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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
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subject to tbedemWtic prim&rvrtJ
for County Oommireiontr.
ffnrTOß Call : Please announce that I
candidate for fe-electton for County
JjLTmiMioner, subject to the action of the
9Swratic primary, and will be glad to
“7. .he support ot all the voters.
J. A. J. TIDWELL
h the solicitation of many voters I
hare by announce myself a candidate for
/bnnty Commissioner, subject to the dem
ocratic primary. If e’ected, I pledge my
self io an honest, business-like administra
tion of county affairs in the direction of
tower taxes. R. F. STRICKLAND.
1 hereby announce myself a candidate
for County Commissioner, subject to the
primary to be held June 23,
next. If elected. I pledge myself to eco
nomical and business methods in conduct
ing the affairs oi the county.
■< W. J. FUTRAL.
I hereby announce myself a candidate
for County Commissioner of Spalding
county, subject to the Democratic primary
St June 23d. W. W. CHAMPION.
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To the Voters of Spalding County: I
herebv announce myself a candidate for
re-election to the office of County Commis
sioner of Spalding county, subject to the
democratic primary to be held on June 23,
1898. My record in the past isSny pledge
for future faithfulness. n v •
: D. L. PATRICK.
ror ®*P NBen tative-
To the Voters of Spalding County: 1
am a candidate for Representative to the
legislature, subject to the primary ot the
democratic party, and will appreciate your
support. J• P. HAMMOND.
Editdb 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.
x J. B. Bell.
Tor Tax Collector.
I respectfully announce to the citizens
of Spalding county that 1 afo 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 Recsivor.
I respectfully announce myself as a can
didate for re-election to the office of Tax
Receiver of Spalding county .snbject to the
action of primary, if one is held.
♦ 8. ,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 of all my friends and the pub
lic. If nominated and elected, it shall be
my endeavor to fulfill the duties of the of
fice sb faithfully as m the past.
M. F. MORRIS.
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food for
STARVING CUBANS
should be sent by Uncle Sam with a mus
ket to every basketftji. Every basket of
groceries we send to your order Is sent on
a guarantee of purity and high grade ex
cellence. Ottr groceries and meats are
worthy of your special attention this week
J.X; SHEDD.
Low Bates to Baltimore, Ed.. Mty 4 2S’
1888.
Account of the quadrennial general con
ference M.E. church, south, Baltimore,
May 1-28, the Southern Railway will sell
tickets May,2,3,4,with final limit May
31,1898, at half rate*—one sere round trip.
Choice .of rdptee, via Washington, all rail,
or via Norfolk and steamer.
For fun particulars address,
<B. H.Baj&dwick,
A. G. P. A., Atlanta.
u. - Ramdall Gmfmn,
T. P. A.. Macon.
0. 8. White, T. A., Griffin.
Notice to 4ax Payers.
All city tax fl fas have bean placed
in my hands for collection, and levies
will be made at once unless settlement
| is promptly made.
’ * E. J. Ison,
Chief Police.
. ’ - FORMER DUELS.
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Soma of tho Wkmoua AflMn of Honor of
S the Part. _
. General Benedict Arnold fought a
3 duel near Kilburn Wells in 1791 with
Lord Lauderdale, who, after Arnold
miiteed him, refused either to fire or to
apologize, saying that if the general
r was not satisfied he could keep on firing
■ ttitil he waa In 1804 the turbulent
i Lord Oamelford, the symmetrical ar
i rangemwit of whose whips and sticks
over his chimneypiece is described by
Byron, “From tbo thick bludgeon to
the taper switch,’’ lost his life in a
duel he owed' to a vengeance de femme.
Captain Best had caught a sharper
named Symonds in the act of cheating
and kicked his face to a pulp. The
, man's wife wrote Oamelford an anony
mous letter to tell him his friend Best
had slandered him. A duel was fought
■kith pistols (they were the two best
shots in Efigland), and Camelford fell
with a mortal wound. “You have killed
me, Best, ” said "the dying man, “but
the fault is wholly mine. I relieve you
of all the blame. ” But men of mature
years and established reputation risked
life as recklessly as the wildest young
guardsmen or London rakes. _ • .. ; -
Charles James Fox fought a duel with
a cabinet minister, Mr. Adam, in 1779.
