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to serve at this term :
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j T Brooks C. Brooks
j N Lunsford C.
i cash C. U. Skinner
C W. G. Adams
W. G. Hays H Smith.
Otis Hardeman M. -
, Johnson W. T. Milner,
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Alex Bohanon J- T- Bird
A. E. Coogler, B. M. Gibbs
T. G. Callaway B. P. Adams
J S. McCord T. A. t ook
\V T Burt W. C. Pope
' R. Campbell
c A Wander S.
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J. M. Rogers B. I.
C T Williams W. S. Marbutt
E M Piper Woodie Piper
L, R. Almand J. R. Crawford
P. H. Henderson G. W. Hill
BOARD OF EDUCATION
TO MEET THURSDAY.
The Newton County Board of Edu¬
cation will meet tomorrow, instead of
usual custom of meeting on the first
Monday in the month* The regular
business of the hoard will be token
up at this meeting.
The following are the members o
the Board: H. H. Stone, Pres., A.
J. Bercher, M. C. Bavis, G. C. Ad¬
ams and S. R. Ellington..
FOR RENT—ONE FIVE ROOM
house with good barn, garden and
orchard, situated on Floyd street in
front of’ Col. R. W. Milner. $10.00
per month. Apply to C. L. Harwell,
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' RED TAPE AND A TUB.
A Bath In Senegal Was Something
Like a Surgical Operation.
Some years ago, when the capital of
the French colony of Senegal was a
dull, unprogressive town where official¬
ism and red tape prevailed, a French
traveler, with a friend, had a most
amusing experience when he wished
to obtain a hath. There was no bath¬
ing establishment in the capital of
Senegal at the time, but rumor had it
that it was possible to purchase baths
at the hospital.
Accordingly the travelers repaired to
the hospital, where they stated the
purpose of their visit
"Certainly,” said the official, “take
seats. Your names, surnames and
birthplace?"
"But we merely want a bath."
"Exactly. What is your name, and
where and when were you born, and
are you government servants, soldiers
or officers? No? Well, the rules do
not provide for this. .lust a moment
will read them again. Yes, here is
your ease You must first make out
on stamped paper an application to the
governor °f the colony After favor-
81 e notice from the
send governor you
another application to the chief
colonial doctor, who will send for you
and examine you.”
“But we are not ill."
vnnV* 7 tlie l0et0r rule w,!1 - Having examined
eon,', be?, glve y° u tw ° 11011 -
° ned offlcers ' bnth tickets, to
ne delivered to the assistant doctor.”
bat!,?” thC nonc ‘ omm issioned officers’
w7l ° tbe 8n if ! reas0n e ou, tllat two in our amounts
Person - v categories of
latter n,,^ ffleers :U1(1 civil servants, the
' le rank With offioers or Pet¬
tv officers v ' ou
baJ it "to not official at all.
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removed" Chicago , Tribune. $4,000,000
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* beef l°Tf or no beef,
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native. ° d 0f foreigners. But
Pork and ® exce edingly fond of
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Not V quantities of
excellent 1 * naUve article an
retailed but ChlDes e pork is
ttere at . FlC f far lower
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DINING ON SHIPBOARD.
Different Now From Whet It Wee
When Dickens Visited Us.
When Dickens came over to America
some seventy odd years ago there was
one large table in the dining room for
the passengers. The first officer sat at
the head, carving the turkey with all
the grace he could command between
lurches of the good ship, trusting to
Providence that the gravy would not
slop over. The passengers sent their
plates along the line and waited for
their helpings.
Today the dining room of a large
ship looks like the dining room of a
fine hotel. It is just as exquisitely ap
pointed and has every good thing to
eat that can be found on land. In
fact, one of the new ships has a res¬
taurant named after a famous one in
New York, and the two keep In touch
by wireless so that the menus, day by
day, are the same. Think of having
your dinner arranged by wireless—
your macaroni by Marconi!
The dining room Is divided up Into
a number of small tables, so that you
can have your own party, with only
half a dozen of you, with your own
waiter, instead of sitting at a long ta¬
ble and passing your plate, as Dickens
did.
The development of the wonders of
cold storage has done more than any
other one thing to make life on the
ocean wave one long round of joy.
