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THE FATHER AND SON FOUGHT SIDE BY SIDE.
THEY ARE BROTHERS TO NEW¬
TON COUNTY CITIZEN.
John M. Brown of this county, Broth¬
er and Father Are All Confeder¬
ate Veterans and Are All Living.
A Remarkable Distinction.
The following artl-He written by
Robert Quin and appearing in Sun
Jay’s issue of the Atlanta Constitu¬
tion, will be of interest to many peo¬
ple living in this county:
“With the wear and tear of nearly
half of a century thinning the gray
ranks to a fragment and transform¬
ing the few survivors of the Confed¬
eracy into old men, James M. Brown
a Confederate veteran in his eighty
eighth year, lying in the hospital at
the Old Soldiers Home of Atlanta,
bears a rare distinction.
He has two living sons who fought
with him for the Southern cause, one
of whom has already reached the al¬
lotted age while the other is feebly
climbing toward the same goal.
The two sons are Wesley J. Brown,
aged 65, an inmate of the home with
the senior Mr. Brown, and John M.
Brown, aged 70, a farmer of Newton
county.
James M. Brown, the father, is
now in a feeble state of health and
is confined at the hospital of the
home under the constant care of a
trained nurse.
Only a short while ago he was in
good health and could tell the best
joke of any of the ‘boys.’
Sits by His Father’s Bed.
Daily now his aged son and com¬
panion through the war, visifo his
bedside. He watches his father sad¬
ly and tenderly for he realizes that
soon the great fight ^ill come and
but one perhaps will be left alive on
the battle ground when the smoke
clears away.
These remarkable men are natives
of Cobb county. It will be timely
here to state that they are no rela¬
tions of Georgia’s governor.
At the time of the breaking out of
the war, the elder Brown, with his
family lived on ‘Nigger Jack’ creek,
near Smyrna, about 3 1-2 miles from
Marietta.
Father and three sons enlisted, all
surviving through the war, and death
two years ago taking one son. Wil¬
liam A. Brown, at the age of 66. This
son was wounded twice in the seven
days’ battle near Richmond.
James M. Brown and Wesley J.
Brown, the father and son at home,
were members of the same company,
and side by side served in the strug¬
gles. They enlisted in the Second
Georgia Reserves, company E, and
from January, ’64, to the close of he
war were engaged in guarding the
northern prisoners held by the Con¬
federates at Andersonville.
Serving In the capacity of guards
with the rest of their regiment, the
father and son never engaged in a
real scrimmage. Not all of their time
was spent at the somber prison, how¬
ever, the company being transferred
from time to time to Lawtonville, on
I he Central road; to Blackshear, be¬
low Savannah; to ThomasvlUe and to
Albany. The two were at Lake City.
Fla., when the yankee prisoners were
paroled and sent back north.
Served in Gartrell’s Division.
The father and son served under
Captain Jim McCleskey, now living in
Cobb county; their company was in
(he regiment commanded by Colonel
M. C. Jones, now of Cartaersville,
and the division was under General
Lucius J. Gartrell, of Atlanta.
The elder Brown was about forty
' of at the time of his enlist¬
years age
ment, and Wesley was a mere lad,
sixteen years of age.
Returning to the farm at Marietta,
the desolation wrought by Sherman’s
march, they discovered, included thei
belongings with the thousands of oth¬
er veterans. The father and sons
began life over, working side by side
as they did in the service, and as
they are spending their last days at
the home now.
Feeble health brought the elder
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5 Covington, - Ga.
man to the Soldiers Home on April
1, 1909, and three months ago—in
September — Wesley Brown entered
the home, more to nurse his aged
father than because of his own in¬
firmities.
A remarkable member of the Brown
family is the sister of the elder man.
She is Miss Polly Brown, who lives
on the land given her by her father
near the Marietta camp ground in
Cobb county. She is a spinster at
the ripe age of 90 years.
Wesley Brown has a wife and three
children, who live in Cobb county on
a small farm near ‘Fair Oaks,’ the
farm of ex-Mayor Joyner.
John M. Brown, the other Confed¬
erate veteran—son of James Brown—
resides with his family near Coving¬
ton, in Newton County. As was
stated, he is himself 70 years of age.
