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Ten Reasons Why you Should The Bank of Newton County
Carry an Account with llllllll
1 Because, your money is safer in the BANK than anywhere else. T Because having BANK account and issuing checks and making de- in
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bank teaches, helps ’ posits to yourself, gradually building up the
2 Because, a account and encourages y ou to save, so as you are unaware m
t o increase your balance. most valuable assets a man can have, namely : a good credrt at
bills by check the simplest home and through our recommendation this credit will be extend¬
3 Because, paying is and most convenient method, ed others from home, with whom you might seek for
as well as the safest, check becomes to away
debt as your a receipt for the accommodations.
it pays.
Because, a check book is more convenient than wallet filled 8 Because having an account with the BANK, the BANK knows you
4 to carry a with ’ and when have check or draft on an out of town BANK
legal tender or loose change, and if check book is lost, the you a
BANK your to cash, it will be readily done for you, and also (on account of
will furnish you another free of charge; when you lose of charges.
your wallet the story is different. being a customer) free any
5 Because, ^ &* ves you a better standing in the community, especially 9 Because ^ y° u s ^ ou ^ trave ^ or move away h° m l ^ s commun ity> y° u can
the busmes among ’ obtain from us favorable introduction, and thus carry your good m
men, to pay by check rather than in cash : to be known credit with a wherever
/ as having money in the BANK” strengthens one’s credit. you you may go.
() Because, your returned, cancelled checks, with properly kept stubs, and the 10 Because some ^ ay you may neec ^ to borrow : the customer receives not
book furnished by 1 only the accommodation, but the preference of rates and amount,
pass the BANK, make a very complete and
clear record of business transacted, and is kept with less work while the non-customer, may in times of stringecy, meet with
than any other record could be. refusals.
Look at the subject from as many sides and as long as you will, the opening of a BANK account is Desirable
and Advantageous, and we tender you our services and facilities.
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Bank Of Newton County
COVINGTON GEORGIA
FRENCH MARRIAGES.
Ml Probable Future Events Arranged
For In Advance.
On the appointed evening I arrived
[at the given time, and after an ex¬
cellent dinner, at which all members
] of both families were present, we re
| j paired to the great drawing room,
where the chairs had been arranged In
a semicircle about two small, round
tables. Presently two grave old gen¬
tlemen, the family notaries, who lmd
not been seen to smile during the
whole dinner, took tbelr seats In front
| of assembled the tables, and when we were all
j I read long the elder commenced to
a memoir, which he an
I flounced he had compiled with the help
j of his colleague. Then, to my utter
amazement, he began to name all the
possessions of the future bride and
bridegroom—so many bonds and mort
j sages, so many houses, farms, wood
lands, prairies, articles of personal
adornment, furniture and jewels; the
* a vs In which they might be used or
-
disposed of, what would happen In
CS8e 00 children were born of the
marriage. l n case of death of one or
the other of the parties. In fact, all
the misfortunes, all the most terrible
aB sa< Mest events, had been foreseen,
land cold chills began running down
jtny mentioned, back as i 1 heard each new case
I U was Indignant. I posi
■ revolted. Why were miserable
I M ^l^ a ow 008 the charming business allowed to fore
union of these
P e °Ple, who had known and
I ea<1 *' ot ' ler since childhood and
J wh °se true and affection in
“^ entof pure was
a >l monetary Interests? Could
°t all have been spared them?
I I he h Deit ‘* eanne da ^ * and frankly ber opened my
I Dki mother, ex
ng tlle sensations I had experl
, tlle
I Previous evening and sny-
1 I at in my country, when two per
9 WeFe atjout to long
the 6 WaS marry, as as
I l0Ve on both sldes and the
I man " aS a ^ le to bis wife all
I sue! 8u PP° rt
cussfX 6Stk,nS Were usual1 y ,eft undis
IS*-. listened to me somewhat
a “d then Mme. de R
1 *trest good sense erase has nas always *
Dced me . replied smilingly :
1 .g olii’ my dear for marriage is
not ’ U8
lovin the •* oinln 8 of two young and
h eart9 ^’ further
Kandln* ( lder t , ' e go and con
f‘ neratlons t0 come - th0
As K ° f S new famll y-« home.
ev cJP ° ne knows, the first
I are 611 ^ years
tkeref mo8t d i® cu 't, and we
[the I nafn S ,al<0 ° Ur precau bRdren tions to settling smooth
I bt thei r I c by
on Ce >rese nce all business matters.
