accus¬
tomed to it; some are never able to
support it.-—Wide World Magazine.
FIVE SENSES NOT ENOUGH.
Our Limited Scale of Consciousness
Shuts Out Many Vibrations.
Between the vibrations that we call
electricity and the vibrations that we
call heat we imagine there must be
other vibrations filling up the gap, but
we do not know, simply because we
have no senses that can comprehend
them. The spectrum is just such a
little scale. Below the darkest red at
the lower end we cannot see; at the
other end as the vibrations get faster
and faster through the orange, the blue
and the violet is another unknown
gap—that is, we cannot see it. But
surely the vibrations are there. Some
of them, for instance, that we have
never seen and never can see mark
their presence on a photographic plate.
And this same spectrum may be used
as an analogy to describe spiritualistic
phenomena. Just as there are limits
at either end of the scale of vibrations
beyond which our own senses can tell
us nothing so may there be psychic
forces at work beyond the limits of our
consciousness. These are seemingly
supernatural to us wheu we witness
their effect, but they really are no
pierces more supernatural the solid body than the X ray that j
or the invisible
ultra violet ray that marks the photo¬
graphic plate.—From “Are the Dead
Alive?” by Fremont Rider in Deline¬
ator.
When the Waiter Wins.
Two men were wrangling as to who
should settle with the waiter for the |
luncheon. When the question had been
finally decided and the contestants had
gone the waiter said to one of his reg¬
ular customers who was a witness of
the scene: “That’s what we like, for ev¬
ery time it happens we come in for an
extra tip. The man who couldn’t get
the check has only one way to get
even, and that is by giving the waiter
something, and nine times out of ten
he does it and makes the amount more
than lie would have given if he had
paid the check. This one ordered ex¬
tra cigars and left the change for me.
We like the ‘give me the check’ quar¬
rels.”—New York Tribune.
Sickroom Mirrors.
“Only a hand mirror should fina
place iu a sickroom,” said a doctor,
“and it should be one flattering to the
patient—the kind, for instance, which
if the face is too broad will lengthen
It a little. And the patient should only
be allowed to look in the mirror at
propitious times. Many a patient has
been frightened literally to death by
bis haggard reflection—has looked,
sighed and renounced hope. But many
another patient in a really bad way—
really desperate, too—being given a
look at himself just after he has taken
a stimulant has bucked up wonderful
ly. In fact, a sickroom mirror wisely
bandied is a curative agent, while reck¬
lessly handled it may kill.”
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ART A ND WE ATHER.
A Storm That Suited the Painter, but
Net the Committee.
In a ga iery there hangs a large
canvas in an imposing frame. The
painting shows a waterfall iu one of
the states famous for startling nat¬
ural scenery. The picture has occupied
Its present place for several years.
“Does it belong here?” asked a vis¬
itor of the man in charge.
“No more than the others you see.”
“Seems to me it should be in the
capitol of the state where this scenery
is.” said the visitor.
“It was painted for the state,” re¬
plied the man in charge, “but when it
was submitted to the art committee
It refused to accept it.”
“What was the objection?”
“You see the sky is overcast. The
artist put in a gathering storm like an
impending calamity. The art commit¬
tee said it was a reflection on the rep¬
utation of the state; that a storm such
as is represented was unknown in that
latitude.”
“Couldn’t the artist put in another
sky, one that accorded with the state’s
reputation for sunshine?”
“I suppose he could, but he refused.
He said that the rumpus kicked up by
the art committee warranted the storm
effect on the canvas, and he refused to
budge. He sent it here, and here it
remains.”—Boston Herald.
WILD MACEDONIA.
Strenuous Life Amid Savage Animals
In the Balkans.
Besides some warlike men Mace¬
donia contains an abundance of wild
animals. A traveler writes: “By the
side of oaks aud walnuts you find
great tortoises and snakes eight feet
long, and bears and w r olves abound.
They are a serious drag upon indus¬
try, and even in civilized Bulgaria it
has lately been found necessary to in¬
crease the government rewards for
killing them. I believe It to be a true
Btory that a party of peasants with
horses was not long ago wholly de¬
stroyed by wolves in the Mori Hovo
mountains, nothing but the bits and
stirrup irons being found to record
them.
“In the same hills the peasants mi¬
grate for the summer to lofty shoul¬
ders where the land is flat enough to
grow little patches of maize, and here,
night after night, they wilt sit up with
a fire to drive off bears. There are
tragic stories of women with babies
in their arms beating off bears with
burning brands from the fire.
“The prevalence of eagles is a de¬
lightful feature for the traveler, and
on the cliffs of Montenegro I once
counted at the same moment thirty
nine ravens.”
The Missing Link.
A lawyer having offices in a Phila¬
delphia buiiding wherein there are
some hundreds of tenants recently lost
a cuff link, oue of a pair that he great¬
ly prized. Being absolutely certain
that he had dropped the link some¬
where in the building, he caused a no¬
tice to be posted in the following
terms:
“Lost—A gold cuff link. The owner,
William Ward, will deeply appreciate
its immediate return.”
That afternoon on passing the door
whereon this notice was posted what
were the feelings of the lawyer to ob¬
serve that appended thereto were these
lines:
“The finder of the missing cuff link
would deem it a great favor if the
owner would kindly lose the other
link.”—Harper's Weekly.
Not Included.
After the dry goods salesman had
completed his business with Cyrus
Craig, Centerville’s one storekeeper, he
asked what was going on in the town.
“Had any entertainments this sea¬
son?” he inquired.
“No,” said Mr. Craig. “Not one. Sa¬
lome Howe’s pupils have given two
concerts, piano and organ, and the
principal of the ’eademy has lectured
twiee, once on ‘Our National Forests’
and once on ‘Stones as I Know Them,’ :
but as far as entertainments are con
cerned Centerville hasn’t got round to '
’em yet thia season.”—Youth’s Com¬
panion.
For Leave to Sell.
GEORGIA, Newton County:
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned
has applied to A. D. Meador, Ordinary of said
county, For I,eave To Sell the land belonging to
the estate of Henry McDaniel, late of said coun¬
ty. deceased, for the payment of debts and dis¬
tribution among the legatees, said application
will be heard at the regular term of the Court of
Ordinary for said county to be held on the first
Monday in April next.
This March 1st, 1909.
S. D. McDaniei..
Executor of the Estate ol Henry McDaniel,
Deceased.
LOOK AT THIS
We are going to sell for a few
days, Heinz Preserves in 3 lbs jars,
regular $1.00 size at TOets.
California Dessert Peaches in
2 lbs cans the best to had 20e 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 ■ j Covington, Phone 220 Ga.
• : The Only White Barber Shop In
: Covington, Georgia.
I Is better prepared than ever to serve the
i 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 to see You.
! W. J. GOBER, Proprietor.
NICE FRESH GROCERIES
You will always find at my store as nice and fresh ro
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
you 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.
Citation.
GEORGIA. Newton County :
Mrs. Bessie Sain, having made application for
Twelve Months Support, out of the estate of Jas.
P. Sain and appraisers, duly appointed to set
apart, same having filed their returns, all persons
concernad are hereby required to show cause be¬
fore the court of Ordinary, of said County, on
the first Monday in April next, why said appli¬
cation should not be granted.
This March 1st. 1909.
A. D. MEADOR, Ordinary.
FOR SALE—Fine Homer Pigeons.
$1.00 per pair—J M. Aaron. tf.