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If you are a regular customer, if you’ve never traded with
me, if you’ve never been in my store, I want you to come ill
and look at magnificent display of choice things in Silver
Novelties for Christmas. 1 have just received a supply of
The McCall Patterns
For January, 1902. 10 and 15 cents each. None higher.
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ARLINGTON- GA.
Wonderful Cave Discovered.
Denver, Col., Dec. 8.—A spe¬
cial from Butte says a new
and wonderful cave, believed to
be one of the largest known, has
just been discovered in the canon
of the Jefferson, on the line of the
Northern Pacific railway, about
fifty miles east of Butt. An ex¬
ploration party from Butte spent
several days in the cave, going
over an area of ten miles to a
depth of nearly one thousand
feet. A large river with a cataract
of about 100 feet was explored for
a distance of several miles with-
out discovering its source or out¬
let. A few articles of stone and
copper utensils and some bones,
believed to be human bones, were
also found in one of the large
apar nents of the cave. There
were other evidences that at some
time in a prehistoric period the
cave was inhabited. It is believed
that an earthquake closed the en¬
trance to the cave and killed its
inhabitants.
Au extra large lines of over
coats just received at
J. S. COWART
J'rom Jirlington’s Sroatest J'ifo/iday Store.
This is a holiday store from bottom to top. I have gather-
ed from the market the most comprehensive exhibit of hoi-
iday goods ever seen m . this city or section. Visit my store
and see for yourself. From now until December 26 for ev-
ery $1.00 you trade with me you will get a ticket for a
chance at the $10 present. Everything in my millinery line
for the next 30 days at a sacrifice.
Mrs. I\. TC. Lasttox,
ARLINGTON, GA.
GA.. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 12, 1901.
A Businesslike Wedding.
A businesslike wedding was cel¬
ebrated at Fort Scott, Kan., the
other day. The parties were aged,
respectively, 71 and 64. Both are
possessed of valuable property,
and the bride is the owner of sev¬
eral farms. Before the ceremony
an agreement was signed to the
effect that each would have con¬
trol of the property belonging to
each. However, the good woman
got a Lttle the better of the dick¬
ering. By the terms of the agree¬
ment she is to have a life inter-
est in his estate after death, but
he is not given the same right
with respect to hers. After every¬
thing had been completed com¬
fortably the two stood up and
were married, and then the hus¬
band attempted to salute the
bride. “Go ’way, John,” she
said, “I ain’t a-going to let you
kiss me in public.”
Only 19 of the 70 Berlin tram
lines are now worked by horse
traction.
Italy’s income from foreign
visitors is estimated at $40,000,-
a year.
SOWING WITH CANNON.
The Novel but Successful Experiment of an
English Engineer.
Near Blair Castle, in England,
stands a high, rock crag named
Craigiebarns, which for a long
time looked grim and bare in the
midst of beauty, and its owner
thought how much prettier it
would look if only trees and shrubs
could be planted in its nooks and
crannies.
It was considered impossible for
any one to scale its steep and
dangerous acclivities, and no other
way was thought of to get seed
sown.
One day Alexander Nasmyth,
father of the celebrated engineer,
paid a visit to the grounds. The
crag was pointed out to him, and
after some thought he hit on a
scheme.
In passing the castle he noticed
two old cannon. He got a few
small tin cannisters made to fit
the bore of the cannon, and filled
them with a variety of tree, shrub
and grass seeds. The cannon was
loaded in the usual way and fired
at the rock from all sides.
The little cannisters on striking
the rock burst, scattering the
seeds in all directions. Many
seeds were lost, but many moz’e
fell into the ledges or cracks where
there was a little moss or earth.
These soon showed signs of life,
an I in a few years graceful trees
and pretty climbing plants, all
sown by gunshot, were growing
and flourishing in nearly every
recess of the formerly bare, gray
crag, clothing it with verdant
beauty.
At the present time the former¬
ly unsightly rock is one of the
chief beauties of the estate, and
the story of its transformation is
always related to the visitor and
never fails to arouse interest.—
London Mail.
A Great Georgia Reform.
Fulton county will soon have a
reformatory to which youthful
lawbreakers may be sent and
where they will have a good op¬
portunity to become good and
useful citizens.
Ditheito because of the lack of
such institution our courts have
been compe]]ed either to turn
loose youths who have been con-
victed of violating criminal laws
or to send them to the peniten-
tiary or chaingangs, where they
are almost certain to grow up as
hardened criminals.
The reformatory will be a great
institution for Fulton county, but
the great majority of the Georgia
have no such place for
youths that should be given a
chance to reform, nor the pros-
pect of obtaining one.
