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SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
If it be granted that that embalmed
beef spoke for itself, it «em« h “ ve
spoken through the nose —Pbiladt L
phia Times.
In a lew day* it wiH not be necessary
to mueter out the volunteers now in
the Philippics, to judge from the
report of casualties —Chattanooga
News.
There are strained relations in Ma>
nils. A* soon as the United Stales
troops can come in touch with Aguins
aldo things will be understood, and
Ag. will go to the guard house—New
Orleans Picayune.
As that Cuban assembly does not
seem to be able to do anything else,
it might amuse itself by trying toelect
a United States senator. If it pro,
ceeds on the Pennsylvania plan it will
probably succeed by the time the state
of Cuba is admitted to the Union. —
Philadelphia Ledger.
The best solution of the Samoan
question would be the partition of the
group. There are three large islands
and three powers interested. The
island that would naturally fail to us
is the one on which we have a .coaling
station concession. It has a fine har
bor and is not sufficiently populated
to give us any trouble.—Houston
Post.
Ambassador Choate will pay $12,-
000 of his $17,500 salary each year for
hie house in London. If Mrs Choate
takes $5,000 more, the ambassador
will have SSOO left to buy cigars and
trousers with. Thus saith a contem
porary. Well, there may be a few
boated monopolists who need more
tljan one box of cigars and a pair of
$3 trousers each week —-Boston Trav
eler.
During Secretary Alger’s absecce
the political gossips at the national
capital are bandying talk of his re
tirement from the cabinet—a vain de
lusion, it may be, but yet a pleading
possibility in con’emplation. What a
welcome Easter gift for President Mc-
Kinley would be the resignation of fiig
chief of the war department—Phila
delphia Record.
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 oi 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 can, 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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EAST.
tsULGO SAVED
BY THE
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Atlanta to Washington 14 50
Atlanta to Baltimore via Washing-
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Atlanta to Baltimore via Norfolk
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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
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Va, and Norfolk and Washington
Steamboat Company, via Wash
ington 21.00
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 8. S. Co
(meals and stateroom 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
The rate mentioned above to Washing
ton, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York
and IJoston 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
Southern States Passenger Association,
via the Seaboard Air Line, at $3 less than
by any other all rail line.
ror tickets, sleeping car accommoda
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WM. BISHOP CLEMENTS,
1 I. A., No. 6 Kimball House, Atlanta
REPORT OF
1 Thos. Nall, Treasurer.
a
For February, 1899.
r Feb 1 Cash on Hand $1 945 26 Feb IPd J H Huff, Secy $ 75
, To EI Ison, Report 53 65 M J Daniel 40
A B Cleveland, license 12 50 El Ison 45
* 6 J W Hill, license 10 R A Gordon 40
i 8 Jack Chapman 10 P F Phelps 40
AB Powers 2 W W Flynt 40
10 Mrs M R Brown & Co 10 M L Connor 40
W H Baker 10 C B Lynch 35
JII Diercksen 10 VV D Davis 33
Douglas Boyd 15 O H P Slaton 25
Boyd Mfg Co 25 W H Beck 25
Douglas Boyd 25 Aleck Jordan 20
Griffin Buggy Co 25 II B Futral 10
Griffin Buggy Co 10 H l{ Jones 10
15 S H Deane 20 L Bishop 3
Mary E English 25 J F Stewart 64 20
J W Bishop 25 Griffin Banking Co 150
16 TM Berry 10 Sue Jones 130
18 Carlisle & Ward 15 R H Allison 1 25
Carlisle & Ward 10 4 Street Hands 8 50
Carlisle* Ward 20 10 Mangham Bros 2 45
W D Davis & Bro 50 Douglas Boyd 70
20 J M Sears 10 11 City National Bank 275
J M Sears 10 Street Hands 8 50
28 Flynt & Co 10 15 Chas Mitchell 2
J G Smith 20 NW Harris & Co 480
TA Fambro 25 NW Harris* Co 330
J G Itbea 15 Dr&y&ge 25
Osborn & Wolcott 25 16 Thos Nall 50
Osborn * Wolcott 10 17 P Dickinson 11
Southern Mutual Ins Co 10 Will Bird 6
Red of W K Howard, Supt 18 j H Huff, Secy 75
Lights and Water 514 30 Lee Cal ham 7 04
Total lax Collection for Manley * Brooks 14 25
February, 1899 5 137 68 Street Hands 8 50
T J Mallory 20 20
20 Davis Bros 47 90
Spalding County 69 50
23 E Reeves, Secy 75
Savings Bank Ex 40
Street Hands 8 50
27 Newton C * L Co 75 25
Walter Brooks 5 08
28 Dr M F Carson 12 50
AV M Holman 2 50
J M Sears 4 55
W D Davis 103
Griffin L & W Co 821 54
Public School Fund I 203 31
Cash to Balance 3 629 92
$8 125 39 $8 125 39
Examined and found correct, being sustained by proper vouchers.
