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COVINGTON, GA., August 11, 1909
LEGISLATURE ADJOURNS.
The Georgia solons will cease their
labors sometime today, Wednesday,
but at just what hour it is impossible
to tell. The session just ending has
been a busy one, several bills having
been up over which there was a hard
fight. The two hr.,t days of the pres¬
ent week will be consumed by a mass
of unfinished business 1 efore both the
house and the senate, and they are in
very much of a rush trying to finish
up their work. It has been suggested
that this an extra session he called, but ;.t |
time it is almost positive that this
will not be done, as the bills which
will be left unfinished are not of suffi¬
cient importance to require an extra
session to clear the table.
At the session Saturday a resolution
was passed to purchase the revised
Code of Georgia from Judge John
Ellis, for the price of $6,500. There
was a hard fight against the state do¬
ing this, but the bill was passed late
Saturday afternoon. It was'said by
several representatives that the state
should not have to purchase their own
laws from an outsider, when the state
has some several hundred men em¬
ployed each year to do just this work.
We agree with the minority, in that
it seems like a useless expense. A
committee of five was also appointed
to inspect and revise this code at a per
deim of “$4per.” Several appropria¬
tions were also made for different
things, among which is the school
fund.
Taken altogether this session of the
legislature was the least profitable to
the state of any held within the past
several years. One of the bills crea¬
ting the most dissatisfaction among
the people of the state is the bill tax¬
ing syrups for soft drinks. A protest
has gone up from almost every county
in the state, asking that this measure
he not passed. It will be decided at
the last session. Another measure to
come up on the last day is the tax on
near beer, introduced by representa¬
tive Alexander, of DeKalb. As this
bill contains several things affecting
t he prohibition law now in force, it is
hard to tell just how the measure will
be dealt with, but it is certain that
there will be a hard fight made on it.
THE BOND ISSUE.
Owing to the fact that there has not
been enough time since the order of
the Board of County Commissioners
calling for a local bill authorizing this
county to issue road bonds, the bill
will not be passed at the present term
of the legislature. The lau T applying
to a bond issue states that in tice by
publication has to be done for a period
of thirty days pryor to the introduc¬
tion of tite bill calling for the required
authority. The first issue of the ad¬
vertisement came at a time when it
was impossible to get the required
number of days, and the hill will be
passed at the next session of the leg¬
islature.
It was of also good thought roads best by the ad-1
vocates in t his county
to let the matter stand for a while yet I
in order to present the facts and de- i
tails of a bond issue to the voters of
the county. The majority of the op-1
position against a bond issue in this i
county is by men who do not under-1
Btand the method of issuing bonds,
hut when they have the details ex¬
plained to them they nearly all get
over on the right side and make good
roads ent husiasts. This plan is j
thought to be the best, as by the time
the legislature meets again there need
not be a man in the county who will
not know the needs and necessary
methods of obtaining the required
amount of funds to build the roads, as
the majority of the people want them
up to t he standard in every particular.
The News has advocated good
roads, and a great number of the most!
prominent citizens of the city and
county have also advocated them, and
the fact that the bond election has
been postponed does not in the least
dampen our ardor, but makes all of us
more eager than ever before to get
them. A great deal of work will be
done between nowand next year, and
the probability is that just as soon as
the bill passes an election will be held
and the bonds will carry by the larg¬
est majority of any election ever be-1
fore held in this county.
FOR RENT—5 room dwelling house !
located on Monticello street. Building
new. Nice lot goes with it. For terms
and part iculars apply to A. S. Me- ■
uarity. I
GEORGIA IS THE WINNER.
The designation of lion. Gordon
Lee, of the seventh Georgia district,
as a member of the committee on ag
riculture of the lower house of con¬
gress, and the naming of Hon. Charles
Gordon Edwards as a member of the
committee on rivers and harbors, is a
distinct compliment to the two Geor¬
gia representatives thus signally hon¬
ored, and a cause for congratulation
to the whole state.
Georgia now has a member on every
other important committee of the
national house of representatives.
No state in the south is so well taken
care of as the empire state in the mat¬
ter of committee assignment®.
When it is realized that the really
important work of legislation is the
quiet work in committees; w’hen it is
remembered that appropriations are
made and governmental favors decided
upon in the same way, the value of
good committee places for a state’s
representatives will be more readily
appreciated.
