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10,000 lbs. Seed Cotton For Sale. T P n thousand pounds of Pi ide of , -nd G <> W. Truitt's famous Seed for sale, at 20 •. per bush , Pn’aniDteed to be sound and ali ei . . Raised by R J. Manley, Jr. ng’’ l, J O. Stewart, At Cole’s Warehouse. laundry For the convenience of my patrons I have opened a branch Laundry at the second door below the Griffin Sinking Company, which I will run in connection with my old business on Broad street. I will superintend the work at both Laundries and guar antee satisfaction. HARRY LEE. Schedule Effective April 1, 18)9. DEPARTURES. j.v. Griffin daily for At lanta.. • ■ tt:08 am, 7:20 am, 9:55 am, 6:13 pm Macon and Savannah 9:41 pm Macon, Albany and Savannah 9:13 am .Macon and .Albany s:3 » pm < arrollton(except Sunday)W: 10am, 2:15 pm ARRIVALS. Ar. Griffin daily from Atl ,nta„. .9:1,3 am, 5:30 pm, S:2O pm, 9:44 pm Savannah and Macon 6:08 am Macon and Albany 9.55 am Savannah, Albany and Macon 6:13 pm Carrollton (except Sunday >9:10 am, 5:20 pm For further information apply to R. .1. Williams, Ticket Ax’. Griffin. J«o. L. Reio. Agent. Griffin. JohnM. Egan, Vice President, Theo D. Kline, Gen. Supt., E. 11. Hinton. Traffic Manager, J. C. Haile, Gen. Passenger Agt, Savannah. An Ordinance. To amend section 1 of the ordinances creating the Board of Health of the City of Griffin, so as to increase the number of members from three to five, by’ making the mayor and city physician ex-officio mem bers of said board. Said section, when so amended,shall read as follows:- Bb it or d fined by the mayor and council of Grif fin, that, at the first meeting in December, 1899, there shall be elected by the mayor and council a Board of Health, consisting of three members, at least two of whom shall be physicians. One of said board shall be elected for one year, one for two years and one for three years. All elected hereafter, except for unexpired terms, shall be elected for three years. And in addition to the above, the mayor and city physician of the said city shall be ex-offi cio members of said board, with all and singular rights and powers of the elected members. Sec. 2, Be it further ordained, that all ordinances and parts of ordinances in con flict with this ordinance, be and the same are hereby repealed. Ordinary’s Advertisements, QTATE OF GEORGIA, O 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 esta’e. This is therefore to cite all persons con cerned, kindred and creditors, to show' ciuse, 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 $1450 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- A folk 18.05 Atlanta to Philadelphia via Wash ington 13.50 Atlanta to New York via Richmond and 'Washington 21.00 Atlanta to New York via Norfolk, \ a. and Cape Charles Route 20.55 Atlanta to New York via Norfolk, \a, and Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Company, via Wash ington _ 21.00 ■-wi>i kv ia Ni>rf k, \a., Bay Line steamer to Balti more, and rail to New York 20.55 Atlanta to Mew York via Norfolk and Old Dominion 8. S. Co. meals and stateroom included) 20.25 Atlanta to Boston via Norfolk and watner (meals and stateroom in cluded) 21 50 Adanta to Boston via Washington and Mew York 24.00 . n r > a - e ment i°ned above to Washing ,n i u a '? more ’ Philadelphia, New York a'l are , l :! less than by any other \ti In ?A- The above rates apply from L f ~ tickets to the east are sold from P® !nts in the territory of the Spates Passenger Association, .aboard Air Line, at $3 less than any other all rail line. t; . ’’ r t’ckets, sleeping car accommoda •'••-au on or address B. A. NEWLAND, Gen. Agent Pass Dept. T p i ' VM -BISHOP CLEMENTS, __ ■ ■ A., Mo, 6 Kimball House, Atlanta -‘■O'lg, pure. tec.*) A U d'rugxisi* L'ENVOI. The smoke upon y- nr altar dies. The flowers <!<•<•« y. The goddess of your sacrifice Has flown away. What profit, then, to ► ing or slay The sacrifice from day to flay? “We know the shrine is void,” they said. “The goddess flown— Yet wreaths are on the altar laid— The altar stone Is black with fumes of sacrifice, Albeit she had fled our eyes. “For it may be, if still we sing Ami tend the shrine, Some deity on wandering wing May there incline, And finding all in order meet Stay while we worship at her feet.” —Rudyard Kipling. WHEN FIRE BREAKS OUT. Keep Cool and Remember and Fol low These Instructions. In case of fire, if the burning articles are at once splashed and sprayed with a solution of salt and nitrate of am monia an incombustible coating is formed. This is a preparation which can be made at home at a trifling cost and should be kept on hand. Dissolve 20 pounds of common salt and ten pniimls of nitrate of aiAumnia in seven gallons of water. Pour this into quart bottles of thin glass and fire grenades are at hand ready for use. These bot tlesvGiust lie tightly corked and sealed to prevent evaporation, and in case cf fire they must be thrown, near the flames, so. as to break and liberate the gas contained. At least two dozen of these bottles should be ready for an emergency. In