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THOUGHT HE WAS DIPLOMATIC
But Father of Rookie Couldn’t Just
See Point About His Son's "Fi¬
nancial Condition.”
The o:her dny a rookie, Just out of
colle ge, married a girl who lived in the
town where his company was in train¬
ing. The young man knew he must in¬
form liis family of the event, and also
that he must do it in the most
ing way possible.
‘‘Dear dad,” he wrote, “I always
thought that when I married I would
choose a girl who could support her¬
self if necessary, and then if anything
would ever happen to me, you wouldn’t
have to be burdened with her. Now.
Marion is that kind of a girl. She
knows all about my financial condition
and—”
But when father read the letter, he
paused here to reread it. “Financial
condition," he snorted. “That young
cub hasn’t any financial condition.
Why, he doesn’t own the clothes on his
back. Nor did he ever own them.
Financial conditiop—well, I’ll be
hanged.”
Another rookie had likewise married
a girl who was a stranger to his moth
er, who boasts of Irish descent. He,
too, wrote home—a letter to mother,
“I have told Frances all about my
family, so that now she feels that she
really knows you. So I’m going to tell
you all about her. She is now an or
phan, but when her father was alive
he was a big railroad man.”
Her mother commented to the rest
of the family. “Don’t be excited by
that,” she advised them. “Your fa
ther and I used to know a very fat
fireman.”
REQUISITE HOURS OF SLEEP
Acknowledged Fact That Brain Work¬
ers Need Less Than Those En¬
gaged in Manual Labor.
Periodic sleeping Is undeniably an
essential to the continuance of life, but
sleep is required more as a means of
recuperation from physical weariness
than from mental activity, an exchange
observes. The best thinkers are the
shortest sleepers, and on the other
hand the manual laborers require the
longest periods of sleep. The classic
example cited to prove that the think¬
er does not need as much sleep-tu? the
ordinary man takes is Thomas A. Edi¬
son, who during the most active years
of his life is said to have slept only
four hours a day. It is not so general¬
ly known that Herbert Spencer, the
philosopher, in his later life did not
average more than three hours of sleep
a day.
These instances should not lead to
Ill-advised efforts to emulate the ex¬
treme examples. One should not at¬
tempt to do better thinking by keep¬
ing longer awake, but the effort should
be made to do better thinking, which
will result in keeping longer awake.
For if t'ae body be not fatigued or
drugged with poison, sleep comes chief¬
ly from the slowing down of the men¬
tal processes until consciousness
iaps . If an adult is not tired or full
of f: '. gut: poisons from physical labor,
or i: .'-is system is not otherwise bur
lent . w th poisons from faulty diet
or ( re.'ting, it is possible iu ninny
inst. jes to cut down the sleeping
pcricc from 20 to 40 per cent of that
commonly iudn'.ged in.
Prussian Guard Long Famous.
The history of the Prussian Guard,
cream of Germauy’s fighting men,
which was smushed by the headlong
attack of American troops at the Sec¬
ond Battle of the Marne, dates back
to the latter part of the Seventeenth
Century, when men believed in the
divine rights of kings, and the troops
of the guard could be depended on to
protect the sacred body of their sov¬
ereign when all other supporters fell
away.
The Prussian Guard was once a
company of archers, known as the
Trabant Guards. It was transformed
into a Veal fighting force by Frederick
Williar l I. Drill with him was a ruling
passion and he lavished much atten¬
tion on his guard; scouring Europe for
giauts, as no man under six feet in
height could enter his pet regiment.
This requirement was abolished by
Frederick the Great, who cared only
for lighting ability. The stirring ex¬
ample of Napoleon’s Imperial Guard
eaus *d the Prussian organization to be
inert ased in size, and It now comprises
a complete army corps. Into its ranks
go the cream of each year’s class of
Prussian recruits.
Salvaging a Ship Sunk 100 Year*.
Work has been started off Boca
Ciega (Cojiiuar) by a Cuban salvage
company on the wreck of a Spanish
vessel sunk more than a hundred years
ago. The principal objects that the
company expects to recover are forty
two cannons, which, according to the
divers who performed the preliminary
exploration work, are still In a fine
state of preservation, some mounted
on the deck and the others lying close
to the wreck on the floor of the sea
at a moderate depth which renders
their extraction only ordinarily dif¬
ficult
Brand-New Fish Story.
Deep-sea fishermen report they re¬
cently saw a floating island in the
gulf stream off Palm Beach, Fla. The
Island was about twenty-five feet in
diameter, and the fishermen say It
was composed of marl and muck, held
together by tangled roots and rotted
seaweed; that there were several trees
and mangrove sprouts growing luxuri¬
antly on the island. The fishermen
landed on the Island and found thou¬
sands of small fish on it, which sea
birds were greedily eating.
