Newspaper Page Text
nMES-BNTBRPRMK, rH©MA8ViLAK,Q»6Rtf!A, DECEMBER 2 1901
Ready Made Skirts
50 of the latest style skirts
selling at .$3.50 $400 $5.00
$7-50.
10 per cent off ftr 3 days
Jackets and Coats.
The largest and most hand
some assortment of ladies jack
ets and coats ever shown in
Thomasville. For style qual
ity and fit ‘hey are the 1 eade-s
Selling now from #5.50 to
(20*00. 10 per cent off for 3
days.
Robes.
' A new lot of Gentlemen’s
Bath Robes, just the thkg
for Xmas gifts. $6 00 $6.50.
10 per cent off for 3 days.
Silk Shirt Waists.
A Haud-ome line of Lddies
black silk waist made of the
best Taffeita, Prices $4
$5.00 $6.50. 10 per cent off
for 3 days.
Ladies ’Sweaters.
2 dozen all wool Ladi s
Sweaters, Norfolk Jacket style
in white and red selling for
$5-oo, $575. $6.50. 10 per
cent off for 3 days.
Wanted.
1 35 Boys between the ages of
6 and 15 years to carry, off a
lot of boys suits at a to per
cent discount. Must answer
in 3 days.
Louis Steyermari
Ercad and Jackson Streets
MALLARD & VARNEDOE!
ppm a b,
Spark
Copyright, 1904, by Celle Jtontote©
On a hazy, <wnrm breezed Indian
rm L f Y “iMw
tne thickly grown bru
the country road. Once or twice he
stopped aud looked, about In apprecia
tion of . the day and the beauty of tbf
couutry. Tlieu he lighted a cigar, toss*
lug the match aside beforelt was.ex-
tingutehM. ;• By "the' time he had van
ished from view the half spent match
had accomplished A rivulet of fire that
ran merrily through the brush which
skirted the woods.
Mabel Wallace, coming down the old
sawmill road, saw the crackling Are
and hastened her pace. She noted the
qulckcnlug breeze blowing toward the
woods and the stretch of dry, parched
gra38 and brush that intervened. She
knew that If the tinmes were not extin
guished at once the whole piece of
wo;xls would fco. She caught up a stout
stick as she ran, aud when she reached
hrni h
•ds fortune had been swept away In
the late panic and offering to release
her frbm the engagement.
He waited In suspense for her reply.
which enmfe promptly. .She coldly and
"*M ‘' “ ‘ * *** ^ igripmenl
briefly agreed4 that tke J?»i
should be broken, owing to change of
circumstances.
Wounded through and through, be
went abroad, aimlessly wandering from
one place to another, hating all women
for what one had wrought,.
He was wonderlug now at he walk*
ed along the dusty highway what had
become of her. Had she landed an
other millionaire? What a useless,
helpless wife she would make for a
poor mail! Then he thought of tjbo
struggling, sordid existence of this
schooTina‘am.. In hit. mind’s.' eye lie
pictured her— lank, gawky and speeta
cled, beating the flames.
"Even at that,” Jie thought, “she la
more to be loved than a woman who
feared poverty. Faith, I believe I’ll
marry the schoolma’am and settle
down to a country life if she’ll have
mey” .
A turn lutcf a lane brought them
to the little sehoolhouse, and Johnny
looked in through the open door.
"She's In there,” he said.
"All light. You needn’t come. Much
obliged.” Wheu he entered the school
room. which, was darkened, he dimly
discerned a form nt n desk on the plat
the farther cud of the retiming fire she for|n Her head , va8 restl wcarll
hozau a vigorous beating. ' „ ... *
“Say, teacher, I’ll help you," squeaked s ' V '
cuj.auw.r.,, Zi'ggf I "I hag your pardon. I conic to thank
n piping vo.ee, which she recognised as l you fm . & vIn » my propcrty .,.
lie had come nearer how. She lifted
belonging to tho boy in the First Read
er class, next to the foot. i , ... . , - • ,
-Johnny, run down to tho first white , 5 ‘
bouse beyond the woods aud tell them
Mabel!” he gasped.
* .it. i 1 didn’t know,” she said coldly,
to send help. They have a telephone. ,u. . ..
