Newspaper Page Text
IN EVERY
ssary to have on hand
js nece
physic ready for immediate
e
d for this purpose we con
. an
Ltly recommend
Robinson’s
Hack Bitters
They are no sure cure remedy,
iut they do act on the stomach,
kidneys, bowels and other
tot organs pleasantly, promptly
,d as a rule do not gripe or pain.
In Guaranteed
robe of benefit in cases of slug
L feeling, can't sleep, dark
tigs under the eyes, sallow skin,
Lr belches, heartburn, full fcel
tgafter meals, backache from in
live kidneys, constipation, loss
pappetite, headache fronybillious
ess. constipation or over-eating,
puigesuon, pain in stomach after
I hearty meal, etc., etc.
I It’s a liquid medicine prepared
llv
By One Person
|r. Luke Robinson, and cannot be
pepared by anyone else. For he
#e knows from 20 years practi
u experience how to so combine
following- 17 roots, barks, herbs
ms, etc., to make a palatable
»re relief
Household Remedy
jStillingia, Berberis-Aquifol, Bur
p k Root, Prickly Ash, Sarsapa
| la R°°t, Polk Root, Rhubard
l0t ’ Columbo, Gentian, Aloin,
Mux \om., Iron, with styptic
Premoved, F. E. Ginger, F.
puiac, h. E. Cascara Segranda,
pre Peppermint, 8 year old
puurn fredients. whiskey to preserve the
Move your family doctor about
ingredients and lie will
| U ^ lat hiey compose largely
| P'luite a * n drugs in the above cases.
sure that one in any of
ab ° ve conditions find
! can
Ho better
r" L fhau Robinson’s Black
their troubles. Remem
P e ‘ y bottle sold on its merits.
Pitted call on the agent
WHight of carry bottle
’ your
’" ritt VOllr
name on the label
11 the l r a Rent what
1
hit you were
for 111 say your
case was
^fitted and get your
Is money
■ n t
tha t fair? I have
,J’ u 'tliad ts a bottle returned.
Ui Uat speak for the
“IN THE HOUR OF DEATH.”
A Note on the Authorship of
Known a Well
Poem.
The question ia often asked In news¬
papers and magazines. “Who wrote
the poem beginning *ln the hour of
death, after this life's whim?’”
The auswer is given that nothin*' is
known qf the author. It is true this
poem was published with only the ini¬
tials of the writer in the Dniversity
Magazine in 1870. But 1 hold the
manuscript of the poem, and 1 have
also Black more’s letter that accompa¬
nied it. Black more has been so long
dead 1 do not feel that there can be
any harm In giving his letter to the
public. I subjoin an exact copy of it;
also of his poem.
AGNES E. COOK.
‘‘Teddn., Jan. 5, 1879.
“My Dear Sir—Having lately been
at the funeral of a most dear relation.
I was there again (in a dreami last
night and heard mourners sing the
lines inclosed, which impressed me so
that I was able to write them without
change of a word this morning. 1
never heard or read them before to
my knowledge. They do not look so
well on paper as they sounded. But
if you like to print them here they are,
only please do not print my name be¬
yond initials or send me money for
them. With all good wishes to Mrs.
Cook and yourself, very truly yours,
”R. D. BLACKMORE.
“K. Cook Esqre LL. D.”
Domlnus tllumlnatlo mea.
JL
In the hour of death, after this life’s
whim,
When the heart beats low, and the eyes
grow dim,
And pain has exhausted every limb,
The lover of the Lord shall trust in him.
II.
When the will has forgotten the lifelong !
aim.
And the mind can only disgrace its fame.
And a man is uncertain of his own name.
The power of the Lord shall nil this
frame.
When the last sigh is heaved and the last
tear shed.
And the coffin is waiting beside the bed,
And the widow and child forsake the
dead,
The angel of the Lord shall lift this head.
IV.
For even the purest delight may pall;
The power must fail, and the pride must
fall.
And the love of the dearest friends grow
small.
But the glory of the Lord is all In all.
—R. D. B. in Memoriam M. F. U
—London Athenaeum.
Highest Endurable Temperature.
