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MANY COMPANIES
ASK FOR CHARTER
One Of The Best Indications That
The Finacial Stringecyis ov§fy
Good Sign.
One of the best evidences of the
prosperous condition of Georgia is the
fact that during the past week twenty
four new corporations have asked for
charters to be granted and they have
already gone to doing business. The
Georgia and Alabama Industrial Index
has the following to say about gene¬
ral conditions prevailing throughout
the state: •
‘ ‘Twenty-four new corporations, rep¬
resenting commerce and industry in
many phases, knocked at the doors of
the courts of Georgia and Alabama for
charters nuringthe past week. These
companies will have an aggregate
minimum capitalization of over $1,000-1
000, while their authorized stock is a ;
much larger sum. In the list of cor¬
porations there is nothing of striking
interest but an analysis of the new
enterprises reveals the steady expan¬
sion in the standard lines of manufac-1 I
tures and investment.
< i rs f architects have
. . a t j prepare plans
fv.r a 17-sWy bank and office building
and also for a $200,000 apartment
house, Birmingham’s million dollar
hotel, of which there has been much
talk in recent months, is to become a
reality, a company having been or¬
ganized for the purpose of building it
and having bought a site at a cost of
$160,000. Plans are being perfected
for a $200,000 addition to one of the
leading hotels in Atlanta.
“Fitzgerald, Ga., awarded the con¬
tract for a large school building and
Newnan, Ga., has called an election
on the issuance of school building
bonds. Americus, Ga., will vote on is¬
suing bonds for building a municipal
lighting plant.
“In Washington county, Alabama,
a $850,000 deal in timber lands was
consummated. Atlanta had several
important realty deals to report
among them the sale of a tract of
land in the suburbs for $250,000.
“At Macon, Ga., lumber company
will make extensive improvements in
its plant, at Griffin, Ga., a com¬
pany of local capitalists applied for
a gas franchise. Petition was filed
for a charter for the Western of
Georgia Railway, which is to be built
through Heard, Coweta and Fayette
counties.
“An era of jail building may be in¬
augurated in A labama, the result of
the report of the state inspector of
jails, who condemns several of the
present buildings and reecommends
the building of modem, well-equiped
structures in their stead.
FOR SALE: Weather Board¬
ing and Framing.
4t. DR. O. L. HOEMKS.
Tickets for the “Funny Fellows of
New York” will be placed on sale at
Dr. Wright’s drug store today. Be
sure you get yours early.
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Cleaning Pressing and Dyeing
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Wook done by proprietor, a white man of 10 years experience. Give
me a trial. SWORDS BUILDING, Covington, Ga.
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$150,0000 RAISED
FOR EMORY FUND
Dr. Dickey Adds $10,235 During
February. Half Of Fund is
now Secured.
The campaign for funds, to raise the
endowment of Emory college fr< m
$200,000 to $500,000, is nowon the high
road to success, due to the active in- -
terest taken by the trustees and of the the lib¬ in- j
stitution and the alumni,
eral response made in all parts Geor-1
gia to the appeals of Dr. James E.
Dickey, president.
Dr. Dickey reported last night that
over $150,000 had been raised, or over I
half of the sum needed. He has been <
very busy since the beginning of the \
new year and success has crowned his
efforts everywhere.
During Februaiy he raised over $10
000. On Sunday he spoke at the Meth¬
odist church in Blakely, Ga., and at
the conclusion of his address over $3,000 j
was subscribed.
Quick Wit.
In the days when Rowley Hill was
bishop of the Isle of Man one of his
clergymen, bearing the name of
came to say adieu to his bishop on
getting preferment.
The parson said: “Goodby, my lord!
I hope we may meet again, but if not
here in some better place.”
The bishop replied, "I fear the latter
is unlikely, as there are uo Tears in
heaven.”
“No doubt,” wittily answered the
parson, “you are right that our
chance of meeting is small, as one
reads of the plains of paradise, but
never of any Hills there.”
