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TTT■' ' m /T W. TT IK T < "W TT HE MORNING GAT J ————— I I - . —— . , . ■ - ■ . - ■ - - - ■ ■ . - ■ - - . - ■ - - __ VoL IX. No. 160. Important Caae Againit the Central- In 1895 Dr. H. A. Cannon, of Allans ta. then in Camilla, purchased a round trip ticket to Atlanta, to the exposi tion then in full blast. When the doctor purchased the ticket he was required by the contract on the back of the ticket to put his name upon it for purposes of identifi cation before a validating officer in Atlanta, who had to stamp it before it was good for a return. The doctor, instead of writing his name in ordinary script, printed bis name with his pen in capital letters. Tq this the agent at Camilla rem onstrated, but seeing nothing against it on that ticket sold it to him,but put the doctor on notice that be might have trouble with it. It seems that the admonition was prophetic, for the validating officer refused to validate the ticket and when the Doctor got on the Central train to attempt to ride on it he was put off at Giiffin. This is a suit for damages for such ejectment. The case was ably argued by Gov. Boynton and Judge Seeks for the ruilroad and Judge R. T. tfanieFfor the plaintiff. The case will be concluded this morning with the charge of the court —all argument having been completed. *, Another Lock- A. J. Burr, who was stopped from putting up an iron building in rear of Odd Fellows’ hall, made another peti tion asking permission to put up a4- inch thick brick building. Council met yesterday to consider this petition, and alter much discus sion, it was rejected. Mr, Burr being present, amended his petition making the wall 8 inches thick, which brought on more talk and lobbying. Finally Alderman Blakely moved that that petition be not granted, which was seconded by Aiderman Davis and a vote was taken. Aidermen Blakely and Davis voting for the motion. Aidermen Oxford, Reid and Mitchell declining to vote. The' failure of a majority of the council to vote naturally caused more talk, during which Mr. Burr withdrew bis petition, after expressing in very plain terms, his feeling incident to the treatment he had received. J. J. Camp was unanimously elected street overseer, when council adjourn ed. The Latest War News- More activity was displayed yester day in the preparations for war in the United States than at any time since the existence of the strained relations with Spain. The Spanish securities are rapidly declining and the Madrid papers rec ognize the existence of a financial panic. The Spanish torpedo squadron is ready to leave for Cuba, if it has not already done so. Another reinforcement of Spanish troops embark for Cuba, tho second installment within a week There is no longer any doubt as to the determination of the president to recognize Cuban independence and that action will mean the Spanish evacuation of Cuba or war with the United States. The naval board at Havana has piac 'tically finished its work and baa found nothing to substantiate the tbeo rj»hat the Maine was wrecked by an acci dent. The prospect of trouble between the United States and Spain has caused the rebellion in the Philippine Islands to break out again. Census Enumerator. Capt. W. B. Hudson has been ap pointed by the county board of educa tion and a committee hom the city council to take the census of Griffin. The census will be taken in two forms —to ascertain the number of children within the city limits of school ages, which is fcr the board of educg tion, and then the names of all the citizens of Griffin for the benefit of the •Uy. Toe captain will enter upon these duties as soon as he is provided with proper blanks fho Ae- liails “* r jXZ x '/>-j-— er«ry Kwerybody Say. So. Cascarets Gandy Cathartic, the most won derful medic! J discovery of the age, pleas ant and refn shing to the taste, act gently Bnd positively on kidneys, liver and bowels, cleansing the\entire system, dispel colds, cure beadacbej fever, habitual constipation and biliousness. Please buy and try a box of C. C. C. to-day; l<h 25, so cents. Sold and guaranteed to cure by oil druggists. Mrs- Danbuy’s Patriotism. “Os course we want war 1” exclaimed Mrs. Danbury, according to the Cleve. land Leader. “The idea of letting such an outrage go unpunished! I don’t care whether the Spaniards did it or not They deserve to be whipped, any. way. If they hadn’t oppressed those poor Cubans our boat wouldn’t have been ordered to go down, there, and the terrible thing would probably not have happened. “People who want to wait until the facts can be learned are cowards. They have no right to live in a free country. They should go back to Europe where they or their ancestors came from and be serfs. If liberty isn’t worth fighting for it isn't worth having. “I just wish I were a man! I can tell you I would show some of these cowards how to act at such a time as this!” “Bravo! Bravo!” exclaimed her hus band. “Spoken like a regular little patriot! Your sentiments are mine exactly. I’m glad you take such a noble view of it, for now I shall not have to hesitate any longer There is something I have wanted to tell you for two days, but I have hesitated for fear it might distress you. lam going to join a military company so as to be ready to go to the front at the first call to