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L AND of the homesteaders
Warmest Hospitality the Unvarying
^ —How “He!l-Buster” Ac¬
Custom Peculiar Nickname.
quired His
But despite the struggle which most
°^airst . tlie homesteaders were having
poverty and other unyielding
factors of frontier life, we met ev
vhere with warm hospitality. The
custom of the country seems to be to
take in the stranger and share roof
id meal "’lth him. We often had
difficulty inducing families to take
navineat from us—even th those fami
' ‘ wl io were in the hardest straits,
Viola E. Paradise writes in “Trailing
Statistics on an American Frontier”
ia Scribner’s. Sometimes the men
tion of pay was an insult. Again and
ain we were invited to “spend tiie
night,” and though we were usually
nuite comfortable sleeping out of doors
on the ground, we often accepted invi¬
tations to sleep in. There were times
when a bed could hardly be resisted,
am l when the chance to get a good
trash was tempting beyond refusal.
Anil frequently invitations be hard to were refuse. so
proffered to
“What are you afraid of?” asked the
father of a family of five persons who
lived in one room, partitioned by a
scant curtain. (Few houses have
' three rooms, and most of
more than
[ consist of of only the one family or two is usually rooms.
I And the size
i in inverse ratio to the here’ll size hurt of the
Ljess dwelling). “Nothing you,
it might be a bed bug. and they
don’t bite hard this time of the year.
And you aren’t afraid of a little bed
‘ who had
[bug. [protested a re you?” The agent
that she could be quite
I |challenged comfortable in the hay stack felt
to show her lack of fear
Imd L slept comfortably with the moth
aiu i baby while the father and the
Ljs, Iside occupied the floor on the other
of the curtain.
Another night three of us stayed at
|“Hell |w Buster’s” ranch. His The real nickname name
never could learn.
[fc had earned at broncho busting on
i occasion when a wild “bronc” had
town him and stepped on his face.
Re had “been given up for gone,”
Lett he surprised the onlookers by
■gaining consciousness suddenly,
piking at once for tlie “bronc” and
Weeding in subduing the animal.
Bell Buster’s ranch was unsuaily
Prosperous for that country, owning
jvictrola and some excellent records.
Iftor playing a Tetrazzini, he turned
i us with the comment:
|"There ain’t no coyote got nothin’
i that gal!”
I Upton’s First Business Venture.
|Dr. J. H. Ostrander, a personal
pend of Sir Thomas Lipton, tol<l re
yntly, for tlie first time, the story of
(pton’s initial business venture.
jlApton’s first business venture was
| event In one little corner of Glas
(v. He bought, for a few pounds,
■sorry old run-down provision shop
pt had changed hands a score of
s; everybody had failed. It was
. neighborhood where profits were
falter. and housewives close traders,
1 where sharp practice and indiffer
] (ton ethics precluded credit. So, when
announced that lie would trust
[decent neighbor once, all foresaw
lipton, j doom.
tmj however, did not mean that
[would carry accounts BO days, for,
period, five such accounts
lid have swamped him. As lie him-
1 put it: "In misfortune I will ear
e "1 tty decent chap till Saturday night,
5 1 ill be a friend to you in spite of
lailing business rules; but it you
f4 |h faith with me you will lose a
s p. and i will lose m.v business.”
be put them on their honor.
.
I it won; won because sympathy
■fellowship dominated the hoy and
of 1 pd 1 Sews. like attributes in others.—De
i
New Phosphate Industry.
of I | electric furnaces of a southern
of el 1 have been diverted from war
[products fborie to the manufacture of
acid and potash, such ma
as synthetic pig iron, ferro
jifflese and ferro silicon being
no longer profitable. In Hie
Bh du stry. as described by the
r'-’’ 1 1 Phosphoric rock is smelted
electric furnace, the phosphorus
m [driven K‘d off a s phosphoric oxide
in the gases. Collection
gases and treatment by elec
w ° st , I Precipitation yields tlie phos
a fine powder, which on
lr heatinent and concentration
' a “Uperjor product, free from
to a nS prpuiities <lu usual when sulphuric
n Shall ' disintegrating agent
^ ‘s are similarly treated
Production of potash, the
in 1111 oxides being formed in the
n(1 Precipitated and collected.
