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THE LAST LOVl COUNTS”
Bestow?.! cf First Affections Nothing
but Effervescence, According to
an Accepted English Theory.
“Xo love like the first love,” runs
the old adage. Is that true? The sug¬
gestion, of course, Is that the first
time a man or rnaid loves they are ex¬
periencing something which they will
never experience again. First love Is
supposed to hold some quality which
is absent from other loves. It is the
ub^tance; other, and later, loves are
but pale shadows.
In a sense, it is true that first love
holds something which is absent from
other loves.
But, after all, none would contend
that we can love but once. We can
love half a dozen times, and he in
earnest each time. Maturity, too, is
essential to the thorough enjoyment of
love. Our feelings, our capacity to
give and receive, deepen and expand
with the years. j !
At. say seventeen, a maid may love,
but her personality, temperament and
character are undeveloped. She can¬
not love in full measure; nor he-able
to absorb a full measure of love. Seven
years later-she could love again, and
, a torrent would come instead of a
stream.
Put shortly, personal maturity is es¬
sential to perfect, full-measure love. ;
First, second or third loves are often
hut from surface loves. They don't come j
the deeps.
It would lie admitted that all our
other result feelings of widen and experience, and deepen as of a j
years or j
experience only. It Is the same with
love.
Hence, the later the love, the better j
and more lasting it. is. It: is full-bodied,
and strong. In ninety cases out of a
hundred this belauded “first love” is, j
despite its felicitousness, not love at j
..all!
Is not time the supreme test of !
love? And bow many boy and girl j
marriages, based on first love, are |
happy, or the union permanent? Very |
few!
On the other hand, late marriages I
between those who hnve had other |
loves are the happiest of all.
It’s the last love that counts!
* Those “first loves” are hut efferves¬
cences, and have nothing behind them.
Love, real love, lasting love, strong
love, must have character entwined in
it. And whose character, at twenty,
is fully formed?
So, then, hanker not to lie a first
love. • Be glad to give, and take, the
later and better stuff. It wears,—
Ffiom Answers, London.
Loon Killed an Indian.
y hi day. Hertfordshire, England, the oth¬
er a hoy who foolishly went to
look at a swan’s nest was tackled by
1he cock bird and had an arm broken.
The swan fights with its wings, and
^
onn deal a most Ireraendous blow. The
gander will put up a good fight, If cor¬
nered, hut In* is more of a bluffer than
the swan, He delights in chasing
anyone who will run away from him.
but turn on him with a stick, and it
is he who does the running. The crane
tribe use their long and powerful
beaks as daggers, and are really dan¬
gerous, if wounded. They invariably
strike at the eye of their opponent. A
few years ago, an Indian who shot a
loon on the (treat .Slave lake, and went
to pick it up, was killed outright by
die bird, which drove its spear-shaped
beak right into liis brain. Owls will
sometimes attack human beings’ but
it seems probable that this is not in¬
tentional. It is rather that they mis¬
take people’s heads or hats for rats
or other prey. There is an amusing
account of some lumber men who
dared not venture out at night on ac
count of some unseen enemy robbing
them of their fur caps. They thought
it was the Evil One and were mightily
relieved to find that the robber was
merely a large brown owl.
Perhaps-He Might Be Saved.
I know a young fellow who is bound
to be a capitalist. Why not put him
• in jail now, before he is able to carry
out iiis schemes?
I have known this young man since
lie was « worthless boy, says a writer
in -E. VV. Howe’s Monthly. His own
father had no confidence in him. The
boy’s principal fault was laziness and
shiftlessness. A wholesale merchant
took a liking to him (probably the
merchant had been a worthless boy)
and gave him a job at $6 a week.
Today he is a traveling salesman earn¬
ing $6,000 a year. In July last he
sold more goods than any other sales¬
man employed by the firm ever sold
ift a similar length of time, lie is re¬
liable, industrious. sober, has a wife
and baby and is bound to become a
capitalist unless bis career is checked.
