PAGE EIGHT.
T Wish to thank each and every one
A of my customers and friends for
the business given me in 191 2 and
have tried to merit a continuance of
your patronage. If you are not one
of my customers be one.
Wishing you a Happy and Pros¬
perous New Year, I am yours truly,
Furniture and Undertaking Cash or Credit Covington, Georgia
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LIBERTY NEW’S.
Several from here went, to Almon
Sunday to see the effects of the
wreck there last Thursday.
Mrs. Eliza Mobley, of Jea-sey, is
spending several weeks here with
her sister. Mrs. N. H. Piper.
Mrs. Douglas Rumble and two
bright little children, of Oxford, spent
several days here last week as the
guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
B. H. Woodruff.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kinnettt and
brig't little daughter visited Mr.
* and Mrs. Z. D. Kinnett Saturday and
Sunday.
Miss Ethel Piper spent Sunday at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. I. Weav¬
er, as guest of Misses Marion Weav¬
er and Eva Sherman..
Mr. and Mrs. Pleas McCart visited
Mr. and Mrs. Paul McCart one day last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. One Mobley and swee
little daughter, Annie Lewis, of Jer¬
sey, spent several days last week
with Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Piper.
Messrs. L. O. Woodruff, of Temple,
and B. H. Woodruff, Jr., who is at¬
tending the Tech, and G. A. Wood¬
ruff, a student of Locust Grove, all
spent last week here with their pa¬
rents, Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Woodruff.
Those who were at the home of Mr.
and Airs. N. H. Piper Thursday were
Messrs. J. D. Kinnett, D. S. Floyd,
J. S. Piper and Howard Piper and
little son Bernard of Covington.
Misses Eva Sherman and Marion
Weaver, of Porterdale, visited Mrs.
B. H. Woodruff one day last week.
Rev. W. J. Culpepper, of Oxford.
Miss Cora McCart of West Newton,
spent last Sunday with Miss Ethel
Piper.
Mrs. W. J. Piper and two bright
little daughters, Lillian and Thelma,
and Mrs. Allie Roseberry and Nettie
Lamb spent Sunday with Mrs. N. H.
Piper.
Now is a mighty good time to pay
that dollar you owe the News.
Miss Boyd Resigns.
We regret to learn that Mis; An¬
gie Boyd, teacher of English in the
literary department at Warthen col¬
lege, has tendered her resignation to
the trustees of the college, and will
not teach the spring term. Miss
Boyd has been, here but a short while
having only taught the fall term.
She is cultured and refined, and is
regarded as a very efficient teacher,
and her resignation is to be regretted
It is not known who her successor
will be.—WrightsvUle Headlight.
SNAPPING SHOALS.
"A year has gone like a tortoise
goes, heavy and slow.”
The Christmas tree which was giv
erf in the Methodist church was
quite a success
Mrs. W. C. Kerr is on an extended
visit to her mother, Mrs. Kennedy,
in Due West, S. C.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Gardner and
family have recently moved to their
new home. We give them a hearty
welcome in our vicinity.
Miss Inez Stewart, who has been
teaching in Monticello is spending
the holidays with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. C. Stewart:
Mr. and Mrs. Grier Davis, of
Clinton, are visiting the former's pa¬
rents, Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Davis.
Mr and Mrs. John Gardner and
family have moved to their new home
near Hopewell. We extend to them
a cordial welcome in our midst.
Mr. Harry Stewart, who has been
attending school at Moreland, Ga., is
now visiting his grand-father.
■Misses Eunice and Ola Mae Harvey
and Mr. Pressley Harvey spent the
week-end with relatives near Oxford.
Miss Loys Chestnut left Saturday'
for Marietta, where she goes to re¬
sume her school work for the New
Year.
Miss Lucile Davis, who has been
attending the State Normal, is spend
ing the holidays with her parents. Air
and Mrs. M. C. Davis.
One of the delightful affairs of the
week was a spend the day party at
which Aliss Nancy Lummus entertain¬
ed several of her young friends. A
most delicious menu was served and
every one thoroughly enjoyed It.
Schedule of the Covington and
Oxford Street Railway Company
Lt Cov. 7:15 am. Lt Depot 7:45 am
Lt Cot. 8:30 am. Lt Depot 9:00 am
Lv Cov.ll:50 am. Lv Depot 12:25 am
Lt Cot. 2:10 pm. Lt Depot 2:20 pm
Lv Cov. 4:00 pm. Lv Depot 4:30 pm
Lt Cot. 6: pm. Lv Depot 6:45 pm
Lt Cot. 6:55 pm. Lt Depot 7:00 pm
Lt Cot. 7:30 pan. Lv Depot 8:10 pm
Care will leave Covington on time
and will wait at Depot for delayed
train*.
Lv Oxf. 7:10 am. Lv Depot 7:50 am
Lv Oxf. 8:20 am. Lv Depot S:05 am
Lv Oxf. 11:45 am. Lv Depot 12:25 am
Lv Oxf. 1:55 pm. Lv Depot 2:15 pm
Lv Oxf. 4:00 pm. Lv DepoL 4:40 pm
I.v Oxf. 6:00 pm. Lv Depot 7:00 pm
L ? Oxf. 7:30 pm. Lv Dep< >t 8:10 pm
Cars will leave Oxford r m time and
will wait at Depot for del ayed trains.
«. W. FOWLER, Pre .14 ,nt.
1, 1913.
EGYPT'S GREEN SUN.
A Phenomenon That Was Commented
Upon by the Ancients.
The appearance of a green light at
sunset was noticed and commented
upon by the ancient Egyptians and
more particularly so because in the
clear air of Egypt the tints of sunset
are peculiarly distinct.
