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Our Price to You $95.00— Rubber Tired.
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AT WHOLESALE PRICES
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We build but one grade only—the very best.
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Covington BUGGY Company
Always Busy Covington, Georgia.
Rubber Tiring and Repairing done by us.
The Tragic Career of Picaud, a
Cobbler of Paris.
|HIS RISE TO GREAT WEALTH
Thrown Into Jail by Secret Enemies,
He Was Left a Fortune by a Fell*w
Prisoner — Released, His Scheme of
Vengeance Brought Him Death.
That romantic creation of tlie brain
bf Alexandre Dumas, “The Count of
Monte Cristo,” hail a counterpart lu
M ai life in France lu the last century
This is the tragic story:
In 1807, when Napoleon was at the
height of his power, Francois Picaud
Has a sturdy young journeyman cob
bier of Paris, full of health and uni
hwl spirits and happy iu the love of
Marguerite Yigoureux, a young girl
of his own station in life. On the eve
his marriage hidden enemies de¬
nounced him to the imperial govern
fueut as a spy. lie was cast luto pris
on, where he remained, forgotten by
"orld, for seven years.
Among his fellow prisoners was a
'Hnuthy Milanese priest, who treated
1Ul lil ' e a son and bequeathed to him
J-OOO.OOO ,
francs on deposit in the Bank
if -Amsterdam. Furthermore* this ee
- 1 Mastic told Picaud the secret of a
F e “jog aled Jewels place in to Italy the where were eon
value of 1.200,000
v!!'! pillions. 8 1,11(1 specie amounting to three
’ h tlle
® n empire was overthrown in
- I 8
' 'caiid was one of a vast nam
|p I,, r ! 1 e f who P° llllcal were prisoners given their throughout
lirM- freedom.
,ruCee(le( I To gather the priest's
I ‘‘•tMin- and to plan vengeance upon
enemies. Who they were he did
n °t know.
it!,.'" i( e! i 1 '- v Prihlng as an Italian priest, he sue
the least guilty of
c,,Us l>irators and discovering the
er in (0ry ° f llls ul,doI »K The lead
H r u ‘ ,li t lie learned
" was one Lott
*Vi ■i.r.T, ’ u< " ‘ Ux ll0 prospered had married Marguerite
I, - and become the
f es f to or Paris. one of the handsomest
p to
■ a suhm a ^to^ulse ca Pital and under
|"alt> f n obtained work as a
P' e H ow ‘-"upaiu's establishment.
■Solar,' l-w-ith , ai S < lTants * (it rvuls there were (Juilhem
“ Chaubard, who,
jin ^ r had denounced IMoaud
■not w lle Pretended waiter was
|a „‘r , 11 bringing his
Ifirst C0 vengeance to
rnmatlon - Chaubard was the
[pierce,i' vi °f his
" ruth His body,
■of tK„ a kni te. was found on oue
IwSvTr i ^graced, 0Ver the reduced Seine. Lou
— to_ pen¬
ury and finally stabbed to death in~the
Tullerles gardens Solari was poison
ed and died iu frightful convulsions.
But speedy retribution overtook the
implacable avenger. One night Picaud
was seized, hound and borne to an
abandoned quarry. In the darkness a
terrible voice said:
“IMcaud. what name are you passing
under now? Are you still the priest
Baldiui or the waiter Prosper? You
wished for revenge. You have sold
yourself to the powers of hell. Ten
years you have given to the pursuit of
three wretches you should have spared
Me you dragged down to perdition.
The diamond by which you bribed me
was my destruction. 1 killed him who
cheated me. 1 was arrested, condemn¬
ed to the galleys and escaped only
after years of torture My one thought
has been vengeance on the priest Bal
dini. You are in my power. Do you
know me? I am Antoine Allut. How
much will you pay for bread and wa
ter?”
“I have no money,’’ groaned Picaud.
“You have sixteen millions. These
are my conditions: I will give you
something to eat twice a day. but for
each meal you must pay me 25.000
francs.”
However, the cupidity of the prison¬
er proved stronger than his huoger
He underwent terrible suffering with¬
out any signs of yielding until his
captor, goaded to fury at the prolong¬
ed obstinacy, threw himself upon Pi¬
caud and stabbed him to death.—Book¬
man.
A Thackeray Story.
A correspondent of London Notes
and Queries contributes this anecdote
of Thackeray:
Thackeray once desired to succeed
Cardwell as M P. for the city of Ox¬
ford and wheu returning from his can¬
vass said: “What do you think. Card
well! Not one of your constituents
ever heard of me and my writings.”
He prefaced “constituents” with a
strongish adjective.
Strange, if true. They must have
been starving in the midst of plenty.
Clerk's Elbow.
“To remove shiny spots from coat
elbows and trousers seat?,” said a clerk
—“I’ll tell you how it is done.”
The sun was strong on him as, upon
ills lofty stool, he munched his mid¬
day sandwich from thin. JrJ; smeared
fingers, but on his old clerk's coat and
old trousers no shiuy spots reflected
the light.
“ ‘Clerks’ elbow’ such spots are call¬
ed.” he said. “It's like housemaids’
knee. To cure It you soak the glitter¬
ing spot In cold water for half an
hour Then you take a teasel-that's a
very stiff thistle—and you rub the
spot with it till a nap or fuzz is
raised up. Then with a clothesbrush
you lay the nap down the right way,
and, presto, the shine is gone.'”—New
THE ,COVINGTON NEWS
COAL AS FUEL
It Was In Use as Far Back as the
Time of King Solomon.
