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COVINGTON, GA., MAY 4, 1910.
Nimble Nimrod is now giving the
nibblers a chance to nibble!
Between the voice of Cajruso and
the “chug-chug” of the automobile,
Atlanta is in her glory.
The News has no ax to grind in
today’s primary, but we do want to
see the best men elected for each
of the offices.
The agony in local politics will he
over tonight and the candidates will
have an opportunity to rest before
the state primary.
Atlanta is having a gala week be¬
ginning Monday, May 2nd. Atlanta
is a live wire, and when it comes to
spreading it on thick sffi<e is hard to
beat.
There is only one way to got the
tax returns properly valued, and that
is to have tax assessors who are fear¬
less and conscientious. Newton coun
ty needs them.
The vote for county officers in
Newton county this year will be con¬
siderably lighter than heretofore, due
to the fact that many citizens have
failed to register.
The News’ extra Thursday morn¬
ing will give the result of today’s
primary for county officers exactly
Sltow the vote is cast in each of the
different districts.
The time for giving in state and
county taxes is here, and if every
citizen in the county would give his
property in at anything like a fair
valuation, the returns would more
than double the amount of those of
last year.
The big dam of the Central Geor¬
gia Power Company will be complete
within the next few months and as
yet we have heard of no effort on
the part of anyone in this city to get
them to run their power or any part
of it, into Covington.
Down in the tenth congressional
district was held a “jint ’spute” last
week and two of the aspirants call¬
ed each other “liars” and were kept
separated only by the friends of each
party. Such politics are deplorable
in a supposedly law-abiding country.
The report that the extra issue of
The News which will make its ap¬
pearance on Thursday morning will
be issued in the interest of one of
the candidates is as false as the per¬
son who strated it is ignorant. The
primary will tthen be over and there
will be; nothing to do for any of the
candidates.
After a careful reading of the At¬
lanta afternoon papers, one is con¬
vinced, not so much by what is print¬
ed as what is not printed, that some¬
body is playing a strange and elus¬
ive game of politics. We are tired
of guessing and hope the papers will
tell us “what is doing.”—Dublin
Courier-Dispatch.
Much good will be the outcome of
the revival now in progress at the
Methodist church in this city. Aside
from the religious aspect of a revival
there is nothing more conducive to
good government and good citizen¬
ship than the good old sermons de¬
livered in a fearless manner, telling
those who hear them of the evils of
sin, crime and selfishness.
Even Tom Watson, who some peo¬
ple say eelcted Gov. Brown, say’s in
his Jeffersonian that it looks like the
Governor made a mistake In not pur¬
chasing the Chattanooga lands.—
Madisonian.
And you might add, also, that Wat¬
son has stuck to Brown about as
long as he has ever done with any
individual before. Watson’s long
suitt is his lightning changes.
Ex-Governor Smith states that he
will give the people a definite an¬
swer about making the race for
governor within the next few days.
All over the state there are people
who are anxiously awaiting his de¬
cision, as they are also awaiting
Governor Brown’s decision. In all
probability we will have another
warm campaign this year, notwith¬
standing the fact that numerous pos¬
sible candidates have been mention¬
ed—as feelers, to see how the peo¬
ple of the state stand.
I WHY THE AGE ISSUE?
We note in one of our exchanges,
appearing beneath the life-size port¬
rait of William Schley Howard, a syn
opsis of a speech made at Douglas
ville by him, in which he is trying
to score a point on your Uncle Lon’s
age, giving that as a reason to ‘oust
the old man.’
From the way the Colonel is work¬
ing and from what others say, he is
not discrepid by any means. Dr. M.
C. Peters, of Philadelphia, has writ¬
ten a fine editorial on “Humanity’s
Indebtedness to Gray Hairs," and we
would cite Mr. Howard to this. He
says, “the greatest works in litera¬
ture have been evolved from men no
longer young in years.” Age brings
wisdom and experience. The vigor
of youth is worse than weakness, if
misdirected. We are not paid to
say this, we are not a political tool,
but have some honest opinions we
think it worth while to express some¬
time. Tills thing of laying a man on
the shelf on account of his age is a
bad policy, and one we will all feel
the effect of sooner or later—for we
are all growing old and when we do,
we don’t want to be laid on the
shelf. Do you? However, the
onel is still a warm number, and
there’s no need to put a ‘hot brick’
to his back yet.—Social Circle Re¬
cord.
SOME VALUABLE
That something is wrong with
criminal laws, or rather the
ment of them, all of our people
and many suggesitons are being
by laymen and jurists.
Judge H. G. Lewis, judge of
Ocmulgee circuit and who has
ed over Laurens Superior Court
number of times, suggests that
following changes be made in
criminal statutes:
“1. Give to the state and
ant the same number of
strikes ini selecting a jury.
“2. Give the state the right
cross-examine the defendant and
restrict his statement to facts
vant to the issue involved. By this
do not mean that the state should
allowed to call the defendant as
witness against himself, but if the
fendant takes the stand, the
should be allowed these rights.
