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Millinery Announcement
\\ ( !ak( |tl( <imii( in announcing to the public that our Superb Line of Millinery is display at store. Great
now on our
cnie was exercised in the pm chase of all the Essentials of this Department and it is with pardonable pride that it is
we say
liic Prettiest and Snappiest Lot of Ladies Headgear ever displayed in this city. We want all the Ladies in this community
to come to see it. It is beautiful in design and cheap in price, the Hats ranging in price from the cheapest to the
swell kind. Our New Line very
of Spring and Summer Dress Goods is also arriving and is very attractive.
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Come to see me, I will save you money.
N, Covington, Georgia.
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Mr. J. L. Parker states that more
ilian two hundred men are cutting
ind cleaning off the reservoir close to
kis home.
Mrs. J. li. Pope and daughter, Miss
fiae, eat from Monday till Thurs
la-y in G ivim;ton the guests of rela¬
tives.
Mrs. Dr. Holmes, visited Mrs. Will
Thomas Thursday.
Miss Lilia hummus, of Butts, has
keen the guest of W. C. Pope and
^'ife for quite a while. ,
Mrs. AY. Thomas visited her mother,
lira. A. V. Heard Wednesday after¬
loon.
Mrs. Willie Parker and sweet little
lhildr.ii, viFijd Mrs. Jim Coggings,
|1 Legiiim Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Vaughan,
Ipent Saturday with the latters par¬
ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. 11. Ivey.
Mr-. Sam Potts, of Eudora, visited
(datives in our vicinity Thursday.
Mr. Tom Heard, one of our promi
i- '•( d ■ hunts, spent last week in
f-ovingt 'it.
Dr. (). L. Holmes was in Covington
Acilu iluy, shaking hands with his
ttany friends.
Mrs. (merge Aiken, visited Mrs.
lay. 1,1111 Keyn ,ids a short while Satur
drs. J. H. Pope and Mrs. Thomas
learn, were guests of Mr. Ivey Fri
ay.
1><'\ Joe Winhurn, of Mansfield,
'in preach at the Stewart Baptist
l ? lv!l ihe fourth Sunday and Sunday
.
j brother lf s *[• \\ ; -. v inburn’s ' rybody fine come sermon’s. and hear
SIMPSON'S PLUCK.
n lnver| tor’s Weary but Successful
| F| ght Against Great Odds.
< karlcs Goodyear Is not the only in
' Pn ,| ,;r w,l might
° turn hts face to the
T” .“. <H| ‘ sa Jlng of the tardv recog-
1 nf his efforts, “1 die happy
ithers can get rich.”
7' f ' ■ ' :!1 ' s efforts to Introduce the
r : vr JcanlKcd rubber were no more
Eivo-'t L. 111:111 }, !° 1 storles re of a dozen named other
was a man
, s i In Missouri who discovered
i ui n percha was a nonconductor
[ ri "*ty• He borrowed money of
.. An
LVer'I,, '" s T Kendall to make ids n'ppli-
3 Prltent - lt was rejected
'j"; a ovcr rich
Li, L UU , companies fighting
- T ‘ ut be h " d “sand;” he
[he eirn" " Cencd r ’ r 'hat - u he was made ^ ust » fter
his last
ha<1 no money—not a dollar
, star 'ed from
r'a-shlngten r ; Kl , St. Louis for
afoot.
Li. L/u':? 1 "°t heg, but made bis way
' h< ‘ con, lnent by sawing
it,.,. < ‘ < n > or doing any work
‘obix'it ' ,lf)n( l- one place ho
" '»* “ f
red U,1;4 b,s °' vn more rag
frVSr - i,. ,n
th ; !r !n
. ° wor k iruek
jit , 7 as a driver
.
k , ‘‘ Irn enough to repair his
HI the him his W:1V Vnd
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ilnu-.if . " ' .believed llis stubbornly In
in invention. Disown
v, nl
‘AVlipn i rrune over the tops of
knelt',w 1 the
S!,w ,hw s,r ‘ rising, and
P latent f o ami U",,? 7 n . d llm . than,:c<1 *° ,fd God me for ‘t niv
j u ? ( my
bd , firotnised mo on the snot.
, Cr had
if ter that ” moment’s doubt
”
In'77. 7 m '7' , ' V; lilborer shin st<>n. he got a
[minflati patent 0,1 office, R tone
pan kls and
, i... 7. m I* ' c ‘ 'he ho fought
pur-v , office and the
(77, .
bn '7 bis P’Hem. The West
pirn $i , , t 7 ra Ph company ^ gave
(King it.—Ex 'll " D f ° r tiie pr * v e S e
SAW THE GHOST.
