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UILTLESS OF A NY DECEIT
lorse Dealer’s Advertisement Had
{Contained Nothing but the Abso¬
lutely Plain, Unvarnished Truth.
There was Are in the eye of the man
jrho j, led the sad-eyed horse as he
ilight out the dealer.
“Look here!” he said, “I don’t want
this horse you’ve
sold me. It balks;
1 can’t get it to go
over the bridge.”
\ “That’s the rea¬
’' \ son I sold him,”
said the dealer,
calmly.
j|x\ The angry pur
in chaser pinched
Wo ** himself to make
sure that he was
awake.
“No doubt,” he said, sarcastically,
hvhen at last he could trust himself to
ispeak ; “but allow me to tell you that
kou've lenses, sold the animal under false pre
and I’ll—”
“False pretenses he jiggered!” said
he dealer. “Didn’t I advertise: ‘Own
>r wishes to sell for no other reason
lthan he wants to get out of the
(own?’ ”
“Yes, hut—•”
“Well, that’s why I sold him. He
ha ver would take me out of the town.
P’r’aps he will you—If you’re patient.
Ho time to argue. Good day.”
THEIR RICHES.
L wee little house, on a poor little road,
[With a little back yard behind it.
Lfar from the avenues, stately and broad,
[But Love is quite able to find it!
Lnd Molly fs waitress, and laundros* and
cook.
■ And Tom lends a hand when he’s able;
fhe furniture’s plain, and the carpets are
cheap.
And there's little to put on the table,
fact, they are poor, as the world reck
ons up,
I And there’s little laid up—and yet, may¬
be,
I'nesn two may be worth a round million
or more,
Tf you put a fair price on the baby!
{-Charles Irvin Junkln, in People’s Home
Journal.
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But as the old year goes out we welcome the now
one with the hope that our business relations in the
future may be even more pleasant than in the past.
Our success in (he past is largely due to the liberal
co-operation of our friends. Our appreciation is deep
and genuine and our warmest thanks go out to one
and all.
Never before has just such a New Year come to
the world. The great events of the past four years
have prepared us for greater new tilings than have ever
been known. In the new era of peace let us repeat in
the spirit of Abraham Lincoln,:
“With malice toward none, with charity
for all, let us do our part, however small
it may be, m the great work of perfecting
the new building; a reconstructed wor’d.”
To every person we extend our cordial good wish¬
es for health and happiness in the New Year.
y I Phone No. 80 , • • Covington, Ga.
THE CovtNGTON NEWS, COVINGTON, GA., THURSDAY, I‘vmnmy 9, 1919
DUBLIN BOOTBLACKS IN 1780
Polish Uccd at That Time Was a Com¬
bination of Lampblack and
Rotten Eggs.
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Among the populace of Dublin in
1780 the shoeblacks were a numerous
find formidable body. The polish they
used was lampblack and eggs, for
J which they purchased all that were
rotten in the markets. Their imple¬
ments consisted of a three-legged stool,
a basket containing a blunt knife,
called n sfiddd, a painter's brush and
au old wig.
A gentleman usually went out in the
! morning with dirty boots or shoes,
! sure to find a shoeblack sitting on his
! stool at the corner of the street. The
gentleman put his foot in the lap of
' the shoeblack without ceremony, and
the artist scraped it with his spudd,
wiped it with liis wig and then laid on
his composition as thick as black paint
with his painter’s brush.
The stuff dried with a rich polish, re¬
quiring no friction, and little Inferior
to the elaborated modern fluids, save
only the intolerable odors exhaled from
eggs in a high state of putridity, and
which filled any house which was en¬
tered before the composition was quite
dry, and sometimes even tainted the
uir of fashionable drawing rooms.—
University Magazine.
CARING FOR WOUNDED
Mrs. Hammond, an American Red
Cross worker, is shown serving water
to badly wounded British Tommies,
who are waiting to he tairen to hos¬
pitals.
The Cepbalonia was deeply loaded
with shells, and her chill-rooms were
filled with T. NT. T. for the Italian
army, writes It. K. Cropley in the At¬
lantic. She was well in the midst
of flic convoy proceeding down the
Thames, and had just; passed beyond
the submarine net, when a thin pencil
of smoke was seen to rise from tfie
corner of No. 1 hatch. It happened
to catch the third officer’s eye first,
and lie called Sammy’s attention to it.
