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For County Bnmyor. I hereby announce myself a candidate or County Sf June sr tothed " lß KELL - For County Commissioner. Edi«>»CaiA: Please annou nee that I am a candidate for re-election for County subject to the action of the JjSratic primary, and wlll be glad to At the solicitation of many voters I hereby announce myself a candidate for County Commissioner, subject to the dem ocratic primary. If elected, I pledge my »elf to aa honest.businees-hkeadministra tion of county affairs direction of lower taxes. R. F- STRICKLAND. 1 hereby announce myself a candidate for County Commissioner, subject to the democratic primary to be held June 23, next. If elected, I pledge myself to eco nomical and business methods m conduct ing the affairs ot the county FUTRAL I hereby announce myself a candidate for County Commissioner of Spalding county, subject to the Democratic primary d June 23d. W. W. CHAMPION. To the Voters of Spalding County: I hereby announce myself a candidate for re-election to the office of County Commis sioner of Spalding conn ty, 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 Representative. To the Voters of Spalding County: I am a candidate for Representative to the legislature, subject to the primary ot the democratic party, and willappreciate your support. J. P. HAMMOND, Editor Call: Please announce my name as a candidate for Representative from Spalding county, subject to the action of 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 aU 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 Beoeiver. I respectfully Announce myself as a can didate for re-election to the office of Tax Receiver of Spalding county .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. MJ. 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 as faithfully as in the past. M. F. MORRIS. — .X...- IF——*l— *—■ —■ —sw «ns n is i B i■ ■ t *999 _ 'jti- r'' J SPRING REMEDIES For ‘Uhat tired feeling,’’ spring fever and the general lassitude that cornea with warm days, when the system hasn’t been cleansed from the impurities that winter has haryested in the blood, you will find in our Spring Tonic and Stomach Bitters. For purifying the blood and giving tone to the body they are unexcelled I N. B. DREWRY * SON, 28 Hill Street. Low Bates to Biltlmors, Md., Kay 429 1898. ® 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 31,1898, at half rates—one fare round trip. Choice of routes, via Washington, all rail, or via Norfolk and steamer. For foil particulars address, S. H. Hardwick, A. G. P. A., Atlanta. Randall Clifton, „ T. P. A., Macon. C. S. White, T. A., Griffin. Notice to Tax Payer*. All city tax fi fas have been placed ? »n my hands for collection, and levies L will be made at onqe unless settlement >8 promptly » E J I SON, 7 Chief Police. Ik' DEAR AND DlftTY DUBUnT T ■' It Mow Hm • Music Hall, Wltk MMttMMS For th* Fair B*x. Dublin may be dear and digrtw. It Is also dramatic and loves gayety. Thus Witbin the last few weeks it has ad<w Unto itself a new thqater add a new music hall, says a writer in the Lobifo n B£*tcn. It la now 18 years since Ore robbefl l»j|f its Theater Royal, which its people rswaHM, and with acme truth, as the finest'gUy house in the three kingdoms alter Drury Lane, and naturally there wM a great: rush for seats on its reopening by Messrs. Merell and Mouillot. AU Dublin to be present, but the theater could acoqpi niodate only 2,800 persons, and so there was plenty of that sort of disappointment among the public so dear to the theatrical manager’s heart. The play was “The Geisha.” The new theater has a pleasant air of space and elbow room. It it, of course, supplied with all the latest me chanical improvements. It has a Special large box for the viceroy, with private en trance, anteroom and other accommoda tions, and n splendid saloon and ladles’ drawing room. There is no pit in the old sense, the Whole ground floor (1,000 seats) being arranged on the American parterre system, and all bookable at a low figure, an Interesting experiment. The manage ment can do with the stage what Dan O’Connell said he could do with an act of parliament—it can drive a coach and four through it, enter!ng-at one side from the street and emerging at the other into a new carriage way. And a new music hall has arisen in the shape of the Empire Palace theater. It has been built on the site of the old and popular Star Theater of Varieties in Dame street, which, however, it surpasses in else, beauty and indeed in almost every detail. A splendid stage, a proscenium larger than that of either the Palace thea ter or the Empire in London, accommoda tion for over 1,700 spectators—which all visitors may advisedly be dubbed, as an excellent view of the stage is obtainable from every seat in the house—capital acoustic properties, luxurious boxes, stalls and seats and a tout ensemble of refined decoration In the Louis Quinse style, tn which ivory, gold and a sou peon of faint blue predominate, are but a few of the permanent attractions that the new thea ter oilers.',.