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WALTON COUNTY HAS
EXCITING TIME,
Several Prominent Citizens Being
prosecuted for Perjury and Sub¬
ornation at Monroe.
siHter county of Walton has been
; quite a stir during the past
hav ving "‘ f ’ 1 the fact that the grand
week over in that county
jury now in session re
i(1 sev eral true bills against some
Cation citizens for perjury and
bornatioii in the trial of Olin M.
Thomason who killed his neighbor,
j h. Bowen, in Monroe on July 4,
Tiie first trial and of in Thomson the second resulted he
m istrial was
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acquitted. Since his acquittal there
has been quite a good deal of criticism
about some of the evidence submitted
' t]ie s econd trial and the solicitor
General (t circuit began in¬
of that an
vestigation to the end that in several
instances perjury was found.
Iu t he early part of the present year
two of the witnesses, Alvin Evans and
It w. Hunt, were found guilty of per¬
jury and confessed their guilt. They
W ero each sentenced to four years in
the penitentiary. They were imme¬
diately sect to t he Fulton county gang.
At the term of the superior court
now in session in Monroe quite a good
deal of excitement was experienced
last week when the two convicts were
led into the court room between the
sheriff and his deputy. It seems that
after they were sentenced to the pen¬
itentiary they did some talking to
friends in Monroe, and the judge of
the court got wind of it. He asked
the governor to allow him to bring
the prisoners back and use them as
witnesses before the grand jury. To
this request Gov. Brown immediately
sent him an order and they were
brought down. Just what was the na¬
ture of their testimony before the
grand jury is not known but true bills
were returned for several of the prom¬
inent citizens of the city and county.
They were charged with perjury and
subornation. It is the belief that
they w ill be given penitentiary sen¬
tences without the alternative of pay¬
ing fines.
The true bills were for George W,
Durden, a merchant of Monroe, one
bill for perjury and one for suborna¬
tion.
Olin M. Thomason, two bills for
subornation and perjury.
Troy Thomason, brother of Olin M.
Thomason, one hill for subornation of
perjury. . ->
W. F. Towler, commonly known as
Dink Towler, one bill for perjury.
h. E. Dickens, a bill for perjury.
It is the belief of the solicitor and
other prominent citizens of Monroe
that there was a master hand behind
the narrative told by the witnesses at
the last trial and sensational develop¬
ments are expected to be the out¬
come of the investigation. It is cur¬
rently rumored here that one and
possibly two members of the legal
profession will be drawn into the af¬
fair before it. is over with.
the buffalo.
a Good Surveyor and One of Our First
Roadmakers.
hie buffalo was a good surveyor. It
™ not reason out wb.v it should go in
a < ex tain direction, but its sure instinct
°"h it by the easiest and most direct
paths, over high lands and low, to the
(at ii ,' ks mid water courses which
J‘ 0ry fe i,s ," f Koal. tlu Great The authors Lakes,” of “The
‘ Edward
r , i. inniiig and .M.
F. Lansing, say thn
" 'Uflfalo observed something like
« pum-ipies which today the
(, ml engineer. govern
As shod i1s (] io explorer landed
on
chores of Lakes Erie.
awl inferior he came upon
8nr)r.' tin,.' Ule lli,rrow or “traces.” Sometimes
iron ditches, a foot wide
Six ' IH 'hos to two feet deep,
"r " .° ,ln Wri fs by ,lle herd impact of thorn
Imfn " as after herd of
« „', ' ia 'i damped along in single
deen'V'. fi^beh.nd 1 tlle their filst leaders. r>nth '
became too
tr av ,,| "! C0uif bnfla,o0s "rt because of repeated
and l, would abandon it
first n path alongside the
Woubi'i" . !ll
" s tlle frequented traces
A„ -■'<i» a 'd.v widened.
afeavV i 1 " lnmieuse herd of these
' -
V naiS ,
’he for Woul<i crash through
PtogressVi s ' ' ,,!' !lIoa< 1,IOaklng f> deep deo1 in roud road their from from ra Pld
tecdi tie;!;'!"? nc n „ „ r ,0 ’ one
another. another. As As this
igainbvn.i )G fo li 0%v ed again and
bee ", “ !UHl other herds, it would
0mp tw?" , 1 and ,lai 'd
aeersettil that " as it rock, so
ueersettio,,""'’’ a * grea K1L ‘ nt l rejoicing rejoicing in in pio
tiakers 8 ? Il| u ‘ llts li wl,en the weary road
itifl ' 1; n k with log causeways
firi1 ', soii,i hoI1 °ws. came upon a
an ' 10 ,lacc Nor this
unooi CS - was
The eX1,0rience -
fallowed t.i nially by °f these roads is
fauals. ! " MS followed our railroads and
roads ana V 1 turnpikes by our log
The follow
Ta %. 10 l0l *<>wed the level of the
^henoygj, J-never s " ( ' rv ed round high points
it j, " as Dosslhle, crossing the
vifW,'' aia aini , l,< ‘ rs 'iods at tiie
dhid best nat
fr °® 1 " 1 ' 1 Forges, and he crossed
one .i, r a s,
°thor reain of water to
cS ' ! nhiuo' n ''' n, 'dl,v in order to avoid
HlonV , ' fro >» U) o level, after the
""Gern loop railways,
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HOOKING ALLIGATORS.