In two shakes Sammy had sounded
four Masts on tlie siren, and a flag
fluttered from the yard-arm, which
caused all other ships to give him a
wide berth, as the propeller of the
Ceplmlonia churned up the sea in her
frantic effort to back and turn as if
to return to London. A ship on fire
should return to port, but Sammy, with
a cargo of T. N. T. wasn’t the kind of
a Skipper to risk blowing cottages and
kiddies into the next world in an ef¬
fort to save his own skin. No; he
turned the Cephalonia till her stern
was head to the breeze, and slowly
kept her backing seaward to restrain
the fire, if possible, from spreading
aft to his chambers of T. N. T.;
Ducked her away from port and other
ships, so that, if she did blow up, the
military loss would he confined to the
Cephalonia alone. And all the while
lie was wondering what moment a U
boat would pop up and send a torpedo
in!o him, or he would strike a drift¬
ing mine.
Playing Duckboard.
Do you know what duckboard is?
It’s a kind of a game first played in
a primitive and mild sort of fashion
by Itocky mountain goats and since
modernized and made difficult by the
American army. The apparatus on
which one plays duckboard Is a mixed
breed contrivance, by Washboard out
of Corduroy Road, to use the racing
vernacular. It is made up of narrow,
slippery strips of rounded wood laid
crosswise about two inches apart, and
is supposed to keep one’s feet out of
the mud. It does! While playing duck¬
board one’s feet are usually in the air.
It is called duckboard, I suppose, be¬
cause of some silly belief that a duck
could walk it without falling. Even
airplanes flying at a height of less
than 5,000 feet have been seen to wig¬
gle and dip drunkenly while passing
above trench linos floored with duck
boards. And when it is laid upon the
surface of the earth and there are no
handy trench walls to help out—well,
it’s lucky for Charley Chaplin that the
wide world didn’t see me operate.
Nothing eofild ever again he funny to
a man who saw me play duckboard out
there in ihe comparative open of that
wood!—William Stevens McNutt, in
Collier’s Weekly.
A hen you have made comparisons of goods of
values, and of SATISFACTION TO YOU, then you
. will know why people speak of this as the “best store
for women.” When you call you will be pleased with
the gn at variety and quantity of our new Fall and
Winter Goods for women, and you will be especially
pleased with the quality and price.
We are sending you this message because we want
you to call at our store, want you to see these goods
we have selected for your use this fall and winter—and
we just naturally want to see you anyway.
We lire Making Our Lins or 25 Gents Famous Educator Shoe
Speciai prices Sweat¬ Hose and half hose for For Men, Women and
on and are worth the
men women Children is attracting
ers for men, women and more than we are charg¬ attention of careful buyers
children, the /ferings be¬ ing for them, as may be who will be satisfied with
ascertained from even a and
ing stylish and durable. casual inspection. Call and nothing but comfort
see them. beauty.
We have a large line of New Goods ready for the
trade and a Cordial Welcome awaits YOU
lion’s Ready-to-wear Store
Phone No. II, Covington, Ga.
The
Scrap Book
YOUTH FELT HiS LOVE WANE
Would Rather Give Up Idea of Mar¬
riage Than Do the Stunts the
Doctor Ordered.
It was a naval recruiting office tn
the vicinity of the Strand, and (hoy
were doing big business on account of
a recent naval battle. A vacant-look¬
ing youth strolled
up to one of the
civilian officials.
“Name?” said
the latter. “Her
bert Jones.”
“Age?”
The prelimina
ries were scrib
bled, the poor man
was flung over to
a doctor.
“Undress!” said tiie medical officer.
The man undressed and stood shiv
ering in an icy wind that came through
the door.
“Now, then," said the doctor, “hop
round the room!”
The man hopped, and nearly broke
his neck in the attempt.
“Rotten!” said the doctor. "Rotten!
Now double uj> your knees and touch
the floor with your hands!”
The applicant attempted to carry
out the order, lost his balance, and
collapsed.
“HTj !” said the doctor, enigmat¬
ically. “Now run around the room as
fast as ever you can; I want to test
your heart.”
“No, I’ll he hanged if I will!” said
the youth, determinedly. “I’ve changed
my mind, I’ll remain single.”
“Single?” said the doctor.
“Yes,” said the youth, “single. They
didn’t tell me I had to go through all
this nonsense in order to get a mar¬
riage license!”—London Tit-Bits.
AMERICAN SPIRIT
RELIED ON TO WIN.
Tn the light of succeeding events it
is interesting to recall the confidence
with which the United States Food
Administrator viewed the gloomy out¬
look in July of 1917, when this coun¬
try had been in the war for less than
four months and the Gormans were
steadily Ending the western front
nearer and nearer to P; ris.