Why not put him in Jail now and keep
him there, and thus prevent the un¬
happiness lie will cause if permitted
to keep up his-present pace 15 or 20
years?
*W. L. George in America.
• W. L. George, recently arrived, says
X’ew York is a terrible town, accord¬
ing to “Round London Town” in Har¬
per's Bazar.
It gives the innocent Englishman rhe
feeling that he has been posted like
a letter, for he finds himself violently
sorted under his initial by the .steamer
officials, stamped by Ihe customs,
bagged into a taxi by the porter, re¬
bagged, restamped by a reception
clerk, retagged by the liftman, and
when he at last gasps upon a bed
which the elevated causes to vibrate,
the X’ew York press opens him for in¬
ter,views, as a pearl-fisher searches
the reluctant oyster for gems of pos
rihly lesser price. Then the stranger
broods on London town, where every¬
thing jogs along so nicely in an
j 1 Eighteenth century way.
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“JUSTICE 4 ' HAS SIX FINGERS
Tbs Thousand-Kron :n Note cf Czecho¬
slovak Currency Takes Hank
as a Currency.
While almost every country in the
world has Inflated its currency, Czecho¬
slovakia has*' had the courage to de¬
flate tiers. Shortly after the found
I ing of the republic in October, 1018,
all the former Austro-Hungarian cur¬
rency was called in by the govern
mei and for every two kronen of the
old money one kronen of the new
Czecho-Slovnk currency was given,
with the result that, while the Czecho¬
slovak krone is depreciated In value
and forms one cause of the economic
distress it. is nothing as compared
with the depreciation in neighboring
states.
The gold reserve on which that our
rency rests has a unique history.
Part of the money was printed in the
United States. Indeed, the 1,000
kronen note printed in the United
States is the most artistic issue the
Czecho-Slovaks possess, in spite of the
fact that the artist gave the symbolic
figure of Justice six fingers. But the
government was confronted by the fact
that there was no gold reserve on
which to base the currency, and the
nation was called-wi to give the coun¬
try its gold possessions to be melted
up by the government.
An American who was there at the
time told me that the amount of gt>ld
articles brought in, from plate to
bracelets, was remarkable—another in¬
stance of the intense patriotism of
the Czechs. And upon that gold re¬
serve and notes for their share of the
gold of the old Austro-Hungarian em¬
pire, still held In the vaults at Vi¬
enna. rests the currency of the new
republic.
To remedy the depreciation of the
currency by increase of exports the
government has encouraged the farm¬
ers to plant sugar beets for sale
abroad, and It is nnother indication
of the devoted patriotism of this peo¬
ple that in a country seriously In need
of foodstuffs hundreds of thousands of
hectares were planted to sugar beets
for export instead.—Eleanor Markell
in the Outlook.
World Using More Coconut Fat.
For many years past the world’s pro¬
duction of animal fats has been stead¬
ily diminishing. Lack of such fats
spelled famine in Europe during the
war. when great quantities of them
were withdraw/1 from human use to
make glyperin for high explosives.
Even now, and in this country, there
is an insufficiency of animal fats (as
Indicated by the price of butter), and
to make good the shortage coconut oil
Is being imported in enormous quanti¬
ties. During the last year 345,737,913
pounds of this oil were brought into
the United States.
The oil is largely used as a cooking
fat, hut also in the manufacture of nut
butter, candles, soap and cosmetics.
It is said to be an excellent substitute
for cod liver oil, being highly digesti¬
ble and with the advantage of an
agreeable flavor. At ordinary temper¬
atures coconut oil is a white, butter¬
like solid.
The raw “meats” are dried in the
sun before shipment from the tropical
countries where coconuts are grown.
In this shape the material is called
copra. The oil is extracted by power¬
ful hydraulic presses, the yield being
65 to 70 per cent of the weight of the
copra.
President In Name Only.^
M. Millerand’s election as President
of France brings to the fore a long dis¬
missed proposal to amend the consti¬
tution of that country so as to make
the President an important force in the
government instead of restricting him,
as at present, to the merely decorative
functions of a titular ruler.
