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There are Bargain Offers in the purchase of a home and land as in the purchase of staples in a dry goods store. Its
the wise business man who succeeds and success is achieved by watching for bargains and buying when the price is right
In buying a home there are several things to take into consideration. A good neighborhood is worth the price of a lots
of places. The time was when men did not take into consideration the location in purchasing. Now it is everything.
They purchase now with a view to being close to a good school and near a church and on the public road.
In this issue of the News I am advertising two Bargain Places, the purchase of either will mean money in your pocket. I am
able to sell these two farms cheaper now than they will ever sell for again. They are bargains at the present price and I look for
both of them to sell in less than 5 years at $50 per acre.
BARGAIN NUMBER 1. BARGAIN NUMBER 2.
This is a small farm of 100 acres just three miles from Covington on the 31 2 acres farm 4 1 -2 miles west of Covington on the public road leading
public road leading to Starrsville and Legum. There is a good 4 room house to Salem. This is one of the best farms in that whole section and can be
and one tenant house on place. About 50 acres in cultivation, 12 acres of fine bought far below its real value. On the place is a 6 room residence and four
bottom land and plenty of fimber. This farm can be bought very reasonable tenant houses with from 2 to 5 rooms each. About 160 acres in cultivation
just now and will not stay long on the market. 40 acres in original woods, 50 acres of as good bottom land as its possible to
find and a fine pasture. If purchasers shouldn’t wish all of the 312 acres it
This Is Exceptionable Fine Farm. can be cut up into three separate farms, one containing 158 acres, another 92
an acres and anothe J 62 acres.
Both of these farms can be bought reasonable at present and are Bargains
Chas. G. Smith Covington, Georgia
TESTING THE TEACHER.
A Curious Old School Report Made In
Boston In 1722.
In the town records of the city of
Boston there is a curious passage
which records how a schoolmaster was
examined and what happened. The
manner in which the visit of inspection
is recorded makes one incline to the
view that the unlucky schoolmaster
may not have had fair play, although
if he was really inefficient he may he
said to have been judged by his peers.
In the record for the 22d of May.
1722, it is set forth that:
“Coll Pen Townsend, Jeremiah Al¬
ien Esqr, & John Edwards together
with the Select men, Vissitted the
wrightlng School at the Southerly End
of Boston on Tbirsday the 2-4 th a pi I
1722, and Examined the Scholars un¬
der mr Ames Angers tuition as to their
proficiency in Reading writing Scy
phering & the masters ability of teach
ing & Instructing youth bis rules &
methods therefore And are of Opinion
That it will be no Service to the Town
to Continue mr anger in that Employ.”
Whereupon It was voted that the
said Mr. Ames Anger should not con¬
tinue master of the “Said South
school.”
It is true that nothing Is said of the
methods of spelling Inculcated at the
“wrighting School,” and it is also pos¬
sible that a clerk rather than the com¬
mittee was responsible for the errors
of the record, but there is certainly
something absurd in the passage as it
stands.—Exchange.
SUBMARINE RIVERS.
Cold Water Currents Flowing Along
the Deep Sea Bottom.
The bottom currents of seas and
oceans, such as those which possibly
bring amber to our shores, are strange¬
ly disposed. The seigneur of Sark some
fifty years ago was shipwrecked in his
yacht near the island of Guernsey. He
lost, among other things, a well fas¬
tened, strongly made chest containing
silver plate. It was found a year later
in deep water off the coast of Norway
and restored to him.
In the really deep sea over a thou¬
sand fathoms down there are well
marked broad currents which may be
described as rivers of very cold water
(only 4 degrees or so above freezing
point). They flow along the deep sea
bottom and are sharply marked off
from the warmer waters above and to
the side. Their inhabitants are differ¬
ent from those of the warmer water.
They are due to the melting of the
polar ice, the cold water so formed
sinking at once owing to Its gi eater
density below the warmer water of
the surface currents.
