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g " ror county Surveyor.
B 1 hereby announce “y*”. l
or t-'v* ♦!»/> Hpmocralif* prmjftry or June
®r atibWC" * A H mT^Bb<
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I For County Comminloner.
I
fi orimary, and will be glad to
Hl annoort ol sll the voters
I jjgve the support j TIDWELL.
■ *t the solicitation of many voters I
I iJrfjv announce myself a candidate for
I <^H7n < r?ma^ BlO^ e ® ,<sCte^-1 P led ß« “Y-
I an honest,business-like administra-
I •fer *Tk“Att. of
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I i hereby announce myself a candidate
I %
I Zxt If elected, I pledge myself to eco-
I I Stical and business methods in conduct-
■ T hereby announce myself a candidate
■ for County’ Commissioner of Bpaiding
■ fess!“‘ “
If To the Voters of Spalding County: I
I harebv announce myself a candidate for
reelection to the office of County Comrnis-
I itoner of Spalding county, subject to the
I TXvrat.ic. primary to be held on June 23,
t 1898 My record in the past is my pledge
■ forftrture faithfulness.
I for! D. L. PATRICK.
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I For Beprewntatiya. «
I To the Voters ol Spalding County: I
«n a candidate for Representative to the
t legislature, subject to the primary of the
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.
I J. B. BELL.
For Tax OdUsctar.
I respectfully announce to the citizens
of Spalding county that I ama 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
For County Treasurer.
R To tha 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
‘-‘“‘‘•"‘l.ftmOO.
Dar Tax lecrivsr.
Editor Call : Pleas® annonnce te the
voters of Spalding county that I am a^can
didate for the office of Tax Receiver, sub
ject to the Democratic primary of June
28rd, and respectfully ask the support of
I all 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.
V 8. M. M’COWELL.
For Sheriff.
I respectfully inform my friends—the
people of Bpaiding county—that lam a
candidate for the office of Sheriff, subject
to the verdiet of a primary, if one is held
Your support will be thankfully received
and duly appreciated.
‘ MJ. PATRICK.
I lam 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,
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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
nas harvested 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 * SOM,
28 Hill Street.
low Bates to Baltimore, Ml. May 4 28 :
1898.
Account of the quadrennial general con
ference LLE. church, south, Baltimore,
May 1-28, the Southern Railway will sell
Sj“rthif
Choice of routes, via Washington, all raff,
or Jia Norfolkand steamer. *
For full particulars address,
8. H. Hardwick,
A. G.P, A., Atlanta.
g /C. 8. Whitx, T, A., Griffin. ’
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. THE OLDEST
It Wm Established lu Chin* I a the Eighth
Century.
! ~ T^ e ,° ldest “ewspaper in the world is
the Tsing-Pao, or Peking News, founded
tn lhe year 710 A. D. Until quite late
ly it was generally supposed that the
Kin Pan, a Chinese journal published
; in Peking for the last thousand years,
was the oldest newspaper in the world.
i In a very able work recently published,
however, Imfaault Huart, the French
consul at Canton, shows that this high
honor belongs to the Tsing-Pao, which
has been published continuously since
the year 710 and is even said to have
been founded some 900 years before
that date, or early in the sixth century,
800 years before a newspaper was known
• in Europe. ~~
The Tsing-Pao now appears as a book
of 24 pages, octavo size, tied in a yel
low cover by two knots of rice paper.
Each page has seven columns, and each
column has seven characters, or letters, I
which read from top to bottom. The
types are made of willow wood. This
is the "edition de luxe” officially recog
nized by the emperor, and the price of
which is about 24 cents a month. There
isalsoa popularedition, got up rough
ly on poor paper and printed, or rather
daubed, from a plate of engraved wax
This costs Id cents per month and is
Issued an hour before the other.
It is the Official journal of the gov
ernment—the “Times” of Cliina. It
gives all the details concerning the per
son of the emperor, his movements, his
maladies, his remedies, the imperial
decrees and the reports of the ministers,
in the printing of which every error is
punished with death.
It announces to all the provinces the
date which has been fixed by the em
peror for the people to change their
summer hats for winter ones, which
they are expected to do as one man.
This journal is easy to read, for it ap
pears in r.n English translation in
Shanghai.
After the Tsing-Pao the most impor
tant paper in China is of modern date—
the Chin-Pao, or Shanghai News,
founded in 1879. It has a circulation of
some 15,000 copies, and at the close of
the Franco-Chinese war Li Hung Chang
made use of it—an innovation till then
unknown—‘to influence publio opinion
and demonstrate by history the rights
of the Chinese over Anam.
