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There Is a Marked Difference Be
tween These Two Acts.
THE POWER OF OBSERVATION
It Should Be Cultivated Even In the
Most Ordinary Things—A Faculty
That is Possessed by All, but That
la Developed by the Few.
It Is the hope and desire of all par
ents that their children shall make
some sort of a mark in the world when
they grow up. They do not in the ma
Jority of cases expect that their off
spring will become famous and make
names that will live for ages, but they
cherish the thought that they will be
successful men and women in some
profession or business, That is the
keynote—that success shall be their
portion.
Yet it is a fact that most parents
neglect or pay very little attention to
one part of the child’s education which
is of the highest importance. They do
not train the perceptive faculties.
Power of observation will help you
more than anything else In your strug¬
gle for existence, and yet there are
comparatively few people who are
keen observers. One small fact will
prove this latter statement. The man
who observes everything, he w'ho sees
everything he looks at, is singled out
either as nn inquisitive person or a
clever one, and this show T s that he is
an exception.
It is easy to give instances of this
lack of perception even in the ordinary
(things of life. Some years ago an art¬
ist engaged in a London firm of print¬
ers had to draw an advertisement in
twhich the centra) figure w T as a cock in
the act of crowing. Nothing seemed
easier, but when ho set to work the
artist found himself confronted by a
difficulty—does the cock show Its tongue
prominently when it crows? Every
one of the hundred men employed by
the firm had seen a cock crow scores
of times, yet not one of them could
answer the question. The artist had
to go to a friend who kept fowls and
chase the poor rooster round and round
the yard until it crowed.
I A schoolmaster, wishing to test the
perception of his boys, asked them
how many times they had seen a cow
or pictures of that animal and found,
as he had expected, that all the boys
had seen the creature more times than
they could remember. Then he offered
to give small prizes to the boys who
could correctly answer this question:
Are a cow’s ears above, below 7 , in
front of or behind its horns? II Only
tw r o boys gained prizes, and their an¬
swers were guesswork.
Now sit down and test yourself in
some such simple manner. You have
all seen a horse “down. M Can you de¬
scribe bow it rises? Does it get up ou
its fore feet first and then on its hind
feet, or does it kneel first, then get ou
its hind feet and finally on its fore
feet?
However, you need not confine your¬
self to the animal kingdom in testing
your perceptive faculties. Many sub¬
jects will suggest themselves to you.
As an excuse for this want of obser¬
vation it is often urged that "a man
can’t know 7 everything,” but the excuse
is a bad one. There is n great differ¬
ence between knowing little or nothing
and knowing everything. When the
faculty has been trained it requires no
more effort to note the points of the
object looked at than it does to glance
at that same object and come away
none the wiser.
The chances of success in life are on
the side of the man who knows cer¬
tain things because he has learned
about them by using bis senses instead
of having to go to a book for all that
be wishes to know. Books are hulls
pensable, as there are so many things
w 7 hicb cannot come within the range of
our observation, but wherever possible
we should use our senses to acquire
knowledge at first hand.
This will explain why men w ho can
not read or write have built up sub¬
stantial businesses. They have made
use of the power possessed by all, but
cultivated by very few.
The perceptive faculty must be traln
ed during childhood and youth. After
the completion of the twentieth year “
very little progress can be made,
grown man Is unable to develop his
powers of observation to any satisfac¬
tory degree. Youth Is full of energy,
and that Is the time to inculcate the
lesson that we should see all that'cqjr
eyes rest upon.
It should be the object of every par¬
ent to teach his child to note every ob¬
ject that comes in his W 7 ay. When out
for a walk in a park the child should
be told to observe the shapes of the
leaves on the different trees, the pal¬
ling of the color of animals toward the
under part of the body, and so on, and
should be told that when asked a ques
tlon on the subject he must be prepar
ed to say that it is so, not that he
thinks it is.
All children have Inquiring minds,
and after a walk or two, coupled with
such instruction as we have mention
ed, you will find the child making
great progress and acquiring a quality
that will be invaluable in after life.
One of the methods adopted by Hou
din, the conjurer, for quickening the
perception of his son was to make him
walk rapidly past a shop window or a
stall on which a number of articles
were displayed and then write down a
list of the objects noticed. At first
only half a dozen articles were per
ceived during the moment occupied In
passing the store or window, but after
having done it once a day for a month
the boy was able to make a Ust of
torty objects.—Pearson’s Weekly.
High Point Locals.
| We haven’t but very little news this
i week. There has been so much rain
that everybody is busy working.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Middlebrooks
i and little daughter, Evelina, spent
! last Wednesday with the former’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Middle
! brooks at Covington.
