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THINGS WE’RE ASHAMED OF
Why Is ^ That Women Always Seem
to Have Something to Apolo¬
gize For?
Isn . t it queer the sort of things we
ashamed of? queries a western
„re How often do we hear
woman writer.
oop le apologizing profusely because
they happen to live in an unfashion¬
able part of town. They will explain
and explain ad nauseam how they
came to be living in that house and
how very awkward it is having that
class of neighbors.
I have come to the conclusion it is
little short of a crime not to live in
the fashionable part of the city.
And then relations. Everybody
seems to be ashamed of at least one
relation. In most cases the only ones
they are proud of are dead ones, a
long time dead, and very remote re¬
lations at that. But the living rela¬
tions always seem to be a cause of
shame —they never will live in the
right districts, build the right kind
of house, bring up their children sty¬
lishly or indulge in the right kind of
trade. Female relations will insist
upon marrying undesirable husbands,
and male relations always manage to
acquire vulgar or dowdy wives.
One stylish lady is wont to sigh
elegantly as she murmurs “poor dear
George—peculiar wife, you know; I’ve
tried, but I really can’t include them
in my social affairs, you know.”
But of all the shameful shame pro¬
ducers the behavior of our babies is
the shamiest.
Our babies always will dirty their
pinnies, ask for candy, wipe jammy
fingers on the visitor’s coat, demand
attention persistently and vociferous¬
ly, knock over the tea cups, spread
tha cake crumbs all over the best
carpet and perpetrate all the other
hundred and one misdemeanors that
the dear lambs are heir to. They all
do it sometimes and they all do it
always on the days we earnestly
yearn for them to make a good im¬
pression.
So why are we ashamed of them
for being normal? Why do we all ex¬
plain at great length how Tommy
never behaves like this on ordinary
occasions and why do we persist in
being mortified so poignantly?—Ex¬
change.
HILL WANTED FAIR CHANCE
Wouldn’t Race Train With Boat if
Craft Was Going to Stick
to River.
One day, the story runs, when Jim
Hill was going in the railroad business
and the Great Northern was not the
fine system it is today, he was met in
St. Paul by the head of a big steam¬
boat company doing business on the
Great Lakes.
“Jim,” said the steamboat man, “I’ll
match one of my boats against one of
your trains in a fair race for $1,000
a side.”
Mr. Hill hesitated. “I don’t know,”
said he, “some of your boats are
pretty fast.”
"I’ll race you upstream,” added the
steamboat man, as a further induce¬
ment.
“Oh!” exclaimed the other in a dis¬
gusted tone, “if you’re going to stick
to the river then you might as well
give up the notion of any race. I
thought you meant you’d bring your
boat out on the prairie alongside the
track and give me some show.”
Protestantism In France.
According to an article in the Revue
the number of Protestants in France
is decreasing. They now number 700,
000. The Lutherans, who numbered
more than a quarter of a million in
1870, can now boast of a membership
of only 80,000 in France. The Calvin¬
ists are the most numerous sect left,
numbering over half a million. But
they are losing ground. At the same
time the political influence of the
French Protestants is out of all pro¬
portion to their numbers. This the
* writer attributes to their superior
system of education, and above all to
their great wealth. Their wealth has,
however, tended to sap their exclusive¬
ness. They now pay less attention to
their religion, and the result is, says
the writer in the Revue, that Protes¬
tantism in France will in the near fu¬
ture be a thing of the past. This is
a rather bold conclusion, and It would
he Interesting to know if this alleged
decrease in the Huguenots Is correct.
—Westminster Gazette.
It Herring on Maine Coast.
Is now fully evident that no more
erring will be caught on. the Maine
coast until siting. There have been
practically none landed within the
‘‘st three weeks, but the recent snow
st °P any that might he along this
L is a singular fact, but the herring
o not found after there has been a
fall of snow. It is reasoned that
® now causes the feed to sink and
, 1 6 small
g 1 fish do not show them
' e ° n the surface after it has fall
lnt * ° th e water.—Portland
Press.
Pat ,n I3eep Mourning.
*'ith ‘ Waiter, what is the
18 burned ■ ;s establishment? This steak
black!
a ^ r '~^ esse h- Mark respec’,
Bah er
p W done dled
uck
VVhere Ignorance Is Bliss.
drying ? arried hair the girl he first
••{foil? ’W*. in the back yard.”
1 « rst s*Sbt, eh?”
U* H ® ° ever knew ^ was
8 rl - —Judge’s Library.
