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SHUN WORKING
hard to finish
rOVERNOKlS GETTING EVERY
think in SHAPE TO TURN
OVER TO SUCCESSOR—STATE
finances IN GOOD SHAPE.
wlan ta. May 25.—With his adminis
tnition minated of the affairs and only of Georgia a couple near- of
ter John M.
ffpe) , s y et to run, Governor ,
Slaton is probably tlie busiest man in
the state. He and his official family
t th e eapitol are working overtime
turn the financial and other affairs
m commonwealth to the in
- f over
cmuinK administration in shipshape or¬
der. to the I.eg
In his farewell message
islature. which lie lias already begun
t() make notes on, lie will not only
review briefly and concisely his ad¬
ministration and the work that has
bee,, done, hut will make recommenda¬
tions and suggestions for the future
which, if carried out, will serve to
, in t Georgia in an even stronger posi¬
tion than she now holds.
poring his administration Governor
Slaton has brought order out of chaos
in the state's financial affairs and bus¬
iness. The main purpose he had in
mind when he was inaugurated was
to make Georgia’s financial system
equal to that of any state in the
union. lie found an antiquated and
demoralized system of taxation, and a
heavy deficit. TTe has put Georgia’s
financial system in better shape than it
was ever before in. fias brought about
and established a tax equalization law.
wiped out the deficit, and at the same,
time lias been able to cut the tax rate
one half of one mill.
To-day it is his expressed desire and
purpose to leave every department
with which he is connected in the best
possible shape, and to that end ho is
now working night and day. He goes
out of office tlie 2fith of June.
ALMON NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Young, after
pending a week in Pensacola. Fla.,
ave returned home, and had ns their
nest Sunday Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Por
>v and Mr. and Mrs. Tobe Ewings.
We are glad to report that Mrs. W.
Young, who lias been sick for some
.
me. improving.
Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Dobbs have had
very sick child, hut is some better
ow.
Mrs. Alice Moon of Griffin, is the
nest of Mrs. Sallie Ellis this week. .
Messrs Tee M-CuTlough and ,T. D.
[il'kmn attembvl a singing at the Cov
- g si Mi'is Si’Tidav evening.
Vf. T. , v>re”oe P.errv a”d Mrs. Fin
ie Hammond were tlie guests one da'"
i t w'.'i.' .if Air:. A ,t. Wingate.
Mr pi-nee Johnson was the guest of
:■ ehfidreii here Sunday.
Mr ... i Mrs. W. S. Marliut and Mr.
r \ o • o*>«? motored to Atlanta one
■iv week.
M" '’-Iu m ,,f vt’nntn was Hie
’» < S-Mi.lav of Mr. and Airs. T,. P
'a :v 1 ins.
m, ...... xr... t w. Panes of Fair
low were visiting' relatives here Sun
fO’
Mr an 1 Mrs E. W Hammond were
’s'dii" their narents here Saturday
i>t and Rundi\ v . •»
Mr. w. TTa'vkins continues very
ApllV.
'"ii-.,.-. *... to he a general met mg
o'i wi'h ‘i.«> r > ;i't ir, t chur<‘h at this
’si * • t Fr’dnv. Saturday and S ui
,1 fi '•’'•nsiniv i ftSPS
"M'-GEP AT PLAINING MF J
f • „ ... n„ t () P-ad>;llflW
of dm firm of T'hnmr'SOu-Mi’T'e;
..in vo'V't to learn Mint he ivt
to J hp misfortune of losimr one
r ■ '1 .'crs on Pis left hand one da v
WOO’’.
’’ra’shnw that tlie nui
* "r-.p caught h : s finger was the
t dangerous machine they have,
that lie was one of several victims
have ’ost out' or more fingers by
kb ! of machine.
i spite of tills painful accident Air.
'1 haw can he seen driving his car
i one hand and attending to his bus
s ns if nothing had happened.