Better Than It Looked.
j,]' L, * !lt Al1 ” u 'ta, door is very invited fond of
• so we her
’‘tine's birthday party. An
the Up? ipfnrp the guests arrived
' n 1,n,i presented Anna with
w L u.ving |
t°e; PJ* s it was her
Tip « baking.
io»ii s ,!**’ find * fumed listener) to mother
eH that’s a and
1 ' . J tastes , ho certainly a fizzle
, '“'ter t than it looks.”
nd a rofreshments
tbifl L | were he
net ' ^ted at the table, the
p> itter'tl |u- ', m ‘ Anna replied, “()
Ws ttZZ, ° tloes tastP
V Xpto," u ,0oks - doesn’t it?”
THE COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGTON, GEORGIA.
Men's Clothes Wade To Order
I New Tailoring Cooks Arriv
i ed. Fit and Workmanship
f Guaranteed.
J. I. GUINN
Residence
—For Sale—
Modern dwelling, on Emory street, Mid¬
way between Covington and Georgia depot
W ater, lights and sewerage. Seven big
rooms and hallway.
B. L. KITCHENS Covington, Ga
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Nobodq thinks anything, now
ot gping away on a trip
r T , HE railroads were partly much in this tire business for
1 responsible. But it wasn’t us.
until the automobile reached HI
its present state of develop¬ The less a man has to
i
ment that the old barriers spend on motoring, the more
against travel were finally important it is that his tires
broken down. should be of first quality.
Any tire is not good enough
Select your tires ac¬ for the small car owner. He
cording to the roada
they have to travel: More people own auto¬ wants a tire that will give him
In sandy or hilly coun¬
try, wherever the going mobiles today than ever just as much for his money
is apt to be heavy—The
U. S. Nobby. thought of owning a horse in the small size as the big
For ordinary country
roads—The U* S. Cham and buggy in the old days. car man gets for his money
or Usco.
For front wheels—The in the large size.
U. S. Plain. That’s because the cost of
everywhere—U. For best results— S. motoring has been brought ii
Royal Cords. In thinking what kind
within reach of the average oVui
citizen s pocketbook. of tires we would represent
in this community we tried
We look upon it as part of to put ourselves in the
-NOBBY-OWN-USCD -PIAIN, our job to keep it there . If place of the car owner. And
$0WL CORD
it weren’t for the trade of we believe we hit it exactly
£ 1 with the medium when we selected U. S.
the man
priced car there wouldn’t be Tires.
United States Tires
Stephenson Hardware Co., Weaver & Pittman, Covington, Ga
Almand Hardware Co. Social Circle, Ga.
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l FOR YOUR BLOOO
To be healthy and strong, you must have a certain amount of iron
Z in your blood. When your blood lacks iron, nothing can take its place
and you are bound to suffer for iron until you get it. Pale, weak,
.5 M pains, nervous probably lack need people, of Iron appetite, who in their suffer and blood who from and feel headaches, should tired, take worn-out indigestion, and depressed, rheumatic
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Iron Tonic a
J ■ taken Mr. very A. little R. Erwin medicine writes of from any Ocilla, kind. Ga.: Two “] am a man 1 of 65: have in
back, pains in years ago got a pain
my the muscles of my arm and leg; no' appetite, very
Z A weak, languid, depressed, no energy, nervous and irritable ... I
took three bottles of Ziron, and got all right.”
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back you, your money all good druggist? sell Ziron on a money
guarantee.
CLAIM OLD HOMES
French Peasants Repairing Dev¬
astation of War.
Cheerful Sights Seen in District* Rav*
, aged by the Hun Hordes—New
Villages Arising From
Heaps of Ruins.
La France is “an American maga*
zine” which aims to promote Franco
American sympathy and understand¬
ing, says the New York Times, and is
conducted by a group of public-spirit¬
ed citizens. Recent numbers have
contained notable records of the re¬
vival of agriculture and Industry lu
the devastated region, photographs
showing the progress which has been
, made in rebuilding churches and
canals, and significant statistics as to
the great recent increases In taxation,
thanks to which France hopes to fund
and eventually wipe out her war-time
debt. Most impressive of all, how¬
ever, is the story of a French failure
as told by Claude Riviere.