HOW SHARK IS HARNESSED
Trick by Which Sailor Pays Debt to
Merciless Member of the
Finny Tribe.
The shark’s jaws are pried open to
the fullest extent; a stout eight-foot
spar of tough timber, four inches by
four in cross-measurement, is fixed
transversely far hack in the angle of
the jaw, the ends projecting on either
side. A strong rope leading from the
ends of the spar is drawn close and
tightened with a clove-hitch round
the fish’s tail, behind the wide tail
flukes. It is thus the sailor harnesses
his enemy.
The clamp of the cruel jaws drives
the two-inch long teeth deep into the
tough spar. The tight line holds it in
place, and, struggle as he may, the
shark fails to move the spar an inch
from its position. As a finishing
touch, the sailor drew his knife-blade
across the shark’s eyeballs, and let
him go.
Bitted and bridled, blinded, with
jaws wide-gaping, he swam through a
limitless sea in never-ending fatuous
circles. The queer furnishings he
bore scared away others of his kind.
Lonely and silent he passed like Cain
among the fishes till starvation and
sheer misery ended his existence.
Cruel? Of course it was. But sure¬
ly, like the venomous snake, the shark
has long put himself beyond the pale
of human mercy. Soft-hearted as he
usually is, the sailor-man has a long
memory. The shark has followed for
weeks In the shadow of his ship, and
has watched each man of the crew
with greedy malevolent eye. There
is a heavy debt against all the shark
tribe for many a lost mariner, and,
when the chance comes to settle old
scores, the sailor pays it to the full.
Besides the thing has the sanction of
immemorial custom. It was some old
Phoenician, trading out of Tyre to the
far Cassitorides, who, probably, first
put the trick in practice.—Wide World
Magazine.
FEW CHILDREN SPELL WELL
Test in St. Paul Schools Shows Aston,
ishing Deficiency in Spelling
Common Words.
In one of the public schools of St.
Paul an experiment was made in the
spelling of common words, which the
children use and see every day of
their lives. Out of 202, 49 spelled the
words correctly; but the number who
could not compass Eberhart was 107,
Mayor Keller 60, Minneapolis, 41, St.
Paul 9, Minnesota 15, Crowley 30,
Ramsey 30.
And yet these same children, tested
by a number of standard books which
“every school child” should have read,
came forth with surprising familiar¬
ities. One hundred and sixty had read
“Robinson Crusoe”—one can hope that
when they are grown up they will not
flock to the best six sellers. One hun¬
dred and seven “Andersen’s Fairy
Tales” and 78 Grimm—the future
writers of “Peter Pans” will have an
audience. One hundred and thirty
seven had read “Black Beauty,” 61
hoys had read “Tom Brown” and 54
girls “Little Women.” Only 37 had tol¬
erated “Little Lord Fauntleroy,” but
this is offset by the 13 for “Scottish
Chiefs”—perhaps Miss Porter is a
trifle out of date for the American
young.
There were 44 out of 202 who knew
in varying fashion what the Golden
Rule is. Thirty-four thought it a de¬
partment store.
They do these things much in the
samef way in England. A candidate
for a civil service position was asked
who was Cromwell. “Cromwell was
the man who cut off the head of the
king and on his death bed exclaimed:
‘Had I but served my God as I served
my king, I should not have been left
in my old age.’ ”—St. Paul Dispatch,
World's Smallest Armies.
If ever the dream of the disarma¬
ment of the world shall be realized
there are several countries that would
not have much to do in this line, as,
for instance, Monaco, whose army con¬
sists of 75 guards, 75 carabineers and
20 firemen. The next smallest army is
that of Luxembourg, with 135 gen¬
darmes, 170 volunteers and 30 musi¬
cians. In the Republic of San Marino
they can put in the field a total of
nine companies of 950 men and 38 of¬
ficers, commanded by a marshal. The
army on a peace footing consists of
one company of 60 men. The most
amusing of all the i“armies,” how¬
ever, is that of Liberia. That coun¬
try’s fighting force is composed of 700
men and 800 officers; but the latter
are evidently deemed very terrible by
their own government, since the re¬
public issues proclamations of neu¬
trality when wars break out between
any of the powers.
In Full Costume.
An artist was discribing a revue
that he had seen in Paris.
“It was a very decollete revue,” said
he. “In certain parts of it I was for¬
cibly reminded of the story of the
Parisian chorus girl. This girl had
been put through her paces, and final¬
ly engaged. ‘And now,’ she said,
‘about my costume. What costume
shall I wear?’