“3. Give the state the right
amend indictments and put
pleadings on the same footing as
pleading, so far as amendments
concerned.
“4. Allow no issue of venue to
raised unless by special plea in
ing before arraignment.
“5. Let three-fourths of a jury
trol verdicts in both criminal
civil cases.
“6. Put every prosecuting
on a salary, and abolish the fee
tem.
“7. Give courts the power to
move a sheriff for flagrant
of his duty or incompetency and
appoint another in his place.
“8. Change our constitution so
to allow corporal punishment for
demeanors.
“9. Change the state and
constitution so as to give the
to the legislature to prescribe not
ly in method of carrying arms,
what arms may be carried.
“10. Repeal the law making
mandatory on our supreme court
court of appeals to grant new trials
when the presiding judge
or even intimates an opinion on
evidence.
“11. Allow courts wider
in passing on motions to continue.
“12. Do away with the right to
mand indictments in all
cases.
“13. Require all exceptions to
charge of the court as grounds for
new trial to be brought to the
tion of the court immediately.
Some of Judge Lewis’
are good ones and would greatly
prove conditions in this state if
should be acted upon favorably.
That something should be
every thoughtful man will admit.
is a sad sjtatet of affairs when the
most hardened criminal has
chances of escape from
than the law has for convicting him.
He is given every possible
We commend Judge Lewis’
tions to our
Courier-Dispatch.
The A Lesson superiuteudeut In Physiology. in
school was
the habit of dropping in to the differ
ent class rooms aud demanding a re¬
cital of lessons from the pupils. One
day her active mind hit upon physiol¬
ogy as the study for examination.
It happened that the teacher did
herself not like the study of the hu¬
man anatomy and therefore had not
drilled her scholars as she should have
done. But the little girl to whom the
first question was put so bewildered
the superintendent and made her lose
her patience that there were no more
questions of a similar nature asked.
“Tell me.” said the superintendent,
“what a skeleton is.”
The little girl thought for a short
time.
“A skeleton?” she asked. “A skele¬
ton? Why. a skeleton is a man with
his insides out and his outsides off.”—
New York* Times.
THE COVINGTON NEW 8.
NEW VOTING LAW IN PRIMARY.
In the county primary and in all
future elections held in this state all
voters must cast their ballots in the
districts in which they reside.
Heretofore those who lived in a
district where there was no incorpo¬
rated town could go to the county
site and vote. This cannot be done
in the future.
In 1908 the general assembly pass¬
ed a new registration and primary
election law. The latter law wais ap¬
proved by the governor on August 15,
1908, and became a law on and after
that date.
Section 2 of the act reads as fol¬
lows: “Section 2. Be it enacted,
That no elector shall vote in any
such primary election in a militia dis¬
trict other than the one in which he
resides, or, if he resides in a city,
in a ward otiher than the one in
which he resides, if an election pre¬
cinct be located in such ward.”
The above act is very plain. It
means what it says. No citizen of
Newton county can, therefore, come
to Covington and vote in the primary
if he resides in any district in the
county other than the Covington dis¬
trict.
Itn times past many citizens of the
county have come to the city to vote.
In the future they must bear in
mind that they cannot do this, but
must vote in their home precinct,
whatever and wherever that may be.
THE MICROSCOPE.
It Has Its Prototype In Every Spher¬
ical Drop of Water.
Nature offers a free miero«''ope
Whenever one Is wanted. She has
been dealing in free optical instru¬
ments and optical phenomena ever
since the first dewdrop formed or tlm
first raindrop fell earthward. Even
dewdrop and raindrop and spherical
water drop has all the powers and
principles of a microscope. To get
one of nature’s microscopes in opera
tion take up a drop of water between
the two points of two sharpened sticks,
say matches, and hold the drop over
the minute object to be examined. The
result will be that the object will be
magnified about three diameters. The
supposed invention of the microscope
was nothing more than shaping a
piece of glass into an imitation of a
water drop so as to be easily handled.
Spiders have made suspension bridges
for ages. The rough edge of sword
grass gave the inventor the idea of
the reaper blade for the harvester.
The buzzard has been using the aero¬
plane for flying a good many centuries.
By tapping on an end of a long beam
the man at the farther end can hear
you telegraphing, the sound traveling
through the timber. Fishes have been
using bladders of wind for balloons,
lifting them in water for countless
years. Water has been a camera ever
since the world had sunshine.
Help yourself to nature’s store of all
things man needs, but never say any¬
thing about the invention. Nature in¬
vented; you can only arrange and com¬
bine facts.—St. Louis Republic.
EARLY BALLOONING.
8ome Odd Ideas That Prevailed In the
Eighteenth Century.
As far back as 1844 the American
public were led to believe that the
Atlantic had been crossed in a bal¬
loon. On May 28 in that year the
New York Sun published a detailed
account of an aerial voyage from Liv¬
erpool to Charleston, which purported
to have been accomplished by “the
steering balloon Victoria in a period of
seventy-five hours from land to land.”