•'-’»! \ The opening night was a memorable oc casion', and the programme included the names of many world renowned artists, who met with as enthusiastic a reception, as the heart of man or woman could de sire. The wisdom of the management in continuing to provide the public with an excellent and varied fare has had its reward in the packed audiences which I nightly await the lifting of the curtain. 5 A mediocre attendance has so far not been • recorded on the books. A special feature F is the Saturday matinee, when no smok > ing la permitted and when the programme, at all times of a high class, is specially “Bowdlerized” to please the ladles of Dub lin, to whom the music hall had hitherto been a terra incognita. Now all this is changed, and ladies of high degree and society leaders may bp seen occupying boxes and stalls at the Empire every Sat ’ urday afternoon. J. Leap Years Will Kan Oat. “In time leap year wilt go out of exist ence entirely,” explained an almanaocom puter to a reporter, “but, as it will not oc cur for over 800 years, we haven’t much personal interest in the event In the or dinary course of events 1900 would be leap year, but it will get left in the calculation. ' In other words, while it does occur it does not occur, simply because it is not in the agreement that it shall occur. The story is a long one, but it can be briefly told so that the average person can understand it without much difficulty. In 1582, in the arrangement of the Julian calendar, ten days were dropped so as to get things run ning on the then new but the present basis of calculating time. So as to keep things running right it was determined that a year ending a century should not bebls sextile, except every fourth century. Thtts thyre was no leap year in 1700, 1800 or 1900. It is, or at least was, rather rough on the ladies who hdve special advantages in leap year, for it is the only year that it is proper for them to propose themselves in marriage, but it has always been so in matters affecting vjromankind, men al ways finding reasons for restricting their privileges. The ladles get left again in 1900, but though there will not be many of those who see 1900 who will see 2,000, the latter year, ending a fourth century, will be a leap year. In this way three days are retrenched in four centuries, and the remaining seven days will be made up in a little over 800 years. After that cal endar years will be like solar years and future errors in the calculation ot time oc cur no more. The loss of leap years will in thousands of years affect the seasons, but I suppose the mathematicians of the centuries hence will be so flip in handling figures and calculations that they will have no difficulty in keeping things goifig correctly.’’—Washington Star. " V Good at the Price. It wag in the early days of the church, and-the singing, of which the congrega tion is now very proud, was In an embry onic condition, owing to the scarcity of funds, and not very good. But the church was struggling to do ita best and its peo ple were working hard. The warden was one of and he had the interest of everything very much at heart. He is warden now, and he tells this story with muoh of a Christian spirit or otherwise, according to whether or not people believe in a militant Christianity. Anyway, this is what happened: “I find your singing very poor,” said a showily dressed woman to the warden in pompous.tones, as she left the church one morning' The warden happened to have been the man who had taken the contribution on tho aisle on. which the showily dressed woipan sat He knew the amount of. her contribution. . > J < “Don’t you ihink, madam,” he said, “that we had as good a 10 eent concert as you ever heard in your life?” “Oh,"said the woman, appreciating his meaning and a little abashed, “I can’t afford to give more.” I “Welt,” said the warden, “we can’t afford to give any better nrasio. ’’—Seattle Post-Intelligencer. - ; Hlstoriaot Coincidence*. Doubtless others have noticed these his torical facts and coincidences; April 19» 1775, battle of Lexington. April 24,1846, first engagement of Msx* loan war. April 12, 1861, Sumter fired on. April 13,1861, Sumter surrendered. April 14, 1861, Lincoln's first call for' troops. J' April 9, 1865, Lee’s surrender. April 14, 1865, Lincoln assassinated. That is quite a record for Apr H-in the United States.