Overfeeding,
“Men drunk from liquor and men
drunk from overeating are most sus¬
ceptible to pneumonia and die of it,”
said a Chicago health commissioner in
an address. “The majority of cases
of pneumonia are of patients who con¬
tracted the disease after a drunken de¬
bauch or who were drunk from over¬
feeding,” the commissioner coutinued.
“People druuk from overfeeding, I
think, are almost as immoral as those
who stupefy themselves with liquors.
The effects of pneumonia in such pa¬
tients are much the same.”
Champagne Corks.
The manufacture of the best kind
of corks, those made for champagne
bottles, are never intrusted to ma¬
chine?. The ordinary common cork is
made by machinery, but the best work
Invariably is done by human hauds,
and the champagne cork cannot be
trusted to a machine. All the blem¬
ishes in the cork have to be taken into
consideration, so this work is done by
hand labor.
Unexpected.
Bessie—Yes; he held me on his knee,
and I rested my head on his shoulder,
and just as his mustache brushed my
cheek he said— Jessie (expectantly)—
Yes; he said— Bessie—“Isn’t it beast¬
ly weather for this time of year?”—
Philadelphia Ledger.
No man can produce great things
who is not thoroughly sincere with
himself.—Lowell.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
CONJECTURES OF
THE HUMAN RACE.
Will Men Eventually Shrink Off
The Face of the Earth? Is
Belief of Scientists.
A French statistician who has been
studying the military and other rec¬
ords with a view of determining the
height of men at different periods has
reached some wonderful results.
lie has not only solved some per¬
plexing problems in regard to the past
of the human race, but is also enabled
to calculate its future and to deter¬
mine the exact period when man will
disappear from the earth.
The recorded facts extend over near¬
ly three centuries.
It is found that in 1610 the average
height of man in Europe was 1.75 me¬
ters, or, say, five feet nine inches. In
1700 it was five feet six inches. In
1820 it was five feet five inches and a
fraction. At the present time it is
five feet three and three-quarter inches.
It is easy to deduce from these figures
a rate of regular and gradual decline
in human stature and then apply this,
working backward and forward, to the
past and to the future. By this calcu¬
lation it is determined that the stature
of the first men attained the surpris¬
ing average of sixteen feet nine inches
Truly, there were giants on the earth
in those days. The race had already
deteriorated in the days of Og, and
Goliath was a quite degenerate off¬
spring of the giants. Coming down to
later time, we find that at the begin¬
ning of our ert* the average height o t
man was nine feet, and in the time of
Charlemagne it was eight feet eight
inches. But the most astonishing re¬
sult of this scientific study comes from
the application of the same inexorable
law of diminution to the future. The
calculation shows that by the year
4000 A. D. the stature of the average
man will be reduced to fifteen inches
At that epoch there will be only lilli
putians on the earth. And the con¬
clusion of the learned statistician is
irresistible that “the end of the world
will certainly arrive, for the inhabit¬
ants will have become so small that
they will finally disappear”—“finish by
disappearing,” as the French idiom ex¬
presses it—“from the terrestrial globe.”
—London Tit-Bits.
GOT AHEAD OF PITT.
The Ruse by Which George III. Out¬
witted His Premier.
On Jan. 19, 1805, Dr. Manners-Sut
ton, bishop of Norwich, was giving a
dinner party in his Windsor deanery
when his butler informed him that a
gentleman wished particularly to see
him, but would not give his name.
“Well, I can't come now in the mid¬
dle of dinner,” said the bishop.
“Beg pardon, my lord, but the gen¬
tleman is very anxious to see you on
important business,” and the butler
was so urgent that the bishop apolo¬
gized to his company and went out.
The gentleman who would not be de¬
nied proved to be King George III.
“How d’ye do, my lord?” said he.
“Come to tell you that you’re arch¬
bishop of Canterbury—archbishop of
Canterbury. D’ye accept—accept? Eh.
eh?”
The bishop bowed low in token of
acceptance.
“All right,” said his majesty.
“You’ve got a party—see al! their hats
here. Go back to them. Good night."