“ ‘Let me see your tongue,’ said the
manager. ‘Ah, it’s coated. That will
do.’ ”—Watch Dog.
The Test.
Billy—Huh! I bet you didn’t have
a good time at your birthday party
yesterday.
Willie—I bet 1 did.
Billy—Then why ain’t you sick to¬
day?
THE COVINGTON NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1912.
NOTICE
GEORGIA, Newton County;
Bids for the erection of banisters
on the fills at Connally’s Branch and
Allen’s Bridges will he received by
the Board of Commissioners of Roads
and Revenues of said County on the
15th day of February, 1912. Railing
to be set in cement. Said railing
can bee seen at the Court House,
and all bids can be left with the
Clerk of said Board. This Feb. 5,
1912. J. H. CARROLL, Clerk,
By order of Board.
marshal sale.
Covington, Ga., 2-5, 1912.
Will be sold on March 5, 1912, be¬
fore the Court House door, within
the legal hours of sale, the following
property, to-wit:
One house and lot due west of pub¬
lic square and bounded as follows:
On the East by Creek; On, the South
by Lilia Lovelace; On the West by
Bettie Wilson; On the North by
Ophelia Hudson. Said property lev¬
ied on as the property of Walter
Shepherd, to satisfy a City Tax Fifa
issued by the City Clerk against said
Walter Shepherd, in favor of the
City of Covington. Written notice
served, as required by law. This
Feb. 5, 1912.
BRADFORD BOHANAN,
Chief Police City of Covington.
SHERIFF SALES.
Wall be solid before the Court
House door on the first Tuesday in
March, 1912, in the city of Cov¬
ington, Ga., within the legal hours of
sale, to the highest bidder for cash,
the following described property, to
wit:
All that tract or parcel of land
situate, lying and being in the town
of Mansfield, in said county and
facing First avenue on the South,
three hundred and sixty-five and five
twelfths feet; Oak street on the west,
110 feet; East by Poplar street, 113
feet. Containing lots 1 to 14, both
inclusive in Block “F” according to
a plat of the Carmel Land & Im¬
provement Co., upon which said real
estate is situated a certain eleven
room dwelling house occupied by the
defendant in execution. Said prop¬
erty levied on as the property of the
defendant, W. B. Beckwith, with a
Lien Fifa issued from the City Court
of Covington and returnable to the
Superior Court of said Newton coun¬
ty and State of Georgia, in favor of
Mansfield Lumber & Construction Co.
vs. W. B. Beckwith. Written notice
given defendant in fi fa as required
by law. This Feb. 1, 1912.
S. M.HAY, Sheriff.
Also at the same time and place,
a certain, store house and lot situat¬
ed on the north side of the Central
of Georgia railroad, in *he town of
of Mansfield, Ga., being bounded on
the west by Pine street; north by
lot of of S. R. Campbell; East by
lot of W. G. Biggers, and south by
First street. Said lot fronting thirty
feet on First street and running
back 110 feeet along Pine street, up¬
on which is situated a certain frame
store house occupied by J. W. Hen¬
derson, as tenant. Said property is
levied on as the property of W. B.
Beckwith, the defendant ’n fi fa
with an execution issued from the
City Court of Covington and returna
ble to the Superior Cqurt of Newton
county, Georgia, in favor of Mans
field Lumber & Construction Co.,
vs. W. B. Beckwith. Written notice
given defendant in fi fa as required
by law. This Feb. 1, 1912.
S.M.. HAY, Sheriff.
Also at the same time and place
One Norman Runaba^; buggy, auto
seat, black body and gear; also one
set of single buggy harness. Said
property levied on as the property
of Eddie Cody and Jim Henry Jack
son, with a mortgage fi fa issued
from the Justice Court of the 462nd
district, G. M., and returnable to the
Superior Court of Newton county, Ga.
in favor of D. A. Thompson, vs. Ed¬
die Cody Jim Henry Jackson. This
Feb. 1, 1912.
S. M. HAY, Sheriff.
ro MAKE CAMEMBERT CHEESE
-xperiments Conducted by Agricul
tural Department in Attempt to
Produce Equivalent.
For several years there have been
conducted, under suggestions afforded
by the department of agriculture, va¬
rious experiments in this country,
with a view to the manufacturing of
an equivalent of the famous Camem
bert cheese.
In the production of tBis cheese
much depends on two species of mi¬
croscopic fungi or molds known to
science as Penlcillium camemberti
and Oidium lactis. Both species have
been artificially propagated and fur¬
nished to the experiment stations.
