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EARTH NOT AlONE
Many Universes Besides Our Own
in Space.
Recent Discoveries Have Greatly Exf
panded Mankind’s Knowledge of
Astronomy—Now We Know
the “Sun Do Move.”
The high priests of Babylonia and
Egypt, 3000 years and more ago, had
a considerable knowledge of astron¬
omy ; but, leaving out of question the
few thus learned in science, creation
to the ancients was a three-story af¬
fair, or rather two stories and a cel¬
lar, the latter being the abode of the
dead, while on the second floor, orna¬
mentally bespangled with stars, dwelt
the gods.
Earth, of course, was flat. The sun
passed across the heavens once in ev¬
ery 24 hours, and, going under, ap¬
peared again in the east next morn
ng. There was also the moon, which
.ad a similar habit; and that was
' bout all there was of the cosmos.
Since then our ideas on the subject
ive vastly expanded, and now, in
iew of recent discoveries, they seem
lestined to expand enormously beyond
anything hitherto imagined. We are
beginning to grasp the notion of oth¬
er universes outside of our own—at
distances from our own universe well
> gli inconceivable.
itev. Jasper declared that “the sun
< ) move.” lie was right. Not only j
loes it revolve on its own axis (as
aay be plainly seen by the “spots”
which travel across its disc), but it is
moving in a straight line through
■ pace, like a gigantic projectile, at a -
speed of at least ten miles a second. ■
Vs it thus moves, the earth and its
sister planets, of course, go with it.
Astronomers, in the cours'e of cen- i
Luries, have movement, actually been by able tlie to closer ob- j J
serve this
the sun’s wake ‘
gathering of stars In
and the widening out of constellations
ahead of us—just as might be noticed
of trees and houses passed or ap¬
proached In a railroad train.
All the s'tars are suns, most of them
much bigger than our own solar lumi¬
nary, and every one of them is trav¬
eling at a terrific speed. The so-called
Runaway Star (known to astronomers
as 1830 Groombrldge) is going at a
rate of 200 miles a second. What
imaginable power could have set all
liese suns in motion? And wliy are
they all traveling in different direc¬
tions, apparently? Our own seeming
destination is the constellation Lyra.
It is now thought probable that our
universe, which we call the Milky
Way (we seem to be not far from the
center of it) is In reality a vast spiral
n form, and that this spiral is re¬
volving, so to speak, in Its own plane.
Assuming this to be true, the straight
line in which our sun appears to trav¬
el Is actually a curve.
What has led to this belief is ob¬
servation of other spirals which are
now thought to be distant universes,
many of them so far away that light
from them, traveling 186,000 miles a
second, takes something like 10,000,
000 years to reach us. Their form
plainly shows that they are revolving.
Everything In the cosmos seems to
go round and round. The moon trav¬
els around the earth, the earth around
the sun; and presumably the sun is
following an orbit about some cepter,
whether a giant sun or merely a point
in space. Our universe (if the theory
above outlined be accepted) is whirl¬
ing. Probably, as It whirls, it Is mak
'ng a journey of Its own about some
■enter, perhaps In concert with other
iniverses.
Space being infinite In extent, It Is.
when one comes to think of it, absurd
for us to Imagine that ours is the only
universe.
We shall never know. But at least
we may claim that our ideas on the
subject of creation are expanding.—
Kansas City Star.
Women War Workers in Waxworks.
London is collecting In photographs
and wax figures a complete record of
what women did to help win the war.
For the present n part of the record
'% displayed in the Whitechapel art
allery. There is the woman ship
ainter, the tanner, the coke quench
r, the stoker, the airship maker, the
.unition worker, the farmerette
Vliere is a picture of a woman operat¬
ing a 100 -kilowatt electric engine, and
of another driving an electric crane.
Women are shown working In gas
works, dressing” bricks, spreading
ar, sieving, gauging burner parts
sting meters, wheeling coke, earry
,g heavy sacks, and working in
naphthalene factories, flour mills and
sawmills.
Increase In Foreign Malls.