In view of Georgia’s very great in¬
terest in river and harbor improve¬
ments, the appointment of Mr. Ed¬
wards, oji the river and harbor com¬
mittee is particularly fortunate. Since
the death of the Hon. Rufus E. Lester
of the first district, this state has not
been represented on this committee.
It is hardly necessary to direct Mr.
Edwards’ attention to the Savannah
harbor work, nor to the Brunswick
harbor, nor the Atlantic and Great
Western canal, which will one day
connect the waters of the Tennessee ;
valley with the Atlantic Ocean by |
way of Georgia streams.
Mr. Lee knows well of Georgia’s I
interest in the various problems of
agriculture in which the national
government might render valuable
aid. The cotton boll weevil; insect
enemies of the peach and apple, the
cattle tick and other pests that gov¬
ernment aid will help to eradicate,
naturally cause Georgia farmers to
see consideration at the hands of this
committee. Its possibilities of help¬
ful service are unlimited, and Mr. Lee
as the Georgia member, has a splendid
opportunity to render vast service to
his state and section. That he will
fully measure up to the opportunity
no one doubts.
The Constitution extends the con¬
gratulations of the people of Georgia
to the younger members of the state
delegation who have thus been
signally honored.
With Colonel L. F. Livingston on
the appropriations committee; Judge
J. M. Griggs on ways and means;
Hon. W. M. Howard on the com¬
mittee on foreign affairs; Judge W.C.
Adamson on the interstate commerce
committee; Hon. Thos. M. Bell on the
committee on postoffices and post
roads, and Hon. W. G. Brantlyon the
general judiciary committee, the two
new appointments mean that the
Georgia delegation is, indeed, well
fixed at every point for effective work.
Georgia is fortunate that insofar as
the minority is concerned, she fares
well in appointments for the next ses¬
sion.—Atlanta Constitution.
A Gale’s Action Upon Water, Desert
Sand and Prairie Snow.
There are wind waves in the water,
sand and snow. The great sea waves
are produced at that part of a cyclone
where the direction of the wind coin¬
cides with the direction of advance of
the depression. Along this line of ad¬
vance the waves In their progress are
accompanied by a strong wind blowing
across their ridges as long us the at
mospheric depression Is maintained.
So the waves are developed until they
become steep. The average height In
feet Is about half the velocity of the
wind in miles.
A wind of fifty-two miles an hour
gives waves of an average height of
twenty-six feet, although individual
waves will attain a height of forty
feet. The prevailing wind In all longi¬
tudes Is westerly, so w herever a west¬
erly wind springs up it finds a long
westerly swell, the effect of a previous
wind still running, and the principal
effect of the newly bom wind Is to
Increase the steepness of the already
running long swell so gs to form
majestic storm waves, which some¬
times attain a length of 1.200 feet
from crest to crest. The longest swells
due to wind are almost Invisible dur¬
ing storms, for they are masked by
the shorter and steeper wares, but
they emerge Into view after or beyond
the storm.
The action of the wind to drift dry
sand In a procession of waves is seen
in the deserts. As the sand waves
cannot travel by gravitation, their
movements arc entirely controlled by
the wind, and they are therefore much
simpler and more regular In form and
movement than ocean waves. In their
greatest heights of several hundred
feet the former become more complex
owing to the partial consolidation of
the lower layers of sand by pressure,
but they still have the characteristic
wave features.
In the Winnipeg prairies of Canada
freshly fallen snow Is drifted by wind
in a procession of regular waves, pro¬
gressing with a visible and ghostlike
motion. They are similar to desert
sand waves, but less than half ns
steep, the wave length being fifty
times as great as the height. The
flatness of the wind formed snow
waves affords a valuable indication of
the great distance to which hills shel
ter from the wind.—Chicago Tribune.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
BILL LANGE’S FEAT.
One of the Famous Old Outfielder't
Sensational Catches.
The greatest individual feat ever
performed was one by which B ill
Lange saved a game for Chicago and
$2<J*> for himself In Washington In
1895. There Is an odd story connected
with the play. Lange had missed a
train in Boston two days before, fail¬
ed to reach New’ York In time to play
there, aud Anson had fined him $100.
