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RflUND-UP OF
BLIND TIGERS.
Land* Six Violators ol Sec
fltv Them
87 and Gives
Healthy Fines.
colored population of the city
rn 1 he " iderably stirred up Monday
noon when Chief Bradford Bo
^ parts °t ttre elt y and bringing to «■•«*- m
f-rtot from darktown, charged
the citizens section 87, which spe
W violating must not sell
. fl Uv Htates that you
tissue that tire for city several limits, months, or
it seems since the water
be more precise,
d sewer system was first begun,
fund tigers began policemen to thrive, here did notwith- all in
Zr tntidimt the
'power to prevent it. When it
seen that, they could not cope
was evil, the mayor and chief of
with the
0 lice decided that the best thing to
do was to employ a couple of detee
j ve9 to come down from Atlanta and
t The Carter-Patterson
(ii[( , h them.
Association sent down the men, who
, iav e been here for something like two
weeks, and Monday they turned over
to the chief enough evidence to war¬
rant the arrest of six offenders. The
chief then went out and began mak¬
ing arrests, and during the afternoon
they were all landed in the city board¬
ing house.
The six caught and tried follow, to¬
gether with the sentence imposed on
them:
King Sawyers, $50 and costs or
thirty days on the streets.
Pleas Shy, $50 and cost or thirty
days.
John Wright, $50 and cost or thirty
days.
Beckie Lou Terrell, $50 and cost or
thirty days.
Robert Hall, $15 and cost or thirty
days.
Bol» Kelly, $55 and cost or thirty
days. Kelly appealed his case to the
council, but it was handed back as at
first, fixed.
They were all bound over to the
state court.
Writing Class at Porterdale.
Mr. T. C. Cowan announces that he
is now teaching a writing class at
Porterdale, where he will be for the
next ten days. He has a very nice
class there with some thirty or forty
pupils, who he is teaching to produce
decipherable hioroglyphics.
To Misses Corley and DeLaney.
Mrs. H. B. Anderson entertained a
few friends last Friday evening very
pleasantly in honor of her guests
Miss Pauline Corley, of Marietta,
and Miss Alma DeLaney, of Orlando,
Fla. During the afternoon a delight¬
ful picnic dinner was served in the
large grove near the beautiful home
of Mrs. Anderson. Interesting games
were played and that large crowd of
young people -thoroughly enjoyed
themselves.
Off For New York.
Messrs. T. J. Harwell, manager for
theT -C. Swann Co., together with
‘^ ^ • Swann, Jr. will leave about
1 1 fifteenth of this month for
a sev
er al days stay at Mew York and other
Pomts east. Mr. Harwell goes to buy
the fal1 sfc «ek for the Swann Co.,
wide Tom is out for pleasure. While
away they will visit a number of in¬
teresting places, returning in about
wn weeks. Their friends wish for
thrin a pleasant trip.
Capt. Heard Ml.
' 1S af,er dinner yesterday while
h'Lc with his duties as clerk of
i°ard of Commissioners, Capt. G.
‘'ard was taken suddetly ill and
,
“ be ,ake » to his home on Floyd
deni* * a,t:K ‘ k came very sud
heaiti Was fe( d* u g in his usual
a feW mi »utes before. The
man # ti'imids of Capt.
, Heard will re _
tose wfiij *'i h ‘ m tU1 ° Ut again b ' s Alness and hope
within a short
cot, L;.b- ,r u nea wish [ m Georgia y beautiful 5-room
hall, de I )ot > with
barn and fronfc verandas, good
Well whh^r^ , ss
Roberta ’ N °
I wl (io yf,uMaundry work
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and W iii i • y ^team Laundry,
I win ° 11 as cheep gsany body,
circus te Up any thin & fr °m a
u * a l >ock <?t handerchief.
leav„ i(|~ 'j er at McGarity’s
Phone stable
HARRY AIKEN.
p ou Ha 77: A --
biford ,, ‘‘‘ v terms. K»>od farm near
• R. r. Everitt.
