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PAPER FOR MONEY.
Extrema Care and Secrecy Ueed In It*
Manufacture.
The various great nations devote
much study to the improvement of
their secret processes of manufactur¬
ing paper for money and banknotes,
the principal object being, of course,
to render counterfeiting more and
more difficult.
Our own government guards with
extreme care every detail of the man¬
ufacture of this paper, laying special
Importance upon its secret of getting
silk thread into the composition of the
paper itself.
The efforts of this government, how¬
ever, are not nearly so painstaking as
those put forth in making the flimsy
paper used for Bank of Euglaud notes,
which are probably the finest paper
money in the world. These notes are
manufactured from fine Irish linen,
and the peculiar properties of the Test
water (so called from the river of that
name) produce paper of a purity and
texture unsurpassed. The secret of
the security of the Bank of England
note against forgery and counterfeit¬
ing is said to be entirely in the paper
Itself and not iu the printing.
In addition, the notes show a water
mark so cleverly devised mat an ex¬
pert from the mill can tell by a glance
at the date of manufacture the very
name of the employee who made it.
The watermark is produced by a de¬
sign countersunk in the woven wire
bottoms of the trays in which the hot
paper pulp is poured and dried. It has
never been successfully imitated.
Extraordinary precautions are taken
for the security of the mill where these
notes are made, as well as of every¬
thing in the mill. There is. of course,
HOW INSECTS BREATHE.
Syatem ®f 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 lo Contain nothing
but air, they are strongly supported to
guard against collapse from pressure.
This support is furnished by means
of a flue 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 ends 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 iu the water as
a larva. But it lias no gills; there¬
fore it eauuot breathe the oxygen iu
the water, but must breathe air. This
Is done by means of a splcade situated
at the tip of Its tail. Indeed, the tail
is prolonged Into a little tube. The
larva floats along head downward In
the water with this tube just above
the surface to enable It to breathe.
After some time it is provided with
two little tubes, which act iu the same
manner.—Chicago Tribune.
All Profit.
"No use of talking,’’ drawled the
freckled youth on the roadside fence,
"thar certainly is a lot of money in
cattle.”
"In the stock raising business, young
man?” asked the tourist.
‘'No, not exactly, but an automobile
ran over that spotted calf a few min¬
utes ago, and the man with the big
spectacles over his eyes got out and
handed be a five dollar note.”
"Five dollars? That’s not so much
for a good sized calf.”
“Yes, but, mister, the calf wasn’t
mine. Now, if I cnn only stand In
front of another cmf while he gets run
over I'll be right in it, be gosh.”—Chi¬
cago News.
Startled Him.
Twynn—I bear that the weathei
prophet has had to be taken to the
hospital.
Triplett—That is true. The shoek
was too much for him.
"What shock?”
“Oue of his forecasts came true.”
The Flesh Fly.
The housefly lays eggs, but the flesh
fly, known as the bluebottle, produces
living larvae, about fifty at a Drue.
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 Meats
you like so well. Giveme an order. 1 will appreciate it and
will try to please you.
Cigars aud Tobacco. Cash Paid for Hides.
R. F. Wright,
Covington, Georgia.
CIRCUSES.
The Old and the New and the Great¬
est Dcawing Card.
Before the one ring days and going
back a few centuries the circus was
represented iu the person of a mounte
bank, a tbiu vlsaged. clean shaven
man who hitched his trapeze to the
sturdy limb of a village oak and did
feats to the ill concealed amazement
of a people who resiiected God some¬
what, but the devil and his black
magic a great deal more.
A long and high jump this—from
mountebank to modern hippodrome,
from a man who lived under his hat
to a tented city which bouses as many
as 25.000 people in one day and regu¬
larly furnishes food, shelter ami trails
portation for 1,200 more, to say noth
ing of a hospital, a postoffice and u
commissary where one can purchase
almost anything from a postage stamp
to a suit of overalls.
The big show today is as highly spe
clalized and deviously organized as is
our greatest business institution, its
maintenance costs a thousand dollars
an hour. Yes, It’s a long jump from
the mountebank; but. after all. things
haven’t changed so much in some
ways.