—Waterbury American. • . .. J l ’-' '• ■ , *■. - • ! i He Destroyed Hi. Danghtef. Doll to B** Ho* the Mechanism Worked. The heavy bunton of autocracy has not i destroyed all the boyish Instincts in Niofa . olos Il’s disposition, as the following an i ecdoto, heard at a dinnpr party given in honor of a gentleman of M. Faure’s escort i in bis late journey, proves: The president, after having searched all the best Parisian • Shops to find some toys worthy of the two ’ little grand duchesses’ acceptance, and, i having bought the everlasting golden rattle for Miss Tatiana, was in despair for soiue i thing out of the common to give Miss Olga. He at last chose two wonderful dolls, one got up as an elegant lady, the i other as an overdressed little girl, and, after much difficulty a most complicated piece of machinery was inserted, thanks i to which, when Wound up, the lady ana her daughter begin a ludicrous bit of con- ’ vernation, which is finished by the little girl crying because she is not allowed to ride a donkey on account of her gauze dress. The baby grand duchess was delighted, I but not more so than her father, who, it l appears, spent an hour on the floor with i the child listening to the squeaky dia logue between the doUs. But the tfcpe came when the princess had to go to bed, i which she did very reluctantly. As for the emperor, he remained an instant in the boudoir after her departure with the two clever artificial ladies who-had taken his fancy, while the empress, M. Faure and some ladies and gentlemen of the court were talking in the next room. Sud denly a strange noise like that of an infer nal machine was heard, followed by a loud cry of dismay, and everybody rushed to see what- it was. There was the emperor safe and sound, but with a dismal face, looking at the dolls, which be had partly undressed to find out the secret hidden in their bosoms, while the dolls were chattering away as if they would never stop. The empress, un able to restrain her temper, snatched up the carpeted board on Which were stand ing and shaking the two precious ladies, and after having crushed her busband with a withering eye she said to a gentle man near her: “Please send this away. It is too bad indeed. The emperor spoils everything ho touches.” But Nicholas looked so peultent and the mishap was so funny that she could not help laughing.— Philadelphia Times. When Was the Bible Completed? Scholars differ in opinion as to the date at which the books now found in the New Testament were completed, but it is prob able that this was accomplished not later than 180. Many centuries had passed in the formation of the Old Testament, but the New was all written within a single 100 years. The decision as to which books should be received into the new canon was not so quickly reached, for the earliest fa thers of the church frequently quote from other gospels, such as one “according to the Egyptians,” or “according to the He brews, ” and the Syrian chnrch accepted some books not received by that of north Africa or the western church and vloe versa. There is a legend that at the first eoumeneial council ot Nicaea, 825, copies of all the Christian literature then current were laid beneath the altar and the gen uine books leaped out of the mass and ranged themselves on the altar. It prob ably contains a germ of the truth—that at this convocation it was decided that the books now received were apostolic or writ ten under apostollq direction, and the oth ers were spurious Be this as it may, the judgment of several generations of Chris tians certainly decided upon the value of these books as distinguished from many others written at about that time or later, and the council of Carthage (897) is said to have fixed the canon. The word “can on” was first used by Athanasius, in the fourth century, in the sense of “accepted” or “authorized,” and Asrome and Augus tine held the present New Testament as canonical. —Clifton Harby Levy in Ameri can Monthly Review of Reviews. The Evil of Trade Unionism. We are not disputing here the right of workmen to combine for the advancement and protection of their craft Nor is it to be denied that such right carries with It the right for each trade union to make such rules and regulations aS it deems fit for its own members. Where the mischief Xs is when trade unions seek to make which fetter other orkmen and which tie the hands of employers. And where trade unionism begins to be abso lutely destructive in its effects on industry is where, on the one hand, it endeavors to make a close corporation by limiting the number and restricting the employment of apprentices, and where, *n the other hand, it restricts the labor of the most competent to the capacity of the most idle and least efficient. All this trade unionism does. Overtime is objected to because, it is alleged, it di minishes the number that may be employ ed. But if overtime is not worked orders cannot be executed within the time in which they are required. Therefore, the orders will cease to come, and because Bill was not allowed to work extra hours Jack, Tom and Jim will not be able to get work at all.