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""’ For County Surveyor.
I hereby
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FoitobCaUc Please announce that I
.ma candidate for re-election for County
P™mmißßioner, subject to the action of the
timocratic primary, and will be glad to
JS!Jhe>upport ot all the voters,
havotne it- J. A. J. TIDWELL.
At the solicitation of many voters I
hereby announce myself a candidate for
® County Commissioner, subject to the dem
ocratic primary. If elected,! pledge my
self to an honest, business-like administra
tion ofcounty affairs m the direction of
lower taxes. R. F. BTRIC ELAND.
1 hereby announce myself a candidate
for County Commissioner, aubject to the
democratic primary to held June 23,
next. If elected, I pledge myself toeco
t nomical and business methods in conduct
ing the affdrs ot the county.
K W. J. FUTRAL.
I hereby announce myself a candidate
for County Commissioner of Spalding
county, subject to the Democratic, primary
i Os June 23d. W. W. CHAMPION.
To the Voters of Spalding County: I
hereby announce myself a candidate for
I re-election to the office of County Commis
i gioner of Spalding county, subject to the
f democratic primary to be held on Jane 23,
1898. My record in the past is my pledge
fbr future faithfulness.
D. L. PATRICK.
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For Beprssentatiye.
To the Voters of Spalding County: I
am a candidate for Representative to the
legislature, subject to the primary of 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
ot 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. Bs'll “
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 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.
Tax Beosiver.
Editor Call Please announce to the
I voters of Spalding county that lam a can- .
! didate for the office of Tax Receiver, sub
s ject to the Democratic primary of June
23rd, and respectfully ask the support of
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.
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
Your support will be thankfully 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
L- my endeavor to fulfill the duties of the of
fice as faithfully as m the past.
| M. F. MORRIS.
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A STIRRING INTERVIEW.
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I A<l venter© of st Yankee
Gibraltar In 1800.
Two noteworthy facts mark the bat
tle of Lake Champlain and that of Lake
Erie. They were the only squadron bat
tles of the war of 1813, and the two vic
torious American commanders were very
young. Perry wds 28 and Macdonough
When Macdonough was but 23 yean
of age, an adventure at Gibraltar, in
1806, described in Mr. Spears’ “History
of Our Navy,” showed the character of
the man. He was first lieutenant of the
Yankee brig Siren, end one day while
the captain was on shore at Gibraltar a
Yankee merchantman came into the
port and anchored near the Siren. A
boat from a British frigate near by
want directig, to the merchantman and
in a few minutes pulled away again,
having one more man in it than when
it left the frigate.
Macdonough noted the fact and sent
Lieutenant Page to the merchantman,
who returned with the information that
the British had impressed one of the
crew of the merchantman.
Macdonough ordered the Siren’s gig
away, manned with armed men, and
getting into it himself overtook the
British boat alongside of the frigate and
took out of it by force the impressed
seaman and carried him to the Siren.
Later the captain of the British man
of-war came on board the Siren and in
a great rage demanded to know how
Macdonough had “dared to take a man
from one of his majesty’s boats.”
-.“I Will,” said He, “haul my ship
alongside the Siren and take the man
by force. ” '
“I suppose,” answered Macdonough,
“your ship can sink the Siren, but as
long as she can swim I shall keep the
man.”
“You are a very young man and very
indiscreet,” said the bully. “Suppose I
had been in the boat. What would you
have done?”
"I would have taken the man or lost
my life,” replied Macdonough.
“What, sir, would you attempt to
stop me if I were now to try to impress
men from that brig?” thundered the
captain.
“I would,” answered the calm Mac
donough, “and to convince yourself
that I would you have only to make the
attempt.”
At that the British captain got into
his boat, rowed away to his frigate and
then turned and rowed toward the mer
chantman. Macdonough at once manned
a boat with an armed crew and rowed
out to protect the brig. The English
man rowed around the merchantman
without boarding her and then put back
to his frigate. He had tried to impress
the Yankee sailor net because be wished
to add more to bis crew, but to show
his contempt for the little Yankee war
ship.—Youth’s Companion.