These deep currents originate in both
the arctic and antarctic regions.—Sir
Ray Lankester in London Telegraph.
THE BLUE WHALE.
A Monster Skeleton That Is Eighty
seven Feet In Length.
What is claimed as the largest ani¬
mal in the world is represented by a
colossal skeleton in the museum of
Christchurch, New Zealand, says the
London Globe. This is the remains of
a large specimen of the blue whale
Stranded on the coast of that country.
This whale is probably the largest of
all living animals. The length of the
skeleton Is eighty-seven feet, and the
head alone is twenty-one feet. The
weight of the bones Is estimated at
nine tons. This gigantic whale gets
Its name of blue whale from the dark
bluish gray of its upper surface. The
tinge of yellow on its lower part has
led to the name "sulphur bottom." by
which it is kDotvu on the western side
of the Atlantic. It is otherwise known
as Sibbald’s rorqual (Balenoptera sib
baldii).
The chief food of this gigantic ani¬
mal is a small marine crustacean
(Thysanopoda inermis). known to the
whales as "kril.” Another species of
the same shrlmpllke group has been
obtained in thousands from the stom¬
achs of mackerel caught on the Corn¬
ish coast. The nearly related opossum
shrimps found in enormous numbers
In the Greenland seas form the chief
food of the eommou whale. Some
the thysanopodae are phosphorescent
and contribute to the luminosity of the
sea.
After the Show.
A well dressed man, said to be an
Englishman, has been arrested in
Montmartre, Paris, on a charge of ten¬
dering bad half sovereigns for dinners
and entertainments, which reminds us
of the story about the touring com¬
pany which has been doing very bad
business in “the smalls.” While the
proprietor and sole responsible mana¬
ger was standing outside the tempo¬
rary theater (the Corn Exchange) a
very small boy with a very large mel¬
on arrived and proposed to barter the
fruit for a seat in the gallery. The
bargain was duly concluded, and
scene now changes to the interior of
the theater after the performance.
“Boy,” says the manager severely,
“that melon was rotten.” “That’s all
right,” returns the youthful critic;
was yer show.”—London Globe.
Mistaken.
“He says he's your friend for life;
says you lent him $50.”
“So 1 did. But he's not my friend
for life. I propose to ask him for it
next pay day.” — Louisville Courier
Journal.
His Role.
“That man made an immense for¬
tune out of a simple little Invention.”
“Indeed! What did he Invent?”
“Invent? Nothing, you dub: He was
the promoter!”— Cleveland Leader.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
MAN IN ISOLATION.
Ha Is of Little Consequence and Is a
Barrier to Progress.
It is not an easy tiling for a man to
separate himself from the thought and
activity and purpose of the community
in which he lives and to pursue an
isolated, disconnected and selfish part.
He can’t do it, indeed, and if he tries
it he will only reduce himself to a
cipher or stumbling block. The com¬
munity will get on somehow, for it
must, but if it has many members
of this kind it will be dull, heavy and
nnprogressive.
Man in isolation is of little conse¬
quence, next to nothing. His associa¬
tion with others, the inspiration he re¬
ceives from others, draw out his own
powers. “The state,” to this day, as
Plato conceived it, remains "a product
of miud.” Out of the action and inter¬
action of currents of miud, affected
and even directed by variant views or
opinions, comes the whole progress of
man, of society, of the human race.
We want what Burke described as
“that action and counteraction which
in the natural and political world, from
the reciprocal struggle of discordant
powers, draw out the harmony of the
universe.”
The most isolated man cannot sepa¬
rate himself from the situation he lives
in. If such isolation were general or
could be general it would be the nega¬
tion of civilization.—Portland Orego¬
nian.
A Joke of Mark Twain's.
