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The Change of Color From Green to
Red or Yellow or Brown.
Despite the commonness of autumn
colorings, we do not yet know the full
meaning of autumn colors of leaves.
We do know that late in the summer
the tree is preparing for the leaf fall
by drawing the valuable substances of
the leaf into the stem. It also censes
to make chlorophyl (the green sub¬
stance of the leaf which aids in the
making of the plant’s food), and this
gradually fades away in the bright
light. By fading it exposes to view
any other colors in the leaf, and all
leaves contain yellow coloring matters
called xanthophyl. whose function is
not known, and it is these which give
the yellow color to autumn leaves.
The red Is formed differently. In
bright light and cool temperature a
new substance, called erythrophyl, is
made from sugar and tannin in the leaf
cells, and that has a red color. A
brown substance is also sometimes
formed, and, besides, the skeleton of
the leaf Itself turns brown as the leaf
dies. It is the various combinations of
these substances that give the many
shades of autumn colors. Some stu¬
dents think these colors are a useful
protection to the living protoplasm (life
material) of the leaf after the green
disappears, protecting it against the
full blaze of light, which Is Injurious,
but others think the colors have no use
at all, but are simply the incidental
chemical result of the processes in the
ripening and dying leaf.
As yet the weight of evidence seems
to favor the latter view, but the mat¬
ter is still unsettled. It Is generally
thought that frost has something to do
with it, but it has not except to hasten
It. Anything which affects the vitality
of the leaf tends to hasten It, for which
reason an injured branch of a maple
wlli often show red autumn color even
in summer.
The colors are brightest where the
leaves receive the most brilliant sun¬
shine.— rrofessor W. F. Ganong In St
Nicholas.
A Slow Horse.
One time when he was quite a
young man Lincoln hired a livery
stable horse to attend a convention
where he expected to be nominated
for some office. The horse went so
slow that when he reached there the
convention was over and the other fel¬
low nominated. On his return he
Irately asked the stable keeper If the
horse was good for anything at all.
“Yes, for drawing the hearse to fu¬
nerals,” was the reply. Lincoln ad¬
vised him earnestly never to send that
horse to a funeral, for if he did judg¬
ment day would arrive before the
corpse reached the grave.
Try This.
Fasten a key to a string and
It by your thumb and Anger, and
will oscillate like a pendulum.
some one place his hand under
key, and It will change to a
motion. Then let a third person
his hand upon your shoulder, and
key becomes stationary.—London
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GOT THE WHOLE VOTE.
A Pledge That Was Freely Given and
That Was Easily Kept.
It is related of a certain candidate
for office in a certain Kansas campaign
that he billed himself for a speech In a
southern Kansas town on a certain
October day and wrote ahead to a
number of friends there to give him
“tips.”
One of them told him to see a cer¬
tain colored man upon bis arrival In
the town. “If you can get the vote of
this negro,” wrote the friend, "you can
get the vote of the whole negro popu¬
lation In this town. Don’t fail to see
him and get him to your way of think¬
ing.”
About the first thing the candidate
did after registering at the hotel was
to look up this negro. It was only a
little while after the introduction that
he was calling the negro by his given
name, filling his pockets with cigars,
passing him compliments and general¬
ly "giving him the taffy.” The negro
took it all and enjoyed the occasion
immensely. The candidate spent sev¬
eral hours in the negro’s company and
after he thought the proper degree of
warmth had been obtained broached
the real object of his friendship:
“Say, John, I want the negro vote of
this town.”
“All right," replied John. “I’ll vote
fo’ you, sah. I’ll .vote fo’ you. I’m
fo’ you, sah.”
“That’s all right,” said the candi¬
date. “That’s all right. I’m sure you
will. I’m sure you will. But 1 want
to have the whole negro vote of this
town. I want to get all.”
“Dat's all right." responded the ne¬
gro. “I done said I’d vote fst »ou. I’m
yo’ friend. I’ll suttlnly cast my vote
to’ you.”
“But, say, John, I know that,” said
the candidate. “See here. I’ll be frank.
The fellow’s told me that you are a big
man among the colored folks down
here and that If I got your vote I’d
get the whole negro vote In this place.
Do you catch on?”
“Sho,” replied John. “Sho I do.
You’ll git de w’hole niggah vote, all
right. Dey won’t be trouble ’bout dat,
sah. You see, I’m de only niggah In
dls here whole town.”—Mobile Regis¬
ter.
A Queer Dish.
A great dish at Egyptian harem
feasts is that of a lamb roasted whole.
After the manner of a nest of Chinese
boxes, each smaller than the other, the
lamb Is stuffed with a whole turkey,
the turkey with a chicken, the chicken
with a pigeon, the pigeon with a quail
and the quail with a becafleo, the
smallest bird knowm, except a hum¬
ming bird. The lamb Is roasted over
a slow fire until it Is almost ready to
fall to pieces.
The man who would rather be right
than be president generally has hl3
preference gratified.—Philadelphia Rec¬
ord.
COVINGTON NEWS
The Way Uncle Sam Is Swindled
Through the Mails.
WATCHES IN WEDDING CAKE.
A Scheme That Was Disclosed by a
Gleeful Girl Who Could Not Hold
Her Tongue—Gloves That Came One
at a Time and Corsets In Sections.
