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Black Bitters
Benefits evety case of Indiges¬
tion, Constipation, Rheuma¬
tism, Cramp Colic, Scrofula,
Scaldhead and ail Blood Trou
bies such as Blackheads, Pirn
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White Swelling etc.
Its Its merits merits are are uneoualcd unequaied b\ m
any medicine for the above and
other troubles. In
Use For Several Years
and proven to do all that is claimed
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Commands Confidence.
A balm to the suffering and
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has cured numbers and it
Will Cure You.
Always acts promptly, soothes
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make
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gives a sparkle to the eye and color
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Every bottle guaranteed to be
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Watch this column every week
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be convinced of its merits in
scrofula.
GEORGIA, Walton County.
I, James B. Knight, of Jersey,
Ga., do certify that my child,
years old, had suffered from a scro¬
fulous sore on her head and face,
covering her entire head and caus
ing bloody water to eontinously
drip from her nose. We had tried
various remedies for the trouble to
no avail. At last upon recommen
elation of Mr. Jesse Robinson we
tried Dr. Luke Robinson’s Black
Bitters. The effect was a cure—
and only two bottles used. We
always speak well of Robinson’s
Black Bitters, and keep it always
in our house. We think there is
no lietter family medicine made.
Respectfully,
Jas. B. Knight,
Jersey, Georgia.
CONTEST CLOSES
TUESDAY NIGHT,
Several Of Our Writers Are Re¬
ceiving \ otes Daily and
Average is Good.
The Correspondents’ Gold Watch
Contest, now being run by this paper,
aiu, uil! t.,e close a.nners n ext \\i Tuesday ' ni^ht, et
The first .
the next issue. prize is a
handsome gold watch and the second
is a five dollar gold piece.
Our correspondents may all rest as
sored that the people in their respect
ve communities appreciate the items
‘ s, nd ,,hl ' each week ’ for
th.re have been votes receivedl by us
from even corner of t he county
go to the correspondents.
For even dollar paid on subscrip¬
tion 100 votes will be allowed; for
fifty cents. ,SO votes and for twenty
five cents, 25 votes. The correspond¬
ents are working hard, and are
ting their friends to renew their sub
seriptions and place the votes to their
credit. Many have already renewed
and there are a number of citizens
from each settlement who should re¬
new their subscriptions during the
week and give the votes to their cor
I respondents. It would be a good
thing, for the correspondents do as
much or more for a community than
anyone else living in it.
Although there are several within a
radius of three hundred votes, we give
only the three leading contestants,
who are:
Pace, 3840 votes.
Covington Mill, 3790 votes.
Snapping Shoals, 3890.
As will be seen from the above the
three leaders are right close together
and their friends are voting for them
right along. There are a number of
others in the running who are right
at these and they, too, are working
hard.
Get your friends to vote for you.
They will renew their subscriptions if
you ask them to.
Totes will be received at this office
up to five o’clock Tuesday night, Au¬
gust 31.
Mr. Bradshaw Enters New Business.
Mr. J. O. Bradshaw has purchased
the business of Scruggs Brothers,
plumbers, in this city, and will begin
work at once. Mr. Bradshaw has se¬
cured the services of the best plumb¬
ers in the country and will make the
I prices the best.
Mr. Bradshaw is one of the city’s
most progressive young men and as¬
sumes his new work with every pros
peet of a prosperous business.
Baseball Next Saturday.
; We are reques ted to state the ball
teara from Porterdate and Ola, known
as Norman’s team, will play a fast
game in this city Saturday afternoon .
The game will doubtless draw a large
crowd as it is known that these two
teams have some of the best players
in the state outside the league, and
their playing has brought forth a con¬
siderable amount of favorable com¬
ment when they have played at other
places.
The game will be called at the Ball
an< f both teams will be glad for
you to come out and see the game.
AMERICAN WANDERLUST.
A Habit Which Strengthens the Co
hesive Unity of the Nation.
Less than half the members of
United States senate and house of rep
resentatives are native born in
states which they represent.
could more clearly show the alert
tivities of the American people
| that constant intermingling of the in
habitants of the several states which
adds so much to the cohesive unity
the nation. The boy who goes to a
distant state often accomplishes
than the one who goes straight on In
the footprints of his father in
home village. Even Daniel
was not born in the old Bay State,
whose influence and dignity lie so well
sustained and whose people mourned
him so sincerely when his great life
closed.
