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■ANNOUNCEMENTS.
" For County Surveyor.
I hereby announce candidate
tor County Surwor of Spading of June’
object to the democratic
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For County Commissioner.
wnrroß OAIX: Please announce that I
„ . candidate for re-election for County
JJLmfjwioper, subject to the action of the
primary, and will be glad to
JSSewPPOrtot all the voters. •
bavetne TIDWELL.
At the solicitation of many voters I
bert by announce myself a candidate for
County Commissioner, subject to the dem
ocratic primary. If elected, I pledge my
self to an honest, business-like administra
tion of county affairs in the direction of
lower taxes. R. F. STRICKLAND.
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1 hereby announce myself a candidate
for County Commissioner, subject to the
democratic primary to be held June 28,
next. If elected. I pledge myself to eco
nomical and business methods in conduct
ing the affiirs oi the county. K _
W. J. FUTRAL.
I hereby announce myself a candidate
for County Commissioner of Spalding
county, subject to the Democratic primary
ol June 23d. W. W. CHAMPION.
To the Voters of Spalding County: I
‘ hereby announce myself a candidate for
re-election to the officeoi County Commis
sioner of Spalding county, subject to the
democratic primary to be held on June 23,
1898. My record in the past is my pledge
for future faithfulness.
D- L. PATRICK.
For Bepresentatiye. . '
>To the Voters oi Spalding County:' I
am a candidate for Representative to the
legislature, subject to the primary oi the
democratic party, and will appreciate your
support. J. P. HAMMOND. .
Editor Call: Please announce my
name as a candidate for Representative
from Spalding county, subject to the action
ot the democratic party. I shall be pleased
to receive the support of all the voters,and
if elected will endeavor to represent the
interests of the whole county.
J. B. Bell;
For Tax Collector.
I respectfully announce to the citizens
of Spalding county that I am a candidate
for re-election to the office of Tax Collec
tor of this county, subject to the choice of
the democratic primary, and shall be
grateful for all votes given me.
T. R. NUTT.
For County Treasurer.
To the Voters of Spalding County: I
announce myself a candidate for re-elec
tion for the office of .County'Treasurer,
subject to democratic primary, and if elect
ed promise to be as faithful in the per
formance of my duties in the future as I
have been in the past. %
J. C. BROOKS.
For Tax Receiver.
I respectfully announce myself as a can
didate for re-election to the office of Tax
Receiver of Spalding eounty.subject.to the
action of primary, if one is held.
S. M. M’COWELL.
For Sheriff.
I respectfully inform my friends—the
people of Spalding county—that I am a
candidate for the office of Sheriff, subject
to the verdict of a primary, if one is held
Your support will be thankfully received
and duly appreciated.
M. J. PATRICK.
I am a candidate for the democratic
nomination for Sheriff, and earnestly ask
the support Os all my friends and the pub
lic. If nominated and elected, it shall be
my endeavor to fulfill the duties of the of
fice as faithfully as m the past.
M. F. MORRIS.
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FOOD FOR
STARVING CUBANS
should be sent by Uncle Bam with a mus
ket to every basketful. Every basket of
groceries we send to your order is sent on
a guarantee of purity and high grade ex
cellence. Our groceries and meats are
worthy of your special attention this week
J. R. SHEDD.
Low Rates to Biltimore, Ki., May 4-28»
g' 1893.
Account of the quadrennial general con
ference M.E. church, south, Baltimore,
May 1-28, the Southern Railway will sell
tickets May 2,8,4, With final limit May
81,1898, at half rates—one fore round trip;
Choice of routes, via Washington, all rail,
or via Norfolk and steamer.
For full particulars address,
8. H. Habdwick,
A. G. P. A., Atlanta.
Randall Clifton,
T. P. A., Macon.
I C. 8. White, T. A., Griffin. ’
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Notice to Tax Payers.
K All city tax fi fas have been placed
in tny hands for collection, and levies
*’ll be made at once unless settlement
’•promptly made.
E J. IBON,
Chief Police.
