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STATE NEWS.
A petition signed by over 400 citi
zens of Augusts, has been sent to Hon.
J. C C. Black, urging him to m
the racti lor Mayor of that city. ■ r.
Black’s reply is eagerly
The New Lummus gin works, east
O s Columbus, has been completed, and
will begin operation ibis week. It is
quite an important addition to the list
of Columbus new enterprises. This is
one of the best known gin concerns
in the South.
The Georgia editors will leave for
their Cuban trip this week, meeting
at Tampa, Fla., the morning of March
31. Il Is probable that a large party
will go, and an enjoyable trip is as
sured. The outings of the Georgia
editors are always enjoyable, and this
trip wiil be no exception.
Judge McAlvis Spence ol Hamilton,
Ga., died at his residence in that city
last Friday afternoon at the age of 90
years. Judge Spence was one of the
moat prominent citizens of that sec-»
lion, and his death is deeply regretted.
He train brother of the late David
Spence of Cov ; ngton, and a father of
the late James I) Spence of Lawrence
ville
The negroes throughout the state
are manifesting the greatest interest
in the state fair, and their department
will be large and comprehensive. VV.
J. White, editor of the Georgia Bap
tist, a negro paper published at
Augusta, has offered bis services to
this fair. He will, if necessary, can
vass the state in the interest of arous
ing enthusiasm among the negroes
The inspection of troops will con
tinue without any delay until every
command in the state has been
examined. The equipment of five of
the companies already ordered dis
banded has been collected, and is on
the way to Atlanta, where it will be
redistributed among the new com
mands in the ci urge of a few’ weeks.
Inspector General Obear inspected the
companies at LaGrange yesterday,
going from that place to Barnesville,
and from Barnesville to Macon.
Ordinary’s Advertisements.
STATE OF GEORGIA,
Spalding County.
To All Whom it May Concern: J.
Chestney Smith, County Administrator,
having, in proper form, applied to me for
permanent letters of administration on the
estate of Mrs. J. D. Sherrell, late of said
county, this is to cite all and singular the
creditors and next of kin of Mrs. J. D.
Sherrell to be and appear at my office in
Griffin, Ga, on the first Monday in April,
by 10 o’clock a. m., 1899, and to show
cause, if any they ean, why permanent
administration should not be granted to
J. Chestney Smith, County Administrator,
on Mrs. J. D. Sherrell’s estate. Witness
my hand and official signature, this 6th
day of March, 1899.
J. A. DREWRY, Ordinary.
STATE OF GEORGIA,
Spalding County.
Whereas, A. J. Walker, Administrator
of Miss Lavonia Walker, represents to the
Court in his petition, duly filed and en
tered on record, that he has fully admin
istered Miss Lavonia Walker’s estate.
This is therefore to cite all persons con
cerned, kindred and creditors, to show
cause, if any they can, why said Adminis
trator should not be discharged from his
administration, and receive letters of dis
mission on the first Monday in May, 1899.
J. A. DREWRY, Ordinary.
February 6th, 1899.
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and Boston are $3 less than by any other
all rail line. The above rates apply from
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.•outhem States Passenger Association,
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A REINCARNATED DOG.
He Hadn't boat Him Human Traft* In
the Procria.
“You can’t tell me there is nothing
in the theory of reincarnation,” re
marked a traveling man, “for I know
there is. I was down in Florida recent
ly, and in St. Augustine I saw a snob
dog—an out and out snob. His name is
Towser, and he is just a common yel
lowdog, lives in the street and belongs
to no one.
“In the summer, when no wealthy
northern people are in the town, he
plays with all the middle class children
and dogs and will greet patronizingly
the middle class men and women who
know him. But in the winter, as soon
as the season begins, he attaches him
self to some rich New York family,
loafs in their yard, tags their footsteps
or carriages all about the city, attends
them to church and home again and
so far as he is able makes himself one
of them. For his meals he has been
forced to resort to the back yards of a
plain, good woman, who pities him and
feeds him regularly. He is friendly
with her at his eating hours, but never
so far forgets himself as to wag his tail
at her on the street or when he is with
more pretentious people.
“When society functions take place in
St. Augustine, there is Towser. Golf
matches, afternoon teas, picnics or boat
ing parties, all are attended by him
with most conventional regularity. He
never greets any ordinary acquaintance
when thus socially engaged and has
even been known not to eat for several
days when a fashionable wedding was
on his mind. With the swell dogs of
St. Augustine Towser never has any
rows, having, no doubt, studied the
politic art of being agreeable, but with
commoner cuts he is irritable and de
fensive. That dog has been human in
his time, and I’d give a penny to know
who he was.”—lndianapolis Journal.