Chinese newspapers are usually print
, ed on yellow paper, which Is changed to
blue in case of mourning and red on
gala days. One paper has three editions
each day—on yellow paper in the morn
ing, gray at noon and white at night—
so that the sellers cannot substitute one
edition for another in serving their cus
tomers. Another journal has a title
which signifies “the reproduction of
what it id necessary to know, " all given
on a couple of pages, octavo size. They
readily attempt to “en-Chluese” foreign
words, as, for instance, the word “tele
phone” is made to read “to-il foung."
The Chinese press, like many of their
other institutions, has remained station
ary for 1,000 year®, but is now begin
ning to wakeup ana modernize itself.
—-Sap Wwtuoiwio Call.
The Texas Girl.
Chivalry used to be described as a
southern virtue, and though we do not
wish to imply that the men of the north
are unchivalrous it is quite possible
that in the south women are still re
garded with a greater degree of formal
reverence than elsewhere. A native of
Texas describes with enthusiasm the
women of his state and shows why they
cannot fail to excite admiration. “They
are," he declares, “sweet, polite, gra
cious and courageous; they do not curse
or swear; they do not use slang, and are
not drunkards. Most of them ride well
on horseback and can use the six shooter,
but do not want to take away a man’s
job or position. ” Could a more engag
ing picture be drawn? There lovely
compounds of sweetness and strength
know their power, but do not abuse it
They may resent injury in the most ef
fective fashion, but they are not mean.
They will hesitate before shooting a
man who has a family dependent upon
him. They are no mere amazons. The
fact that they do not curse and swear
shows that they possess also the gentler
domestic virtues. Those who are in
search of the ideal girl should purchase
a ticket for Texas.—Providence Jour
nal.
Th* Odor of the Opera.
The confirmed opera goer drew a long
breath. “That would make me happy if
it blew over my grave, ” he murmured
blissfully.
The woman with him looked at him
doubtfully. “What’s blowing?" she
asked unsympathetically.
“It’s the perfume," he explained.
“One always gets it when the curtain
rises on the second act. The house is
full by that time and the odors of the
flowers and perfumes have grown
heavy. The air is close and oppressive
during the entr’acte, but when the cur
tain goes up the draft sweeps out and
catches that indescribable odor and
. whirls it up here to the dress circle.
' It’s not like anything else. No theater
1 has it. It’s the essence ot opera flowers
and laces and jewels and beauty and
> mugic:—I’d recognize a whiff of it in
paradise. Just ask any old chap who
has been coming here for years about
■ it He’ll know what I mean. "—New
York Sun. ' l_,
Celebratin* Bis Dellvoraece.
■ “Herbert,” asked the young: wife
j timidly, "is this the kind of minoe pie
your mother used to make?”
“No, dear, "answered the young hus
band. “My mother never made mince
i pies. She was a health reform lecturer."
1 And Herbert helped himself to a seo
r end cut—Chicago Tribune.
The Only Sur« Way.
Pollywog—How would you go about
finding a needle in a baystack?
Jollydog—l shouldn’t look for it I’d
simply slide down the baystack.—New
York Journal
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NATURE OF LIFE,
A Talk on Ute Interaction of the Coetit
eenta of Protoplnam.
Herbert Spencer's definition of the
nature of life implies, as is well known,
a continuous adjustment of internal to
external relations, says the London
Lancet. In other words, vitality is pre
served by interactions going on betwren
the constituents of the protoplasm. On
the face of it this view must be very
materially modified in the light of some
exceedingly interesting experiments re
cently brought to the notice of the
Royal society by Horace Brown, whore
classic researches on that interesting
class of ferments the enzymes are well
known. He has found that by submit
ting seeds to the very low temperature
of evaporating liquid air—i. e., from
—IBB degrees O. to 102 degrees C.—for
110 consecutive hours their power of
germinating is not in any way impair
ed. Since the above temperature ia con
siderably below that at which ordinary
chemical reactions take place, the re
sult is very remarkable and would ap
pear to show that although a state of
complete chemical inertness in proto
plasm may be established it does not
necessarily lead to a destruction of its
potential activity. '
Is this protoplasm thus brought to a
“resting” condition to burst into activi
ty on restoring favorable conditions? If
so, what becomes of life during this
“rest?” These observations are also of
interest in connection with the -sugges
tion of Lord Kelvin that the origin of
life as we know it may have been extra
terrestrial and due to the “moss grown
fragments from the ruins of another
world” which reached the earth as
meteorites. That such fragments might
circulate in the intense cold space for a
perfectly indefinite-period without prej
udice to their freight of seeds or spores
is, Horace Brown remarks, almost cer
tain from the facts we know about the
maintenance of life by “resting" pro
toplasm. The difficulties in the way of
accepting such a hypothesis certainly
do not lie in this direction. Here is an
interesting problem for biologists, and
the development of the question will be
followed with the keenest interest
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TRICKS OF MEMORY.