THE COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGTON, GA., THURSDAY JANUARY 9, 1919
Scrap Book
USfc FOR TANKS IN INDUSTRY
---- —
Many Tasks in Which It Is Believed
They Could Be Employed With
Good Results.
The application of the tank idea to
industrial carriers seems a likely idea.
H. Volta, writing in La Nature, de¬
scribes a variety of designs of indus¬
trial tanks, of which the illustration
is typical.
A machine for wearing druiuuge
canals, a farm tractor and other types
of powered locomotives are cited with
an eye to the application of the tank
principle.
The illustration snows the superior¬
ity of a truck of the tank type In get
ting over rough ground, and In these
times when city streets present the ap¬
pearance of plowed fields and when
country roads remain as unnavigable
as of yore, this is no mean advantage.
Actual Cast of Cromwell’s Face.
One of the remarkable objects In
the collection offered for sale for war
purposes in New York is a death mask
of Oliver Cromwell, which prob¬
ably would not be so interesting were
It not for the history of the cast which
accompanies it.
It is of plaster, but has been col¬
ored a dark color, near a bronze, and
is said to be a copy of the original.
The history of the replica is rather
comprehensive, and the mask itself is
of real interest to those who are cu¬
rious about the Pretender.
The original mask was owned by
Richard Cromwell, son of the Pre¬
tender, who left it to his daughter
Elizabeth. This has been handed
down in thi family, and in 1824 it was
in the possession of a descendant, who
then resided In Cheshurst Park, Eng¬
land.
Thence it descended to Henry W.
Field, nssayer of the royal mint, who
was himself a lineal descendant of
Oliver Cromwell. Mr. Field sent the
replica to William E. DuBols, assayer
of the United States mint, in New
York.
Rabbits In Hospital Ships.
Interest in the rabbit keeping move¬
ment Is so great In England that there
are few parts of the country In which
clubs and breeding centers are not in
process of formation.
Every day the food production de¬
partment receives offers from experts
to take charge of one of the 10-doe
and 20-doe breeding centers which are
being established throughout the coun¬
try.
It is hoped shortly to place rab¬
bits in some of the channel hospital
ships, where they would be a source
of interest to many of the wounded
soldiers and would eat the waste
food.
Ti e General's Retort,
Sir Henry Wilson, unlike many sol¬
diers, has a ready tongue, and Is more
than a mutch for the average politi¬
cian.
His encounter with an eminent if
not too tactful statesman at an early
stage of the war Is historic. The lat¬
ter thought fit when dining with our
commander-in-chief in France to ob
serve to the company: “Is it not cu¬
rious that so great a war should have
produced no great soldiers?”
General Wilson replied: “Is it not
even more curious that so great a
crisis in Europe should have produced
no European statesmen?”—London
Mall.
Khakt From Osage Orange Shrub.
An interesting dye that has been
worked out is the one with which the
khaki uniforms are colored. It was
developed from the osage orange in
the Wisconsin forest products labora¬
tory by F. W. Kressman, a graduate
of the University of Illinois. It Is In¬
teresting to note that the osage was
brought to the corn belt after years
of patient search for a soil-produced
fencing that should be “horse high,
bull strong and pig tight,” by Jonathan
Turner. The osage has served its day
—fences can be bought now—but a
Bhade of its usefulness goes wherever
our boys in khaki march.
American Egg Consumption.
Between March 1 and July 1 this
year In the three markets of New
York, Chicago and Boston, 6,060,059
cases of eggs were received. Last year
during this time those markets re¬
ceived 5.843,005 cases. About the same
quantities were In storage in these
cities on July 1 this year as on that
date a year ago. The consumers in
New York, Chicago and Boston used
457,434 more cases of eggs In the four
months than they used in 1917, an
Increase of about 17 per cent.
Popular Talk.
Crlrusonbeak—I read in tho paper to¬
day that for riding on water there has
been Invented a tricycle with hollow,
water-tight wheels, the rear pair being
provided with blades for propulsion.
Yeast— Yes, old man, this water wag*
m staff seems to be in the very air.
IN A\
BOTTLE
THRU A)
straw
«. - •
J Tohnny is marching victoriously home
<l to millions of proud American parents,
wives and sweethearts.
CLGee! but he’s glad to be back again.
France and fighting have their charms, but
there’s no place like home, and there’s no
land like the little old U. S. A.
