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COVINGTON, GA., AUGUST 11, 1915.
We no get some rain, don’t it.
Covington has the fastest amateur
team in the state.
Do you think it fitney to get litnej
and take a ride in a jitney?
If a man wants to work, he can us
uall.v find something to do.
Hall players life—Praised when they
win and knocked when they lose.
Looks like Ernest Camp would run
out of something to say sometime.
Come on Oxford and meet us on
Rivers’ Hill with paved sidewalks.
Covinggton and Madison baseball
teams seem to be about equally match¬
ed.
Trouble with a lot of folks, if work
interferes with pleasure, they cut work¬
out.
After you tell a man you've quit,
and he insists on you taking a drink,
beware, he is not your friend.
The ic e man is flirtingg with the un¬
dertaker when he fails to show up
these hot days.
We have a linesman here who has
accepted a position with the Wireless
Telegraphy people climeing poles.
In case Jim Williams gets lazy and
wants to play off sick, Cranston will
take care of the editorial page.
When you hear a man knock his
hom^ paper, go look up Ills name and
you will find he is at least one year in
arrears.
The Alpharetta Free Press asks:
“Does Mexico want us to liquor?” No
Rucker, old Mex knows It would Huer¬
ta.—Walton Tribune.
If Covingtgon ever organizes a
Knockers' Klub, we are going to nomi¬
nate for president a certain fellow
what we know.
Wonder If Editor Nine O Fiv e Ruck
e r has cut us off his mailing list? It’s
been two weeks now since our optics
gazed on his worthy sheet.
If It is tru e that a man is known by
the company he keeps, it is also true
that a town Is known by the hall team
It supports. Rah! for Covington.
Had a lot of folks to tell u s that the
News was better last week. They
didn’t want to borrow a two bit piece
either. Keep it up, wheher you mean
it or not. IT HELPS.
W e thoroughly agree with Editor
McGill, of the Lyons Progress, in his
stand for what is right, as regards the
cutting of Montgomery county. This
county has already been cut too much,
and to take 187 square miles off of
it now would only leave a small por¬
tion of one of the best counties in the
state.
A soldier on guard in South Caro¬
lina during the war was questioned as
to the knowledge of his duties. “You
know you r duty here, do you. senti¬
nel?” “Yes, sir,” “Well, now sup¬
pose they should open on you with
shells and musketry, what would you
do?” “Form a line, sir.” “What!
One man form a line?” “Yes, sir;
form a be e line for camp, sir.”—Ex.
“Father,” Inquired th e little brain
twister of the family, “when will our
little baby brother b e abl e to talk?”
“Oh, when he’s about three. Ethel.”
“Why can't h e talk now. father?”
“He is only a baby yet, Ethel. Ba¬
bies can’t talk.”
“Oh, yes they can. father.” insisted
Ethel, “for Job could talk when he w as
a baby.”
“Job! What do you mean?”
“Yes,” said Ethel. “Nurse was tell¬
ing us today that It says in the Bible
‘Job cursed the day he was born.’ ”
WITH THE GEORGIA |
| PRESS \
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She wears but Iittl e her e below,
nor wears that little long.—Macon
Tribune.
And meantlm e here the wear
and tear on eyesight Is too strong.
—Walton Tribune.
And. tis the little that she wears
that causes bad men to go wrong.
—Cherokee Advance.
And that little wearing now and
then, often causes so many single
men.—Hazlehurst News.
Had sh ( , been some better clad,
perhaps it wouldn’t have been so
bad.—Milton County News.
And when you want to have some
fun, just get her between you and the
sun.
11 If
Somebody is going to kick Edi¬
tor George Rucker in the center of
his being, if he doesn’t look out.—
Greensboro Herald-Journal.
From what you told us about him.
we wouldn’t like to b ( . appointed to do
the kicking.
IT IT IT
THE EMPTY STOCKING.
Why is it that pretty silk hose
hanging in show windows doesn’t
interest men ?—Covington News.
Tli e empty things of life are nil,
Insensate, dead and dull.