Four shots were exchanged. Adam
missed, Fox fired in the air and apolo
gized. “Sir,” said Adam, “you have
behaved like a man of honor. ” In India,
toward the end of the last century, a
duel was fought between Warren Hast
ings and Sir Philip Francis, the latter
being dangerously wounded. Shortly
afterward, in Bombay, Lord Macartney
and Mr. Sadler quarreled at the council
board, and: in the duel Macartney re
ceived a dangerous wound. The Earl <4
Talbot and John Wilkes, fighting a duel
at night in. the garden of the Red Lion
inn, at Bagshot, and discussing the
conditions of it beforehand in a private
room over a chop, is a tableau de mcrurj
George Calming was seriously wound
edXvhen he and Castlereagh met at Put
ney in. 1801 to exchange four shots. In
the duel between Henry Grattan and
Mr. Corry a bullet shattered the latter’s
arm. As late as 1835 Mr. Roebuck
fought a duel with Mr. Black of The
Morning’ Chronicle, when two shots
were exchanged without result The
fighting parson was then as well known
as the fighting editor. The Rev. Henry
Bate, editor of The Morning Post, was
both. A dead shot, and with what his
contemporaries call “a profligate
tongue,” he was most successful as a
duelist. He “pinked” “Fighting Fitz
gerald, ” a Mr. Temple, a young barris
ter who was his assistant editor, and
several others, but met his match at
last in Captain Robinson, who
gave him a severe wound, but whom
he also wounded.—Comhill Magazine.
The Number Thirteen.
The superstition that 13 is unlucky,
which is traced back to a sacred source,
meets with as many contradictions as
confirmations. The fact that the horri
ble fire in the Paris bazaar started at
booth 13 was telegraphed all around the
world, whereas little notice is attracted
by Nansen’s success With 13 men. At
one time 2 was a dreaded number in
England, owing to the dynastic disas
ters to all monarchs second of their
name from Ethelred H to George IL
Yet Napoleon’s number through all his
life was 2, and who oould wish for
better luck than came to Goody Two
Shoes or than that which results at
times from having two strings to your
bow? .
Three, which since the days of Py
thagoras has been the divine number,
shows that it is not invariably fortu
nate, for, though the fates are three, so
also are the furies. The graces are
three, but so also are the judges in
hades and the heads of Cerberus. Then
there aie the records of three disloyal
tribes in Welsh history; theife are the
three robbers in Orion's belt; there
were iRq three tyrants at Athens, and
8 in mythology is as unlucky as it
is divine. Just so clearly as it has been
shown in time that the unlucky 2
can be lucky and that the pleasant
8 can be unpleasant the followers of
the late Captain Fowler would show
that the unlucky 18 can be the luckiest
number there is. So we may as well
regret his departure, while we wish
success to his associates.—Boston Jour
nal.
Hla Authority.
Daniel Webster’s oratory was not al
ways of the ponderous orders Occasion
ally he would introduce a bit of humor
very effectively, an instance of which
The Green Bag gives as follows:
Daniel Webster when in full practice
was employed to defend the will of
Roger Perkins of Hopkinton. A physi
cian made affidavit that the testator was
struck with death when he signed the
will. Webster subjected his testimony
to a most thorough examination, show
ing by quoting medical authorities that
doctors disagree as to the precise mo
ment when a dying man is struck with
death, some affirming that it is at the
oomiienoement of the disease, others at
itacljmaxand others still affirm that
we bogin to die as soon as we are barn.
“I should like to know,” said the op
posing counsel, “what doctor maintains
that theory?”
“Dr. Watts,” said Mr. Webster, with
great dignity. “The moment we begin
to live we all begin to die. ”
Religion Versus Politics.
Clerk—Man wants transportation to
Chicago.
Railroad Official—Confounded cler
gyman, I suppose. Well, I hate to do
it, but you may sell him a ticket at
half fare. z
Clerk (a minute later)—Man says
he’s not a clergyman. He’s a member of
the legislature.
Railread Official—Ahi Tell him we
take pleasure in handing him a free
pass.—Brooklyn Life.
Smaller, but More Active. *
The tongue of woman is smaller than
that of man. —Exchange.
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ANOTHER “SPITE” BUILDING.
Curious Structure oa a Remnant of tbo
Do I’eyrter Property.
A “spite store,” whioh outdoes the well
known Richardson “spite house” on the
east aide, has just been completed in the
west end at West End avenue, the Boule
vard and One Hundred and Eighth street.