Notable Examples of VorgottUlneM That
Are Supposed to Be True.
The first man to start a school for the
training of memory was a Greek, Si
monides, who read one of his poetic
compositions to a large audience and so
fascinated them that when he bowed
and withdrew from the building they
sat spellbound. The roof caved in and
killed them all, mangftng them so that
the bodies were unrecognizable, but 81-
monides came to the rescue of the de
spairing relatives and said be could re
member where each person in the audi
ence sat and who he wax As there was
no one to dispute his decisions his iden
tification was satisfactory, and he profit
ed by the enthusiasm to start a memory
school.
A young wonlan of no education fell
111 in a small German town. She could
neither read nor write, yet she raved in
Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and the sim
ple villagers thought she was possessed
of the devil. Investigation proved that
at the age of 9 she had been taken by a
charitable old Protestant pastor. It was
his custom for years to Walk up and
down a passage of the house into which
the kitchen openfid and read to himself
in a loud voice out of his books. These
books were ransacked by the physician
in charge of the curious care and who
had made inquiries into the sick girl’s
past life, and in them were found the
identical Greek and Latin passages
, which the girl in her delirium had re
peated.
There is an authentic case of a bril
liant young woman, happily married,
who had a long illness, the result of
which was that when she recovered she
had lost every recollection of her life
from the day of her marriage, inclusive
of the ceremony. The rest of her life up
to that point she remembered clearly.
At first she pushed h®* husband and her
child from her in alarm, but her par
ents and friends have convinced her she
is married and has a son. She believes
their word of necessity, though she has
never recovered her memory of that one
year which is lost to her.—Exchange.
The Servtan Drum.
The men who play the big drums in
the different regiments of the Servian
army must have an easier lot than the
drummers of other lands, for they do
not have to carry their own drums.
In nearly all cases instead of being
slung in front of the man who plays it
’ the instrument is put on a small two
wheel cart drawn by a large dog. Os
course the drummer must play as he
marches, but the dog is so well trained
that there is no difficulty in doing this.
The animal keeps his place even
through the longest marches, and the
i drummer walks behind the cart, per
forming on his instrument as it goes
. along. Each regiment is provided with
; two or three big drams, but very few
regiments have a band. —Youth’s Com
' panion.
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Not Aiwvyu.
“Remember, my boy,” said Unde
, James as he gave Bobby a coin, “that
i if you take care of the pennies the shil-
> lings will take care of themselves. ”
Bobby looked a trifle dubious.
“I do take care of the pennies," he
replied, “but as soon as they get to be
i shillings pa takes care of’em."—Lon-
> <fo»tit-Bita
Os the two starqps first Issued Wash-
> iagton’s portrait was on the 10 cent and
Franklin’s on the other. Since that
time the various issues of the United
Statfei stamps would furnish a unique
portrait gallery, showing the faces of 48
noted Americana
;
The bullet which killed Lord Nelson
I at Trafalgar is still preserved. It is
’ mounted in a crystal locket and reposes
tn a crimson bag with gold tassels.
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I
few- PlnmMsc Boscere* Binuimlnx.
Not slumming, but plumbing, Is. the
latest and most, fashionable diversion.
The plumbing does not consist in laying
or repairing the pipes and mains, but in
inspecting and criticising thorn. There la,
of course, n guide or leader who first picks
out some houses where things are peculiar
ly defective and who then pilots the party
about, pointing out how dreadfully unhy
gienic it all is. Most of the inspecting
crowd probably know no more about it
When they are through than when they
began, but the diversion has the air of be
ing philanthropic, not to Mr Sciontlflo,
and it is certainly novel. There was a
(‘plumbing party” on hand yesterday. It
was made up of the rank and file of the
New York Household Economic associa
tion, none of the important membMs be
ing present, and it left the Palace of In
dustry at 8 o’clock. About 90 women were
in the crowd and it was in charge of Mr.
Charles F. Wingate. As the one man and
the whole crowd of women made their
way along tho sheets It was Interesting to
observe the stares and the comments of the
passersby who were not yet familiar with
the plumbing party. Not until the new
diversion beoomes more common may we
expect the general public to be callous to
it. The party tackled a house on East
Sixty-third street and proceeded to exam
ine its drains. Mr. Wingate was very par
ticular to point out the importance of the
right sort of traps, and the women were
soon converted to his opinion. The ques
tions the women asked were remarkable
and varied. They ranged all the way from
queries as to the proper size for butlers*
pantries to Interrogations concerning the
high price of putty in New Orleans. Mr.
Wingate was both patient and painstak
ing, however, and tried his best to make
everything clear. There is no doubt, too,
that the new diversion contains much of
practical value to those who enter into it
in the proper spirit. The slumming party
was nothing more than a gratification of
curiosity. The plumbing party provides a
capital object lesson in that most impor
tant field—domestic science.—New York
Sun. ' ■; I' '
The ‘’Queen’s” English.