„
I 80 that 0reVer ’ aDd arra,1 B lll g things
I tK UeW dfe devel
I der the I V° f may °P uu ‘
net's ;a c iroumstances.”—Scrib
gazine.
A " lnia ^ThirN^ver Drink.
f he 8 ®
Itazeiies as of Patagonia and the
liroDn# 01 the far aas t never drink a
I °f Water.
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A RUSH OF BUSINESS.
It Cana* Just at th* Tim* H* W»nt*d
to Sell His Place.
One of the leading men of Louisville,
reported to be one of the richest, got a
bad start In business. He began by
being a photographer, but found that
the business didn’t come up to expec¬
tations. He therefore wisely decided
to sell out and start at something else.
He finally interested some people in
the proposition and appointed a time
when they should come and look things
over.
He now has the reputation of being
Shrewd, and that this is not a com¬
plimentary designation only Is indi¬
cated by what happened then. He in¬
serted an advertisement ln the daily
papers ln small enough type not to at¬
tract everybody's attention and yet
conspicuously enough to win consid¬
eration from those who make a point
of looking for bargains, announcing
that on a certain day he would take
pictures free of charge. By a coin¬
cidence the day he set was the day
when the prospective purchasers of
his business were to be there.
The ad., as usual, paid, and that
afternoon his gallery was crowded
with visitors. They thronged In and
out, and he could not take care of
them rapidly enough, even with the
aid of several assistants. When the
folks he Intended to do business with
came he greeted them with a crown
of disappointment, explaining that he
was simply so busy that he couldn t
see them then and asked them to come
back ln the morning, when things
would likely have slackened up. They
agreed and went away duly Impressed.
He sold out to them next day, and it
Is perhaps superfluous to add that he
got more for his outfit than he would
have done If it hadn’t been for the
modest little advertisement—Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Bar* Pol**
Purser—Don’t go on deck, madam.
It is stormy, and we are running her
with bare poles. that,
Aunt Polly—Well. 1 suppose
coming from such a cold country as
Poland, they can stand running rouu<
naked, but I think it’s downrlgh.
scandalous to let ’em.-London Tele¬
graph. ___„
Brainless.
Nell—Mr. Sapbedde has more money
than brains. Belle-Why. I never knew
he had much money. Nell—He hasn
—Philadelphia Record.
Lucxy Mamme Didn’t H**r.
••Papa, what is a masked battery?
“A shrewish tongue concealed by a
pair of pretty lips, my
Transcript. Flesh Fly
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The housefly lays eggs, but
living *««»*• larvae, about r fifty
THE COVINGTON NEWS
HOW INSECTS BREATHE.
System of Tubes That Run the Length
of Their Bodies.
Landlubber animals have lungs, and
sea creatures have gills. But Insects
have neither one nor the other. They
have a complex system of tubes run¬
ning throughout the whole length of
the body by means of which air is con¬
veyed to every part of the system. As
they are destined to contain nothing
but air, they are strongly supported to
guard against collapse from pressure.
This support Is furnished by means
of a fine thread running spirally with¬
in the walls of the tube, much in the
same way that a garden hose is pro¬
tected with wire. There are generally
two of these tubes which run the
whole length of the insect’s body.
Many flies, as larvae, live in the wa¬
ter. Arranged along each side of their
bodies is a series of exceedingly thin
plates, into each of which runs a se¬
ries of blood vessels. These plates act
and absorb the oxygen contained in
the water. The tail euds in three
feather-like protections. By means of
these the larva causes currents of wa¬
ter to flow over the gills, and thus their
efficiency is Increased.
The gnat also lives in the water as
a larva. But it has no gills; there¬
fore it cannot breathe the oxygen in
the water, but must breathe air. This
is done by means of a spieade situated
at the tip of its tail. Indeed, the tail
is prolonged Into a little tube. 1 he
larva floats along head downward in
the water with this tube just above
the surface to enable it to bteuthe.
