The Covington news. (Covington, Ga.) 1908-current, April 12, 1911, Page PAGE EIGHT, Image 8
PAGE EIGHT. 4 . . m t-’ ■ '■m cy mt- .•V ’ - -vv, k- :: »• ii-npr I have secured the agency for eight different models of the best makes of automobiles offered in this section. These machines are all well worth the price and the prices are very reasonable and as liberal as discounts will allow. Come in and let me show you the mechanism of these machines. They d close inspection. e serve your RQQI I lufll fOlQlQ LOlulU I am in a position to offer you some of the most desirable property in this county and the terms are made reall to suit the purchasers. I also have a number of city lots to offer you on easy terms. If you have anv estate to offer I will handle this on reasonable commission. Come to see me when in the market for anything in my li me. c. k A Harwell Real Estate ECONOMY. One of tile most important arts ot our time is the art of spending end saving judiciously. We should be temperate in the ex¬ penditure of money as well as in eating or drinking. It is our duty to save a part of our earnings each month. Then at the end of the year, our bank books will speak for themstlves. The man who gets a small income and saves part of it, is better off than the one who receives large wages and spends it all foolishly. Economy is the growth of exper¬ ience, example and forethought. It has been said that it is only when men become wise and thoughtful, when they become frugal. It is not the time to begin saving after one is descending the hill of life. Children should be taught to s.‘ve. Nearly all banks now-a-davs have savings departments where very small entries can be made. If chil¬ dren are trained up in the way they should go they will not depart from it when they become men. If chil¬ dren are allowed to spend their mon¬ ey they become spendthrifts and poor men in old age. Saving in eatly life means competency in old age. Something should always be laid up for the rainy day (and we all have rainy days) for we never know when we will be hindered by providence. People in every phase of life should be economical. There are many kinds of economy; such as: Political Economy, Domestic Economy, and the Economy of Time. Economy is not only used in a pri¬ vate sense. The heads of our coun¬ try must be economical with the money that is collected (in the form of taxes) from the people, and use ’.t judiciously. A man knows if he buys too much he will be a bankrupt. The head men of oui country also know that if too much is spent for things at random that it will be de¬ trimental to the nation. Thus it is seen that our nation needs a sound system in the regard to the regula¬ tion of its affairs. A woman can either make or ruin a man by her housekeeping. The word economy is derived from a Greek word meaning house-regulation. Tlie most important place in the home, where things should be saved is in the kitchen. We should also be economical with •>ui time, for we do not know how much time we are going to have, and should make the best possible use of that we are now killing. Think how much time is wasted in every community, and how much we ourselves idle away. Many men sit around nearly all the winter, and then when spring comes they stop their children from school to do the won:, that they them¬ selves should have already done, while they were hanging around cor¬ ners and country stores playing check ors, drinking Coco Cola etc. Our strength should not be wasted either for we have only a limited amount and that should not be used unnecessarily. Any man, liowevei poor, can ac¬ cumulate by a strict though not par¬ simonious economy enough to enable himself and family to have the appear ance of respectability and hav eom torte. A small farm can be rented near a good school. He should give his farm his undivided attention. His wife and children can raise chickens and dairy products, which. find ready market at the nearest town. \\ hen he sells his cotton in town, in¬ stead of buying candy, toys, tobacco, and other unnecessary luxuries, he should put all of the money that he isr.t obliged to use in the bank. In a few years he will find that he has enough to buy the place and educate his children in the higher branches. Any one can save il they only have the will. ( Many people buy things which they absolutely' do not need, and are bet¬ ter off without. Some phase of the domestic life in every family shows evidence of waste iu-lness. The evidence of extrava in the home and farm can be noticed each day as we see loads of provisions (and fertilizers) for both man and beast being hauled out from All these things could and be raised" at home. All of the and feed that is needed, on farm can be raised on it except soda, medicine and a few other articles. Parsimony as well as ext.rava'gence