Next morning Titt appeared at Wind¬
sor castle to inform his majesty that
Archbishop Moore had died the day be¬
fore and to recommend the bishop of
Lincoln, Dr. Pretyman, for the vacant
primacy.
“Very sorry, very sorry, indeed,
Pitt,” said the king, “but I offered it to
the bishop of Norwich last night, and
he accepted. Can’t break my word.”
Titt was very angry, but the deed
was done, as the king meant it should
be, and so Dr. Manners-Sutton became
archbishop of Canterbury and held the
great office for twenty-three eventful
years.—Michael McDonagh in Cham¬
bers’ Journal.
Time to Go.
“I wonder how many of those con¬
nected with newspapers,” said a re¬
porter, “remember the famous dis¬
patch sent by a press telegraph oper¬
ator at the time of the San Francisco
earthquake. It was the only smile
raiser in the whole horrible catas¬
trophe. It read something like this:
‘The building is beginning to rock,
bricks are falling about, and it’s me
for the simple life.’ Then it trailed
off as if the operator had scooted for
the open door, or wall, perhaps. This
dispatch was handed about the news¬
paper offices and made all the boys
laugh in spite of the serious picture it
called to mind.—Philadelphia Ledger.
Reasons For Cannibalism.
According to a writer in a French
review, there are three causes for can¬
nibalism. It is due either to necessity,
pleasure or fashion. Twenty per cent
of the cannibals, we learn, eat their
dead to honor them. The ancient Ti¬
betans belonged to this class. This is
sentimental anthropophagy. Nineteen
jter cent eat their great warriors to
obtain their courage. This is desig¬
nated egotistic anthropophagy. Twen
ty-nine per cent eat human flesh to
punish their enemies and 32 per cent
because it is the fashion or because
they consider the flesh savory.—In
dianapolis News.
The Long and Short of It.
“He may win the race.”
“Yes; he’s short legged, but long
winded.”—Detroit Free Press.
A FIRE IN JAPAN.
The Victim Has Other Troubles Be¬
sides Loss of Goods.
An American missionary living in Ja¬
pan recently lost his dwelling by fire.
He described in an amusing way the
polite condolences which his neighbors
showered upon him. “We were del
uged with visiting cards,” he says.
“They were forced into our hands by
sympathetic inquirers, friends offering
aid and tradespeople soliciting orders.
The conversation with each comer was
somewhat as follows; ‘You have in¬
deed had an honorable disaster,’ says
the friend. ‘I have humbly caused a
great disturbance,’ I reply. ‘Please
honorably excuse me.’ ‘Indeed, it is
honorably sad for you,’ the friend an¬
swers. ‘I have done an unheard of
thing,’ I say. ‘I am overcome that you
should have come to call on me on
purpose. Thank you very much.’
‘Please honorably excuse me for being
so late in coming,’ says the friend.
The energy required for such a conver¬
sation can be imagined by accompany¬
ing each sentence with a low bow
and repeating the process about fifty
times.
“About 10 o’clock we two foreigners
escaped to face our next duty, which
consisted in apologizing to all the
houses in our section—about fifty. It
was nearly 12 o’clock at night when
our apology tour was completed, but
our last visitor called at 2 o’clock in
the morning. Callers began coming
again at 6 o’clock and kept on coming
steadily. During the day we received
many visitors and paid twenty-eight or
more calls. The strain of ail this, to¬
gether with our other tasks, including
the receiving of the stream of visitors,
which lasted a whole week, is better
imagined than described.
“All day after the fire and for three
days more people from all over Gifu
and from out-stations kept bringing
sympathy from their families and pres¬
ents of cakes and fruit and other arti¬
cles. We can never repay all the kind
ness we received.”—Chicago News.
THE ELBE RIVER.
How the Stream Was Brought to an
Even Slope and Current.
In the beginning the Elbe, like any
other river, wandered at its will, now
spreading out among a multitude of is¬
lands, now narrowing into a short and
crooked turn, now widening over a
shoal. As a proper beginning for the
correction of this sort of thing the
Prussians, in true German style, pre¬
pared a map of the stream as it was,
decided by a simple mathematical cal¬
culation how wide a channel 1.50 me¬
ters deep at middle water could be
with the existing flow and then upon
the map in red ink, eliminating all
sharp turns, drew in graceful curves
and long straight reaches regardless of
the existing banks two nearly parallel
lines, indicating the banks as they
were intended to be.