A Story That Stood the Test of a
Court of Law.
As a circumstantial ghost story and
one that stood the cold scrutiny of a
court of law Booty’s case is without a
parallel. The date given is 1688, when
Mrs. Booty brought an action for : tan
der against one Captain Baruaby lor
what lie had said of her late husband.
According to an extract from a jour¬
nal produced in court, dated Friday,
May 15, 1687, the captain on that day
went ashore with a large party of
friends to shoot rabbits upon Strombo
11. the Island off Italy, which, from Its
ever burning crater, Is called “the
lighthouse of the Mediterranean.” At
about 3:30 In the afternoon two men
t were seen running toward the volcano.
' which was emitting flames. Captain
Baruaby theu exclaimed, "Lord bless
me, the foremost is old Booty, my
next door neighbor.” They then van
ished In the flames, a fact of which
every one present took note.
Upon Captain Barnaby’s return to
England he learned that “old Booty”
had died Just about the time of the
strange occurrence at Stromboli. He
then made the remark which was the
subject of the action, that be "had
seen old Booty running into the flames
of hell pursued by the devil.” Mrs.
Booty claimed £1,000 as damages, and
the case came on in the king’s bench
before the chief Justice, Sir Robert
Wright. For the defense, in addition
to the testimony of Captain Barnaby
and his friends, old Booty’s clothes
were brought into court and identified
by several witnesses as being similar
to those worn by the foremost man
wbo ran into the crater—even to the
peculiar buttons on the coat. The
judge was so Impressed by this evi¬
dence that be said: “Lord have mercy
upon me and grant that I may never
see what you have seen. One, two or
three may be mistaken, but not thir¬
ty.” And so Booty’s widow lost the
day. and the case remains, perhaps, as
the only judicially accepted ghost
story on record.—London Chronicle.
Sound In the Air.
A writer in the Strand Magazine de¬
scribes the astonishment he experi¬
enced when riding over London In a
Walloon at a height of more than half
a mile he heard the deafening roar of
the great city beneath him as it could
not be beard when on the ground. I he
noise, even at that height, was so
harsh and intense as to be painful to
the ear. How perfect a sound con¬
ductor the air is was shown when the
balloon drifted far over the city to a
wooded part of the country, where the
murmur of the leaves moved by the
wind, half a. mile below, was distinct¬
ly heard.
Careful For Others.
“No.” said the candid kleptomaniac?
“when I’m arrested for pilfering I
never give my real name, it would
compromise too many people. ’
“Indeed! And what is your name?"
inquired the magistrate.
“John Smith.’’— Philadelphia Ledger.
A Chip of the Old Block.
Crimsonbenk- Owen Moote’s sop was
in to see me today.
Yeast—Indeed! Doesn’t he remind
you of his father?
“Very much. He wanted to borrow
S5.” —Yonkers Statesman.
Particular Points.
“Shall I touch out the wrinkles in
your face?” asked the photographer.
“By all means.” answered the elder¬
ly beau. “And also those, tf there be
any. in my trousers.”—Kansas l ity
Journal.
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Useless Luxury.
A sick peasant motions feebly to his
wife to approach Ills bedside and whis¬
pers painfully. “1 think, my dear, 1
could fancy a little broth.”
“My dear, what do you want of
broth? Hasn’t the doctor Just, given
you up?”
THE COVINGTON NEWS
PROFITS CUT ALL
TO PIECES ON
PIANOS
Ten or Fifteen Different Makes.
$10 Profit on Factory Prices. V
See This Line Tefore You Make
Your Purchase.
It Means Money To you.
C. A. HARWELL
Leader In
Furniture and Undertaking
Covington, Ga.
OBEYED ORDERS.
A Young Recruit’s Rapid Rise to Title
and Power.
One day a young recruit was stand¬
ing guard before the door of the en¬
trance to Peter the Great’s private
chambers In the palace of St. Peters¬
burg. He had received orders to ad¬
mit no one.
As he was passing slowly up and
down before the door Prince Menschi
koff, the favorite minister of the czar,
j approached and attempted to enter.
He was stopped by the recruit.
The prince, who had the fullest lib
erty of calling upon his master at any
time, sought to push the guard and
pass him. Yet the young man would
not move, but ordered his highness
to stand back.
“You idiot!" shouted the prince.
“Don’t you know me? You’ll be pun¬
ished for this!”
The recruit smiled and said-,
"Very well, your highness, but my
orders are peremptory to let nobody
pass.”
The prince, exasperated at the fel¬
low's impudence, struck him a blow
in the face with his ridiug whip.
“Strike away, your highness,” said
the soldier, “but 1 cannot let you go
in."
