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Luke Robinson’s
lack Bitters
Benefits every case of Indiges¬
tion, Constipation, Rheuma¬
tism, Cramp Colie, Scrofula,
Scaldhead and all Blood Trou
blesSU ch as Blackheads, Pim¬
ples, Boils, Risings, Old Sores.
White Swelling, etc.
Its merits are unequaled by
medicine for the above and
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er troubles. In
Use For Several Years
Id proven to do all that is claimed
it. Its virtue as an Appetizer.
Commands Confidence.
A balm to the suffering and
uld be used in every home. It
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Will Cure You.
Always acts promptly, soothes
irritation, removes all pain from
■ry organ of the body and will
Pure, fticlr, Red Blood.
Ives a sparkle to the eye and color
the cheek. Makes health take
place of disease.
jThe largest bottle of pure medi¬
ae on the market for the price,
One Dollar Per Bottle.
Every bottle guaranteed to be
benefit.
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THEUGLYRHINOCEROS
Flabby and Stumpy, Yet He Is as
Quick as a Flash.
NOTED FOR HIS KEEN SCENT.
The Stupid Looking Brute Has Nose
a
That Makes Up For His Almost Use
less Llttla Eyes—He Cartwheel at
Full Speed Like a Polo Pony.
At first sight the African rhinoceros
appears to be heavily handicapped by
nature as regards his anatomy. His
flabby, loutish body, short, stumpy
legs, small, unblinking, piglike eyes
and prehensile upper lip all combine
to give him an air of stupid inactivity.
Yet let him once scent danger, and
how quickly is this idea dissipated.
If lying down at the time, he is on
his legs and facing the cause of dis¬
turbance in a flash. If satisfied that
the danger is real, he turns in a sec¬
ond and is galloping up wind at a
pace that compares favorably with
that of a good horse.
To avoid obstructions he can turn
and wheel at full speed like a pob
pony and is capable of keeping up the
pace for miles. In a straight race be¬
tween a rhinoceros and a horse over
two miles of the average country in
which the former is met with, consist¬
ing, as it usually does, of black cotton
soil and ordinary veld, the rhino woul<
be fully able to hold his own.
Being very sure footed, obstacles,
cracks in the ground and small holes .
which would cause a horse to stumble,
If not effect come to grief altogether, have j
no on him whatever, and he will
gallop down one side of a kbor and
up the other, leaving loose stones and
debris rattling, but without one false
step.
Ilis great physical defect is his sight,
his eyes being of very little use to him,
and the hunter may walk straight up
to him in open country till within KX)
yards and, without exercising very
much care, can by stalking, should the,
ground be fairly favorable, easily get
within twenty yards before firing, al¬
ways provided the approach is made ,
from the leeward side. Any advan- j
tage he may lose owing to his bad eye¬
sight is fully made up to him by Ids
sense of smell.
The phrase "a nose like a fox ter¬
rier” is often applied to keenness of
scent. This should rather be ”a nose
like a rhinoceros.” There is very lit¬
tle chance of getting on terms with
him if the approach is made from
windward.
If lying down, he almost invariably
does so with his nose pointed down
wind, consequently the hunter ap¬
proaching, as he naturally should,
from the leeward side, has only the
quarry’s defective sight and hearing
to contend with.
In the daytime the rhino bird, or
oxpecker (Buphaga africana), acts as
a protection to him, sleeping and wak¬
ing. There is a superstition among
the natives that these small birds per¬
form the duties of sentry. To a cer¬
tain extent this is true. They are al¬
ways flitting about and hanging on to
him. feeding on the ticks with which
he swarms, and on the approach of
danger flutter about with little hoarse
cries, which have the effect of rousing
him and, if continued, cause him to
rise up and look around.
It is almost impossible to calculate
correctly what the action of a rhino
will be on becoming aware of danger.
No two of them seem to behave in the
same way in similar circumstances.
On the whole, it is safe to say that
if only disturbed he will retreat, but
should he be actually annoyed and see
his enemy he will retaliate and charge. often |
Serious loss and delay are
caused by a rhino charging a caravan.
Yet this action is nearly always forced
upon him and occurs through stupidi¬
ty rather than premeditated malice.
The head of a caravan, say, of 300
porters, extending over two or three
miles of country, passes to windward
of a rhino. He gets the scent and
moves up wind and perhaps nears the
center of the caravan, when, being
thoroughly alarmed, he turns off a lit¬
tle, only to strike the tail end.
