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| y or County Surveyor.
I k ruby announce off ß " 1 ,,’ cantua
I purveyor, of s p aHli ng couny,
l W lhe £ B &ELL
f par County CanmlMionw’.
I F^XK°fo“r < ciMty
I **»*? to the action of the
I OrSJSc primary, and will be glad to
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| bsved» 08Opp j. A . j. TIDWELL.
the solicitation of many voters I
A* announce myself a candidate for
| hereby ““ missioner, subject to the dem
| (W" Hmary. If elected, I pledge my
| honest, business-likeadmfnistra-
| tv affairs tn the direction of
I*° ®S“s RF * STRICKLAND.
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, k-flbv announce myself a candidate
I Commissioner, subject to the
I to be held June 23,
I ejected, * Pledge myself to eco-
BrSLwnd business methods in conduct-
I t sarebv announce myself a candidate
1 firmntv Commissioner of Spalding
I** subject to the Democrat ic primary
| ’“jane 23d. W. W. CHAMPION.
>I to the Voters of Spalding County: I
K, Lkv announce myself a candidate for
t “tartion to the office of CountyCommis-
Scalding county, subject to the
BSSicprimary to be held on June 23,
I St My record in the past is my pledge
I D. L. PATRICK.
'-, For Represantatiye-
Tn the Voters oi Bpaiding County: I
m i candidate for Representative to the
l-lr4*Srt> subject to the primary of the
; gU pany,
fniTOR Call: Please announce my
s candidate for Representative
hSsoalding county, subject to tne action
,7 t he democratic party. I shall be pleased
to receive the support of all the voters,and
ff dected will endeavor to represent the
interests of the whole cou n ty.
J. B. Bell. "
| For Tax Collsctor.
I Hspectfully announce to the citizens
rfgsalding county that I am a candidate
for re-election to the office of Tax Collec
tor of thia county, subject to the choice of
Ss democratic primary, and shall be
grateful for all votes given™..
For Oounty Treasurer. -
To the Voters o£_ Bpaiding 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 Beoelver.
Editor Call :. Please announce to the
voters of Spalding county that I am a can.
didata for the office of Tax Receiver, sub
ject to the Democratic primary of June
23rd, and respectfully ask the support of
< voters of this county.
Respectfully,
| R. H. YARBROUGH.
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.
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
Tour support will be thankfully received
and duly appreciated.
M J. PATRICK.
I am a candidate for the democratic
semination for Sheriff, and earnestly ask
the support of all my friends and the pub
lic. If nominated and elected, it shall be
S endeavor to fulfill the duties of the of
as faithfully as in the past.
t ' M. F. MORRIS.
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“that tired feeling,” spring fever and
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WM m days, when the system hasn’t been
cleansed from the impurities that winter
••s harvested in the blood, you will find
la our Spring Tonic and Stomach Bitters.
For purifying the blood and giving tone
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28 Hill Street
Elates to Bilttaore, Ml.. M»y 4 28’
of the quadrennial general con-
E. church, south, Baltimore,
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CURIOUS TEMPERANCE LAW.
The One Enforced In Pomona, c*!-, Mid; 1
to Be Unique.
The growth of temperance sentiment in
southern California in the past few years '
is marvelous, and today, outaido of Los .
Angeles, all local elections have prohibi- i
tion and high license as their sole issues.
There are no party lines between Repub- i
Loans, Democrats and Populists, and voters i
who have been arrayed against one anoth
er in the fall or general elections join
hands and array themselves against former
allies on the questton of issuing saloon li- 1
censes for a large sum or of having total I
prohibition of the local liquor business.
Some of the local campaigns are Very heat- :
ed and warm the communities much more
than general political ones. At the last 1
local election in Pomona the high license ’
party won after a lively campaign of four
weeks. The city had been a strict prohibi- '
tion town for two years. <
The law now in force is probably the i
most curious in the world. Matthew Dunk- '
ley, president of the great temperance i
league of Great Britain, says it is a re- '
markable law and worthy of stuffy. It is
known on the Pacific coast as the Pdmona
saloon law. In its preparation the ideas of
dozens of eminent leaders in temperance 1
work were considered. The purpose was
to provide s drinking place, pure and sim
ple, for men who must drink, to put those
places under the most, strict surveillance
and at the same time to keep women’s
and children’s livelihoods from going over- <
a bar.