The manufacture of the cheese be¬
gins with fresh whole milk heated to
85 degrees Fahrenheit. Later on the
cheeses are inoculated with cultures
of these molds.
The cheeses are shaped in galvan¬
ized iron hoops, and afterward treated
with salt rubbed on the outside. They
are then transferred to the first ripen¬
ing room, the air of which must be
quite saturated with moisture, and
maintained at a temperature of from
60 to 62 degrees. From this time on
they are treated daily. During the
second week they are wrapped in tin
foil or parchment paper, after which
they are sent to the second ripening
room, the temperature of which is
slightly lower than that of the first
room. In the second room the cheeses
remain one or two weeks, when they
reach the best condition for consump¬
tion.—Harper’s Weekly.
ERY0PS LIVED AEONS AGO
Specialized Member of Ancient Am¬
phibians Found in the Wichita
Basin in Texas.
A primitive amphibian, a specimen
of the eryops, which roamed through
the great coal swamps millions of
years ago, has been placed on exhibi¬
tion in a glass case in the hall of
fossil reptiles at the American Mu¬
seum of Natural History in New York.
It was found in the Wichita Basin,
Texas, and has been prepared by A.
Hermann of the museum staff.
According to the scientists, the ery¬
ops is a comparatively large and spe¬
cialized member of the ancient am¬
phibians, and skeletons of the reptile
have been found in the upper beds of
the coal formation of Pennsylvania,
but more abundant traces of the spe¬
cimen have been found in the red
shales which overlie the coal regions
of Texas.
This type of animal once lorded it
over the denizens of forests and mor¬
asses of the coal period, a sort of gi¬
gantic tadpole, with wide flail head,
no neck .and a heavy flattened tail.
The eryops is the largest and best
known of the Permian amphibians in
America. It lived before the advent
of the mammoth or mastodon..
Just a Man!
In the long line of cabs and automo¬
biles in front of a big New York hotel
was one car around which a few idlers
had gathered. Something was wrong.
Prone upon the ground lay an lady animal
of some kind. A dear old hap¬
pened along. She saw the little knot
of people and put up her glasses to
observe the cause. Then she saw the
brown fur of the thing on the icy as¬
phalt.
“Poor creature, poor creature!” said
she aloud in her compassion. “Is its
leg broken?” She pushed close to
the prostrate figure in the brown fur.
It moved. The dear old lady took a
closer look. Then she made a sound
approximating a ladylike snort. It
was the chauffeur of one of the taxi¬
cabs, clad in his brown fuzzy coat, in
the usual attitude of flatness, tinker¬
ing the under part of his machine with
a monkey wrench.
The dear old lady, all her sympathy
curdled, hurried on.
Big Bags of British Hunters.
The shooting in Great Britain for
1911 is over as far as grouse are con¬
cerned. The heaviest one-day bag ob¬
tained in Scotland was that of Lord
Dalkeith and his party on the Duke
of Buccleuch’s Roanfell moor, in Rox¬
burghshire, when eight guns killed
2,523 birds.
In England the best one-day bag
was that of the Due de Luynes and
five otb guns on Lord Strathmore’s
Weir moors in the Upper Lune
dale t of Durham; 1,599 birds
were 1 during four drives in
stormy weather.
On the Duke of Devonshire’s Upper
Wharfedale moore in Yorkshire 14,918
birds were killed in twenty-two days,
all by driving, and there were usually
nine guns out. The best bag was ob¬
tained on August 18th, when the King
was included in the party, and nine
guns killed 1,580 birds on the Barden
and Rylstone moors.
Self-Denial.
Dan Reed, the head coach of the
Cornell football veam, was talking at
a banquet at an Ithaca hotel about a
football failure.
“He’d have been a good man,” said
Reed, “but he wouldn’t train. It wasn't
in him to train. In fact, the only kind
of self-denial he was ever known to
practice was to look out of his study
window at his ‘frat’ house and tell
the duns he was not at home.”
Perfectly Lovely.
Mrs. Benham—It will be a great
thing when women vote and hold of¬
fice.
Benham—Yes; it will be perfectly
lovely if a man runs against hia moth¬
er-in-law, and she beats him.
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.