GALLED MEETING
OF COMMISSIONERS,
While In Session Contract Award
ed For Putting Water And
Sewerage in Court House.
A called meeting of the Board of
the County Commissioners was held in j
court house yesterday, Tuesday.
We understand that the meeting was
held for the purpose of awarding the
contract for the putting in of water
and sewerage connections at* different
parts of the court house.
After considering several bids for
the contract the firm of Shirley Bros.,
was awarded the job which calls for
a completed job inside of thirty days.
In speaking of the contract to a Ne ws
reporter, Mr. Shirling stated that
they would put a force of men on the
job at once and that it would be com¬
pleted before the expiration of the
time set by t he commissioners.
This is a step in the right direction
by the Commissioners as the court
house is really the first place that
water should be turned on. The
placing of drinking fountains at dif¬
ferent places in the court house will
be quite a convenience to the people
from the country who come here,
especially at the regular sessions of
the court.
Under the contract made by the
,
county with Messrs Shiriing the com¬
pleted job will cost somewhere around
four hundred dollars.
Civil Engineer Here.
The fact that the county commiss¬
ioners have employed the services of
a civil engineer to work out the roads
for the county will be received with
enthusiasm by the majority of the
county. Sometime ago they decided
to give an engineer a trial and yes¬
terday afternoon Mr. Tom Stanley,
of Athens arrived in the city and will
begin his labors on the Snapping
Shoals road today. He will be re¬
tained long enough to do the engine¬
ering work on about nine miles of
road and if everything goes along
smoothly he will be kept, as we un¬
derstand it, until all t he roads in the
county are put on the proper basis.
Tho services of a civil engineer is
one of the most important of any man
working on the roads of the county.
It is a matter of impossibility for a
man who does not understand the.en
gineeringpart. of the work to build a
road that will stand a rainy season.
The News congratulates the com¬
missioners on getting the enginaer
and believe the people living in the
rural districts will appreciate it too.
MAKING GOLD LEAF.
The Metal Is Beaten For Hours by
Men, Then Finished by Girls.
In one of the downtown business
streets may be seen sticking from one
of the upper windows a massive arm
and hand, the hand grasping a huge
hammer and the whole sign gilded. It
Is the sign of the gold beaters’ estab
llshment, where thousands of the gold
sheets are turned out after having
been packed by girls.
Gold leaf is packed more by the aid
of the breath than by the hands. The
operation of transferring a sheet of
almost transparent gold leaf from one
place to another Is so delicate that it
Is possible to do it only by a light
puff of tho breath. It takes most girls
six weeks to acquire this knack, and
some girls are never able to acquire it.
The gold reaches the beaters first
In wide bars or nuggets and has to be
weighed, melted and made into Inch
wide ribbons before anything else is
done. The ribbon is then cut Into inch
squares and beaten with a hammer
wielded by a man When each leaf
has been beaten thin It is transferred
to a mold, where It Is beaten four
hours more. The beating is done with
n wooden hammer weighing from
seven to eighteen pounds, on a sheep¬
skin cushion, which rests on a granite
block. The gold used for beating is
usually 22 or 23 carats fine. A little
alloy of copper or silver is added to
make it spread. It would he impos¬
sible. the beaters say, to handle per
fectly pure gold. it
After the gold lias been beaten
is handed over to the girls, who lift
the unshuped loaf from the mold with
a pair of wooden pinchers, flatten it out
on a sheepskin cushion by gently blow
lug on it. cut It to a perfect square
replace it between the leaves of the
book and flatten It out witb the breath
There are twenty-five leaves In a
book, and a skilled girl can pack sev
enty books In a day, for which she
gets from 2Mr to 3 cents a book.— New
York Times.
Bats Inside Bamboo.