Probably few people are aware that
the theatrical godfather of that famous
actor Mr. William Gillette was Mark
Twain, who was a fellow townsman
and a friend of his father. Mark
Twain in referring to the matter said
that when he used his influence to get
young Gillette on the stage he thought
he was playing a great joke on the
management, for he did not think Gil¬
lette had the slightest aptitude for act¬
ing. But It turned out to be no joke
after all. “I don't know.” said Mark
Twain, “which 1 like better—having
Gillette make a tremendous success or
seeing one of my jokes go wrong."
Careful Sandy.
Meenister—And why didn't ye come
to the kirk last Sawbath? Sandy—I
had nowt but a shillin’ in my claes.
That’s ower muekle siller to pit in th’
contribution box all at atn time.—Lon¬
don Tit-Bits.
“He vowed he would lo/e me al¬
ways, no matter what happened.”
“Well?”
“And got mad five minutes later be¬
cause I had a pin In my belt.”
The Part It Was.
Teacher—In this sentence. “The sick
boy loves his medicine.” whnt part of
speech Is “loves?" Small Boy-Please,
ma’am, It’a the part that ain't so.
Divine Healer Here.
Below is a picture of Dr. W. F. Ed¬
wards, colored, the Divine Healer,
who has been healing the afflicted in
a number of the cities of the South,
and has been spoken of very highly
by the press of the state. He will re¬
main here about two weeks and can
be found at the home of Annie Hamp
ton, near Masonic Hall and A. M. E.
church. Can be seen at his office any
day and at the camp meeting at night.
He makes a specialty of the treat¬
ment of chronic cases of rheumatism,
and any other ailment. He gave a
demonstration here Saturday after¬
noon, and was said by all who heard
and saw him to he one of the smart¬
est men of his race.—XXX.
YOUNG’S WHITE LEGHORNS.—
75 March hatched pullets for sale.
! J. C. Mills, Porterdale, Ga.—tf'
Goods bought from us delivered any
where in the city, or at the Covington
Mill. Parker’s Grocery Store.—tf.
—We make a specialty of ice cream
milk shakes and lemonade. Parker’s
place.—tf.
FOR SALE—Fine Homer Pigeons.
$1.00 per pair J. M. Aaron. tf.
FOR SALE or RENT—My home, a
6-room cottage on Floyd street. Pos¬
session given at once. Apply to
MRS. W. W. ClllLDS.
FOR RENT—5 room dwelling house
located on Monticello street. Building
new. Nice lot goes with it. For terms
and particulars apply to A. S. Mc
Garity.
FOR SALE—A few nice Rhode Is¬
land Reds and White Leghorn Cock¬
erels. C. L. Collnm, Porterdale. 4t
The Power ,
of the > IV
Hour
Its Gasoline Engine Power
It has supplanted hand-power, wind-power, horse-power and water¬
power on all up-to-date, well managed farms.
No other kind of power is to be considered for farm use or gen¬
eral use.
It so far surpasses any other available power that it is only a ques¬
tion of time when it will be in general use.
It is less expensive, less troublesome and less dangerous than steam
power; so much so, in fact, that gasoline engines are rapidly replacing
the steam engine everywhere.
THE I. H. C. GASOLINE ENGINE is the most practical engine for
farm or general use, because it is designed by experts who know the
requirements of a power for this purpose. It has few working parts,
which insures its being easily understood.
If you are a power user and are in the market for a gasoline engine,
call and let us demonstrate to you the many advantages of owning an
I. H. C. engine.
HENRY T. HUSON, AGENT
NICE FRESH GROCERIES
You will always find at my store as nice and fresh Gro¬
ceries as can be found in the city, and when you purchase
them from me I make it a point to get them to your home
just as quick as it is possible for me to do it.
FRESH MEATS
I also have in connection with my store a first class Meat
Market and can furnish you with the choice kind of ll *
you like so well. Giveme an order. I will appreciate it an
will try to please you.
Cigars aud Tobacco. Cash Paid for Hides.
R. F. Wright,
Covington, Georgia.
