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High Point News.
Mrs. E. H. Lewis and son Edward,
of Covington, are guests of her mother,
Mrs, J. A. Grant this week.
Mrs. J. R.Salter spent a short while
with Miss Georgia Salter Monday
morning.
Mrs. Gill, of Covington, is visiting
friends and relatives here this
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Grant McCart were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Grant
last Sunday.
Mr. Ca. Salter, of Oxford, spent
Sunday afternoon with friends here.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Middlebrooks
and daughters Adel and Evelina,
spent last Sunday very pleasantly
with Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Middlebrooks
in Covington.
Mr. Oscar Grant spent Sunday with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
Grant.
Mr. Robert Parker and Misses Flora
and Kate Blalock, were welcome
guests of Miss Georgia Salter last Wed¬
nesday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Emmet McCart and
little daughter were the welcome
guests of Mr. J. W. Strawn’s family
last Sunday.
Rev. J. B. Salter filled his appoint¬
ment in Atlanta, last Saturday and
Sunday.
Mrs. Frank McCart was the ad¬
mired guest of Miss Tempie Lewis
last Sunday.
Several of our people attended the
singing at Newton Factory Sunday
afternoon.
Mrs. 0. D. Grant is in Atlanta hav¬
ing her throat treated, and her many
friends will be glad to learn she is im¬
proving.
Rev. Winburn will preach here next
Sunday at eleven o’clock. Come out
and hear him.
Messrs. J. M. Lassiter and O. D.
Grant spent several days last week
in Atlanta.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Salter spent
Monday afternoon in Covington.
Miss Georgie Salter was the guest
of Misses Ethel and Maggie Grant
Monday afternoon.
Mrs. H. M. Parker and children
spent Sunday night with relatives at
Newton Factory.
Leguin Locals.
Mr. and Mrs. Oby Edwards and Mr.
and Mrs. Pelza Austin, of Oak Hill,
were the guests of Mr. W T. Austin
and family Monday.
Mrs. W. M. Heard spent Tuesday
afternoon with Mrs. J. S. Wright’s
family.
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Edwards and
children, vjsited Mrs. J. P. Thompson
Sunday.
Mr. T. J. Smith and mother, visited
Mrs. Chas. Mabry, at Starrsville
Sunday.
The many friends of Mrs. O. D.
Grant, will be grieved to hear that
she is in Atlanta at a hospital where
she has gone to have an operation
performed. We hope for her a speedy
recovery.
Rev. W. E. Venable, of Covington,
dined with Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Heard
Sunday.
Mr. O. L. Cowan, of Salem, was a
visitor here Thursday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Meadows visited
their parents, M. and Mrs. J. B.
Meadows one day last week.
A number of the young folk from
here attended the singing at Newton
Factory Sunday, and all report a very
pleasant time.
Mr. J. M. Lassiter spent Thursday
in Atlanta with his daughter Mrs. O.
D. Grant.
Mr. Leon Dick, of Gaithers, was a
visitor here Sunday P. M.
Several of our prominent young
men attended the singing given by
Mrs. Sallie Mae Pope Sunday night.
Miss Alice Thompson spent Sunday
w ith Mrs. L. Smith.
Messrs. C. W. andF. H. Wright and
sisters, attended the party given by
Mrs. W. T. Corley Friday night
Mrs Alma Meadows and little daugh¬
ter Pauline, and Alice Waters, w r ere
the guests of Mrs. J. R. Meadow’s
Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Piper, of Hayston,
visited their mother, Mrs. Nancy
Piper Wednesday.
Mrs. Issac Porker and daughter, of
Mixon, were the guests of Mrs. J. L.
Coggins Thursday.
Mr. F. H. Wright, and Miss Alice
Thompson, visited friends at Mixon a
short while Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Piper, of Worth
ville, spent Sunday with the latter’s
brother, Mr. Edgar Edwards.
Master Jack Meadows and sisters,
Misses Ruth and Lartrelle, were the
guests of their uncle, Mr. H. B.
Meadow’s, Sunday.
Hayston News.
Mrs. R. L. Hollis is visiting friends
in Atlanta.
Mr. Paul Adams and his friend Mr.