The store is one of the smallest buildings
•ver put up for the transaction oi busi
ness. It is 19 feet in depth and 9 feet in
width at One Hundred and Eighth street,
tapering to a sharp point at the south end.
It ts two stories lu height, and the occu
pant of the upper floor will be compelled
to ascend and descend upon a ladder. It
has a single wall of brick extending along
the rear. The front is of steel, with plate
glass windows, and the roof 1s of tile. '
This curious structure is erected upon a
remnant of the Do Peyster estate andorig
inally belonged to a large tract of land
purchased by the De Peyster family short
ly after the close of the Revolution, when
the De Peyster homestead was located Up
on the ground now occupied by St Lukrs
hospital, One Hundred and Thirteenth
street, Morningside Heights. The rem
nant was left when West End avenue, the
Boulevard and One Hundred and Eighth
street were opened, and Henry T. Coty,
the executor of the De Peyster estate, has
long been at a loss to know what to do
with It, ns Mrs. Sherman, the owner of
lots on the corner, refused to purchase it
The plot was at last leased for a term of
years to Michael M. McDermott of St
Nicholas aveiina, and he immediately be
gan to erect the tiny store upon bis claim.
Mrs. SheMhan, the owner 61 the sur
rounding property, came from Washing
ton at onoe to interfere with the work,
but found she eouid do nothing. Mean
while several persons with whom she was
negotiating for the able of her property
withdrew their option when they saw the
store being placed on tbq corner.
The structure is said to have cost more
than 89,090. It is erected upon a solid
concrete foundation to withstand revere
windstorms. The lower floor has been
fitted as a refreshment booth for bicyclists,
the roof baa also been leased to a atereop
tioon advertising firm, and the upper floor
is designed showroom s for special ties.
—New York Commercial.
The Drafted Soldier.
Onida stoutly denies that the soldier is
the highest type of humanity or that obe
dience is the highest human virtue. The
obedience which is exacted from the sol
dier is very much like slavery, and it is
no moral act and teaches no virtue.
“There is no servant, groom, artisan, farm
laborer or hireling of any kind so lazy, so
impudent, so insubordinate and re useless
as the young man who hats recently eomo
out from his term of compulsory service.
When Lord Wolseley utters the preposter
ous declaration that the education given
by conscription teaches a lad ‘all the qual
ities calculated to make him a thoroughly
useful and loyal citizen,’ has he the least
idea of what is the actual moral state of
the barrack yards and barrack rooms of
the armies of the continent? When the.
youth has had purity and strength of
character and of mind enough to resist
the contagion -in which he has been
steeped, he will in Dine instanoes out of
ten be a spoiled agriculturist, artisan,
student, laborer. .-- J .
“I can conceive nothing so appalling to
the world as would be the forcing of the
military temper down the throafc pf its en
tire multitudes. Militarism Is the nega
tion of individuality, of originality and of
true liberty. Its somber shadow is spread
over Europe. Its garroHng collar of steel
is on the throat of the people. The whole
people sweat, groan, perish, under the bur
dens laid upon them for the maintenance
of the vast battalions ot young men im
prisoned in barrack yards in enforced idle
ness ~Bnd sem{starvation.” Collier's
Weekly.
Celluloid.
Though the chemical oonstitutlon of cel
luloid is a matter of doubt, the art of man
ufacturing this peculiar modern product is
explained in a few words—an article, says
The Trade Journals' Review, made by the
combined action of pressure and heat, or
With the aid of solvents, in that case In
the cold. The camphor is dissolved in M
oohol, as little as poreible, and the solution
sprayed through a rose on to the pyrocy
lin, the latter perfectly dry, a second layer
of pyroxylin being then added, moistened
again with camphor solution, and so on.
The gelatinus lump is worked between Iron
rollers, to whioh it adheres, and the layer
is slit longitudinally and rolled again.