An empty stocking is a fright—
Its lovely if filled full.
—Walton Tribune.
Well, all right, if that’s the way you
feel about it.
U If If
Atlanta police have barred tne
ladies from wearing halt hose at
Piedmont lake. Still, we should
think that half hose are better
than no hose at all.—Walton Tri¬
bune.
It’s all right fo r you to say that
while you are wirting paragraphs in
Monroe, but if you lived near Pedmonr
lake, it would be altogether different.
Com e clean.
IT If IT
THE MOP’S READY.
Covington and Monroe’s ball
teams seem to have a contract for
the season. No objections here.—
Walton News.
Well, it’s a cinch that there is
no objection over here. Any time
Ernest Camp and you think you
have a team that can “mop-up”
with us. we’re ready for you.—
Covington News.
The mop’s ready, Fields. Just
come along over.—Walton Tribune.
For Fields Taylor we will say,
That w> haven’t forgotten th e way;
Arrange the series and w e will go,
Accross the country to Monroe.
THE LITTLE GRAVE.
(Author Unknown.)
“It’s only a little grave.” they said,
“Only a child that’s dead
And so they carelessly turned away
From th e mound the spade made that
day.
Ah', they did not know how deep a
shade
That little grave In our home had made
1 know that the coffin was narrow and
small.
One yard would have served for an
ample pall;
And one man in his arms could have
borne away
Th e rosewood and its freight of clay.
But I know that darling hopes were
hid
Beneath that little coffin lid.
I know that a mother stood that day
With folded hands by that form of
clay:
I know that burning tears were hid
“’Neath the drooping lash and aching
lid,”
And I know her lip and cheek and
brow
Were almost as white as her baby’s
now.
I know that some things were hid
away,
Th e crimson frock, and wrappings gay;
The little sock and the half-worn shoe.
The cap with its plumes and tassels
blue;
An empty crib, with its covers spread.
As white as the face of the sinless
dead.
Tis a little grave: hut oh. have care!
For world-wide hopes are buried there;
And ye. perhaps, in coming years.
May see, like her, through blinding
tears.
How much of light, how much of joy.
Is buried with an only boy.
THE COVINGTON NEWS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1915.
Atlanta and Lawlessness
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Last w eek’s issue of the Lawrenceville News-Herald call¬
ed Atlanta to task for its spirit of mob violence which has
manifested itself on several occasions to the detriment not
only of Atlanta’s good name, but also to the detriment of the
good name of the state. There is much food for thought over
this condition of affairs, the News-Herald was right in taking
Atlanta to task. Atlanta owes much to the state, Atlanta is
not in any sense a producer for Georgia, she is a ward of the
state, dependent upon all of outside Georgia for what she is.
By the grace of the people of the state, Atlanta is her capital
city, and on this account she owes it to the balance of the
state to behave herself, and yet she may, with all propriety,
be called the Mob City of the state. It will take years for
Georgia to overcome the blot upon her fair name caused by
the race riots of a few years since, when Atlanta suffered a
reign of terror for weeks at the time, brought on by the do¬
ings of lawless, reckless mobs. The more recent near riots,
when the mobs threatened the courts during the noted Frank
trial, and when the Governor of this great state had to be
saved from the mob by military interference, and the dis¬
graceful scenes which took place last week during the Bea¬
vers’ trial not to mention her endless string of unpunished
murderers and burglars, all bring the blush of shame to Geor¬
gians, who believe that Atlanta, our capital city, should set
the pace for all the rest of us as a lawabiding, law obeying
people. Atlanta has advertised us in a bad way entirely too
much of recent years. The highest class of citizenship, the
very highest class of citizens, is the class which believes
that law is supreme and that every wrong must be appeal¬
ed to the law. Mob violence is never justifiable, unless it be
for the punishment of the rapist. What is the matter with
Atlanta anyhow? Certainly there is nojnething radically
wrong Atlanta had best ask herself—What is the matter?