wrong. It has been said thajt the to enrich are many, and most them are foul. Parsimony is one the best, and yet it is not wholly for it holds men from the ks of liberality and charity. Some times people go too far in saving of money. They e’?en let) suffer while they pinch, and scratch, for another “al¬ dollar to add fo their "hoards. misers are of not mu< *h more to their community than the peo¬ in the cemetary, and th tey take more room. But they n tust buy THE COVINGTON NEWS, WEDNESDAY APRIL 12, 1911. something for no man can live entire¬ ly to himself. Some people save a nickle while they lose a dollar,—like in the game of checkers, move so as to save a man while they lose two kings. Then economy of principals may mean the saving of the soul, for by wastefulness and extravagence we mark the spendthrift, and in the spendthrift we usually find the dis¬ solute character. While in the econo¬ mist we usually find the men above reproach, and a life well spent, a character uprightly sustained is no slight legacy to leave the world; for P is the most eloquent lesson of vir¬ tue and the sweetest proof of vice, above all. Neither a borrower or a lender be, for a loan oft loses, both itself and friend. And borrowing dull the edge of husbandry. ANN I EH FRANCES LEE, EDITORS iNOTE—(The above com¬ position was handed us by the Prin¬ cipal of Flint Hill school, and was written by the fourteen year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robi. Lee, of Gum Creek district.) Special Train to Little Rock, Ark., via Central of Georgia Railway Account U. C. V. Reunion, M^y 16-18, 1911. For the accommodation of Confeder¬ ate Veterans, their friends and the public generally, we have arranged to operate Special Train through from Macon to Little Rock on the follow¬ ing schedule: Leave Macon via C. of G. 1 05 p. m. May 15, leave Columbus via C. of G. 4 05 p. m. May 15, arrive Bir¬ mingham via € of G 9 30 p. m. May 15, leave Birmingham via Frisco sys¬ tem 9 45 p. m. May 15, arrive Mem¬ phis via Frisco system 5 30 a. m. Ma 16, leave Memphis via C. R. I. & P. 6 00 a. m. May 16, arrive Little Rock "'ia C. R. I. & P. 10 00 a. m. May 16. This train will carry through sleep¬ ing cars, coaches and commissary car iiom Macon. It will also carry through sleeping car from Savannah, which car will leave Savannah at ”6:45 a. m. May 15. For further information in regard to rates, limits, schedule, service, etc. Apply to nearest ticket agent, or communicate with John W. Blount, Distric Passenger Agent, Macon, Ga. Have you seen our line of Candies. A full line for Easter. Phone 90, Klean Kitchen. TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT. Edited by Mrs. Barnes. W. W. Kitchin, Governor of North Carolina, says: “As to disrespect for the law: There is opposition to it, but I think no disrespect except by those who violate it. If "here is any other disrespect, it is confined t o those who opposed it and who wish to encourage efforts toward its re¬ peal. As to the liquor sold: Thert^ is far less liquor sold in this state now than before prohibition. There is less drunkenness and les crime." In his admirable message to the General Assembly Governor Kitchin had the following to say about prohi¬ bition: Prohibition has now been in force throughout the state for two years. This is a short period with which to Measure the effects of a reform move¬ ment. We have done little more than planted the seed, whose full fruitage v, t 1 ‘ be gathered by coming genera¬ tions. And yet already the results fully justify its adoption. There has been, as appears from the Attorney General’s report, based upon Superior Court statistics, a narked diminution in crime, even in the crime of vio- j Idling the prohibition law. Business ha.s experienced increase rather than diminished prosperity. Morality, in- , dcstry politics and frugal y have increased, have j and and government | teen to a great extent relieved of one <>i their niQst corrupting influences. The newly elected governor of Ten¬ nessee, Benjamin W, Cooper, in his inaugural address said: We have swung too far around the cycle of civilization to force the state co sit with closed eyes and folded lauds, and offer no resistance to her verst scourger. The man who advo¬ cates that society do nothing more than to build and equip hospitals, asy¬ lums, jails and penitentiaries and dig the graves for victims of the demon rum will find that the world has moved on and left him. The time lias passed when license may run rampant and unresrtained in the name of liberty. The highest courts of our states have sustained the right of the people to prohibit as well as regulate the sale of whiskey. We might quote realms of such testimony from -prohibition states and piohibition cities and counties. 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