The cakes, .4 inch thick, are cut into
plates, about 2 feet by 1 foot, and pass for 94
hours into hydraulic presses, which are
doubly steam jacketed. The maw is now
sawed into plates, which are dried at about
95 degrees F., for a week or two and final
ly cut into smaller pieces, from which the
articles are stamped. Further, according
to a writer in The Qummi Zeltupg, it ap
pears that ht Magnus & Co. 'sooted estab
lishment in Bferlin the method pursued is
believed to consist in pouring 100 parts of
ether on 50 of collodion wool and 85 of
camphor, the covered mass being then
stirred in earthenware vessels with rubber
sticks until a homogeneous gelatinous
mass is obtained, and then rolled. Apart
from dyestuff and other additions, the
average celluloid constate of two-thirds
pyroxylin and one-third camphor.
Alaskan Squaws.
Alaskan squaws are not sensitive on the
subject of their age. On the contrary,
they take some trouble to make it known
to the world. They wear a piece of wood
or bone in the lower Up, the size of the
ornament indicating the age of the owner.
When a girl marries, her 'lower lip is
pierced and a peg of wood or a piece of
bone the size of a pea inserted. As she
grows older thjs is Increased in size until
it is almost as wide as her chin and one
fourth of an inch high. The result is na
turally moat unsightly. There is an in
teresting family at Fort Wrangel which
illustrates perfectly thia peculiar custom.
It includes four generations. A young
girl may be seen sitting on one side of the
one roomed square frame house, while her
mother, grandmother aqd great-grand
mother are squatted on the earthen floor
near the door offering mate and baskets to
the ship’s passengers who come on shore.
There is no disfiguring object on the girl’s
chin, but there is a big one on the Up of
the great - grandmother. Philadelphia
Ledger
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A Pauper Princess.
The Infanta Isabella Ferdinands Fran
ootae Josephine, aunt ot tbe*king of Spain
and sister of the ex-King Francis d’Asslsl,
who died the other day in poverty in a
wretched inn in Paris, waa the most beau
tiful princess in the Spanish court 50 years
ago. Her marriage in 1841 to Count Ig
natius Gurowski, a Pole, caused a rupture
between her and her family. He died in
1887, leaving her penniless, and she has
been living from baud to mouth ever siDoe
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AT THE WATERLOO BALL.
Utoy Ixraire Tighe** Intorerttag gtory «f
That ThriUtag Tluw.
found in the recent death at her quiet
items in Ireland of Lady Louisa Tighe,
oiie m wie women who u&ncoQ at tno fa
aous Brussels bell before the betfie of
Waterloo. Every one who hre read Byron
-and it ta getting fashionable to read
Byron cage more-remem bars the part's
description of the toll, but it ta given to
few nowadays to bate aciualta met and
conversed. With a belle of ttotstirring oc
oaslbb? Nbt many months ago a girt spent
an notn* oj? 00 with Lady Tighe Id
for eon’s house ot Woodstock. She was
of tfoit-refresblng type—the ohaHblng old
tady. One wonM easily understand how
Lonito Tighe had oneo been » beauty,
despite the wrinkles and crow’rteet which
carking cares had left uj>on her face.
“Remember the tell before Waterloo?”
told she. “My dear, could yon expect me
to forget it? Evewbody, I fancy, has a
supreme event in bta or her life. That
wee my supreme event.
“I Was staying at the British embassy,
atod tn our party there were many lovely
girta, now tong since Wead and gone. For
weeks we had talked of the ball and of
What we should wear. Girls were much
the same then as they are today, and not
even the return of Napoleon from Elbe
and the renewal of war seemed half so im
portant to ns as the approaching tell.
“My dross I have it still—was • plain
White muslin, and over it I wore a blue
sash, aa became a debutante. There waa
pp fear for any lack of partners, for Brus-
Mls was full of young offloera, and in the
army of occupation no less than 85 of my
own near relatives, all young men and
nearly alt of some dancing ability. You
can easily picture, my dear, the flutter
Which their proximity gave ua.
“The great night came at last, none too
soon for us. X knew quite well that Na
poleon was marching on Brussels, but the
thought disturbed me little, for I had al
ready ten names upon my dancing list,
and the prospect was altogether delight
ful
“It was a most enjoyable tall, but
Byron was wrong when he described us aa
turning pale and listening with horror to
the distant roar of cannon. The truth waa
that we heard no cannon at all. Indeed
the three bands and the company of high
land pipers would have drowned the roar
of all Bonaparte’s ordnance at such a dis
tance.