this connection it is well to re member that water on burning oil scat ters the flame, but that flour will ex tinguish it. Salt thrown upon a fire if the chimney is burning will help to deaden the blaze. If a fire once gets under headway and prompt exit be comes a necessity, „ silk handkerchief dipped in water and wrapped about the month and nostrils will prevent suffoca tion from smoke; failing this, apiece of wet flannel will answer. Should smoke fill the room, recall your physics remember that smoke goes first to the top of the room and last to the floor. Wrap a blanket or woolen garment about you, with the wet cloth over your face, drop on your hands and knees and crawl to the win dow. Bear in mind that there is no more danger in getting down from a three story window than from the first floor if yon keep a firm hold of the rope or ladder. Do not slide, but go hand over band.—New York Tribune. Too Welt Imitated. It is no easy matter for a violin maker to rival the famous Stradivarins instru ments, but this an American maker did and did so effectually that experts pro nounced his violin a genuine Stradi varius. The successful man was the late George Gemunder, a famous violin mak er of New York. His remarkable ability as a preparer of violins was known to many a distinguished player, such as Ole Bull, Remenyi and Wilhelmj. But he made, so runs the story, his greatest success at the Paris exposition of Eiffel towel- fame. To that exhibition he sent an imitation Stradivarins, and to test its merits had it placed on exhibi tion as the genuine article. A committee of experts?carefully ex amined the instrument and pronounced it a Stradivarins. So far Mr. Gemun den's triumph was complete. But now came a difficulty. When he claimed that it was not an old violin, but a new one made by himself, the committee would not believe him. They declared he never made the instrument and pro nounced him an imposter. He had done his work too well. —Youth’s Compan ion. A i r (’nut les. Living in the future is living in an air castle. The man who says he will lead a newer and a better life tomorrow, who promises great tilings for the fu ture and does nothing in the present to make that future possible, is living in. an air castle. In his arrogance he is at tempting to turn water into wine, to have harvest without seedtime, to have an end without a beginning. If we would make our lives grand and noble, solid and impregnable, we must forsake air castles of dreaming for strongholds of doing. Let us think little of the future except to determine our course and to prepare for that fu ture by making each separate day the best ami truest that we can. Let us live up to the fullness of our possibility ea< h daj. has only < 1 —today. He did live yesterday, he may live tomorrow, but he has —-only today. —Saturday Evening Post. Hr Supports the Proposition. Mrs. Blit-kens— The president of our club is going to lecture next Tuesday evening on “Conversation as a Lost Art. " Mr. Blickens (yawning)—That so? Mrs. Blickens- Well, why don’t you go on and make some sarcastic com ment about the impossibility of conver sation living a lost art while women re main on earth? Os course that is what you think. Mr. Blickens—-No; I agree with your president. Conversation is a lost art. When only one side can be heard, it is merely talk.—Chicago News. When the Kettle sinui. The reason why hot water makes a simmering noise is a very simple one. As tiie water heats, little bubbles of steam are formed at the bottom of the kettle. These rush upward and. being attracted to the sides of the kettle, they make a commotion which sets the metal in vibration, and the kettle “sings.’’ ■ > In tiie Imperial library at Calcutta more than 100,000 volumes on Indian affairs are brought together and classi fied Man was made to ni urn and woman was i. id to sr-o that he d .-es it.—Chi cago Record. THEGAAIEOFyIOITS. CAN BE PLAYED ANY PLACE AND IS SPLENDID EXERCISE. It Im n X cry Ancient I'nKlish Pas time. and llx llckinnJiiaas Are Lost In the Xllmt of l«es—Fine Training For the Eye nnd Arm. There are some games which have never had their boom, and quoits is one of them. Still, as nothing happens but the unexpected, it may be that the time is nearly ripe for quoits to be taken out <>f its undeserved obscurity, to be exalt ed to the status of a national game, to have weekly papers named after it and to have columns in the sporting press devoted to the doings of its champions. Stranger things have happened. Who. for instance, would have said when at the end of the sixties a few energetic sportsmen went wobbling about on bone shaking bicycles which jt would have teen far easier to push than to ride that at the end of the century consider ably more than 100,900 bicycles would be manufactured annually in Great Britain alone and that a great part of the population would adopt this means of locomotion? One cannot im agine that quoits will ever attain such popularity as the bicycle, but the nn prejudiced person can see no reason why it should not become as favorite