A man who was running a trick
pony and dog show last year added a
“thriller” to It is program in the way
of a dangerous flying trapeze act. To
the delight of his pockets, but the in¬
tense disgust of his trainer’s soul, the
door receipts almost doubled. He had
two men at the door one night who
asked the outgoing crowds which part
of the show they liked best—the trick
animals or the acrobats. They answer¬
ed as one, “The acrobats.”’
Danger—danger to other human
lives and limbs that’s the drawing
card, after all. excepting only Hie chil¬
dren who are too young to he gory
minded and who And most delight in
the clowns. We grownups like the
“thrillers"-the more deadly the better.
—William Alien Johnston tu Harper’s
Weekly.
Highest Endurable Temperature.
It Is difficult to say what the high
est temperature is Hint a human be¬
ing can live in. In ibe kitchens of
some of the great hotels and in the
stokeholds of some steamships the
temperature gets to 14U 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 212.
the boiling point of water. There are
a few who can stand this heat for u
little while at a time, but man can eu
dure no more.—New York American.
Vesuvius.
Vesuvius cut but a small figure iu
history till the latter half of the first
century of the Chrlatiuu era. in 73
B. C. its crater served as a camp of
refuge to a band of gladiators. In 03
A. I). the serenity was broken by a
violent grumbling that manifested It¬
self in u severe earthquake that shook
up the surrounding region. For sixteen
years the subterranean rumblings con¬
tinued ut intervals, and in the year 79
A. D. came the great catastrophe In
which Ilerculaueum and 1‘ouipeli were
overwhelmed. Iu 1031 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, dear?" asked
Mr. Justwed as he 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?"
“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, darliug?”
“And they turned out to be sponge
cakes."
The Cleverest.
Willy—You see. it was this way
They were all three so dead in love
with her and all so eligible that to set
tie the matter she ngreed to tnarry the
oue who should guess the nearest to
her age. Arthur—And did she? Willy
—l don’t know. I know that she mar
ried the one who guessed the lowest.
Macdougal—You’s an awfu' like sight
to see on the Sawbath, Angus!
Angus— And what awfu’ like sight
do ye see. Macdougal?
Macdougal—There’s Airchie au’ his
lass smilin’ an’ hurryln’ as if It was
a week day just.
THE COVINGTON NE\,
"IN THE HOUR OF DEATH.”
A Not* on the Authorship of a Well
Known Poem.
The question is often asked in news¬
papers and magazines. "Who wrote
the poem beginning ‘In the hour of
death, after this life's whim?”’
The answer is given that nothing is
known of the author. It is true this
poem was published with only the ini¬
tials of the writer in the University
Magazine in 1879. But I hold the
manuscript of the poem, and 1 have
also Blackmore’s letter that accompa¬
nied it. Blackmore has been so long
dead I do not feel that there can be
any harm in giving his letter to the
public. 1 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 dreamt 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, i
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 1 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 lltumtnatlo mea.
1.
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 Bhall All 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 nngel of the Lorfl shall lift this head.
For even the purest delight may pall;
The power must fall, and the pride must
fall.
And the love of the dearest friends grow
small.
But the glory of the Lord Is all In alt.
—R. D. B. In Memorlam M. F. (J
-“London Athenaeum.
THE ELEPHANT IN BATTLE.
Most Docile Yet Courageous and Faith¬
ful of Animals.
Of the docility of the elephant there
Is no need to multiply examples. It Is
said that in India native women some¬
times when called away intrust their
babies to the care of "the handed one,"
confident that they will be safe and
tenderly handled.
But of all elephant stories surely the
finest is that which tells how the
standard bearing elephant of the Peish
wa won a great victory for its Mah
ratta lord. At the moment when Ibe
elephant had been told to halt its ma¬
hout was killed. The shock of battle
closed around it, and the Mahratta
forces were borne back, but still the
elephant stood, and the standard which
it carried still flew, so that the Pelsh
wa’s soldiers could not believe that
they were indeed being overcome and,
rallying, in their turn drove the enemy
backward till the tide swept past the
rooted elephant and left it towering
colossal among the slain. The fight
was over and won, and then they
would have had the elephant move
from the battlefield, but it waited still
for the dead man’s voice.
