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County Surveyor, of Spalding county,
For County Commissioner.
Editor Call : Please annou nee that I
am a candidate for re-election for County
CommlMloner, subject to the action of the
democratic primary, and will be glad to
have the support ot all the voters.
J. A. J. TIDWELL.
At the solicitation of many voters I
hereby announce myeelf a candidate for
County Commissioner, subject to the dem
ocratic primary. If elected, I pledge my
eelf 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 affairs ot the county
I hereby announce myself a candidate
for County Commissioner of Spalding
county, subject to the Democratic primary
of June 23d; W. W. CHAMPION.
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To the Voters of Spalding County: I
hereby 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 is my pledge
for future faithfulness.
D. L. PATRICK.
For Bepesentatiye-
To the Vo,ters ot Spalding County: I
am a candidate for Representative to the
legislature, subject to the primary ot, 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
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 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 "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 leoaiver.
E I respectfolly 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. MW WELL.
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, jf one is held
Your support will be thankfolly 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 as faithfully as m the past.
M. F. MORRIS.
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SPRING REMEDIES
For “that tired feeling,’’ spring fever and
the general lassitude that comes with
warm days, when the system hasn’t been
cleansed from the impurities that winter
has harvested in the blood, you will find
in our Spring Tonic and Stomach Bitters.
For purifying the blood >nd giving tone
to the body they are unexcelled I
N. B. DREWRY *SON,
28 Hill Street.
Low Bates to Baltimore, Md.. May 4 28*
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 full particulars address,
8. H. Habdwick,
A. G. P. A., Atlanta.
Randall Clifton,
T. P. A., Macon.
C.S. White, T. A., Griffin. ’
Motice to Tax Payers.
All city tax fi fas have been placed
in my halnds (or collection, and levies
will be made at ones unless settlement
»» promptly 'made.
E J Ison,
Chief Police.
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A WINTER’S TALE.
A* individual Who I» Hot a Klondike*
Telia a Story.
“I’ve been hearing a great deni about
the cold weather that will drop down on
Klondike mighty soon now,** remarked a
western editor tn Washington on business
of bis own, “and I am sure they are going
to have a dreadful time of 16, some of
them, before the spring freshets, but I am
Sure not a man among thorn will have a
sadder experience with the cold than I did
in the winter of 1870. I was a printer in
St. Louis in the spring of that year, with
a little experience in editing a paper, and
there was a chance for me to go to a new
mining town that started up about 60
miles from Denver and start a paper, or,
rather, keep the one going that bad been
started there by tho chap who wanted me
to oome out and join him.
“There was adventure in it, and I was
younger then than Inm now. So It was
that in May I was the editor in chief of
The Blue Gulch Gazette, a weekly journal
of civilization, as we proudly announced
in our motto line. We did nicely all that
summer, and I enjoyed it, though I was
told it wasn’t so pleasant climatically in
winter. One of attractions of the
office was a ‘devil’ thaf we had got from
the newsboy gang in St. Louis, and he
was the sharpest and brightest little cuss
in the state of Colorado. He was about 14
years old, and he wouldn’t weigh over 60
pounds, but be was all nerve and muscle.
“Well, the first snowfall was in October
early, and the weather whacked around to
all points of the compass for the next six
weeks. Then it settled steady, and the
week before Christmas it looked as if we
Were going to have a nioe holiday
but we were doomed to disappointment, for
three nights before the day the snow be
gan falling and a terrific blizzard swept
up through the high walled valley in
which our town was located. Thirty-six
hours later, when we got up in the morn
ing, the town was snowed under, and
there was no getting around at all. I sent
Snips out to see if he could bore through,
and he came back in half an hour with
something hot tor us to eat, Snips and I
occupying a back room in the office and
boarding around. He told metis had seen
two or three people at the restaurant who
had burrowed through a block or. two,'as
the snow was light, but how deep it was
none of them knew, as it was above the
roofs of the two story houses, the highest
we bad.
“Then a brilliant idea came to Snips.
“ ‘There’s our smokestack* major,’ he
said. ’lt’s 47 feet by the measure and just
about the size for me to pull myself up
through by them wires inside of it, just
like I did when we fixed that guy. Let
me swarm up to the top of it and see
where the snow comes to. I can do it
easy.’
“Well, gents,’’ concluded the western
editor, “I let him go, and he never came
back. I guess he must have fallen off of
the top some way and got smothered in
the snow or frozen to death or something.
Anyway, when the snow thawed down in
a rain that followed in a couple of weeks,
we found the poor little fellow in the pure
white snow and as black as the ace of
spades from the soot that be had got on
himself climbing up in that smokestack.”
—Washington Star.
Turkish Artillery.