The cutting down of a clump of
bamboos in the royal botanical ga.
dens, Singapore, shows that the hol¬
lows in the stems of these plants may
afford a dwelling place for bats. On
the splitting of a Joint three bats flew
out. and it was perceived that others
were witiiin. Care was taken to pre¬
vent further escape, und later exami¬
nation of the Joint revealed the pres¬
ence of twenty-three hats In the hol¬
low. Four of these were adult females
and nineteen young ones. Other burn
boo Joints were also found to contain
number of bats. The species is
a pachjpua.-Lw>
known m Veapenigo
THE COVINGTON NEWS
FARMERS UNION
RALLY AUGUST 14 ,
Lovejoy Will Be Scene of Great
Gathering of Planters From
Several Counties.
We are requested to announce that
there will he held at Lovejoy on next
Saturday, August 14th, a big Farmers
Union Rally, at which time every
union man in the county is urged to
attend and farmers from other coun¬
ties are invited to meet with them.
One of the features of the day will
be an address by Mr. W. S. Peek, of
Rockdale, and a number of prominent
men from all sections of the county
will address the people.
A large crowd is expected and many
important subjects of the Farmers
Union will be discussed, and informa¬
tion on several things will be given
those who attend.
The people of that section of the
county are a warm hearted lot of cit¬
izens, and it goes without saying that
they will make it pleasant as well as
profitable for all who attend.
DROPPED THE “TUB.”
Ana Like a Good Girl Pronounced the
Word Correctly.
W. S. Gilbert contributed an atuus
ing article ou "Actors and Authors” to
a program of the Loudon Drury Lane
theater. The following extract will
be read with appreciation:
The author's greatest difficulty lies
in the necessity of directing an actor’s
attention to an obvious mispronuncia
tion—a feat that must be achieved
without humiliating the actor in the
presence of his professional brethren
Many years ago i was engaged in
rehearsing a burlesque, and a very
clever young lady had to sing tho coup¬
let:
Indubitably If you do
It will be the worse for you.
The clever young lady, whose pro
nunciatiou was not always beyond re¬
proach, delivered the lines thus:
lndubltubly If you do
It will be the worse for you.
This, of course, would not do, so I
determined to alter the word to ‘‘in¬
evitably.” The young lady agreed that
the alteration greatly improved the
verse, but she was not to be deprived
of her "tub,” so she sang it:
Inevitubly If you do
It will be the worse for you.
This was just as bad, so i made it
‘‘unquestionably,” and, of course, it
came out:
Unquestlonubly If you do
It will be the worse for you.
I could think of no other word that
would answer the purpose, so, as a
last resource, I said to her:
‘‘Do you think it advisable to give
the word its French accent?”
“How do you mean?”
“Why. ‘unquestionubly’ — that's the
way it is pronouuced in Paris. In ad
dressing an English audience perhaps
the simple English version of the word
would be better. Try it. at all events,
‘unquestionably,’ ‘a’ instead of ‘u.’
‘Uuquesuonubly’ would be all very
well for the stalls, but the gallery
wouldn’t understand it.”
“Of course.” she said, “the English
accent would certainly be more appro¬
priate.”
And she sang it “unquestionably”
like the good girl that she was.^-Argo
naut. 4
A TUSK HUNTER’S ESCAPE.
So Close a Call the Native Really
Thought Himself Dead.
Hunting elephants for their tusks in¬
volves courage, patience and infinite
cunning. Frequently the hunter be¬
comes the hunted, and the tables may
be turned fatally. A writer in Mc¬
Clure’s Magazine tells of an escape,
vouched for by “an Indian dealer who
never lied about anything and who
claims to have seen this deliverance
exactly as he reported it.”
Some natives were hunting elephants
in the neighborhood of Lake Rudolph,
and he was with them for the purpose
of trading cotton cloth for ivory. Ele¬
phants like old bunch grass that has
become dry like hay. and a herd of
them, attracted by “dry grazing,” as it
Is called, came suddenly within an
eighth of a mile of the camp.
One native named Juma. from the
coast, an unskilled hunter, observing
that the wind was in such a direction
that it blew news of the herd to him
rather than blowing his whereabouts
to the knowledge of the herd, ran out in
the open with his rifle and aimed at
short range at a powerful creature
which was watering a straggling
shrub with water he had taken in his
trunk from the pond.