The first mention of coal in the an¬
nals of mankind occurs in the Bible,
Proverbs xxvi, 21, as follows: “As
coals are to burning coals and wood to
fire, so is a contentious man to kindle
strife.” This was written about 1010
B. C„ at the time King Solomon came
into power. Part of his dominion was
Syria, and ancient coal mines are
worked in that country today. There
are several other references to coal in
the Bible, all of a later date. Tools
and cinders have been found near the
Roman wail, indicating that the Brit¬
ons were familiar with the use of coal
prior to the Roman invasion in 54 B. C.
The first actual record of a coal
transaction is the receipt for twelve
cart loads of coal written by the good
abbot of Peterborough, A. D. 852.
Years before the Christian era coal
was in common use in China. Anthra¬
cite coal is powdered, mixed with wet
clay and rolled into balls. These are
I dried in the sun, and the poor use this
| fuel In little hand furnaces precisely
as they did centuries ago. Marco Polo
speaks of seeing in 1275 “a kind of
black stone in Cathay that is used to
burn better than wood.” Marco Polo’s
countrymen refused to believe the
traveler’s tale.
The earliest historic mention of coal
in the United States is by the French
Jesuit missionary father Hennepin,
who in his journal in 1079 speaks of
traces of coal appearing on the hanks
of the Ulinols river and makes the site
of a “cole mine” on the James river,
near Richmond, the first mine opened
for the market. In 1700 anthracite
was discovered in the Wyoming valley
and a sample of the coal sent to Thom¬
as and William Penn In London.—Car
• rington Phelps in Metropolitan Maga¬
zine.
_
No Sand In Sandpaper.
“There is no sand in sandpaper,”
' said the manufacturer. “It is powder¬
ed glass that does the business. That's
where the broken bottles go to.” He
nodded toward a mass of broken bot¬
tles in the yard. “We powder the glass
into half a dozen grades.” he said.
“We coat our paper with an even/lay
er of hot glue. Then without loss of
time we spread on the glass powder.
Finally we run a wooden Toller lightly
over the sheets to give them a good
surface. When iu the past they made
sandpaper of sand It wouldn't do a
quarter of the work that glass paper
does.’’—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Bride's Pie Joke.
Her—Richard! Why on earth are
vou cutting your pie with a knife?
Him—Because, darling - now, under¬
stand. I’m not finding any fault, for !
know that these little oversights will
occur—because you forgot to give me
a can opener.-Cleveland Leader.
HUMAN BAIT.
Th« Men Who Gather Leeches In th»
Swamps of England.
Pale and lean, he spoke lu a low
voice, crumbling a water cracker:
“Divln’ is hard work, and sulphur
minin’ Is hard work, but how’d you
like to be bait at 4 shillin’ a day?
That ain't quite a dollar.
“I was human bait for a leech dealer
I in England all one spring, it was back
in the eighties, but 1 ain’t never recov¬
i ered the healthy color and weight what
j I lost. I guess I never will now.
“Down Norfolk way I baited—down
in the Norfolk broads. Broads is
swamps. AH them swamps, together
with the mild, moist climate, makes
Norfolk a great place for leeches. M#
and a dozen other chaps was leech
bait.
“We would wade in with our breeches
rolled up to our knees, and as soon as
we’d feel a leech on our legs we'd tear
him off and drop him iu a basket slung
from the shoulder. Quick as thunder
we’d do it, but he’d be considerable
plumped out even in that little while.
And when a dozen leeches settled on
you together the last of ’em by the
time you got round to him would bo as
fat and heavy as a lump of lead, whilst
you'd be that much lighter natcberly.
“In the late spring the leeches took
to deep water. Then the bait had to
strip and wade in up to their chins.
With all that surface to look after, we
played a losin’ game with the leeches.
The quickest of us couldn’t stand
more’n four hours of it without most
faintiu’ from weakness. And the pain!
For some parts of the human bait ts
mighty sensitive, I tell you.
“The trade’s died out now. There’s
no more call for leeches, and it’s a
good thing. Bein’ bait is too hard on
a man. It’s worms’ work.”—New Or¬
leans Times-Democrat.
An Alibi.
The milkman stood before her nerv¬
ously twirling his hut In his hands.
“So.” she said sternly, “you havu
come at last.”
“Yes. madam. You sent for me, 1
believe," he replied.
“I wished to tell you that I found a
minnow in the milk yesterday morn¬
ing.”
“I am sorry, madam, but if the cows
will drink from the brook iustead of
from the trough I cannot help it."—
Harper's Weekly.
She Was On.
Mrs. Boozer (3 a. m.)—This is a nice
time for you to lie coming home.
Where have you been? Mr. Boozer
Been setting up. my dearest, wlz a
friend. Mrs. Boozer—How many drinks
did you set up?—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Friendship consists in being a friend,
not having a friend.—Pittsburg PreM.
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.
I have also added a
Qu ick Lunch tand
To my place and am prepared to serve Oysters in any
style, and quick lunches to the public at any hour of the
day.
J. L. Smith,
Phone 22L
Leader in High Grade Cigars and Tobacco.
—Everybody wants to know what
are fireless cookers that are being ad
vertised so much. They are on sale
at Everitt’s Furniture Store. Call and
see them.
—The Huson Ice Wagons have no
tops. They have high red bodies. If
you will call phone 62 ice will be sent
you promptly. Buy home made, dis¬
tilled water ice.