It is difficult to say what the high¬
est temperature is that a human be¬
ing can live in. In tbe kitchens of
some of the great hotels and in tbe
stokeholds of some steamships the
temperature gets to 140 or 145 de¬
grees. Cooks and their helpers and
stokers have to endure tiiat 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 fat*
tories, where the temperature is 212.
the boiling point of water. There arc
a few who can stand this beat 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 ol
refuge to a band of gladiators, in 03
A. D. the serenity was broken by a
violent grumbling that manifested it¬
self in a severe earthquake that shook
up the surrounding region. For sixteen
years the subterranean rumblings con¬
tinued at intervals, and in tbe year 79
A. D. came tbe 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.—Esehauge.
A Culinary Tragedy.
“What’s the matter, dear?” asked
Mr. Justwed as be came into the house
and found his wife crying as if her
heart would break.
“1 am so discouraged," she sobbed
“What has bothered my little wife?"
“1 worked ai! 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?”
“And they turned out to be sponge
cakes.”
_
The Cleverest.
Willy—You see. it was this way
They were nil three so dead in love
with her and all so eligible that to set¬
tle the matter she agreed to marry the
one who should guess the nearest to
her age. Arthur—And did she.’ Willy
—1 don't know. I know* that she mar
rled the one who guessed the lowest.
A Pet Anyhow. suburbs of
The family lived in the
tbe city, and, much to the joy of Lulu,
little pig was given a home iu the
a later
stable cellar. A few days e
little one was calling at a neighbor s,
where she showed great interest in the
bird. keep , bird
The lady said, “Don’t you a
at home?" pig . 1Q .
“No,” said Lulu, “we keep a -
stead.”—Delineator.
Awful.
Macdougal—You's an awfu' like sight
to see on the Sawbatb, Angus.
Angus—And what awfu' like sight
do ye see, Macdougal? au’ his
Macdougal—There’s Aircbie
lass smilin’ an’ hurryin’ as if it was
a week day just. __
__
Helping Others.
If we gave assistance to each other
no one would be in want of fortune.
Menander.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
horseshoe luck.
An Old Myth That Goes Back to the
Greeks and Their Sea God.
Of all the emblems for good fortune
the horseshoe stands among the first
Everybody knows it is unlucky to pass
a horseshoe on the road without pick¬
ing it up. It is a luck emblem of the
greatest power. We are Indebted for
this statement to old tales centuries In
age that have descended from father
to son. from mother to daughter,
through the years.
The old myths repay research. Tbe
luck of the horseshoe has a most re¬
spectable beginning. It is traced to Hie
religion of the old Greeks and their sea
god, Poseidon, who was identical with
the Roman sea god Neptune.
To Poseidon horses were sacred, and
to him they were sacrificed. Poseidon
was believed to have created'the first
horse when he struck the ground with
his trident and a horse spraug from
the hole, which afterward became a |
spring. The sea god was the lord of
springs, lo him all springs were
ascribed. In the shape of a horse be
sometimes wandered by the shores of
his ocean domain, and where he struck
his hoofs deeply there the waters gush
ed out and permanent springs were
found. This is the reason why horse¬
shoes are reckoned lucky. Going to the
root of the matter, one sees a nature
myth as the root principle. From the
sea all rain comes, and to the sen all
springs owe primal origin, and to the
rain and the fresh waters, sea derived,
we owe all fertility on earth.
The old Greeks therefore worshiped
Poseidon as the fortune giver through
his springs. They gave him horses, his
precious beasts, and they adored tlie
footprints of horses when they found
them, for they might be the very foot¬
prints of the god himself.
When the horses came to be shod the
transition of the luck emblem from the
footprint itself to the shoe mark, prac¬
tically the same thing, was easy.
Pegasus, tiie winged horse, from
whose hoofs the water springs gushed
co]#ously when he came to earth, has
been credited with the origin of the
horseshoe luck.
The horseshoe was a specific against
•earthquakes. It would keep a house
safe from harm by earth shaking.
Again one perceives the sea myth—
Pospidon was the shaker of the earth
—Team Owners' Gazette.
Obeying the Autocrat.
That fine old New Englander. Dr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, laid down the
rule that the law of the road
a man to two looks at every pretty
woman. This fair and proper
provokes no complaint in Kansas
and it is not commonly
though we would have to go far
to find a locality with more
worth looking at than are seen on
streets of Kansas City every day
Kansas City Times.
A Domestic Hen.
