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COVINGTON, GA., JAN. 1, 1913.
The water wagon will have a heavy
load for tire next few days!
There will he no change in the
city police force for the next year,
and the city clerk will also remain
the same.
Nearly time for the farmers to be¬
gin hauling a dollar a bushel corn out
to their farm® with which to make
ton cent cotton.
The democrats are looking forward
to -the New Year with confidence,
and the people are thinking that
their confidence is well placed.
Thousands of people will today
“swear-off” on their tobacco and
booze; but they will all be back at
it again by the time this ink gets
dry!
The business men of Covington
seem to think that times will be much
better this spring and in fact all the
year than now seems to be the out¬
look.
The new parcels post ’aw which
goca into effect today will revolu¬
tionize small business- all over the
country. Just how it will affect it,
however, remains to be seen.
Covington experienced the quietest
Christinas in her history last week,
there being scarcely no disorder,
an-d but very little of the big noise
so dear to the hearts of the young¬
ster.
The scientists have discovered that
rattlesnake poison is a cure-all. Nev¬
ertheless. the faith of the fisherman
in his old remedy for snakebite re¬
mains unshaken.—Atlanta Constitu¬
tion .
Old superstitions will hold that
the year 1913 will be extremely
"lucky,” every numeral in it being an
odd one. We do not believe in super¬
stitions, luck or any other s-uch stuff,
but anyhow, we hope they are right..
Inequalities would sometimes ap¬
pear ludicrous, were they not so vital
to our very existence. For instance,
call money ini New York is worth ex¬
actly twice what it was a short while
ago, and yet. a dollar will not buy
nearly as much as it would then.
The News wishes for everyone of
its readers a happy and prosperous
New Year, and it’s wish is that peace
and plenty will be their lot through
the year. We also wish to thank
those subscribers who paid their sub
seribtion during the holidays. There
were fully six of them and it helped
us tremendously.
We are informed by a member of
the city council that the reason for
the delay in paving the crossing on
the public square is that they have
had some trouble in getting material.
Sand has already been placed at each
corner of the square and we presume
that as soon as the othre ingredients
can be secured the work will be com¬
menced.
Several things should happen to
Covington this year. Among them
should be the organization of a coun¬
ty fair association, she should give
birth to a live board of trade, pave
the sidewalk to the Georgia railroad,
put in a concrete bridge ax'roes the
creek on Railroad street, and begin
to supply the people with day cur¬
rent. And we believe she will do
all of them.
The Georgia railroad is having its
share of accidents and misfortunes
during the past few months. The
wrecks they are having are very like¬
ly caused by carelessness or reckless
ness on the parts of the employees.
It is said by people at Almon that
the freight which was wrecked last
Friday was running at a very high
fate of speed when it struck the
ftrestie. It must have been!
In Missouri they ha^> a way of
deciding the difference between a
toadstool and a mushroom—they eat
one and if they live it is the latter.
In Mexico they hang an engineer if
he kills a passenger or a pedestrian
with his engine. They are both in
the positive class of rules, but if the
latter was used in the United States
poles would very likely give out, if
statistics are correct.
THE MAJESTY OF THE LAW.
In the cases of Griffin and McCrary
recently tried in Athens, Judge thus.
H. Brand -not only made history, but
established an era of the enforcement
of the law, which everybody recog¬
nizes is more necessary at this time
than at any time, because the laxi
aess- of the law breeds anarchy, and
that means death to civilization. The
small technicalities that have turned
criminals loose in the past have
caused a disrespect for law.
Another thing that it does is to
stop the agreement upon -the part of
lawyers to settle felony cases, and
turn loose upon the community the
worst class of felons upon their pay¬
ing small fines, which go to swell the
pockets of the solicitors general and
court officers,a thing so badly needed
to be stopped, if all the other judges
will exhibit the same kind of back¬
bone as did Judge Brand then you
would see less crime. This winking
at crime in high places is causing
much sorrow.
Of course nobody likes to see men
go to the chaingang, but it takes it
that your civilization may be preserv¬
ed, and there should be no respecter
of persons. The families of those sen¬
tenced have the deepest sympathy of
the people, for they will do the suf¬
fering, and it is indeed hard upon
them, but there are others who were
made to suffer. Sin is a bad thing,
and “whatsoever a man soweth that
shall he also reap” is as true as -the
sun shines. While, as we -said, the
people are sorry of the entire affair,
but they cannot help from congratu¬
lating Judge Brand upon his stand,
and no man can accuse him of being
in any way in touch with the attor¬
neys when they were arranging to
settle the affair by a reasonable fine.
