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Cohen’s Clothing Store, Covington, Ga.
[U 111 FORGERS
jiey Flood the Markets Abroad
With Their Wares.
MS THE CLEARING HOUSE.
ke French Capital Is the Chief Mart
For the Disposal of Imitation An
liques— Italy Leads In the Production
If the Spurious Articles.
|t;ily has always been the classic soil
fabrications, but in some depart
Ints Inna Holland and Paris run her close.
has a specialty for rock crys
j and thirteenth century gold work,,
bivuce and Lucca for fourteenth
■fury armor, London Imitates the
|<‘ tendre of Sevres. Constantinople
Ikes oriental weapons, Madrid Da
Iscus swords. Dresden sculptured
li'lt's. Aix-la-Cbapelle pewter plate,
rim Homan potteries, Amsterdam
bught iron, Rotterdam Indian poree
b, Odessa tiaras and antique jew
k. while Paris is the chief mart and
Bring house for all these products,
plan [cli sought, bronze statuettes, with now dex- so
are turned out
Ity and taste in Tuscany. It is said
It it was from one of these foun¬
t's there issued the group of virtue
lircsslng vice, assigned to Ginn Ro
f which i< now the choice ireas
jnf |tzerland a celebrated French collection
makes a specialty of Louis
. repousse work.
I Jelry, s for renaissance and mediaeval
hardly a hit is real except
fi is in museums It is not to ire
|?ht | (] In the the disturbed epochs that
nvt> renaissance precious
pes |s and were broken from their set
sold to meet urgent needs.
same lltM ‘d for extreme diffidence
lies to the pretty bibelots of the
lteenth century, watches, chate
|es. Inn. bonhonnieres Of modern fabrl
too. is the enameled jewelry of
Isixteenth century Vienna turns it
|l" inakers perfection And so cunning are
that, for example, they
l “ire that the ring ou which a
jel ltion is suspended Wt>11 should that stiow signs
| ' aware the buyer
thinks himself cute will look for
Indication.
t'»r the peasant jewelry, now so
r -"uigiit and sought in Florence
F ' <>W hrid;.'* aud elsewhere, the
' s l°ng ago exhausted, for,
81 l ,( “asants own hut limited
It a
all consists of clever copies
Pore " f t(, r , tasteful combinations of
I Mg1 ^ l h< ‘ stones, too. despite
„ ,le designations.
BntJT , 1 are rarely any-
1 marvelously elev
[if i crystals so ingeniously
desirwi' n 21 1
” ' 1 '' Hml Sold l,y the
id S 1111 depot for ebony
vvin / ,'° ry an d
Vith [now ' cabinets incrust
iT H " decadence, 1 ' n " ce its tire glory still
Bov L n / t tr 1Vel,,
f ° ; bar 'K Americans on the
L r R«1ns. Buy if the ob
IPleases a!,' Ult do n,)t *'en
I Lin„ your w you
' " :rs ''uagiue
vL D(>W . you are ox
l:u ”l' s f< >r old. As for
■es! * «?*5S! I- indue fa - ,n her a hundred ,)r ot,M * r - Ware there
ba still, Sim '■ “ ' 1 , U " ‘"T Ked lly l) y bone tlle help or>
WOo lnvaluable halld
Heori, e ‘
,,ss defy the artif-
leer. In the Museum of St Germain
can be seen Kouiau goblets, their out¬
sides incrusted with dirt, whose iri¬
descence has been obtained by fish
scales fixed upon their surface. Some¬
times real bits of iridescent glass film
are transferred upon a modern frame¬
work. Cologne turns out lachrymatory
vases by the gross, not even troubling
to copy the old shapes, but using the
long uarrow bottles in which cheap
sweets are sold. These are buried iD
dung after being smeared with some
concoction of which the secret is
guarded, and in a little time they issue
from retirement patinated and irides¬
cent. Old German and Bohemian glass
Is also excellently copied in Hamburg
and Paris. Venice, too, has not for¬
gotten its traditions and turns out its
own old wares.