Once hit. the elephant was corre¬
spondingly furious and rushed at
Juma after a deliberate scrutiny of
the immediate foreground to discover
his whereabouts. Having determined
whore his assailant stood, he tore along,
crazy with rage, toward the shaking
savage. instinct of
Juma. with an oriental’s
prostration before such an overwhelm¬
ing force, merely threw himself flat
upon the ground.
The elephant rushed completely over
him. but by accident left him safe,
although choked and blinded with the
disturbed and sandy soil. The great
feet cleared him, and the tusks missed
him.
Almost twenty-four hours passed be¬
fore Juma dared believe himself alive
and sound, and for the first twelve
hours after the excitement he spoke of
himself only in the past tense, as of
one dead.
TOO GOOD TO BE WELL.
A London Hospital Doctor’s Hurry
Patient From the Outside.
The accident bell at the door of the
hospital clangs, and the next moment
an agitated parent is seen running
down tho passage with a child tic ked
under the arm, its bare legs streaming
behind it In the wil d of its mother’s
rapidity.
"What's the matter, missis? Has she
swallowed some poison?”
“No, sir; it ain't that,” she pants,
“hut I’m that s-: ared I don’t know
’ardly which way to turn.”
“Well, hut what’s happened? Has
she hurt herself?”
“No, sir, and ’or father 'e’s that up¬
set 'e couldn’t do nothlok, else I ain’t
used to running 111 e that, end ’e’d 'ave
brought ’or up, I ut 'e says as ’ow ’e
daren’t touch 'er, and I’ve run nil the
way, ai d me ’eart”—
"Come, now, missis, just tell me
quietly what’s the matter with the
child.”
The patient, a pretty little tiling of
four, looks inquiringly at her alarmed
parent. There seems to be little the
matter with her.
“It’s all very well ycr a-slttiu’ there
and a-tellin’ of me to be quiet,” cries
the mother. “If yer 'ad children of
yer own yer wouldn’t like tor see ’em
die afore yer eyes. Oh, dear; oh, dear,
and there ain’t only two more and the
baby!”
The doctor In despair examines the
little girl, but fails to discover any¬
thing wrong. “Now, find’ look here,” says
he firmly, “I can’t anything the
matter with your child, so you’ll liavB
to go away unless you tell me why you
brought her up to the hospital.”
“Well, doctor, we was all a-havin’
our tea a minute ago as it might be,
and ’er father was eatin’ a nice bit of
tripe ns was over from dinner when
Susy, this one I ’ave with me, says as
’ow she loved God and was goin’ to
'eavlng when he doied. What!” in
tones of horror. “Ain’t yer going to
give 'er no medicine?”—Cornhiil Maga¬
zine.
A BF % AR STORY.
The Picture the Amateur Photographer
Did Not Wait to Get.
The best bear story I ever heard,
states a writer in Recreation, was told
me by an amateur prospector, who
might have stepped out of a comic
weekly. He had made a big trip in
the SIsklyous with no weapon save a
nickel plated miner’s pick.
"Have you seen much game?” I
asked.
“None at all,” he replied in his dry
falsetto.
“No bear!” I exclaimed, knowing he
had come right through Bear Camp.
“Oh, yes,” he returned, “quite so.
Now that you mention it I dare say
that Is what it was. Didn’t occur to
me, you know. I was so very angry,
don't you see, I took no pains to iden¬
tify the brute.”
“Why, what did he do to you?"
“What did he do? Why, nothing, of
course. You see, the little beggar ran
and climbed up a stump. And lie
wouldn’t come down so I could obtain
a decent photograph of him. Sat up
there half a day, fifty feet from the
ground. Then his legs got tired hold¬
ing on, I imagine, for he started in to
squeal. And, do you know, the brute
must have given me away, for pretty
soon his mother, I suppose it was,
came hurrying up, and I had to clear
out. Four times ns big ns he, she was,
I assure you.”
“Did you run?” I asked, laughing.
“Oh, not at all; not at nil,” said he.