To outsiders it looks like Atlanta is full of cranks. Look at
the present rucus about Chief Beavers. For the first time
in the history of the state, it appears that Atlanta is to re¬
sort to the RECALL in order to punish those members of the
police board who dared vote their convictions and demote
Chief Beavers. The News has always been for Beavers and
for Beavers’ policies. The News was mad when they kept
after Beavers, and so was the most of decent folks, but when
Beavers lost his head and made his tirade of abuse agaihst
the police board, he converted us into the belief that if he had
no more respect for the authorities over him than his tirade
showed, he ought not to be entrusted with authority, he was
incapable of exercising it. It must have been that his close
association with Jackson and Eichelberger and that set of ex¬
tremists. who were always patting him on the head and say¬
ing “go it Beavers’* had spoiled Beavers a bit. at least it did
spoil his temper a bit and it unfitted him for Chief. The
municipal affairs of Atlanta ought to be administered in a
conservative manner, Conservatism pays. Extremists often
work ruin for our best causes. Now those extremists have
instituted a campaign for the recall of the Mayor and those
members of the police board who voted against Beavers; this
wll throw Atlanta into the turmoils of a campaign of bit¬
terness such as she has never had before. All of Atlanta’s
mud will be digged up. her rotten spots will be aired and her
weakness advertisd to the world, all to the discredit of the
entire state. No good can come of such a campaign. Wrong¬
doers will be made bold in defending themselves against the
attacks of the extremists, and if these extremists are no
more careful of how they stick to facts, than they were in
their Bulletins, incalculable harm will come to the City and
the state. You may say that all these things are no concern
to the outside, but they are. Atlanta is our state capital and
Georgia is hurt whenever our capital city goes wrong Until
within the past few months, Atlanta was not in the class with
Savannah an dAugusta in so far as liquor violations were con¬
cerned. Savannah and Augusta never have made any pre¬
tense of observing the liquor laws, but Atlanta was the most
law-abiding City of its size in the Union. Recently, however,
through its clubs and its beer saloons, it has thrown off the
yoke and openly violates the law against liquor. We can’t help
believe that much of this is due to the fanaticism of the Men’s
Religion and Forward Movement, they have fought with zeal
but without knowledge, they have aroused an opposition
which has grown bold in violating law. There are two sets
of extremists—the religious-prohibition extremists and the
Club-Antis. Neither of them can accomplish any good for
the city. It was Atlanta’s Religious-prohibition extremists
who killed all changes for needed prohibition laws before the
legislature- For the good of the state, for the fair name of
their city, and in order that real moral and temperance ad¬
vancement may become possible, these factional extremists
in Atlanta should every one of them go away back and sit
down- and let these great reforms pass into the hands of con¬
servative- progressive leaders who alone will be able to bring
order out of the chaos which has grown up in our capital City.
FARMERS MUST HELP THE MERCHANTS.
The drouth of the past few weeks has injured to some
extent the crops both of cotton and of corn, but the early
com had been practically made and the promise is 'for greater
corn crop than Newton approaching County has ever before experienced.
Business men are the fall opening with confi¬
dence, notwithstanding the war continues with unabating
fury. The fate of cotton is still uncertain, what price it will
bring is problematical, and upon this depends to a large ex¬
tent the volume of collections which our merchants will be
able to make. But our farmers classes are by ;far more in¬
dependent of the cotton crop than they have ever been be¬
fore, they have raised supplies of every kind, they have limit¬
ed their credit and have smaller accounts to pay, they have
made their crops on less money than for many years. It is
the merchant who hardly knows where he is at. Our mer¬
chants have dealt generously with their trade and have car¬
ried over heavy balances for a large number o ftheir custo¬
mers, and they have done this gladly; now if every man who
owes his merchant will come to the merchant’s relief as read¬
ily as his merchant has come to his, and will continue to econ¬
omize and pay promptly every dollar he may be able to pay.
to his merchant, regardless of the uncertain price of cotton,
we will usher in for ourselves a season of prosperity which
will make all alike glad.
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