A Florida Sport With an Element of
Uncertainty In It.
“Hunting alligators at night with a
bullseye lantern and shotgun is tame
sport compared with what is called a
gator hunt in Florida,” said an old
Floridian who is visiting New York.
“I mean the feat of capturing an alli¬
gator alive and then towing the fellow
to high ground through mud and water
from what is called in Florida a ga¬
tor hole.
“The gator fishermen first find the
hole, which is indicated by an opening
in the surrounding grass In the midst
of a dense growth of vegetation, where
the ground is worn smooth by the al¬
iu his pulls in and out. Some¬
times these gator holes are in the na¬
ture of a cave in the bank of a stream
and may be fifteen or twenty feet
deep, and if so it is not an easy matter
to get the animal out.
“The fislier is supplied with a long
pole with a metal hook on the end
lie takes a strong rope and throws it
about the entrance of the hole. Then
the fisher rams with the hooked pole
down the den and waits and listens.
If he finds a gator in the hole he
teases the beast by poking him until
the gator in a rage finally grabs the
hooked polo and is pulled from the
den. It is with uncertainty that he is
dragged forth, for it is not known
whether the catch is large or small.
The fisher does not know whether to
get into shape to run or to tight. Out
the gator conies, bellowing and roar¬
ing mad.
“After, the gator is dragged to the
surface he in his rage turns and rolls
and finally twists himself up in the
rope or noose that has been previously
prepared. With the assistance of the
others in the party the gator’s legs
and mouth are tied and the gator is a
prisoner.
“The gator is for the most part
caught in marshes where the ground is
soft and slushy and too wet for either
horse or wagon to enter. The fishers
are compelled to carry their catch to
higher ground, there to be loaded into
the waiting wagon, and the hunt is
ended.”—New York Sun.
UNCONSCIOUS WORRY.
Born of the Habit of Taking Things
Too Seriously.
A great many people worry uncon¬
sciously, says O. S. Harden in Success
Magazine. They don't understand why
they are so tired in the morning, why
their sleep was so disturbed and trou¬
bled.
This mental disturbance is often
caused by .the habit of taking things
too seriously, carrying too great a
weight of responsibility. Everywhere
we see people who take life too seri¬
ously. Most of us are like the motor
man who not only starts and stops the
car and tries to keep from running
over people, but also feels tremendous
anxiety and responsibility about the
motive power.
One of the most helpful lessons life
can impart is that which shows us
how to do our work as well as it can
be done and then let principle take
care of the result. How often have we
been amazed to find things come out
much better than we anticipated; to
find that the great unseen power that
governs our lives through a wilderness
of trial and tribulation into the open
has guided our life ship through the
fogs of difficulties and of sorrow,
through storms of hardships and
losses, safely into port.
The pilot does not lose heart when
he cannot see his way. lie turns to
that mysterious compass which sees
as plainly in the fog and guides as
faithfully in the tempests as when the
sea is like glass. We are in touch with
a power greater than any compass,
greater than any pilot, a power that
can extricate us from the most des¬
perate situation.
Family Floriculture.
George Blank, the stage manager, is
a lover of nature and a hater of over¬
coats and umbrellas. Recently during
a violent rainstorm he called on his
mother, entering her presence wring¬
ing wet. firmly, “you
“George,” said she
ought not to expose yourself in such
weather. You will get pneumonia.” |
“But, mother,” exclaimed George,
with a theatrical wave of his hand,
“why should I {ear the rain? Does
it not nurture the grass? Is it not life
to the flowers?”
“It is a long time,” said tiie good
woman, closing a window, "since jou
were a flower.”—Success Magazine.
Origin of the Word Academy.
Aeaderuus was a wealthy Greek oi
Athens who lived several hundred
years before the birth of Christ.
Among his possessions was a beautiful
grove, where young men used to con¬
gregate and listen to the teachings of
wise men, such as Plato and Socrates.
This developed into the school of mod¬
ern times, and these modern schools
take their name “academy” from the j
old Greek. Academus. Tin real niean
ing of the word academy is a school
for boys.
Sterilized.
•Have you.” inquired the Clt - V ' 1S '
itor, “a moss covered bucket about t le
place?” the farmer
“No, sir,” answered
“Ail our uteusils are sterilized am
strictly sanitary.”—Kansas titj 0111
nal.
No Danger.
The Lady—I’d buy you a nice pear
handled knife for your birthday, hu
I’m superstitious. I’m afraid it would
cut friendship. The Man Cheer
our buys con d
up! No knife a woman
ever cut anything.—Cleveland L< ac» r.
iHE COVINGTON NEWS
TIME Of THE NATION
How It Is Kept at the Naval Ob¬
servatory In Washington.
THE SIGNAL FOR HIGH NOON.