Joe Jefferson used to tell this one:
“In the spring of 1892, being in
vicinity of West Swanzey, N. H.,
drove over to call on my old
Den Thompson. It happened that I
called at an inopportune time, as
women folk were housecleaning. In
fact, I noticed as I drove up to the
house that the clotheslines in the yard
back of the house were laden with
carpets.
“Den was very anxious that I should
look over his prize fowls, in which he
took especial pride. We went out into
the big yard back of the house. As
Den was pointing out to me his favor
ltes we noticed one old hen going
through some queer antics. She was
pecking away at something on
ground, lifting it in her bill and drop
ping it again.
“ ‘What’s the matter with the old
Biddy, anyway, Den?’ I asked.
“Den was silent for a minute, then
drawled out;
“ ‘Well, you see, Joe, as she’s a rath¬
er domestic sort of hen I cal’late the
old girl must be getting ready to lay a
carpet.’ ’’—New York Telegraph.
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
Shoemaker’s Candles, !
I well remember some seventy years
ago seeing flat candles In use. To
produce what was known as the flat
candle, which was also sometimes
called “shoemaker’s candle.” two new¬
ly made “dips" were pressed close to
each other while soft and then again
lowered into the hot fat. thus holding
them together as one candle with two
wicks. The size could then be increas¬
ed if desired. This flat candle was
most generally used by shoemakers
and tailors, but was made use of in
some households whenever an extra
bright light for working or reading
was required.—Cor. Dickensian.
Too Much Like Work.
"Haven’t you a home?" asked the
sympathetic citizen.
“Yep,” answered Clodding l’ete. “I
had a nice home, but de first t'lng I
knew It had a wood pile and a garden
and a pump, and den It got so much
like a steady job dat 1 resigned.”—
Washington Star.
Impossible.
“How do you overcome Insomnia?”
“Say tbe multiplication table up to
twelve times twelve."
“But 1 can't get the baby to learn
it.”—Cleveland Leader.
Not Slept lr_
"Porter, this berth has been slept
in!”
“No. sah! 1 assure you. sab! Mere¬
ly occupied. It’s tbe one over the
wheels, sah.”—Puck.
Taking Him Down.
Brown (very proud of bis firstborn)—
Ah, even now my wife says be Is just
like me in many of his little ways!
Smith (gravely)—1 hope she correct*
him for it.
“Really, Louise, this bill la out¬
rageous. You must not try to dress
like the millionaires’ wives."
“My dear Ned, control yourself. 1
am only trying to appear as well dress¬
ed as the shopgirls."
Absence of occupation Is not rest.
A mind quite vacant Is a mind dis¬
tressed. -(’ow|ier.
WE CARRY AN IMMENSE STOCK OF
All Sizes One and
In Two
Stock. Horse.
COLUMBUS WAGONS.
These wagons are built of the very best material and are built
to stand rough usage. ^ If you are going to buy a wagon and
i want the best, come in and let us show you the COLUMBUS.
We are anxious to sell them and if you will give us a look, we’ll sell you the Best Wagon that money
can buy, and guarantee every part of it. We appreciate your patronage.
The Fincher-Norris Hardware Company,
Covington, Georgia.
jJ ►?« A »T« ►?< .?« A ►?« >?« ►?« kTi i>T« ►?« A ►?<! .T. »?«A A ►?« A ►?« ►?« 41
Good Farm Land
i for Sale.
My farm 2 1-2 miles of Covington &
1 -2 mile of Oxford and 1 -4 mile of the
Georgia Railroad for sale at a bargain.
I will cut this up in farms of 100, 1 50
or 200 acres. Thss is some of the best
land in Newton county and lies well. It
will pay you to see me.
| W. B. SHEPHERD, l
1 | Covington, Georgia |
« ___ I
S .
l l & aa £l W l & ll &l | £ l Hi 1 ■£"£!"&'VS 1 'S'.
Seed Oats For Sale.
Seed Oats and Seed Wheat. Appier Oats, the Old Georgia
Rust Proof and Texas Red Rust Proof Oats raised in Georgia. The
price is 75 cts. and $ 1.00 per pushel, depending on the kind and
quantity, delivered in Covington. All seed are caretully fanned and
recleaned.
L. W. JARMAN, Porterdale, Ga.