Artillery, which was very numerous,
was excellently horsed and gunned, but
poorly trained. Six cannon, 80 men and
60 horses were the complement of a bat
tery. The guns were 7% centimeters (8
inch) Krupp-Manteli, all in first class con
dition, cased and clean, the limbers and
gun carriages of the ordinary pattern.
The shell weighed 12 and the shrapnel 14
pounds, fired by time or percussion fuses.
The horses were for the most part from
Russia or Hungary and ran bigger than
those of the cavalry. The men, recruited
from all parts of the empire, did the man
ual part of their work well, but there was
very little technical skill, and a battery
had rarely more than one trained artillery
officer. Three batteries of horse artillery
armed with nine pounders were attached
to the cavalry division. These, however,
were short of spare horses, so the gunners
sat on the limbers and carriages. Accord
ingly the speed was not very great. There
were also three batteries of mountain guns
on mu’.es, first class weapons, but the gun
ners very slow. Eighteen howitzers came
up to Sei fije, but were never brought any
farther, as there was no need for them.
—Taking it all round, the artillery, un
like the cavalry, was a very strong arm,
but like tbe cavalry it was never made
sufficient use of—the best work being done
by the corps artillery, which acted under
the orders of Rlza Pashafwho frequently
used to borrow divisional batteries when
he had need of them.—” With the Turkish
Army In Thessaly,” by Clive Bigham.
Charles A. Dana.
Charles A. Dana, tbe editor of the New
York Sun, is on the high road to complete
recovery from his recent severe Illness,
which was the result of overwork on hie
return from Russia. He is now 78, and
his father lived to the age of 87. All his
life Mr. Dana has taken intelligent care of
his health, exercising and living well, but
on plain and wholesofoe food. When he
lived in New York, over 20 years ago, he
used to visit an up town riding academy at
very early hours, even before daylight in
winter time, when he could have the arena
altogether to himself, and ride furiously
until he had tired three or four horses in
succession. He would jump off a horse
going at full speed, run alongside and leap
into the saddle again like a circus per
former, and could, even stand upon ths
saddle while going at a gallop, and at that
time he must have been at least 60 years
old.—San Francisco Argonaut
His Answer.
' A New Orleans man who wanted to be
a policeman and made preparation for the
civil service examination found that ho
bad studied along tbe wrong lines. He
determined to make use of his newly ac
quired knowledge, however, when be
came to a question that struck him as
absurd. Tbe question wm, “If a ballet is
dropped in a well and it takes five seconds
for it to strike the wafer, how far is it
fi om the top of the well to the surface of
tbe water7” The candidate answered:
' “Heathen mythology says that when Jupi
ter kicked Vulcan out of heaven it took
him 47 days and 9 nights to fall. If so,
bow far is heaven from Kosciusko, Miss, ?”
—Exchange.
A Sensible Policeman.
A St. Louis policeman, who bad a war
rant of arrest against a woman for alleged
assault and battery, refused to imprison
her when be found it was directed against
a lady in the eighty-sixth year of her age.
He fpok her to a friend’s bouse and secured
b ill for her, and the prosecuting attorney,
When told that she was too old and feeble
to asiiuMi anjbody, said he would revoke
the warrant.-* Exchange.
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f LIGHTHOUSE IMPROVEMENT
Chances ThaA Have Been Made In Lights
I Lenaes.
* An article about lighthouses, entitled
‘ “The Lights That Guide In the Night,”
* is contributed by Lieutenant John M.
t Ellicott to St. Nicholas. After telling
i of the growth in thknumber of light
k houses Lieutenant EllKott says:
I Meantime tbe means of lighting were
i being steadily improved. The open fire
> gave place to the oil lamp, then a
1 curved mirror, called a parabolic mir*
I tor, was placed behind the lamp to
bring the rays together; next, many
J lamps with mirrors were grouped about
, a central spindle, and acme such lights
are still in operation. The greatest
i stride camo when an arrangement of
» lenses, known as the Fresnel lens, Id
f front of a lamp replaced the mirror be
hind it. This lens was rapidly improved
for lighthouse purposes, until now •
s cylindrical glass house surrounds the
! lamp flame. This house has lens shaped
j walls, whieh bend all the rays to form
i a horizontal zone of strong light which
> pierces the darkness to a great distance.