Try ihivliu and Juniper for
Weak Kidneys or Bladder
if kidneys or bladders are weak w<
am obliged to get up often at night
,u ’ ,ie 's dark, spots before tlie eyes
ll{ "T' ties, puffy ankles or eyelids,
drojisv. rheumatism .lumbago. yellow
^in. short breath, diziness, desiHind
enc - v . ‘hahetes. The best medicine for
these distressing symptoms is old
fashioned Stuart’s Buchu and Juniper
Compound. It neutralizes the acids
10 urine and strengthens the neck
°f tles ttle bladder and cleans all lmpuri
froQ i the kidneys, thus curing the
'' ors t oases of kidney bladder trou
or
’ e 1 ake a spoonful Stuart’s Buchu
-
an, i Juniper in a little water after
umais and on going to bed. Sold by
’ W) - T. Smith, Druggist, Covington,
SHOULD BE UNIVERSITY OF RE
LIGIOUS LEARNING.
Duty of Christianity to Evangelize the
World.
By Rev. Jno. A. Rice, D. D.
Pastor St. John M. E. Church. South,
St. Louis. Mo.
Some years ago, the question was
asked: What is a college? The at¬
tempt to answer it shook the educa¬
tional world in America from center
to circumference. Another question is
now beginning to be asked: YY’hat is
a church? Without undertaking to
give a definition of it, let me ask, in
this initial paper, what the church
is for? The New Testament reveals
three distinct tasks to which it is
committed.
First, that of evangelization. The
church is divinely commissioned to
reach for the lowest and the least
man in the least laud and offer him
sonship to the Eternal God; offer him
a divine power, which lifts him out
of the bog and places him upon the
highest levels of human life, where
God and the soul are in fellowship.
This alone were an immense priv¬
ilege.
Teaching the Art of Living.
The church is commissioned also
to teach and train those who are
rich with its evangelistic message.
The term, Religious Education, has
come to mean a specific thing in our
country, namely, the training of the
people in the local church in those
deep matters which pertain to the
art of living. I am not now speaking
of the work of education in schools,
colleges and universities, but the work
of education at our doors, in the con¬
gregation. Every agency in reach
should be employed to the utmost in
this important mission. Indeed, the
local church could be made a sort of
university for all the people, in which
the simple, practical arts and virtues
of everyday life should be taught and
enforced. Only recently has this
special phase of the church’s work re¬
ceived anything like adequate atten¬
tion. The New Testament word for
it is Edification.
School of Religion Needed.
Of course, the Sunday School is the
center for all this work, although the
activities of the church should extend
through the entire week and the Sun¬
day School should cease to be so
named. It should be called the School
of Religion or the Church School or
something else that indicates it to be
an all-the-week activity. During this
time various and sundry clubs, classes,
musical organizations, culture courses,
as well as distinctly religious meetings,
should bt- belli. Thickly settled neigh¬
borhoods, as we shall see, offer line
opportunities for the development of
things spiritual. church
The third task to which tho
is committed is that of Christianizing
the social order; that of infusing the
spirit of Jesus into every nook and
corner of our life. Nothing is foreign
to the interest of the church.
Neighborly Love Essential.
If religion pervades and colors the
whole life then ours is serious busi¬
ness, for it will let no corner of the
world escape its influence. 1 he sooner
we learn that Christianity is not a
thing to be practiced in a corner the
better for the world. The question of
the eighteenth century, touching ( hris
tianity, was. Can it be made to square
with the human reason? Of the nine¬
teenth, Can it he made to square with
the results of scientific research ? Of
the twentieth, What can it do? We
must learn to enforce not only love of
God, whom we cannot see, but love to
our neighbors, with whom we are living
In constant contact. Neither without
the other is Christianity whatever else
it may be. Everything that interests
his neighbors must interest him, if he
is a genuine follower of the Christ.
It is the mission of the church—the
rural as well as the city—to evange¬
lize the whole world, to train to the
highest degree of efficiency those
whom it evangelizes and to seek to
make the spirit of Jesus the absolute
rule in all human relations.
It is an admitted economic fact that
there can he no permanent prosperity
without a permanent agriculture.
THE NATION’S DINNER TABLE
When the dinner bell of this nation
rings there have been slaughtered for
the repast 13,000 beeves, 21,000 nogs
4 600 sheep. 2,000 hundredweight of
poultry and other meats, and there
have been 700,000 bushels ot cereals
and 540.000,000 pounds of vegetables
prepared for the feast. Multiply these
quantities by one thousand, repre¬
senting approximately the number of
meals per annum, and we have the
annual contents of the nation's larder.