AMONG THE CANNIBALS.
A Traveler'* Experience With the
Mau Eaters of West Africa.
Mr. P. A. McCann has had 19 years’
actual residence in west Africa. Mr.
McCann’s seven years’ trading and resi
dence with the cannibal tribes of the
French Gaboon probably form the most
exciting part of his experiences. He got
friendly with them and thoroughly
studied their habits and customs. They
quite believed that the white men ate
white men as they themselves eat their
fellow blacks. A big chief offered Mr.
McCann the smoked thigh of a native.
This was considered a gracious act. To
refuse it would be unfriendly. Mr. Mc-
Cann was in a dilemma.
But he feigned illness, said he was
not eating just then. The chief eventu
ally put the matter off good naturedly
by saying he supposed the white man
preferred white man to eat instead of
black man. “The Mpongwes, ” said Mr.
McCann, “are in ferocious and pugna
cious qualities second to no other tribe
in Africa. Their villages mostly consist
of a single street from 600 to 1,500
yards long, on -each side of which are
the houses. In these bouses they cook,
eat and sleep and keep their store of
provisions, the chief of which is smoked
game and smoked human flesh, hung
up to the rafters.
“Although ferocious and quarrelsome
to a degree, they are very industrious.
They show considerable skill in the
manufacture of pottery, and the designs
of their cooking pots, water jars, to
bacco pipes and palm wine bottles are
extremely artistic. In ironwork they
are also skillful workers. Although they
kill game for food, they much prefer
human meat to any other. ” —Loudon
Globe.
Where the Crabs Come In.
Winn a school of menhaden make
their way into a bay, they may stay
for days swimming around in one re
gion. Larger fishes, including perhaps
some sharks, feed upon them there.
such feeding there are more or
less fragments that sink down through
the water, and the various crabs and
other crustaceans come scuttling from
all parts of the bay to get them. It
may be that the tide carries some of
the litter about, or perhaps the crabs
and other creatures smell it, as bluefish
scent the bait that is used in chum
ming, but when a school of menhaden
are preyed upon at the surface all the
crabs in the bay congregate on the mud
below to catch the crumbs that fall.—
New York Sun.
How Genin* Succeed!.
Our paternal relatives don’t know it
all. Riley 's father wanted to make a
lawyer out of him; it was thought that
Bret Harte would make a first class
carpenter; it was Mr. Gilder’s idea that
they wanted him to be a job printer;
Hamlin Garland started as a farmer
and is still a farmer, but makes enough
out of literature to keep the farm go
ing. But Hopkinson Smith is of all
trades. When he isn’t building a via
duct, he is painting a landscape, and
when he’s tired of that diversion he
whirls in and writes a novel which sells
30,000 copies every 30 days.—Atlanta
Constitution.
In For It.
Mrs. Chinner —Ernestine, my darling,
do you expect Constant tonight !
Ernestine—Of course, mamma. Why
do you inquire?
Mrs. Chinner—ls he asks you to
| marry him, tell him to come and speak
to me.
Ernestine—And if he doesn't ask me?
Mrs. Chinner—Tell him I am coming
to speak to him.—Brooklyn Life.
In no country in the world are infec
tious diseases so frequently mortal as
in Russia. Children especially suffer,
and diphtheria, measles, scarlatina and
smallpox literally decimate villages and
country towns.
Moonshine has been found to have a
mark- d effect on stammering. People
so afflicted stammer most at full moon.
AN ARTFUL GAME.
A Clever Swindle Whiott Wa» Swe*
ceaafnllF Worked In Pari*.
Swindling is as monotonous as ethic#
or mathematics, and the various way#
and means resorted to in the last decade
of the nineteenth century for obtaining
possession of other people s money were
matters of common knowledge in the
Egypt of Raineses the Great. But the
Parisian police now affirm that a new
departure has been made on the banks
of the Seine. And this is how it was
worked •
An office was hired in a good busi
ness street by the inventor of the trick,
who assumed the title of somebody and
company, chemical agents. Being con
vinced advocates of women’s rights,
they employed some members of the
fair sex, who dressed in the height of
fashion, used the most fashionable per
fumes and then visited singly the best
apothecaries’ shop. One of these fair,
false emissaries would stop her cab at
the chemists, come in and, taking out
her purse, ask for another bottle of Dr.
Beaumont’s elixir. “Dr. Beaumont’s
what?” said the young man behind the
counter. “Theelixir. Don't you know?”
“No; I am afraid I never heard of it.”