’ The rapid increase in the number of
' lighthouses has made it necessary to
have some means of telling one from
; another, or, as it is termed, of giving
, to each light its “characteristic. ” Col
t oring the glass made the light dimmer,
i but as red comes most nearly to white
> light in brightness some lights have red
> lenses. The latest and best plan, how
r ever, is to set upright prisms at inter-
* vals in a circular framework around
the lens and to revolve this frame by
, clockwork. Thus the light is made to
. flash every fime a prism passes between
I it and an observer. By changing the
; number and places of the prisms or the
, speed of the' clockwork the flashes for
> any one light can bo made to occur at
■ intervals of so many seconds for that
light. Putting in red prisms gives still
, other changes. Thus each light has its
, “characteristic,” and this is written
i down in signs on the charts and fully
i stated in the light lists carried by ves-
I seis. Thus, on a chart you may note
that the light you want to sight is
marked “F. W., v. W. Fl., 10 sec.,”
i Which means that it is “fixed white
( varied by white flashes every ten sec
, ends. ” When a light is sighted, you see
i if those are its characteristics, and if so
) you have found tbe right one.
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MOTHER GOOSE.
' The Iconoclast Throws a Big Stone at
Boston’s Famous Personage.
Iconoclastic Boston has decided that
t if there ever was a Mother Goose with
poetical talents—which isn’t likely—
i she was not the Mother Goose buried in
! that city and whose grave has for years
been haunted by sentimental, patriotic
and more or less literary visitors from
all parts of the country. It seems that
the respectable Mrs. Elizabeth Goose,
whom legend credits with the composi
; tion of all those sprightly lyrics in
[ which, for no very good reason, chil
. dren are supposed to take such delight,
I had no more right to a place among
■ America’s eminent women than Jack
I the Giant Killer has to be included
among our famous generals, She lived
1 and she died, and that, except the
names of her parents and the fact that
she bad some children, is absolutely all
. which is known about her.
Tbe story that she wrote, or at least
i collected, the famous poems is a myth
1 invented by one of the presumably good
’ lady’s descendants. “Mere I’Oye” was
' from time out of- mind a character in
French fairy tales. The name first ap-
J peared in English in 1729, when the
, prose “Contes de ma mere I’oye” were
i translated as “Tales of Passed Times
I by Mother Goose. ” This book became
the property of John Newbery of Lon
i don, the famous publisher of little
' books for children, and about 1765 be
utilized the trade name by printing as
a companion book “Mother Goose’s
t Melodies.” Tho latter was merely a
collection of old English nursery rhymes.
From England it came to America and
was reprinted by Isaiah Thomas of
Worcester, Mass.r-about 1787, then by
Munroe & Francis of Boston about 1825,
and now by every one. The fiction
about Mrs. Elizabeth Goose of Boston
was started by John Flint Eliot about
1860, utterly without proof or probabil-
1 ity, and has since been repeated, gain
, imaginary details at every stage.—
New York Times.
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The Queen of Greece.
i It is said by a lady who recently vis
ited Greece and bad the honor of meet-
1 ing tbe royal family that perfect har
-1 mony exists between them, and the king
and queen are devoted to their children.
The queen is still a very beautiful wom
an and the only lady admiral in the
> world. She holds this rank in the Rus
sian army, an honorary appointment
conferred on her by the late czar because
1 her father held the rank of high ad*
miral and for the reason that she is a
very capable yachtswoman. The king
has a very remarkable memory, an in
teresting personality, and is a brilliant
conversationalist. He goes about tbe
, streets of Athens without any attend
( anta and talks with any friend be
i chances to meet Prince George is very
attractive, and bis feats of strength,
i shown often in the cause of chivalry,
> are a continuous subject of conversation
J among the people.
A Telling Look.
“lean tell a man I like the first time
I look at him.”
“Yes,’’rejoinedthe other girl, “youi
eyes are certainly very expressive.”
Os course, the poet was on the right
track, but it'is woman’s inhumanity
to woman that really stimulates ths
crape market.—Detroit Journal.
The first ingredient in conversation
is truth, tbe next good sense, the third
good humor and tbe fourth wit. —Sir
William Temple.
There are several “giant bells” In
Moscow, the largest, “the King ot
Bells,” weighing 482,000 pounds
GEM SCULPTURE.
SomethUg About tbe Makla* of Caraoes
and lutuglloe.
Gem sculpture, or lithoglyptlce, is
an art of great antiquity, having been
practiced by the Babylonians, the Egyp
tians, tho Hebrews and the Greeks.
Afterward it sank into decadence, but
in the fifteenth tentury was revived iu
Italy. It is an art that calls for great
elegance of taste and much skill, for on
a small stone, generally precious, de
signs Mre represented either in raised
work, as cameos, or by being cut below
the surface, as intaglios
To cameos the term “minute sculp
ture” is indeed applicable, for since
the days of Greek art celebrated statues
have been copied in this way. The first
intaglios were the scarabs, or beetle
shaped signets, worn in rings by* the
Egyptians from a very remote period.