M. Mi Hera nd has long advocated
such a change, and has been elected on
that platform, remarks the Living
Age. The Socialists and radicals pro¬
fess to be alarmed by this new devel¬
opment, alleging that it represents a
reactionary drift toward a monarchy.
Some color may have been given to
this claim by the fact that the ultra
conservative and royalist press of
France has been most enthusiastic for
the change. ,
.
It will be recalled that the President
of France is not elected directly by the
whole people, but by the,900 members
of parliament. He does not, therefore,
represent the immediate will of the
nation in the same way as the Ameri¬
can President. Presumably an enlarge¬
ment of the powers of the President
will carry* with it a change in the
method by which he is chosen.
New Source of Vanilla Extract.
According to experiments recently
performed in London, the island of
Jamaica may become a new source of
supply for vanilla flavoring extract.
It has been found that the leaves of
the wild pimento tree which grows on
the island yield a high percentage of
eugenol. from which vanilla, or crude
vanilla, may he obtained, says Popu¬
lar Mechanics Magazine. The discov¬
ery is valuable economically as well
as commercially, inasmuch as iso
eugenol, rhe half-way product between
eugenol and vanillin, may be made by
merely fermenting the pimento leaves.
Glucose Treatment for Pneumonia.
Dr. H. J. John, in the American
Journal of Medical Science, relates
his experience with the intravenous in¬
jection of glucose in the treatment of
pneumonia. More than iwn doses pet
day were rarely necessary. It made
the patient comfortable: produced
sleep and rest; reduced the tempera¬
ture; increased the elimination through
.
kidneys and skin, and slowed in
heart and increased the pulse volume.
THE COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGTON, GEORGIA.
WOULD PROHIBIT DOG-EATING
Custom Common Among ... .-.t»
la Duc.ared to B- Undesirable
for Many Reasons.
Those who remefijoer the article in
this magazine a short rime ago tell¬
ing of rhe cruelties connected with
the killing of dogs lor food among the
Igorots. says Our Dumb Animals,
will be glad to know that it has
aroused sufficient interest to cause
the Manila Daily Bulletin to say, ac¬
cording to a clipping we have just re¬
ceived :
“The office of the Department of the
interior is constantly receiving front
persons in the United States, mostly
women, letter* protesting against
eating in the mountain province
among the Igorots, it was declared by
Secretary Kaiaw of the department.
All of them, lie said, urge that in the
interests of civilization anil better
and higher mode of living, a law
should he passed by the Philippine
legislature prohibiting the sale and
ihe use of dogs as food material.
“Aside from the fact that the act
of eating dogs is highly undesirable,
the letters stat^, it is very inhumane.
The Igorots, they state, like to eat
lean dogs and that the more bony
they are, the more palatable they
taste to Igorots. Consequently,
when a dog is bought in the dog mar¬
ket at Baguio or at any other place,
it is left to starve for many days be¬
fore it is eaten, the communications
declare.
“When asked if the passage of a
law prohibiting the sale and the eat¬
ing of dogs by the Igorots was in or¬
der, Secretary Kaiaw declared that it
might he done in an indirect manner.”
SWORD WORTHY OF OWNER
Blade Worn by Miles Standish Has
Been Traced to the Time of
the Crusades.
Among the relics of ihe Pilgrims
that may be seen when visitors throng
the old town of Plymouth for the ter¬
centenary observances few are more
interesting than the sword of Miles
Standish. It may he seen in Pilgrim
hall.
It is a Damascus blade and presum¬
ably came into the possession of the
Pilgrim captain from someone whose
ancestors had brought i( from the
Crusades.
It iiaars several curious inscriptions,
which waited until June, 1881, to lie
translated. Then Prof. James Rose
dale of Jerusalem went with a band
of Arabs to America’s most important
shrine and found that the carved
characters belonged to. different dates
—some in Guide and very old.
