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LOOKING A G __ 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^ 1 the r~~l1Lrn >T jlfrlp 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. The Real Object. T T . U , gP " ... a P a— . a ar f as t month. How often do a f f *“* w a b 8 ° 008 e ° t r not ° to y° ur entertain / rle “ < *** my but to snub my enemies. —Lw*. 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. O a A ' • . ’ft \ \ MMa L .. r~a a : l 6 J v I \\ J \ W i * V II X \ \ V •% A o /s 1 MY FRIENDS 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