He was a member of Phillips’ Le¬
gion and saw active service.”
THE LUMINOUS HALO.
Psychic Explanation of an Oft Wit¬
nessed Phenomenon.
I was summoned one day to the Salt
petriere In Paris to see u woman who
lay In a bed In the dark. She was a
woman whose body, nerves, brain, had
been teased and tortured for years In
psychic and occult experiment. What
mental perturbation was racking that
brain I did not know, and the physi¬
cians at her bedside did not know.
With clinched hands and teeth and
eyes open wide the woman lay there.
Her breathing was irregular and not
deep. What we saw was this: A lumi¬
nous halo of a vague orange hue that
circled her head, even as In the old
pictures of martyred saints you see
the heads mooned with faded gold. This
halo was fluctuant. It came and went.
It was a light that flickered, grew,
faded, formed Itself anew.
A miracle, this aureoled head?
If you want to call It that. Words
are not of great Importance. It was a
miracle when It glowed around the
head of a martyr tortunjfi In the arena,
so tortured by pain and fear that his
dissociated psychic centers produced
the phenomenon of the exteriorization
of luminous energy.
Perhaps it were bettef to call it at
once a miracle and a presclentiflc fact
—a fact, that Is, which Is occult, but is
In the way of becoming known.
I asked Dr. Frere what he thought
of this miracle.
“I have often seen it," he snld. The
field of his experiments was the mad¬
house at Blcetre. There many neuro¬
pathic patients abide, and often in
cases of severe headache or of reli¬
gious ecstasy he has seen these fluctu¬
ant aureoles around the head.
“The rays are often twenty centime¬
ters In ertent, quite regular, forming a
perfect aureole,” he explained.
There Is, then, a form of energy en¬
dowed with luminous properties ema¬
nating from the human body under
certain conditions.—Vance Thompsor
In Hampton's Magazine.
QUEER BURIALS.
Uncouth Methods of the Nomads of
Queensland.
Of all the modes of burial ever prac¬
ticed by creatures in the shape of bu
man beings the method of the Queens¬
land nomads Is certainly the most un¬
couth. After drying the corpse In the
sun and knocking out Its teeth for
keepsakes they deposit ft on n frame¬
work of rough poles and bury It under
a few armfuls of rushes and old kan¬
garoo skins, leaving the bush wolves
to sing its requiem.
No member of the dead man’s tribe
will settle within a mile of his grave
for fear of being haunted by the spooks
making the burial place their midnight
rendezvous. The metaphysical opin¬
ions of the Australian aborigines prove
Indeed that savages can be afflicted
with an abundance of supernaturallsm
without betraying a trace of anything
deserving the name of religious senti¬
ment
They believe in evil spirits whistling
In the blasts of the storm wind and try
to exorcise them by spitting in the di¬
rection of the sky, but for the concep¬
tions of the Deity, of future existence,
of repentance, atonement and con¬
science their language has not even a
definite word. From somewhere In the
land of their forefathers—eastern Asia
perhaps—they have Imported a notion
faintly resembling the Buddhist doc¬
trine of metempsychosis and believe
that animals may be reborn as men
and men as human beings of a supe¬
rior rank.—London Answers.
Not So Bad as It Sounded.
In a downtown cafe two old college
friends met by chance. They had not
met before in several years and were
properly delighted. In the course of
conversation one. who had been long
absent from town, bethought him of a
mutual friend.
“Tell me.” said he, “bow I can reach
Jim. I’d like to look him up tonight.”
‘‘My boy,” said the other, "if you
want to reach Jim you’ll have to tele¬
phone to -, an undertaker on Sixth
avenue.”
“What! You shock me. Jim dead! 1
—I am sorry indeed to hear it.”
“Dead? Who said he was dead. He’s
a friend of the undertaker and has
rooms near by. He has no telephone,
but has an arrangement for using the
undertaker’s, as tbe place is open at all
hours. Just telephone tbe undertaker,
and the message will be carried around
to Jim.”—New York Globe
THE COVINGTON NEWS
THE GOVERNMENT
REPORT SHOWS
A Total of Over Eight Million
Bales Ginned to December
F irst this Year.