GEORGIA, Newton County:
By virtue of an order issued from
the Court of Ordinary of Newton
county, at the February Term, 1912,
will be sold before the Court House
door in *’ e City of Covington, said
county, within the legal hours of sale
on the First Tuesday in March next,
the following described property, to
wit: Two acres of land, more or
and bounded as follows: On the
North by lands of Henry Banks; On
the East by lands of E. G. Martin;
On the. South by lands of Mansion
Rogers; On the West by the public
road leading from Covington to Ha
zelbrand. Sold as the property of
Annie Clark, late of said county, de¬
ceased, and for the purpose of pay¬
ing debts and distribution. Terms of
sals CASH. This Feb. 5, 1912.
C. A. HARWELL,
Adm’r. of Annie Clark, deceased.
Pay up your subscription.
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Without protection a fire means a loss, greater to some than
others but in all cases one that does not have to be borne.
We represent several ol the largest Insurance Companies
whose business it is to protect you against loss and we do it for
such a nominal sum that you can’t afford to run the risk.
Before the ashes are cold even, our adjusters are on the ground
they settle your lo ss and you can begin the rebuilding ol Home
Isn’t it Worth the Small Cost?
H.T. AND Q. Q. HUSON.
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Bulletins j
IMPOLICY OF THE COMPANY
We want our subscribers and
the public generally to know some¬
thing of the details—the inside
workings of the telephone busi¬
ness. This is the first of a series
of bulletins, in t$i shape of adver¬
tisements, which we propose to
publish in this newspape”
want our relations to be,
usual relations of buyer a
but rather like those of a co-part¬
nership, such that you* will know
personally about our business as it
relates to you; our advantages
and difficulties; your benefits and
annoyances.
We have laid bare every feature
of our businejs to the Railroad
Commissions ef several States.
We have frankly answered every
SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE
AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY
Notice.
The Imp. I. O. R M. Suwanee
Trifle No. 62, meet at their Hall on
every frlst and third Wednesday
Bleeps of each month. Qualified mem
bars and visiting brothers are cordiall
invited.
E. R. GUNN, Sachem.
LOUIS ZETLLN, C. of R.
CLOSE IN HOUSE AND LOT FOR
rent on Washington St.—City water
in house. Dr. J. A. Wright, Cov¬
ington, Ga.—tf.
LOST ONE LARGE WHITE SET
ter dog, black spot on ears. Re¬
turn to P. F. Stanton, Porterdale,
Ga., and get reward.—2-7-tf.
FOR SALE.—100 ACRES OF FARM
land, near Oxford; Also house and
lot and building lot in Oxford.
Apply to MRS. IDA STONE, Ox¬
ford, Ga.—2-7—tf.
Now r is a mighty good time to pay
that dollar you owe the Nows.
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question, have presented our
books, and not concealed the
slightest detail of our affairs.
It is our policy to deal with our
subscribers and the public in a
spirit of frankness and courtesy.
We appreciate the fact that we
re a public s: rv • t; th t we de-*
1 up -a fixe : fog our ox
’ce. 0 r i .in o’<-t is to
render such efilcLnt a:, .universal
service as to deserve and retain the
good will of the people in every
community in which we operate.
We hope every citizen of this
community will read these bulle¬
tins. If we do not appear suffi¬
ciently clear upon any point we
will be glad, upon request, to elab¬
orate more fully.
Schedule of the Covington and
Oxford Street Railway Company
Lv Cov. 7:15 am. Lv Depot 7:45 am
Lv Cov. 8:30 am. Lv Depot 9:00 am
Lv Cov.ll: 10 am. Lv Depot 11:40 am
Lv Cov. 2:10 pm. Lv Depot 2:20 pm
Lv Cov. 3:50 pm. Lv Depot 4:30 pm
Lv Cov. 6: pm. Lv Depot 6:45 pm
Lv Cov. 6:55 pm. Lv Depot 7:00 pm
Lv Cov. 7:30 pm. Lv Depot 8:10 pm
Cars will ^ave Covington on time
and will wait at Depot for delayed
trains.
Lv Oxf. 7:10 am. Lv Depot 7:50 am
Lv Oxf. 8:20 am. Lv Depot 9:05 am
Lv Oxf.ll:00 am. Lv Depot 11:45 am
Lv Oxf. 1:55 pm. Lv Depot 2:15 pm
Lv Oxf. 3:45 pm. Lv Depot 4:30 pm
Lv Oxf. 6:00 pm. Lv Depot 7:00 pm
Lv Oxf. 7.30 pm. Lv Depot 8:10 pm
Cars will leave Oxford on time and
will wait at Depot for delayed trains
E. W FOWLER
CABBAGE PLANTS NOW ON SALE
at Parker’s Oyster House.—J. M.
DEARLNG.—tf.