A comparison of United States
malls dispatched to foreign countries
by steamers for the first nine months
>f the last two fiscal years shows that
2,560,043 pounds of letters and post¬
cards were dispatched in 1920 and
1,794,822 pounds in 1919, or 32.63 per
cent increase. In 1920 there were 17,-
377,424 pounds of prints dispatched
und 16,943,543 pounds in 1919, or 2.56
per cent Increase. The dispatch of
parcel post amounted to 26,453,543
pounds In 1920 and 12,883,722 pounds
!n 1919, or au Increase of 105.25 per
cent.
A Fighting Fowl.
“Anybody try to bother your hen¬
house?”
"Not now. I put a parrot In there
the other night and a fellow who tried
to lift him got his."—Louisville Cour¬
ier-Journal.
SOLDIERS LIKED THE PRINCE
Heir to British Throne Fond of Min¬
gling With the Fighters, When
He Was Permitted.
In the front lines a Canadian soldier
was building a fire one cold night of
late autumn. Out of the night behind
him came a footstep. He turned, and
became doubly alert when he saw that
the man was not an officer of his regi¬
ment. The visitor approached - the
blaze, held his hands out over It and
said:
“This fire certainly looks good to
me.”
The tone was pleasant enough, and
suspicion was almost unarmed when
the voice went on:
“Have you wood enough? If you
haven’t I’ll get you some more.”
The fire builder felt some regret that
any suspicion whatever remained, but
there had been a special warning
•against strangers not of one’s own
regiment. In response to it he was
about to question the newcomer close¬
ly, when an officer whom he did know
came within the firelit circle and ad¬
dressed the stranger:
“Your royal highness, it is best that
you return to the automobile at once.”
And tlie prince of Wales reluctantly
left the fire and returned to the place
where he officially belonged. It was
not the first time he had left that place
of his own accord and gone forward
among tlie men. The Canadian who
tells the story learned afterward that
the prince’s staff had its hands full to
keep him from breaking away from
the official circle prescribed for him
and mingling with the men on tlieir
own ground.
STOP THAT ACHE!
Don’t worry and complain about a
bad back. Get rid of that pain and
lameness! Use Doan’s Kidney Pills.
Many Covington people have usea
them and know how effective they
are. Ask your neighbor! Here’s a
Covington case.
J. D. Ellington, prop, of grocery,
Box 106, says: "An ache settled in
the small of my back and I also haa
pains in my head,, which were prety
severe. I was very nervous and oft¬
en was dizzy. Black specks woulu
blur my sight and a drowsy feeling
come over me, too. My kidneys
didn’t act right. Hearing about
Doan’s Kidney Pills 1 bought a box
and began taking them. I felt re
lieved after the first few doses ana
when I had finished the box, I was
entirely cured.”
60c, at *'l dealers. Foeter-Milburn
Co. Mfrs. Buffalo, N. Y.
London Cats Victims of Plague.
The outbreak of a disease, which
has many symptoms to Influenza, Is
causing the death of cats by the hun¬
dred In London.
The disease is not thought to be
communicable to human beings, but
distinguished surgeons are unable to
confirm the exact nature. It spreads
with amazing rapidity, and the symp¬
toms are said to resemble closely that
of poisoning, except that death usu¬
ally takes place within two days.
Plan Memorial for Poe.
Taking as its inspiration a sugges¬
tion of Blasco Ibanez, the Spanish
novelist, the Bronx Society of Art and
"Science has decided to erect a memo¬
rial in honor of Edgar Allan Poe,
whose cottage In Poe park, the Bronx,
Senor Ibanez visited the other day.
The Spanish writer started the fund
with a contribution of $100.
York Times.
Very American-Like.
Before she would consent to
the marquis of Cellanl of Italy,
Sprague Stiness of New York
quired an ante-nuptial contract
required he Install ipodern bath
In his twelfth century mansion
which she was going to
Stable Journal.
A CLEAR SKIN
Women do not bare to p&trocdze
the beauty parlor—for if their skin
is disfigured with pimples and
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public over fifty years ago.
