CASED BY HUN ATROCITIES
Emotional Faculties of Afflicted Bel*
gians Probably Paralyzed by the
Horrors They Had Witnessed.
Mr. Brand Whitlock, former Ameri¬
can minister to Belgium, has been
talking about the horror of Louvain in
the London Daily Telegraph:
“I was strnck by the lack of pas¬
sion displayed by all those who had
so terribly suffered. I seldom heard
any of them express hatred of the
Germans or any desire for revenge.
“None of them, ns far as I could
learn or observe, even acted in the
tragic manner. There were no he¬
roics and no histrionics; they did
not even demean themselves as do peo¬
ple in the cinema or the romantic nov¬
els. . . .
“In moments of great danger, or
great strain and tragedy, people are
simple and nntural; they <Jo not act
in the theatrical sense of the word.”
To say that a play could be acted
without gesture or other expression
of what we feel is absurd. Nor
would, I think, history support Mr.
Brand Whitlock’s inference, whatever
may have been the story of unhappy
Belgium.
When Mine, du Barry died upon
the scaffold In Paris, her shrieks de¬
lighted the knitting women. The Due
de Guise ran wildly from his assas
s’ns to throw himself at the feet of
Henry of France. Pitt wept for his
country’s misfortunes—the family of
Louis XVI did not cease
tTieir lamentations all night when they
1 card that he was to he guillotined at
dawn.
The choler of Judge Jeffreys found
expression in the ravings and rantings
.of a madman. Boabdil wept when he
was driven from Granada. Henry VIII
could swear like a fishwife—Catherine
Howard shrieked at Hampton court,
a id the superstitious hear her shrieks
to this day.
In my view, the unhappy Belgians
wore dazed by the very horror of the
circui Ua .ec. The atrocities commit
t d by the Hun were too awful. Shall
. \ e v '• tder if the emotional faculties
v ere paralyzed?—London Dispatch.
Od Seed*.
The Imperial institute of London
rates that “in view of the fact that
even before the war it was becoming
difficult to cope with' the world’s de¬
mand for oils and fats, it is interesting
to note that the cultivation of oil seeds
promises to become an Important in¬
dustry in Rhodesia. At present, ground
nuts and sunflower seeds are the only
oil seeds produced commercially,
but experiments conducted at the agri¬
cultural experiment stations indicate
that other oil seeds may be grown suc¬
cessfully.”
Always We sell every kind of hardware used
ihe in this community at any season of the year.
best At this time of the year we sell vast
in numbers of farm and garden tools; bench
Hardware tools for the shop, the faun or the home,
and and tools for about everything else imag¬
Tools. inable.
We sell grindstones, forges, incuba¬
‘"Nothing tors, washing machines, cream separators,
everything of the sort needed in the home
too or on the farm.
goed Wc everything sell
for a guarantee we lo
Cv stonier” be strictly high grade in every respect, and
is our if any article proves to be not up to the
policy. standard we will promptly make il geed
or refund your money.
When you come to our store we look upon you as a
guest, and not only as a possible profit. We want you to
feel that it is so.
Thanking all our frie nds for their liberal patrolfege in
F !se past and wishing all a happy and prosperous New Year
Stephenson Hardwar H Co a
Covington, Oa
THE COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGTON, GA., THURSDAY. JANUARY 9, 1919
SUGAR IN CASH REGISTER
You Get Your Share When You Pay
Check In Columbus
Restaurant.
Columbus, O.—Ever hear of keeping
sugar in a cash register?
That is where it is kept in a string
of popular Columbus restaurants. You
get your sugar allowance when you
pay your check. The sweet is kept in
a glass-lined compartment between
the nickels unrl pennies.
When you pay and the cashier
rings up the amount of your check and
the cash drawer Hies open, you see
the little sugar bin.
If you happen to have oatmeal, cof¬
fee, grapefruit or breakfast food, the
cashier will aslc you upon which of
these she shall bestow your allowance
of sugar—and she will nev^r wink un
eyelash.
German Bombs.
German aviators in recent raids on
Paris used a device like a rocket, with
a clock movement, says Popular
Science Monthly. The bomb on explod¬
ing releases a linen parachute equipped
with a cartridge containing a substance
with a magnesium base. This is light¬
ed automatically about 1,000 feet above
the ground and casts a stron-r light
over objects below it for two minutes.
Small Boats for Submarines.