As tlie sun there descends nearer
and nearer to the horizon and is im¬
mensely enlarged and flaming it sud¬
denly becomes for an instant a bril¬
liantly green color, and immediately a
series of green rays suffuses the sky in
many directions, well night to the ze¬
nith. The same phenomenon appears at
sunrise, but to a smaller extent. Some¬
times, just as the last part of the sun’s
disk vanishes, its color changes from
green to blue, and so also after it has
disappeared the sky near the horizon
often is green, while toward the zenith
it is blue.
This was alluded to in Egyptian 1
writings. Day was the emblem of life
and night that of dehth, and the noc¬
turnal sun, being identified with Osiris,
thus rendered Osiris king of the dead.
The setting sun was green; therefore
Osiris, as the nocturnal deity of the
dead, was painted green. The splendid
coffins of the high priests of Ammon
frequently depict the green sun, and
; the funeral deities are all colored
green.
| There are innumerable iustances in
| the Egyptian relics of representations
( relative to death being colored green.
The practice undoubtedly arose from
the green tints of sunrise and sunset.
; 'The green sun disk is referred to 5,000
years ago in Egypt. This is the earli¬
est known human record of an as¬
tronomical phenomenon.
Horse Butchers In France.
French horse butchers are obliged
to display a signboard showing the
kind of meat they sell and are not al¬
lowed to trade in any other sort of
meat except that of nudes and don¬
keys. They sometimes try to pass off
horseflesh as that of donkey s on un¬
wary customers, because the latter is
considered to be more delicate in fla¬
vor and therefore more choice. — Ex¬
change.
Rather One Sided.
Mr. Piffle—What's your idea of the
initiative and referendum? Mr. Pee
wee—It’s the rule of our household.
Everything that's done must originate
with my wife, and everything that oc¬
curs to me must be referred to her for
disapproval.—Chicago News.
Indefinitely Postponed.
•"Pop. what's the millennium?”
“It’s a time coming, my son, when
there will be jobs enough in every ad¬
ministration to go around among those
who want ’em." -Baltimore American.
OPEN OUT YOUR HAND.
Then Note the Effort It Requires to
Keep It From Closing.
Many thousands of years have elaps¬
ed since the ancestors of man lived in
trees, lit is never to be forgotten that
though ape-like forms, they were not
apes.) Yet. in spite of these tens of
centuries that have passed by. man has
not yet forgotten the instinct of self
preservation in the forest. As he was
a tailless creature tie was compelled
to depend for his safety on the grasp¬
ing power of his hands and feet. For
many ages, however, he had gradually
been going on the ground more and
more and in the trees less and less so
that his feet became more adapted
walking and his hands exclusively for
grasping, with the result that the grip
and muscular strength of his hands be¬
came immense. This is still most pow
erfully evidenced in a young baby,
which, without muscular development,
can within a few days of birth hang
by both hands to a stick for as much as
five minutes at a time and by one hand
only for two or three, a task beyond
the power of any adult except an ath¬
lete and gymnast.
But a fact which is still more re¬
markable is that to the present day
there is not one of us that can hold his
hand open without discomfort and
absolutely no one whose hand will stay
open at all unless the will is exerted to
that end. Try’ it! Hold y’our hand
open for three minutes by the watch
and see how tired you will be! Lay
your hand on the table, the palm on
the wood, the fingers over the edge, and
see how, in spite of yourself, they will
uirve round and grasp it. Look at the
hand of a sleeping person and think if
the fingers are ever shown to be out
straight.
When the anatomy of the hand is
taken up it will be found that on the
palm and on the under side of the
fingers are numbers of nerves sensi
tire to touch which respond as read
ily as the nerves of the eye do to color
or the nerves of the ear drum to
sound. These were the principal pro¬
tection of our tree living ancestors, for
an immediate clutch at a branch was
necessary in rapid travel in the lower
branches of great forest trees. The
sensitiveness is being lost, but it is
being lost slowly. Yet even today we
can no more prevent responding to the
stimulation of the sense of touch in
our hands than to the sensation of
light in the eye or sound in the ear.
Disregarding the thumb, the human
hand is really nothing more than an
adjustable hook. It is at rest only
when in the position of a book. When
any one loses a hand the best substi¬
tute is a stout metal hook.—New York
American.
Look at the label on your paper and
see if you doa’ f think It’s time to pay!
Regular Communica¬
v\ tion, Golden Fleece
J \ ' A. Lodge, M. No. 6, F. &
1st and 3rd Friday evening in
each 'month, at 7:30. Duly qualified
brethren invited Lo meet with u«s.
A. S. HOPKINS W. M.
J. W. PEEK, Secretary.
THE TIME TO GET EGGS IS WHEN
the price is high. If your hens
won’t lay, try feeding them Park &
Pollard’s famous dry mash. Make
them lay or bust. For sale at
Parker’s.—tf.
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This is the first week in the year, and the week when most
every wrong-doer decides to do right. While we are enthu¬
siastic over doing the right thing, let us do the most logical right
thing by STARTING a bank account-no matter how small
which by this time next year will have grown, because we will
have made it grow.
DO YOUR banking with US.
We pay liberal interest consistent*with safety.
SANK OF NEWTON COUNTY
OR. S. W. EVERETT.
Physician, and Surgeon. Office in
the Fowler Building. Will attend
all calls in the city or out of it
eiether from my office, or from Al¬
mon. Call me at the City Phar¬
macy or Almon residence phone
230-4
MONEY TO LOAN ON FARM LAND.
6 and 8 per cent money on good
farm lands. Five year terms. Any
one desiring money on improved
farm lands \ will be glad to figure
with them. H T. HUSON.