“Oh, how tiresome, and my poor rheu
matic husband will be so disappointed!
Are you sure it was not here that our
servant bought it before?” “No, ma
dame; it was not here. Where is it sold
wholesale?’’ “It is sold wholesale, I
think”— And here the lady showed the
ticket on the bottle. “It costs 8 francs. ”
That same day the chemist bought
the elixir wholesale, laying in a fair
stock of it, and meanwhile many of the
confreres were doing likewise. But, as
nobody called any more on the obliging
.chemists to buy the elixir, one of the
curious confraternity analyzed this
specific which was supposed to relieve
rheumatics. He found that it was at
least perfectly harmless, consisting of
water colored by coffee grounds. The
police were then let loose upen the la
dies and the chemical agents, but they
had all moved on, leaving no address.
They are said to have netted about 10,-
000 francs by the trick.—London Tele
graph.
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THE BEDOUIN.
How Thi« True Child of the Desert
Goes Through Life.
How dreamily that Bedouin life,
with its uneventfulness and its fatal
ism, fitted the time and the placet
Here was a poor Arab who did not
know how old he was, but he could
look farther into heaven than I could.
His mother had borne him while the
caravan was on its way to Mecca. He
had worked as a laborer on the Suez
canal, and he had been a dog knacker
in Constantinople before that. He had
gone hungry in the wadies of Idumaea,
and had run as a cameleer barefoot in
the burning sands of Arabia Petreea.
He had vegetated into manhood on the
lower stratum of this strange oriental
existence, content to believe that life
was an unavoidable curse, with a drow
sy intimation of eternity in it, always
associated with the tinkling of bells,
the rattle of castanets and the sweet
smell of Beirut tobacco.
But 'he could see some things that
were beyond my vision, and I wondered
if this true child of the desert, born un
der indigo skies, of a race that had been
guided since the days of Moses and
Menephtah by the pillars of fire by
night, had not preserved some powers
of vision that were common to the
primeval man. He never lost the true
oriental disdain for enterprise and ccn
tempor a neous disturbance, and he made
an engineer feel that his work, seen in
the light of the unperturbed stars, was,
after all, an impertinence to a true
pariah.—“ Ghosts In Jerusalem,” by A
C. Wheeler, in Harper’s Magazine.
Fooled by a Gm Machine,
A Brooklyn woman, whose gas bills
were almost beyond computation and
certainly beyond her purse, had one of
the quarter in the slot machines put in
her flat and anticipated great pleasure
in keeping tab on her gas expenditure.
These machines, by the way, are fed a
quarter, and when the quarter’s worth
oi gas is burned they shut off automat
ically.
Toward evening of the Say in which
the machine was installed she wended
her way to the slot and deposited her
money, but when an attempt was made
to light the gas the machine would not
register, and the evening light was shed
out of lamps and candles. A wrathy
note brought the company inspector to
the scene the next morning, and he
thoroughly vindicated the reputation of
the contrivance when he unlocked it
and drew from the inside three nickels
and a dime.—New York Mail and Ex
press.
The Wroig House.
A weather beaten member of the
tired fraternity, who had lost a leg and
had it replaced by a wooden substitute,
stumped his way up the main street of
a Lanarkshire village the other day
and paused at the door of the first like
ly looking dwelling. Knocking at the
doqf, which was opened by a brisk,
businesslike housewife, the man began
his stereotyped whine:
“If ye please, mum, I lost my leg”—
And before he could unfold another
word of his tale the sharp retort came
“Aweel, ye didna lose it here!”
And bang went the door in his face.
—Liverpool Mercury.
Satisfied.
Opulent Father-in-law—What ails
you, George? Since yon have married
you seem to have lost all your ambition.
George —Well, you see, sir, I reached
the height of my ambition when I be
came your son-in-law. —Harlem Life.
Poetic. Squelched.
Weary Watkins —Oh, that I had the
wings of a bird!
Hungry Higgins—They's less meat
on the wings than they is on any other
piece.--Indianapolis Journal.
THE WILYSEA OTTER
ITS PELT 13 HIGHLY PRIZED AND HARD
TO OBTAIN.
The Animal I. All Ere*, Kara and
None When Alive and All Far Wlu-n
Dead—lt. Capture 1. Attended With
Great Dauqer. and linrd.hips.
Fifty pounds sterling, or $250, per
skin is not an unusually high average
price to pay for the fur of the Bea otter,
and at fur sales in London a much
higher price has often been asked and
received. Much, of course, in the mat
ter of price depends upon the condition
and size of the skin. The animal when
it is alive and wearing the fur itself is
from three to five fe< t in length from
nose to tail tip, though the skin lying
upon it in loose folds, the actual “pelt, ”
is of fair size.