Thereupon he missed a train to Wash¬
ington-arrived on the grounds after
the teams had practiced and Just in
time to play, and for that Anson fined
him another $100. The game that aft¬
ernoon went eleven innings, Chicago
scoring one run In the eleventh. There
were two men out and a runner on
the bases when “Ivlp” Selbach, then
one of the hardest hitters in tho busi¬
ness, smote the hall a terrific blow and
sent It flying over Lange’s head to¬
ward t lie center field fence. The hit
seemed a sure home run, but Lange, a
man weighing 225 pounds, turned and
without looking sprinted desperately
straight out toward the fence, racing
with the flying ball. At tho last in¬
stant. as the ball was going over his
head. Lange leaped, stuck up both
hands, turned a somersault and crash¬
ed against tlie fence. Ihe boards splin¬
tered. one entire panel crashed out¬
ward, and out of the wreckage crawled
Lange, holding the ball in his hand,
and the crowd went mad. Lange came
limping In. with the crowd standing on
seats shouting, and he said to Anson,
"Fines go. cap?" “Nope." said Anson,
and the catch had saved the big fielder
$200.—Hugh S. Fullerton in American
Magazine.
Chinese Dramatic Crudities.
Here is a sample of one of the naive
bits of Chinese stagecraft. Horn Ling,
leading tragedian, playing the part of
the younger son, renders a solo w'hlch
means that the widow and orphans
are going to the temple to celebrate
funeral rites. The property man sets
on the stage a little box for an altar
and throws over the widow’s head a
white veil, symbol of mourning. Then
Horn Ling, ns the younger son. waves
his hands und kirks his foot like a
man punting a football. This signifies
that the rest of the family Is out of
his sphere of action. The scene has
officially changed from u house to a
temple. So. while the rest of the fam¬
ily kneels before the altar. Horn Ling
^trolls over and chats with one of the
musicians who happens to he resting.
—Everybody’s Magazine.
What Forty Poles Make.
A good story is told about a certain
professor whose business It was to lec¬
ture to a number of students on sur¬
veying. During one of the lectures the
professor said that In his opinion the
pole was of little or no value. To the
astonishment of those present a Polish
gentleman arose and after accusing the
professor of insulting his countrymen
demanded an apology.
The professor thereupon explained
that the pole to which he referred was
merely a term of measurement. The
Polish gentleman, seeing his mistake,
asked the professor to forgive his ap¬
parent rudeness. To this the professor
smartly replied:
“You could not he rude, sir, even if
you tried, for it takes forty poles to
make one rood!” —London Mail.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
CITATION.
Georgia, Newton County.
Newton Court of Ordinary at Cham¬
bers August 5, 1909: W. C. Salter,
Sr., having made application to me
in due form to be appointed perma
manent, administrator upon t he estate
of Mrs. Ada R. Salter, late of said
county, said notice is hereby given that
application will be heard at the
regular term of the Court of Ordinary
for said ceunty, to be held on the first
Monday hand in and September, 1909. Witness
my official siginature, this
August 5, 1909.
A. D. Meador, Ordinary.
CITATION.
Georgia, Newton County.
Newton Court of Ordinary at Cham¬
bers, August 5, 1909: S. P. Thomp
sonj in due having form made to be application appointed to me
administrator perma¬
nent upon the estate of
Bryant Osbortn, late of said county,
deceased, notice is hereby given that
said application Monday will he heard on the
first in September, 1909.
Witness my hand and official signa¬
ture, this August 5, 1909.
A. D. Meador, Ordinary.
Notice.
Georgia, Newton County.
Under an order from the Court of
Ordinary of said county, I will sell
before the court house door in the city
of Covington on the 18th day of Au¬
gust 1909, the following described per¬
sonal property, to-wit:
Two horses, 2 mules, 1 top buggy, 2
sets of harness, 1 two-horse wagon, 1
one-horse wagon, 1 shot gun and a lot
of farm tools, consisting of plows,
stocks, hoes, etc. Said sale is for the
purpose of paying debts and distribu¬
tion. Terms of sale CASH. This
August 4, 1909,
F. A. HENDERSON,
Admr. of J. N. A. Henderson, deeM.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
All persons indebted to the estate of
J. N. A. Henderson, deceased, late of
said county, are hereby notified to
make immediate payments, and all
creditors of said deceased are hereby
notified to render unto the under¬
signed all demands against said estate
within the terms of the law. This,
August 4, 1909,
F. A. HENDERSON,
Admr. of estate J. N. A. Henderson,
deceased.