McElhany, of Shady Dale, were here
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Eays went to
Conyers Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Emmette Banks spent
Sunday with the latters parents, Mr.
and Mrs. S. L. Darby.
Miss Myrtice Morgan and brother
Brad, spent Sunday afternoon with
Miss Olivia Hays.
Misses Ina Chaffin and Stella Greer,
spent Sunday night with Miss Lillian
Adams.
Misses Ollie and Ophelia Hays visit¬
ed their uncle, Mr. T. M. Kenerly,
from Saturday until Monday.
Tom Greer is at home now to spend
vacation.
Miss Olivia Hays was the admired
guest of Miss Sadie Carter Monday.
Miss Greer is spending a few days
with her parents at Mansfield. She
will return to Athens Tuesday, where
she is in school.
Mrs. Kate Hays and Mrs. Minnie
Greer, spent Monday with the latters
parent Mr. J. W. Adams.
The quilting given at the home of
Mrs. H. E. Hays last Tuesday was
very much enjoyed by all present.
Three quilts were quilted. It is use¬
less to mention the many good things
she had to eat. In the evening she
entertained quite a crowd of young
people at a hat party, which all en¬
joyed. We hope you will have an¬
other one soon Mrs. Hays.
Almon News.
Mr. Jesse Yancey spent last Satur¬
day and Sunday with relatives at
Fairburn.
Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Rice spent last
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. C. W.
Berry at Fairview.
Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Rice visited Mr.
J. E. McCart and family Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Dobbs were
guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. W. C.
Wallace.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. McCart an¬
nounce the arrival of a bouncing baby
boy at their home.
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Ramey spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Ellis.
Mrs. J. L. Ramey visited Mr. W. S.
Ramey’s family Sunday.
Mr. Thomas Puckett, of Princeton,
was the guest Thursday of Mr. D. F.
Rice.
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Smith, of Fair
view, spent last Wednesday with Mr.
D. F. Rice and family.
As a Corollary.
“Are marriages made in heaven?”
“As to that I can’t say, but I do
know this much.”
"What’s that, Peieg?”
“There’s lots of courting done in
church.”—Louisville Courier-Journal.
A Fulsome Compliment.
During Mr. Cleveland’s tour of the
south shortly after his marriage Mrs.
Cleveland and he were driving one day
through the streets of one of the larger
towns escorted by tW’o of its citizens.
Some one threw a bunch of violets to
Mrs. Cleveland, and Mr. Cleveland
bent forward to catch it, remarking as
he presented it, “I wonder why no one
gives me flow’ers.”
One of the gentlemen present gal¬
lantly replied, “We think you have won
the fairest flower in all the land."
I “Ah, yes,” returned the president;
“but, you see, I can’t keep her in wa¬
ter!”
"It is not necessary since you keep
her in such excellent spirits,” was the
reply.
Here Mrs. Cleveland interposed, say¬
ing, “I am afraid you are guilty of flat¬
tery,” whereupon came the reply;
"No, madam. Flattery is fulsome
compliment, and in this instance no
compliment could be either too frank
j or too fulsome."
The charm of this response lies in
the last and fourth from the last
words, Mrs. Cleveland’s maiden name
being Frances Folsom.
A Queer Chinese Notion.
One of the beliefs which the Chinese
are slowly unlearning is that foreign¬
ers use the eyes and hearts of China¬
men in compounding rare and costly
drugs which are valuable aids in
magic. Medicine and magic have for
ages gone hand in hand in China, just
as they once did in Europe. Ignorant
Chinaineu therefore readily believe
such tales. The use of eyes of Chinese
by foreigners in metallurgy is describ¬
ed in a work called “A Deathblow
to Corrupt Practices,” published in
1870. According to this, when white
Christians had charge of a funeral
they drove all the relatives and friends
from the house. Both eyeballs were
then removed from the corpse, the orl
flees being filled with plaster. This
was called “sealing the eyes for the
western Journey.” By compounding
these eyes with a hundred pounds of
Chinese lead, this veracious chronicle
continues, eight pounds of silver could
be extracted from it. The sight or¬
gans of any other people were useless
for this pu -pose.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
M 1 GJRIMINALS
Plans of London Shops and Banks
; For Foiling Thieves.