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FALSE TEETH TRADE.
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I A REGULAR BUSINESS IN BUYING AND
BP SELUNGTHEM.
Sometimes the Discarded Seta Are Cleans
ed, Brightened Vp and Reeold, and
Sometimes They Are Broken Up For the
Old Gold In Thejp.
“Old False Teeth Bought.”
This is the sign which attracts the
attention of visitors to the office of a
certain dealer in dental and optical sup
plies who does business in Chicago.
“It’s queer how people are attracted
by that sign, ’’said the owner of the
establishment. “I never intended it to
be prominent, because there are ether
lines in my business I am more interest
ed in pushing, but it seems to fairly
force itself into the minds of everybody
who comes here, no matter what his
mission may be, and ‘old false teeth
bought’ is the only thing they can think
or talk about.
“There's nothing audacious in deal
ingin secondhand false teeth, although
I will admit the sign is an unusual one.
It is a legitimate branch of our trade.
With ordinary usage false teeth don’t
wear out and are just as good at the end
of a few years as they were when new.
The teeth themselves are valuable, and
the gold work used in binding even the
commonplace kind together is costly.
People are forever getting new ideas
about their teeth and keep the dentists
bugy changing or. building over their
artificial molars. Then, you remember
that a Whole lot of people who wear
false teeth are dying every day.
“Ten years ago there was no way Os
utilizing this old material. It was all
.dead waste, so to speak. But now it is
different, and people are more econom
ical. False teeth, especially if heavily
set with gold plates, are worth too much
money to be cast aside when new ones
are ordered or to be buried in a grave.
Thus It comes that a trade of consider
able proportions has sprung up in this
line, and old false teeth are a staple in
this market.”
“Wllo brings them here to sell and
what class of customers bny them?”
“Small dentists who are hard up
financially and lack the inclination or
facilities to clean up and build over the
discarded sets, which they are sharp
enough to retain from their patrons, are
the main source of supply. Sometimes
they make their patrons a little allow
ance for the old sets of teeth, but they'
get out of this whenever possible on the
plea that they are worthless. Then we
_have poor folk who cannot afford to
wear false teeth any longer come in
here occasionally and offer them for
sale. Undertakers? Well, that is a fea
ture of the trade I don’t care to talk
about I might be misunderstood, and
some people are so squeamish, you
know.
“Why, one woman came in here yes
terday to buy an opera glass. She look
ed like a good customer and was inspect
ing some high priced glasses when I
stopped to wait upon a man who fre
quently brings in some fine teeth. She
saw me take a set from him and pay
for them, and then, noticing probably
his somber clothes and an end of black
crape sticking out of one of his side
pockets, she flounced away in a fury
without a word of explanation. It is
hard to please everybody, and as times
are hard I have to be very careful. ”
“But what about your sales? Who
takes these old grinders and incisors
from you?’’
“Principally a class of men who
make a business of working over the
sets. When the outfit is in reasonably
good shape, it is given a thorough
cleansing, brightened up, and j;hen re
sold to dentists who have a cheap pat
ronage. A little tinkering will make
them fit after a fashion in the months
of people who want to make a show of
false teeth at small cost. Where the sets
are not good enough to be used entire
they are broken, up, the gold either
melted down or saved to be remodeled,
and the teeth themselves remounted as
they are needed for patients. It’s a good
thing for poor people, for many of them
are thus enabled to get passably fair
false teeth at a nominal price, when
otherwise they would have to go with
out, owing to the great expense. Excuse
me while I wait upon this woman.”
When The Inter Ocean man left the
establishment, the merchant was dick
ering with an ample proportioned Af
rican “aunty” for a double set of teeth
with heavy gold plates, which she said
she had found in a hotel where she
worked as chambermaid.
