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BpUS? '.<• asa^q^scraißMaMAaSnra A NNOU-Wk/KIW KIM JI ct< | **■ ’ ___' ""’ For County Surveyor. I hereby ■ 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. ■ II 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. [ WORKSJJF ART. Belford, Middlebrook & Co., of Chicago, l are publishing weekly a series of beautiful [ portfolios, devoted to the AMERICAN L NAVY AND CUBA. The illustrations are reproductions ot photographs, with introduction and descriptive texts, show i ing all the vessels of our navy, the i MAINE, as she majestically rode the waves before her destruction, and all of [ her officers. CUBA, THE QUEEN OF THE AN TILLES, is illustrated in all its phases, from the captain general’s palace to the hovels of its starving wretches—shown as | it is today, not as it will appear after | Sampson’s fleet has bombarded it, that I will come later. We have made exclusive arrangements , with the publishers whereby we will' fur | nish our subscribers with these beautiful portfolios, containing 16 reproductions in j each number, at 10 cents for each series. The regular subscription price is 50 cents, and those wishing them, who are not sub | scribers to our paper, can secure them at that price. And they are well worth 50 I cents. I We have samples of these beautiful I works of art and history in our office I which we would be glad to show you and || take your subscription for the entire series I or as many parts as you wish. A » from TT.S.Journal 0/ L w Epilepsy, has without ■ ■ ■ W_ doubt treated and cur- | ed more cases than any ■ ■ living Physician; his i S' S I k 1 success is astonishing. ■ 'Y' 5 have heard of cases I ~ of »o years’ standing | ■ X_■ him. He B /RB publishes * I I I ■ valuable I I ilia II this dis. I 1 jl ll 1 I | ® ase > which >*VML * I -1 ■ who“hsohite cure, free to any sufferers 1 We B<wd tlMrfr P - ° and Bxprei address. ■ I dw w - an y °°e wishing a cure to address g H. PEEKE, r, 4 Cedar St., Hew Tert L A STIRRING INTERVIEW. _ .. . 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 “»u - „ .A CALLING BACK THE SUN, ” r ' 1 ' 11 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 une. - ' 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. I -' If'- v - : . ___ J;*' - ' 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. ill To MOTHERS M WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD ’’CASTOBLA.” AND “PITCHER’S CASTOBIA,” AS OUR TRADE MARK. I t DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, qf Hyannis, Massachusetts, 908 the originator of “PITCHER’S CASTORIA ” the same that has borne and does now or * 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. 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