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A CQDE QF SECRET SIGNALS.
The Moment a Suspect Is Discovered
In an Establishment the Warning Is
Quickly Given to the Employees, Who
Are Instantly on the Alert.
“Do you know if Brown has returned
that parcel of stones yet?"
The scene may be the shop of a fash
lonable west end jeweler Costly
gems glint in velvet lined cases. One
frock coated shopman turns casually
to another with the perfectly natural
question quoted above.
To those customers who may be in
the establishment the remark means
nothing, but to the man who is ad
dressed it spells volumes. “Brown” is
a secret code word, and it means that
the elegantly clad woman to whom
the speaker is displaying a tray of
sparkling stones is suspected by him
of being a thief and that her every
action must be watched.
Quite recently in connection with a
terrible outrage in the west end of
London, in which an unfortunate mon¬
ey changer was done to death in his
office by a desperate robber, the fact
was disclosed that in the case of a
sudden attack it had been arranged
that one of the assistants should em¬
ploy the “distress signal” of hurling a
brass paperweight through the win¬
dow of the office.
Although most people are quite un¬
aware of the fact, practically every
banker, money changer and jeweler
in the fashionable quarter of the me¬
tropolis has some prearranged code by
which one employee may warn his
fellows that a dubious character has
entered the establishment.
In one well known bank this is the
system adopted: Should a cashier’s
suspicions be aroused by the actions
or speech of a man upon the other
side of the counter he will step across
in a perfectly innocent way to a cer¬
tain desk which stands quite apart
from the others. The custodian at the
doorway sees the action, knows its
significance and is instantly on the
alert.
In the case of another bank the
cashier whose suspicions are aroused
need not even move away from his
desk to warn the watcher. The
i scheme employed is this: Along the
guarding rail of the counter are a se¬
ries of plates bearing the word
■ “Prayer” or “Receiver,” according to
the duties of the cashier in each par¬
ticular section.
These, by design, are all placed
slightly askew. Should one of the of¬
ficials behind the desks suspect the
good faith of an individual to whom
he is attending all he has to do in or¬
der to place the patrol in uniform
upon the qui vive is to reach up a
leisurely hand and turn one of these
plates so that it is in a perfectly
straight line with the rail from which
it projects.
The ingenuity of this idea lies in the
fact that, while the action is perfectly
natural, it is so unmistakable that even
when the bank is full of people It can¬
not fail to be observed by the man
who is upon the lookout.
Quite the most elaborate system of
which details are obtainable is that In¬
stalled by a firm of electrical engineers
for one prominent west end Jeweler.
The manager who is on duty sits at a
glass screened desk in the rear of the
shop in such a position that, while
scarcely being seen himself and cer¬
tainly without making any movement,
he has an absolutely unimpeded view
of every counter and show case.
Near him, on a small board, shielded
from view, is a row of tiny red electric
light bulbs. One corresponds to the
position of each of the suave assist¬
ants who attends to the wants of the
jewel buying public. Sunk in the floor,
near the foot of each assistant, is a
button, and his duty is done when,
should he think a customer he is serv¬
ing may not be “on the square,” he
places his foot on this convenient but¬
ton. The little glow lamp lights up at
the other end of the wire, and the
manager’s attention is promptly fo¬
cused in the direction indicated.
Should his keen scrutiny reveal an
actual theft from the articles displayed
on the counter or from some unpro¬
tected tray he himself presses a but¬
ton as the thief turns to leave the
shop. This serves to warn a smart at¬
tendant who is on duty at the portals,
and the wrongdoer finds his or her
pathway barred without a word hav¬
ing been uttered or sign of warning
given.—London Answers.
The Oldest Universities.
The earliest date which any univer¬
sity puts forth is that which Cam¬
bridge makes that it was founded
about 635. Its continuous history
dates, however, from 1109. Paris was
founded In 792 and renovated in 1200
Oxford dates back to aD academy men¬
tioned as ancient in 802; the schools
were founded by King Alfred about
879, and King Henry III. granted the
tharter In 1248. Bologna dates from
1116. Salamanca was founded in 1239
—Argonaut.