Sevres and Dresden innocently help¬
ed the counterfeiter by selling their
not yet decorated pieces, if imperfect,
for a trifle. On this genuine ground
the forger worked with ease. Tills
traffic has been stopped. Still the
forger knows no obstacles or over¬
comes them, and false Sevres and
Dresden are supplied by all dealers,
and the purchaser rarely has the mi¬
nute knowledge that will save him. In
the eighteenth century oriental porce¬
lains were openly made in England
and Holland and sent to China for
decoration, when they returned as real
China porcelain, or the reverse proc¬
ess obtained. The porcelain was made
In China and decorated In what was
presumed to be the Chinese style in
Europe Paris at the presoht moment
makes and exports old China porce¬
lain. and many a tourist who buys a
find at Hongkong or Shanghai merely
brings hack coals to Newcastle. Rho¬
dian plates are made near Paris in ab¬
solute perfection. Except as a matter
of sentiment there Is no need to seek
the old Be cautious, too. in buying
Greco-Roman pottery. It is mostly
made at Naples.
Most of the genuine things were
snapped up long ago or else are owned
by museums or by the heirs of those
for whom they were made and who do
not need to part with them.—London
National Review.
Time’s Revenge.
‘‘1 wonder if everybody will have
what he wants a hundred years from
now ”
“1 doubt The men will then prob¬
ably be agitating f or the suffrage.”—
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Honest Answer.
| The stories told of Snetzler, a fa
' moils Swiss organ builder, prove that
■ he was a man of rare and incorrupti¬
ble honesty. At one time the parish
officers of a country church applied to
Snetzler to examine their organ and
make improvements in It.
“Gentlemen," said Snetzler after a
careful examination of the Instrument
in question, “your organ be wort
£100 Joost now. Veil. I vill spend you
£100 on it. and it shall den be wort
£50!”—London Graphic.
A Natural Inference.
“Matrimony,” said the lady who had
just secured her third divorce, is,
after all, an uncharted sea."
“1 take it. then." her friend replied,
"that you have not engaged in your
various ventures for charting pur
poses.”—Chicago Record-Herald
Manners form at last a rich varnish
with which the routine of life is wash¬
ed and its details adorned. Emerson
B .tHF? rj, and mMV uates 1, line E. H. Mobley
jiist received a new
THE (,OVINGTON NEWS
ICEBERGS.
How Those Found In the North At¬
lantic Are Formed.
The distance covered by an iceberg
of the north Atlantic from the time
It is formed until it reaches the banks
is fully 2,500 miles. It may have been
afloat for .a year, exposed to wide
changes of temperature, battered by
ice floes, possibly other bergs and
ceaselessly washed by the waves. Yet
some of those seeD 2,000 miles south
of their starting point are nearly 300
feet in height aud truly of majestic
proportions, often 1,000 or more feet
In length, while it is an established
scientific fact that so much more of
the bulk is under water than Is visible
that the largest bergs may extend into
the ocean to a depth of over half a
mile.
Their enormous size when they be¬
come detached from the glaciers is
proved by the observations of explor¬
ers along the Greenland coast. A few
years ago a berg was measured as
nearly as possible around the edges.
This distance was about five miles.
It had several peaks estimated to
range from 300 to 500 feet high. Judg¬
ing from its appearance, it was a solid
mass that had separated in its entirety
from the glacial edge of Greenland.
As arctic navigators who venture
far north often see a score or more of
great bergs in a day, the tremendous
glacial activity Id this region can be
appreciated. The majority of these
that drift to the Grand banks come
from Melville bay. Some of the dis¬
tinct glaciers that terminate the Green¬
land ice cap on this coast extend along
it a distance of fully twenty-five miles.
Their thickness or height can only be
estimated, but in places near the open
sea it is believed to be several hun¬
dred feet.
Recent examinations of this coast
show that during the short summer
the formation of bergs in the bay is
almost continuous. The glacial move¬
ment keeps pressing the ice forward
until a thick stratum often projects
many feet beyond that beneath. After
a time the great weight overcomes the
tensile strength of the mass and it
falls into the sea. aud a berg is cre¬
ated.—Day Allen Willey in Scientific
American.
A Frog’s Nest.
In Brazil a species of tree frog con¬
structs in the water a curious nest, or
fortifications, to protect its eggs and
young from the attacks of fish Start¬
ing at the bottom of a pood, the moth¬
er frog erects a circular, tubelike wall
of mud which at the top projects above
the surface of the water in the water
thus inclosed the eggs are laid, and
when they have hatched out the frogs
young are secure from enemies until
they are able to take care of them¬
selves.
Puppies Both.
