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DON’T BELITTLE YOURSELF.
Few Chance* Come to the Self Depre¬
ciatory Man.
“Henry,” said Dnole Hiram to his
hopeful young nephew, “1 would pot
advise anybody to go around coutiiH
ally blowing his own boru. We tire ot
men who do that, and we are apt to
think of them that that's all they can
do, blow.
“On the other hand, Henry, never
belittle yourself; never be self depre¬
ciatory. Don't have a poor opinion oi
yourself, but if you do have such an
opinion don’t express it. The man who
blows bis own horn may seldom be
taken at bis own valuation, but the
self depreciatory man almost invaria¬
bly is.
“So never rtln yourself down or
speak doubtfully of your own ability.
If the boss is thinking of advancing
you and he should say to you some
day, 'Henry, we are thinking of try¬
ing you on this thing—do you think
you could handle this job?’ you don’t
want to say, 'Well. 1 haven’t had much
experience yet in that way, and 1 real¬
ly don’t know whether I could do that
or not.’
"You don't want to say anything like
that, for if you do he’ll be likely to
think it over some more and end up
by trying somebody else, taking a
blower maybe v.-uo can’t really do the
work half as well as you could, but
who’s got self confidence enough to
say he can.
"You don’t know what you can do
till you try. Some men try and fail,
but an astonishing number rise to oc¬
casions, developing strength or ability
that others might never have thought
them to possess.”—New York Sun.
SPOILED HER DAY.
Why the Woman Lookod Daggers at
the Car Conductor.
"Oh, the brute!" exclaimed a stylish¬
ly dressed woman who was riding
down town on a Tenth street car.
She plainly addressed the remark to
the conductor, who smiled deprecat
ingly, raised his baud to his cap and
said, “Sure, I didn’t think it was $ny
use in the world.”
All the way to Market street the ag¬
grieved woman followed the unlucky
conductor up and down the car with
her eyes, “looking daggers” at him.
The poor chap hadfcunwittingly spoiled
her day.
As she came into the car she saw
lying near the door a woman’s belt
buckle. It was supposedly oriental in
fashion, with a big “stone” set in it.
She sat down, with her eye on the
buckle; rose, stooped and picked it up.
She had opened her bug with the in¬
tention of dropping her find within,
but glanced up and saw that the other
passengers were watching her. Evi¬
dently she thought it might be wiser
to ask the conductor if he knew the
owner. She held it, therefore, until the
conductor passed her, then handed it
to him, with the question, "Do you
know whether anybody iias lost this?”
“I suppdse some one has. ma’am.” lie
answered. "Let me see it.”
Then, after glancing at it a moment,
“Aw, that’s no good.” said he and
tossed the treasure (?> into the street.
“Oh, the brute!” exclaimed the wo¬
man. And who can blame her ?— Phila¬
delphia Times.
The Purchase of New York.
When the letter announcing the pur¬
chase for CO guilders ($24) of the 11,000
uiorgeus of laud constituting Manhat¬
tan island was read in the assembly
of the states general on Nov. 7. 1626,
it was resolved that “no action is nec¬
essary on this information.” Had their
high mightinesses possessed prevision
how strenuous might have been the
resolution passed that the newly ac¬
quired island should be kept forever
under their control! Nor was the West
India company, that money making
trust which ventured this first specula¬
tion iu wheat and in lands in the long
line of enterprises known to Manhat¬
tan, more alive to the excellence of their
investment. More than ten times the
sum paid over to the Indians for about
22.000 acres, according to their esti¬
mate, has since been paid for a single
square foot of New York soil. Proba¬
bly there is no other sale on record
where the advance in value has been
so great.—Putnam’s Magazine.
An Armorclad Nest.