After some time it is provided with
two little tubes, which act in the same
manner.—Chicago '1 ribuue.
Consolation.
There was once a Billville citizen
who could uever rkl himself of the
chills, but went shivering through the
hottest days of summer. When at last
it seemed that all was up with him, hts
good wife to comfort him said;
“John, you’ve been a-shakin’ an’
a-slilverin’ all yer life, but you 11 get
warm over there!"
"For the Lord's sake. Mary,” said
the shiveriug man, “don’t talk so.
Which way do yon think I’m a-goln'?”
-Atlanta Constitution.
Music Hath Charms.
‘‘So you are fond of music?”
“Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum:
“1 have the highest regard for It.
When you go home and meet a crowd
of constituents there Is nothing like a
brass band to take their minds otT the
explanations they have been looking
f or .»—Washington Star.
An ln*tanc«.
Knlcker—Time brings many strange
changes. Bocker-Yes; the boy whose
mother can’t make him wash his neck
grows up to be a rich man who goes
abroad fox batha.-Harper'i Bu«
PASSENGER ELEVATORS.
Th*ir Invention Made the Modern
Skyscraper Possible.
It is certain that the earliest and the
most indispensable of the factors which
have enabled the construction of the
mighty skyscrapers of today was the
passenger elevator and that this was
brought into use during the sixties of
the last century, its first appearance
in New York being ln the Fifth Ave¬
nue hotel. It was at about the same
time Introduced Into the Astor House,
then already a generation old. So ob¬
vious was the utility of this device
that the wonder again Is that It had
not been brought into practice long be¬
fore. Holsts are. of course, as old as
the Dutch warehouses, of which the
picturesqueness is enhanced by the
projecting cranes that worked the
hoists, doubtless as old as Archimedes.
But hotels, even when the Fifth Ave¬
nue was built, were conditioned In al¬
titude, as were all other buildings not
exclusively monumental, by the pow¬
ers of ascension of the unasslsu.. hu¬
man leg. Five stories was the max¬
imum for commercial buildings, except
that an attleal sixth might be added
for the dlscommodation of the janitor,
whose name was Hobson and who had
to go where he was sent, which, nat
urally, was where no “paying guest”
could be Induced to go. He and bis
may have taken their outlook on life
from slits or bullseyes Just under the
roof, ln the cases of hotels the sixth
story was assigned to servants and
storerooms. Tenants or inmates could
not be induced to climb more than
four flights of stairs and grumbled
grievously in the case of inmates of
hotels and accused the hotel clerk of
perfidy when they had to climb so
many. A device which would make
all the floors, even of a five story hotel,
equally accessible, and so equally de¬
sirable, was a device very sure of im¬
mediate adoption, so sure that the only
wonder was that the supply of it
should have so lagged behind the de¬
mand. The beginnings of the eleva¬
tors were, it is quite true, the begin¬
nings also of what ln their earlier
stages were known as the “elevator
buildings.”—Scribner’s Magazine.
Food Scarce.
“This circular describing the Mount
ingvue says you can sit at the dinner
table and see the beautiful mountain
peaks.” said the man who contemplat¬
ed going.
“That is true,” “and that’s replied just the about one who all j
had been,
you can see.”—Yonkers Statesman.
He Wouldn’t Die.
Mrs. Peaehblow—Why does your hus¬
band carry such a tremendous amount
of life insurance when he’s in such per¬
fect health? Mrs. Flicker—Oh, Just to
tantalize me. Men are naturally cruel.
-Life
EXHILARATING SPORT.
Dog Driving Over the Ice and Snow of
Labrador.
Winter driving with a team of a
dozen dogs Is declared by Dr. Grenfell
of Labrador to be the most fascinating
sport ever enjoyed by man. His de¬
scription of it as quoted by James
Johnstone in his book, “Grenfell of
Labrador,” is as follows:
Although there Is no harder work
when driving over a rough country,
yet the bracing cold, the exhilarating
brightness of the reflected light from
the snow, the difficulty of getting bad¬
ly hurt, however sharply one shoots a
mountain side or even tumbles over a
cliff, the absence of damp or moisture,
the fact that one can travel anywhere
in soft, light moccasins and in such
clothing as is most conducive to agil¬
ity, without any reference to conven¬
tionality, all help to vanquish any re¬
alization of labor on a long trip.