Five columns were devoted to the de¬
scription of the journey and to a sci¬
entific account of the balloon, of
which a woodcut was given, and an
air of verisimilitude w r as added by a
list of eight passengers, one of the
names mentioned being that of Harri¬
son Ainsworth, who was then at the
height of his fame.
At the end of the eighteenth century
balloons were all the rage. Then, as
now, enthusiasts predicted a time near
at hand when war would either be an
awful matter of the annihilation of
armies and forts by bombs from above
or would cease altogether through the
abolition of frontiers and the fusion
of nations. Prophecy went even fur
ther.
Canals and roads were to vanish and
tbe space occupied by them to be re
stored to agriculture. And ships (If
any still existed) when caught in a
Btorm would be grappled by the mast
from balloons above and safely con¬
veyed Into port or even carried over
mountain ranges.—Chicago News.
London’s Police Press.
An article in the Illustrated English
Magazine gives an account of the print
ing department of Scotland Yard and
the astonishing amount of work it
turns out Four times a day a broad¬
side is Issued to all tbe police officers.
At 9 in the morning the first Is sent
out, giving an inventory of all property
lost. At noon is issued a list of all
persons missing, and this often occu
pies several pages. At half past 6
the broadside contains both subjects,
and also at half past 10. A habitual
criminal register Is distributed and
every few days an account of persons
released on tickets of leave. A sheer
.>f missing articles Is sent to every
pawnbroker, and as many as 4,000
copies of this document are needed.
This is only a small part of the work
done by the Scotland Yard press.
Idleness makes such slow progress
that misery easily catches it at the
first torntaf off the roadway.
LIBEL FOR DIVORCE.
GEORGIA, Newton County:
John Crutchfield vs. Ella Crutchfield
Superior Court, September Term,
1910. To Ella Crutchfield, Greeting:
By order of Court, you are hereby
notified that on 28th day of August
1909, John Crutchfield filed suit
against you for divorce, returnable to
the September Term 1909, of said
Court. You are hereby required to be
and appear at the September Term
1910, of said Court, to be held on
the 3rd Monday in September 1910,
then and there to answer the plaint¬
iff’s complaint. Witness the Honor¬
able L. S. Roan. Judge of said court.
This, 6th day of April, 1910.
JNO. B. DAVIS, Clerk.
LIBEL FOR DIVORCE.
GEORGIA, Newton County:
Annie Ernsdorf vs Albert Ernsdorf.
September Court, March Term
1910. To Albert Ernsdorf, Greeting:
By order of Court you are hereby
notified that on the 28th day of Feb¬
ruary 1910, Annie Ernsdorf filed suit
against you for divorce, returnable to
the March Term 1910 of said court.
You are hereby required to be and
appear at the September Term 1910,
of said Court, to be held on the 3rd
Monday in September 1910, then and
there to answer the plaintiff’s com¬
plaint. Witness the Honorable L. S.
Roan, Judge of said Court. This, 6th
day of April, 1910. Y
JNO. B. DAVIS, Clerk.
Commas.
The French do not. as a rule, eniplo;.
inverted commas to indicate a dialogue,
but they employ the dash to indicate
a change of speakers, which is just as
bad. Certainly many punctuation marks
are sadly misused or overused. Dick¬
ens flung unnecessary commas all over
his pages—whole battalions of them,
Walter Pater also employed them with
extraordinary prodigality, frequently
before the word "and” where the con¬
junction rendered them superfluous.
Pater was also overfoud of the mark
of exclamation, so that when be drops
a “Yes” into his measured style it musi
needs appear as "Yes!" But. though
the Bible does without inverted com¬
mas, there Is real art in its punctua
tion. How admirably it marks the ca¬
dence and helps the drama in that
great story of the prodigal son!—Lon¬
don Chronicle.
Culpeper’s Remedies.
Old time physicians prescribed even
more unsavory remedies than rancid
butter, which was Emperor Meueilk’s
cure for malarial fever. In "Culpep¬
er’s Herbal.” published originally in
1656 and reprinted as recently as 1820.
are such prescriptions as “oil wherein
frogs have been sodden till all tbe
flesh is off from their bones,” “horse
leeches burned into powder" and
“black soap and beaten ginger.” Some
of Culpeper’s remedies are of a more
practical nature. “If redhot gold be
quenched in wine,” he says, “and the
wine drunk it cheers tbe vitals and
cures the plague. Outwardly used It
takes away spots and ieprosis."
Making It Pleasant For Her.
Mrs. Goodsole (removing her wraps)
~-I’ve owed you a call for a long time,
you know. 1 hate to be in debt, aud
I just felt that I couldn’t rest easy
until I had discharged my obligations
by coming to see you. Mrs. Sliptuug
—Why, my dear Mrs. Goodsole, you
shouldn’t have felt that way at all.—
Chicago Tribune.
Paid Him Back.
The Mean Thing—You’re so conceit¬
ed. Connie, that I believe when you
get into heaven the first question you’ll
ask will be, “Are my wings on
straight?” Connie—Yes. dear, and 1
shall be sorry that you won’t be there
to tell me.—Illustrated Bits.
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