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JUST PLAIN FACTS
Right in the beginning of this arti¬
cle w r e want to impress the fact t n
your mind that we have got no grie' -
auee to parade before you, but we do
want to show you a few facts with
regard to the publication of the grand
jury presentments. For years it has
b en the custom of the members of
that honorable body of the county’s
most intelligent men to recommend
that “these presentments be publish¬
ed in the county papers and that they
be paid five dollars each for same.”
Now that recommendation is, on its
face, all right, but when you begin to
lock it over and think about ' it, it
immediately begins to show up in an¬
other light. First, the publication of
the grand jury presentments is worth
more than the price recommend d.
They rarely ever make less than two
columns of matter, and anyone who
knows just a little about the cost of
composition and the expense of run¬
ning a paper, knows that it is worth
more. But this isn’t where our kick
comes in. In every county around
Newton the papers receive anywhere
from ten to thirty dollars for the pub¬
lication of this matter. The papers
in Walton receive ten dollars, in
Rockdale they receive ten dollars, in
Putnam they receive fifteen dollars
and in Morgan they receive ten dol¬
lars. This fact comes to our hands
by the perusal of the presentments in
the d ifferent papers. It seems strange
that in a county as progressive as
Newton and with the papers she has
that they should be held in such a
measure of cheapness.
We do not know how the other pa¬
pers in this county feel about it, but
we do not think it is right. Suppose,
for instance, that the grand jury
should recommend that the corn for
the road force should be purchased
from the several merchants handling
that product and that “they be paid
fifty cents a bushel for same,” do you
suppose anyone of the merchants
would do it? We hardly think so.
A merchant wants to place his own
price on his commodities, and is go¬
ing to do it. The newspaper man
wants to place his own price on the
only commodity he has—space, and
when he gets to the place where he
allows some one else to fix his price
he is preparing himself for a race
with the sheriff.
As we said before the merchant
wants to fix his price. We want to
do the same thing, and while we do
do not want to hog it over the county
or for that matter, anyone else, we
cannot and will not publish the grand
jury presentments at the same rate
paid heretofore.
Habit From the Dungeon.
Convicts who were forced to drag
about a ball and chain at the galleys
could often be detected when released
by their habit of trailing one foot
after the other. John Boyle O’Reilly,
condemned to convict life in Australia
for his Fenian sympathies, had also in
after years a habit which told a like
sad story. One who knows him said:
When walking abstractedly and me¬
chanically he always went a short dis¬
tance and then retraced his steps, no
matter how wide a stretch he had be¬
fore him. It was always three paces
forward, turn and three paces back,
exactly like the restless turning of a
lion in a cage. One day I asked him.
“Boyle, what was the length of your
cell when you were in prison—how
many paces?”
“Three,” he said. “Why do you ask?”
“Because when you are absentmind
ed you always walk three paces for¬
ward and then retrace your steps.”
A Lesson In Physiology.
The school superintendent was in
the habit of dropping in to the differ¬
ent class rooms and demanding a re¬
cital of lessons from the pupils. One
day her active mind hit upon physiol¬
ogy as the study for examination.
It happened that the teacher did
1 herself not like the study of the hu¬
man anatomy and therefore had not
drilled her scholars as she should have
done. But the little girl to whom the
first question was put so bewildered
the superintendent and made her lose
her patience that there were no more
questions of a similar nature asked.
“Tell me.” said the superintendent,
“what a skeleton is.”
The little girl thought for a short
time.
“A skeleton?” she asked. "A skele¬
ton? Why, a skeleton is a man with
his insides out and his outsides off.”—
New York Times.
Barring the Party.
“Pray, Mr. Canning.” said a lady to
the English statesman, “why have
they made the space in the Iron gates
at Spring gardens so narrow?"
“Oh, ma’am,” replied Canning, with
the delightful absurdity for which he
| was famous, "because such very fat
people used to go through."
A womau~gave~ allot Her woman tier
photograph, and the recipient, instead
of saying. “1 will treasure it always."
refused to accept it. “It means only
one more thing to be dusted.’’ she said
“If 1 have it out on the fable It be¬
comes a nuisance, and if I put It out
of sight you will be offended. More¬
over. every day that passes it will lie
ccrne a little more old fashioned and a
little more of a caricature. I won’t
have it."— Atchison fllnho.
Notice.
