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FOSSIL CORKSCREWS RUINS OF ST - PAUL ’ S -
One Oi I lie Results
of III* rally ni.li ir our frrtlli-
/ ;ri .1; In liay i ll a mmi •nt-o
nn 1 hc* oM (arm Ham) tiir 1,1-
lowltig f-oin Mi hum. vs li**riy
A Him, ow mint of Hi'' Magnolia
i rult l ariu, Durant. ' ■ ■ •
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tmwlierrlaa. on svhlali jmir
fcrllll/.ara were umul. I "-tit
yuomiiKiiwa In, uli t ilila '
Ut V ;nT Iia: '• It n II' l!n n I
i iiisl'lon.'l to liit• tiaoti " ■ ra
nut i i nly yen is huforu, Hut
liy liberally unliuf
Virginia-Carolina fertilizer*
under pro* and vein ♦. Leanfl.
can tiuw trmw iilrnost. nnv-
thlnK. Slid bnvo OlTert 'l
$ JflU i•• •» ncre tor the jil:u:o. Wo
« *i»» rine ».te 1 wltii n ymit
many nriijR of L rtllF/f r**,
but find thchlKheflt per r« nt.
ohoaif r.’* Now don't you think
VIr#/1iii»i f m rollnn Y erf 111/* • >i
Mount • nalii j you to pny of! i % ^
r *'11 mi.; if you hud '-no'/
Well, don't u* o liny other.
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GEORGIA -Ooweta County.
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Stephens Socioty.
The Alexiimler ll. Stephens So
ciety met lust Friday anil the pres
idunt, Leroy Maun, made his in
augural address.
The roll was called, each mem-
Iter answering with a quotation
from Shakespeare.
The following program was car
ried out: Declamations by Stan
ford Arnold, Hugh Spjncler,
? jswell Atkinson, Cary Harda-
ay, John T'aylor, Elgin Stallings
nd Lorenzo Taylor. Current
Events by Hugh Buchanan and
Modern Topics by Hawson Stew
art. Society Editoh.
QUEER FRr AK3 OF NATURE THAT
ABOUND IN NEBRASKA.
ulKnnllr Spirit Is tif Mineral I',i .li-
loned fin til. I Im-iiiiiI leu II y nn to He
I ..tells 'llxliiUi n nl first (.Inner
for Works of .Irt.
Nobody known with certainty what
the so called "devil s corkscrews" rcnl-
I.v ere. They are found hy tens of tlioll-
niucIs In Nebraska. most particularly
lu Sioux eouniy, mid some of them are
ns iniieli ns forty feet in height, without
counting the gigantic "roots" presently
to lie doserlboil, guurtz Is the sub-
simice of which they are made, hilt
how they came to Is- Imbedded, num
bers of them together, lu the sandstone
cliffs of that region Is more (hull any
body can tell, unless, perhaps, one the
ory, to he mentioned Inter, Is to be ac
cepted as correct.
Volt are li-nvcllng. let us say, on
hoi'M'luirk through that part of the
country, and, ns often happens, you
see, standing out from the face of a
sandst me cliff, u gigantic spiral. If, ns
geologists have proved, tin* simdstnm-
rocl; he chipped away a corkscrew
shaped tiling of quart/. Is exposed to
vice, fashioned so inathemntIcally as
to In* easily mistaken at first glance
for a work of art. Tin* white spiral
tuny lit* free, ns n sculptor would say,
or, In other cases, may la* twined about
a sort of axis, as a vine would run
around a vertical pole.
Homebody awhile ago gave to these
spirals the name "devil's corkscrews"
for want of a better and ns expressive
of the mystery of their origin. Helen
lists discussed them In vain, and many
theories were formed lu regard to them.