THE HORSE.
He Is So Stupid That He Can Be
Taught Any Habit.
There have been on exhibition at
various times horses that are appar¬
ently prodigies of mathematical insight
—that can do anything with numbers
that the trainer can do. Yet we ab¬
solutely know that no animal can so
much as count at all. Furthermore. It
Is alwajs the horse that performs
these marvels, though the horse Is the
most utterly stupid of all the dumb
creatures that man has made his
friends.
That Is precisely why the horse is
always taken to be made Into an arith¬
metician. He is so stupid that he can
be taught anything—any habit, that is
—and, having no mind to be taken up
with his own affairs, can be relied on
to do exactly as he is told.
All these arithmetical fakes, what¬
ever their details, are worked In essen¬
tially the same way. The horse is
taught, by endless repetitions, some
mechanical habit. A given signal, and
he begins to paw the floor. Another
signal, and he stops. Tress the proper
button, and he takes a sponge and
rubs it over a certain spot on a black¬
board or picks up a card lying in a
certain position. That is all he does.
The meaning of the act exists for the
spectator only. The pawings count
the answer to a problem in addition,
the card bears the reply to a question,
but the horse does not know it. He
merely follows a blind habit, just as
he will stop wheu you say “Whoa.”’
though you Interpolate the word into
your recitation of the Declaration of
Independence.—McClure’s Magazine.
IT CAME TRUE.
Tha Large Party and the Calamity
That Followed.
‘You can’t make me believe,” Uncle
Abner Jarvis was saying, "that there
Isn’t something in fortuue telling.”
His auditors were grouped round the
6tove iu the corner grocery store. “Ever
have any experience with It?” asked
one of them.
"That’s what I was going to tell
you,” resumed Uncle Abner. “Once
when I was at the county fair 1 saw
a little tent with a sign on the outside
of it that said Mme. Somebody-or-other
would tell your fortune for 25 ceuts.
I stepped inside just for fun.
“A woman with a thick veil over her
face was sitting in a chair on a raised
platform. I gave her a quarter, and
she looked at my hand. One of the
things she told me was that I was
gohig to have a large party at my
house In less than a month and that it
would be follered by a calamity.
“I laughed at that. Thinks I to my¬
self, ‘We hatn’t had any parties of any
kind to our house for two years, and 1
don’t reckon we’ll have one quite as
soon as that.’
“But it did come true. In about two
w'eeks my wife's Aunt Jane came to
visit us, and If you think she ain’t a
large party you ought to see her. She
weighs 287 pounds.”
“But how about the calamity?” in¬
quired the man who was sitting on the
nail keg after a long pause.
“Well,” said Uncle Abner slowly,
“she broke down our spare bed the
first night she slept In It.”—Youth’s
Companion.
Had Forty Homes.
Vollon, the painter, was a unique
personage even among the odd charac¬
ters of Tarls. While he was essen¬
tially a bohemian, there were times
when even his patience was taxed to
the utmost, and to obviate the neces¬
sity of meeting unwelcome people he
conceived the idea of multiplying his
lodging places. At the time of his
death he owned no less than forty
homes, all In apartment houses, situ¬
ated In all the out of the way corners
of Taris, plainly furnished and with
just enough accommodation for him¬
self. He changed from one to the
other all the time In order to escape
Importunate acquaintances and to take
refuge from his friends. It was In or¬
der to throw them all off the scent
that he engaged rooms all over the
city. He finally died In the Rue de
Dunkerque, where he hud as many as
three different apartments, all within
a stone’s throw’ of one another.
The Stone Houses of Easter Island.
The remarkable stoue houses of
Easter island are built against a ter¬
race of earth or rock, which In some
cases forms the back wall of the
dwelling. They are built of small slabs
of stratified basaltic rock piled to¬
gether without cement. No regularity
of plau is shown iu the construction of
a majority of them. The average
measurement is as follows: Height
from floor to celling, 4 feet 6 inches;
thickness of walls, 4 feet to 10 Inches;
width of rooms, 4 feet 6 inches; length
of rooms, 12 feet 9 inches; average
size of doorways—height, 20 inches;
width, 19 Inches.