UNCLE SAM’S DOMAIN.
With All of Hi* Extravagance He Still
Owns Over 600,000,000 Acres.
The idea that Uncle Sam is at present
a landless old fellow has generally tak
en possession of the people throughout
the country. This, however, is a great
mistake. He still has land enough to
give each one of his 73,000,000 children
a nice little homestead cf eight acres
each and still have a ranch of over 16,-
000,000 acres left In other words, your
dear old uncle still owns something
over 600,000,000 acres, distributed as
follows throughout the various states
and territories:
Alabama, 582,389 acres; Arizona,
54,400,211 acres; Arkansas, 8,922,042
acres; California, 48,841,044 acres;
Colorado, 4,087,204 acres; Florida,
1,797,662 acres; Idaho, 45,962,855
acres; Kansas, 1,046,589 acres; Louis
iana, 815,020 acres; Michigan, 532,481
acres; Minnesota, 6,240,049 acres; Mis
sissippi, 41,441,220-acres; Missouri,
497,764 acres ; Montana, 71,432,917
acres; Nebraska, 10,669,858acre5; Ne
vada, 61,578,586 acres; New Mexico,
56,983,047 acres; North Dakota, 21,-
885,293 acres;, Oklahoma, 8,105,238
acres; Oregon, 85,892,818 acres; South
Dakota, 13,250,718 acres; Utah, 44,-
207,270 acres; Washington, 17,958,586
‘acres; Wisconsin, 454,107 acres; Wy
oming, 49,841,588 acres; Alaska, 869,-
529,600 acres.
About one-half this vast amount of
land lies, it will be seen, in Alaska, and
it is very certain that this will never be
available for homestead purposes, but
for mining purposes its value in cold
coin may prove to he even greater than
though it were arahle. The larger part
of the balance lies in fertile and pro
ductive states and is all subject to home
stead laws.
Those who want homes should avail
themselves of the more liberal than
homestead laws of the United States.
This is the place for the surplus labor.
—St. Louis Star.
-- Holland.
Holland is an abbreviation of Hollow
land. It is a low, flat country on the
North sea and is composed mostly of
deposits from the Rhine and other rivers
and of sand thrown up by the sea. Soma
parts of it are even lower than the sea
itself, and to keep the water out strong
walls called dikes, made of great stones,
timber, turf and clay, have been built
along the shores. The land was former
ly very soft and swampy, but it has
been filled up or drawn out by hundreds
of pumps, which are worked either by
windmills or steam engines. The wa
ter is pumped into canals, which take
the place of streets, and the people go
abont on them in summer in little boats
drawn by horses or by dogs, and in
winter they travel merrily over the ice
on skates, which men, women and chil
dren use with ease and grace.
Knowledge.
Yeast—That boy of Sharpley’s is a
bright boy, isn’t be?
Crimson beak— Yes, but he’ll know
more when he forgets a lot that he
thinks he knows now. —Yonkers States
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CALLING BACK THE SUN,
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Mogul Dance That Helps' to Cave tht
Return of Sammer and Harvests. Kj
Dr. Tewkes of the Smithsonian institu
Mon at Washington returned recently to
Denver from the Moqui villages in Ari
zona, where he attended the winter dances
of tho Indiana He is one of the few white
men who have ever seen this remarkable
ceremony, and tho result of his visit will
appear tn a detailed report on his return
to Washington, • \
Tho dance or ceremony is called the ray
la-na, and Is the most complicated of all
the religious ceremonies among the Mo
guls. It continues for nine days, includ
ing preliminary preparations. It is one of
the few ceremonies still in existence amqng
the uncivilized tribes In which the sun is
directly the object of worship. TheMance
takes place at the winter solstice when the
sun has receded to Its farthest limit in the
southern sky. Its object is primarily to
induce the sun to recede from its southern
march and retrace its steps toward the
north, to bring joy, warmth and returning
harvests to the Moquis. The secondary ob
ject Is to extend a peace offering to the
great plumed snake, a deity hostile to tho
sun, in order that his wrath may be ap
peased and he may cease to chase the sun
away from the Moquis.