“Der genman* don’ go to ’at ’ors
pital, ” said aunty. “E’s wuz s 8 sick
when dey tak’ ’im way he don’ clar
forgot ’is teet*, an I doan’ ’speo’ he’ll
wau’/em any more. Steal ’em? No,
sah; no, sahl Boss, ’e say ’tak’ ole
truck ’way. I doan’ want ’em ’round
’ere. ’ Ole truck —umph, umph—why,
dat’s jes’ like flndin five dollahs.”—
Chicago Inter Ocean.
To Suppress Sweating.
A large number of the best women of
Syracuse, those identified with clubs
and those not so organized, have united
in a movement to suppress the sweating
system, so far as it exists in Syracuse.
A consumers’ league has been formed
and co-operation with the trades assem
bly is hoped for. The movement origi
nated with the Political Equality club
and was speedily indorsed by the House
hold Economic association, and from this
start has spread through many club and
social circles of Syracuse. The league is
formed on the lines of the New York
Ind Philadelphia organizations.
A French physician who has been
investigating the proper nutriment for
long distance bicycle riding has con
cluded that the ideal refreshment is
fruit and milk.
In Paris the chairs in the squares and
gardens are let out to visitors for a tri
fle each. From this source an income of
160,000 francs a year is derived.
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A CHILD’S USE OF MONEY.
Various Anawcra Received From • Large I
Number of Public School Puplla.
Dr. George E. Dawson of the Bible
Normal college has classified answers
received from 1,807 pupils of the public
schools of this city, given in response to
the question, “If you had $5, all your
own, what would' you do with it?”
Os those who passed in answers 669
were boys and 688 were girls, their ages
ranging from 6to 16. The answers are
grouped under nine general heads: 44
per cent would deposit the money In a
bank, 18.8 per cent would buy cloth
ing, 2.2 per cent would buy something
to eat, 15.8 per cent would buy toys
and other means of amusement, 2.1 per
cent would bny jewelry and finery,
nine-tenths of 1 per cent would buy fire
arms, 1.7 per cent would spend for
travel, 14 per oent would spend for oth
ers and 6 per oent would buy books, etc;
It is interesting to note the large per
cent who express a disposition to save.
Dr. Dawson attributes this largely to
the suggestability of the children. The
results in this respect resemble those
obtained in other fields of experiment
While the children do not realize the
full significance of saving, the idea has
been engrafted upon their minds and is
bound to have its influence. The fact
that this idea of saving has been thus
forcibly impressed on the minds of so
many is very significant and gives us a
hint of the immense influence of public
instruction.
In noting the per cent of those who
would buy clothing it should be remem
bered that many of the children were
in urgent need of something better tiJ
wear. Those who voted for something
to eat were mostly under 7 years of age.
In the class who would prefer amuse
ments the girls usually expressed a
wish for dolls and doll carriages while
the boys mostly desired pigeons, rabbits
or other pets. In regard to travel, the
figures show that as children grow old
er the desire to go out into the world
increases rapidly, reaching its height at
about the beginning of adolescence. The
desire shown by the boys for firearms is
an expression of the hunting instinct
that awakens when they are 10 or 12.
At that age boys like to get hold oi
books of hunting and adventure. The
tendency to buy books increases steadily
as the children grow older. This class
numbers about twice as many girls as
boys. The class which manifests a feeling
of altruism also numbers more girls
than boys, showing that the greater
generosity of women is strikingly man
ifest even at an early age.—Springfield
Republican.
An Important Coechman.
A large part of the charm of the alto
gether charming city of Washington is
found among the blacks. The drivers,
for example, of the various dilapidated
vehicles, which are by courtesy called
carriages, are thoroughly amusing. One
who drove a large, lank animal built
on the lines of a wooden horse and with
little more spirit in him sat on the
box of a four wheeler that would have
disgraced the stables of a country inn.