The Pomona saloon law provides that *
there may be but two drinking places
there—a community of over 6,000 popula
tion. ,
The saloon or barroom must be on a
principal thoroughfare of the city. It
must be on the first or ground floor, and
its front must be one-half of plain glass 1
and flush with the sidewalk. No frosted, ,
painted or stained glass may be used in
Iho windows or doors, and there must be
no screens whatever. The view from the
street to the bar must always be free and
unobstructed, so that a person on the
street may at any time see who are within
the saloon. ~
Then, also, there can be .no rear or side
doors to the saloon, no cellar or basement,
no adjunct, wing, side room or alpqve.
The saloon or barroom must be a single
rectangular or square apartment. There
must be no allurements there other than
drink itself. To that end there may be
but one seat, bench or chair in the saloon.
That must be behind the bar and for the
sole use of the saloon keeper or bartender.
Barrels or casks must be separated from
the room by a railing so that they may not
furnish seats or leaning conveniences for
patrons of the saloon. No pictures, ad
vertisements or show cards may boon the
walls, and nothing to eat may be served,
given away or sold there, not even crack
ers or pretzels. All games are strictly pro
hibited Ju the saloons, and newspapers,
periodicals or books are tabooed along
with any table or shelf upon which they
might be placed. In a word, the Pomona
barroom or saloon is simply a drinking
place, surrounded by all the publicity pos
sible.—Boston Transcript.
Mr. Stogglebr’s Alarm Clocks.
“I never set my alarm clock nowadays,”
said Mr. Stoggleby, "without thinking of
one I used to get up by once and never
had to set at all. I was working in a river
town, where I had to get up at 4 o’clock
in the morning. There was a steamboat
running on the river that used to pass our
place every morning at 4 o’clock. This
steamboat had lost a bucket from one of
her wheels, and when this wheel was
turning the next bucket after the one that
was missing used to come down on the
water with a slap. It woke me up the first
morning I was there. You could hear it
a long distance off, the steady churn of the
wheels broken at regular intervals by the
chug of this bucket. After that first morn
ing I never set my alarm clock. The
steamboat was running on a schedule, she
was always on time, and every morning
she’d wake me up as she went past pound
ing down the river.
"But one morning a man came up from
the mill pounding on my door. ‘Stoggy,
me boy, ’he says, ‘ wake up I It's 6 o’elbck. ’
And so it was, and I wondered why they
had taken off the steamboat. That night
I set my alarm clock, and at 4 o’clock
next ir.oruing I was up. And at that hour
I heard t:.o steamboat go by just the same,
only now she churned past as slick and
smooth and soothing as you please. They
hadn’t taken her off, but they'd put a now
bucket in her wheel.” —New York Sun.
Romantic Tale of a Georgia Girl.
In the Big Hurrl iane railroad wreck of
March 17, 1888, near Blackshear, Ga., Mr.
and Mrs. George Gould were both slightly
injured. They were cared for at the Brown
House, a hostelry kept by Dr. and Mrs.
Allen Brown. During the stay of the
Goulds a little child, Lilly Converse, 6
years of age, accompanied Mrs. Brown on
her visits to Mrs. Gould’s Toom. The wav
ing, flaxen hair and fair complexion of the
child and her pretty manners and lovely
disposition were noticed by Mrs. Gould,
who professed to have fallen in love with
her.
The child’s mother had been deserted by
her husband and was penniless and help
less, and the Goulds made her all sorts of
offers for Lilly, but tho mother refused to
part with her. After Mrs. Gould left
Blackshear she corresponded with Mrs.
Converse and made repeated efforts to
have Lilly come to her. Finally Mrs. Con
verse died in Savannah, and for awhile the
child was lost sight of, but it now appears
that she is attending a boarding school in
•New York, and it is surmised that Mr.
and Mrs. Gould are educating her. She is
about IS years of age and is said to be a
very beautiful girl.—Philadelphia Press.
The Dog Voted.
The Bev. Dr. J. C. Wingo was recently
re-elected pastor of the Baptist church at
Carrollton by the most unanimous tote
ever cast by its members.
It was at the annual church meeting,
over which Dr. Fitts was presiding. One
of the members has a pet pug dog that has
been taught a number of tricks, one being
to rise to his hind legs and walk at the
command "stand."