HENRY 0. BURR,
B. B. DAVIS,
March 28, 1899. Finance Committee.
HIS FIRST THIMBLE.
Inventor John Koftlng* Made a For
tune From It 200 Yean Ago.
“There is a rich family named Loft
ing in England,” said a dealer in fancy
articles, “the fortune of whose house
was founded by so apparently insignifi
cant a little thing as the thimble.
“The first thimbles seen in England
were made in London less than 200
years ago by a metal worker named
John Lofting.
“The usefulness of the article recom
mended it at once to all who used the
needle, and Lofting acquired a large
fortune and great fame in the manufac
ture of the new accessory to the needle
worker’s art.
“The implement was then called the
thumb bell and was worn on the thumb.
“The clumsy mode of utilizing it
was soon changed, but when and why
the name thimble was given the article
do not appear.
“Lofting’s thimbles, and. in fact, all
thimbles, were made of either iron or
brass, and specimens of them extant,
many of which are preserved as heir
looms, are crude and clumsy looking
things compared with the comjnonest
thimbles of today, although their cost
was many times as much.
“Today gold, silver, iron, ivory,
steel, sometimes glass and even pearl
and celluloid are utilized in making
thimbles. Since art needlework became
fashionable thimbles of elaborate work
manship and great value, to accompany
the rich and costly implements and ma
terials wealthy needleworkers affect,
have found a large sale.
“Solid gold thimbles, carved and fre
quently set with diamonds, have been
found none too good for some people.
Thimbles made to order, with the mono
gram or initials of the person for whom
they are intended set in precious stones,
are not by any means unknown.” —
Philadelphia Press.
HE ATE THE SOAP.
Garland Would Have Swallowed It If
It Had Killed Him.
The late Augustus H. Garland, who
was attorney general under President
Cleveland, was very fond of practical
jokes and during his term of service in
the senate frequently turned the laugh
on his colleagues. Senators Voorhees
and Vest, with whom he was very
friendly, finally determined to turn the
tables Mr. Garland had a habit, like
Voorhees, of munching candy, and Vest
and Voorhees made it up between them
to take advantage of his fondness for
sweets to play their trick. They had
some tempting looking chocolate cara
mels prepared, with the interior filled
with brown soap. These they took to
the senate chamber and Voorhees placed
them on his desk, The lid being off
when Mr. Garland sauntered down the
aisle he noticed them at once.
“What have you there, Dan?” he in
quired.
Voorhees looked up carelessly from
his writing and responded “Caramels.
Help yourself."
Garland needed no second invitation
and, picking up two or three, placed
one in his mouth. Steadily he chewed
away, his face betraying no sign of the
conflict within him. This alarmed
Voorhees, who went to Vest’s desk and
said:
“He’s eating them. Vest! What shall
we do? The stuff will kill him sure!”
Senator Vest replied that it could do
no more than make him sick. Garland
swallowed the stuff, .although he was
foaming at the mouth from the soap
suds. He related the incident afterward
with great gusto and said he would
have swallowed it if it had killed him. ,
—New York Sun.
PICTURES OF OLD MASTERS.
The Constant Duel Between the Ex
perts find the Frauds.
In a vaudeville that used to be played
at the Palais Royal an upstart is made to
say: “Dome see my gallery. I have got 1(5
old masters from the sale, or 16 old sails
from the sell. I don't know which.”