—Benjamin Taylor in Cassler’s Magazine. Rothschild’s Error. It may require as much Imagination to draw pleasure out of an unspent dollar as It does to get it from an unemelled flower, or an unkissed love, or any of the unexist ing realities that poets deal tn. Many a laborious and ascetic financier inust live in a world of imagination, a commercial dream, as little tangible as that of the poet. “My food and lodging are all I get for my wealth,” said the elder Rothschild. He was mistaken; ho forgot his dream of wealth. too, was one of the poets of a financial age. Nor, lastly, can it be that the delight of giving one self up to an impassioned thought, of which one is as sure as death and for which one is willing to die, is no| still, as it always has been, the keenest pleas ure of a human soul.—H. G. Chapman in Atlantic. St. Paul and Minneapolis. Fifteen years ago Chicago was the great central wheat market of the west. Even as late as four years ago its wheat receipts were over 60,000,000 bushels, but in 1898 they had declined to 19,101,162 bushels, while the wheat receipts of Minneapolis were 69,668,870 bushels and those of Du luth and Superior 56,607,397—Che total of the two cities being 126,176,267 bushels, or six times and a half the Chicago receipts. These figures tell their own story of the shifting of the trade currentsof the north west to their natural channels and go far to explain the remarkable growth of St. Paul and Minneapolis from a population of 88,000 in 1870 to more than ten times that number in 1897.—“ The New North west,” by J. A. Wheelock, in Harper’s .'' ' . •MW ii J in ■o.—Mnii liiii— niiilW - ■ i i i. PWWtesta Th* Classics kuu Seiciao**. It is easy for thoee who have never had • true university training, who have had their ideas of culture shaped by tbo com mercial fashion of this particular country and the whirl of turmoil in which our peo ple are carried along, to persuade them selves that wo are now quite beyond tbo need of Latin and Greek; that tho places of the classic languages can be and ought to be supplied by the more practical study of French and German. This demand for practical and uaeful things is just as errojjcpna.M the one previously mention ed. It lofeT sight of the fundamental principle in education—vis, that the solo purpose of education la discipline in think ing and the cultivation of attachment to the noble and the ideal. That the classic languages afford a better discipline to the mind than any other is generally conceded by the best authorities and proved by the experience of every age. - In our own time wo find the most emi nent savans of Germany of this opinion, and in England Lord Kelvin, the ex-pres ident of tho Royal society, who for 60 years has engaged in physical research and is easily the greatest man of science since Laplace, comes out squarely against the making of Greek optional in the Universi ty of Cambridge, and tho proposition is voted down in the senate by an over whelming majority. Is it likely that on this great question such mature and intel ligent judgment can be wrong and that of the inexperienced and the unclassic teacher right? Training in tho classic languages affords the desired mental dis eiplino and stimulates a careful and ac curate use of language and of thought, which, as has been said before, is the es sential condition of scientific progress. I advocate therefore a return to tho study of the classics as the best and safest basis for the advancement of science; be sides, the ideals and the philosophy and the poetry of tho ancients, far removed from the corrupting clamors of our time, exert the most noble influence upon the mind, and from that point of view alone Latin and Greek should be maintained as the basis of linguistic study.