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fellows like brown
If More Of Them Got the Shock
And , Them
H Did It Might Do
* of Good.
a Lot
crown was merrymaking at the club
hers’ reception, when he spied his
nlt,Ui friend Summers, coming up the
Souse steps. He reached nervously
fnr My lull and cune.
••Not going so soon. Brown?’ ejncu
I uiU ,tl.er member, in surprise.
’ ve 01ll v ^ ust an *' e< *’ Hesiflc
“Vo U reil,iy - ! ”
lurch I s announced Brown, keep
• I must go,” “I’ve just
aI1 eye on the door.
Za iM pressing business engage
ebt of a
uptown I must keep.”
“Pshaw! The fun has only started,”
deplored the other member. “And here
comes Summers!”
„ To tell the truth,” whispered
Brown, his nervousness increasing, “I
don’t fancy Summers. But that’s a
u „„. Summers and me. I
matter between
must go.” I thought and he
“Hello! Why, you
best of friends. ’
were the
•We were formerly; but Summers
pn’t the same Summers to me now
ami really I do not wish to meet him.
I didn’t want to come right out with
it; that’s why I gave the other ex
cuse.” shaking hands '
Summers now was
with one of the committee, and the dis¬
comfited Brown maneuvered toward
the door.
“Summers played a mean game on
me recently,” he added, as his In¬
terested club fellow moved along with
him, “and 1 can’t forget it. In fact,
it makes me averse to being in the
same room with him. Until he has
made ample apology -for his ingrati¬
tude Summers and I are strangers.
Perhaps now you understand. Good
by!’’ Summers,
But here the Interloper,
grasped Brown by the collar before
he could escape by the street door.
“You slippery whelp!” exclaimed
the angry Summers, jerking his late i
pal around. “I’ve been looking for you
i week now. Gome across with that i
hard-luck money you borrowed!”—
Lift
Despised Wares.
Seine that I cannot choose any sub¬
ject of great utility or pleasure, be¬
cause ra.v predecessors have already
taken as their own ail useful and
necessary themes, I will do like one
who, because of his poverty, is the
last to arrive at the fair, and not be¬
ing able otherwise to provide himself,
chooses all the things which others
have already looked over and not
taken, but refused as being of little
value. With these despised and re¬
jected wares —the leavings of many
buyers— I will load my course, dis¬
tributing. not, indeed, amid fhe great
cities, but among the mean hamlets,
ana taking such rewards as befits
the things I offer— Leonardo da Vinci.
Not Hi$ Own Words.
The hoary-headed examiner glanced
over the top of Ids spectacles. “Are
you sure,” he Inquired, “that this is
a purely original composition you have
handed in?”
“Yes, sir,” came the answer. “But
you may possibly, sir, have come across
one;or two words in the dictionary.”—
Blighty. j
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sees back of the clouds
Uncle Hiram Refusee to Bo Down¬
hearted Becauae the Weather Is
Not Just Right.
“Yes, this is a lovely day,” my
gloomy friend says to me, looking out
at the dark, lowering clouds and the
steadily falling rain, and meaning, of
course, exactly the opposite of what
he says; hut then, said Uncle Hiram,
1 1 say to him:
j “Well, we’ve been having lots of
I beautiful weather, haven’t we?” and
that is really the way It strikes me.
Cold, dark, rainy days don’t worry
me a bit; not the least little bit. On
such days I recall the bright sunny
days that have gone before, and dwell
on them. In fact I store up out of
them enough sunshine to last me
through a longer period of stormy
weather than any I have ever met
5' 0t - As I look out of my window at
; the present moment, why, back of the
! clouds that to my gloomy friend seem
so dark and dismal I can see the white
fleecy clouds of yesterday and the
blue sky and the bright sunshine and
I know that we shall actually have
all those things again soon. There,
never was a storm yet but what clear
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ed off some time, was there? Never I
An d this one will be gone before you
know it.
As a matter of fact, I like weather,
it doesn’t disturb me, not a bit; it’s
just an appetizer for the bright days
that I know are sure to come.
First American Composer.
Judge Francis Hopkinson, signer of
the Declaration ef Independence, Jur¬
ist, inventor, artist, poet, essayist,
scholar, organist, composer and first
graduate of the class of 1757 of the
University of Pennsylvania, is known
as the first American composer. Judge
Hopkinson was especially noted as a
composer of fetching songs for the
harpsichord. Ia 1788 he published sev
en songs dedicated to his friend,
George Washington. In the quaint fash
* on °f his day, he wrote: “However
small, the Reputation may be that I
derive from this Work, I cannot, I
believe, be refused the Credit of be¬
ing the first Native of the United
States who has produced a Musical
Composition. If this attempt be not
too severely treated, others may be
encouraged to venture on a path yet
untrodden in America, and the Arts
in succession will take root and flour¬
ish among us.”
Odd Phone Experiments.
One of the greatest blessings and
sometimes one of the greatest worries
Is the telephone. But it is not al¬
ways looked upon as a source of
amusement—by trying the transmitter
on various parts of the body even this
is obtained.
If you put the transmitter on the
chest and speak in the usual tones
the listener will hear the message al¬
most as clearly as If It were sent in
the usual way.
Again, if the transmitter be pressed
firmly against the kneecap the mes¬
sage is heard quite as distinctly, but
it is only faintly audible if the trans¬
mitter be put to the heel.
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FUTURE MOTHER OF HEROES
Small Girl, Brave After Operation, De¬
serves the Encomiums of the Op¬
erating Surgeon.
“Now,” said the surgeon, “look
right over there in that corner, and
maybe—maybe—there, it’s all over,
and you never knew what hurt you.
My, hut you are a brave girl.”
At that moment the chubby little
girl sitting atop the operating table
—did not look very brave. Surprise
was in her eyes and two great tears
ready to roll down upon the marble
slab, for the woman doctor, realizing
that more than half the pain of the
small operation which is the rule in
the daily clinic at Mercy hospital, is
due to tlie dread of it, had stolen a
march on little Marie, and the opera¬
tion was over before Marie knew it
had begun.
“Yes,” continued the kindly doctor,
ns she hid the shining blade behind
her, “you are a mighty brave little
girl. You aren’t going to cry.”
Marie blinked the tears back and
straightened up her small body.
“ ’Course not.” she said, “I’se four
years old.” And her big eyes gazed
proudly into those of the surgeon.
“Here.” said the doctor as she
turned the small girl over to the nurse
for out patients, “Is the future mother
of heroes—American heroes.”—Kan¬
sas City Star.
Remarkable Beetles.
The most remarkable gold beetles,
however, are to lie found in Central
America, says London Answers. At
first sight one would think the beetle
i n actual piece of gold, until it moves,
•i’he head abd wing cases are brilliant
tv polished with a luster like pure
j old. It is very strange, too. that sii
,er beetles exist in the same country.
About twenty-five years ago fhe fin
,st collection of gold and silver
|eetles was owned by the Hon. Walter
| (thschild. They then had a market
«alue ranging from $25 to $75 each
While on the subject of beetles, it
I perhaps interesting to recall that in
Le days gone by a “beetle crusher”
was a prosperous occupation. Men
used to sign contracts to go from
house to hous»e killing beetles, but it
is not recorded that they ever came
across any gold or silver ones.
THE COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGTON, GEORGIA.
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