Too few people think it a crime to
swindle the customs. For that reason
many bright and brainy persons think
hard how to get goods from abroad
without paying toll to Uncle Sam. As
most of the successful operators In
this line are women, who have more
time to think about such things than
men, it can be imagined that the cus¬
toms officers have to be eternally alert
to protect the government.
Tb# avenues through the steamship
passenger route are pretty carefully
guarded, and as comparatively few’
people go abroad the great mass of
dwellers in this protected land are de¬
barred from sharing in the humorous
little game of hide the diamond or
smuggle the silk. But there is an¬
other avenue that is being used enthusi¬
astically by the anti-duty aggregation.
It is the United States mail.
With the immense volume of foreign
mail delivered to this country it Is
manifestly impossible to op*n and ex¬
amine every package that seems to
contain newspapers or merely a bulky
letter to see whether or not some duti¬
able article is concealed therein. So
far as it is possible, how’ever, it is
done, and the addressee has to go to
the postoffice and pay duty on the
amount at which the dutiable article
Is appraised.
The custom house experts at the
postofflee have their hands full check¬
mating the clever moves of those who
are constantly devising new ways to
disguise dutiable things as innocent
looking parcels.
"We used to pass cakes through
wMthout question,” said one of the ex¬
aminers. “It seemed too bad to lay
hands on a Christmas pudding sent by
relatives In England to some exile in
this country. It also disturbed the sen¬
timental side of a customs officer to
demolish a section of wedding cake
that had been sent from the old home
in Germany to Fritz in America, So
we let these sacred things pass
through. But one day we had an
awakening. One of the customs men
heard that a neighbor had obtained a
new watch from abroad. It had come
through duty free, and the gleeful girl
who was wearing It could not keep
quiet about the clever way the post
office had been deluded. It seems the
watch had been baked right into the
cake and had come through without
discovery. Now, this forced us to take
some step to prevent a repetition of
such smartness, and ever after that
w’e held on to all cakes or puddings
that came in packages through the
mall. A letter is sent to the person to
whoun the package is addressed, and
this person (it is almost always a wo¬
man) has to eoine to the postofflee and
cut the cake or slice the pudding right
in front of the customs officer. Do w r e
catch a Tartar occasionally? Well, you
may take it for granted that any one
who would try this trick is a Tartar,
to begin with, and so we don’t get off
without a scene when the cutting time
comes.
“A trick that fooled us for a time
was the sending through the mail of
one glove a trifle creased to give the
Idea that it was merely a worn glove
that had been left In Europe by a tour¬
ist With the glove would come a let¬
ter to that effect, ‘You went away
without one of your gloves,’ etc. Of
course we passed It through unsuspect¬
ingly. But we got so many of these
that It began to look suspicious. So
we held on to one of them, and by the
next mail there came another glove
from the same address to the same
person. The glove was the fellow to
the other. Then we got another left
hand glove and later the right hand
glove to match It. The trick was sim¬
ple and admirable In Its simplicity.
Gloves were being sent through in
quantities, one at a time.
“But the queerest trick we exposed
the other day. A woman was accumu¬
lating a large stock of fancy corsets
without troubling about the duty that
should have been paid on them. The
trick was to send half a corset through
the mall. We knew of no rule about
paying duty on half a eo*;et It ap¬
peared to us to be a mere remnant of
the up to date woman’s attire and not
Important enough to consider as duti¬
able.
“So we passed the half corset along
and thought no more of It. But half
corsets began to drop In with all too
great frequency. It looked as though
corset remnants bad suddenly attained
considerable importance In some one’s
estimation. So one of the men put it
up to his wife, and she took some¬
thing less than a fraction of a second
to puncture the scheme. The half cor¬
set was useless in itself, but when the
other half arrived there was a French
corset ready for wearing.
“We find fine silks done up In pack¬
ages of herbs, watches, diamond rings
and bracelets concealed In the leaves
of books in holes cut for the purpose
and separate diamonds hidden away in
bottles of transparent liquid where the
gem Is scarcely visible. No doubt
many dutiable articles escape us, but
we are getting wiser every day to the
tricks of the mail smugglers.”—New
York Tribune.
Keep your face always to the sun¬
shine and the shadows will fall be¬
hind you.
Johnnie (to new visitor)-So yon are
my grandma, are you? Grandmother
-Yes, Johnnie. I’m your grandma on
your father’s side. Johnnie—Well,
you’re on the wrong side, you’ll fiu<!
out!—Philadelphia Bulletin.
Horrible.
“That was an awful disaster Thero
was only one survivor. Isn’t that ter
rible?”
“Fearful. What a bore he'll be!’’
Cleveland Leader.
Disenchanted.
“Do you believe in the superhuman?'
"I used to, but 1 don't any more.”
“Why?”
“1 married him.”—Chicago Record'
Herald.
No man knows the weight of another
man's burden.—Pliny.
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Covington, Georgia.
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1-3 Off in Price on All Bed Room
It is the policy of this Store not to have any dull season,
and to bring about this end the trading public will have a
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never before offered in this market. The stock is large
and well selected, ranging in quality from a cheap oak to
a fine mahogany suit.
Just Think What the Reduction
A $ 150.00 Suit for $100.00
A 100.00 Suit for 65.00
A 75.00 Suit for 50.00
A 50.00 Suit for 34.00
A 30.00 Suit for 20.00
A 24.00 Suit for 16.00
Every Suit marked in plain figures.
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