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the best values for the money that have been shown in Covington.
Nt " hlU Ha * h ’* 1,50 ’ 2 ’ ' , 0 ° and Mens New Fall Suits, 7.50, 10, 20, and 25. Mens New Fall Pants, $1.50
lhoys Hnvs , New Now Fall hall Knife Suits, # ---- * - .uy/, aim iucua new ran i ants, 2.50 -
all( i * eu\ $1.50, 2.50, o cn 3.50 o 5 and 10. „ Mens New Fall Shirts and Underwear, Garment, 50c 75c
y $1. New Fall oes for Men, Boys, Women and Children, 50c, 75c, $1, 1.50, 2, 2.50, 3, and $3.50 Pair. of
[ailor from $10.00 per A Lot
Made Suits to $25.00. Fine Millinery at all Prices.
Covington’s
|{is Store.
\‘i\ IN THE STAGE.
of the Olden Days In New
,
York City,
ij many years ago, long before
pers and rapid transit were
of and New York was just a
ring town, they used to tell a
„t was ghastly enough to cur
blood of the most skeptical
[keep Lmtke people nights. of nervous temper
[tale went that wife, of a returning summer
i husband and
om the theater, entered a Fifth
stage far downtown and for
locks were the only occupants,
above Fourteenth street, bow
ke stage came to an abrupt
k door was opened, and three
tea entered. One of the three
fatly been drinking heavily
i companions were obliged tc
lm to his seat. The door was
Behind them, and the stage cou¬
ps journey northward,
t ten blocks farther on one of
; men rose and. bidding his
good night, stopped the stage
Ighted. A few minutes later
lond of the three said. “Well,
ight. Dick,’' pulled the strap.
I to the sidewalk and walked
High one of the side streets,
remained in the stage only the
land wife and the young man
is obviously under the intlu
f liquor and who sat In a
ng attitude In a corner of the
nder the dim flickering lamp,
i a time the husband noticed
be young man’s head seemed to
[ping as if in sleep, and. fearing
might be borne beyond his
Itto. he rose, tapped him on the
[t and called attention to the
l of the street they had just
There was no response, and
and repeated his words, lean
Iras he did so. Then be sud
praightened up, turned to his
fi said quickly, “We will get
*?ac to protest, but he simply
i the words, pulled the strap
^ her to alight. As they
inder the corner lamppost she
'insisted questioningly and asked him
bus on their getting out
so far below their destina
>®e." he replied, “that young
wiatwas cut from ear to ear.”
%e of Polstead, Suffolk,
■ stands a famous oak which
as proved to be 2.000 years
,
re f has a girth of ttairty
t »»d . , has been known
° ak siuoe always
an ' undPr if the
'"“Saxons unsstonuries preached to
thirteen centuries
a' eDt ' S comrDe “orated
*r ,^7 bv a special
service held un-
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Mood Farm Land
for Sale
y farm 2 1-2 miles of Covington
L ^le of Oxford and 1 -4 mile of the
I r jj la Railroad for sale at a bargain.
)nn CUl U P * n ^ arms 100, 1 50
[ 1 ,. acr es. Thss *■ I1UU is A%J some of VI the best
,
m Newton county and lies well.
pa y you to see me.
w - B. SHEPHERD,
°''“Stan, Georgia
W. Cohen, Covington, Ga.
FELT HATS.
Evolution of the Fluffy Fur Into the
Finished Product.
It is an Interesting matter to follow
stage by stage the evolution of p little
pile of soft, fluffy rabbit fur iuto the
finished hat, whether a fight colored
crush or a raven bla.-k hard bat of the
derby shape. The general idea about
such a hat Is that it is cut and made
or molded out of a sheet of felt, so
that amazement comes when oue is
shown bales and heaps of rabbit fur
and is told that it is out of this that
hats are made. Felt indeed is not so
much a primary material, hut felting
is the process by which wool, fur or
hair is matted together and formed
Into a close fabric. For bats rabbit
fur is the material used. The first
step in its treatment is the thorough
cleansing of the close clipped fur in a
machine, which winnows it of all dirt
or foreign matter and leaves it in a
soft, fluffy condition resembling the
finest and lightest down.
Anything less resembling a hat it is
impossible to imagine. But the mar¬
velous ingenuity of the nest process
accomplishes au almost magical
change. In the central bos of a hop¬
per-like machine a big copper coup re¬
volves. From above the soft, fluffy
fur Is fed down in a shower, which
clings like gray snow on the revolving
cone, while jets of water and steam
spray on the fur mat and plaster it
into a complete covering. In a minute
or two the coue is covered to the
depth of one-eighth of au inch with
this matter and saturated fur, which
is now become felt. The machine Is
stopped, the cone Is taken out, and the
workman dexterously peels off the felt
covering. Being built up on the cone.
It is also cone shaped and looks like a
gigantic sugar loaf bag. It is the em¬
bryo bat.
In this first state It is a soft. wet.
felt cone, measuring 24 by 30 Inches.
Roiled up, it enters upon a series ot
processes and is shrunk together so
that it measures 10^ by 14 inches.