There were authorities who declared
they were fossil burrows nxeiivutnd lit
tertiary times hy gophers of a huge
mid extinct species. And, to conllrm
(Ids notion. Hu* hones of some burrow
ing animal were actually found Imbed
ded In the stihstance of one of Hie
"screws." This seemed to settle the
matter for nwhile, until the controversy
was started again by tin* discovery of
the osseous remains, under like condi
tions, of a small deer. Nobody cpuul
assert that n deer was ever a burrow
lag animal, and so that notion had to
lie nhimdnned.
other theorists deelnred that the “fos
nil twisters," ns some folks called them,
represented the prehistoric borings of
gigantic worms that lived In the very
long ago. Yet others suggested that
they were petrified vines, though It was
dlllleult to explain how or why the
"poles" on which the alleged vines
seemed In many enses to have been
trained had been so admirably pre
served, or, for that matter, originally
erected.
In the midst of so many contradictory
theories tho problem seemed llkoly to
defy solution Indefinitely Tho one that
held out longest and gained most nd
horontn was that of the extinct gophers.
It accounted for the "root"—a shape
less appendage often nearly as big ns
the "twister" Itself and nttaohed to the
lower end of the latter—which obvious
ly, as It seemed, had been ttie neat of
the rodent animal, the "corkscrew” rep
resenting the spiral hole by which It
made Its way to the aurfneo of the
ground. What could possibly he more
easy to comprehend?
Professor K. H. Barbour, however,
tins declared- -and his decision Is ac
cepted provisionally until somebody
offers n bettor—that tho corkscrews ure
of vegetable origin. They are, he as
serts, the fossil remains of nnelent
water weeds of gigantic size, which
grew millions of years ago on the bot
tom of a vast sheet of water that cov-
oreil all of Nebraska. These must have
been the biggest aquatic plants that
ever existed, and when the huge lake
that overflowed the region In question
•tried up the romains of many of the
plants were left behind buried In the
accumulated detritus at the bottom.
In Hie course of time—ages after the
bottom of the ancient lake had been
converted Into solid rock rivers plow
ed their way through the laud, cutting
this way and that and exposing to the
view of the modern traveler on the
faces of the cliffs the fossil casts of the
prehistoric water weeds Just ns they
shnsl when they grew hundreds of
thousands and probably millions of
years ago. Their tissues were replaced
as they decayed by silica from the wa
ter, particle by particle, and thus, as If
hy magical means, their likenesses
have been preserved for the wonder
anil admiration of the preseut surviv
ors on tho earth.
Such is the theory now pretty well
neeeptod hy scientists In regard to the
origin of the "fossil corkscrew*.” Pos
sibly ll Is not correct, but if otherwise
there Is room for the exercise of any
body’s imagination In the consideration
of this veritable romance of the nn-
cleut history of the world—New York
Herald.
rrrsonnl Brunt).
If either man or woman would realize
the full power of personal beauty it
must bo by cherishing noble thoughts
and hopes and purposes, by having
something to do Hud something to live
for that Is worthy of humaulty aud
which hy expending the capacities of
the soul gives expansion and symmetry
to tho body which eontnlns It—Upham.
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Jig is troubled with this distressing ail
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than to tell him to try OhamberUin's
Halve. It gives instant relief. Price 25
cents per box. 8oId by Dr. Paul Peuts-
ton, Newtuui, Ga.
A Man of Action.
Hicks-There Isn’t a man In town
who can keep the conversational ball
rolling like our friend Deyrake. Wicks
—Nonseuse! He never says anything
worth listening to. Hlcks-No, but he
does a lot of things worth taIVtng
about.—Philadelphia ledger.
H# who feels contempt for any liv
ing thing hath faculties that he hath
never used, aud thought with him Is In
Its Infancy.—Wordsworth.
Orlaln of Mnt-Hi]In)*s Plirnno In nn
I-:Ikli(•-•-1>f!• Century I'urni.
It has long been underatood that the
real Inventor of Macaulay's famous
New /.enlniiilcr was Horace Walpole,
who. in a letter to Mason, written In
1771, said: "At last some curious trav
eler from IJma will visit England and
give a description of the ruins of St.
Paul’s, like the editions of Kttlbes and
Palmyra." Hut Mr. Bertram Itobell
writes to the London Academy giving
the Idea nn curlier date, lie finds It
em Ins I led In this old title page:
Poems, by n young Nobleman, of DIs-
tingulsheil Abilities, lately deceased: pnr-
Uculurly, The State of England, and tt-e
once Ilnur'lulling City of Isindon. In a
letter finiii an Anurlim Traveler, Dated
from the Ruinous Portico of Ht. Paul's.