A short time ago a man was landed
on the Irish coast from a German sub¬
marine. The man was arrested by Brit¬
ish officers and the boat In which he
had reached the coast was seized. It
was a collapsible canvas boat, about i
8 feet long, 2 feet wide and 20 inches
deep. Wooden slats formed the bot¬
tom. The sides lined with rubber, when
Inflated, greatly add to the boat’s buoy
Bncy.
Evading Reproof.
“You seem to think restaurant coffee
is better than what you get at home.”
"No,” replied the man who holds oi:
to his habits. ‘‘It isn’t as good. But
the head waiter doesn’t dare go as far
as my wife does in reproving me for
putting sugar in it.”
The Important Knowledge.
"Aren’t you afraid your son’s educa¬
tion will suffer?”
“No,” replied Mrs. Corntossel. “Josh
knows enough to teach the Huns a les
son that will last ’em."
Sporting Sense.
“It is human nature to admire any¬
thing that surpasses all else of its
kind.”
“Yes. Even a hot wave gets a cer¬
tain amount of admiration if It breaks
4 record.’
DOES NOVEL KNITTING WORK
Uncle Sam is training 4,000 boys a
for service in the new merchant
the work being done on train¬
ships operated by the United
shipping board. The apprentice
on the ships show themselves apt
their new duties, and are keen to
their leisure with some useful oc¬
Some of them, like the boy
shown here, have a talent for making
work and fringe on canvas for
mats, manrope fittings,
covers and the like. This is
merchant sailor’s “knitting work.”
Peculiar Beauty Treatment,
A musical-comedy actress, who
herself on the beauty of her
suspends herself daily from
cord fastened across her room, and
a sister professional to work
legs pumphandle for ten or twelve
This treatment is- beneficial
several ways, exercising the mus¬
and imparting strength and hard¬
essential to a burlesque
Artists’ models undergo sin>
treatment.
A Parisian beauty specialist achieved
and riches by inventing &
cure. Hundreds of af¬
beauties placed themselves un¬
his care, spending hours daily in 8
position, and wearing a pe¬
backboard with an ingeniously
neckpiece.—Exchange.
ROYSTER’S
Fertilizer
TRADE MARK
REGISTERED.
THE GOODS FOR YOU
BECAUSE
IN 33 YEARS
Hie quality has never failed:
Fhe ownership and manage¬
ment have never changed:
Fhe sales have grown from
250 tons to 400,000 tons;
a proof of satisfaction.
F. S. ROYSTER GUANO CO.
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MADE SACRIFICE OF RULERS
1
Somewhat Remarkable Form of Lim¬
ited Monarchy Was That Practiced
by Tribe of the Caucasus. I
- |
“At a certain stage of social evolu- !
don,” says Sir James Frazer in his !
article entitled “The Killing of the
Khazar Kings," "not a few races ap
pear to have been ln the lmbit of put
ting their kings to death, either at ■
the end of a fixed term, or on the
failure of the king’s health and
strength, or simply whenever a great
publie calamity, such as drought or
famine had befallen the country.”
Among tribes which have practiced
this remarkable form of limited mon¬
archy must be included the Klmzars
3r Khozars. For some nine hundred
years this now almost forgotten tribe,
from their home in the spurs of the
Caucasus and along the western shore
uf the Caspian—colled after them the
Sea of the Khazars—played a great
part ln history on the European-Asian
borderland. It is certainly remark¬
able that a people whl-h had reached
such a high level of (iviiization and
culture should have practiced legalized
regicide. But the evidence colle<?ted
by Sir James Frazer from a very wide
survey of medieval literature leaves
no doubt on the matter.
SAILOR FEEDING
REFUGEE CHILDREN
Hr™
® Western Newspaper Union
Many refugees from Morgan, N. J.,
where their homes were destroyed by
the explosion of the munition plant in
that town, were fed and taken care of
by United States sailors and soldiers,
and also by the American Bed Cross.
HAVOC CAUSED BY HAILSTORM
Account of Destruction in England in
1687 Seems Almost Incredible
Horses Felled at the Plow.
The greatest hailstorm that ever oo*
curred in England was that of April
29, 1097, recorded by Edmund Halley,
the astronomer. The story seems
most incredible, yet it is told by a
philosopher, the contemporary and
friend of Isauc Newton, and an ac
curate observer of natural phenom
t -na. The main body of the storm, he
states, fell upon Lancashire, ln a a
right right line line from from Ormskirk Ormskirk to to Blackburn.