serve my country. I am so glad you ” “John!” exclaimed Mrs. Danbury, “are you crazy ? Do you mean to say that you would go away to war and leave me here alone? You will join no military company 1 You will stay right here, no matter what happens! This country has never done anything for you! Let others do its fighting if it gets into trouble. Here, take a cup of tea. It’ll be good for your head!” Things Worth Knowing. Do not mend a kid glove with sew ing silk, for the silk cuts the kid and shows the mend more plainly, while a fine cotton thread gives a much more satisfactory result. If a glove is torn, put a piece of silk of corresponding shade under ttWlOrn part, baste care fully, bo as not to reveal the stitches on the right side,and then draw up the rent with cotton thread. Chemists say that it takes more than twice as much sugar to sweeten pre*, serves and sauces if put in when they begin to cook than it does if the sugar is added after the cooking is done. Always fold a dress skirt right side out for packing, as it will not wrinkle so much. A few drops of tincture of benzoin in a bowl of water is an admirable tonic for the face. The benzoin whitens the skin and prevents it from wrink ling. Do not put a coat or dress away with dust in the folds or plaits. Shake the garment well and brush with a soft whisk broom, for dust is never so easi ly removed as at first. When there is danger of frost in the cellar during cold weather, carry down several pailsful of hot water and sprin kle the contents over the floor. Even if this should form into ice there will be less danger of freezing fruit and veg etables, for water in freezing takes the frost out of the air. New earthenware should be soaked for 24 hours in cold water before using, as it will then be less liable to crack. The South Not Dependent. It is undoubtedly true that this sec tion needs more capital to fully develop its industrial possibilities; but to bold for a moment that there is not suffi cient energy and mechanical skill in the South to utilize fresh capital, 'without the infusion of Northern brawn and brain, is to cast an unde served slur upon our own people. It is certainly not Northern enterprise and energy that are taking the control of the cotton goods trade from New England, and transferring the center of the iron industry from Pennsylva nia to Alabama ; hence why should we look to other than our own energy and initiative to carry on the develop ment which has been so well com menced.—-New Orleans Picayune. Best of All To cleanse the system In a gentle and truly beneficial manner, when the springtime comes, use the true and perfect remedy, Syrup of Figs. One bottle will answer for all the family and costs only 50 cents; the large size |l. Buy the genuine. Manu factured by the California Fig Syrup Com pany only, and for sale by all druggists. Theta- _ dalle Hi. 9RIFFIN, GEOR&IA, SATURDAY MORNIN9, MARCH 12, 1898. Before the Christian Era- Some of cur most common vegeta blea seem to have cotne to us from a time that is immemorial. Asparagus was in use 200 years before the birth of Christ. According to Heroditua, lettuce was in use even earlier than as paragus, for it waa cultivated as early as 550 B C. Not only was it grown, but it was so grown as to be had at all times of the year, and even blanched to make it white and tender What better does the gardener of today? T)/e cucumber is one of the vegetables named in early Bible history, though some claim that melons were really meant. As to the melon, the date of its first cultivation is lost in antiquity, but Pliny records its use, and, as he died in A. D. 79, it is probably as old as the cucumber. Carrots and turnips were in use as garden vegetables be fore the Christian era. No one seems to have been able to traee the origin of either the pumpkin or the squash, but we read that pumpkin pies were made more than 300 years ago after this recipe: Cut a hole in the aide, take out the seeds and filaments, stuff with a mixture of apples and spices, and then bake till done. The ancient Greeks used to offer turnips, beets and radishes in their obligations to Apollo. The first they offered in dishes of lead, and the second in silver, but the third was offered in “vessels of beaten gold.” Parsnips we find mentioned by Pliny as being brought to Rome from the banks of the Rhine at the command of Emperor Tiberius, for use on his ta ble—Waverly Magazine. The Human Body. In the human body there are about two hundred and sixty-three bones. The muscles are about five hundred in number. The lenghtb of the alimen tary canal is about thirtystwo feet. The amount of blood in an adult aver ages thirty pounds, or fully one-fifth of the entire weight. The heart is six inches in length and four inches in diameter, and beats seventy times per minute, 4,200 times an hour, 100,800 times per day, 36,792,000 times per year, and 2,565,440,000 in three score and ten, and at each beat two and a half ounces of blood are thrown out of it, one hundred and seventy-five ounces per minute, sixty hundred and fifty-six pounds per hour, seven and three-quarter tons per day. All the blood of the body passes through the heart in three minutes. This little organ, byJits ceaseless indus try, pumps each day what is equal to lifting one hundred twenty-two tons one foot high, or one