Ask tfieni t) notify nil the neighbors," ‘ nf( J„ vnr S \ f
she directed between beats.
Ing until afterword, but of course It
■ , , . made 110 difference.” •
Johnny was reluctant to leijve u bon-, fc .. JInbc)| ,. Vou , HcUoo | te „cber. 'here-
fire of such proportlous as this was as* ^
sunilng. but be detected tbe "teacber- , 4 0cause> „ allc nnswered bltter|
■Tbailbe stuirr^ nexfL M tbat ■*"*#* w,1,dl to
abut* the stuff, she next beard havo , ost fortune my father lost
and looked up to meet tbe approval of „
tbe farmer at wbose house sbe boarded, i ,, •„ .. , . „ .
tt - .... *• ii.i. ...a 1 I wish you u ten me all about it, he
He procured a stick aud made an ef* .. „ nniA
fectlvo onslaught npon the flames.! here’s not much to tell. Just a.
Presently they were rcMmforoed by a fatUcr , our loM
passerby, nud after a time the fire was , 0 me your , etter came r , t t0
extingnlsheJ. , „ him. He said It was not trite, so I
kou best go home and rest it spell, thought It a ruse—that yon had heard
counsc ed her andlonl. "You look all
,. , of our reverses nud did not want to
het up and tuckered out” .
i to ,peak -
the breeze nud her exertions bad turn- but sbe hastily continued:
bled nbout her face.
Father went west to look after some
Well, 1 tell you wbnt, you just
■aved them woods, all right. Tbe own- 1 ‘ ™ p Vort»,i rt.
Matel trusted toW 1,cp of U,e hls *“*• «■
"Wbo ls the-ownerV” .be naked care-
‘ "Forgive nie, Mabel, and take me
back.”
"No,” she said proudly. "You didn’t
‘S.TW| You haa *° put “
and now started for home with burned; . , .
face and blistered band., ,, “‘Inking hard for tho right
Meanwhile Johnny, returning from , ,
the white house, heard a shot ring out | "f .Y 00 y . ou . ?f“" , :_ n< ?. “
In tbe woods.
less'y.
“His name U Max Thornton. He's
a young city swell, I heard say.”
I'll git 1dm to come and help teach
er,” be thought as be scurried through
&TR0U3E $ Brothers,
A WELL DRESSED MAN
Is, M a rule, rco iv»d by hi, (ellowmen. A diamond in tbe rough may Jbe of i
told value, but in order to be fully appreciated it nut be cut and well
. art. Tbe same applies toman, toappmr to tba best advantage, bi,
clothe* should be i* keeping with the times, not nectssartly.expensive
but up-to-date. And this is exactly tbe point we hive in mind when
we refer to .our suits from
i*
to$l
The very .op notch of fashion enters into every angle of their make up, and th,
price, ever) thing considered, to ridiculously low. Bear in mind we
can fit you ont from bead to foot. Everything. 8 iocs excepted.
I
Outfitters for all Man-kind.
the. cool.wooda after the
the gun.
"Say, tbe woods to pretty near on
fire. IPs snos’ crop 1 up on ’etnl”
The man laughed good naturedty.
"Do you think I am 111 any danger?”
“The woods 1(1. Teacher oent me for
help. Sbe to beating It oat with a
■tick.”
“All right! Coma along.” Aud the
mail made for tho road in long strides,
the boy keeping pace by a quick trot,
explaining with many elaborations tbe
particulars of the fire.
“My! Teacher was feat more tban
laylu' on to It with a stick. I never
■'posed ebe could hit out Ilko thatl"
“Hasn't sbe laid It on to you yet?"
laughed tbe hunter.
' “Saw. Sbe ain't teebed one on us
ylt. 1 bet tbe boys would behave If
they'd seen her bent that fife.”
Tbe buuter was occupied for a mo
ment ‘with conjuring tbe Image of
“teacher blttln’ tbe fire."
“flay, young man, baa your teacber
got red balr, and doea sbe wear
glnis**?" r . - J
“Yes. How dkl yer.know?” be ask
ed curiously.
“I Just felt It."
When the banter came np to tbe
men, be said to tbe farmer.