Venable Bros, have re-opened their
store and all parties indebted to them
are requested to come in and settle at
once.
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Covington, March Ga., under the Act of
3, 1879.
COVINGTON, GA. September22,1909
Come to Covington. You will like
it. She is the best town in the state,
without an exception.
The sound of the real hammer and
saw has droumed out the pessimists
little hammer in this city.
There is at present a heavy tariff
on brimstone. Better heed the ad
advice of the preachers and let it
alone.
What in the world has become of
Teddy? The North Pole episode has
relegated him to the rear for a bit, it
seems.
The people of West Newton are
building themselves good road s re¬
gardless of what the citizens of other
sections think of the plan.
They are talking about making
Peary a Rear Admiral. He has been
in the rear for quite a while and this
will only put him in his class.
Vacant lots is this city are selling
for fifteen dollars a front foot. Makes
you almost believe you were out on
Peachtree in that little village called
Atlanta.
President Taft has stated that he
would inaugurate a reform in legal
procedure. It is to be hoped that he
won’t reform it like he did with
the tariff reform.
And now comes a Washington Judge
with the ruling that chewing gum is
contempt of court. That “jaw’ing”
game is to be henceforth and hereaf¬
ter operated by the lawyers.
The Atlanta Constitution complains
that there is a deluge of Autumn lit¬
erature, with little blue strings tied
around the center. Better that by
far than the average Spring kind.
Newton county has a planter this
year with a corn field of twelve acres
and it is estimated that he will make
one hundred bushels to the acre.
Pellagra has no terrors for this man.
We notice one or two of the papers
are raising the price of their sheets
to $1.50 per year, stating that they
cannot publish them for a dollar.
The price of The News will remain
the same.
With cotton at twelve and a half
cents a pound and cotton seed at
thirty-five cents per bushel, the far¬
mers of the county are all feeling bet¬
ter over the outlook than they did
some months ago.
There will be no necessity for good
roads when the airship comes in for
transportation purposes. As it is a
long time before they will be practi¬
cal, though, it would be a good idea
to let the good road work proceed.
We have been repeatedly told that
Covington was not large enough for
two good papers. From the amount
of reading matter and the number of
LOCAL advertisements carried in this
issue of The News it looks like there
is one live one here all right.
Editor Pendleton of the Telegraph,
has unearthed another stink about
pot-metal editorials used by the dail¬
ies against the railroads. We have
been expecting this to happen. Pen¬
dleton knows how to keep a line on
the boys, and after a while they will
all have to set up and take notice.
The first issue of The Eatonton
News is on our desk and is one of the
best papers ever issued from that live
little city. Editor Vaughn is well
known as a newspaper man and if he
fails to give the people of that section
a first class paper it will be his first
fall-dow r n. Here’s wishing you ali
kinds of success, neighbor.
There are a lot of funny things in
tli is w r orld. For generations the waist
of the fair sex has been shifting about,
but now 7 fashion has tw 7 o stytes that
complicate matters considerably. One
of them has a dress w 7 ith the waist
line just under the arm w 7 hile it is
just as fashionable to wear one w ith
that particular part just above the
knees. The boys are kept guessing
as to just where they will take hold.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
DOES FARMING PAY?
This question would seem to be a :
supertiuos one, especially in this sec-!
tion, with cotton above twelve cents 1
and other farm products high in pro¬
portion. And yet it is one that recurs
continually, because forsooth, some
man who was a poor farmer or other¬
wise unfortunate failed to do well.
Farming does pay. There is not a
shadow of a doubt it, if the same en¬
ergy be devoted to it that is required
to make other business pay, and it is
: managed intelligently.
A bale of cotton is now worth sixty
dollars. This is as much as the aver¬
age of a month’s wage in the city.
; Only a mechanic or workman of ex¬
traordinary skill will earn more in a
month. The ordinary salesman or
office mail rarely earns more than
that. There are among the workers
in the city more who earn less than
sixty dollars a month, than there are
of workers who earn more. The far¬
mer receives this for one bale of cot¬
ton.
True, w T hen he receives this money
it represents in part work put in for
several months, but it also represents
only part payment for this work. One
man can easily make six bales of cot¬
ton, under a system of diversified
farming by which, in addition to cot¬
ton, other products are raised which
will exceed in commercial value the
value of the cotton crop. Taking a
man w'ho has only his own labor by
which to ear a support, he can, and
will if he manages properly, make
more money on the farm than he can
at work in town.