Dr. Wingo had retired in order that tho
church might vote oar the question of his
re-election. One brother had moved the
re-election of Dr. Wingo. Another had
seconded the' motion, and several speeches
had been made, while the pug dog, blink
ing solemnly, sat in the front part of the
church. The question was called for, and
Dr. Fitts put it "Allyvbo are in favor
of the re-election of Brother Wingo will
please rise and stand."
Everybody rose, and then the pug dog
got up very solemnly on his hind legs and
walked around in front of the pulpit.
Everybody laughed, and then Dr. Wingo
was informed that be had been re-elected
by the unanimous vote of the members and
the dog.—Atlanta Journal.
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THE OXFORD DICTIONARY.
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Progress Made So Far <m Dr. Mwray*
Great Undertaking.
Tho year 1807 was a marked year for
the great English dictionary of ths Phil
ological society. The third veflume was
completed, and Queen Victoria was pleased
to sanction the dedication to her majesty
of the Oxford English Dictionary on the
sixtieth anniversary of her aoceesion. The
formal adoption of the work by the great
English university was further marked by
a "dictionary dinner" in the hall of
Queen’s college, at which the vice chan
cellor of the university entertained Dr.
Murray, Mr. Bradley and others concerned
in the production of the "New English
Dictionary on Historical Principles,” now
fairly christened the Oxford English Dic
tionary. w
This is the fortieth year since the Phil
ological society began Its work upon the
dictionary. It is the twentieth save one
since Dr. Murray took it in band. The
dictionary is now printed as far in the
alphabet as the great German historical
dictionary was printed at the death of the
last of the Grimms, and it has treated
100,000 words. A generation of workers
prepared materials. The leaders of a sec
ond are growing venerable in the middle
of their work. When the literary workers
are named there are always some Ameri
cans mentioned with thanks. In the early
period G. P. Marsh and R. Grant White;
in the later the Rev. had long
since sent In 86,00(Tquotahpns, Professor
Phillips of West Chester 10,000, while Fltz
edward Hall ranks with Mr. Furnlval in
tireless all round help from first to last.
The dictionary is pronounced "the
greatest effort probably which any uni
versity, it may be any printing press, has
taken in hand since the invention of print
ing, a labor beyond the. scope of private
enterprise. It will not He tho least of the
glories of the Universityfof Oxford to have
completed this gigantic task."
Volume 8 consists of words In D and
E, 790 pages in D, 488 11 B. The whole
number of words in D iq 19,051, against
9,084 in Johnson’s Dictionary, 10,705 in
the Century and 11,181 in the Standard.
The number of Illustrative quotations is
85,446. More than 2,000,000 slips of them
had been prepared when Dr. Murray be
gan his work. He announced in volume 1
that in the next three years 1,000,000 more
wers furnished. The preface to volume 3
mentions many new names of readers, Al
bert Matthews of Boston heading the list
with 98,000 quotations, and Halkett Lord
of Scotch Plaine, N. J., following after
with 4,000.
Some of these words In D use up heaps
of the quotations. Do, for example, is the
most formidable word In the language, as
Dr. Murray says. The article upon It rep
resents “the distilled essence of 19,000 quo
tations.” They are classified and analyzed
and finally arranged under 134 subdivi
sions of sense, idiom and construction,
and fill. 18 columns of the great pages of
the dictionary. There is, besides, a full
discussion of the original of the verb in
the Indo-European parent speech, and a
deduction of the forms iM our sister
speeches and in the earliest Anglo-Saxon.
—lndependent.
His Royal Driver.
A few days ago, says one of the south
German papers, a soldier was returning to
the barracks of Ludwigsburg (Wurttem
berg) from an excursion to the suburbs.
It was near the time for evening drill, and
he was in fear of being late. Suddenly a
small vehicle, driven by a man in civil
ian’s clothes, appeared.
"May I not take the vacant seat at your
side, sir!” asked the soldier. "I am late
for drill. ”
"I’ll be glad of your company,” came
the reply. ' /
The trooper took the seat A few min
utes later, looking at his watch, he grew
pale.
“Pardon me,” be went on, “but might
I ask you to drive faster? I have great
fear of my captain, who is a strict disci
plinarian. If lam a minute late, he will
put me in the guardhouse. ”
"To what barracks do you belong?”
"The K— barracks.”
“Very wdl. We shall arrive in time.’L
The driver whipped up his team and in
a short time drew up before the gate of the
barracks.
"Thank you, sir,” said the soldier in
descending.
While the son of Mars was still bowing
his acknowledgments the officer on duty
at the annory had ordered the guard to
present arms. The driver of the vehicle
was the king of Wurttemberg.