In certain devastated districts the
villages had been so thoroughly pul¬
verized and the soil so completely
blasted that it seemed impossible to
repopulate them. Not a house was
remaining, nor a tree; and instead of
the familiar green herbage there came
“a curious yellowish grass, utterly un¬
like anything seen before in this part
of the country.” With a characteris¬
tically dramatic instinct, the authori¬
ties planned to keep these districts
as they were, and especially such
places as had been the scene of signal
and memorable examples of German
barbarity. They were to be an exam¬
ple and a warning—the “red zone.”
But these dramatists reckoned with¬
out their hero—and heroine. Deep In
the heart of the zone rouge, amid
scenes of “volcanic" devastation. H.
Riviere saw through his field glass a
tiny green square upon a distant hill¬
side. It proved to be a cultivated
field, “an oasis in the desert.” Dis¬
regarding the new law which "protect¬
ed” the zone rouge, a peasant had re¬
turned to the site of his old home,
had himself removed the unexploded
shells from his soil—24 of them were
lined up by the road—and so he had
established himself as a producer once
more, if only on a tiny strip. “We
have always plowed the land,” he said
to M. Riviere; “we must plow again.”
In what was once the village of Nan
teuil la Fosse, M. Riviere found an
old woman who was somehow man¬
aging to live alone in the dismal wreck
of her home, though she had to *valk
ten miles to buy food. She said sim¬
ply that she wanted to die in her own
house—“Je veux mourir dans ma
maison.” A more cheerful sight in
the zone rouge is a village which for¬
merly housed 800 people, all but five
of whom have returned.
A correspondent of the London
Times bears similar witness. The
most recent battlefield guide book con¬
tains a picture entitled, “All That Is
Left of Hooge—the Signboard." But
the traveler finds that a-new Hooge
is already rising upon this site of so
many bitter scenes in the battles for
Yprcs. Even tlie local guides have
their troubles. One of them, having
announced to his tourists that Guille
mont was so completely destroyed that
no attempt could ever be made to re¬
build it. discovered upon reaching the
site that four houses had been erected
in his brief absence, and were already
occupied, the children playing In the
streets.
From the nation to which such
things are possible much is to be ex¬
pected. Heroic as it was in war, It
has equal vigor and tenacity In the
arts of peace.
Restoring Stonehenge.
Now that Stonehenge, the grandest
and most mysterious monument in
Britain, has become the property of
tlie nation, the government is putting
it to careful and painstaking repair
in order to prevent the ultimate coG
lapse of its mighty “hanging stones.”
It was five years ago that Sir Edward
Antrobus, a Wiltshire baronet, sold
the ancient monument to E. H. E.
Chubb of Salisbury for $33,000, and it
was two years ago when Mr. Chubb
presented his purchase to the British
government. The -war was then still
on and the office of works, to whose
care it fell, hqd other things to think
about, but now that the war is end¬
ed the office of works has speedily set
about the task of preserving the great
monoliths of Stonehenge.
Half a dozen men under the direc¬
tion of Sir Frank Baines of the of¬
fice of works, are making the ancient
circle of stones look as it did when It
was completed by the sun worshipers
of Salisbury plain some 3,000 years
ago.
Camels Hard Hit by War.
According to the report of the vet¬
erinary section of the war department
of Great Britain, the loss of animals
In the war was much lower In propor¬
tion than the loss of men, amounting
to less than 15 per cent. This Is the
lowest percentage of any war in which
England every took part. The total
number of animals lost by the English
during the war was 484,143, including
5,589 that were drowned or died at
sea. England’s greatest loss was In
camels, 22,812 of which were killed.
This is accounted for by the fact that
the camels were always used In the
most dangerous positions and subject¬
ed to the greatest hardships. Of the
camels used in Mesopotamia during
the last year of the war 86.5 per cent
were killed or died from exposort.