In the Argentine Republic, says a
writer in the Strand Magazine, where
the summers are long and hot. it is
customary to leave the windows open
both day and night during the hottest
part of the year. A bird, taking ad
vantage of this, proceeded to build a
nest in my room, fixing it firmly to one
of the Venetian blinds over tbe win¬
dow. The eggs were duly hatched and
the young birds fledged. On taking
down the empty nest I found it to be
practically armorclad. the outer part
being composed almost entirely of old
rusty nails woven in among the bay.
On counting the Dails I found that no
fewer than sixty-six had been used, be¬
sides some w r ire and pins taken from
my dressing table. The bird was about
the size of a robin and very tame.
Not So Bad.
“I asked my class of small boys if
any could tell me the meaning of the
word ‘apprentice.’" said a teacher re¬
cently, “and all looked nt me blankly
until one lad arose.
“ ‘Can you tell me what apprentice
means?’” I repeated.
“ ‘Yes, It means practicing work.’ ”
—Exchange.
incomplete Informatipn,
“We are now exactly a thousand
feet above tbe level of the sea.”
“What sea?”
“The guidebook doesn't say.”—Bon
Vivant.
ORIGIN OF THE ROD.
Used In Driving Oxen, It Came Handy
In Measuring Land.
The origin of the rod, pole or perch
as a lineal and superficial measure has
been traced to the rod, pole or goad
used to urge and direct a team of oxen
pulling a plow. So it came about it
was used as a convenient and handy
laud measure in feudal times by the
lords in allotting plots of land for ag¬
ricultural purposes to the villeins and
others.
One rod wide and forty long built up
a quarter of an acre. The furlong, or
four poles wide and same depth—i. e?,
forty poles, one acre—was a convenient
length for a furrow before turning the
plow. Of course these lengths some¬
what varied in different parts of the
country where soils and agriculture
varied, but gradually the slight varia¬
tions grew less, and finally the present
accepted statutory acre was evolved.
Gunter’s chain of sixty-six feet (teu
square chains to the acre) was invent¬
ed by the Rev. Edmund Gunter (1581-
1626). He was a, professor of astrono¬
my at Gresham college, London, and
ingeniously adapted it to facilitate dec¬
imal calculations in land measure¬
ments. The use of the rod in superfi¬
cial measurements of brick work and
lineally in hedges, ditches and fences
follow’ed as a convenient existing
measure.—Builders’ Journal.
A CAUTIOUS SCOT.
The Elder’s Search For a Strictly Or¬
thodox Minister.
A Scotch elder who did not believe
that his own minister held strictly
orthodox views wished to have his
babe baptized, but would not risk its
spiritual welfare by having him per¬
form the rite in any heterodox man¬
ner. So he walked to another town
only to find the minister he sought was
away fishing. The next one he was
directed to had gone hunting. Filled
with Indignation, he said to his com¬
panion:
“We’ll gang to Maister Erskine.
That godly man will no be fishing or
hunting.”
So he found the house, but as he ap¬
proached it he heard tbe sound of mu¬
sic. When the servant lassie opened
the door he remarked to her:
"Ye have company the night. 1 hear
the fiddle going.”
“Na, na,” she answered, blushing.
“Robin could na play like you, but the
minister aye fiddles a bit afore he goes
to bed.”
The good man went away without
making his errand knowu. No minis¬
ter who played the fiddle could baptize
his bairu. so he went hack to his own,
who neither fished, hunted uor played
forbidden music, and let him name the
child.—London Spectator.
Made Certain of It.
A through train on the Rock Island
stopped a few moments at the Engle¬
wood station one day. A passenger
got off to walk around a little. As the
train began to move again the passen¬
ger jumped aboard, but just then he
discovered that he had but one over¬
shoe. Thinking that he dropped the
other somewhere on the platform and
as the train was going too fast for him
to jump off and recover it, he pulled
off the remaining shoe and threw it on
the platform, exclaiming. “There—that
makes a good pair of overshoes for
somebody." Entering the car, he pro¬
ceeded to his seat. There, to his great
astonishment, was his overshoe. A
look of intense disgust came upon his
face, but he did not hesitate. Quickly
picking up the lone arctic, he hurried
to the platform, threw the shoe as far
as he could back toward the other one
and shouted, "By jimlny, there is a
pair of overshoes for somebody!”—Ar¬
gonaut.