This wandering from state to state
has resulted in the organizing in New
York city of many state societies,
which aim to gather together the
tives of their res|>ective states an
j uually to revive the pleasant memories
of the old home days, with their thou
sand clinging ties.
What would happen if the Ameri¬
can people should cease to wander
about the country? is a question often
asked. It is said that an eastern man
never amounts to_anything until he
goes west and that a western man
has to come east in order to attain his
full stature mentally. The northern
man is advised to go south to learn
gentle courtesy and chivalric bearing,
the southerner to go north to add
more irou to his blood. There can be
no doubt that this constant evolution
has encouraged the birth of new ideas.
just as the whirling of the kinetoseope
developed a toy into our present won
derful moving pictures, which gives us
glimpses of life in motion all over the
world.—Joe Mitchell Chappie In
tional Magazine.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
Lo^uin Locals.
Master Tester Ellington spent sev¬
eral days last week with Master Eddie
Dick at Gaithers.
Mrs. Henry Meadors visited Mrs.
John Thompson Saturday night.
Mrs. Bob Ellington and children
and Mrs. B. A. Wiley and little daugh¬
ter of Jersey spent several days very
pleasantly with Mrs. A. S. Ellington
i a8 t week.
an d Mrs. Robert Tilling spent
Sunday J with their aunt Miss Deanie
1 fn '
Misses Minnie Lee and Ora May
Cunnard are spending this week with
their grand parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Lewis, of Jasper.
Mr. Raymond Mann, of Jonesboro,
arrived Saturday to be the guest of
Mr. Raymond Roberts.
Miss Phena Meadors is spending a
few days with relatives in Jackson.
Mr. C. W. Wright and sisters Misses
Allie Beck and Nell attended preaeh
ing at Red Oaks Thursday night,
Me88r8 A . s. and E. B. Ellington, !
Mrs E ^ Wilev and Miss Alice
Thompson spent Thursday at Indian
g .
g
Mr. an d Mrs. H. L. Osborn visited
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Thompson Sunday
afternoon,
Mrs. John Clark and children have
returned to their home in Atlanta
after a pleasant visit to her mother,
Mrg H Meadors,
Mr. F. H. Wright spent Monday in
Covington.
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Cunnard visited j
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis of Jasper county
Sunday.
Mr ’ Tom Snnth . 8 b ent Sunda >’ vel T
pleasantly with Mr. O. D. Grant.
I
Last Satuday Love joy Sunday School
gathered at Gaither’s Mill for a picnic
which was largely attended. Quite a
crowd from Gaithers, Mixon, Hays
ton, Starrsville and Leguin and all
reported a very pleasant time.
ONE OYSTER ENOUGH.
He Swallowed It Alive and Had to Kill
It After It Was Down.
A farm laborer from the interior on
his first visit to London dropped into
a small oyster shop where a number
of men were eating raw oysters. The
extreme satisfaction displayed on the
faces of those about him created long¬
ings of a gustatory nature in the new
arrival, who edged his way up to the
counter in anticipation of eating a
real live, juicy oyster.
It was the first time he had seen an
oyster, and he became at once inter¬
ested. and when the shellfish had been
finally uncased he proceeded to bal¬
ance it on the end of his fork. then,
with a look of extreme satisfaction,
gulped it down.
‘•Great Scott”’ shouted a man stand¬
ing near him. “You haven’t swallowed
the oyster alive, have you?”
There was a horrible pause.
“That critter will eat right through
you!” shouted another.
By this time the poor countryman
was shaking with fear and horror. He
commenced to have terrible pains in
his abdomen and was soon doubled up
in his agony. He begged some one to
go for a doctor to get the thing out.
He continued to grow worse, when
some one suggested that he take a
dose of tabasco sauce, which il was
claimed would kill the object that
was creating such terrible commotion
in his internal arrangement.
He grasped the bottle with avidity
and took a draft. His condition, which
before had been alarming to the vic¬
tim, now assumed a serious phase to
ihe perpetrators of thg hoax.
