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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< ® “*** 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 ■ ” 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. I- . 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, ”W,wt |»<V __ L|J 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. ’ •yT.', s t , . 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 I ■ I 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 u. - 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. i. ’ 1 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. ... » 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. — . —«S* —— 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 / & * f if / A 0 Insist on Having 0 ’ The Kind That Never Failed You. ’ f THE OKNTAUN OMFANY, T? 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