Sleeping In Church.
“Charles.” said old Mrs. Spreckles to
her husband. "I’m so ashamed of the
way you go to sleep in church Sunday
after Sunday that 1 don’t know what
to do. I can’t hardly hold my head up
aDd look the people in the face after
the services. You are such a devout
man on week days that 1 don’t see why
you show so much disrespect for sa¬
cred things on the Sabbath."
“There's no disrespect intended.” an¬
swered Mr. Spreckles. “I am like the
little boy next door. All week he
looks forward eagerly to the Sunday
auto ride his uncle gives him. It is
the crowning event of the week to
him. Yet he goes to sleep invariably
before be has ridden a mile, and he
doesn’t wake up until it Is all over.
Because Willie goes to sleep is no sign
that the ride is not doing him any
good, is it?’*—Newark News.
Emigrant Potatoes.
Irish potatoes, like Irishmen, do bet¬
ter abroad than they do at home, and
just as the average Irishman when he
gets to the colonies becomes a gov¬
ernor general, tike Lord MacDonnell
or Sir Gavan Duffy, so the average
Irish seed potato planted in England
knocks spots out of the average Scotch
or English seed.—Irish Homestead.
Ready, as a Rule.
“Woman," observed the epigram¬
matic boarder, “is a puzzle without an
answer."
“Huh!” snorted old Grumpley. “I
never saw a woman without one yet.”
—Boston Transcript.
A Failure.
Wigg—At the first night of Scrib¬
bler’s new play 1 understand there
was a big bouse. Wagg—<Yes, but
most of the audience left early to
avoid the rush.—Philadelphia; Record.
The torpedo leaves tbe gum at a rate
of 40 kuots an hour.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
MYSOST.
A Norwegian Cheese That la Made of
Goats’ Milk.
There is a terrible kind of Norwegian
cheese called “mysost,” which is made
of goats' m^lk. It is brown in color
and served in the shape of bricks
done up in silver paper. The initiated
shave this irfto thin films and make it
into a sandwich with black bread and
butter. This cheese is really made
from the whey after proper cheese has
been manufactured. All the water is
then boiled out, and the remainder is
compressed into these brown bricks,
which taBte sweet and gritty.
Love of this cheese would take some
time to acquire. The opportunity is
not lacking, for it appears at every
meal, from breakfast onward. There
are several native cheeses. Another
terrible one, “puitost,” is made with
caraway seeds and always smells as
if it had gone bad. Mysost has no
smell, fortunately, only a terrible as¬
pect and taste.
Dr. Julius Nicholyson sent a few
Norwegian delicacies to a friend in
Germany, and.-among others, he put
in a piece of the native mysost. His
friend wrote and thanked him for the
salmon, etc., and then continued, “The
soap is very nice, but we find great
difficulty in making the lather.” This
was the cheese!—London Saturday Re¬
view.
AMERICAN CRACKERS.
Pilot Bread the First Variety Made In
the United States.
The first cracker produced in tbe
United States, so far as known, was
pilot or ship bread, a large, round,
clumsy, crisp affair, which supplied
the demand of the merchant marine
for an article of food that would, un¬
like ordinary bread, keep for a pro¬
longed period.
Later another variety was origi¬
nated, the cold water cracker, which
differed from the first chiefly iu its
smaller size, more compact texture
and greater hardness. For a long time
these two were the only goods kuown
to the trade.
They were both made of unleavened
dough mixed and kneaded by band,
and the crackers were rolled out and
shaped separately before being placed,
one at a time, on a long bandied sheet
iron shovel or peel and transferred iu
order to the floor of the oval shaped
tile oven then in use. It was not until
some time later that raised or fer¬
mented dough was used iu the manu¬
facture of crackers, and it is only
within the past three-quarters of a
century that any great variety has
been produced.—Bakers’ Weekly.