"I came to help pnt out a fire, but I
see you bare done good work.” gazing
at tbe blackened ground.
"We only gst here to tbe tall end of
It,” explained tbe farmer. "The school
teacher got here first, and sbe fit It like
a tiger. Quern some of yon hunters
set It on fire.”
Tbe hunter laughed end walked on,
remembering the match, but be felt
no compunctions. “A man boa tbs
right to set fire to bis own if be wants
to,” -be thought. “Suppose It would
be ou'y decenyn me to go sod thank
tbe. scboolma’nm. Wonder bow I can
make her a substantial token of grati
tude without offense?”
Here, boy!” be turned and called to
Johnny, wbo lingered near tbe mine.
“Do you want to earn a quarter?”
“You bet yer boots!"
“Then take me to your teacber. If It's
not too Car.'
"Ifs Jeet down tbe next rood a ways,
and mebby she's stopped Id at the
■cbool'ns down tbe line.”
“On a Saturday?" be aaked skep
tically.
"Yea. Sbe writes her letters there?"
They relapsed Into silence, Johnny
making plans for tbe Investment of
hls quarter and tbe man absorbed in
thoughts of a Utter, cynical trend. A
few mouths before be bed been tbe
happy, accepted lover of a beautiful
girl wbo was of an old, aristocratic
family In moderate ‘ circumstances.
Some pessimistic relatives of Us bod
Intimated that bis wealth and not him
self wss tbe object of ber adoration.
Tbe little shaft, though resented, ran
kled and lingered and grew until In a
moment of desperation and 111 Judg
ment be sent ber a letter saying that
behind - tu|1 °t ntalrntli>a.for her.kind heart
tlio Mabel Wallace I knew. In Hew
York, but as tha.couutry scboolteacber
to whom I came Just now wltb a heart
ami atont arm. Mabel, look tipi You've
been crying!" ■’,,
“So. It was the smoke from tbe
fire,", she said confusedly; “aud my
hnuds—see!”
She held, out .far Ills Inspection two
reddened palms.
Ho seized tlioqj and pressed them to
bis lips and thou—well, then. Johnny
cnniorumdng In.
"Ob. g'wan," lie said to Thornton,
“Yon know'll her all tbe time and pre
tended you Jest gnessed aj her bavin’
red hair nud specs."
Thornton laughed happily as be looked
st tbo soft, squirrel colored lialr aud
tbe eyeglasses. "Well, I meant differ
ent red uud specs, but I do know ber.
•'Be you ber beau?"
"Yes, I am her beau, and you'll have
a new-teacher. Here, take this for tell
ing me of tbe fire.” And be gave tbe
delighted boy a silver dollar.
On tbe threshold Johnny paused.
"Say, teacber, 1 cum to tell -you tbar
wa'n't no one to bum at tbe white
bouse!”
STATUS OF NEW
county movement;
HeVeral Cairo citizens xere iff the city
ye-ferrluy and v e/e, interviewed as to
tie statns of tile movement' jfi*r anew
c > miy. Iir response to a call issued by
certain citizeue-of "Cairo to the people oi
weat Thomas and eaBt Decatnr, fevent\
five feopferlflet in that city on Inst. Fri*
lay. Many were irom the Cairo <.terrier,
*ov^rfil from Abridge, and other parts,
hat few , if/uy jfrom Decatnr. Ir '»
hnde;stood that the ieason for the ab
ei.ie of the Decatnr county people is
the fact tl.at YN hiRlmm is taking steps
t>so nrfeanew county, with it as the
OOU’ity seat. This would necessarily
mean that Cairo t-ould not be the county
site, and considerably rivalrv, which
may defeat the movement, has ej rung
uo between tho two towns. The differ
ence is enhanced by the fact that Cairo
is dry while Wliigliam lias a dirp«n
PERTINENT POINTERS
DUEjPOLITICS.
The Balnbridge Search Light takes
the grouud that Decatur citizens want
no ue*> county. It wtys:
" ,Ve underftnnd that thus far the
moremem lb the eastern part of the
oonnty to not as favorably looked upon,
at at flrsOt had been thought. The
town of Whlgliani to bitterly opposed
t > nuy new county,.and citizens from
Higdons, Reagans, Spring Hill and
other contiguous sections to Cairo tell
us that they will not support the move-
moat. Wlicthsr tins be true to a matter
th rt will be ^evidenced by their action
either in attending the new county
meotlng. or staying away.”