New Title For Reed.
It not infrequently happens that mem
bers become confused in addressing the
presiding officer of the house. In the heat
of debate it is sometimes "Mr. Chairman"
and sometimes "Mr. Speaker.” The vote
to go in the committee of the whole house,
the presiding officer of which is chairman,
also tends sometimes to confuse those who
participate in the proceedings. There was
a laugh on General Walker of Virginia
for a slip of this kind, although he ad
dressed Mr. Reed neither as Mr. Speaker
nor as "Mr. Chairman.” The general is
a lawyer by profession and has been a
prominent figure in the courts of the Old
Dominion, so when he and Representative
Mien of Indiana were having a heated ar
gument concerning their agreement on the
time for presenting a minority report on
the Thorps-Epes contested election case it
can be readily understood why the general
happened to break in on the Hoosier with
an impassioned wave of his hand toward
the speaker, following this with, "If your
honor please”—
Mr. Reed smiled. The general corrected
himself and proceeded with a statement
of his side of the case.—Washington Bost
Jerusalem’s Water.
The scheme to bring pure water into
Jerusalem has been abandoned. "As all
visitors know, ” says The Jewish Chronicle,
"the inhabitants of that city, of every
creed and nationality and particularly the
poorer residents, suffer untold hardships
in consequence of the scarcity of drinking
water. At the present time they depend
principally upon the supply collected in
cisterns from the rains which fall during
the rainy season • from December to
March. Some of the water flows, Id the
first place, through the streets of Jerusa
lem, before reaching the tanks, which are
above the houses. Thence it trickles down
info underground cisterns, where it stag
nates and breeds all sorts of insects and
impurities. And this is what the major
ity of the people have to drink! Even if
filtered and toiled, it would scarcely be
safe to imbibe such stuff. And by the end
of June even this supply is often exhaust
ed.” '
An Odd Coincidence.
The calendar for the present yerf exact
ly reproduces that of 1887. Each year com
menced on a Saturday, has a, 98 day Feb
ruary and in both years Barter falls on
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NEW YORK’S POSTMASTERS.
A* OMco That Been» to Kmnd to Mishar
Things nr Long Ufa ar Batik
The first postmaster of the city of New
York got his commission from Thomas
Jefferson. He was Theodorus Bailey, a
resident of Poughkeepsie. He waa a Unit
ed States senator, having as his colleague
De Witt Clinton, but be resigned his place
tn the senate to become postmaster of New
York, which was then a city of about 75,000,
and the postal business of which amount
ed to a few hundred letters a day instead
of the present volume of business, which
yields to the federal government a net
profit of $5,000,000 a year. He had pre
viously been a member of the legislature,
he had enjoyed the distinction which came
to senators in the early years of the coun
try's life, and beheld the office of postmas
ter for 94 years.
Andrew Jackson appointed the next
postmaster, who continued in office for
eight years. His name was Jonathan Ood
dington. Nine years before his appoint
ment Coddlngten was a member of the
legislature, at a time when all the mem
ber* were elected on one ticket, and he
held the office of postmaster until John
Tyler appointed another man in his place.
Tyler's propensity for appointing men in
other men’s places led to considerable
friction in his time, and it led, it la sup
posed, to some of the denunciations which
were made of Tyler, denunciations emanat
ing from those who were displaced. Presi
dent Pierce appointed as postmaster of
New York Isaac V. Fowler, who was an
important personage in the politics of his
day. He had as his successor John A. Dlx, I
whose commission came from James Buch
anan. General Dix—he was pot than a
general—was born in 1788, and at the
time of his selection as postmaster he was
known rather irreverently and certalply
Inaccurately as "Old Dix-" He had pre
viously been—27 years before— secretary of
state at Albany; he had been a legislator
and 15 years before had been chosen a
United States senator. He was afterward
aMjstant secretary of the treasury, and his
acceptance of the office of postmaster of
New York was thought to round out his
career. He was the second United States
senator to become postmaster. So far
from rounding out bis .career, General
Dix’s acceptance of the office of pqetmaster
might truthfully be said to have begun it
Ifgign. In January, 1861, he was appoint*
ed Moretary of the treasury of the united
States, later on he became a general ip
the Upiqn army, still later 4towican min
ister to Frahoe, and finally, on Jan. 1,
187$, governor of the state of New York.