The main dance took place at Walpai on
Deo. 20, and on the 22d at Oriaba. It was
held between 10 and 12 o’clock in the
evening in one of the secret rooms of the
khiva. A rude altar had been construct
ed in one end of tho room, back of which
was a partition of wreaths and flowers,
through which the bead of an effigy of the
plumed serpent protruded. Thia head was
about 18 inches long and about 12 Inches
In diameter and made from a large gourd.
The upper part -of the head was stained
black, the lower part wbire, and tho
mouth, with a hideous exhibition of teeth,
Was stained red. Behlpd this screen was
an Indian, whose office it was to impart to
tho head of the reptile a swaying motion,
as if the serpent was Imbued with life. At
the same time a number of Indians blew in
to hollow gourds, which emitted a strange
rushing sound to imitate the noise made
by the swift movement of n monster snake.
In front of the altar and the effigy ot the
snake appeared a warrior with a shield on
which were represented emblems of the
sun. These minor deities and the plumed
snake attacked tho warrior representing
the sun, and a battle ensued in which the
lono warrior triumphed, beating back his
enemies, and thus being enabled to return
to the north to cheer the land of the Mo
quis.
The next morning after the performance
as the sun rises above the eastern horizon
and tips the western hills with gold the
Indians offer up their prayers and sprinkle
holy meal in its fore, and by these simple
acts of devotion welcome its return from
the southern skies, and with it also tho re
turn of the kachenos, the good spirits
who bring the Moquis rain, corn, abun
dance of harvest and all tho blessings of
life.—New York Sun.
Famous Washington Parrots.
Chief Justice Fuller has a Mexican par
rot ofjwhich he is very fond and of whose
acquirements ho is exceedingly proud. Its
latest accomplishment is to call the chief
justice “grandpa.” The title was not so
pleasing at first, but since sols last married
daughter, Mrs. Beecher, has presented the
family with two grandchildren in two
years he is perfectly resigned to the inev
itable title, even from a parrot’s lips.
There are several distinguished friends of
tho chief justice who talk parrot with him
and swap bright sayings of their pets.
For one, the British ambassador has an
exceedingly talkative and well informed
bird. His name is Jacob, and he has been
a pet in the family for 13 years. Not long
ago Jacob was blown from tho window
seat of the dining room of the embassy
and was picked up in the street by a boy—
a good boy, as it happened—and conse
quently was restored after about a week,
in which the family nearly went distract
ed.
The good boy was rewarded by the finest
atlas that Sir Julian could find, with his
name in it, as a reward of merit, and the
good boy is the envy of all his school
mates. . -
The wifo of the Mexican minister, Mme.
Romero, has a parrot who is a fine lin
guist. He speaks Spanish and French
and occasionally English. He is a beauti
ful Mexican bird and is quite the idol of
the family. Miss Mitchell, daughter of J.
J. Mitchell, cousin of Mrs. Stanley Mat
thews, has a parrot of rare attainments,
who talks and sings. Judge Advocate
General Lieber also has a well trained par
rot.—Washington Letter in Chicago Trib
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What Zola Has Undertaken.
The government is the smallest of M. ~
Zola’s foes. He faces an angry nation,
which, with exceptions that hardly count
in the flood of passion and prejudice, is ex
asperated against Dreyfus almost to the
shedding of blood. His indictment, what
ever may come of it, is a piece of the most
heroic courage in the annals of civil life.