Dogs and Somersaults.
As there is more than one way of
cooking a goose, so there is more than
one method of teaching a dog to throw
somersaults. But the most practical
and thorough manuer is to fasten a
cord around tbe body of the animal
close to the fore legs, and two people
should hold the ends of the cord on
either side of the unfortunate dog. A
third party, armed with a stout rope,
takes a position immediately in front
of the canine acrobat and with a meas¬
ured and masterly stroke flogs the
floor at close quarters to the dog’s nose.
At each stroke of the rope the dog
springs backward, and that movement
is the trainer’s golden opportunity. As
the dog springs backward the rope
passing under Its body is jerked up¬
ward, and, although the first few at¬
tempts may prove futile, the somer¬
sault is acquired in course of time. An
intelligent dog soon sickens of this or¬
der of things and throws somersaults
without the assistance of ropes.
And Yet the King Died.
During the fatal illness of King
Charles II. of England there were four¬
teen doctors in attendance, and they
dosed him in the course of five and
a half days with the following drugs
and powders: Orange infusion of the
metals, white vitriol dissolved in com¬
pound peony water, powder of sacred
bitter, sirup of buckthorn, counnou
decoction for clysters, rock salt, emetic
wine, two blend pills, bryony com¬
pound. powder ot white hellebore roots,
powder of cowslip flowers, best man¬
na, cream of ,artar, barley and liq¬
uorice. sweet almond kernels, sal am¬
moniac, antidotal milk water, mallow
root, melon seeds, chicken broth, bark
of elm, a julep of black cherry water,
flowers of lime, lilies of the valley,
spirit of lavender, prepared pearls and
white sugar candy, senna leaves, ale.
sirup of cloves, Goa stone, Rhine wine,
oriental bezoar stone and a number of
other medicines.
Society’s Mandates.
Society can and does execute its own
mandates, and if it issues wrong man¬
dates instead of right or any man¬
dates at ail in things with which it
ought not to meddle it practices a so¬
cial tyranny more formidable than
many kinds of political oppression,
since, though not usually upheld by
such extreme penalties, it leaves few¬
er means of escape, penetrating much
more deeply into the details of life
and enslaving the soul itself.—John
Stuart Miil.
The Ubiquitous Purist.
Vicar—I'm sorry to hear you’ve been
so poorly. You must pray for a good
heart. Thomas. Thomas—Ya-as, zur.
But it's my liver wot be wrong, ye
know, zur.—London Telegraph.
Sky High.
Howell—Our servant kindled the Are
with kerosene the other morning.
Powell—Did you reprimand her? How¬
ell—You bet she got a blowing up.—
New York Press.
Hold your tongue and you will pass
for a philosopher.—Italian Proverb.
READY WEAR
Have you ever seen a Peck Suit?
Do you really know how good clothes can
be made at underrate prices.
; We would like to show you our
Peek Clothes. You can rest assured that
your money will go it full value in these.
And then too, they guarantee to be
one hundred per cent wool. That same
thing now-a-days.
We have Peck suits at
$ 15.00 $ 18.00 $ 20.00 $ 22 . 01 ) $ 25.00
Lee Brothers, Covington,Ga
$ Silver DOLLARS $
dim Our custMers Free
The beautiful clock displayed in our store con=
tains a number of silver dollars. It will be wound
up and allowed to run down each week. Come to
our store and get time cards which are identified by
the hours, minutes and seconds stamped thereon.
Bring your time cards to our store each week on
Saturday
and “Silver Dollars” will be given free to the person
present holding the card stamped in accordance
with the conditions of the time cards which our
our clerks will explain in detail.
What time will the clock Stop? Don’t forget to get the
time cards. You must be present at time Clock is uncovered.
W. COHEN, Covington, Ga.
“A little money goes a long way at this Store.”
We never sleep. Keep one eye open for bargains. I want
vour trade.