But with all our immense quantity,
superb quality and wide range of pro¬
ducts. the American housewife, like
the wife of King Nebuchadnezzar,
longs for variety and she goes market¬
ing in foreign lands. She buys abroad
$200,000,000 per annum of farm pro¬
ducts that can and should be produced
THE COVINGTON NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MAS »15.
WIRED SECURITIES
By Peter Radford.
Much has been said and more writ¬
ten about the evils of watered stock In
big business concerns and the farm¬
ers of this nation believe that every
dollar written into the life of any
business organization, should be able
to say “I know that my Redeemer
liveth,” but farming is the biggest
business on earth, and there is more
water in its financial transaction than
that of any other industry. There is
as much water in a farmer’s note
drawing eight or ten per cent interest
when other lines of industry secure
money for four or five per cent per
annum, as there is in a business pay¬
ing a reasonable compensation upon
the face value of securities repre¬
senting an investment of only fifty
cents on the dollar. The only dif¬
ference is, the water is in the interest
rate in one instance and in the secur¬
ities in the other.
The promoter ofttimes takes chances
and his success is contingent upon
the development of the property in¬
volved but the usurer, as a rule, takes
no chances and his success cripples
the property involved. There may be
industries that cry louder but none
that suffer more severely from finan¬
cial immorality in both law and cus¬
tom than that of agriculture.
The farmers of America today are
paying $200,000,000 per annum in
usury on real estate and chattel
loans, and this interest capitalized
at five per cent, represents $4,000,000,
000 of fictitious values which the farm¬
er is paying interest on. This sum of
money is almost equal to the annual
value of crops produced in the United
States.
The earning power of the farmer’s
note based upon his interest rate very
nearly divides likes the earth’s sur¬
face—three-fourths water and one
fourth land. The largest body of wa¬
ter that floats upon the financial hem¬
isphere now rests upon the farms
and its waves are dashing and its
billows are rolling against seven mil¬
lion homes threatening ruin and dis¬
aster to the prosperity of the nation.
Will our public servants who under¬
stand how to drain the liquid off in¬
dustrial properties turn the faucet and
let the water off the farms?
It is an admitted economic fact that
there can be no permanent prosperity
without a permanent agriculture.
Agriculture is recognized as the
greatest of all industries and a pros¬
perous, progressive and enlightened
agricultural population is the surest
safeguard of civilization.
NOTICE DEBTORS AND CREDI¬
TORS
Notice is hereby given that all per¬
sons owing the estate of Mrs. Kate
Hinton are hereby required to make
immediate payment, and all persons
holding claims against said estate are
hereby notified to render sail demands
unto the undersigned* administrator in
terms of law.
Ttiis 2nd day of April, 1915.
( HAS. B. CRENSHAW
Administrator Estate of Mrs. Kate
Hinton, deceased.
MONEY TO ! OAN.
The Union Central Life Insurance
Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, will loan
the farmers of this locality money on
their farms at tlie rate of 8 per cent
per annum for ten years or less as tlie
borrower desires. This is a reliable
old line Life Insurance company and
not a loan brokerage concern.
J. C. KNOX, Attorney,
Local Correspondent.
Covington, Ga.
Danger to Children.
Serious illness often results from
lingering coughs and colds. The hack¬
ing and coughing and disturbed sleep
rack a child's body and the poisons
weaken tlie system, so that disease
cannot he thrown off. Foley’s Honey
and Ttar Compound 1ms eased coughs,
colds and croup for three generations
safe to use and quick to act. There
is no better medicine for croup,
coughs and colds. For sale by C. C.
i Brooks.
$50.00 REWARD
Fr.v evidence to convict tho person who on May 12, 1915, threw a wire
across the power line of this company between Lithonia and Conyers and short=
circuited the current.
$50.00 REWARD ADDITIONAL
for evidence to convict any person who imitates that act. These offers will re¬
main valid until two rewards are paid.