What will be the outcome of the su¬
preme court we do not know of course
We are anxious for the majesty of
the law to wave over this land, and w*
know (hat such acts as Judge Brand’s
will cause a new and a bright<*r era.—
Clark County Courier.
FREIGHT RATES 1800 YEARS AGO,
It is interesting to learn from a
papyrus in the University Museum
that the high cost of living and ex¬
cessive freight rates were issues at
least 1800 years ago, and it is a pecu¬
liar coincidence that the complaint
arose in Theadelphia. It seems as if
there -is nothing new under the sun,
the same issues prevail and the same
struggle is being waged.
However, it seems certain that, we
are much better off than the fella
hin of Egypt in the Apostolic age, or
even than the small landed proprie¬
tors, who had to pay as much freight
“as the traffic would bear” for trans¬
portation on the Nile. We get a
glimpse of life under the Ptolemies
in Egypt when the country was al
most drained to furnish Rome with
food. It is an amazing thing that
in -the Payoum district, which as a
little pocket to the westward of the
Nile, flimsy records on papyrus
should have been preserved in this
day. This is only possible In a land
of perpetual dryness. Egypt has
thriven without rain through ten
millenniums because the necessary
water comes not from the skies, but
along the Nile from the center of
Africa.
Eighteen centuries may seem ^
long time to us, but at the time the
complaint of freight rates was men¬
tioned there had been at least five
thousand years of recorded history in
Egypt, and undoubtedly many millen¬
niums which have left no record. The
poor fellahin, the actual cultivators
of the soil, comprised a sort of pa¬
tient animal who had become inured
to oppression and greed and who
never had the slightest opportunity
for self-development until within thir¬
ty years, when the British govern¬
ment set him on his feet and gave
him not only freedom from lashings
.by the courbash, from compulsory la¬
bor on the ditches, from extra taxa¬
tion, but permitted him to accumu¬
late a little something on his own
account and to become more than a
tool of the officials.
The flelahin -today differs nothing
in appearance from the sculptures of
five thousand years ago, but now
that he has a chance he may rise
above the level of serfdom.—Phila¬
delphia Enquirer.
One of the parcels post regulations
permits the mailing of eggs, but pro¬
hibits that of live chickens. Now.
somebody will have to derise means
of ascertaining what is in eggs with¬
out breaking them.—Macon Telegraph
— 1 ‘I # ■ - ■ — ii. .
FOR QUICK SALE.
Good 100-aere farm near Oxford,
for $1600.00. One-third cash, balance
one and two years, or $1500.00 cash
See Prof. H. H. Stone, or John C.
Kitchens, Oxford, Ga.—4t.
Schedule of Georgia Railroad.
Going West Going East.
No. 3,—4:15 a.m | No. 4.—1:39 am
“ 0—5:40 a.m | “ 2—8:54 a.m.
“ 93—7:44 a.m j j " 28—4:38 p.m.
“ 1—12:19 a.m " 94—6:56
p.m.
“ 27—6:27 p.m | “ 10—7:55 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1913.
AN IMPORTANT MATTER.
The Savannah Morning News of a
recent issue contained the following
concerning the petit juror:
“Tlie final task da th$ enforce¬
ment of the law falls upon the petit
juror. The most carefully enacted
statute, the utmost vigilence on the
part of the- arresting officer, -the most
accurately drawn indictment, the elo¬
quence of the prosecuting officer and
the impartiality and zeal of the pre¬
siding judge all come to nothing if
the petit juror fails to do his duty.
For this reason the petit jury should
be made up of the most progressive
intelligent and law-abiding citizens
of a community.
The claim has been made that
miscarriages of justice are clue to
the fact that many men of promi¬
nence in the professions and busi¬
ness life shirk jury duty. Jury ser¬
vice is irksome and takes the busy
man away from his work and there
is always the danger that he may
be. virtually imprisoned for days or
even weeks while a case of import¬
ance is being considered, but these
things do not justify him in shirk¬
ing in the duty.
“That the standard of the petit ju¬
ror should be raised Is evident from
some of the verdicts. For a long
time it was said that no man could
predict the workings of a woman’s
mind or the verdict of a petit jury.