The hat, now r a browny-gray felt
cone, like a clown’s cap. is smoothed
by being placed against rapidly revolv¬
ing sandpaper. It is stiffened by be¬
ing dipped in shellac, dyed black by
immersion in a vat and then passes
on to be shaped. Warm water gives
the felt pliability again, and the man
pulling out or “earsing" the apex oi
the cone draws and smooths it down
to a wooden block of the exact shape
and size the bat is required to be. As
it dries It takes its destined shape and
firmness as regards the crown, while
the brim is still flat and untrimmed.
The body of the hat is now practi¬
cally finished. Then comes the shap¬
ing of the brim, whicb is worked down
and bent over a wooden frame of tne
exact curl and Hue of the ordained de¬
sign.
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THE LOVINGTON NEWS
Evans Lunsford W. T. Milner.
LUNSFORD & MILNER
Wholesale and Retail
BUILDERS SUPPLIES
Lumber, Laths, Shingles, Sash, Doors, Blinds - - - Paints, Lead, Oil, Lime, Brick, Cement, Mill work a Specialty
A Complete Stock of High Grade Roofings and Wall Plasters
We carry the largest and best assorted stock of Building Material in this section
of the state, and as we buy only from the best mills in the south, our gradings
are considerably ABOVE THE AVERAGE. Estimates and prices cheerfully
given. Contract work at closest prices consistent with honest work and material
BE SURE TO SEE US BEFORE YOU BUILD
WE WILL SAVE YOU MONEY, TIME AND WORRY
Highest Endurable Temperature.
It is difficult to say what the high¬
est temperature is that a human be¬
ing can live in. In the kitchens of
some of the great hotels and in the
stokeholds of some steamships the
temperature gets to 140 or 145 de¬
grees. Cooks and their helpers and
stokers have to endure that tempera¬
ture for hours at a time, and they
seem to get along pretty well. The
hottest place perhaps where human
beings work Is in the vulcanizing fac¬
tories. where the Temperature Is -12.
the boiling point of water. There are
a few who can stand this heat for a
little while at a time, but man can en
dure no more.—New York American
Vesuvius.
Vesuvius cut but a small figure in
history till the latter half of the first
century of the Christian era. in 73
B. C. its crater served as a camp ot
refuge to a band of gladiators, lu t>3
A. D. the serenity was broken by a
violent grumbling that manifested it¬
self in a severe earthquake that shook
up the surrounding region, tor sixteen
years the subterranean rumblings con¬
tinued at intervals, and in the year .y
A. D. came the great catastrophe in
which Herculaneum and Pompeii were
overwhelmed. In 1631 there was an¬
other terrible explosion, and since that
time Vesuvius has seldom been at rest
for many years together.—Exchange.
A Culinary Tragedy.
“What’s the matter, dearasked
Mr Justwed as be came into the house
and fobnd his wife crying as if her
heart would break.
“I am so discouraged." she sobbed.
bothered little wife.' ^
“What has my
“I worked all the afternoon making
custards, because 1 knew you were so
fond of them, and-and - Here she be
gan weeping hysterically again.
“And what, darling i
“And they turned out to be spouge
cakes.’
The Cleverest.
Wlllv— You see. It was this way
all three so dead in love
They were eligible that to set¬
with her and all so the
tle the matter she agreed to marry
one who Arthur-And should guess did the she. nearest V\illy o
her age. that she mar
-l don’t know. 1 know
who guessed the low. st.
rled the one
Naturally
Who was Noah's wife, pa
of Arc. my hoy. Now run
“Joan <nnlnrott*S.
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WE CARRY AN IMMENSE STOCK OE
One and
Two
Horse.
COLUMBUS WAGONS.
These wagons are built of the very best material and ar
to stand rough usage. If you are going to buy a wago
want the best, come in and let us show you the COLUIV
We are anxious to sell them and if you will give us a look, we’ll sell you the Best Wagon tf
can buy, and guarantee every part of it. We appreciate your patronage.
The Fincher-Norris Hardware Company,
Covington, Georgia.
Alphabetical Writing.
Undoubtedly the most important in¬
vention in human history was that of
the art of alphabetical writing. The
first alphabet was devised by the Phoe¬
nicians, who gave the idea to the
Greeks. They passed it to the Ro¬
mans. whose alphabet is the basis of
nearly all of our modern ones. Capi¬
tals were used altogether till the sev¬
enth century, when small letters be¬
gan to come in. Punctuation, unknown
at first, was introduced about 250 B. C.
and was finally reduced to a system in
1500 by Aldus, the famous Venetian
printer.—London Answers.
Our Extravagance.
Discussing England and the English
from an American point of view, a re¬
cent American writer in England ob¬
serves:
“Nobody, from the king down, is ei¬
ther ashamed or afraid to be econom¬
ical. In England a man or a woman is
thought to be a fool or a vulgarian
who is not careful of expenditure,
while in America our waiters have
been clever enough to make it appear
that economy is mean, and as a nation
we suffer accordingly. We are fools to
be fooled in this manner. 1 *
The People’s
Bargain Giver
Positive Proof.
A lawyer going into the parlor of his
home noticed pencil marks on the wall,
put there, as he rightly supposed, by
one of his children. He called his little
five and six year old son and daughter
lu to see which one had done the mis¬
chief. Of course each one blamed it on
the other, so the father said, “Well,
my son, a little bird told me he was
sitting on the fence and saw you
through the window marking the
wall.” The little fellow answered,
“Get that bird and make him prove
It.”—Delineator.