“Indeed it was not until I missed the
Duke of Brunswick from the tailroom
that I really knew what was ooming. The
honored name of ‘Brunswick’s fated chief
tain’ was upon my tablets for a danoe, but
when I looked around for the duke X oould
see him nowhere. In going, however, he
Was polite, for he left a callow aid-de-camp
to tell me the truth about the ooming bat
tle. It ta rather romantic, but that callow
aid-de-camp eventually became my hus
band.
“Our acquaintance began at the Brus
sels ball, when he showed both tact and
kindliness in setting my fears at rest and
actually danced with me the particular
number opposite to whioh the Duke of
Brunswick’s name had been set.
“I staid with Lord Clancarty’s family
until after Waterloo had been fought and
won. We did not rejoice very much at the
victory, I fear, aa the thousands of poor
fellows coming in dead and wounded were
not conducive to enjoyment.”
Lady Louisa Tighe preserved to the last
the white ball dress in which she danced
at Brussels. The danoe card on whioh the
ill fated Duke of Brunswick’s name had
been inscribed waa unfortunately lost 95
years ago during a fire.—Exchange.
The Value of literature.
“What la it?” asked the old farmer,
looking aakanoeat the bagwhlch the book
canvasser had dropped on the ground with
a weary air.
“I have some of the most entertaining
and instructive literature of the day here,
sir,” answered the-canvasser, endeavoring
to brighten up a little in order to aeoure a
purchasqf. “In these days of education,
when our sons and daughters have been
trained”—
“Ain’t got Done,” interrupted the farm
er gruffly and ungrammatically.
“I have an assortment of books, sir, to
suit all,”' continued the canvasser, “and
any whioh I may not have in stock I can
get on the shortest notice. Hero are’’—
And he proceeded to rattle off the names
of half a dozen as he pulled them out of
his bag.
“I’m afeared you ain't got the kind L
want,” said the farmer after a careful
survey of the exteriors. “This one seems
to be the nearest How much ta it?”
“That, sir, ta 5 shillings,” replied the
canvasser.
“Here, take it tack,” said the farmer.
M I want somethin cheap. You see,” he
added, “I don't read 'em, but they comes
in handy like. If it's got a leather cover,
it does very well for a razor strop. If it's
thick, it comes in fust rate to put under
the drawers or the table when the foot or
the caster oomea off. If it's big, it’ll do
to hold tha winder up. And I like 'em
with a fastener, so as the book won’t fly
open and get the leaves smeared with mud
when X throw it at the dog. No, X don't
think you’ve got any as will do for me.”
—Pearson's Weekly.
KofUihe
Professor Skeat of Cambridge has a few
pointed words to say about the dislike of
some of hta country men for the term
“English. ” In a recently published let
ter he wrote thus: “Those who wish to
substitute British have entirely forgot
that if any one baa a grievance in this
matter it is clearly the Londoner, for
London is in Middlesex, the land of the
middle Saxons, whereas this extraneous
word ‘English’ ignores the Saxons as com
pletely aa it does the Scotch, just as the
word ’British’ ignores Ireland. However,
we shall have to move, it would seem,
with the times, and we shall soon have
before us a proposal that we must all talk of
the Amerioo-Australlo-Canado-Cape-of-
Good-Hopo-Great-Brltish-and-Irtah lan
guage or probably something still more
comprehensive in order to avoid wounding
the peculiar feelings of those to whom the
very nam« of England ta an abomination.
Only one thing stands at present in the
way—viz, that there happen to be several
million people still left to whom the name
of England is no such thing, and these
millions inolude foreigners out ot every
pation under heaven.”
Heked Him Out.
A teacher was. introducing a lesson on
“A Flint Stone” by a few remarks upon
the primitive savage. After detailing
many characteristics he wound up with:
“He was very rough, using no knife or
fork, but eating with his Angara. Now,
Who was this?”
Johnny—Please, sir, our lodger, str.”—
London Tit-Bita _ ..
AN OPEN LETTER
To MOTHERS. -RH
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE
EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “ C ASTOBIX,” AMD
M PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADE MARK.
I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, qf Hyannis, Massachusetts,
was the originator “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” the ‘same
that has borne and does now * on 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 over thirty
years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper arid bee that it is
Hie kind you have always bought on the
and has the signature of wrap-
per. Ho one has authority from 'me to use my name ex
cept The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is
Do Not Be Deceived.
Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting
a cheap substitute which some druggist taay offer yo”
(because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in
i gradients of which even he docs not knot/. -
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