Nor is this all. Living on the farm
is so much cheaper. In town every¬
thing must be bought. To begin with
it takes about one-fourth of the work¬
ingman’s income to pay rent. He
gets nothing, except water, without
having first bought it, and at prices
that are sadly out of harmony with
his earnings. On the farm many of
these expenses are escaped altogether
and all things are cheaper, which
greatly reduces the cost of living.
It seems strange that, this being
the case, there should not be a great
exodus from the city to the country,
and instead a steady movement from
the country to the city. This latter
is caused by young men leaving the
farm for the city, not because they do
not know 7 that the farm offers greater
substantial reward for work than does
the city, but because life in the city
looks alluring to them to a degree
that they are willing to be content
with lesser earnings to enjoy what in
their inexperience t hey believe to be
greater pleasures.
And the movement of working men
from the city to the farm is prevented
by the tales of failures on the part of
those who, through improvidence,
failed to make a success of farming.
This number is surprisingly large. It
is so easy to make money by farming
that those who make it fail to learn
how to use it properly. A farmer
brings in two or three bales of cotton
and sells it. He gets a hundred or
two hundred dollars in a lump sum,
something which a workingman in
the city may not do in a lifetime.
And he fails to invest that money
properly 7 . Instead of applying such
part of it as may not be needed to
supply a tual personal wants for the
enlargement or betteimmt <f hi,
business, to increase receipts the next
year, he will perhaps invest it in a
fine buggy and horse to match, which
he will put in much time to wear out
the next year, and in this way not
only will he fail to better his condi¬
tion but, if any drawback should be
experienced as must be expected at
times in any business, he becomes
entangled in debt.
Farming pays, and pays better than
any 7 other kind of ordinary work.
But proper management and an in¬
telligent use of the advantages gained
is necessary to make farming suc¬
cessful as a means to win indepen¬
dence.—Augusta Herald.
FOR SALE.
One 2-horse power Gasoline Engine,
800 gallon steel tank, pump and pi pe.
Also cut-off saw 7 and power churn.
All comparatively new and in good
condition. Will sell at a bargain,
tf. P. W. Godfrey.
Notice.
Venable Bros, have re-opened their
1 store and all parties indebted to them
are requested to come in and settle at
once.
Seeing the Cook.
A wealthy society woman in Wash¬
ington had one of those domestic up¬
heavals which ended in her cook leav¬
ing abruptly. Guests were expected,
no one to cook the dinner, no results
from telephoning, so she sallied forth
in quest of emergency help. Meeting a
very neat looking colored woman, she
stopped her and explained her dilem¬
ma. offering large money inducement.
The woman listened in silence, then
said:
“Where does yo’ live, missus?”
Seeing a ray of hope, joyfully the
lady gave her address, to be met with
this reply:
“Weil, yo’ jess go home and look in
j yo’ glass, an’ yo’ll see yo’ cook!”-New
York Times.
PROMPT JUSTICE.
The Magistrate Was Firm and Tried
to Be Genial.
In the “History of Beverly,” Mass.,
the following anecdote is related of a
good justice of the peace in the old co¬
lonial times. On a cold night in winter
a traveler called at his house for lodg¬
ing. The ready hospitality of the jus¬
tice was about being displayed when
the traveler unluckily uttered a word
which his host considered profane.
Upon this he informed tiis guest that
he was a magistrate, pointed out the
nature of the offense and explained the
necessity of its being expiated by sit¬
ting an hour in the stocks.
Remonstrance was unavailing, for
custom at that time allowed the mag¬
istrate to convict and punish at once,
and in this case he acted as accuser,
witness, jury, judge and sheriff, all In
one.
Cold as it was, our worthy justice,
aided by his son, conducted the travel¬
er to the place of punishment, an open
place near the meeting house where
the stocks w 7 ere placed. Here the trav¬
eler was confined in the usual manner,
the benevolent executor of the law re¬
maining with him to beguile the time
of Its tedium by edifying conversation.
At the expiration of the hour he w 7 as
reconducted to the house and hospita¬
bly entertained till the next morning,
when the traveler departed w 7 itb, let
us hope, a determination to consider
his words more carefully before giving
them utterance in the hearing of a con¬
scientious magistrate.