Too Much Hustle.
Muggins—So Bjones Is dead, eh?
Say, he was a hustler; he never let
the grass grow under his feet. Bug
gins—No; perhaps if he had it wouldn’t
be growing over his head now.—Phil¬
adelphia Record.
A given force applied for a given
time upon a given point is bound to
win.—Napoleon.
A POISON EPISODE.
When a Famous Chemist Was Silenced
In Court by a Judge.
There was a famous poisoning case
In England many years ago in which
tee strong point of the defense was to
show that the accused, who was an
expert chemist, would not have used a
poison which could be so easily found
after It had been taken into the hir
j man system. Sir Robert Christeson,
professor in Edinburgh university, a
famous expert on toxicology, whose
works are still standard on that sub¬
ject, was put on the stand to prove
this point. When he declared that a
chemist would certainly use some poi¬
son which would leave no trace, the
prosecuting attorney asked him if he
meant to say that there were such
poisons.
Sir Robert replied in the affirmative.
The prosecutor asked, “Name them!”
"No!” shouted the Judge. “1 forbid
you to answer that question!”
In spite of the protests of the prose¬
cutor the judge would not allow the
expert publicly to give the name of a
poison which would leave uo trace,
and the question remained unan¬
swered.
Now comes the curious part of the
j story. During the next two years Sir
Robert received more than 4,000 let*
: ters from all parts of the world ask
! lng, begging, offering to buy, the name
! of the untraceable poison alluded to in
i his testimony. Many of these he kept
1 as curiosities, showing them to his
i friends as evidence of the depravity of
! human nature. Some of the excuses
for wanting the name of the poison
were very ingenious. One man was
writing a novel based on a poison plot
and wanted to make use of the un
traeeable poison idea. He did not
want to give the name of the poison in
his book, but just wanted to have It
by him in case any scientific critic
should deny the possibility of such poi¬
sons. when he could send him the
name in a private letter and quote the
“distinguished authority” from whom
it came, etc. Several persons profess¬
ed to be studying chemistry and asked
for the information on the ground of
professional courtesy. To all such Sir
Robert would send the advice to pur¬
sue their studies and they would soon
know as much about it as be did.
Many offered large sums of money for
the secret, usually pretending they
had bet still larger amounts that they
could find it out in a given time and
were willing to share their profits lib¬
erally with Sir Robert.
The thing which most impressed Sir
Robert was the number of persons all
over the world who seemed desirous
of possessing the secret of an agent
that would kill, but leave no trace, and
the amazing falsehoods to which they
would subscribe their names in order
to obtain the information. It is said
that whatever poison Sir Robert bad
in mind at the trial he never mention¬
ed it, not even to his classes, so strong¬
ly was he impressed with the danger
j of letting such a thing become matter
of public knowledge.
Getting His Straight.
“I wouldn’t make a confidante of
May,” said the conceited fellow, with
a self satisfied smirk. “She told me
you said you were crazy to marry me.
Of course she’s no friend if”—
“No,” interrupted Miss Wise, “and
Bhe’s not even a good reporter. I didn’t
say I ‘was,’ but ‘would be.’’’—Catho¬
lic Standard and Times.
Noiseless.
Wife—Would it please you, dear, if I
learned another language? Husband
Yes, it would delight me infinitely.
Wife—Well, which one shall I study?
| Husband—The sign language.—Smart
Set.
ELEGANT SPRING LINES
We are receiving every day new shipments of the neat and stylish
suits of clothes for young men and elderly men and our line is de¬
cidedly had. the most nobby of any we have
yet
In Schloss Bros. Clothing we have the three-piece summer
suits ranging in price from $1 7.50 to $25.00.
In Cohen-Goldman two-piece suits the price is anywhere
from $10.00 to $17.50 and these lines embrace the very
heighth of good clothes perfection.
In our Shoe Department you will find
the celebrated Douglass shoes in all the
shapes and styles for men, and the Zeiglef
shoe for women.
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Baliimaieaad Hern York Dress Goods in the city. Call and see
these lines. We are sure they will please you in both price and
quality of the goods.
Heard, White & Co.
Covington, - Georgia
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