The flourish and elegance of that coach
man, however, were as fine as if he
wore the liveries of the president and
held the ribbons over the most prancing
steeds. He kept his eyes inflexibly fixed
upon the ears of his horse and drew up
at a destination with the air of reining
in a mettlesome charger. When his car
riage was emptied, he passed on with a
flourish and sweep, headed around and
at once put his entire outfit at sharp at
tention. The ceremony of approaching
the curb, on seeing his fare reappear,
was equally imposing. His green driv
er’s coat was ragged and shabby, his
hat was slightly battered and knew no
shine, his whip was as destitute oi
springs as were the seats of his brough
am, and the rough coat of his steed
was all that saved the animal from
gaunt emaciation, yet over the whois
establishment that inimitable darky
contrived to throw an air of elegance
that was as serious as laughable.—-New
York Post.
Soma Hair Cuts.
“There are lots of men,” says a Phil
adelphia barber, “who are very particu
lar about hair cuts, but wouldn’t have a
word to say if they didn’t have to pass
inspection before their wives when they
go home. I know one woman who goes
so far as to accompany her husband to
the barber shop. - There’s a regular cus
tomer of mine who is always attended
by his wife when he gets his hair cut,
and she stands right back of me while
I work. Every few minutes I atop, and
she looks over his bead and makes sug
gestions about a ‘little more off here;’
‘don’t shave his neck’ and a lot of such
comments. The waiting customers en
joy it pretty well, but I’ll bet you he
will want a divorce in a year, if he
hasn’t asked for it already. Ex
change.
Abyaainia’a Emperor.
The emperor of Abyssinia is about 6
feet in stature without shoes and ii
stoutly built His skin is very dark,
and he wears a short, curly beard and
mustache. His face is heavy in cast,
but is redeemed from positive plainness
by an extremely pleasant expression and
a pair of most intelligent eyes. His
smile takes in a wider section of the
circumference of his head than is com
mon and displays a particularly fine set
of teeth. He generally wears a large
black Quaker hat over a white silk
handkerchief tied around his head, and
a black silk, gold embroidered cloak
over a profusion of white linen under
clothing. ■
TWO PhMM.
“I detest that Mrs. Jones; she always
tells what all her clotbeaoost”
“Well, I detest Mrs. Brown; she
never will tell what she pays for any
thing. ’’—Detroit Free Press.
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i JAn latereetins Meeting. . h J
“What did you discuss at the clufc
today?”
Nothing. We just talked.’’—Har
per’s Bazar. ’•
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TRACING A LOST STUD.
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Xnok ot • Jeweler Who Dropped • Twe
Care* Diamond In the Street.
Some odd stories of the recovery of
lort diamonds are told by an old Union
squhre jeweler. One of them is his own
“OSTdky fort June,” he says, “I
happened to rooblhct that I was going
to a reception. Before leaving the store
X wrapped my two karat diamond stud
in a piece of tissue paper and slipped it
into my vest pocket. After dinner,
while dressing in my room, I went to
my pocket to get the stud. It was not
there. I put my hand in my fob pocket,
thinking it was surely there; then in
the other vest pocket, then in the inside
pocket, and then in my four trousers
pockets, but it was in none of them.
“ *1 left that on my desk,' I thought.
*1 will find it there in the morning. I
will put on a plain gold stud tonight.’
“The next morning the stud was not
to be found at the store. I thought of
every step I had taken on the way home,
and then called our porter.
“ ‘George,* said I, ‘just before I went
borne last night I slipped a diamond
stud, wrapped in tissue paper, into my
pocket, and, starting out of the store,
went across Broadway, through Union
Guare at Fifteenth street, going to the
It of the fountain, and then up the
center path to Seventeenth street and
Fourth avenue; I went down the right
hand side of Seventeenth street to Sec
ond avenue and then home. On my walk
home I have a distinct recollection of
putting my hand into my pocketYor my
penknife or something else. I must have
pulled out the stud and dropped it. Now
I want you to follow that path and look
carefully every step ot the way, and I
don’t want you to come back until you
have found the stud. *
“He started out and in less than half
an hour returned with the stud. He
had found it, still wrapped in the pa
per, in the gutter, a few steps this side
of Second avenue, and he went home
happy that night with a S3O goldpiece
in his pocket.”—New York Sun.
ANCIENT TIMEPIECES.