Skeptical.
“I kind of agree with the folks who
say that story about George Washing¬
ton and the cherry tree is a myth,"
said Farmer Corntossel after a thought¬
ful silence.
“For what reason?” inquired his
wife.
“Well, human nature Is purly much
the same in all generations, aud If I
had a boy who picked up an ax an’
voluntarily went out to chop wood I
wouldn’t chide him. I’d hand him a
medal.”—Washington Star.
Practical.
“I send you 10,000 kisses,” he wrote.
“Bah!” she exclaimed, tossing his
letter aside. “Why doesn’t he come
and look over his terminal facilities in
person?”—Chicago Record-Herald.
A stout heart may be ruined In for¬
tune, but not in spirit.—Victor Hugo.
City’s Finest Drug Store
SMITHS DRUG STORE
Also a nice Line of Stationery,
Cigars and Tobacco.
* Nunnally’s Fine Candies Always Fresh.
iGeo. T. Smith, COVINGTON GEORGIA ’ 4
'a.UlUL AAUlL
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says:
Aiken, Ga., July 6, 1909. ^
DR. J. A. WRIGHT, *1
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Dear Doctor:— J
My truss is all O. K. and I am telling the good news to |
! every one. I feel like a new man. I wish you may live long 1
to benefit suffering humanity. Yours very trnly, ,
! We glasses carry according The a full above line of was Spectacles an Unusually and can Bad test Case. your eyes and fit ♦ ♦ I
your to the most approved scientific methods. We
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NICE FRESH GROCERIES
You will always find at my store as nice and fresh Gro¬
ceries as can be found in the city, and when you purchase
them from me I make it a point to get them to your home
just as quick as it is possible for me to do it.
FRESH MEATS
I also have in connection with my store a first class Meat
Market and can furnish you with the choice kind of Meats
you like so well. Giveme an order. I will appreciate it and
will try to please you.
Cigars aud Tobacco. Cash Paid for Hides.
R. F. Wright,
Covington, Georgia.
Notice.
GEORGIA, Newtom Cocntv.
Mrs. Ola M Brown gtiarudian of Mrs. I.illian
Halils Moncrief. having applied tome, to lx- dis¬
charged from such guardianship, let all persons
concerned, show cause l>efore me at the Court
House in Said County on the 1st Monday in Sept,
next, why said application for discharge, should
not !>e granted.
Witness my official signature this"Aug 2, 1909,
A. I). Meador Ordenary
Citation.
newton county court of ordinary.
Whereas R. W. Milner administator of the
estate of Mrs. Isabelle Roberts represents unto
the Court in his pretition duly filed and entered oil
record, that he has fully administered Mrs. Isa'
belle Roberts estate. This is therefore to Cite all
persons, concerned kindred and creditors to show
cause, if any they can, why said Administrator
should not be discharged from his administration
and receive letters of dexinission on the 1st Mon¬
day in September next.
Given under my hand and official signature
Ibis August 2, 1909
A. I). MEADOR Ordinary.
Citation.
GEORGIA. Nkwton County.
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned
have applied to A. D, Meador ordinary in and
for said state and County for leave to sell Up¬
land belonging to the estate of William McDonald
late of said County deseased for the payment
of debts, and distribution. Said application will
be heard on the 1st Monday in September next
This Aug, 2. 1909.
S. P. THOMPSON. E. W. KOWI.EK.
Admrs of the estate of William McDonald.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
All persons iudebted to the estate of A. S. Hell,
late of said county, deceased, are hereby notified
to make immediate payment, and all creditors of
said deceased are hereby notified to render tin to
the undersigned all demands against said estate
in terms of the law. July 10. 1909.
JAS. S. GARDNER,
Executor of A. S. Bell estate.
—We make a specialty of ice cream
milk shakes and lemonade. Parker’s
place.—tf.
FOR SALE—Fine Homer Pigeons.
$1.00 per pair J. M. Aaron. tf.
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DENTIST
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Your Patronage Solicited.
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OF LOCAL LEGISLATION
A Bill will be introduced at
term of the legislator
Newton Count' to
bonds for Road I
Also to create a bom
And order an electioi