Cold storage gives you the best in the
world to eat and every day of the
year. A world traveler was telling me
the other day that he had eaten grape¬
fruit every morning all around the
world. The ship on which he sailed
put ln a large amount of ice cream
made in New York, and 110 days later,
when he arrived in San Francisco, he
was still eating New York ice cream.—
Harold Christie In Leslie’s.
ROBING THE BRIDE.
Early Saxon Customa and tho Advent
of the Flowing Veil.
In the old days, as now, the bride
generally dressed in white. From early
Saxon times down to the eighteenth
century a bride of the poorer classes
came to the wedding arrayed in a plain
white robe as a public warning that
since she brought nothing to the mar¬
riage her husbanu was not responsible
for her debts.
Brides goon began to add some little
touch of color. Blue was for constan¬
cy and green for youth, but in some
places these might not be used be¬
cause of feuds between families having
these tints in their liveries. Yellow
might not be worn, as it stood for
jealousy: golden might not. as it
meant avarice.
The Anglo-Saxon bride went to the
wedding with her hair hanging loose
as a sign of freedom, but upon reach¬
ing her new house immediately bound
it up as a sign of submission. In the
days of Shakespeare the veil began to
take the place of the flowing tresses,
but this, however, was not original
with the British, for centuries earlier
the Roman and Hebrew brides had
worn yellow veils, while the early
Christians of southern Europe had en¬
veloped both man and wife in one
large cloth.
Whatever was lacking, however, in
gorgeousness of dress was compensat¬
ed among all the nations by the pro¬
fusion of flowers chosen for their sig¬
nificance.—Uncle Remus' Magazine.
Herculaneum and Pompeii.
Pompeii was buried in ashes or light
scoria, while Herculaneum was en¬
tombed in lava, which, after cooling,
hardened into a material of the con¬
sistency of marble, and we thus have
the explanation of the fact that while
the first city has long been unearthed
the latter is still largely covered with
Its ancient lava shroud. Excavations
are constantly going on at Herculane¬
um, and the work will ln all probabil¬
ity continue to the finish, but it Is not
likely that any especially important re¬
sults will accrue, since the life of the
two cities was practically the same.—
New York American.
Rational Love.
"The rational rather than the ro¬
mantic view of marriage is the one
most in favor with the young people
of the twentieth century,” said a well
known eugenics expert in an address
in Cleveland.
"The rational view will make for hap¬
pier marriages. And this rational view
is beautifully illustrated ln two ques¬
tions—a little dialogue-running thus:
“ 'Will you always love me?’
“‘Will you always be lovable?’”—
New York Tribune.
Antiquity of tho Census.
The idea of the census is almost as
old as history itself. King Amasis of
Egypt took a census of bis people 500
years before Christ. The Athenian so
ion established a census for the pur¬
pose of facilitating taxation. We learn
that about 443 B. C. Servius Julius
took a census of Rome. During the
chaos of the dark ages the census
dropped Into oblivion, but was re¬
vived again about the beginning of the
eighteenth century.
Discretion.
“Now, Mike, you must forgive your
enemies.”
“Ugh!*’
"Do you object to that?”
“Not altogether., There’s some of
’em I might as well forgive. I ain’t
big enough to lick ’em.”— Louisville
Courier-Journal.
The Usual Way.
Dorcas—Won’t your meeting be ”ery
late if all the members are going to
take part in the debate? Mrs. Dorcas
—Why. no. dear! We’ll all speak at
once.—Judge
WAS HAMLET FAT? .....
With His Own Words Hs Doth Pro¬
claim the Fact Quite Pat.
The traditional Hamlet of our stage
is a lean, ascetic young person, an
idealized, etherenlized. heroic creature
evolved for the delectation of the mati¬
nee girl. He is a horrid sham. Is it
credible that such a man Would have
lacked the determination, the purpose¬
fulness, to put his revenge into opera¬
tion pat upon the discovery? It is all
very well to argue about his mental
balance. It was his sluggish liver
that stayed him and hampered him.
Hamlet's father was a fat and lethar¬
gic man by his owu account.
Sleeping within my orchard.