It is gratifying to know that
under the re mod led penitentiary
system of tile state us it is now
administered, a better chance has
been afforded youthful offenders.
Rev. John W. Heidt, assistant
editor of The Wesleyan Christian
Advocate, 1ms recently visited the
B ^ate farm, and in the hist issue
°f his paper speaks of it as fol¬
lows :
“One of our Georgia judges had
a child before him to sentence for
crime. Said he: ‘I will send
him to the state farm, as that is
the best place I know of, with
Captain Foster at its head.’ The
state farm is two miles from Mil-
ledgeville, and contains 8,000
acres. The invalid prisoners, wo¬
men and children, are sent there.
The sexes are housed apart in
houses separated a mile or more,
and the children are with the wo¬
men. They work in separate
gangs, and with the Christian
gentleman at their head they fare
well. He is energetic, earnest,
humane and merciful. God pros¬
pers him in his fields and flocks.
The products of the farm will this
year aggregate $85,000, ten thou¬
sand more than the farm cost.
The barns are bursting with
plenty. Everything that can be
consumed by man and beast is
made in abundance, and, besides,
there are four hundred bales of
cotton as a surplus crop.
“A visit to the home of Captain
Foster will delight any patriotic
Georgian. It is a house of prayer
and faith.”
We have seen nothing that in¬
dicates better than this testimony
cf Dr. Heidt the extent and value
of the reform that has been ac¬
complished in the Georgia peni¬
tentiary.—Atlanta Journal.
Makes Money at Fairs.
Our hat is off to Mrs. W, W.
Monk, of Worth county, She
and her husband are farmers on
the hog and hominy plan, And
they are progressive,
up-to-date farmers. Mrs.
may be the better farmer of
two for all we know. But
this be the case or not she
certainly a model farmer’s
and we note that she attends
fairs and makes exhibits,
takes prizes, too. We learn from
the Worth Local that Mrs. Monk
has attended two fairs this
and has banked over $700 from
premiums on her exhibits,
}>aying all expenses. Besides this
she sold a lot of her exhibits,
realizing a neat sum tor the same,
—Albany He rald
Colgate & Co’s, extracts are
Uhj best made. 10c, 25c and $1 at
J. 8. COWART’S,
NUMBER 6 I.
KILLED BY HIS OWN PISTOL.
A. Drum, a Popular Insurance Agent Comes
to a Sudden End at Dothan, Ala,
Dothan, Ala a Dec. 7.—A.
Drum, of Montgomery, an insur¬
ance agent, accidentally shot him¬
self this morning- while dressing
at his hotel for the early morning
train to Montgomery. Indications
show that while dressing, he open¬
ed his grip and lifted his pistol
for the purpose of putting his
night shirt in the grip, and that
the string to which the key of the
grip was tied caught the trigger
of the pistol and it was discharg¬
ed, the ball entering the forehead.
A quantity of blood fell into the
grip and he fell on the floor and
died instantly. A brother-in-law,
Mr. Loebman, came from Mont¬
gomery and took the remains up
on the 2:18 train. The Masons
accompanied the remains to the
depot. He was popular, not only
with his own people, the Jews,
but also with the Gentiles.
They Have Long Courtships in
Norway.
Norwegian weddings are almost
always celebrated at the close of a
short Scandinavian summer, a
season which the industrious Nor¬
semen find too short in which to
work, and from which they would
Dover dream of taking the days
that are necessary for the long
drawnout festivties of the Norse
wedding. So the maidens who
are wooed all the year round are
usually wedded at the beginning
of winter. Norwegian wooings
are very frank and very long a-do-
mg. Ou summer Sundays the
lanes, the highways and byways
are ateem with lovers, Each
couple saunters slowly along, not
in the least shy, his arm about
her shoulders, her arm about his
waist. Nor do they untwine
arms if they pause a little to chat,
with friends, not even if Lev
stop to speak with casual aoquai
tan cos. Ton or a dozen years
often elapse between the first day
of courtship and the day of mar-
riage, while a seven-years’ betroth¬
al is considered! of very moderate
length.-—Women's Home Com-
pamon.
Ought to Be Ashamed.
The law which compels men to
go to the court house and hang
around there for days and days,
at their own expense, and without
compensation unless they live out-
side the county, is as unjust as it
could well be, and the state of
Georgia ought to be ashamed o,
being a party to such gross injus-
tice.—Ocilla Dispatch.
, ^Ladies lo^~jadZets and chib
dren’a reefers at
J. S. COWART’S.