Many of our experts might say the same
thing, because the imitation of old pic
tures is becoming a regular and flourish
ing business, with its workshops, its art
ists and its markets. The other day in
one of the suburbs of Brussels a factory
was discovered for turning out the works
of old masters, and the specimens brought
to light were well calculated to puzzle the
most skillful experts. As a matter of
fact, during the past 40 years Belgium
has put upon the market hundreds of
Hobbemas, Teniers, Metzus, Ruysdaels
and especially Van Goyens, which they
have made quite fashionable.
It is easy for skeptics to say that, in
spite of their skill, the forgers can never
deceive men of experiecne; that they al
ways make feeble copies or wretched imi
tations; that the dash, the life and the
evidence of the free hand in execution,
which are clearly presented in the genuine
works of the masters, are always absent
in the copies. But unfortunately this is
not the case. There are forgers in art
whose skill is no less astounding than de
plorable. To prove this a single example
suffices:
All those who occupy themselves a little
with the fine arts know, at least by repu- ,
tatlon, the two famous portraits of Leo X,
one in the Tribuna room of the Uffizzl
gallery in Florence and the other in the
museum of Naples. Nobody has ever been
able to tell which is the original.
We aro compelled to acknowledge the
wonderful skill of these forgers who suc
cessfully seize, If not the details, at least
the ensemble of a work. Then, as for the
details, they have recourse to another
method. There are moments when literary
men, to avoid the trouble of consulting a
dictionary, put a mark upon a word the
orthography of which they are not quite
sure, and leave to the proofreader the care
of hunting it up. Well, the reproducers
of old masters replace the ink mark by a
“vegetation,” which is obtained by rub
bing with a wet rag the portion of tho
picture which Is to bo covered for cause.
The water left upon the spot soon pro
duces a moldlness and an Infinite number
of little spots. The whole forms a stain
which, in the slang of the forgers, is called
a chanci. i
The methods of these swindlers are in- '
numerable. For example, to destroy the <
proof that the canvas Is newly painted, ,
they simply bake it. In this way they ob- (
tain a rough and scaly surface. When the
scales do not appear in sufficient quantity,
the point of a pin is used to produce the
desired additional number. A judicious
employment of wet ashes and lampblack ,
in varying doses suffices to give to the col
or those beautiful somber and yellowish *
tones that time spreads upon tho works of I
past centuries. Spanish licorice is also <
used to give modern canvases the appear- c
ance of old age. A decoction of wine j
must Is sometimes poured upon the paint- (
ing. It is spread with the palm of the '
hand and rubbed until it becomes dry.
That is the method of giving to the canvas *
what is called the warm and golden tone. ‘
Some time ago the experts discovered a <
very simple method of detecting the fraud. 1
The copies, having neither the name nor , t
the hardness of the old paintings, were s
unable to resist the attacks of alcohol, j
which made their colors fade rapidly. But
in this eternal duel between the expert and
the forger, the latter has the riposte al
ways prompt. To make his copies proof
against the attacks of alcohol he covered
them with a light coat of liquid glue. Over
this the alcohol passed just as It might
pass over a pane of glass. I
It is noteworthy that these forgeries are c
well known to tho amateurs who are still c
bold enough to purchase old paintings.
Tho mania of the collector holds out
against ail disappointments and mishaps.
—Paris Cor. Courrler des Etats Unis.
C -Zk. S T? O X A..
B«ar« the Ths Kind Uti Hava Always L” r
DYED DIAMONDS.
I Tsttow Stonea < tr i Ft.- “ ,<!•■ to L**k
Like Gctna ot the Flrat Water.
“There are tricks in every trade’’ has
grown to bo an adage and this proverb
holds especially good with regard to the
jewelry trade, which for “ways that
are dark and tricks that are vain” fair
ly takes the palm for roguery.
Although a great deal of capital, time -
and lals>r have been devoted to counter
feiting the diamond, very little success
has bean obtained from a fraudulent
point of view, as the diamond possesses
extraoidinnry qualities of hardm-aa
and brilliancy, with which no imi
tation, up to now, can attempt to vie.
“Paste ' of all kinds can be tested by
means of a sharp .steel file, which
scratch ?s its surface.
A method of successful imposition j
with diamonds has however, been dis- j
covered, and the originator of this swin
dle actually defrauded the pawnbrokers
of London alone in one year of upward
of $500,000.