My custom always of the afternoon,
he says in his ghostly interview.
We may then look for some clew to
Hamlet’s character as soon as he is
alone on the stage. What are his
words?
Oh, that this too, too solid flesh would
melt!
it is a keynote that may not be
glossed over as a beautiful thought,
for'the same idea bursts out some lines
farther on, where he says of the world:
Things rank and gross In nature
Possess It merely.
Is it credible that such thoughts are
there for any purpose save to guide
us as to the nature of this prince?
They serve a double purpose. Not
merely do we learn that Hamlet was
a fat man, but also that he was an un¬
happy fat man. Hamlet was a man to
whom his bulk was an affliction. He
was handicapped by it and knew that
he was. Some such idea is discernible
in every one of the great soliloquies
He scorns himself for a sluggard:
What is a man
If his chief good and market of his tlms
Be but to sleep and feed?
His mind, unhinged or not, is ob¬
sessed by fatness, and in the mad tur¬
moil of emotions after he has slain
Polonius his thoughts run;
We fat all creatures else to fat us, and
We fat ourselves for maggots.
It bursts out again ln the "Oh, what
a rogue and peasant slave!" harangue
Ere this
I should have fatted all the region’s kites
With this slave’s offal.
And who but a fat, lethargic man
would have said in the “To be or not to
be” speech:
Who would fardels bear
To grunt and sweat under a weary life.
Does not the phrase bring to mind at
once the picture of a fat man toiling at
some loathed task?—London Express.
WON BY A DOLL
A Gift That Brought the Rebellious
Apaches to Terms.
Major Bourke, as aid to General
Crook, once showed himself an effective
peacemaker. He persuaded a band of
Apaches to go back to their reservation
by presenting a doll to a papoose. The
incident was as follows:
General Crook had been trying to put
these Apaches back on the reserve, but
could not catch them without killing
them, an action that did not appeal to
him. One day his forces captured a
papoose and took her to the fort. She
was quiet all day. but her black eyes
watched everything. When night came
the child broke down and sobbed just
as any white youngster might
The fort was in despair until Major
Bourke had an idea. From the adju¬
tant's wife he borrowed a doll that had
come to her little girl the previous
Christmas When the young Apache
understood that it was hers to keep
her sobs ceased and she fell asleep.
When morning came the doll was
still clasped tightly In her arms. She
played with it all day. and seemingly
all thought of ever getting back to the
tribe had left her.
Several days passed with no sign of
overture being made by the tribe, and
finally in despair the papoose, with the
doll still ln her possession, was sent
back. When the child reached the
tribe with the prize grasped in her
chubby hands it created a sensation
among the native Americans, and her
mother later went back to the post
with It She was received in a hos¬
pitable manner and kindly treated,
and the effect of her visit was such
that through her overtures were made,
with the'result that soon afterward
the entire band moved back on the re¬
serve.—St. Louis Republic.
The Money Tennyson Made.
Lord Tennyson made a great Income
from his poems. When Strahan & Co.
took over the publication qf the poems
In the sixties they agreed to pay Tenny¬
son $25,000 a year in respect to the
books already issued and pay the poet
all profits on new work, less a modest
10 per cent commission. This second
item generally meant $30,000 for each
new volume. For many years before
his death Tennyson drew a steady $50,
000 per annum from his publishers.
Just Like His Tooth.
Small Freddie had the toothtaehe one
day, and his mother told him the tooth
was hollow and needed to be pulled.
A few days later the mother complain¬
ed of a severe headache. “Mamma,”
said Freddie wisely. “I’ll bet your head
Is hollow. You ought to go and get it
pulied.’’—Chicago News.
A Bad Joke.
“A famous college president declares
that there are no new jokes."
"Ah, he does, does he?” grimly re¬
turned the old codger. "Well, he ought
to see the husband my niece has Just
married and brought home to live on
me."—Judge.
A Damper.
Marion—I showed papa those verses
you wrote me. and he seemed pleased.
Harry—He did? Marion—Yes. He said
he was so glad to see you were not •
poet.
THI COVINGTON NEW*, WEONESOAY, JULY 2, 1913.
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MY TERMS AND PRICES ARE RIGHT
E. L. ALMAND,
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