It Is Flashed Out Over Nearly a Mil¬
lion Miles of Telegraph Wires Every
Day In the Year^-The Finely Ad-j
justed Instruments That Are Used.
A few minfites I
before 12 o’clock noon ;
every day iu the year a young man j
walks into a certain room of the main
building at the naval observatory.;
which is set up on a hill in the north- i
western part of the District of Colum¬
bia. He glances at the various clocks j
in the room and then goes over to a
tabic- which is covered with electric!
apparatus.
He watches the docks to his left
closely and waits for the hands to
reach 11:55. As the second hand ap¬
proaches the GO on the dial he pre¬
pares to shift a switch. The clock is I
so finely adjusted that when the sec¬
ond hand points to GO it exactly marks
the beginning of a new minute.
As it touches the GO the switches
are thrown on. That starts a signal
that goes out instantaneously over
900,000 miles of telegraph lines. In
Washington, New York, Buffalo, Cleve¬
land, Newport, Baltimore, Newport
News, Norfolk, Savannah, New Or¬
leans, Key West, Galveston, Chicago
and elsewhere the time balls go up on
their poles. People know that it is
five minutes to noon, Washington time.
The clock which keeps the time in
the observatory ticks on. With each
tick there is a contact of electric
points. A circuit is closed, and an in¬
strument on the table similar in ap¬
pearance to a telegraph sounder ticks
away loudly.
It goes on to the twenty-ninth sec¬
ond, then skips one tick, then resumes
its steady sounding until the last five
seconds* then there is another gap.
These gaps are for the purpose of
giving listeners at the other ends of
the great system of wires a chance to
know what part of the minute the
clock is on. So it goes up to the last
minute.
At the twenty-uinth second there is
again the skipping of one second.
Finally the clock gets around to the
fiftieth second. Then the circuit re¬
mains open for ten seconds. There is
silence all along the telegraph wires.
At the other end. where there are
time balls or merely train operators,
the long pause indicates that noon is
almost there. The second hand makes
on toward GO and finally reaches
the mark. Then there is another click;
in about a second the sounder is down,
and that tells hundreds of thousands
of people that it is noon in Washing¬
ton.
It is a wonderful operation, this get¬
ting the time, and highly technical.
Finely adjusted clocks, chronographs
and other instruments of great value
are used, and the taking and recording!
of the time have reached a point where j
the human equation is practically elim- j
inated.
The results obtained are of great [
value, particularly to mariners. The
time is not only flashed to hundreds
of points in the United States, but it
is sent far out to sea by wireless. A
cable carries the flash to Havana; an¬
other to Panama and Callao, Peru.
The observatory here does not send
the time much farther west than the
Rockies, but they have an observatory
at the Mare Island navy yard, and
from there the time is sent up and
down the Pacific coast, just as it is
from here to the eastern part of the
United States. In the cities where the
central time is used -the flash marks
11 o’clock. An hour later local opera¬
tors drop the time balls.
The mean time is determined by as¬
tronomical observations. When cer¬
tain stars pass the seventy-fifth merid¬
ian. called the meridian of Washing¬
ton. it is a certain time. The operator
watches for the stars through a tele¬
scope. the fiffid of which is covered
with fine wires.
As the stars reach a certain point in
transit the operator presses a key in
his hand. A contact is made and re¬
corded on a chronograph. The chrono¬
graph consists of a cylinder covered
with (taper. A fountain pen rests on
the paper. It is held by an arm at¬
tached to the mechanism. The cylin¬
der revolves once a minute, and the
pen moves along the surface of the
paper, making a spiral line.
A sidereal clock of tiie finest make is
running in a vault underneath the ob¬
servatory. With each tick of the
clock there is a contact of two points.
These two points are attached to wires
that lead to an electro-magnet at¬
tached to the arm that bolds the pen
of the chronograph. The clock is so
adjusted that each minute the pen
jumps to one side. Consequently there
is a break in the line.
There are other breaks, too, when
the observer watches the stars
cross the lines in the field of the
telescope. The mean time thus re¬
corded for each star, after being cor¬
rected for errors, is the clock time of
the star’s transit. Whatever difference
there is between the clock time and
the sidereal time marked by the try ns
it of the stars is the error of the
clock. From these astronomical ob¬
servations the sidereal time is ob¬
tained. The error amounts to but
little rarely being more than from
five one-hundredths to ton one-hun¬
dredths of a second.
The time of sending a flash over the
wires is practically nothing. A flash
has veached Greenwich. England, in
three-tenths of a second.-Washington
Cor. Chicago Inter Ocean.
Fine Chairs and Davenports at
EVERITT S FURNITURE STORE
Just received a solid car load of Chairs and Dav*
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such a magnificent selection of chairs and daven=
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leather Turkish rockers, sleepy hollow rockers,
mahogany and oak rockers in the genuine silk
plush and leather, push button Morris chairs,
porch chairs, bed room and dinner chairs, and a
big assortment of childrens chairs. See my show
window filled with fine Davenports.
Undertaking Department
Our Undertaking Department is the best in the city,
having the only licensed embalmer. Calls answered day
or night.
R. E. EVERITT
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