“But still I thought it best not to re¬
main.” He paused and stroked bis
stubbly chin reflectively.
“By Jove,” said ho finally, “how
very interesting! I should have thought
to photograph the old one. She looked
quite savage, don't you know."
“Such a picture would have been
unique, to say the least,” I replied.
“Quite so,” said he.
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Mill. Parker’s Grocery Store.—tf.
Covington News Correspondents
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Notice ot Bridge Letting.
Office Board Co. Com’rs. Aug 4, 1909.
Bids will be received at this office
on Sept. 7th, 1909, at 10 e’clock, a. m.
for the erection of a steel bridge over
Alcova river at Dabney’s bridge site.
Plans and specifications can bo seen
at this office.
Also bids will be received at the
same time and place for repairing the
bridge at Porterdale. Plans and spec¬
ifications for same can be seen at this
office.
The Board reserves the right to re
jpet any and all bids.
J.Z. JOHNSON, Ch’n. Board.
G. D. Heard, Clerk.
The Proper Question.
The man with the glassy eye and '
preternaturally solemn demeanor put
down a sovereign at the booking office
at Charing Cross and demanded a
Hcket. “What The station?” would snipped the j
booking clerk. be traveler
steadied himself. “What stations have
you?” he nsked, with quiet dignity.— j
London Globe.
_________
A Criticism.
“He said this skirt of mine was a
perfect symphony.”
“Maybe, but it’s not well conducted.”
“What do you mean?”
“It drags.”—Cleveland Leader.
The Real Want.
“What we want is a square deal.”
“Oh, we’ll compromise on that In a
pinch. What we really want is a
shade the best of it.”—Louisville Cou¬
rier-Journal.
Insincere.
“Oh, John, don't you wish we could
sit here and spoon forever?”
“Yes, dearest. But let’s go now. I
think I hear the dinner bell!”—Boston
Post
It costs the devil little trouble to
catch the lazy man.—German Froverb.
LOST—One green covered memor¬
andum book ou the streets of Cov¬
ington or between Covington and Ox¬
ford. Reward if returned to C. A.
Clark or to the News office.
IDLY WANDERING.
When the Overwrought Worker Cuta
Loose From Care.
When a business man suffers from
overstrain or a student from over¬
work sometimes, instead of taking to
bed, he disappears. Suddenly he is
missing, all trace of him lost. His
family and friends invariably fear tiie
worst. They imagine he has met with
accident and is- lying unconscious in a
hospital or has parted with his wits
and is confined in an asylum or ins
even taken his own life.
These things are all possible, but the
probable thing is none of them. The
probable thing is that the overwrought
man has yielded to a natural impulse
and instinctively has sought a cure by
becoming a wanderer for the time. He
has put the cares of the old life be¬
hind him and with them the people
that recall *he old life and has given
himself up to .the healing of the road.
To drift with no well defined object,
to see strange places and faces, ever
to answer the call of the beyond—“die
feme,” as the Germans call it—is more
than a dream lying somewhere In the
hack of every man’s mind, where it
was lodged by some ancestor of the
nomad perbd; it is one of nature’s
own remedies for the worries of life.
For the man with a great sorrow,
for the man with a troubled con¬
science, for the ymn whose nerves are
not treating him right, tra.vel. change
of scene, is one of the things the wise
physician will prescribe. If it be a
veritable tramp afoot the cure will be
speedier and more complete and may
work phjsical regeneration into the
bargain.—New York Mall.
He Had Noticed.
Father (who is always trying to
teach his son how to act while at the
table)—Well, John, you see, when I
have finished eating I always leave
the table. John—Yes, sir, and that is
about all you do leave.—London Mall.
Sure!
“De man dat don’t do nuffin’ but
look out for No. 1,” said Uncle Eben,
“Is purty sure sooner or later to at¬
tract attention to hisse’f as about de
smallest Agger in de ’rithmetic.”—
Washington Star.
The nobleness of life depends on its
consistency, clearness of purpose, quiet
and ceaseless energy.—Ruskin.