ton one hundred and twenty-two feet high. The lunge will contain about one gallon of air at their average degree of inflation. We breathe oq an average twelve hun dred times an hour, inhale 600 gallons of air, or 24,000 per day. The aggre gate surface of the air cells of the lungs exceeds 20,000 square'inches, an area nearly equal to the floor of a room twelve feet square. The average weight of the brain of an adult is three pounds and eight ounces ;of a female two pounds and four ounces. The nerves are all con nected with it, directly or by the spinal marrow. These nerves, together wih their branches and minute ramifica tions, probably exceed 10,000,000 in □ umber, forming a “body-guard” out numbering by far the greatest army ever marshalled! The skin is composed of three layers and varies from one-fourth to one eighth of an inch in thickness. The atmospheric pressure being about fourteen pounds to the square inch, a person of medium size is subject to a pressure of 40,000 pound". Each square inch of skin contains 3,500 sweating tubes, or perspiratory pores, each of which may be likened to a little drainpipe one-fourth of an inch long, making an aggregate length of the entire surface of the body of 201,- 166 feet, or a tile ditch for draining the body almost forty miles long. To Him Who Wait*. What sudden changes can take place. Less than two weeks ago the widow Keys was working for a certain gentleman in Dahlonega for 50 oents per week. The last week sbe broke a lamp chimney and only bad 40 cents left after paying for the breakage. To day she could buy everything that man bad and have plenty of money left. Such beneficial changes always keeps ns in good heart, hoping tuat we will be a second Jay Gould one of these days Who knows?—Dahlonega Nug get. Rajral a»k«, the leeS pen, POWDER Absolutely Pure mvai iakiho rowoes 00., mw vom. Farmers at Griffin. Vice President Egan, of the Central Railway, is helping the state to make its agricultural experiment station at Griffin of greater benefit to the people of Georgia, by giving the farmers and their families who live along the line of the road an opportunity to visit the experimental farm and see for them selves what’ is being done there, and how jt is dune. Day before yesterday an excursion train carrying more than six hpbdred people put into Griffin, and Col. Redding, the director of the experiment station, gave all an oppor tunity to make a thorough investiga tion of every department of the work. There is mtrch to be seen at Experi ment Col. Redding has secured the services of an expert dairyman, and under his direction one of the choicest Jersey herds in Georgia has been col lected- Mr. Wing thoroughly under stands of butter and cheese making, and it was chiefly to have the farmers’ wives and daughters meet him and learn something of his meth ods that Mr. Egan arranged this ex cursion. IJ the Central Railway will only continue ,the work which it baa so auspiciously begun, the good results will-««Ma ba manifoatad by tba im proved methode adopted by the farmers ail along its lines.—Columbus En quirer. New York Harbor All Bight. If the president, through Mark Hanna, is endeavoring to reach a set tlement of the Maine issue on the stock jobbing basis of “peace at any price” he will find a patriotic Ameri can congress standing firmly between him and such a settlement. He will find that public sentiment, fully aroused, will not consent that the American people shall be shamed be* fore the world as cowards and willing blood-money beneficiaries. He will find that he has reached a point be yond which he may not wisely go in the direction of ignoring thosacredness of the national honor and the sacred duty of the president of lhe United States in maintaining that honor.— St. Louis Republic. Both the method ana results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cores habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste ana ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50 cent bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro’ cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it Do not accept any substitute. CMJFMHIA FK SIRUP CO. 9AK HUtMCO. CAL iMmuu. kt. roiu. *r. IT IS TRUE, IF YOU SEE IT IN MY ADVERTISEMENT! I Every article of Winter Wear at absolute cost for the next two weeks. ' *• . I WILL BE ABSENT, VISITING THE WHOLESALE MARKETS AND PURCHASING THE NOBBIEST LINE OF CLOTHING EVER SHOWN IN GRU ?IN. * / • ■' In the Mean Time IT WILL PAY YOH TO BUY ANY THING YOU MAY NEED % IN WINTER GOODS, AS YOU WILL GET IT AT ABSOLUTE NEW YORK COST, FOR THE. CASH. THOS.J.WHITE Clothier, Furnisher and Hatter. R. F. Strickland X Co. (pV- 1 ■ dimi .-f low Lj/l PRICED SHOES! ' Ladies Rubbe t s 35c - »nd 50c. -i""; M ens Rubbers 50c. Childrens Rubbers 35c. mm IWD fey Boys and Girls School Shoes 75c,, M w-oo $1.25. \ Txk * WK Mr Ladies beavy.buUon or lace Shoes ’ Mens wet weather Shoes keep THE savoy your feet dry. - li. F. STRICKLAND & CO. 1 -1. ———— BANKRUPT SALE OF HARDWARE! Having bought at Sheriff’s sale | the entire stock Hardware, Stoves, Tinware, Farming Implements, etc., of C. H. JOHNSON & SONS, we are determined to close it out with in 60 days. Such bargains in Hardware as you will find in our store have never before been offered in Griflfin. W. D. Davis & Bro. . Ten Cents per Week