This year’s ginning is 2, 128,-384
bales behind last year.
the government’s estimate of what
the total crop will be is only 10,088,000
bales, which is over 3,000,000 hales be¬
hind last year’s crop.
The price of cotton advances sharply
May cotton bringing 16c, and spots
15c, a cotton famine for the mills.
English spinners have been buying all
the fall, and are better supplied with
the staple than the American mills.
The following is the amount ginned
to Dee. 1st, by states:
Alabama, 919,575
Arkansas, 613,871
Florida, 55,958
Georgia, 1,677,232
Louisian, 237,553
Mississippi, 866,950
North Caroliana, 536,163
Oklahoma, 501,826
South Carolina, 998,340
Tennessee, 206,353
Texas, 2,212,319
All other states, 49,133 |
Gaithers News.
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Griffin weie
the guests of relatives at Madison
Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. Fi. R. Banks spent last Sunday
at Midway, the guest, of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. (J. Banks.
Mr. Ralph McDonald left Friday)
for South Georgia where he will spend
some time.
Mr. J. P. Tomlin went to Coving¬
ton on business Saturday.
Mrs. E. R. Banks and little daugh¬
ter Essie, spent several days at Hays
ton last week the guest of her mother
Mrs. S. L. Darby.
Mr. John Pickett and family moved
to their new home at Woodlawn last
week. We regret very much to give
them up but hope our loss will be
Woodlawn’s gain.
Mr. E. R. Banks spent Friday in
Covington.
Mrs. A. M. Griffin was the guest |
of Mrs. 1). H. Henderson at Midway
one day last week.
—New styles in American Lady
Corsets at C. C. Robinson’s.
Twenty-Nine Corporations in a Week.
The Georgia and Alabama Indus¬
trial index, published at Columbus,
(la., says in its regulay weekly issue:
“Just exactly twenty-nine new cor¬
porations applied for charter in Geor¬
gia and Alabama during the past
week, and these enterprises, repres¬
enting numerous ptiases of industry,
commerce and business activities gen¬
erally, have a minimum capital stock
of |5,217,500. As illustrating the di¬
versified charter of industries in the
two states, and the fact, that the
present development and growth
characterizes practically all lines of
business, generally speaking, it may
be stated that of these new compan¬
ies five are banking corporations, two I
will engage in the lumber business, j
two are insurance companies, and
other lines are represen ted as follows:
Dry goods, automobiles, drugs, grist
mill, laundry, mercantile business,
phosphate, factory, stove works, ad¬
vertising, street railway, cotton mill,
trust company, contracting, invest¬
ing, towing, investment company,
department store.
“The influx of South Carolina far¬
mers into south Georgia continues,
one of the large salt's of the week be-1
ing that of a $50,000 plantation in
Sumpter county to an investor from
that state. Atlanta had several large j
realty sales, conspicuous among them
being the sale of central business
property of $200,000. In Mobile coun¬
ty, Alabama, a tract of land has been
purchased on which a northern col¬
ony will locate, being induced to come j
south through the enterprise of the j
land and industrial department of one !
of the big railway companies.”
Fresh Water Spoils Oysters.
Oysters are grown in salt water.
Fresh water wilts them; bloats them;
fades them; and washes out the salty
tang of the sea, which is the oysters’ j
true charm. Fresh water, even if it I
is pure and clean, makes the oysters
soggy, shapeless insipid. Sealshipt
Oysters never touch fresh water. At j
the seaside they are packed, solid, in
to air-tight containers, which are j
sealed. For sale at PARKER’S place.
Call for them. Phone 10-L.
The news office is better equipped
both with printers and material than
any other shop in Middle Georgia to
give you absolutely the best printing
to be had. The price? That’s a small
matter, considering the quality.
READY TO WAER
Have you ever seen a Peek Suit?
Do you really know how good elotlies 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 $ 22.00 $ 25.00
GG Brothers, Covington,Ga.
$ Silver DOLLARS $
Sim Our custom Fret
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 £top? Don’t forget to get the
time cards. You must he present at time Clock is uncovered.
W. COHEN, “ The Covington, Ga.
“A little money goes a long way at this Store.”
We never sleep. Keep one eye open for bargains. I want
your trade.