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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 . 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, j 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* enports. Never before have we been able to show such a magnificent selection of chairs and daven= ports. We have the three escentials for business, Quanity, Quality and price. The line embraces the latest styles in genuine 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 4 * ** j Our Price to You $65.00. We Are The Only Factory In The South Selling Direct To You At Wholesale Pries. Guaranteed you a saving of from $20.00 to $25.00 on your buggy and harness. All kinds of repairing done by us. Rubber Tiring a Specialty. Covington Buggy Company “ALWAYS RUSY”