a pastime as golf, which a very few years ago was almost unheard of south of the Tweed. Quoits is a very fine game, especially in the winter time. It is splendid exer cise and trains the eye and the hand to act together in away that few other sports can do, for the very essence of it is accuracy <>f aim at a mark placed be low the level of the hand. It has teen objected that throwing quoits makes the player lopsided, but, after all. that is easily remedied, for there is nothing to prevent the player throwing the quoit with his left hand if he so pleases, and such a change would make a varia tion in the game and also afford an ex cellent method of handicapping the men of unequal skill. Quoits strengthens the arms and shoulders, but it is not a pas time which primarily demands strength. A great advantage of the game is that it can be played in any small space and that the ground need not be particular ly- level. Any rough field or waste bit of ground is good enough for a quoits pitch, and no rolling or cutting is re quired to satisfy the demands of the most exigent. For cricket you need a carefully prepared wicket, for lawn tennis and croquet a piece of turf like a billiard table and for golf the test part of a country all to yourself, but for quoits you only need a few yards of rough ground, and you have as good a place for throwing as any one can pos sibly require. People certainly might play quoits more than they do, but the taking up 9f a game is usually a matter of fancy, and perhaps two things stand in the way of quoits. First, there is an idea that it is a “rustic.’’ sport and can only be played by the rough country lads, and, second, there is tho legend that the game is derived from the classical discus throwing, a suspicion which it must be confessed is enough to throw a slur on any well regulated game. No treatise on quoits can begin with out the time honored pedigree of the quoit from the discus. Strutt, who lived at the end of the last century, of course dealt with it. and equally of course he dragged in the discus even if he did not invent the descent of quoits from the sports of ancient Greece. The thing, of course, is absurd. To make a discus, the artisan did not, in the words of the immortal Irishman, take a hole and put some irun around it. The discus was more like a flattened Dutch cheese and was a solid missile. Moreover, it was not held in the same manner as a quoit, but was bowled underhand, in which indeed it alone differs from putting the weight. That quoits is now played chiefly in the country is the fault of those who do not play it and bring it into fashion. It is no doubt a very ancient English game, and its beginnings are lost in the mist of ages. Hakluyt mentions it in his book of “Voyages,” so it was well known in Queen Elizabeth’s time, when it probably was one of the favorite sports of Merrie England. In some parts of the country the rustics used to employ horseshoes for want of properly made quoits, and there are districts in which the quoit is called a “shoe” even to this day. This gives us the clew- to the most probable origin of the sport and hints that the first game of quoits was started by throwing old horseshoes at the hob or mark, and from this grad ually grew up the practice of having quoits specially made for throwing. So much for the discus legend. As for the word “quoit” itself, its etymology is more than doubtful, and it gives us no clew whatever to the origin of the game. Shakespeare, who mentions every thing except tobacco, of course has a reference to the sport, and as Hakluyt was a contemporary of his it may be held to show that the spacious times of Great Elizabeth were the palmy period of quoits. It is true that he does not speak of the sport in very reputable connection, for the only mention of it occurs in the scene in which Prince Henry, Falstaff, Peins and the rest were' in the Boar’s Head tavern, in Eastchepe. Falstaff, in giving a char acter sketch of the young prince, ob serves that be plays quoits well, but the context very clearly , shows that in Queen Elizabeth's time at any rate quoit playing was looked down upon as the idle man’s recreation, much as skit tles is with us. That fat Jack Falstaff, disreputable old fellow as he was, meant to imply no good of tiie prince bv his reference to ouu'its is very ex i dent. This is the only reference to quoits in Shakespeare, and it is a libel, though the sling is taken out. of it by th- fact that it is put into the mouth of Falstaff Physical < .'ulture. A RUNAWAY ICE YACHT. An I veiling ( httse nnd it % arrow E«- c ’»!