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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. TO THE EAST. #:«.<»<> SAVED BY THE SEABOARD AIR LINE. Atlanta to Richmond |l4 50 Atlanta to Washington 14 50 Atlanta to Baltimore via Washing- ton 15.70 Atlanta to Baltimore via Norfolk and Bay Line steamer 15.25 Atlanta to Philadelphia via Nor- folk 18.05 Atlanta to Philadelphia via Wash ington 18.50 Atlanta to New York via Richmond and Washington 21.00 Atlanta to New York via Norfolk, Va and Cape Charles Route 20.55 Atlanta to New York via Norfolk, Va , and Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Company, via Wash ington 21.0 Q Atlanta to New York via Norfolk, Va., Bay Line steamer to Balti more, and rail to New York 20.55 Atlanta to New York via Norfolk and Old Dominion S. S. Co (meals and staleroom included) 20.25 Atlanta to Boston via Norfolk and steamer (meals and stateroom in cluded) 21.50 Atlanta to Boston via Washington and New York 24 00 Ihe rate mentioned above to Washing ton. Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston are $3 less than by any other all rail line. The above rates apply from Atlanta. Tickets to the east are sold from most all points in the territory of the .•outhem States Passenger Association, via the Seaboard Air Line, at $3 less than by any other all rail line. ror tickets, sleeping car accommoda tions, call on or address | B. A. NEWLAND, Gen. Agent Pass Dept. WM. BISHOP CLEMENTS, T. I. A., No. 6 Kimball House, Atlanta 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. w 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. 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