! ]yj ra< Mary Smith, of Covington, is
ym admired guest of her niece, Miss
Tempie Lewis this week,
We are sorry to note the illness of
Mr. Frank McCart, Jr.
Mrs. W. C. Salter and Misses Geor
gi e aI1( ^ Hattie Salter spent a short
while one afternoon recently with
Mrs. J. A. Grant,
Mr. Bob Ballard, of Cdvington,
attended the funeral of Mr. Pat Moss
here Thursday.
Miss Grace Grant is spending this
week with her sister, Mrs. E. H.
Lewis in Covington.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Moss, of Cov¬
ington spent Thursday night with Mr.
and Mrs. Frank McCart.
Mr. and Mrs. Marion Elliott were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Bridges
last Wednesday,
Miss Adel Middlebrooks, the sweet
little daughter of Mr, and Mrs. How¬
ard Middlebrook, has returned home,
after a pleasant visit to Covington
where she spent two week’s visiting
relatives here.
We are grieved at the death of Mr.
Pat Moss which occurred at his home
in Covington last Wednesday, after an
illness of several week’s with fever.
Mr. Moss is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Moss, and has lived in this
community up until the early part of
this year when he moved to Coving¬
ton where he was living at the timd of
his death. Mr. Moss was married to
Miss Bertha Camp in December, 1907,
who preceeded him to the grave just
eleven days. Mr. Moss is survived by
his baby, several months old, and his
father, mother, tw 7 o sisters and four
brothers, together with many friends
who mourn his departure. The deep¬
est sympathy of the entire community
is extended to the bereaved ones in
this their sad hours. His remains
were laid to rest in the cemetery here
last Thursday afternoon. The funeral
was conducted by Rev. J. S. Bridges.
Oak Hill New s.
Mr. Bud Wheeler entertained a
number of his friends with an ice
eream supper on Saturday night.
Mrs. Mattie Vandigriff has returned
to her home in Atlanta after a pleas¬
ant stay w r ith her mother, Mrs. W. A.
Ogletree.
Mr. Clomer Berry and Miss Sallie
Ogletree were happily married last
Sunday. We wish for them a long
and happy union.
Mr. Greene Love and Miss Virgil
Walton were united in marriage
Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. Jim Shaw 7 is quite ill at
w T riting, and we hope for her an
restoration to her usual health.
Rev. Mr. Dunaw 7 ay will begin a
ries of protracted meetings at
tabernacle here July 15th. Every¬
body is cordially invited to
the services.
ASTRONOMY.
Its Exactness Illustrated by the Dis¬
covery of Neptune.
There is perhaps no more
Illustration of the power of
method than that relating to the dis
eovery of Neptune in 1840. The
Uranus, until then the
known member of our solar
tefused to follow 7 the path
for it by mathematical
With tlie progress of time the
ancies between its predicted and
served positions grow constantly
until In the early eighteen-forties
discordance amounted to fully
ty-five seconds of arc. This is a
angle, not more than
the angular diameter of our moon,
a very large angle to refined
omy, for u discrepancy of two
would have been detected with
The opinion gradually developed
Uranus was drawn from Its
course by the attractions of an
covered planet still farther from
sun than Itself. Adams in 1843
Yerrier In 1845 Independently
each without knowledge of the
plans attacked the then extremely
fieult problem of determining the
proximate orbit, mass and position
an undiscovered body whose
tions should produce the
observed, Regrettable and
delays occurred in searching tor
planet after Adams’ results were com
munieated to the astronomer royal In
October, 1845. Le Verrier’s
were communicated to the Berlin
servatory in September, 1840, with
request that a search be made. The
disturbing planet, later named Nep
tune, was found on the first evening
that it was looked for less than one
degree of arc from the position as
signed by Le Verrler. If an energetic
search had been made in England the
year before the planet would hay*
been discovered within two degree^
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THE COVINGTON NEWS
A MUTUAL SURPRISE
The Meeting Between an Ambitious
Hunter and Hie First Grizzly.
Id “Sketches of Life In the Golden
State' 1 Colonel Albert S. Evans tells
an amusing anecdote of an ambitious
hunter who met his first grizzly bear
—in procession. The incident occurred
in the woods near the site of the pres¬
ent town of Monterey.
The hunter sat down to rest in the
shade of a tree and unwittingly went
to sleep. When he woke it was near
sunset, and he sat up, rubbing his
eyes and contemplating a return to his
hotel, several miles distant
Just then a rustling and crackling
noise from a clump of chaparral about
100 yards away attracted his atten¬
tion. Out walked a grizzly bear, a
monarch of his kind. He yawned,
licked his Jaws and then advanced to¬
ward the tree where our hunter sat,
but evidently was unconscious of his
presence.