For three days and nights it remain¬
ed where it had been told to remain,
and neither bribe nor threat would
move it till they sent to the village on
the Nerbudda, a hundred miles away,
and fetched the mahout’s little son, a
| round eyed, lisping child, and then at
last the hero of that victorious day,
remembering bow its master had often
in brief absence delegated authority to
the child, confessed its allegiance and
with the shattered battle harness
clanging at each stately stride swung
slowly along the road behind the boy.
—London Times.
Th* Lady Who Danced the Minuet.
The minuet was ever the aristocrat
of dances. Before the lady of the
eighteenth century elected to step the
dainty measure she had many points
to master, for to dance the minuet was
to court criticism. The plunge taken,
she wore a lappet ou her shoulder to
tell the company she proposed to make
or mar her ballroom reputation.
Another point of etiquette lay in the
gloves. A soiled pair was good enough
for the country dance, but au abso¬
lutely new pair had to adorn the fair
hands which graced the minuet. And
so the lady of the eighteenth century
on dancing bent set out with two
pairs in her satchel.—Loudon Chroni
cle
Rowley, the English violinist, was
hard to beat on his perseverance
against one who had incurred his ill
will. Rowley had a quarrel with a
horse dealer named Brant. It was a
trivial matter, but Rowley took the
next house to Brant, set up a piano,
bought a cornet and proceeded to make
insomnia for Brant. After one or two
assault cases in court Brant moved.
Rowley bought out the next door
neighbor and followed with piano and
cornet. Brant went to law. but found
he could do nothing. Failiug, be took
a detached house. Then Rowley hired
brass bands and organs and assailed
him. This was actiouable, aud Row.
ley paid £1,000 for his revenge.—Lon¬
don Tatler.
ENGLISH ELECTIONS.
Bribery Wai Rampant In the Old Time
Campaigns.
Even now parliamentary elections
are not altogether free from corrup¬
tion. Worcester was for a time dis¬
franchised after the last geueral elec¬
tion on account of the irregularities
found to have been prevalent, and oth¬
er constituencies had a rough time be¬
fore they were secure of their respec¬
tive members.
But the old time elections were al¬
together different. The popularity of
the reform bill, which purposed the
abolition of bribery, was by no means
universal. In the Times of May 10.
1831, there is a story of a London po¬
lice constable who asked his inspector
for leave to go into the country to vote
for an anti-reform candidate. He ex¬
plained that he would get £10 aud his
expenses for his vote, but complained
that it was not then as iu former
times, when he had had as much as
£40 and never less than £25. “And if
that reform bill passes it will be a
sad loss to me and my brother free¬
men.” he added.
King George 111. had his own meth¬
ods as an election agent. On the eve
of an election at Windsor in which
Admiral Keppel was the Whig candi¬
date the king strolled into a stik mer¬
cer’s shop in the town and called out;
“The queen wants a gown—wants a
gown! No Keppel! No Keppel!”—
London Answers.
ARMY FLAGS.
The Largest Is the Garrison Flag.
Twenty by Thirty-six Feet.
The largest ensign made is called
No. 1, and its dimensions are thirty
six feet on the fly and nineteen feet at
the hoist, but this is very rarely used.
The largest flag used in the army is
the garrison flag, with a thirty-six foot
fly and a twenty foot hoist, which is
displayed only on holidays and impor¬
tant occasions.
To describe the various designs and
give the different dimensions of ail the
flags used in our army and navy
would require several columns of
space. There is a considerable num¬
ber of flags of various kinds that have
peculiar functions to perform. The
amount of bunting required for the
outfit of one of our battleships is
something enormous, for, besides out
own flags, she must be supplied with a
varied assortment (some forty odd) of
foreign national flags for display, as
naval etiquette demands, when the
high officials of other nations come
aboard or whose waters our ships en¬
ter while on a foreign cruise.