C. Now for the old job back again—now for
a date with the dearest of all girls—now for
his favorite refreshment—a cool bottle of
*
Chero-Cola
THERE'S /VO/YE SO GOOD Pure. Wholetom•
m- and Refreshing
I. N. GARY, MANAGER lilll RO-COI.A BOTTLING WORKS, CwinwiM. GA
MAOE HELPLESS
BY RHEUMATISM
ZIRON Bid This Kentucky Gantlsmun Mara
Good Than Any Other Medicine,
“Eight years ago I was down with
rheumatism,” writes M. J. Hutcherson,
of Tomkinsviile, Ky. “I was heipies*
for three months, unable to even feed
myself. Doctors doctored me and 1 got
up, but have had bad health ever since,
with soreness and weakness across my
back and in my arms and legs. I final¬
ly took Ziron, and it has done mo
more good than any medicine I have
ever taken, and I intend to take raora
of it, for it Is the best medicine I ever
used. I have found it just what it is
recommended to be, and I am ready to
tell other suffering people that Ziron
helped me, and anxious to speak a
word of praise for it.”
Ziron acts on the blood and has been
found of great value ia Rheumatism,
indigestion, Anemia and General
Weakness. Ziron puts iron into the
blood, and iron is uesded by your sys¬
tem to make you strong and health/.
Ask your druggist about the guaran¬
tee on the first bottle.
ZN7
\our Blood Needs
§>5t)
Hastings 9 1919
Seed Catalog
It s ready now. One hundred hand¬
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cover in natural colors. It's both
beautiful and hcipR-l a:. I all that is
necerrary to j;..t it a postal card
request. You will si :;1 our Ul’J cata¬
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Hastfrga Feeds r.ro ,n :d direct by
mail. You will never find them on
■r.’o i.i the stores. Wo have some
ivo hundred thousand customers who
buy f-om 1:3 by mail. Wo please and
satisfy them, and v.o can pleas a and
catL-f j you In i;«19,
Planting Hastings’ Feeds in you -
-union or In your Helds insures “good
inch” eo far as results cau be deter
nineJ by the seed planted. For 30
years Hastings Seeds haws been the
standard cf seed excellence and pur¬
ity 5:i tho South. Only Varieties
adap ed u the South are listed. Qual¬
ity of urn best and prices often less
ban. those you pay at Lome. V.' rite
-or free copy of this splendid cata¬
logue v.ovr. H. G. HASTINGS C'j.,
Secdtrr.en, Atlanta, Ga- -Advt
do Job Printing.
Soldier’s Appreciation.
Recently u woman well known in
America, who has devoted all her
time to relief work since the war be¬
gan, was visiting a hospital. The com¬
manding officer had sent a military
car for her. She entered the car just
as an ambulance filled with wounded
passed by. As she noticed the thin,
pale faces, tears came into her eyes.
The soldier-chauffeur asked if she
was ill.
“No,” she said, “these are tears of
gratitude and pi id.. .
“Madame,” in piled Ihe boy, simply,
"if I thought that my being a soldier
was worthy of but one of your tears,
I should feel that 1 had^not lived in
vain.”—Reu t V- - ! no.
Huns to V'snr Bark ohces.
To help out: in tho present great
scarcity of leather end the consequent
dearth of footgear, a German army
authority recommends the introduction
of linden bark moccasins such as are
worn by the Russian peasantry. Made
from tiie bark of young twigs, these
sltoe.s are said to stand two years’
wear; yet they are light and easy
and can be made to fit well. The Hu
j den forests of the prince of Monaco,
near Lnon, France, Germans say,
would supply sufficient hark to make
1,000,000 shoes, and the making of
them would f urnish excellent 'ight oc¬
cupation for prisoners ami slightly
wounded.
“OH, IF I COULD
BREAK THIS COLD ! 1
Almost as soon as said with'
Dr. King's New Discovery
Get a bottle today l
The rapidity with which thi* fifty
year-old colds and family remedy relieves coughs,
mild bronchial attack* ia
what baa kept its # popularity on tha
Increase year by year.
This standard reliever of colds and
coughing does quickly 6pella and never pleasantly loses friends. what it It
recommended ia
in to do. One trial puts it
your medicine cabinet as absolutely
Indispensable. Sol d by all druggists!
Bowels Usually Clogged ?
fortable Regulate them with safe, sure, com¬
Dr. King's New Life Pill*.
Correct that biliousness, headache*
sour ating stomach, the tongue coat, by eUmm«
bowel-cloggiaes*.
FOR SALE—Neat, spacious cottage
on 2-acre lot. Good. Write or see
D. Renuble. 49-4t
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York—and of the best dressed men in the coun“
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They are worn by those men everywhere
who appreciate the authenticity of Bates Style—’ 1
a style that has distinguished itself as opposed to
the purely faddish— a style that interprets, in
many shapes, the features of good taste.
Have you seen the Bates Shoes that we are
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Phoie No. 11, - , . Govington, Ga
FVty I honsand Numf er 2
Pine Shingles
I" or Sale at
$ 4.00 Per Thousand
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