He has hqd a foretaste of the persecution
that aWaits"him. Colonel Picquart, who
was the first to expose Ksterbazy, has been
arrested and shut up at Mont Valerian. It
is rumored that M. Mathieu Dreyfus is to
be prosecuted, and, if possible, to be bled
with a demand for damages fixed at £20,-
000. But tho most conspicuous figure of
this group of bravo men, struggling for the
justice of an open trial Is the great writer
who leads their forlorn hope. If the gov
ernment give him an open trial, he may
yet succeed in putting its methods to
shame. It 4s more probable that it will
bring his old age to ignominy and ruin.—
London News.
The Curfew Bell.
The Rov. Charles A. Crane, a Methodist
minister of Boston, advocates the revival
of the curfew bell in that city. “Boston,’’
he said the other evening, “owes it to her
self, and especially to her boys, to pass and
faithfully execute a curfew law which shall
require all children 16 years of age and
under to be off the streets at 8 o’clock in
the winter and 9 o’clock, in the summer.
Lincoln, Neb., was the first city to adopt
tho curfew law, rfbout two years ago.
Omaha, Denver, Kansas City, Des Moines,
Topeka and Evanston, His., are among
the larger cities which have followed. The
testimony in favor of the innovation is
strong. The chief of police of St. Joseph,
Mo., says that seven-eighths of the people
give it their sincere approval There has
been a redaction of 50 per cent to com
mitments to the reform school from that
city. ’’
Frightening Him.
“Now, just as soon as you are married,”
said the experienced husband, “the life in
surance solicitors will be after you in
droves.”
“Is matrimony so dangerous as that?”
asked the candidate for nuptial honors,
with apprehension in his voice.—Detroit
Free Press.
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G ICELAND PONIES. '
They Are Docile and Marvels of Strength
and Endurance.
If the camel is the ship of the desert, the
Iceland pony is the cab, train-, omnibus
and tram car of the wonderful country to
which he belongs. To begin with, he is a
misnomer. He is not a pony in the ordi
nary sense at the word. He ik a horse in
bone and sinew, tn strength and endur
knee, in manners and deportment—a horse
to everything, In fact, except inches, and
a sober, steady, hardworking home too.
He is a very “multumta parvo,” a “oon
oentrated essence” of horseflesh. Re can
swim like a fish, climb like a goat and
jump like a deer. He sticks at nothing
and takes every variety of travel—bog,
lava bed, sand, bowlder land grass mounds
—with undisturbed equanimity'. If he
has to ford one or two rivers, with strong
currents flowing girth deep, it is all h
the day’s work. Only give him time and
periodical halts for refreshment and he
will do his 50 miles per day and thrive up
on it
Iceland ponies are bred in hundreds in
the large grass plains in the southern dis
tricts of the island. Little or no care is
taken in selection, so the breed remains
unaltered and unimproved, the average
pony standing from 11 to 12 J 4 hands,
though here and there ono will reach to
nearly 18 hands. Every variety of color Is
aeen, but skewbalds of many shades are
the commonest. Tho chestnuts, as a rule,
are the finest and the browns the hardiest.
Beautiful cream colors, with light points,
are not infrequent. Black is very rare,
and roan also. Their paces are fast, con
sidering the size of the animal, a journey
of 82 miles being often done In six hours
or less, witij.hM.vy baggage. They trot,
canter and gallop, but tho pace most es
teemed by the natives is the amble or
“skeid,” in which the fore and hind legs
on a side are advanced simultaneously,
giving a running action, very smooth to
the riders A good pacer is considered very
valuable and often sold for a high price.
Some of these ponies amble so fast that
they keep ahead of another going ata hand
gallop, and they maintain the pace for a
day’s journey under a weight of 11 to 14
stone. Iceland ponies are steady and fast
to harness, though wheels are a compara
tively new departure in their country.
They travel mostly in strings, often tied
head and tail. Hay, baggage and house
hold goods are thus transported, and
building materials also. You meet a“tim
bur lestur, ” or timber team, of from eight
to ten ponies, one carrying planks trailing
on each side, another strips of iron, an
other bundles of tools; a certain number
of spare animals running loose, and not
Infrequently a foal or two.