There is infinite scope for skill in
choosing, tending and training your
dogs, also for both pluck and physical
strength in driving, and all the craft of
the woodsman is called for In crossing
miles of virgin country, where at any
tithe any wrong turn will surely mean
a night in the open and perhaps a
temperature of 40 degrees of frost.
Dog driving also teaches one what
boxing is said to teach, self control,
for of all the trials of temper one can
be called on to endure the worst is,
given a glorious day for traveling and
when one is in a hurry, to have one’s
dogs run wild, listening to nothing,
not watching anything, but tangling
with every stump and tree and biting
at everything that comes in the way.
As one man told me when I asked
him what kind of a team he had: “I’s
bad to give ’em up, sir, though I loved
they well enough. Good dogs be that
wild It is too hard for to be a-handlin'
of ’em and be a Christian, too, sir.”
Very Controversial.
They were very controversial In
those days.
First.—Bowles wrote a book about
Pope.
Second.—Campbell abused Bowles’
book on Pope.
Third.—Bowles replied to Campbell’s
abuse of Bowles on Pope.
Fourth.—Byron wrote an answer to
Bowles’ answer to Campbell’s abuse of
Bowles’ book on Pope.
Fifth.—John Bull wrote a letter to
Byron about Byron’s answer to Bowles’
answer to Campbell’s abuse of Bowles'
book on Pope.
Sixth—Dr. Garnet has a theory of
the authorship of John Bull’s letter to
Byron about Byron’s comments on
Bowles’ answer to—it is like “The
House That Jack Built!”—Andrew
Lang.
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The River Jordan.
The historic river Jordan has its
origin in one of the largest springs
In the world.
A BASHFUL LOVER.
The Professor Was a Shy Wooer, but
Finally Got the Lady.
Dr. Haldane, at one time a professor
of St. Andrews university. was h very
shy man. This latter failing prevented
him from asking any lady to become
his wife until he was well advanced
in life.
However, he plucked up courage one
day, redecorated his house aud went
to call on the object of bis affections
The lady, seeing the doctor’s embar¬
rassment, opened fire. “YVeel. doctor,
hae ye got through a’ your papering
and painting yet? I’m told your new
carpets are Just beautifu’. They say
the pattern o’ the dining room chairs
is just quite out o’ the way lu short
that everything aboot the house Is just
perfect”
Here was a providential opening he
was not suth a goose as to overlook
He advanced his chair, sidled toward
her, simpering the while, raised his
eyes furtively to her face and Bald,
with a gentle inflection of his voice
which no ear but a willfully deaf one
could have misinterpreted: “Na, na.
Miss Jane, It’s no quite perfect. It
canua' be quite that so long as there’s
one thing wanting!'
“And what can that be?” asked the
Imperturbable spinster
Utterly thrown on his beam ends by
her willful blindness to his meaning,
the poor doctor beat a hasty retreat,
drew back his chair from its danger¬
ous proximity, caught up his hat and
in tones of blighted hope gasped forth
his declaration in these words: “Eh.
dear, eh! Well I’m sure; The thing
wanting is a—a -a—sideboard."
However, she married him after aiL
—London Answers.
Breaking Them to the Yoke.
Edward Lisle, whose “Observations
on Husbandry” was published in 1757,
described the method employed by his
“oxhind” or cattleman to break cattle
to the yoke: “He yoked two of the
steers, being two yearlings, together
aud so suffered them to walk about
the ground where there were no pits
or ditches for them to receive hurt by.
He also tied together the bushy parts
of their tails, the reason of w hich was
because they should not be able to
turn their heads to each other so as
to strike one another with their horns
or by bending their necks too much by
endeavoring to face one another and
then striving break their necks.” In
this condition the oxhind let them go
on the ground. If without holes or
ditches, all night or else turned them
Into an empty open barn so yoked and
thus treated them two or three times
before he worked them.
Queensland’s Bananas.
Over a million and a half bunches
of bananas are grown in Queensland
In a year.