Being now puzzled and seeing at
last, as he thinks, the original cause
of his annoyance* he charges straight
through, on his way horning a load |
or two hastily cast aside by the por¬
ters on his approach. He then passes
on to leeward of the caravan and, be¬
ing at last delivered from the annoy-'
ing scent, moves on into more peaceful
territory. Yet a person who had not
watched his progress from the start
would think that he had conic from a
mile or more away with the deliberate
intention of exterminating the cara¬
van. said that
On the whole, it may be
the disposition of the rhino is on a
par with that of most animals and
many human beings—they wish to be
left alone, and unless worried they
will not make trouble.—London hield.
Two Ways.
“De man dat waits to learn by ex¬
perience,” said Uncle Eben. “is liable
to put in his precious time gettin
cured of a mule kick while de nun
dat used common sense is gettin ns
corn planted.”— Washington Star.
‘•What do you think of this picturt .
“Rotten!” Jom ... Me. „
“Why. it v«8 taken
“Pity the artist wasn t. LU
lender. _____
The trouble isn’t with one slander¬
ing tongue so much as with
•and listening ears.
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THE COVINGTON NEWS
WATERLESS BATHING.
A Good Rub and an Air Bath a Sub¬
stitute For the Tub.
The conditions and conventions of
our civilization demand frequent bath
Big. It is popularly supposed that this
frequent bathing is essential to health.
“This is quite untrue.” says the .Med¬
ical Journal. “We have see® line and
vigorous men among the habitants of
Canada who had never taken a full
bath in their lives. Were the truth
known, many thousands of our fellow
citizens probably know nothing of the
alleged benefits of the tub, though
maintaining excellent average health.
“Such people do not present the
fresh and pleasing appearance of the
frequent bather, however long lived
they may be. Is not, however, much
of the benefit attributed to the water
in reality due to the complete exposure
of the skin to the air?
“The respiratory function of the
skin is of high importance, and, al¬
though water may be dispensed with,
closing the pores to air would result
In speedy asphyxiation. The historic
instance of the boy who impersonated
John the Baptist in a mediaeval pro¬
cession and whose body was covered
with gold leaf with rapidly fatal re¬
sults is proof.
“The ice cold bath is a superstition;
it is a pastime for the abnormally
vigorous, not desirable for the average
civilized man. A bath not too cold is
really an agreeable stimulant as well
as being a luxury. The feeling of well
being after a bath can hardly be ob¬
tained in any other way, and the
rapid multiplication of tubs in hotels
and private residences, soon to ap¬
proach one to the individual, shows
how they are appreciated.
“Unhappy persons, however, whose
travels in the provinces or into the
desert may temporarily deprive them
of sufficient water for bathing may
find a substitute that will at least af¬
ford a part of their accustomed en¬
joyment. The body may be energet¬
ically rubbed with a brush or coarse
Turkish towel and afterward exposed
to the air for fifteen minutes or so.
The accustomed feeling of vigor will
follow and the process will be found
by the uninitiated to be astonishingly
cleansing.”
A STRANGE TRIBE.
The Touaregs, to Whom Timbuktu
Owes Its Origin.
A recent explorer, journeying from
Tripoli across the great desert of Sa¬
hara, gives account of much opposi¬
tion to his progress offered by the va¬
rious wandering tribes. Much of the
most serious trouble was caused by
the Touaregs, a strange band of people,
supposed by some to have descended
from the crusaders. These dwellers of
the desert are distinguished by the
wearing of veils, a custom which has
caused much discussion. Says Felix
Dubois in “Timbuktu the Mysterious:”
As you travel an atmosphere of se¬
crecy hovers over the country, and you
remember that these mysterious Toua¬
regs are still momentarily Its oppress¬
ors and masters.
These people keep their eyes from
the excessive glow of the desert by
two veils, one rolled rouud'the temples
and falling down in front, the other
reaching^from the nostrils to the edge
of the clothing, covering the lower
part of the face. Savants seek all
manner of farfetched origins to ex¬
plain this custom. Hygiene is obvious¬
ly the only motive. This is proved by
their own statements and by the so¬
briquet, “mouths for flies,” which they
give to all who do not wear the veils.