“The "Tho hi-,»«oth breadth „f of the cloud ....
about two miles, within which com
pass it did incredible damage,
all sorts of fowl and small creatures,
and scarce leaving any whole panes y
",f U£ ,,, . , 7, . ., T7,:
•
• wl >“ is w,,rse - 11 cut . °* “•
hlade . of the green corn so a, utterly
f 0 ground^anT'the
themselves in the 1 the ground; giouna, and ana the
bowling-greens, where the earth vra*
anything soft, weee quite defaced, eo
as to be rendered unserviceable for 4
time. This I had from an eye
W «ml SS *
The , hailstones, , some of which
weighed five ounces, were of different
forms. Two hailstones were weighed
at Ormskirk which came to three
quarters of a pound each. As a young
woman at Bootle was running for
shelter her hat fell off, and a hailstone
that hit her behind the ear made her
tumble. The stones rebounded, many
of them two yards high. At Ince two
horses were knocked down at the
plow, and a man fell at the same
lime.”
Month of Harvest Moon.
Aside from the autumnal equinox,
September each year Is marked by an¬
other astronomical event of considera¬
ble interest, namely, the so-called har¬
vest moon, it being the f ull moon near¬
est the autumnal equinox. The harv¬
est moon rises at nearly the same time
for several successive evenings In-, j
stead of nearly an hour later from j
night to night, as is usually the case,
and it is from this continuous run of
bright moonlight nights that this
moon is said to derive Its name, farm¬
ers as a rule taking advantage of the
extra light to gather ln their late Hum¬
mer crops and store them away for
the winter.
Illustrates Red Cross Needs.
Twenty thousand dozen pillow
cases, 11,000 dozen pairs of bed socks
and 19.000 dozen face towels, just re¬
ported as being on hand at one Amer¬
ican Red Cross supply house in France
gives an Idea of the size of the stocks
maintained by the organization.
Thoughtful Uncle.
“I write for the few’," declared the
amateur poet.
"And a good idea, too, declared his
grouchy uncle; “the fewer the better.”
—Kansas City Journal. i
UNITED THOUGH FAR APART
Ceremony Known at "Handechoen"
Recognized Under the Dutch Law
aa Legal Form of Marriage.
Not very long ago a Boer in Pro
torla wa9 marrie(1 to a 8 irl ln Amster
'lain, Holland, the ceremony constitut
lng wbat Hutch call handsehoen,
or glove marriage.
In spite of the fact that a distance
of 6,000 miles lay between the bride
,n tbe Netherlands and the bridegroom
Ia the ^ranayaal they were just as ef
ft ' ct ‘J' e ? y yarned under the Dutch law
as as J lf ,f both Loth had had been bet?n present ln the
.
c bridegroom u 5? *’ sent . to . . his . friend . . .
b * st ma, \ iU a
proxy ° f atto at ™ e * the t0 ceremony, represeat and hl “ at aa the “f
»«'“» time forwarded 1,1. glove, which
at the proper ‘ moment, when the two
m „ le „ y Mh the
hli,,e 8tut ,he proxy ‘ The wed ‘l ins
was uuly registered at Amsterdam
and at Pretoria, where the bridegroom
an affidavit with the proper mag
j s trate
Thls curious foriu of nmrrlage is a
purely Dutch institution, the custom
having originated, it is said, in the
old times of Dutch-Batavian rule. It
Is, however, a dead letter In the Trans¬
vaal since the English took over that
colony.
Thirsty? Use Belt to Get Drink.
When Oliver Herford comes to a
babbling brook and wants a drink, he
does not throw himself prone on the
mud and try to get water on the
vacuum-cleaner principle adopted by
the cow 8 , nor does he use his Panama
on the Gungba Dhin principle. He
might use a straw or a drinking cup, If
he could ever remerber to carry them
with him. A hundred things he might
do, if he could think of them.
But what really happens? Oliver
takes off his belt nud winds it up aa
lightly as he can. The colls are wrap¬
ped around one another so that a cone
is built up. That forms a cup with a
hole in the bottom. Oliver use* a
finger as a stopper for the hole, and
proceeds to dip up his drink in th«
fashion set long ago by the first civ¬
ilized man.—Popular Science Monthly.
Wasted Potash.
Every year a vast quantity of pot -
ash, equivalent to 200,000 tons of
high-grade German potash, Is lost
through the flues of the factories of
making cement. Ninety per cent
this potash may be recovered nud at
a low cost, according to the United
States department of agriculture.
May Like It
“What do you think of the army *•
far as you have gone?” inquired a
geant of a newly arrived recruit •*
camp.
“I may like It after a while, but ju*t
now I think there is too much drillbH
and fussing around between meal*
pm tie reply.- Trench and < Q— i