He was only able to translate one,
of a later period. In Arabic. The
words given here show that its spirit
was quite appropriate ( to the spirit of
the Pilgrims:
“With peace God ruled his Slaves.
And with the judgments of His arms
Efe troubled the Mighty of the
wicked.”
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Csvefoping Guatemala.
' President Herrera of Guatemala, has
undertaken to interest foreign capital
in the dcyelopment of .some 15.000
square miles of unexploited territory
in Guatemala which still awaits the
hand of the pioneer and the invafler
to transform it into protective fields.
As the first step he has, created a new
department of agriculture with a min-i'
ister in his cabinet and has appointed j |
as head of this department Antonio
Bnuscayol. min-1
Both the president and the new of]
ister have devoted the main part
iheir lives to agricultural development j
eyd are therefore keenly interested in ;
providing encouragement to the foreign farm- J j
ers and planters. Both realize j
Investment must be encouraged to ae- j j
eomplish this end and believe that
such aid must be expected as a re ij ■
stilt of diffusion of the knowledge that
Guatemala lias a safe and sane govern
rnenf, is a fit pjaoe to live in and has f,
much territory as? yet undeveloped.
No Two Snowflakes Alike.
For 35 years Wilson Ahvyn Bentley ,
of Jericho. VC. has been studvin J
snowflakes. In that tune be has mud'
3.800 photomicrographs of snowHul. I
and has found (bat no two of them
1 exactly .alike. As a re ult " hi
are
exhaustive study he firmly believes
Hint Ihe snowflake is the mosi < c
ite example of nature's an.
His photographs have been nt re¬
duced into spxernl universities air 1
have also won a niche In the arts and
sciences, as well as being ax .f
designs in nr tern ft i i< >i : ■
jewelry designiiig".
Task for Che
The technical eh. m'-is «> : ,> ■
■ire asked to solve a very tempiii:
puzzle. They are u-,t if i'r--------
only discover how get it out. d.wc
is to he had from J jrrh art-w •> ■
a substance which <‘f» 1 tunic in
a sugar sweeter than cane si /: ■
The yield per acre >f art!eh '< ' er'.]
be higher of than beet, the nd yu 1(1 higher Of be; than t : ■ ] j
per acre a tic
average yield of a no Sir;: r w
! —of cane. Truly a*i ailin'; ;
j an opportunity to mnko ;he inn
i if not with honey, at any rah
something not unlike it.
Wheat and the Consumer.
“Tin- mills-of the gods grind slowly."
remarked the ready-made philosopher.
“Yes.” replied Farmer GorntossA
“I reckon if we had to dei.um , ,
them, the price of flout never -would
come down.”
l.orah & Allen
—with-*—
I STEELE SAM ORD JEWELRY GO.
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Engraved, Cards, Wedding Invitations,
GIFTS THAT LAST
64 Peachtree St., Atlanta, (hi.
IS i ave You Been Fooled
i y “Bargains”?
When grocerymen and their costumers come
to a better understanding there will be more of
pood feeling between them.. We must arrive at
that good feeling by your appreciation of just
what values you are receiving, and just what ad¬
vantage you have, when we say, “this is a
special,” and “this is a cut price,” or, “a bargain.”
A Bargain implies a purchase in which you
'Ha.ll receive an unusual advantage. If you buy
.. Tli cee pound Can of Maxwell House Coffee for
1.25 you have realized a distinct advantage—
and* you have bought wisely. And for the pres¬
ent you should take advantage of every oppor¬
tunity to buy this superior coffee at that price.
Do not be fooled into thinking that all low
priced goods are bargains. For, when you buy
an inferior product you certainly expect a cor¬
respondingly low price.
j For this week we are giving you advantage
of these special prices—and they are real bar¬
I gains.
IS lbs. Best Self-Rising Flour ...........$2.90
Puritan Hams..................... 30c lb.
2 !b Can Government Roast Beef........'.28c
3 lb Can Maxwell House CofFee.........$1.23
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