Of recent years the jury’s verdict has
been in a class by itself. In cases
where one jury has convicted a man
of the crime of murder another jury
in a new trial with practically the
same evidence, the same counsel and
the same judge presiding, has return¬
ed a verdict of acquittal. Either the
first jury would have hung an inno¬
cent man or the second permitted a
murderer to go free. Scarcely a
county in this state but can show one
or more of such cases. If there are
flagrant miscarriages of justice possi¬
ble in murder cases what must be the
number among cases of lesser im¬
portance?
“With all that has been said of the
law’s delay and the -tiresome techni¬
calities attorneys -too often resort to,
there can be no final miscarriage of
justice -if the petit juror does his
duty. Of course juries are fallible,
but with a high standard petit jurors
miscarriages- of justice would be few.
A great improvement was made when
the state made grand jurors subject
to petal jury duty. The right think¬
ing citizen should regard jury duty
as a privilege in which he is called
by his fellows to serve his country-—
a privilege as great as that of hold¬
ing any -other office of trust.”
There is room for improvement in
the juries in many instances espe¬
cially where the box is filled with
professional jury servers who are anx
ious to serve for the money that is
In it These men make the poorest
and most unreliable jurors to be had,
and oftentimes are against everything
that tends -to upbuild and help a com¬
munity. Again, many jurors are in
sympathy more or less with violators
of tlie prohibition or other laws, and
if they find that the presiding judge
will impose a heavy sentence or a
term on the gang for a violation of
the prohibition law, they will fail
to convict any of the blind tigers
that come up -before the court.
There is a custom in connection
with the jury system thalt should
be abolished or changed in some man
ner to improve over existing condi¬
tions. That is in the matter of se¬
lecting the jury. The juryman today
are drawn at the close of each -term
of the court and tlie list kept on file
with the clerk of the court until the
next session of the court convenes.
The list is open to all who wish to
examine it aaid the opportunity given
to intimidate or to “fix” the jurors
is great, and cases have been known
where jurors wrere canvassed person¬
ally in a more or less quiet way on
their opinion of certain cases.
The selection of the jurors should
either be delayed until as late as is
possible before the session opens,
or the general public should not
have access to the list. As it is now
anybody can. get the names of the
jurymen for the coming term of the
court and they are published by al¬
most every newspaper for the ben¬
efit of their readers, because they
wish to know who is to serve on
the jury.
The pet ! * juror needs to realize
more keenly his responsibilities in
this age; and the part he is playing
in building up and maintaining a
more wholesome rsepect for the
law. And when the juries of the
courts in our land realize this as
they should, there will be a big dif¬
ference in the respect that the i>eo
ple ;«t large have for the law.
FOR SALE-UNIVERSAL ICE CO.,
stock worth $100.00 per share. Wilr
ling to sell reasonable for farm
lands or city property. Write to
Box 55, MilledgeviUe, C~ *t.
Star Lodge No. 164 I. O. O. F.
Regular meeting every 2nd and 4th
Thursday night. Degree work every
meeting. Visiting brothers conuially
invited to meet with us.
C. A.SOCKWELL, N. G.
A. H. MILNER, Rec. Sect’y
HOW TO BE BEAUTIFUL.
A lady-correspondent of the Herald
Journal wants to know if we can rec¬
ommend to her a good beautifier.
Why, certainly. If she wants to be
beautiful let her buy a quart of
molasses and a pint of coal dust and
soak her head in a meal bag twelve
times a day. If she wants to re¬
move warts from, her lily-white face
the best way is to get a hydraulic
press and a mowing machine and
put the warts under a ten-ton pres¬
sure and squeeze ’em off. If she
feels like she would like to remove
freckles the best way is to paint ’em
out. Get some green paint and give
her face a couple of coats and then
varnish it. This will hide the
freckles. If she has a wild hah- or
two growing on her face she can get
scythe and her husband mow it
a
off. If she hasn’t a husband she
can get one if she will only stop
thinking about beauty and study
how to be industrious, kind and
cheerful. That’s our recipe. We
give it right along with this paper,
and don’t charge extra for it. But
we would advise all women to for¬
get that good looks are necessary to
be good. If the Lord happened to
form you a little different from -some
stunning beauty you have seen,
don’t forget that beauty is as beauty
does. If a woman is cross-eyed she
can still be beautiful—beautiful in
her manners and she can make a
dark room bright and happy. The
real beauty generally has a temper
like the devil and the manners of a
wild cat. Let beauty books alone,
and study how best to make the
home happy, learn to cook and sew,
or make friends- by doing unto them
as you would have them do unto you.