The man gasped and choked. He
became black in the face, and tears
were running down his face, when
some one thrust a bottle of oil into
his mouth, and he was forced to drink
copious drafts.
The effect was magical. The oyster
was evidently “dead.” He became
more composed, and when he finally j
recovered his breath he said:
“We killed it. But when that darn¬
ed stuff got into my stomach that oys
ter rushed around as if a shark was
after it.”—London Scraps.
“Zola,” said a psychologist, “once
wrote in a lady’s album that his favor¬
ite amusement was writing and his
favorite wish a sudden death. Zola
died suddenly.
“And it is a strange thing,” said the
psychologist, “that those who prefer a
j sudden death usually have their pref
erence gratified. It is one of those
things which go to show the mind’s
mysterious power. Who knows but it
is this very desire for death, quick,
painless, undreaded, which actually
causes that happy kind of death? The
mind, you know, has a power that we
have only just begun to understand.”—
Philadelphia Bulletin.
Planning Ahead.
“Theater parties,” said the prospec¬
tive Dually, bride, flowers “will cost about $200 an- j
as much more and
bonbons, say, $100. Certainly we can
marry on $000 a year.”
“And have a snug surplus.” suggest
ed her dad. “for such incidentals as
grub and clothes and house rent.”
Philadelphia Bulletin. ‘_
_
j still Possible.
“Uuele, can’t I be a pirate when I
grow up?”
“Sure you can. sou. What do vou
I w# nt to pirate—books or plays?”—
Covington News Correspondents
GOLD WATCH CONTEST
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to September first will be given a Handsome Gold Watch
The one reoeiving the next highest number will be given a
Five Dollar Gold Piece. All our correspondents are eligible
Every subscriber can vote for his choice. Fill in coupon b^
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I vote for correspondent at
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t
Postoffice
THE HURRYING BARBER.
Speed Manifested More In the Motions
Than In the Results.
“Barbers,” remarked the man with
the short hair, “are born unable to
hurry. Just you go into a shop, as I
did the other day, wanting a hair cut,
and ask the barber how long it will
take. He told me, ‘Oh, about twenty
minutes!’ and 1 said to go ahead.
“That barber honestly believed be
was hurrying, but he couldn’t leave
out those little snip-snips about the
back of the neck they are all so fond
of doing, and he had to cut the hair as
if he were chiseling priceless marble.
When it got to be about half an hour
I said to him, ‘You’re a pretty bad
judge of time, aren’t you?’ He came
back with something about not want¬
ing to turn out a poor job.
“I've known it to happen often’in
the case of shaving. When you tell a
barber to hurry he dashes around on
the tiled floor at Imminent risk of fall¬
ing. and he splashes the lather into
your eyes and your mouth, but the fact
remains that he takes as much time
as usual to rub the lather into your
face and as much time to shave you.
“I begin to believe there is some
sort of rule regarding time that all
barbers observe, because I have timed
them. Once 1 asked a barber to hurry
shaving me, and he had all the motions,
but took up just as much time as
when he went along at his usual gait.
“I Imagine they believe the customer
will be satisfied with the appearance
of speed, and that’s the reason they
run around so and breathe heavily as
if winded when changing from one
side of the chair to the other.”—New
York Sun.
Children of Criminals.
It is a curious fact—oue all at vari¬
ance with the doctrines of heredity,
but borne out by police records—that
the children of crooks, of all classes,
rarely turn out to be crooks them¬
selves. Deeper study of the subject
might reveal that they are possessed
of the criminal instincts, but that the
tragically close example of the punish¬
ment and wretchedness that attend a
criminal career has been a terrifying
deterrent. The fact, at any rate, re¬
mains. The rogues’ galleries of Scot¬
land Yard, New York and Chicago
may be studied in vain for the photo¬
graphs of a father and a son.—Argo¬
naut.
Some Vaudeville Jokelets Which Age
Cannot Wither.
Vaudeville is known as the “laugh
trust,” but not for the reason one
might think. It gets the phrase be¬
cause there are a certain definite num¬
ber of devices in its category of acts
that control the laughs of its audi¬
ences. The same old things are al¬
ways good for a laugh in vaudeville.