These veils are never removed, even
at mealtimes. They are so much a
part of their wearers that any one de¬
prived of such covering is unrecog¬
nized by his friends and relatives. If
a number of the tribe should be killed
In battle, no one could identify them
if they had not on their veils.
Theft is the Touareg’s natural form
of industry. “This word,” says a na¬
tive proverb, “is like water fallen upon
sand, never to be found again.” The
Sudanese term them as “thieves,
hyenas and abandoned of God.” Yet
to this strange tribe Timbuktu owes
its origin.
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The Force of Habit.
One of the campers had done some¬
thing peculiarly idiotic, and the dean
said! “Dick reminds me of Thomas’
colt.” asked
“What about Thomas’ colt?”
Dick cheerfully.
“Why,” the dean responded readily,
“where I lived in Maine when 1 was a
boy an old man named Thomas raised
horses. He once put out to pasture a
colt which had been fed from its birth
in a box stall and watered at the |
trough in the yard. small
“The pasture lay across a
river, and in the middle of the day the
colt swam the stream to go up to the
barnyard for a drink of water.”
English as Spoken In London.
I must confess in passing that after
lifetime spent upon English 1 had
■i with that lan¬
nearlv as much difficulty
guage “as she is spoke’’ upon the
streets of London by the common peo¬
ple as 1 bad with French and German
in Paris and Berlin. The most popu¬
lar sensational journal of London is
the Daily Mail. They call it the Dily
Mile Many other words are equally un¬
recognizable.—London Letter to Spring
field (Mass.) Republican.
A Never Failing Supply.
The fond husband was seeing his
wife off with the children for their
vacation in the country. As she got
Into the train be said. “But. my dear,
won’t you take some fiction to read .
“Oh. no!” she resopuded sweetly. ”1
shall depend upon your letters from
home.”— London Tatler.
A CULINARY MASTERPIECE.
When You Go to Pari* Don’t Turn Up
Your Nose at Mussels.
You will find in Paris a small res¬
taurant just inside the street enti anee
presided over by a waiter who has ap¬
parently been forty years ot age for
the last twenty years. He has a
friendly, alert air, aud anything in the
world that you want he will promptly
provide.
You will naturally order some sort
of potage or something that your fan
cy suggests; but. whatever else you do.
be sure to call for mussels. 1 can see
you turning up your nose at this. In
America who eats mussels except at
rare times— perhaps some pickled mus¬
sels? They are with us in the same
category as tripe.
But behold the genius of the French!
When the waiter brings in an enor¬
mous silver bowl with a domelike sil¬
ver cover and when he removes the
cover, then you forget everything in
the world except the delicious savory
smell of the steam which rises from
the myriad shells that open lovingly
for you to extract from them the dain¬
ty sea flavored mussel that lurks with¬
in.
Mussel, did 1 say? No; these are not
the ordinary mussels that Americans
know. French gastronomic genius has
transformed them Into tnoules mari
niere. In some deftly magical way the
French chef has imparted a delicious
suggestion to the moules, just that in¬
definable, evanescent memory of gar¬
lic—garlic which in the hands of the
ordinary cook is an offensive and dead¬
ly weapon, but which in the hand* of
a cook of high degree- an artist in
fact—is a means for achieving some of
the supreme triumphs of his art.
After the moules you will have any¬
thing you care for-dainty slices of
galantine or sliced capon nestling amid
watercresses and then perhaps some
peaches in a little basket where the
fruit is infolded in leaves from its
own tree and ripened to precisely the
right turn on some ancient wall in
the sunshine of an old French garden,
then perhaps some pulled bread and
a bit of Camembert find a Cafe Maza
gran in a long glass. No one remem¬
bers now the battle that gave its name
to this particular preparation ot cof¬
fee. which shows that men may come
and empires may fall aud armies may
be dashes into fragments upon the bat¬
tlefield, but the genius of cookery re¬
mains triumphant and its achieve¬
ments are never lost. —Bookman.
A tanner owned a dog—a very good,
high bred aud thoroughly trained dog
-that every morning for three years
chased a railway train that ran past
the farm. The farmer and his wife
were watching the persistent but vain
pursuit one warm morning.
“I wonder.” the wife said, “what
makes that foolish dog chase the train
! so persistently.”
“Never thought about that,” replied
the farmer, “but I’ve often wondered
what he would do If he caught it.”
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Leader In
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Covington, Ga.
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