—Greensboro Herald-Journal.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
First Methodist.
Rev. John G. Logan pastor.
Preaching every Sunday morning
and evening,
Prayer meeting every Thursday ev¬
ening.
Sabbath school every Sunday morn¬
ing at 9:45, C D. Gibson, Supt.
Woman’s Missionary society meets
first and third Friday afternoon In
each month.
Woman’s Bible and Mission study
class meets every Monday afternoon.
Junior Division meets every first
Sunday afternoon.
Regular meeting of Board of Stew¬
ards second Tuesday evening in each
month.
Choir practice every Thursday ev¬
ening immediately after prayer meet¬
ing.
Presbyterian Church.
Rev. John B. Gordon, pastor.
Services every Sunday. ring
service at 11 a. m. Night service at
7 p. m.
/Sunday school at 9:45. J. S. Gard¬
ner, superintendent.
Prayer meeting every Wednesday
evening at 7 p. m.
Ladies Aid society meets with Mrs.
James F. Rogers Tuesday afternoon
at 2:30, after second Sunday.
Earnest Workers meets at- The
Manse Monday afternoon at 2:30 afte
first Sunday in each mouth.
Loyal Helpers meets at the church
ai 2:30 first Sunday afternoon in eac’
month.
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING.
The annual meeting of -the stock¬
holders of the First National Bank of
Covington, Ga., will be held in the
offices of the bank, at 10 o’clock, a.
u., on Tuesday, January 14, 1913, for
tne purpose of electing officers, and
any other business that may come be
for ethem.
We trust ail stockholders, so far as
possible, will be with us on that date.
J.A. CATHEY, Cashier
MONEY LOANED ON FARM LAND
Large loans for long terms prefer¬
able. J. C KNOX, Att’y., Coving¬
ton. Ga.— i-1-12. —-tf.
NOTICE, DEBTORS & CREDITORS.
All persons holding demands against
the estate of Lydia V. Johnson, late
said county, deceased, are required
to render the same unto the under¬
signed in terms of the law. All per¬
sons owing said estate are hereby
upon to make immediate set¬
E. W. FOWLER,
Adm’r. of Lvdia V. Johnson, dec’d.
Our new Fall and
Winter Tailoring
books has arrived and
same big values as we
offer you in other lines
fit styles quality work¬
manship fully guaran¬
teed come and see them.
Yours Truly
J. I. GUINN
HOUSE AT AUCTION
the Court House door in Covington on the
I will sell before dwell,ng ,0
first Tuesday in January oue 6 room two story
.‘•‘isss.c-wit- Now occupied by A. P. ** gammon -> * -
condition. Creek District, . adjoining
Abp 55 Acres of land in Gum
laud of A. M. Owens and A. M. Sock well.
EVANS LUNSFORD
For Rent
One of the nicest 7 room
houses in town. All modern
conveniences—wate.% sewer,
bath, lights; very reasonable. | j
D. A. THOMPSON
Covington, Ga. II
First Class Laundry
I am representing ‘ The Troy Steam Laundry oi Atlanta and
want todo your washing. Prices: 2 cents for collars, 4 cents
for cuffs and any old shirt for a dime. Leave your package at
the Express office.
11. W. OSBORN.
DR. T. U. SMITH, DENTIST
I have moved my Dental Offices to the
Swords building, where 1 will be glad to
all my friends and customers call.
The Cream of the Coffee Crop
Specially imported; specially prepared in
New Orleans, America’s Good Cofee
Capital; specially packed in dainty, damp
proof, dust-proof, freshness-preserving cans;
a VERY SPECIAL coffee of top-notch
perfection lold by only one dealer
in this town.
Votan Coffee
At its price you cannot duplicate its quality; at
twice its price you cannot find a better. We
recommend and sell this coffee exclusively
FOWLER BROS., Covington, Ga. COOGLER & WOOD, Mansfield, Ga.
Sold Hogs by Telephone
A South Carolina farmer had a large number
of hogs which were ready to kill. The weather
was so warm that killing was out of the question.
He went to his telephone, called a dealer in
Columbia over Long Distance and sold his hogs
at a good price. He then called the local freight
office and arranged for shipment.
The telephone is now a necessity on the farm.
^ ou can have one on your farm at small cost.
See the nearest Bell Telephone Manager or
send a postal for our free booklet.
FARMERS’ LINE DEPARTMENT
SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE
AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY fi y>IB0^
S. Pryor St., Atlanta, Ga.