><» From hratb. Some years th* re was a runaway j down at Shelter Island in which a j young girl was left, in the boat with a gale blowing She tried to throw the sheet loos- but it was frozen and her fingers were too cold, added to which the sheet bad f tiled the tiller, and she could not bring the boat up into the wind to stop it- v;,;-. th sail being ho set that the Gat c ntinned running right along at a t> rrifie rate of speed. Occupants <f 1' ..fhvr boats soon realized the posit ion and made chase, gaining vly. one boat finally being far in the lead of the others by the time the end of the island was left behind. Right in front by th -nd of the i, •• broken short bv the tion of the tide water, and tin i Git n ak-r ■ Jb-d in. throwing up tiie aticb r ice. dashing it down, and then retreating, sucking it uiid-i the floe and packing it up for an other break. For some tim > it was a question as to whether the <i. - ■ L t t would catch up with tin .1 > ■ was carried over the edge to certain death But at last the boats came together fotGine brief second, the girl was snatched by strong arms to the pursue:'s yacht, the sheet was eased off in a flash, and, spin ning.round ia its own length, it was set right |bt fore the wind instead of reaching into it, just as the runaway dashed over into the anchor ice. A short, sharp crack gave notice of the parting of the ice beneath the very runners of the now homeward bound savior, and with a long stagger, which only her speed enabled her to with stand, she dashed across the fast opin ing crack, safe, to be brought up into the wind at a distance, while the late runaway danced, a wreck, among the broken ice. It was one of the close calls of ice yachting which, thank goodness, very seldom occur: W. I’. Pond in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly LUCKY DEUCE OF SPADES. Relink rk nlile Run of 1-nck, but AB For the Other Xian. One by one the old superstitions urn being torn from us. People nowadays walk ostentatiously under ladders and suffer no evil consequences. Friday is quite a popular daj’ for the commence ment of a long journey, and sitting down 13 nt dinner is frequently unat tended with untoward results. A deep ly rooted superstition among card play ers is a belief in the lucky properties of the two of spades. The present writer's faith, however, was severely shaken by a phenomenal coincidence which occur red only a few days ago. Sitting down to a game of whist, he thoroughly shuffled both packs of cards, and happened to notice that tho two of spades was the bottom card of one of the packs. “This ought to bring me luck, ” he remarked to his friends. He then took up the second pack, and was astonished to find that the two of spades was also at the bottom of that. Words failed to express his amazement when, in drawing for partners and deal —the cards had teen shuffled again he once more drew the two of spades. The odds against this triple event oc curring must be enormous, but more was to follow. The deal fell to the writer, and the turn up card was the in evitable two of spades! After this the dealer felt justified in believing he was in for a good evening. As a matter of fact, ho lost six rubbers in succession.—London Mail. Children nnd Holin. Writing in Tho Contemporary Re view, Professor Sully discusses tho curi ous aspects in which children regard dolls. He says: Professor Hall has brought to light some curious prefer ences of children. He tells ns, forex ample, that, whereas out of 845 children 191 preferred wax dolls, as many as 144 pronounced in favor of rag ones. Odd preferences are sometimes shown with regard to size. A lady writes me that she preferred 4 inch halfpenny dolls because there was so much more to be done with these in the way of putting on wigs made from doormats, inking in eyebrows, etc. On the other hand, another English lady tells me that her childish ambition was the possession of a big doll “one that would fill my arms and take some of the cuddling that I wanted to bestow and which no body seemed to want.” This girl image is. so fur as the uninitiated adult can divine, the true child’s doll. <on 1 fieldm of the World. Geologists estimate the great coal fields of the world in square miles aa follows: China, 200,000; United States, east of the Rockies, 190,000; Canada, 65.000; India, 35,500; New South Wales. 24.000; Russia, 20,000. and the United Kingdi m, 11,500. There are many deposits in other countries, but their extent is inconsiderable. Eng land's coal area is small; still eh« for years produced more than any other country. Now the United States is ahead. English coal veins are thin; one only 14 inches wide has teen worked 1,200 feet down. On the other hand, there are veins in the Pennsylvania an thracite region 60 feet thick and in the bituminous regions 18 f-et thick. Our Appalachian coalfields are the lar gest known, and alone could supply the whole world for centuries to come An OrlKinal Oath <>t Allc«lnni-e. In the old days when the Spanish province of Aragon was a proud and independent monarchy the people used, when choosing their king, the following singular form of election: “We, the freeborn inhabitants of the ancient kingdom of Aragon, who are equal to you, Don Philip, and ■- La - thing more, elect y >u to be our king on condition that you pre-.- rv- to ns our rights and piivib g-:- If in this you should fail, w- own y. -i for our king no longer - R nnd Ta- ble | _ ICASTORIfI I ■ For Infants and Children. 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