Peter, In the room, hearing the noise
outside, opened the door and inquired
what it meant, and the prince told
him.
The czar appeared amused, but said
nothing at the time.
Iu the evening, however, he sent for
the prince and the soldier. As they
both appeared Peter gave his own
cane to the soldier, saying:
“That man struck you in the morn
ing. Now you must return the blow to
that fellow with my 6tlek."
The prince was amazed. “Your maj¬
esty.” he said, "this common soldier
Is to strike me?"
“1 make him a captain.” said Peter
“Bnt I’m an officer of your majes
ty’s household," objected the prince.
“I make him a colonel of my life
guards and an officer of the house¬
hold.” said Peter again.
“My rank, your majesty knows, is
that of general,” again protested Men
schikoff.
"Then I make him a general, so that
the beating you get may come from a
man of your rank.”
The prince got a sound thrashing in
the presence of the czar, and the re¬
cruit, who was next day commissioned
a general with a title, was the founder
of a powerful family whose descend
ants are still high in the imperial serv¬
ice of Russia.
Odd Cure* For Rheumatism.
Cures for rheumatism are almost as
old ns the complaint itself. In the
midland counties of England it w’as
formerly considered that the right
forefoot of a hare, worn constantly in
the pocket, was an amulet against
rheumatism, while the Dutch peas¬
antry still cherish a belief in the pres¬
ervative virtues of a borrowed or
stolen potato. Stranger than these,
however, was the remedy discovered
by a servant girl at the village of
Stanton, in the Cotswolds, who con¬
trived to be confirmed three times, in
the belief that confirmation was an
unfailing cure for rheumatism.
■
Ths Cowcatcher.
While the visitor told how he hni,
ridden thirty thrilling miles on the l
cowcatcher of a locomotive five-year
old Lorelia listened attentively. As
he concluded she asked. “Did you
catch the cow, Mr Blank?”—Chicago
News.
Just Goes Out.
“Mother, when the fire goes out.
where does it go?” asked a child of
her parent.
“I don’t know, dear.” replied the
mother. “You might just as well ask
me where your father goes when be
goes out!”
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ORIENTAL SERVANTS.
All Around Ability of the Indispensable
“Boy” In India.
In these days of loud wailing about
the haughty domestic, exorbitant
wages and small returns it is sooth¬
ing to recall the efficiency and submis¬
sive service of the oriental servant.
In India the indispensable “boy”
everything—“boy” being a ge¬
neric name regardless of age or native
in remuneration the
equivalent of $12 to $14 a month at
the most. He buys your railroad tick¬
ets, checks your luggage, settles the
clamors of luggage coolies, gives your
tips and shoos away the hordes of
beggars, telegraphs to hotels for your
rooms and takes care of them when
you get there, makes the bed. brings
the afternoon tea. stands behind your
chair at table and serves you. brings
your account when you leave and
wrangles for you over its Inevitable
extortions. v
At the dak bungalows he foragew
for your meals ana. ir necessary
cooks them. He produces washmen.
sewing men and all sorts of dealers in
everything on demand. He makes up
your bed on sleeping cars and replen¬
ishes your supply of Ice and soda.
He runs your errands, cleans your
boots and hats, darns your stockings
and mends your clothes.
When you walk abroad, he attends
you and directs you to the bazaars
where you will lie robbed least, receiv
ing bis commission later from an ap¬
preciative proprietor.
For every rupee intrusted to him
for general expenditure be renders an
account, and though he doubtless robs
you gently he does not let others do lt
(and it is distinctly advantageous to
be robbed by one person rather than a
■core).
He is silent and noiseless, salaams
whenever you speak to him and never
enters your presence with his shoes
on or bis turban off.
And finally, his multifarious day
ended, be wrups himself in his shawl
and sleeps acrosa your threshold.—New
Y©rk Trihne* „ T -
Polities and Poker.
A man wbo dips into politics occa
alonaliy may be compared to a man
who engages in a poker game occa¬
sionally. He is liable to run into a
professional and be worsted. The safe
rule is to keep out of politics and
poker.—Atchison Globe.
8he Throw Him Over Twice.
“Why have you thrown over Mr.
Pltcoe?”
“Oh, I could never marry a man
with a crooked leg.”
“What made his leg crooked?"
“1 ran over it with my motor car.”—
Baccess Magazine.
Where there is much pretension
much has been borrowed. Nature
never pretends.—Lavater.
Tact.
Harry—What in thunder did you ask
that fellow what time it was for when
you carry • watch that is always right
on the notch? Dick—I merely wanted
to glv« him an excuse to exhibit hla
watch,—Boston Traaacript,