According to the Bohemian Magazine,
a new device, a new bit of “business,”
a new joke, are all regarded as dan¬
gerous by the performers. The fol¬
lowing table details some of the times
at which a vaudeville audience regu¬
larly laughs:
When a comedian walks with a
mincing step and speaks in a falsetto
voice.
When a German comedian opens his
coat and discloses a green waistcoat.
When a comedy acrobat falls down
repeatedly.
When a performer asks the orchestra
leader if he is a married man.
When a black face comedian says
something about chicken.
When a performer starts to rise from
a chair and the drummer pulls a res
ined piece of cord so that the perform¬
er 4hiuks his clothes have ripped.
When the drummer suddenly beats
the drum during a comedian’s song
and the latter stops and looks in his
direction.
When a tramp cornelian turns
around and discloses a purple patch
or several pearl buttons or a target
sewed on the seat of bis trousers.
When the funny member of the
troupe of instrumentalists interrupts
the progress of a melody by sounding
a discordant note on his trombone.
When a clown of a teara of acrobats
poises himself to do a presumably dif¬
ficult feat and suddenly changes his
mind and walks away without doing
it.—New York Sun.
A PRECOCIOUS DOG.
The Wonderful Feats He Performed
For Joseph Jefferson.
There is a story that is told of Jo¬
seph Jefferson and the boys that had
to do with the training of dogs. It
appears that there was a gentleman in
New Iberia who owned a very intelli¬
gent animal, and he was most anxious
for Mr. Jefferson to see an example of
his prowess. Accordingly he brought
him to the island one day and put him
through his various tricks, which were
remarkably clever.
When the performance was over Mr.
Jefferson expressed bis appreciation
and wonder at what the dog had done,
but added that be bad an animal that
was even more remarkable. As the
gentleman seemed to be in some doubt
as to the truth of this statement the
dog, a dejected, stupid looking beast,
was produced, and Mr. Jefferson or¬
dered him to go into his room and
bring him a shoe.
Obediently the dog trotted into the
house to presently reappear with the
shoe in his mouth. Taking it from
him, Mr. Jefferson patted him upon
the head and told him to return to his
room and bring him the slipper for his
left foot.
“And, mind you, bring the left one.”
he cautioned as the animal trotted
away.
When he returned in a moment with
the left slipper the gentleman could
hardly express his astonishment, but
Mr. Jefferson waved the matter indif¬
ferently aside.
“It is nothing,” said he. “However,
we will now try something a little
more difficult.” Then, turning to the
dog, he spoke to him very slowly and
carefully. “Now go into the library.”
said he, “look upon the bottom shelf on
the right hand side of the room and
you will see a set of Dickens. Bring
me the second volume. Remember,
now, the second volume; not the first
or the third, but the second.”
When the dog returned in a few
moments with the second volume in
his mouth the gentleman retired in the
utmost confusion, declaring that in
comparison with such a prodigy his
own much vaunted animal was little
better than an imbecile.
And 1 may add that Mr. Jefferson
enjoyed the joke fully as much as did
the boys, who. according to a [(rear¬
ranged plan, had placed each succes¬
sive article in the prodigy’s mouth. As
to the prodigy, his one accomplishment
consisted of trotting into the house
and trotting out of it again.—Nevil G.
Henshaw in Bohemian.
Tabri Mountain.
At Capetown, in South Africa, where
the traveler usually has the first
glimpse of the continent, is Table
mountain, a magnificent natural curi¬
osity which rises behind the city to
the height of almost 4,000 feet and
has a level top about three square
miles in area. Its resemblance to a
huge table is so marked that the
dense clouds which collect at times
around the summit are referred to as
the tablecloth. A pretty little flower
which is found nowhere else on earth
grows on top, while on the northern
side of its base is a similarly rare
tree, popularly called the silver leaf
tree.
The Slow One.
“Would you,” he said after they had
been sitting In the dark for a long
time, “be angry with me if I were to
kiss you?”
She was silent for a moment. Then
in tones the meaning of which was not
to be mistaken she replied:
“Why do you suppose I turned down
the light an hour and a half ago?”
And yet he wondered, poor fool, how
other young men who had started far
in the rear were able to pass him in
the race of life.
“Have luncheon today?”