Macon, Ga.—-"I might say I
raised mg family on Dr. Pierce’s
Golden Medical I^jfaapvery. k ia
the best nvadicihe f haVe kjhown for
coughs. I ahpiL? ff*ve It to my
children, cough bufgavjeNfcieffi #ad only atrangth. helped and the
whea^fF-any of the feat or the
family HAcl Gotten a AaJ Mefioai apagn I would
give mem 4 Discov¬
ery,’ too. I hacF the influenza, and
it left me with a bad cough and
otherwise rhn-4ow»- I took a
couple \Discovery’ of bottlea-iC^. and * Golden Med
H rid jne of the
milt me up in health,
beat medfcine lical Discovfc-y ’ is the
pur$^..... I have ever used in
mjfcfimiiy wfamily Htiy# to to puitfy the blood and
to tem. out MRs. imjiudtte J. W. (ties Mercer, from the he sve- No.
2140 3L™ sacor ind Street. i,
and their
blood is in
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drug that
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tonic
altera¬
tive of Dr.
Pierce’s
which he
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THE COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGTUN, GEORGIA.
Valdosta Times on a
Walker-Hardwick Debate
If Cliff Walker sizzles when he
talks like he does when he writes ,
he has nothing to fear of a joint de¬
bate with Tom Hardwick except tiu
lowering of dignity.—Valdosta Times
COMPARISONS WILL HELP
- —■ ~ 1 ■■ ■
Walker-Hardwick Platforms Com'
pared by the Senora Enterprise
Gazette
The race for governor of Georgia
promises to get pretty warm before
the primary as Thomas W. Hardwick
has already announced his platform
along the same anti-administration
plans which have characterized his ac
tions for the y ast three years while
Hon. Clifford Walker comes forward
with a straight out, dear cut. honor
able and Just support of the demo¬
cratic party. He is a fine man and
will make a strong race for the higV
office of governor.—Senoia Enter
price-Gazette.
HAD TERRIBLE
SKINDISEASE
Little Girl Improves Rapidly When Given
ZIRON Iron Tonic.
other, Many for mothers the sufferings try one of remedy tlieir little after ones, an¬
without apparently being able to find the
right one. if anything seems wrong with
ihe blood, or stomach, or if the child’s
System is run-down and needs strengthen
Ing, you may benefit by the experience oi
this Westmoreland. who Tenn., mother, Mrs.
John F. Anglea, writes:
"My little girl had a terrible skin disease
and her stomach was in such a bad condi¬
tion. Nothing herZiron. helped her, so we finally
started improved to give rapidly from the firsl
She so
bottle, so we have given her two more.
She is much better."
Don’t try other remedies firstl Choose
Ziron from the start. It has benefited
many people suffering from poor blood,
general weakness, loss of appetite and
other symptoms which indicate lack oi
Iron in the blood.
Sold by druggists on a money-back
guarantee B ZN 15
Y^ur Blood Needs
EXTRAVAGANCE has
-L' gone by the board. Thrift
is in the air. Men are buying
where the value is.
The Firestone thrifty SVs is
leading the small-tire field today.
Because it is built on real thrift
methods from start to finish.
Firestone experts on the spot in
the raw material markets of the
world are able to get first choice
of prices. quality at quantity purchase
Firestone have worked (non skid)
men out 25 Q
the way to produce this tire by
concentrated methods—no waste Gray Tube $3.75
material, no waste motion, no Red Tribe $4,50
waste space.
And Firestone volume output, through
thousands of dealers, permits selling at a
close margin. The user gets the benefit.
Try this Firestone thrifty
Most
ner Dollar
THORMB1JLJL
WAGONS
T> UILD a wagon of wood that grows rapidly
lJ and under easy conditions, and you have a
wagon that cannot stand abusive wear. Nature
when hurried shirks her work like man.
But build one—as Thornhills are built _of
tough highland oak and hickory—that grows
slowly upon the mountain side—that survives
only after a ceaseless battle with soil and cli¬
mate—then you have a wagon almost wearproof.
The tough close-grained wood is endowed with
double strength.
Let us show you the Thornhill wagons and
explain the value of the Thornhill way,
PIPER HARDWARE CO.,
COVINGTON, GA.
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