Ever since Bering, sailing from Rus
sia. discovered Alaska and found its na
tives clad in otter skin this fur has
been the prime object of the pelt hunt
ers’ desire. Sabi.?, martan, mink and
even ermin ■ can hi- trapped or shot
without extraordinary trouble. Seals
are driven inland like fools to be slaugh
tered and skinned at their captors’ lei
sure. But the sea otter must be sought
diligently as the diamond, for three
centuries of experience have made him
wise.
Upon the map of North America may
be seen jutting from the southern cor
ner of Alaska, which is the northwest
corner of the continent, Aliaska, a pe
ninsula, which breaks off into a chain
of islands called the Aleutians. Just
where the peninsula ends and the is
lands begin a point may lie noticed
marked Belkovsky.
• This is the headquarters of the sea
otter hunters, and between here and
Chernaboor island to the south and Saa
nak island to the southwest the bulk of
the sea otters are taken.
Thoroughly impressed with the val
ue of his own skin, the sea otter takes
care of it by living far away from the
mainland, sleeping with one eye open,
upon the floating weed beds or a sea
washed reef exposed to the full fury of
the north Pacific.
At the slightest sign of the approach
of man he dives deep, and stays below
for 20 minutes at a time.
Sometimes a stray otter may be shot
from the land as he plays in the surf,
but the chief methods of his capture
are “the surround” and clubbing. In
the former case a party of Aleutian is
landers are conveyed to Saanak, there
to encamp for two or three months.
Woe to the hunters if the wind be off
the shore, for then no fire may be lit to
make the beloved tea, no pipe of tobac
co smoked, or the hope of a capture
would be vain. For the otter is all
eyes and ears and nose when alive; all
fur when dead.
Upon a calm day the hunters paddle
gently over the sea in their skin canoes,
keeping an eager eye upon the rolling
surf for a sign of the prey. A hunter
sees an otter and makes a quiet signal
to his mates. Like a flash the quarry
has dived. Raising his oar aloft, the
man who found the otter remains as a
buoy above the place of the animal's
disappearance, while his mates form in
a huge circle with him in the center.
In 20 minutes, at most, the otter
comes up again in sight of some of the
canoe men. A frightful yell drives the
poor brute below again before ho has
had time to fill his lur.,,s. Shortly he is
again seen, and the process repeated,
till at length his body is so gas inflated
that he cannot sink and falls a prey to
the lucky hunter whose spear first
pierces that too rich coat of his.
Luck varies, and the sea otter is
yearly rarer and more shy, but, if for
tunate, each hunter may have from two
to five skins for the traders as the re
sult of his three months’ catch.
To be a successful hunter requires a
Spartan scorn of comfort, huge pa
tience, keenness of vision and readiness
of resource, as well as great dexterity
in the handling of a risky craft and
an intimate knowledge of your quarry ’s
habits which It requires a lifetime of
observation under trying conditions to
gain.
“The surround,” then, is no joke,
but clubbing next door to suicide. The
hunters encamped upon Saanak have
been for a day or two prevented by a
howling gale from doing anything save
sleep or smoke. One or two of the men,
knowing, seemingly by instinct, that
the gale has almost blown itself out,
prepare for a clubbing expedition.
Should they in the dark and turmoil
miss the islands some score of miles
away they are carried out into the
ocean and certain death. If, on the oth
er hand, they make their haven, they
land and creep, club in hand, over the
rocky coast to the ocean swelled reef
where the otters sleep.
The roar of the gale drowns the sound
of their approach, and the poor otter is
a mere “pelt” before he knows of his
danger. Scores of otters have been killed
in one night by a clubman or two. But
otter clubbing is not a means of liveli
hood likely to become generally popular
—Chambers’ Journal
Chinese Boat women.
The boatwomen of China have no
need to agitate for women’s rights—
they possess them. The boatwoman,
whether she be a single woman or a
wife or a widow, is the head of the
house—that is to say, of the boat. If
she is married, the husband takes the
useful but subordinate place of deck
hand or bow oarsman. She does the
steering, makes bargains with the pas
sengers, collects the money, buys sup
plies, and in general lords it over ev
erything. —Keystone.
Ivory billiard balls, freshly turned,
have to be treated very carefully, as a
sudden change in temperature may
cause them to crack. To prevent this
they require to be placed for at least
three months in a warm room in order
t- -hrink them gradually and dry true
h-fore they axe finished and polished.
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