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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 ♦ 4 i I ♦ Patronize I \ I White ♦ I ♦ Barbers ♦ ♦ I ( ♦ $ We have and well ♦ a neat I kept shop, equipped with ♦ new furniture and supplied I with hot and cold water. We ♦ ask for your trade from the I fact that we do first class ♦ work and white barbers all I the way through. ♦ I ♦ W. J. Gobei 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.