In Hu* year 219U. to it Friend settled In
Boston, the Metropolis of the Western
Empire Also Sundry Fugitive Pieces,
principally wrote «Mlst upon tils Travels
• ii the Continent. | Motto from Juvenal.]
London, 17sn.
Mr. Dobell explains that, though the
Itook Is dated 1780, the poem In It on
Loudon Is dated March 81, 1771. He
attributes it to the profligate second
Lard Lyttelton. Here Is otic of Ids ex
tracts from the comp isltion:
And now tliro' broken paths and rugged
wuys,
t'neiilllvnteil regions, we advanc'd
Towards fam'd Augusta's towers, on the
Thames
(Whose eie.ir broad stream gMiles smooth
ly thru' the vab l
Knilmuk'd, unit stretching o’er the level
plain,
For many a mile her glided spires were
seen,
While Britain
cluing'd,
How fallen l
what dim
Him rul d t a* subject nations, and beheld
The flpnnhird crouch beneath her spear,
and till
tlulllc lilies crimson'd o'er with
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rays!
These were my thoughts whilst thro' it
fulling heap *
of stmpi less ruins far and wide diffus'd,
Haul’s great Cathedral, from tier solid
hose,
High tow'rlng to the sky. by hcnv'ns
command
Amidst tlm universal waste preserv'd
Struck my astonish'd view.
Od tills fair object my tlx'd eye was kept
In pleasing meditation, whilst my guide,
A poor emaciate llrlton, led me on
Through streets, and squares, and falling
palueos,
(Where here and there a hahltnt was
seen)
To where stood once amongst the peo
pled town
Th' Exchange of Istndon.
WHOLE OR HALF TRUTHS.
Better lie single In penen than mar
ried lu war.
The roek of success Isn’t located In a
field of ros<*H.
The fellow who ohjeots to discipline
uoedH It the most.
You can Inherit ability, but you’ve
got to hustle for experience.
The optimist has an easy time of It.
He anilles while others work.
It doesn't cost uuytklug to say "good
morning" even If it’s ruining.
Home folks ought to take their con
scleuees out once In awhile for exer
cise.
Silence Isn’t always golden. The
talker with something to say Is worth
u dozen keep stills.
The optimist who thinks that folks
are civilized should yell "Fire!” to a
crowded house and watch results.—
From "Gumption," hy N. C. Fowler,
Jr.
A Hhnpsrlrl’a Fines.
It was not a very cheerful memoran
dum and the shopgirl's look was not
very cheerful either as, on pay night,
she brought It home to tier mother.
It was a memorandum of the fines
that had taken n good slice out of tier
wages, aud It ran:
Standing on chulr J0.10
Leaving less than one yard on ribbon
roll io
Permitting patron to depurt unservod .75
Lateness 05
Gum chewing 10
Error In nddttlon 05
Writing Indistinct duplicate 10
Error In nddretta io
Total Ju.85
"There are 1.00 rules posted up in our
little shop," said the girl bitterly, “and
on Infraction of any one of them Is
finable.”- New York Press.
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lug Is so chilling as an apparent lack
of attention and sympathy. It might
be uddt*d that nothing is more vulgar j
wore not tin* listener’s Indifference '
common to the majority of our most
cultured people. If when one is ad
dressed she will remember to iucllue
the body slightly forward an attitude
of rapt attention will soon be uncon
sciously assumed and, whether really
worthy of It or not, now recruits gain- I
ed for ttie always popular, ns rare,
class known as "good listeners.”
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ower and went to live In the home
where he hod lived with his first wife.
I find a number of her clothes In a
closet—to wit, one brown dress skirt,
two petticoats, three pairs of stockings,
one pair of slippers and a black silk
waist. How shall I dispose of them In
a way that will be satisfactory to her
relatives and the neighbors?"—Atchi
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Ethel -I suppose I shall have to wear
this veil. It’s the only one I have. It's
so thick one can hardly see my face
through It. Edith—Oh, wear It, by all
means. Everybody says you never
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