Ills grizzly majesty had proceeded
about twenty paces when a female
bear followed him, and an Instant later
a third grizzly followed her at a slow,
shambling pace.
The hunter sat spellbound with ter¬
ror as the procession came toward him
until the forward grizzly was within
thirty yards. Then, scarcely realizing
what he did, he sprang to his feet
and uttered a frenzied yell—yell upon
yell!
The effect was magical. The fore¬
most bear sprang Into the air, turned
sharply about, knocked the female
down, rolled over her, gathered him¬
self up and bolted “like forty cart loads
of rock going down a chute’’ straight
for the chaparral again, the other two
bears close at his heels and never
turning to see what had frightened
them.
The hunter, seeing the enemy re¬
treating, sprang to his feet and fled
at top speed for the hotel, leaving hat
and gun behind. The truth of his wild
and startling tale was proved the next
day by the numerous bear tracks of
different sizes found in the marshy
ground near by. But the three bears
had gone off beyond pursuit
THE NEW ORE.
One of Andrew Carnegie’s Early Iron
Experiences.
Andrew Carnegie once stated that a
short time after the starting of his
first plant in Pittsburg be had an odd
experience with Iron ore.
I was offered some ore that sam¬
pled about the usual grade, so far as
I was able to Judge from appearances,
at a reduced price,” he said. “I bought
several thousand tons—a big order for
those days. The second day after we
commenced to run it the foreman came
to the office and told me the new ore
was of no account, that It did not flow
and that the furnaces were so choked
they would have to be dumped unless
some remedy was found. Those fires
were built to last two years, and to
dump them at this time would mean
so heavy a loss as to practically put
me out of business. A young chemist
had called on me a few weeks before,
and, while I had not paid much atten¬
tion to him, I had kept his card. It
occurred to me that he might possibly
be of some help, though I confess I
did not then see what chemistry had
to do with the iron business. But I
sent for him, and he came at once.
First he examined the new ore and
then the old that we had been running
without difficulty, and finally he looked
at the furnaces. To avoid delay he
made a little test of the two ores right
there. I had told him when he ar¬
rived that I felt sure the new ore was
worthless and admitted my mistake
in buying It. Of course I did this as
I did not want him to think I was
Ignorant of the business. You can
imagine my surprise, then, when at
the conclusion of his test he quietly
Informed us that the new ore was so
good we did not know how to run it.
The fact was that the new ore con¬
tained 20 per cent more iron than the
old, and all that it was necessary to
do was to add a proportionate Increase
of flux to bring about reduction.”—
American Industries.
Heat Conductor*.
Some substances conduct beat more
! freely than others, silver among 1I»*
metals being the best conductor, and
as a unit of measurement is taken at
1,000. Compared with silver as a con¬
ductor, gold Is 981, copper 845, zinc
041, tin 422, steel 397 and wrought
Iron 436. Glass, wood, gases, liquids
and resinous substances are bad con¬
ductors. Water is such a poor con¬
ductor that if heat is applied to the
top It will boll at the top, while the
bottom will remain cold.
The African Buffalo.
A wounded buffalo is vastly more
dangerous when he runs away than
when he charges, for In nine cases out
of ten after a dash that may be for a
few hundred yards or a mile he will
revengefully circle back to an inter¬
ception of his own trail, stand hidden
In grass or thicket until his pursuer
comes plodding along the trail and
then charge upon him. Despite the
fierce temper of a lone bull, his savage
cunning and his great, charging bulk,
I believe him much less dangerous
than the lion, for he has far less speed,
lacks the lion’s poisoned claws and Is
a much bigger target. This opinion Is
substantiated by the indisputable fact
that at least ten men are killed or
mauled by Hon to one killed by buf¬
falo.—Edgar Beecher Bronson In Cen¬
tury.
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PROFITS CUT ALL
TO PIECES ON
PIANOS
Ten or Fifteen Different Makes.
$10 Profit on Factory Prices.
See This Line Before You Make
Your Purchase.
It Means Money To you.
C. A. HARWELL,
Leader In
Furniture and Undertaking
Covington, Ga.
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Georgia Top Buggies
For $49. 00 . For $55. 00 . For 60.oo. For 65.oo.
You cannot save $20.00 on these prices nor $1.00 either
These prices for cash, but will sell on time for a small advance.
D. A. Thompson