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293': the land of big game. ritish East Africa as It Appears to the Hunter. A brown village of thatched huts natting in « trampled clearing of forest and backed by thickset trees « closely laced with a living tapestry woven green that the aching tropic nligbt can scarcely penetrate; slim, ted blacks slipping like shadows ong the broad leaved bananas and bber trees, staring furtively as your arcrs file slowly past them; a lone station far up or down river, where haggard white man 'sits to receive bute in the name of his trading mpanv, marks an outpost of civiliza n in this jungle land. And through d under it nil are the fevered glare sunlight, the ceaseless drowsy whis r of the woods, the hot, dry scents the parched earth, or, if the rains ve come, all the land about will lie aked in steaming vapor, the sultry as thick and humid as the air of a enhouse at home. There you have Kongo as the white man knows it he Kongo or the jungle of Uganda, t all of this is only a part of what have chosen to call and to picture the dark continent, or there, too, is the desert, widely great in all Its aspects from Kongo d. On the slope of the rising ground t lifts from sea level at Mombasa climbs to nearly 8,000 feet before drops again to the lesser level of torla Nyanza is another vast waste typical of Africa as this jungle □try—the desert, as it is called, the ins of bush and grass. Six months the year—from October to April— ies half drowned under tropic rains, m April to September only occa ai showers fall, and the wide pla i grills under the staring sunlight, yellowing in the glare. Here upon se uplands is found the great varl of big game, the vast herds of d things that have made and still he Africa the greatest shooting ntry in the world. This is British t Africa as the hunter knows it.— . Taylor in Everybody’s. Migniy encouraging. ne fine day. just as I was walking I got the trac (blue funk) and Id not speak my lines. I turned elessly and with pleading eyes to d the leading lady, who could not a with her part until i had spoken: for all help, she hissed at me from 'een her teeth. “Parle done, petit al!" (Go on, speak, you little t.) Of such was the “encourage t" I received on one memorable sion.—Coquelin’s Reminiscences in don Telegraph. Both Interested In Berkshires. e Massachusetts maid was in a antic mood. “I am dreaming.” she mured poetically, “dreaming of the old Berkshire hills of my native »* erkshires?” echoed the Chicago h, somewhat bewildered. “Er— your father in the pork raising ness?" d the look that the Massachusetts gave him would have congealed tn.—Chicago News Consideration. e only true source of politeness Is ideration — that vigilant moral e which never loses sight of the the claims and the sensibilities hers. This is the one quality over %rs necessary to make a gentle -Simms. At $15.00 And $20.00 Never bought a better Suit / IP y I Look ’em Every fabric ever}' color, every style. Made under our supervision—a model II over. m designed for particular figure. your T Serges, Worsted, Thibets And in Addition m ' ■■■ - » } i r & Our Extra Special Offerings..... 1 ■ u I I /j 7 of One Hundred and Nine Men’s Suits. In tans, browns, and gray worsteds, Suits that sold at $11.00. Extra Special, at $10.00. $20.00, Extra Special, at $15.00. $25.00 Extra Special, at $18.00 »i SEE WINDOW DISPLAY. Cohen’s Clothing Store, Covington, Ga. Md FWers^atw 33601 ^ b^tt {“c* lad ‘ eS an ^ cl j ldr T bargain price that will mean a big saving to you. Don’t fail to see before you make your purchase. Yours for business COAL AS FUEL. It Was In Use as Far Back as Time of King Solomon. The first mention of coal in the an¬ nals of mankind occurs in the Bible, Proverbs xxvi, 21,/ns follows: “As coals are to burning coals and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to strife.” This was written about 1018 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 Homan wall, indicating that the Brit¬ ons were familiar with the yse 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. I). 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 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 1679 speaks of traces of coal appearing on the banks of the fcllnois river and makes the site of a “cole mine” on the James river, neajr Richmond, the first mine opened for the market. In 1706 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 roller lightly over the sheets to give them a good surface. When in 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 yon cutting your pie with a knife? Him—Because, darling — now, under¬ stand. I'm not finding any fault, for I know that these little oversights will occur—because you forgot to give me a can opener.—Cleveland Leader. “That boy,” said the Billville farm¬ er. "beats my time! Jest now when I quoted Scripter to him he come back at me hard!” “You don’t say!” “Shore! I told him to git a hoe an’ foller the furrow. ‘Thar's gold in the land,’ I said. An' what do you reckon he made answer?” "You tell it.” “ ‘Father,’ he says, ‘I don’t keer fer the gold o’ this here world. I've laid up treasure in heaven.” "—Atlanta Con¬ stitution. THE COVINGTON NEWS Pensive Butlers. The fashion of building houses with the entrance doors practically on a level with the street gives the observ¬ ing stroller on Fifth avenue some hu¬ morous glimpses of butlers on duty. In the house of one of the most fash¬ ! ionable families in town the butler can be seen standing behind the bronze grill and glass doors staring disconso¬ lately out at the passing throng for most of the afternoon, while across the street from this house the same kind of an entranceway often dis¬ closes a glimpse of a functionary of the same class seated in a poetical at¬ titude by a circular marble table, his head supported by his hand. Outside of a hospital they are probably the saduost looking men in New York.— New York Press. Hopelessly Out of Style. “When we take charge of the gov¬ ernment,” says the wise old suffra¬ gette, “we will make some changes in the naval bureau.” “1 should hope so!” agrees the en¬ thusiastic young suffragette. “Why, bureaus are hopelessly out of style! We will have a combination wardrobe and chiffonier.”—Judge. A Sample. Hoax—I can always tell a woman who takes things because they look cheap. Joax—How? Hoax—Simply by looking at her husband.—Philadelphia Record. Count art by gold and it fetters the feet it once winged.—Oulda. Clerk’s Elbow. “To remove shiny spots from coat elbow r s and trousers seats,” said a clerk —“I’ll tell you how it is done.” The sun was strong on him as, upon his lofty stool, he munched his mid¬ day sandwich from thin, ink smeared fingers, but on his old clerk’s coat and old trousers no shiny 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 An Alibi. The milkman stood before her nerv¬ ously twirling his hat in his hands. “So,” she said sternly, “you have come at last.” “Yes, madam. You sent for me, I 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 instead of from the trough I cannot help it"— Harper’s Weekly. __ Her Retort. It is always gratifying to meet a person who is contented with his lot. For that reason it would be delightful to make the acquaintance of the wom¬ an who had the last word in a suffra¬ gist controversy. The writer of a suf¬ fragist communication in a newspaper wrote sadly that “woman is nothing ; but a female relative of man; the man is the noun, the woman is the preposi¬ tion.” “Well, what do I care?” was the triumphant retort. “The preposi¬ tion governs the noun.” E. H. Mobley PROFITS CUT ALL TO PIECES ON PIANOS Ten or Fifteen Different Makes. $10 Profit on Factory Prices. 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