Tills article was written btlore the
meeting and the absence if Decatur
ditizeus uoild indicate that the Search
IAglit spoke t Jin troth.
* Many questions h ive beeu nske la-
to the steps that have to be . taken w
aronreanew county. The method nt
procedure is a, follow :
Before any new county in Georgia cun
be formed ft Is necessary tliat a bill be
1 itrodnoed in the legislature providing
for tlie laying ontofthe territory. Tin,
bill will be before the committees of the
legislature and a fall hearing of both
■Ides may there be had, The proba
bility therefore Is that where there up-
. . „ . ... whose name t- written there gets many
pears any very material fight between
i i T...H * a plensaut nod and..Iieartv handclasp
the Tepresentativea of - the territory em
braced, it will be hard to pass the bill
before the legislature. Even should
ti'sbo done, the question will then
h >ve to be voted on by the people living
w.thin the territory proposed to be em
braced. It to therefore clear that be
fore a slice will be taken off Thomts
oonnty, the people interested will hare
two opportunities to fight it out:
CohWooten Here-
IVo Cfcanc* For'Dins.
“Now that we are engaged,- sold tbe
fair yonng thing, “I will tell you that
I do not tear mice,”
“That to nice,- said tbe prospective
’And,” continued the fiancee, “I can
drive nolle without hitting my thumb,
and 1 know boar to use a paper cutter
without ruining a book, and I can add
row of figures without making ■
separate sum for each consecutive fig
ure, and I can build a fire, nod I can
tell wben a picture to bung straight
on the wall.”
Here the man drew himself up wltb
much dignity and sorrow and cried:
"Then I cannot marry yoo, alas!”
"Whyl" gasped the girl.
"What prospect to there of my. ever
bqtng able to demonstrate tbe ahperl-
orlty of man over woman If I marry
a woman wbo possesses inch traits of
character as you?”
The Two Chases*.
A medical man. Dr. Blunt, has
habit of saying exactly what be tblokc
and In a manner all bis own.
“Yon talk too mucb, woman!” be
once remarked to tbe wife of a patient
“Give the man o chancer’
"What! Me talkr shrieked tbe lady.
“Wby, I’m at qnlet as a monte all tbe
day long. Yoo can ask any of tbe
neighbors, an' they'll every one tell
you what a"—
"Matters bare reached this point
madam,” Interrupted tbe doctor; “your
husband has two cbancasr
“Two chances, you say, an'
"He may die"—
"Of course be may die, as I was Say-
In’ to Mrs.”—-
“And you may, madam—that’s bto
real chancer blurted tbe doctor as bs
passed out and banged the door after
him.—London Mall.
Col. W. E. Wooten, solicitor of the
Albany circuit was In the city for a few
hoars Sunday en routo to his home
from. Balnbridge, where he was' In at
tendance on superior oonrt. Two re
markable cases were tried, the Satlen
kidnapping case, and the Culpepper
homicide oase. The latter irak that of a
minister wbo eras found guilty of kl h
Ing one of bto congregation in ■ qnarrel
over a won an. Tbe Jury late Saturday
night agreed upon a verdict of man
slaughter and Culpepper was sentenced
to SO years.
More than ten criminal cases were
le't untouched, and it to highly proba
ble that a special term will be called to
Jlspi *e of there on tbe third Hobday of
December. ‘
Tim jurors drawn to serve the first
week will act during this extra term, If
I to railed.
Barn Burned Sunday-
Messrs. M. B. and Frank Jones had a
small fire on Sunday night at their pi sue
miles from town. Their barn caught
on fire, bat the blare was extinguished
without mnch damage.
The most serious lore was tliat of
sboat fifty bushels of corn.
Among the Sanday geests at tie-
Masory were P, Tt. Child*, Waite-
McGuire and H. .W, Dodd, a friool
Monltrizns.'