The general public, as well as jewel
ers, are aware that diamonds of a yel
lowish tinge, or. as tin y are called in ■
the trade, “straws,' are worth very lit- I
tie. Large stones of this color, even i
when weighing from 10 to 100 carats, I
are quite common and will only fetch j
in the market from $5 to S2O per’carat. j
the value, of course, increasing in ratio [
with weight. Diamonds of the same I
weight, if of the first water, or perfect- J
ly colorless, would be worth from fivs
to ten times as much.
The methods of the individual refer
red to were as follow- He purchas-d a
quantity of "yellow” stones, and then
by a simple yet ingenious process suc
ceeded in imparting to them an evanes
cent purity of color. This was done by
procuring two ordinary glasses, a kettle
of boiling water and a threepenny
packet of mauve dye.
The "yellow” diamond, which was
perhaps set in a gold ring or pin. was
merely dipped in the glass containing
the dye, and then in clean boiling wa
ter half a dozen times, and allowed to
dry, when it presented all the appear
ance, even to the eye of an expert, of 8
magnificent stone of the first water.
The next move was to place the ring
on the finger, and the well dressed dia
mond dyer would sally forth, enter a
pawnbroker's and pledge the ringfor at ,
least three times its worth. Within 12
hours, however, the effects of the dye .
would have disappeared, and the pawn
broker could only wonder what on
earth was wrong with his eyes when he
advanced so much money on such a yel- |
low stone.
Fortunately, owing to the magnitude
of this individual s operations, the
fraud was discovered, and now pawn
brokers, if they are suspicious of a dia
mend’s color, immerse it in nitric acid,
which destroys any dye that may be
present wirtiont in any way injuring ,
the stone. -London Mail.
GOOD MONEY FOR BAD NEWS
Paid to Learn That Slxht Would
Leave Hint In Six Months.
Somehow it made me feel bad, thia
happening that lam about to relate. I
was in the office of an oculist, one of
the leading men in his profession in |
Pittsburg. A big, strong and healthy
looking man entered. His appearance
indicated that he had many years of life
before him. He was well dressed, keen
ly intelligent and of pleasant counte
nance.
“Doctor,” he said, “my eyes have
been troubling me, and I would like
yon to make an examination of them
and treat them.”
After a few preliminary questions the 1
doctor told him to strip himself to the 1
waist. He took off his clothes and stood t
there, a magnificent specimen of man- 1
hood. The doctor examined him, pay
ing particular attention to his back, fol '
a reason of which I know nothing. ,
Having finished, he said:
“Put cn your clothes. I can do noth
ing for you. Your sight may last six
months, but no longer. Treatment will I
do no good. Blindness is sure to come.” 1
“What’s the matter, doctor?” he 1
asked quietly, with a faint tremor in 1
his voice.
The doctor told him in technical lan- t
guage and then explained that the trou- 1
ble came from the wasting of a nerve t
leading from the spine. e
“What’s your bill, doctor?” asked 1
the man when he got his clothes on
“Five dollars, ” replied the doctor. s
He paid it and left the office without
another word. In the fullness of life he r
walked out into the blessed light of day, j
doomed within six months to darkness a
until death. It was an incident to the <
doctor; to me it was a tragedy.—Pitts- 1
burg News. 1
j
Irving Didn’t Hrnd. C
Sir Henry Irving appeared at the c
Theater Royal, Edinburgh, in 1857, a
and two years later he went to Linlith- ”
gow to give a reading there. He was t
delighted to see his nani-- in big letters j.
on the posters on arriving in the town, r
He went to the hall, but there was nd <
crowd there -in fact, the caretaker had 1'
not arrived, having forgotten all about
the reading. Irving went in search of 1
him, and things were got ready; 8:30
o'clock arrived, but no one came to the -
hall—not even a small boy In recalling
the incident Sir Henry was wont tc
say, “I never slept better than I did j
that night ”
It* Nfitorai Effect.
“How many of th'-so sh»-<-p ,t out !
of here?” asked the angry farmer
“I don’t know.” replied the new
hired man. rubbing his eyes. “After
I d watched five or six of ’em jump
over the fence I seemed to lose the j
count. That always puts me to sleep. ” |
—Chicago Tribune.
Os No Avail.
“Prisoner. ” said the court, “have I
you anything to say for yourself?” I
“What's the use?” replied the cul
prit “yon guys wouldn't believe me.” I '
—Philadelphia North American.
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