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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. ■ >1 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. \ ' 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. L ,-4? g j Jv’WiL -■ ( v. z. Mb . <O * -- '-i —'«** -4k3*.U * ® JkwTT ~ " -■-' • •— 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. i 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. .Sr .: .. J I ..V ri .Ilina iiiiiiuiu i4'< 1 » '' ' . ' 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. I 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. i ——————— 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 . : ; • ' • ■ - ■ ■ 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. 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