I “I would give half my fortune to be j
in your little dog’s place." said a
“smart" young man in a railway car¬
riage to a girl who had a toy terrier in
her arms.
“And it would be the right place for
vou.” she retorted, “for I am taking
him to have his ears cropped ’"-Lon¬
don Express.
"Yes: I believe that every intelligent
roman should have a vote."
“But. senator, I understand that you
tore opposed to women’s suffrage?
“1 am’’-Judge.
CHINESE JUSTICE.
Li Hung Chang and the Men Who
Tried to Poison Him.
When Li Hung Chang was Chinese
premier and was having a bitter fight
with some of the more conservative
members of the tsung-Ii-yamen he re¬
ceived as a present a magnificent cake
which he had reason to suspect con¬
tained poison. He put the cake aside
and set all his powerful machinery
to work to find out who was at the
bottom of the plot. The investigation
was partly successful, the crime being
traced to three men, of whom one at
least was absolutely guilty. Li had
the trio arrested and brought to his
yamen. When they arrived they were
ushered into his presence and were re¬
ceived in his courtliest manner. The
cake was produced with the remark
that politeness forbade his tasting it
until the three generous donors had
had an opportunity to enjoy its excel¬
lence. Li cut the cake, aud one of his
Servitors handed it to the unwilling
guests. Each took a piece and ate or
pretended to eat it. One crumbled the
pieces and let them fall upon the floor,
but the other two ate calmly, without
manifesting any emotion. Ten min¬
utes and the two men began to show
symptoms of suffering. Li f> smi!ed be
nignantly and said to tbeHnan who
had not eaten, “Your wisdom is so
great that 1 am compelled to preserve
your head as a souvenir to transcend¬
ent genius.”
The man was removed and promptly
decapitated. To the other two the pre¬
mier remarked: “The cake that you
are eating is not the one you»sent. but
one which 1 had my cook imitate. The
poison from which you are suffering
exists only in your imagination. I
know of no way to cure your present
pain except by letting you share the
same fate as your friend who has just
left the room.”
As they were led away the states¬
man said to his retinue, “It is a pity
that a man who can eat a deadly cor¬
rosive poison with an unmoved coun¬
tenance should so misapply the talent
wherewith heaven has endowed him."
Before making a speech Charles
Dickens would decide on bis various
heads and then in his mind’s eye liken
the whole subject to the tire of a cart
wheel, he being the hub From the
hub to the tire he would run as many
spokes as there were subjects to be
treated, and during the progress of the
speech he would deal with each spoke
separately, elaborating them as he
went round the wheel, and when all
the spokes dropped out one by one and
nothing but the tire and space remain¬
ed he would know that he had accom¬
plished his task and that his speech
was at an end.
Old Lady (to grocer’s boy)—Done
you know that it is very rude to whis¬
tle when dealing with a lady?
Boy—That’s what the guv’nor told
me to do. mum.
“Told you to whistle?” \
“Y’es’m. H# said if we ever sold you
anything we’d have to whistle for the
money.”—London Fun.
Running Conversation.
Collector (angrily)—You know very
well. sir. that this bill has beeD run¬
ning several years. Now. I put it up
to you. what do you want me to do
with it? Debtor—By George. I’d enter
it in the next Marathon race if I were
vou!—Puck.
Hot and Cold Drinks
At SMITHS DRUG STORE
Also a nice Line of Stationery,
Cigars and Tobacco.
Nunnaly’s Fine Candies Always Fresh.
Geo. T. Smith 9 COVINGTON, GEORGIA.
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New Backet Store
New spring and summer goods are here.
Have added several new r lines.
COME AND SEE THEM,
Same big cash values as we have al
w ays given you. Remember new g oods 2
of the season arriving every few few days
ands marked at the lowest spot cash
prices. Yours truly,
J. 1 * I. A Guinn, 1 Govington
' Georgia. °
Chi-Namel Demonstration. ■cj
V
There will he a Chi-Namel
Demonstration at our store on May
20, 22. Do not miss the opportuni¬
ty to learn how to secure a new $
| hard wood floor for $2. 50, and how
| to have den a Mission sitting finish without dining V
room, or room
the expense of removing old paint
or varnish.
Any old floor, oil cloth or lino¬
leum made to look like new hard
wood, any style of grain. Lessons
i free by special instructor.
>£r
W. J. Higgins !
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