The engineers began at the head of
the stream and built out from the old
shore to %he location of the red line
transverse dikes, ground sills—ordi¬
nary contraction works. Sometimes
where they seemed to be needed they
built long parallel dikes exactly on the
new red line. Sometimes they wove
hurdles and revetment mattresses of
willow brush, much as we do at home,
and sunk them on bars between the
tips of the transverse dikes, and then
on the top of them set up upright
sticks and wove “wattle" or basket
fences of willow through them to make
pens, and into these piled sand dredg¬
ed from the stream, to build up the
shore. Mile by mile they advanced,
dredging the river or letting it dredge
Itself, leaving no ends loose to ravel
out, gradually reducing the river to an
even slope and current.—Boston Tran¬
script.
His Dinner Guests.
In a volume published In London,
“Piccadilly to Pall Mall,” there is this
queer anecdote of the vagaries of so¬
cial life in the capital: Some years ago
an eminent personage accepted or sug¬
gested a dinner with a certain million¬
aire, at that time comparatively un¬
known. The first guest to arrive, hav¬
ing explained to the butler that, being
unacquainted with his host, he would
wait till some one else came who could
Introduce him, lingered in the hall.
The second was in the same predica¬
ment, as were the third, fourth, fifth
and other guests up to the ninth, who
chanced to be “the eminent personage”
himself. Upon the dilemma being ex¬
plained to him he cheerfully said: “Oh,
come along with me! I will introduce
you all. I know him.”
Clown D«gs In Demand.
There are dogs and dogs, but not all
dogs are fitted for clown work in the
circus or a dog and pony show. Clown
dogs are a source of great amusement
with the children, and when a pup is
found which has a keen sense of the
ridiculous he is the one for the saw¬
dust ring. Sometimes pups of no par¬
ticular breed are found which fill the
bill for harlequin roles, and the circus
man is glad to get them. When a hu¬
morous dog is small and agile he is in
great demand.—Chicago News.
Practical Proof.
“Yes, my son, I want you to make
yourself ambidextrous. I want you to
be able to use one hand just as skill¬
fully as you do the other.”
“That’s me, dad. I can lick any boy
in my class with either hand.”—New
York World.
The Dear Friends.
Vaudeville Dancer—When do you
go on? Vaudeville Singer—Itlght after
the trained cats. Vaudeville Dancer
Goodness me! Why don’t the manager
try to vary the monotony of bis acts?
—Cleveland Leader.
I have begun the manufacture of all
the delicate and delicious Candies
and am offering the following Specials
for the week, all made from the
purest ingredients:
Peanut Brittle, Cocoanut Brittle, Orange cream kisses
Cocoanut cream cakes, Cocoanut cream kisses,
Maple Cocoanut cream kisses.
Cherry cream kisses, Walnut cream cakes,
Italian Cream, Vanilla Peanut and Walnut Flavors.
Chocolate Covered Almonds,
Chocolate Covered Peanuts,
Chocolate Covered Filberts,
Walnut Top Chocolate Cream
Almond Top Chocolate Cream.
We also carry a nice line of Assorted
Bon Bons.
L.
Phone 221.
Leader in High Grade Cigars and Tobacco.
Hot and Cold Drinks
f At SMITHS DRUG STORE
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f also a nice line of Stationery,
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Cigars and Tobacco.
f W Nunnallys Pine Candies Always Fresh.
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f w Geo. Smith COVINGTON, GEORGIA.
Everybody Takes Them—
WHAT?
Robinson’s Black Bitters.
WHY?
Because they do all that is cliamed
for them.
75 Cents Per Bottle.
FOR SALE BY
Coogler & Wood, Mansfield, Ga.
W. S. Marbut, Almon, Ga.
Dr. Luke Robinson, Covington. Ga.