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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 iW** V V ^ The ri^ht man in the right place is the man desir¬ ing style, comfort an d satisfaction in his footwear —who is wearing an “ R. J. & R.” That man shall know a contentedness only brought about by expert shoe designers aided by the most modern machinery and equipment that can be installed in an immense specialty factory where only this one kind of a shoe is made. The “ R. J. & R.” is a “Star Brand” Shoe which alone mean? perfection. This is our Style No. 1123, especially designed for serviceable wear. It is made of tan storm calf the “Smart ” Iasi. Heavy, flex¬ over ible soles and a particularly strong shoe throughout. Slephens0n&Callaway JIFiner Shoe Jtilen SPRING Now is the time to use a Blood purifier and Tonic. Have you tried Robinson's Black Bitters. If not, Try a bottle. Satisfac¬ tion guaranteed or money back. 50c, 75c and $1.25 Per Battle. FOR SALE BY Coogler & Wood, Mansfield, Ga. W. S. Marbut, Almon, Ga. Dr. Luke Robinson, Covington. Ga. 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. THE BESt BUGGIES We have the exclusive agency for the SUMMERS BARNESVILLE recognized throughout the state as the standard vehicle in appearance and service. We also the agency for the ROCK HILL BUGGIES, another of the first-class vehicles. Both buggies need no introduction or comment at our hands. You know what they are—the best to had at any price. If you want a cheaper buggy than the one above mentioned we can fix you up with cheaper price vehicle, made up with good material and sold at much less price. We are leaders in everything in the hardware and vehicle line. Come to see us. will treat you right. i! Fincher-Norris Hdwe. Co. Covington, Georgia. Big Values In Furniture 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 rare opportunity to purchase Bed Room Suits at prices 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. EVERITT. Out UNDERTAKING DEPARTMENT is the Wst in the city-having the only I'"”* embalmer. 0 . K. PRESSING CLUB m 4 M. T. PERDUE, PROPRIETOR, ^ 4 eight SUITS ONE P Oj, 1, Ai b , m 4 Gleaning Pressing ouJ EsAi 4 ON SHORT NOTICE * 0 s # Wook dons by proprietor, a white man cf ID years experienar. & trial. SWORDS BUILDING, Covington, 6a. me a “ASK OUR PLEASED CUSTOMERS”