GEORGIA RAILWAY & POWER COMPANY
SALES DEPARTMENT, ATLAN1 A. GEORGIA
MISSIONARY GLEANINGS
A iewed from the lowest standpoint
—commercial interest—the United Sta¬
tes should make every possible effort
to christianize China. Her leading
men say we are overlooking a wonder¬
ful opportunity to secure her trade.
I Ever since our nation returned the in
i demnity money ofter the Boxer upris
| ing. China has regarded the United
States as the greatest friend she lias
among all the nations of the earth, and
I she is looking to ns to assist her in
j elevating herself morally; says we
! can easily Secure he,, trade, that she
wants closer relations with us, and
desires our friendship, and has confi¬
dence in us. This gives us access to
he,, hearts and homes. What beter
proof of our friendship could we give
than to send them more missionaries
to teach thorn tlie way of life and faith
in God? One of the most thrilling in¬
cidents connected with the history of
China was the appeal of her govern¬
ment to the Western Christians to pray
for hot- on Sunday, April 27. 1913. This
did not prove that her people as a na¬
tion were ready to accept Christianity,
but shows an instinctive cry to Gor for
help in time of trouble, and a grow¬
ing faith in Him. At first our mis¬
sionaries could gain access only to the
lower class; now all classes from the
highest to the lowest, seem eager to
investigate the “Jesus Doctrine,” and
many are embracing it. but oh, how
few heralds we have to carry “the glad
tidings” to that nation of 400.000.000.
Professed followers of Christ are sel¬
fish with holding the means that God
has given to carrying on his work,
j Chinn needs Christian principles, and
ideas and higher moral standards.
Will the twenty commissioners who are
now touring our country with wide
open eys investigating everything con¬
nected with our manufactories, our
business plans, our cotton industries,
our social and religious life, be so im¬
pressed with the exemplification of
Christianity as they see it in our treat¬
ment of our brother man that they
will he led to embrace it, and he con¬
vinced that tlie Christian religion is
the great need of China?
MRS. A. M. TRAVIS, Press Supt.
COTTON SEED FOR SALE
Celebrated Dickson Cotton, while
they last at $100 per bushel.
HARRY H. STONE,
Executor, Oxford, Ga.
Chero-Cola
THERE’S NONE SO GOOD
Means a pure, wholesome, refreshing beverage
that is popular with those who play the game
and with those who witness it.
Covington Chero Cola Bottling Works.
LIBEL FOR DIVORCE
Mrs. Katie T. Wilson vs Pleas Wil¬
son. Libel for divorce in Newton Su¬
perior Court. September term, 1910.
The verdict for total divorce granted
the 22nd day of September, 1911i.
Notice is hereby given to all con¬
cerned that on the 10th day of May
1915, I filed with the Clerk of the
Superior Court of said county of New¬
ton. State of Georgia, my petition ad¬
dressed to saiil Court, returnable to tin,
next term thereof, to he held on fue
r "nird Monday in July, 1915, for the
removal of the disabilities resting upon
under the verdict in the above stated
case by reason of my intermarriage
with Mrs. Katie T. Wilson, which ap¬
plication will he heard at the July tm •*..
1915. of said court, which commences
on the Third Monday in July, 1915.
This 10th day of May, 1915.
5.1(2 PLEAS WILSON
Rogers & Knox. Attorney for petitioner
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ADDRESS
THE COVINGTON NEWS
COVINGTON, GEORGIA
PAGE FIVE
THAT TIRED FEELING
DO YOU CONTINUALLY FEEL
SLUUISH, DISINTERESTED.
If you do, it is probably caused by
your liver. When the liver falls to
perform its functions properly, the
system becomes clogged with poison¬
ous matter, that weighs you down men¬
tally and physically.
The liver gets out of ordes very eas¬
ily, and if neglected, chronic trouble
usually resolts. Don’t delay if you feel
badly. You knowingly lay yourself
open to life long pain, when you allow
yourself to continue in a run down
condition. Cure yourself quickly and
harmlessly with the natural vegetablbe
remedy, LIV-VER LAX. It has all the
effectiveness, hut not the effect, of
calomel.
Genuine LIV-VER-LAX bears the
likeness and signature of L. K. Grigs¬
by. and is guaranteed to give satis¬
faction or money refunded. Insist on
it. For sale by any druggist.