All of these foreigu flags are made
at the Brooklyn navy yard.—Manches¬
ter (N. H.) Union.
Not Worth Having.
He was employed by a firm of deal¬
ers in bric-a-brac and old furniture to
scour rural districts in search of an¬
tiques, and suddenly he espied an old
fashioned cottage nestling at the foot
of a hill.
Surely here in this old world spot
there would be something In his line.
He knocked sharply at the door, and
a weary looking woman answered.
“Do you happen to have any antique
furniture, madam,” he asked, "or any
old ornaments, such as heathen idols
or the like?"
The woman looked somewhat puz
zled for a moment.
"1 think I’ve got one," she said at
length.
Agog with expectation, be followed
her into the house and to a room where
lay a hulking fellow who was fast
asleep on a couch.
"There it is,” she replied, pointing
to the couch. "He’s the only idle thing
I’ve got in the place—hasn’t done any
work for years. He may do for you.
but he’s certainly no ornament.”—Lon
don Tit-Bits.
Logic, Feminine Brand.
“I don’t like to play cards for mon
ey,..but i don’t in the least mind play¬
ing for a prize,” is the attitude of sev¬
eral New York women who have re¬
cently got up a club. Who was to
furnish the prizes was auother ques¬
tion. They didn’t wish to have the
woman at whose borne they happened
to be playing buy prizes iu addition to
a little luncheon. Finally one ol the
members suggested a plan which has
met the approval of all the womeu
concerned, aud it has been adopted In
the club. At the beginning of the
game each player puts up a quarter,
so that there is a prize of a dollar at
each table for the winner. That is
perfectly logical and the eternal femi¬
nine way of getting out of a difficulty.
They don’t want to play for money,
but it is all right to play tor prizes,
whatever they may be. And the
prizes happen to be money. No mat¬
ter.—New York Press,
His Conclusion.
“And this,” said the young man who
was showing his country relatives
through the Museum of Art, "is a repli¬
ca of the Venus de Milo.”
“Gosh.” said bis Uncle Amasa. “she
was a good looker, all right! Wa’n’t
never married, was she?”
“No; 1 don’t believe she ever was.”
“I s’pose, bein’ armless and not hav¬
in’ a husband to hook up her clo’s, she
simply had to dress that way. no mat¬
ter whether she liked It or not.”—Chi¬
cago Record-Herald.
His Memory.
“Has he a good memory?”
"No, just a common, ordinary, every¬
day memory. He remembers people
who owe him money much better than
those to whom he owes money.’’—De¬
troit Free Press.
If mere Ideas are not truth they are
at least the cloth of which It Is made.
—Moore.
Money
In every community there is enough
money in hiding to start a respectable
bank. This money is not only liable i
be lost by theft 0
or fire, but it is placed
where it does not bring in any income
to the holder, neither is it of any use to
the public,
Deposit the “dead” money with us. Then it will oo\ i n
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to circulation, and be of some benefit to yourself and also to
the community.
The more money there is in circulation, the cheaper the
rate ol interest; the easier it is to borrow, and the more
prosperous the general conditions.
Bank of Newton County
C< tvi ngton, (»corgi a..
Dr. A. S. HOPKINS, Dentist
Nitrous Oxide Gas Administered.
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► Have'installed a Jameson easting machine for
gold inlays, Phase inlays casting
and enamel fillings are especially
indicated in frail teeth where crowns are not wanted and
discoloration is objectionable.
m- All kinds of dental work done in a painstaking and very
r careful manner.
Night calls answered from residence near Georgia depot,
second house on left toward Oxford.
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Office S and 10 Star Rldg. Covington, Ga.
Office Phone 216 Residence Pnone 200-L J
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Seed Oats For Sale.
Seed Oats and Seed Wheat. Appier Oats, the Old
Rust 1 roof and 1 exas 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.
If it’s printing that pleases, you can
bet that it came from The News.
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