“Nope.”
“Thought I saw you going out.”
“You did. hut I had lunch, not
luncheon. I only had 15 cents to
spend.”—Exchange.
Let us not talk ill of our enemies.
They only never deceive us.— Hous
«aje.
JURY LIST.
September Term Newton County
Superior Court.
The following gentlemen have bee
drawn to serve as Grand and Travers
Jurors at the September Term, 190!
of Newton Superior Court:
GRAND JURORS.
W. E. Harwell, P. W. Godfrey,
E. W. Fowler, W. B. Smith,
H. J. Boggus, P. W. Turner,
E. F. Hays, J. J. Carter,
C. D. Ramsey, M. II. Davis,
J. L. Stephenson, C. C. Epps, Jr.,
J. W. Sock well, R. E. Everitt,
S. A. Brown, I). A.Thompson,J:
J. W. Branham, J. O. Adams,
J. C. Harwell, T. T. Sullivan,
F. R. Porter, W. B. Hurst,
G. W. Avery, W. H. Ogletree,
G. D. ALmand, W. T. Milner,
W. 0. Clark, B. J. Anderson,
J. R. Stephenson, T. G. Callaway,
TRAVRRSK JURORS.
Hugh Aiken, W. R. Roberts,
J. J. Corley, W. J. Hays,
C. A. Wander, Woodie Piper,
W.W. Willingham,J. W. Coggin, Pickett,
E. W. Adams, J. L.
J. B. Ellington, W. N. Dobbs,
C. E. Chestnut, W.B.R.Penington
T. A. Cook, J. M. Aaron,
C. A. Sockwell, L. L. Johnson,
W. A. Gardner, L. S. Smith,
E. E. Parker, J. T. Elliott,
W. H. Gaither, J. Q. Harvey,
R. W. Campbell, E. N. Dabney,
C. A. Franklin. W. R. Greer,
J. H. Camp, R. 1. Mobley,
E. H. Mobley, W. H. Adams,
R. R. Fowler, D. W. Adams,
William Boyd, Wolf Cohen,
LOVE'S DOUBTING.
A Phase of Life Through Which Many
Married Women Pass.
The only incidenls that marred our
happiness were sudden and inexplica¬
ble "flare ups.” Occasionally, to ° ur
amazement, a trifle would mate us
glare at each other like animals and
speak bitterly. Five minutes later
would express our regret and shame
Soon 1 perceived that these quarrels
were due to nerves and to the trial'
of adjustment. Oue evening we had
an argument that was particular!j hy
violent and distressing. It ended
Frank’s going to bed. 1 remained m
the seat where I had been reading.an
for a long time l pretended to mjset
that 1 was going on reading. Present
ly tears fell on my book. Then 1 s.m
“How silly all this is! I am making
myself suffer, and I am making I ! ' !1
suffer too. I will go stole and into tell him the J "
I am sorry.” So I peacefully.
room. lie was sleeping wit h>u
That little experience, not
humor as I look hack on it. made «>
first realize how differently l' 1 ’ a11 ’ a
I could be affected by the same t,ul '.
It marked the beginning of mj um ' u
ness. Soon I stopped reading atom*
Frank; why, I can’t remember.
things disturbed me. At tirs
thought of them used to be
away by my delight on seeing ■
In the evening. Then. too. there
come the feeling that those ^
accidents and would no *
were of]j
again. In the second year
riage, just after dinner. I 1 ' 1 * 1 *’ t0
read the newspaper till he >ep
doze. Then he would rouse 11
agreeable. Il ‘ ffor t
and try to be iet
troubled tr.e. There was also ^
and efficient deciding of lin ' 1
without reference to my " ib tt ’’ [
danger e
here I felt there was fnhougbt ^
said to myself, “ Su W X,S * '
him, ’ and I grow cold, riien f
of the moment when 1 shou i
that I was tiring him. Here m. j
of humor came to my rescue, y
felt better. I imagine that
women pass through tin
American Magazine.
Chip From the Old Block
Lazy Jackson—Look at hen .
w’at would yo’ do ef y® 1
son, °P j, t
muddah an’ no faddah to S jt
yo’? Ephey Jacksou-Wby. aha
married, of cou’se.—Judge-