Various Methods of Measuring Time Prior
to the Invention of Clocks.
We need do no more than allude to
the habit after the reformation, and
especially in Scotland, of preachers
measuring their discourses by the hour
glass m the pulpit. These marked an
hour exactly. Those first made in
Charlemagne’s day ran for 12 hours.
Alfred the Great hit upon a method of
measuring time, which shows that there
was no Saxon one, though very proba
bly some of the monasteries (then the
only homes of knowledge) were ac
quainted with water clocks and hour
glasses, if not by practical knowledge
at any rata by hearsay.
However, the kingdom in general fol
lowed Alfred’s plan, which, though in
genious, necessarily lacked anything
like the accuracy of the other inven
tions. Yet the king’s idea was hailed as
a wonderful effort of genius, which, for
such an era by comparison with the
general ignorance, it was. As every
schoolboy (in this case literally) knows,
Alfred marked time by rushlights. A
long existence, by the way, has the rush
light enjoyed, seeing that middle aged
people still remember its use in the nurs
ery at night and the reflection of the
circular boles in the tall metal shades
on the ceiling.
Alfred, says an ancient authority,
“that he might properly know how
the hours passed, made use of burning
tapers which were marked with lines
and fixed in lanthorns, an expedient in
vented by himself.” So, by the way,
were in 892 the lanterns of scraped
horn which still some old fashioned
rustics prefer to glass. But tapers,
however, were then very expensive.
The king might himself use these, but
probably the nublight was used by peo
ple in general.—London Standard.
Lincoln’s Gift to a Fire Brigade.
The Sons and Daughters of Illinois
held a meeting in Boston at which Vice
President Henry Haynie told this story
of Lincoln:
“The fire hose company at Spring
field was very proud of its well equip
ped fire apparatus, and, desiring to pro
cure some extra supplies, subscription
papers were sent around. The small
boys, myself among the number, were
given a share in the work. I went up to
some dusty rooms over a grocery and
entered the law office of Lincoln. He
asked me numberless questions, and I
bad to tell him all'l knew of this fire
brigade and its members. Then he said:
‘ Well, I’U tell you what I’U da I’ll go
home to supper—Mm. Lincoln is gener
ally good natured after stopper—and
then I’ll tell her I’ve been thinking ot
giving SSO to the brigade, and she’ll
say, ‘‘Abe. will you never have any
sense? Twenty dollars is quite enough. ”
So tomorrow, my boy, you come around
and get your s2o.* Chicago Times*
Herald.
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<Mbe In Berlin.
When an American enters a cab in
Berlin for the first time, he is said to
be absorbed for half an hour in studying
the impressive notice hung up there
in for the benefit of passengers. Itreads;
literally translated, thus: “No passage
money has the passage guest to pay, if
to him not on the mounting of the cab
the valid passage tickets, on height of
the for a simple passage to be paid pas
sage money, by the coachman down
reached become are.”—Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Mo« Hto VMls. i
"Fweddy, why don’t you let your
mustache snrow?”
“Why don't I let it? Good heavens,
deah boy, I da but it won’t.”—Chica
go Record.
The natives of Siberia prepare a sin
gularly intoxicating beverage from a
coihmon mushroom.
Good cooking was introduced Inta
England by the Normans.
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AN OPEN LETTER
To MOTHERS.
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE
EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “ O ASTOBIA,” AND
“PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” as our trade mark.
Z, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, qjf Hyannis, Massachusetts,
was the originator qf “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” the same
that has borne and does now w every
bear the facsimile signature of wrapper.
This is the original “ PITCHER'S CASTORIA,” which has been
used in the homes of the Mothers of America for ooer thirty
years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is
the hind you have always bought on
and has the signature of wrap-
per. No one has authority from me to use my name ex
cept The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is
1897.
Do Not Be Deceived.
Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting
a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer yo”
(because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in
gredients of which even he docs not know.
“The Kind You Have Always Bought”
BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE GF "S||
~ Insist on Having
The Kind That Never Failed You.
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