—Dr. T. J. J. Leo in Popular Astronomy. Tactics That Won. “I’ll never forget when w e had old Bluntly at the head of our campaign com mittee,” said the ex-congressman who re cently retired from politics. “All we put him there for was as a figurehead. He was honest, straightforward and univer sally trusted by the people. We simply wanted the benefit of his reputation, in tending to make the fight without any of his help. “But the old chap fooled us. He took the thing in deadly earnest and watched things with the care of a locomotive en gineer hauling a fast passenger train. He bplteved in doing everything aboveboard and was a bonanza to reporters. When a man of some prominence on the other side pretended to be converted to ours and made a dramatic demonstration at a. big mass meeting of his change of heart, Bluntly gave it out that the fellow had been hired to play the part and was a rank hypocrite. When wo had made terms with • lot of repeaters to come in and help us out, Bluntly exposed the scheme and call ed the attention of the authorities to it in away they could not Ignore. When we bought up the leaders of a certain organi zation, promising so much for each vote delivered from that source, Bluntly called attention to the conspiracy and declared that he would prosecute bribersand bribed if It were carried out.” “Whew I Did the fellows on your ticket know they were running?” “Did they? We swept the board. /Not an office got away. Bluntly’s honesty was so novel and refreshing that the people were tickled beyond expression. They couldn’t believe that a man ot his nerve and integrity oould be indorsing the wrong ticket, and it went with a whoop.” —Detroit Free Fess. It Made AU the Difference. “Oh!” exclaimed Mrs. Midgen. She had been shopping and visiting and had just arrived homo when a thought struck her. She clasped her hands together in dismay, and in her agitation sat flat down on the oat. “Whatever shall I dot” “I expect you will get over it,” said Mr. Midgen testily. He was waiting for his tea. “What is it?” z “I took my diary out with me instead of that little pricebook, and if I haven’t been and left it somewhere! Suppose somebody should get hold of it and read it?" “Ha, ha!” laughed her husband. “That will be fine sport. How I should like to see them reading all the rubbish you have written in it I What’s the good of going back? You’ll never get it” “Oh, I remember now!” suddenly cried Mrs. Midgen. “It is my old one. So it doesn’t matter at all. I feel quite re llC VO(1« ’ ’ “What was in it?” said he, feeling dis appointed. “I used to amuse myself by copying your love letters in it, and I imitated your signature at the bottom of them. ” “What?” yelled Mldgen, jumping to his feet and grabbing at his hair. “Doyon want people to know what an idiot lam and make me the laughing stock of the parish just when I’m putting up for the vestry? Go and look for it, quick I And offer £lO reward for it!” And if it hadn’t been found in Mrs. Midgen’s bag at that very moment there is no telling what would have happened to that household.—Pearson’s Weekly. What Is Public Opinion? It is obvious that there are two kinds of public opinion. One is the popular belief in the fitness or rightness of something, which Mr. Balfour calls “climate,” a be lief that certain lines of conduct should be followed or a certain belief held by good citizens or right thinking persons. Such a belief does not impose any duty on anybody beyond outward conformity to the received standards. The one lam now talking of is the public opinion, or con sensus of opinion among large bodies of persons, which acts as a political force, imposing on those in authority certain en actments or certain lines of policy. The first of these does not change and is not seriously modified in much less than 60 years. The second is being incessantly modified by the events of the day.—E. L. Godkin in Atlantia Episcopal Church Statistics Whittaker’s “Protestant Episcopal Al manac” for 1898, which is out, is a care ful and comprehensive digest of Episcopal church statistics and growth. There are at present in that church 4,776 clergymen, an increase of 53 over the previous year; 6,882 churches, sn of 46; 664,083 communicants, an increase of 22,938, and .433,600 Sunday school scholars, an in crease of 19,077. Ita contributions for all purposes during the last year were >12,- •96,813.06, being an increase of 810,088.66 over the previous year. s* .... ■ I ■■■M.ra,, , l|h/ ■ AN OPEN LETTER To MOTHERS. WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE U EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “ CABTORI A,” AMD “ PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” as our trade mark. £ DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, qf Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator cf “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” the same that has borne and does now on evsrv 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 gears. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is the kind you faive always bought on and lias the signature of wrap- per. No one has authority from me to use my name ex-S eept The Centaur Company of which Chas. 11. Fletcher is President. - '"WW - March 8,1897. Do Not Be Deceived. 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