If Cobbett were alive, he could still crit
icise tho English grammar of tho speech
prepared for the sovereign at the opening
of parliament. The queen adopts this
speech at her council on the advice of her
ministers, and it is then given to parlia
ment as “her own words.” It is impor
tant to observe that the president of the
council and the minister who last saw the
queen at Osborne in reference to the speech
reed yesterday is also the head of the edu
cation department Is there an Inspector
Os schools under him who would pass a
reference to expenditure which is beyond
‘‘former precedent?”
A question In English grammar might
beset In the schools from the following
sentence: “A portion of the Afridi tribes
hatfe not yet accepted the terms offered to
them, but elsewhere the operations have
been brought to a successful close.” The
question would be: What Is the term in
opposition to “elsewhere?” In the refer
ence to Crete we read: “The difficulty of
arriving at an unanimous agreement upon
some points has unduly protracted their
deliberations—l. e., the deliberations of
the powers—but I hope that there obstacles
Will before long be surmounted.” What
obstacles? As “the difficulty” is the sub
ject in this sentence, ‘ * that obstacle* ’ would
appear to be the appropriate phrase.
Observe also “an unanimous agree
ment.” In the days when our grandfa
thers spoke of things being pecooliar or
eenique the rule that the indefinite article
comes before the vowel sound applied, but
as in these days “unanimous" is not pro
- Bounced oonanlmous, but you-nanimous,
the “an” before the word ia an abomina
tion in speech and In writing but lamely
defended, like certain rhymes, as satisfy
ing to the eye although offending the ear.
As for the literary style of the speech, It is
not likely to be used as a model in the
secondary schools.—London Newa
Patagonian Giants.
The tribes to the east of the Cordilleras
in southern Patagonia belong to Amuca
nian stock and are a superior race. The
Tehuelches —as they call themselves—of
southern and eastern Patagonia are the
people whose unusual stature gave rise to
the fables of early days to the effect that
the natives of this region were giants,
averaging 9Or 10 feet in height. It is a
fact that they are the tallest human beings
in the world, the men averaging but
slightly less than 6 feet, while individuals
of 4 to 0 inches above that mark are not
uncommon. They are in reality by no
means savages, but somewhat civilized
barbarians. They are almost unacquaint
ed with the use of firearms, notwithstand
ing some contact with the Whites, but they
i have plenty of horses and dogs. Unsurpass
i ed hunters, they capture the guanaco and
I the rhea, or South American ostrich, and
from the skins of there and other animals
they make clothes and coverings for their
tents. They make beautiful capes or
mantles of fur and feathers, which are
highly prized by Europeans and find a
ready market, most of the proceeds^being
spent for bad whisky, which is brought
, into the country in quantities by traders.
, —Boston Transcript.
, The MOere. In th* Piano.
I “Speaking of mice,” said Mr. Biffleby,
“a friend of mine that owns an old fasb-
, ioned piano tells me that when it was be
ing played upon the other day a mouse ran
out of it and scampered around on the
top and then ran down a curtain whose
folds touch the pUno atone end. Tho
r mouse has done this twice in a single day.
) “Search was made in the interior of the
Instrument for a mouse’s nest, but none
. was found. Perhaps the mouse had only
Just selected this place and had not yet
1 begun building when it was first startled
by the sound of the strings. However that
may be, it still comes back, and It comes
out and runs away only wbetf classical
music is played, and not for two steps and
that sort of thing.
I “As to the accuracy of these facts there
• can, of course, be no doubt. The only
question in my own mind is as to whether
the mouse’s failure to come out when the
two steps and so on are played really indi
cates a preference for the lighter forme of
1 music, or that—er-r—the mouse isn’t
• there: *’ —New York Sun.
Th* Fly In the Ointment.
“This," said the bystander, “must be
• the proudest moment of your life."
I “No,” sadly answered the owner of the
; winning horse. “It was a great race and
I’ve won a fortune, but from naxon I see
( that I shall be known only as owner of the
I hotw * h ** W<H> it.’’— JournaL
A Straggle.
“There are some men who would rather
1 fight than eat.”
1 “If you lived at oar boarding house you
I would have to fight to eat. ”—Philadelphia
North American.
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AN OPEN LETTER
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE SB
EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “ OASTORIA," AND
“ PITCHER’S CASTORIA," as our trade mark.
I t DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, Hyannis, Massachusetts,
was the originator of “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” the same
that has borne and does now on evcr U
bear the facsimile signature of wrapper.
This is the original M PITCHER’S CASTORIA,’’ whwh 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 in/iy 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 CF 3
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f if / A 0
Insist on Having 0
’ The Kind That Never Failed You. ’ f
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