Geheral Dix died in April, 1879, at the age
(Si 81 years. He was 03'when appointed
postmaster.
Two postmasters of New York were ap
pointed during- President Lincoln’s term
—Abram Wakeman and James Kelly—and
two during Grant’s term—Mr. Jones and
Mr. James, both still active. President
Harrison appointed Cornelius Van Cott
1 nine years ago, and President McKinley
reappointed him after the expiration of the
font years’ tenure of Charles W. Dayton,
appointed by President Cleveland. Tho
office of postmaster of New York leads
usually to higher things for those who
leave it and to long life to those who don’t,
i —New York Sun.
A Diamond. Tooth Joke.
I Here is an anecdote about Brooklyn
‘ dentist that has recently caused a smile or
two in drawing room and club circles not
far from the heights. A wealthy man
r upon whom nature has bestowed a rugged
* and serious countenance to mask a joking
disposition called at the office of- the den*
’ tist aforesaid in actual distress over a bro
ken front tooth. "Can anything be dons
to remedy this defect?" he asked eagerly.
’ Upon examination the dental artist
found that one of two very large and prom
inent upper teeth had been damaged be
b yond repair. "It must oome out," he said
' curtly.
1 "No, no, you must build it up,” ex
claimed the visitor. “I can’t spare that
tooth. Its removal would make my mouth
look like an open porthole.”
"Oh, well, I can replace it,” complaoent
-1 ly answered the dentist. “The old one
3 must certainly come out, but I will put in
a new one that will make you look better
1 than ever before. It will be firm and reg
ular and much handsomer than the old
f one.”
r "Ah!” muttered the wealthy man.
3 "That’s what I want. Make it as at
-3 tractive as possible. ’ ’
"Yes, indeed, I will," said the dentist
enthusiastically. "You shall have a tooth
that will be perfect in form, white, pearly
* and glistening"—
» "Say, doctor,” Interrupted the visitor
l> with mock gravity, "couldn’t you set a
’ large diamond in the middle of it?"
) "Ob, no, I wouldn’t do that," replied
, the dentist hastily, but in sober earnest.
> "Os courea I know that you can well as-
> ford it, but it would look—well, just a
a trifle too odnspicuous, don’t you know.”—
i New York Times.
r He Could Vary the Monotony.
3 There is no man in public life who en-
* joys a story more than Samuel Hamilton,
I oounty superintendent of public schools.
9 Mr. Hamilton tells one on himself which
* came about when be was a country school
-9 teacher.
1 "I had a big class and was just a little
6 nervous on my first break into life as a
1 teacher," said the big fellow. "I had a
1 class up, and a little fellow who sat up in
1 the comer began twirling his thumbs like
r wildfire. He seemed to be trying to break
his own record at thumb twirling, and be
1 was doing well when I landed down at hie
6 end of the earth with a question. He
* didn’t bear me at all. I might as well
have been in the Klondike for all be cared.
He was twirling so that his little thumbs
9 looked like a pinwheel, w
1 9 ‘ William, ’ I shouted, with a voice that
, jarred the stove door open and broke a
' small boy’s slate across the room. William
9 woke up and looked at me in a dazed sash
-3 ion.
i “ ‘ls that all you can do in class?’ I
I thundered.
> "Quick as a flash came the reply: ‘No,
! sir; I can do it backward just as fast.’
9 And to make his words good he began to
9 twirl those thumbs backward at lightning
- speed."—Pittsburg Dispatch.
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I An Intricate Question.
’ Officialdom in Germany has been com
-3 pelted by a bicyclist to give deep thought
‘ to the question “When two streets inter
( sect, in which street is the point of inter
-3 section?" At Breslau bicycles are forbid*
1 den on certain streets. A rider going along
a street where they are allowed followed it
across a prohibited street and was arrested
in the middle of the road. He asserted
that he was <n one street, the policeman
that he was ia the other, the lower court
that he was in neither and should not be
fined, and the upper court that be was in
both, therefore on the forbidden street and
mart pay 95 cents.
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To MOTHERS.
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE
EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD " C ASTORIA,” AND
“ PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADE MARK. •
Z DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, qf Byannis, Massachusetts,
was the originator of •■PITCHER’S CASTORIA.” the saw
that has borne and does now e ° ery
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 —ST -
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 Mot 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 jt), the in
gredients of which even he docs not know.
“The Kind You Have Always Bought”
BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE CF
Insist on Having • '
The Kind That Never Failed You.
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