Mire Araminfa* Culpepper came boon
Sauday from Atlanta, where she hsr
ean for a week, ,
Mrs. Jno. Blalock came back yeshr
hlay from a visit to ber parents In Flor-
Thomasville j-eopic, h-tvc hrroree t o
used t-o-politioailint they I, t\ toward
to -Ome-hew d-vo'opnm f J n- vfah
■ k m..eh couth ejir-e »s ti-,y rip- cr ;IM
.ook to give ihi m -on e mar 6 -t. for
diutier occasionally. The I»!F-
p» nipg in political cir,•!►•(» the an-
uonncfrueut in Sniidft'V T**|er rf an
•M.-rraunio ticker. It whh »» ^rdfs lel
od composed of four of tJi« Kft’ent
oouiid and font new oues. Tim racket
at once precipitated a lively dircwskiw-
sSome of the fri**wng of th© four nnmen
tioned aldermen talking ahonl put tin if
tliem in th© field on another ticket.
Oat* of them spooking yesterday Raid*
"fiewrs Hunsellp Hening, Watson
an 1 Beverly are nil goi d aldermen ’and
I dnu’r we whv they should bp fcft onk
Ir. is t.u« «hat two nt e h*; of t e qaar-
tettft h»v*) nityiTo the aratament 4*»*t
they would not ran again bat I feel
quite snro that tl ey will . rend le ©«cted
t »o ” It ik safe to say thft* t*n roVil to
at last thr»e other tickets, and it % is
whi pered that romo of tlie yonng men
who got a taste of politics in the light
fl.<htwot>ld not object to toning the
o tv iu an aldermanic capacity.
Uuleiv all signs fail, Miyor Hodden
bery will step into another term m op*
psssed, at an endorsement of hit floe
record. The same seems to be tme ©f
Clerk MhcIgjiu aud Msrslml S*eplifn*.
T o torred strugglps are in evidence
for city ire»*nr r .tnd i r W'X’nn. Each
of tlie raudidr.-es invo'ved wears a vie*
t*ry expecting smile. There are no
developments in the sc’ ool board mat
ter.' M itrs C. M Smith aud J F.
Mitchell, the present incumbents trben
term will expire are ketp ng quiet*
0-rta‘u politidane give a mysterious
wink wheu the words "acbocl board**
are mentioned, that- may mean some
thing and may not.
Any mention of polltlcfl wotddbe ftt-
nomplete withonr. referer.ee to the tri
angular coutOKt for joetfes of the p-actr-
Tho three candidates ore* making votes
while the anti aliines ae they have otoly
a i . iex' Sat rday to get in tlmlr
work. The olty registration Hat la (ret
ting longer every day and the mats
that- he mtglit otherwise miss.
TO ATTEND AT
VALDOSTA. WEDDING.
Miss Pauline Mitchell, left yeaterdajK
for Valdosta where she got* to act ref
maid of lwaor at tha Joues—Atewitt
Wedding on beo. Mtfi, ' ’ —J
Mtos Aiiae Jones ha3visitu.lf.Mire
Mitchell ond Mis* Amlo Moutgpraory
here a numbor of tliaee and has ‘xreqy
Thomasville friends who will li sob will
much Interest of her approaoliiqg uxp-
Mr. Prewitt >a from tlie stats oi
Milne.
Mr, John W»do, of Ochloolcnoo waa
In the city on boriu.u Moodzy and paid
thls offlce a pleasant call.
A Living
Monument.
If we were to assemble all
those who have been cured of
heart disease by Dr. Miles’
Heart Cure, and who would
to-day be in their graves had
not Dr. Miles' been successful
in perfecting this wonderful
heart specific, they would pop
ulate a large city.
What a remarkable record—
a breathing, thinking, moving
monument, composed of human
lives,—-that for which every
other earthly possession is sac
rificed.
The Miles Medical - Co. re
ceive thousands of letters from
these people like the following:
it ted Indebted to the Dr. MneiT
cart Cure for mjr life. I dnlro to call
to attention of others sufferin* »*. I
then I never mlrs an opportunity i
recommend this remedy to my triem
who have heart trouble; In fact I r
a traveling advert(«mcnt, for I «
Widely I
MhrtlK? To’iin. '
Dr. Miles* Heart Cur* Is sold by
h» will refund your money.
Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind
