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CAR LOAD OF % EBBS We have just received a solid carload of the famous High Point Organs and for the next few days are going to sell them at reduced prices in order to place them in the homes of the people of this city and county. There is Absolutely No Better Organ on the Market than the High Point In workmanship, finish and the excellent tone. It is truly a pleasure to hear tne music made on this Instrument, and we want to show it to you. These organs carry a binding ten-year GUARANTEE on every one sold and we are here to make good the guarantee of the manufacturer and also add our personal guarantee. We have got the greatest bargain offer in a high-grade organ ever given the people and want you to look at them. Besides the car of organs we have had to arrive a solid car of Furniture, which makes our stock the most complete in the city, and we are now in a better position than ever to accommadate you in installments or carry account over. We have Bed Room Suits, Single Pieces of Suits, Matrasses, Iron Beds, Tables, Carpets, Rugs, and just anything you want in house furnishings. It will pay you to see this stock of Organs, and High-grade Furniture before you place your order. We can give you the best values for a little less than any one else. Let us prove this fact to you. VENABLE BROTHERS The Live Furniture Merchants Covington, Georgia Lost Power of The Church. There is no denying that the church in many localities does not stand for all it should stand for—doesn’t repre¬ sent in all of its saving grace and re¬ deeming influences what it does in many other places—the original church of Christ filled with the power of God. That we fall short of the ideal is not a mystery unsolved. The reasons are as obvious as they are numerous. First, we are not insisting upon the maintenance of our church vows. I f 1 were called upon today to sound the key note of warning to the hosts of God, I would join the Apostle in exclaiming: “Wherefore come ye out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord.” Friends, we want separation from the world; and then we w r ant to keep our vows and live the separate life. Its a fact to be deplored that in the midst of trying times, when the op¬ portunity of a life time comes for us to do work for Jesus in our own homes, or in our own church, we find ourselves embarrassed, incapable, and unfit for the Master’s service. Listen: Too many times this is because of the life lived in the world without; because we have suffered ourselves to be in¬ duced to join the world in its sin and and its shame, instead of having ex¬ erted a wholesome influence to redeem the world from such a life. When we were converted and joined the church, we felt that we had pow er; that we would never more care for the world: and had the church al¬ ways insisted on that kind of life, it would have power, too. How about it today, brother? I shall always remember when and where I first experienced a charge of heart. It was in an old country church and they were singing some old song, the chorus of which is: “I will arise and go to Jesus, He will embrace me in His arms.” I was happy then. Perhaps you have had a similar experience. Are you happy now? Again there is the greed for gain. “The love of money is the root of all evil.” I know’ of no other evil that wields such pow’erful influence over the lives of men to dwarf their spirit¬ ual grow’th and destroy their spiritual life. A man may be getting his money honestly, and yet it be the cause of his loss of power. It’s the constant desire for and more that does the work. Finally we mention our failure pray. Everything else will fail unless we are a people of prayer. We should always pray and never grow faint. The prime reason for the un¬ bounded success of every Christian life of which we have any knowledge, is the just recognition and proper comprehension of the importance of prayer. Let us go dowrn upon our knees with clean hearts and connect with God’s Holy Spirit by prayer and the power¬ house of heaven will furnish us life and the world will be constrained to hear the voice of God. The Lord help the pulpit and pew to endued with power.—Baptist Helper. Alcova News. We are having a lot of rain, and the farmers are getting badly behind with their crops. Mrs. Tom Swords and Mrs. J. D. McCart visited Mrs. J. F. Nash one day last week. Misses Nellie and Cleo Harper spent Saturday and Sunday with their cousin, Miss Eddie May Harper, of Walnutgrove. Mrs. J. F. Aaron and daughter, Miss Nina Aaron, and Miss Exia Dillard, of Social Circle, were the welcome guests of Miss Kate Nash Saturday and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Pannell and little daughter, Nellie, W’ere the guests j of his parents Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Pan¬ ned Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Harper and family of Walnutgrove, visited Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Nash Sunday. Mr. Alex Berry was at home one day last week. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Gibbs spent Sun¬ day with Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Nash. Mr. and Mrs. Walt Reynolds have had a very sick baby, but w’e are glad to know that it is better now. Miss Dossia Bradley, of Jersey, spent Tuesday night with her friend, Miss Lucile Swords. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Nash have both been very id for the past week, but we hope for them a speedy recovery. Master Willie Prichett, of Social Circle, spent Sunday with his cousins, Masters Robert and Neal Nash. Mr. Jim Berry spent Saturday night with friends in Covington. We are having a new bridge glad put up at Alcova now, and will be when it is finished, as it has st >pped a lot of passing and-also it has stopped and a lot of the school children our school is email. THE COVINGTON NEWS In Memoriam. Died at his home near Mansfield, Newton county, Ga., March 3, 1909, Mr. John Walker Robertson, in the 63rd year of his age. Thus one by one the gallant old Confederates are gathering home. He was one of the knightly men of the old South. He was justly proud of his war record. Having entered the service of his country before he was eighteen, he served gallantly until he was captured in Jan. 64, and carried to Camp Doug¬ las where he remained until May 65. He was an enthusiastic veteran at¬ tending all the reunions since their organization, serving on the staff of Gen. Gid Morris. The esteem in which he was held by the people could well be calculated by the vast concourse of people that gathered at the burial, to pay their respects to the gallant and beloved man. His camp, the Jefferson-Lamar of Covington, attended in a body, the old soldiers acting as pall-bearers, the floral dec¬ orations were profuse and beautiful. Almofi News. Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Rice spent last Wednesday and Thursday with rela¬ tives and friends at Oak Hill. Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Dobbs were guests of Mr. J. T. Rice and family at | Hawkinsville Sunday. Mr. Jesse Yancey spent Sunday with Messrs. Sam and Fred Rice, at Hawkinsville. Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Rice visited Mr. M. W. Brown’s family at Fairview Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Ramsey spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Rice. Mr. P. L. Sudduth and family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Over | ton at Hawkinsville. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Smith were guests Sunday of Mr. M. W. Brown and family. Mr. Clarence Brown visited Mr. O. P. Smith and family last Sunday. Prof. McCulloughs and family were guests Sunday of Dr. and Mrs. S. W. Everett. Notice. I hereby give notice to all persons concerned that Harvey Ellis is under no contract with any one, he being a minor child, and contract would not stand without my consent. , 4t. J. C. ELLIS. “Hair In The Butter.” The other day I found hidden away in an innocent looking biscuit a strand of hair. This little strand brought back to my conscious mind memories of my youth that 1 had ap¬ parently forgotten, and immediately this little poem was brought back to “Pass the butter, gentle Mabel, Shove it lightly through the air; In the corner of the dish, love, You will find a nut-brown hair. “What fond memories it awakens Of the days ere we were wed, When upon my good coat collar, Oft was laid your little head. “Lovingly I stroked those tresses, In the happy days gone by; Now I find them every meal time In the butter and the pie.” Speaking about youthful days, is it not pleasant to go back to that period and gaze anew upon scenes long since past and gone? There were then some times of sorrow, some heart breaks were experienced, but the hap¬ piest moments of one’s life were life there. The first time some little girl put her tresting hand in yours and de¬ clared you her knight sent a thrill through your veins that can never come again. You then and there made a vow to love her and her only, and if you have ever gone back on that vow, you deserved all the torture I of the dammed. When you find a hair in the butter, take it out with a laugh and kiss her from whosehead it fell. It may be slightly tinged with gry, but her love j for you has never wavered. Her heart is just as true as of old, and if yours is not, you are just a brute, that is all. _WANTED Each week, one thous¬ and dozen eggs, for which we will pay cash money—The Harrison Co. For Sale. Will be sold before the Court House door in the city of Coving ton on the first Tuesday in April next, to the highest 3 good mules belonging to the county. J. Z. JOHNSON, Chairman. SALE: Weather Board¬ ing and Framing. 4t. DR. 0. L. HOLMES. In Hot Water. “Typographical errors,” said a writ¬ er, “are continually cropping up. I called for a magazine editor the other day to lake* him out to luncheon. As he was getting gratefully into his coat a man entered. “‘Do you read your magazine?’ the man asked. “ ‘I do,’ replied the editor. “ ‘Have you read the new number, the one that came out yesterday?” “ ‘I have.’ "‘Have you read my poem, “To (la brlellc,” on page 117?’ “ ‘N-no.’ “ ‘No! Well, In that poem I wrote the line, ‘‘I love you better than I love my life.”’ “‘A neat line—neat and well turned,' said the editor soothingly. “ ‘And one of the professional humor¬ ists of your composing room set It up to read, “I love you better than I love my wife.’ ’’ “ ‘How—er’— “‘Than my wife—precisely that. And my wife knows nothing of composing room comedy, and she thinks the line was printed exactly as I wrote It.’ ” Pretty Slow. Horace L. Moore was lieutenant colo¬ nel of the noted Nineteenth Kansas cavalry. He could lead men for u long¬ er period without rest on a single ra¬ tion of cheerful good humor than any other officer. Though not given to Jokes, he was the reputed author of as many astonlshers as the great Lin¬ coln. One time, on the march, he sent an orderly with a message to an officer at some distance. Before the man was out of hearing Moore shouted: “Hey, orderly! Come hack hur«l" He came galloping hack, sitting limp¬ ly In the saddle. Moore dropped his voice and, assum¬ ing a half confidential manner, Inquir¬ ed, “Orderly, In the course of your life have you ever seen a snail?” “Yes, sir,” was the astonished repljr “You met him, then,” replied Moore, “for you'd never overtake one!”—Kan¬ sas City Journal. Hit Business Ability. In the Adirondaeks lives a man too lazy to work, but evidently of great business ability. One winter when he was sitting around smoking his family \ came so near starvation that some of his neighbors, who could 111 afford to help him, took up a collection and bought for the suffering family a bar¬ rel of flour, a barrel of pork and a load of wood. They were not consid¬ erate enough to cut the wood, but the business man knew how to manage. He hired some of the neighbors who had not contributed to his donation to cut the wood and paid them with half the pork and baif tbs fioitfr-Uppln cott’*. —" SOME LARGE ORDERS. During the past week this office has turned out several of the largest or¬ ders for printing ever handled by an office in Covington. One of the or¬ ders referred to was ten thousand full page size circulars and a thousand double-page ones, printed in red ink. Another was for the same quantity of page circulars, and besides this we have printed since our last issue three papers besides this issue, and a large amount of the regular commercial printing, such as letter and bill heads, evelopes and those orders for artistic printing which cannot be turned out from any other press in the county. This is not a boast, but a plain state¬ ment of facts, as we have the very best equipment and nothing but first class printers and we started out with the intention of building up a reputa¬ tion in the production of high-class printing. We are doing this and every order we get makes a customer and in many eases brings work from other people. We appreciate this as we want the business and will assure the public that we will always handle it in a way satisfactory to them, and deliver the orders when they want them—That is another one of our long suits.' If you haven’t tried our printing, do it now and get the best. FREIGHT RATES. The Covinoton News is now studying freight rates, and has learned that Social Circle has a lower freight rate than their city, and what are they going to do about it. —The Conyers Free Press. Not like Brother Scott, The News will not stand still and say that Cov¬ ington lias all she wants, but we will put our determination right on this line and we venture the assertion that Scott will be sorry when he reads the results. But we need not give our¬ selves any worry over friend Scott’s comment orquerries, for all of us know tnat he is well enough satisfied to sit still and see Conyers dry up on the limb. FOR SALE.—Three room house and lot. Lot 80x100. Good well water. Within city limits and known as the Aaron Purrington place. Will sell at a bargain lm. ALBERT PITTS. FOR SALE—Fine Homer Pigeons. $1.00 per pair—J M. Aaron. tf.