One side of the stone was shaped like a
beetle, tbe other side was flat, and tbe
name of the king or wearer was cut in
to it A hole was then drilled in the
stone from end to end. and through it a
strong wire was passed to hold it in
position in a ring. The flat or seal side
was always worn next to the Anger, but
when used as a seal it was turned.
. In tbe art of gem sculpture the
Greeks excelled all predecessors The
Etruscans, contemporary with the
Greeks, also attained excellence tn gem
cutting, and it is said that “on these
early gems of Etruscan or Greek origin
may be read utn n book the forms ot
their religion and the subjects of popu
lar interest in politics, song and table
tor centuries. “
Under Augustus gem sculpture flour
tehed among the Romans, many of them
possessing cameos and intaglios of great
value, and cabinets ot costly gems be
came numerous , it is said that Cesar
•ent sli cabinets of rare gems to the
temple ot Venus
There are many flue cameos and In
taglios in the British museum. Among
the finest ot them accessible to the pub
lic are the "Cupid and Goose" intaglio,
the "Dying Amazon,” the “Laughing
Fawn, ” “Bacchus” on red jasper, and
the “Julius Cesar’’ of Dioscurides. In
modern times gem sculpture has reached
a high state of perfection and beauty.
—Philadelphia Times
THE FUNCTION OF ETHER.
Without It There Would Be Ho Llxht,
Radiant Heat or Magnetism.
“Whatever difficulties we may have
in forming a consistent idea of the con
stitution of the ether, there can be no
doubt that the interplanetary and inter
stellar spaces are not empty, but are oc
cupied by a material substance or body
which is certainly tbe largest and prob
ably tbe most uniform body of which
we have any knowledge. ”
Such was the verdict pronounced
some 20 years ago by James Clerk
Maxwell, one of the very greatest of
nineteenth century physicists, regard
ing the existence of an all pervading
plenum in the universe in which every
particle of tangible matter is immersed.
And this verdict may be said to express
the attitude of the entire philosophical
world of our day. Without exception
the authoritative physicists of our time
accept this plenum as a verity and rea
son about it with something of the same
confidence they manifest in speaking of
“ponderable” matter or of energy. It is
true there are those among them who
are disposed to deny that this all per
vading plenum merits the name of mat
ter, but that it is a something, and a
vastly important something at that, all
are agreed. Without it, they allege, we
should know nothing of light, of radiant
heat, of electricity or magnetism. With
out it there would probably be no such
thing as gravitation—nay, they even
hint that without this strange some
thing, ether, there would be do such
thing as matter in the universe. If these
contentions of the modem physicist are
justified, then this intangible ether is
incomparably the moat important as
well as the “largest and most uniform
substance or body” in the universe. Its
discovery may well be looked upon as
the most important feat of our century.
—Henry Smith Williams, M. D., in
Harper’s Magazine.
A Good Story of Sheridan.
Sheridan once had occasion to call at
a hairdresser’s to order a wig. On be
ing measured, the barber, who was a
liberal soul, invited the orator to take
some refreshment in an inner room.
Here he regaled him with a bottle of
port and showed so much hospitality
that Sheridan’s heart was touched.
When they rose from the table and
were about separating, the latter, look
ing the barber full in the face, said,
“On reflecting, I don’t intend that you
shall make my wig. ”
Astonished and with a blank visage,
the other exclaimed: “Good heavens,
Mr. Sheridan I How can I have dis
pleased you?”
“Why, look you,” said Sheridan,
“you are an honest fellow, and, I re
peat it, you shan’t make my wig, for I
never intended to pay for it I’ll go to
another less worthy son of the craft ”
—Liverpool Mercury.
Spoiled Pleasure.
Mm Meyer—What’s the trouble, Mm
Schulz? You are in bad humor this
morning.
Mm Schulz—You see, my husband
staid at the dub every night last week
until after midnight Last night I sat
up, determined to give him a curtain
lecture, when he got in late. And what
do you think? The fool came home at
9 o’clock.—Fliegende Blatter. *
Apoplexy has increased in England
in a very remarkable degree since 185a
In tbe 16 yean ending with 1866 there
were 457 deaths from, apoplexy per
1,000,000 inhabitanta Last year the
ratio was 577 per 1,000,000.
The eruption of Etna has entirely de
stroyed the chestnut woods ot the
mountain slopes, the trees being devas
tated by the lava
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AN OPEN LETTER
To MOTHERS.
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE
EXCLUSIVE USE. OF THE WORD “CASTOBIA," AND |
M PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” as our trade mark.
7 t DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts,
was the originator «PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” the same
that has borne and does now i on
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 and see that it is
the kind 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
President.
March 8,1897.
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
Insist on Having
The Kind That Never Failed You.
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