“Even 'hough the situation in Eu¬
rope may be gloomy today,” he de¬
clared in a public statement, “no
American who has knowledge of the
results already obtained in every di¬
rection need have one atom of fear
that democracy will not defend itself
is these United States.”
OBEYED ORDERS TO LETTER
Scrubwoman Was Patiently Wait inf
for the Oil She Had Been Told
Was on Its Way.
Having an important engagement
with a client, an oil merchant was
obliged to leave his office in sold
charge of a scrubwoman.
“Now, my good
woman," he said,
indicating the tel
ephone, “when
you hear the bell j
ring attached to
that little box
just go to the tube
| *-j and shout: ‘Hal- j
! ^and loa, who are you?'
j wait for a re¬
ply”
The merchant hod been gone about
j half an hour, when the telephone bell
\ rang furiously. The woman rushed to
j the tube, shouting out the necessary
j query, and put the receiver to her ear.
“I’m Dobson, from Dublin.” came the
answer. “Got a lot of oil for you, and
! j wish to send it on at once. Be ready
to receive ft.”
Presently the merchant returned,
and to his amazement saw the scrub¬
woman holding an empty bucket under
the telephone tube.
j “What on earth are you doing with
that pail?” he asked.
“Well, sir," she replied, “as soon as
you was gone, a man shouted through
the tube that he was sending a large
supply of oil, and asked someone to re¬
ceive it, so I’m a-holdin’ this bucket
for it to run through!”—London Mail
AMERICA MARCHING.
Whistling—in tears—they go
Brimming with life.
Out from love's shielding arms
Into the strife.
They fro with sinking hearts^
But with a will
That in the face of fate ✓
Shall fight on still.
Why should they be cast down?
Though grim thetr cross.
To him whose heart Is brave
Death brings no loss.
They will not turn them back,
Though rest come late;
Freedom must live in earth
Whate’er their fate.
Liberty, fear no more! 'I
Our heroes come,
Marching with loyal feet
To patriot drum.
—Thomas Curtis Clark,
Only Drifting.
“What I yearn for,” said the discon¬
tented man. “is absolute leisure; a
chance to cut loose from ordinary
cares and drift with the current.”
“That ought to be easy.” replied Mr.
Chuggins. “Your idea of happiness
seems to be to get out in a motor
boat whose engine refuses to work.”
GET SALT FR0M SEA WATER
Old Method of Obtaining Necessary of
Life Is Still Practiced in
Various Places. ‘
The use of salt for seasoning and
preserving foods is so ancient that
tiie earliest written records refer to
it, says a writer in Popular Science
Monthly. For many centuries prac¬
tically ail the salt used by the human
race was procured by the evaporation
of sea water.
This method of obtaining salt is
still employed in many localities where
the conditions are favorable. A flat
stretch of sea coast and a hot and
dry climate are necessary if salt is
to be got from sea water. An ideal'
locality for this Industry is the coast
on the Bay of Cadis, Spain.
The sea water is allowed to collect
in shallow bashis, barely above high
water mark. As the water evaporates
the various salts contained In the sea
water crystallize out and form a crust,
which is removed and shoveled in
small heaps. There the salts undergo
the first stage of purification.
The edible salt is drained from the
other salts, which constitute the great¬
er part of the impurities. The edible
salt crystaRizes out first, while the
other salts retain the water and form
a concentrated brine which is allowed
to run into ditches dug for that pur¬
pose.
The partly purified salt is then gath¬
ered into large heaps. Occasional
rains wash out the more easily soluble
impurities, and the hot sun dries the
salt on the surface of the pile. Al¬
though it still contains about 15 per
cent of impurities it Is shipped in
large quantities without further refin¬
ing. i
Pnaring Snakes.
For sheer, downright danger the
work of snake catching in the Austra¬
lian bush compares very favorably with
anything one might imagine. It is
also an exceedingly profitable method
of earning a livelihood—that is, if you
survive.
The snakes are collected for the
sake of their venom, a substance that,
like radium, is valued by the grain, a
pound of it being worth about £500. It
is in active demand by chemists and
is obtained, as far as Australia is con¬
cerned, from only three species of
snakes—the death adder, the brown
adder and the tiger snake.
The reptiles must be caught unin¬
jured, and it goes without saying that
the business demands considerable
skill and agility on the part of thoee
following it.
Tiger snakes are the best, for they
carry most venom; and they are still
numerous In the more remote parts of
the seldom-visited interior.
