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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. ' ■ ■ • " Wo mu I ♦!«*) 1 rum mu ion* 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. Vlfgluli-Carol!ruCfwrn; nl Cr, Rlrlintond, Vn. Nor.oik, V». Durham, N. C. ( Imrle^ion, ,H. (J, Nnltinioro. Mtl. Alluntil, (in. Hnvnnnuh, do. Al o'tironien. Ain. M» tnphlii, 'l *0111. Hlirevoport, Lu. ANNOUNCEMENTS. I In lalis it ti tu in 11 ii- ms .all n (iiiiitliilnta fur .SliatIff, Hllliji'Ct In Ilia I • miicluI io 11 It It ltd y ill <'dSVetll cillllll s ; mill Will ll|l- praamia ilia aippuiI ill'tny I'riaiitlH niitl fallow el 11 /ell. A. Ill III)' ability III lill * 1 Ml olllua, I l a.pad fully I'ofl'T III 111 V r 'OOril It. II Ilia) 111a r of Ilia police force of Mewiiiiii during ilia past ton yearn. .1 D HKKWMTKK. NOTICE TO DEPENDANTS. M N < ' illuv vs KIIz.ii .1 Haruotf, Klin Brown, J I' Haruotf, ll .1 Hnrimtt, W G. Hainan, Kate ('amp, Nona Hall, Kinma Hainan, Mm. Jimmie Halliolt, Ilntit. Human. Auva Ha matt and Caro- lialla Burnell Oowala Suparinr Court, March term, llKMl Equitable Petition tu Foreclose Mortgage Oil Hcnlty. Georgia, Coweta County. To W. G. Harnatt, 82* Indigo St., Co- lombla. s 0.: To Mrs Nona Hall, Opelika. Ala.: You, and each of you, arc hereby re quired III ihuhoii or hy attorney to he and api etr at the next term of the Su perior Court, (o he held In null for wild County, on the first Monday in March, IlKMt, then and there to amiwer the plaintiff in an action of ForcoloHurc of Mortgage on Realty; an in dcfnnlt there of, said Court will prnori<<l thereon iin to Justimt may appertain. Witness the Honorable K. W Freeman, .Indue of until Court, thin the 8ml day of Feb ruary. mod. L. TURNKR, Clerk S C. O. 0. CHEAP KATES TO NEW ORLEANS, MOBILE AND PENSACOLA. Marrtl Gras, February tfll-87. One fare plux twenty -five cents for the round trip. Tlukats on sale February 21 st to Uiltli, inclusive; limited to March llrd, liKirt KxteiiHinn of return limit may he obtained until March 17th, 1000, u|Htn imymenl of fee of M) cents and diqtOHit of ticket with S|K>iiial A (fen I at deslimi* lion. For further inforiuatiou and eleepinK <'i»r reservation, apply to near- eel Agent, or write ,1. P. Hillups, Gen. Passenger Agent, F. M. Thoiupsoii, Traveling Passenger Agent, Atlanta, On. Notice to Debtors and Creditors. GEORGIA -Ooweta County. All |*>rsons having demands against the estate of John NV. Arnold, late of said county, deceased, are hereby noti fied to render their claims according to law: and all parlies indebted to said de- oeased are requested to make immediate payment to the undersigned. This Jan. 0, 1006, N O. HANKS, 4(1 Executor John W. Arnold, deceased. 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. Itching Plies. If you are acquainted with anyone Jig is troubled with this distressing ail ment yon can do him no greater favor 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 FAR Proved the Best Fertilizer By a Record of Twenty Years' Success You are banking on experience when you fertilize with Farmers’ Bone. No other fertilizer is so well balanced in the plant footl supplied from sowing time to harvest. Don’t take a substitute. Farmers’ Bone has no equal for any kind of crop. It is the leading fertilizer of the South. Works Freely In Any Drill It has been proven by over twenty-one years of successive use that Fish and Animal matter is superior to any other known ammoniate for growing cotton. Farmers’ Bone is the fertilizer MADE WITH FISH ITS SALES GROW 1885-250 TONS 1890-1,500 TONS 1895-12,000 TONS 1900-58,455 TONS 1905-130,091 TONS BECAUSE IT GROWS CROPS WIIH free u las! how that envy'll height; Th F. S. ROYSTER GUANO CO. Norfolk, Vs. Tarboro, N. C. Columbia, S. C. Macon, Ca. blood he Extinguish'd am their glories, and Sllll Thill linen enlighten'd Europe with his hciiinx. Hunk In the West Is set, and ne'er again Hindi o'er Britannia ■prend Ids orient 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. Lemons as Medicine (iuotl 1*1 nte item. In conversing with one’s friends noth-> 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. 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The News offers the big gest and best clubbing prop ositions made by any news paper in Coweta County. A Tough I’roblrm. Tho following letter received at this office has been referred to the Lancas ter Literary society: "I married a wid 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 son Globe. 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 had on anything half so becoming. I am agent for the Cable I’iano Company and sell the “Chicago Cottage,” Mason & Hamlin and other organs of standard makes. 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