JAPAN’S PAGODAS.
They Are Built to Resist the Shock of
an Earthquake.
A remarkable fact iu Japan Is that
pagodas built hundreds of years ago
embody the principle of the modern
seismograph, which is to minimize the
effect of earthquake motion by the
combination of an inverted pendulum
with an ordinary pendulum, or, in
other wrnrds, by the union of a stable
and an unstable structure to produce a
neutral stability, which renders the
whole building least sensible to earth¬
quake shock.
In the hollow well of every five sto¬
ried pagoda a heavy mass of timber is
suspended freely, like an exaggerated
tongue, from the top right to the
ground, but not in contact with it, and
at the shock of an earthquake this
large pendulum slowly swings and the
structure sways aud then settles back
safely upon its base.
This is also the principle followed in
the construction of all bell towers
throughout Japan, where the bell acts
as pendulum, and the roof, supported
by posts, forms an inverted pendulum,
as in the seismograph.
When an earthquake occurs a pagoda
or a bell tower may be rotated or dis¬
placed, but it cannot be overturned as
a whole.—Wide World Magazine.
Peeling a Snake.
It Is difficult to skin a dead snake,
and the skin is often spoiled in the
course of the operation, while, on the
other hand, it is a simple matter to
skin a live snake, and the skin thus
gaiued is worth much more. Dead
snakes bring from 2 to 5 cents, accord¬
ing to their size, aud live ones from
25 cents to $1. One of the largest
snake skin companies has factories iu
Sumatra. When a snake is received
from a hunter it is seized adroitly by
an operator, one band squeezing the
neck and the other bolding the tail.
It is then attached by the neck to the
trunk of a palm tree, an assistant
holding it by the tail. With the point
of a knife the operator cuts the skin
just below the head and, pulling with
all bis strength, peels it from the
writhing reptile in the same way that
a woman peels a pair of gloves from
her hand.—Popular Mechanics.
Two Points of View.
“Good morning, Jones!”
“Good morning, Brown! Any news
today ?”
“Why, yes. You know my brother
who works at the bank? Well, he went
to business the other day and found
£1,000 on the counter. And what do
you think he did? Stole the money
and tripped off to Canada. And when
the news reached my father it broke
the old man’s heart.”
“That’s funny! You know, my broth¬
er works at a bank, too, and when he
went to business the other morning he
found £1,000. And what do you think
he did?”
“What—stole it?”
“No; took it straight to the man¬
ager’s office. And when the news
reached my father, do you know, it
broke the old man’s heart!”—London
Telegraph.
Streams of Light.
One night we were in a dense crowd
watching a parade when during one of
those unaccountable lulls which so of¬
ten occur in large crowds a little fel¬
low who was perched high up on his
father’s shoulder shouted: “Oh, papa,
you ought to see! Way in the street
they are just squirting light all over
the people.”—Delineator.
Successful Publicity.
The king of successful advertisers
was given an interview.
“My methods are very simple,” he
said. “1 learned them from watching a
girl trying to keep her engagement a
secret.”—Newark News.
Encouragement.
Artist—Yes, I keep pegging away.
Sometimes 1 get discouraged and say
to myself, “What’s the use?” Friend—
Don’t give up. old man. You can’t do
worse than you’ve done, you know.—
Exchange.
Education is a capital to a poor man
and an Interest to a rich man.—Horace
Mann.
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while the style is so distinctively
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Also a nice Line of Stationery,
Cigars and Tobacco.
Nunnally’s Fine Candies Always Fresh. -
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NEW GOODS ARRIVING
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A fine line of ladies tailor made suits that are beauties.
Ladies Hats
Ready to wear in the latest styles, shapes and colors.
Ladies Shoes
A complete line of the latest things in fall and winter
shoes for the ladies.
Ladles Furs and Muffs
Something new for the cold weather. Every lady should
have a set of these.
Ladies Skirts and Shirt Waists.
My line here is very full and snappy with everything ne "
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Seed Oats For Sale.
Seed Oats and Seed Wheat. Appier Oats, the Old Georg
Rust Proof and Texas Red Rust Proof Oats raised in Georgia*
price is 75 cts. and $1.00 per pushel, depending on the
quantity, delivered in Covington. All seed caretully f*m nt ^
are
recleaned.
L. W. JARMAN, Porterdale, Ga.