It is as rare to see a dead Iceland pony
as a dead donkey, though their skulls are
often visible, half trodden into the miry
ways surrounding the farms. The pony
begins work at 6 or 7 years—hard work,
that is to say. He is early apprenticed to
his trade by following his mother at her
avocations and when he is footsore is
strapped upon her back. He works well
up to 20 years and over and often remains
fairly sound to a ripe old age. He feeds
on the fat of the land in summer, and to
winter, if his owner is poor, must live on
his wits and his stored condition. Farm
ers who are fairly well off keep their ani
mals in during winter and feed them on
hay, but notwithstanding many of the
ponies have a hard time of it. The Ice
landers, however, keep their steeds as well
as their means allow and treat them alto
gether to a brotherly fashion, and the S.
P. C. A. would seldom find scope for its
activity, except, possibly, to the improve
ment of bitting and gearing. Taking it
all around, the Iceland pony is certainly
not less happy—very often far happier—
than his bigger brothers in the south, and
his endurance, placidity and docility make
him a favorite to other lands besides his
own, while fitting him for his home du
ties to a manner which could not be sur
passed and must be tested to be fully un
derstood.—London Globe.
How He Got a Divorce.
Here is a Judge Gary story: It was a
bigamy case, and the accused man, after
living two years with the second woman,
had agreed to plead guilty. But this was
only after he had secured solemn assur
ance from the state attorney that his
consequent sentence would absolutely di
vorce him from wife No. 2. He wished it
understood that he was willing to suffer a
term in the penitentiary if on release that
superfluous woman, whom he had taken
as a result of great misapprehension,
would have nd possible claim upon him.
So he went into court.
“You fully understand what the plea of*
guilty means, do you?” asked Judge Gary,
regarding the devoted man with great
kindness.
“Yes, your honor
“It will be my duv in that case to sen
tence you to the penitentiary. You un
derstand that?’*
“Yes, your honor. Anything to get
free.”
Judge Gary seemed to be writing a mo
ment, and then ho said grimly and with
out looking up: “I suppose there are some
things beside which prison would be a re
lief. Any relative or friend of the defend
ant in court?”
A solitary woman stood up in the
benches and said in a rasping, nerve shat
tering voice:
“I’m his second wife, judge. ”
Tho man of law looked at her without
lifting his head or suspending his pretend
ed writing. Then he said in his usual
searching tone: “Some things beside
which prison would be a relief. You ought
to be willing to take three years.” The
prisoner nodded cheerfully. “Then I will
give you one year. You seem to have had
the other two before they arrested you.”—
Chicago Post.
The Campaign “Orator.”
One of the saddest things about a cam
paign is the fact that a great many men
who haven’t sense enough to pound sand
go about making wild and incoherent
speeches for Tom, Dick and Hany. Gen
erally they are gentlemen who are out of
work and who couldn’t earn 60 cents a
month at honest toil, yet they have no hes
itation whatever in telling the people how
to run the municipal machine without
losing money on it. Their speeches are
poor, halting, stammering efforts that
make reasonable men sigh and moan, but
the gifted gentlemen are totally uncon
scious of this, for they continue to whoop
it up for their chosen candidate, just as
though they were making the hit of their
lives. Before the campaign Is at an end
they accumulate sueh a gall that they
come to imagine themselves gifted orators
upon whom the mantle of Henry Clay has
settled for keeps, and whenever they go
out to take a walk they think that every
body along the street is pointing the finger
of admiration at them. Jhe fact is the av
erage man has no business trying to make
a speech. Such seldom fall to make sick
ening spectacles of themselves whenever
they attempt it.—New York Telegram.
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I t DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, qf Hyannis, Massachusetts,
908 the originator of “PITCHER’S CASTORIA ” the same
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years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is
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President. />
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