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■ ] myselZa candidate democratic primMj, offline I For County Commissioner. I pnrTOB Cali* : Please announce that I I » candidate for re-election for County o mmissioner, subject to the action of the I !» mocratic primary, and will be glad to ■ the support oi all the voters. ■l. ure the supp J. A. J. TIDWELL. i the solicitation of many voters I f harebv announce myself a candidate for f rvmntv Commissioner, subject to the dem- I Cratic primary. If elected, Tpledge my- I Sf to an honest, business-like administra- I of county affairs in the direction of |fe tower taxes- R. F. STRICKLAND. I 1 hereby announce myself a candidate <or County Commissioner, subject to the f democratic primary to be held June 23, I next If elected. I pledge myself to eco- B nomical and business methods in conduct- I I I hereby announce myself a candidate i for County Commissioner of Spalding ■I fionntv. subject to the Democrat ic primary I f June 23d. W. W. CHAMPION- I To the Voters of Spalding County: I # hereby announce myself a candidate for It re-election to the office of County Commis | gtoner of Spalding county, subject to the democratic primary to be held on Jnne 23, K » 1898. My record in the past is my pledge For Representative- 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 ol 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. Bell “ For Tax Collector. I respectfully announce to the citizens of Spalding conntyAhat 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 i have been in the past. J. O. BROOKSx | For Tax Receiver. i Editor Call : Please announce to the I voters of Spalding county that lam a can- I didate for the office of Tax Receiver, sub 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. S. M. M’COWELL. For Sheriff. I respectfully inform my friends—the Bjl people of Spalding county—that lam a candidate for the office of Sheriff, subject to toe 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 my endeavor to fulfill the duties of the of fice ss faithfully as m the past. M. F, MORRIS. WORKSJJF ART. Belford, Middlebiook & Co., of Chicago, are publishing weekly a series of beautiful portfolios, devoted to the AMERICAN „ NAVY AND CUBA The illustrations are reproductions of photographs, with introduction and descriptive texts, show ing all the vessels of our navy, the MAINE, as she majestically rode the waves before her destruction, and all of j 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 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 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, them at that price. And they are well worth 50 cents. We have samples of these beautiful works of art and history in our office which we would be glad to show you and take your subscription for the entire series or as many parts as you wish. A * jfrom PIS. Jimniat ts UMh J „ Tret. W.H.Peeke, who Li TO sXr* B ■ Wk doubt treated and cur- ■ B ■ WK ed more cases than any ■ B ■ living Physician; his B ■■ k y success is astonishing. Curcdß tie M • large hoc- I " “k absolute cute, free to any sufferers I > ® a ? , a«nd their SO* and Express addreu. I Kt- -> ’ . | DO PEOPLE READ POETRY? One Newspaper Answers the Question, I Showing They Do. > I An eastern periodical has been trying to > answer the question, "Do people read po etry?” and to that end has interviewed publishers and various literary persons supposed to have information on the sub ject. The conclusion drawn from the data : so laboriously gained is to the effect that ■ they do read it. Os course they do, but It i Was hardly necessary to take such pains to » find out. A little reflection and observa tion would have answered as well. A magazine or newspaper editor must be aware, if he will stop to think, that if only those people read poetry who write it ; a large proportion of the population may be classed as readers. Perhaps the readers of other people’s poetry are hardly so nu merous, but there is no doubt that poetry , is widely read and is favorably regarded by persons who make no literary preten sions. Ask the very domestic woman or the woman in a remote farmhouse If she i keeps a scrapbook, and she will in all probability acknowledge having thus pre , served a few "pieces of poetry”—taken, the most of them, from the ono weekly paper thatr eomes to her home. The clubwoman reads poetry, of course. She has to if she would stand well, but it is not so certain that she engages in the perusal for personal enjoyment. It is sometimes because she must know about “tone color” and who the“poet prophets” are, and what Browning meant, and what Whitman was driving at, and all the rest of the poet lore—but she reads it, and the clubwoman, as we all know, makes up a good part of the community. What she reads and professes to like is of course only that class of verse admitted by magazine editors to be poetry, and it is not exclusively this which is meant when it is asserted that all men and women read more or less poetry. The verses that the woman out on the, farm has in her scrapbook, that even the clubwoman has tucked away in her desk or her pocketbook along with samples of silk, or that the man of. business carries in bis vest pocket until the bit of paper is worn out, would not always pass muster with the critics. Their meter may some times be faulty, the thoughts may be mere platitudes, but they somehow express a sentiment that appeals to the heart; they touch the emotions, not the intellect alone; they speak of common experiences—of love and longing and loss, of home, of mother, of child, sometimes of religious faith, but always a tender sentiment. The man and woman who cherish these verses would resent being called sentimental, but one so callous as not to be moved by gen uine sentiment, even crudely expressed, is rare. ' ■ j-y Comparatively few read volumes of verse—poetry, the best of it, is a luxury that even the elect are apt to take in small quantities—and the public' has learned in stinctively to pasr by most magazine vejpe as having nothing in it. That it is perfect In form and classic in thought means nothing if soul is not there, and it* is mechanism rather than soul that is usual ly discernible. It is the poetry found in the corners of newspapers that is read ar d out out and learned by heart, the verses perhaps contributed by amateurs, perhaps taken from the masters, but chosen be cause they speak the thoughts and aspira tions, the hopes and loves and griefs com mon to humanity. Not all of It is what the critics know as poetry, but it is poetry to the readers, and if that is not a final test it is one sufficient to answer the ques tion mentioned in the beginning.—ln dianapolis Journal. Why Horseflesh Is Good Food. Everybody is aware that the horse is the cleanliest of all domestic animals. It will not eat anything but good, healthy food nor drink any but pure water. A horse would rather starve than swill the rotten stuff often given to pigs and cattle. It is nothing but prejudice that prevents us from eating horseflesh. A similar preju dice retarded the introduction of the po tato 100 years ago. Today we could not get along without it. Yet the prejudice against potatoes can be explained. The people had been told that this American root caused fever and rendered the ground unfit for all other crops. The exception against horseflesh is not even founded upon anv objection to its properties. It Is solely duh to the influence of the church. The clergy did everything possible to prevent the newly converted Saxons from returning to their heathenish practices and prohibited the use of horseflesh to stop the sacrifices to Odin and Thor. A long time passed before these sacrifices were altogether discontinued. The na tions of Europe have suffered enormous loss by this prohibition of horseflesh. Especially from the humanitarian point of view the reults are most deplorable. Millions of people are forced to live on po tatoes and similar food wanting in nutri tive qualities, while millions of pounds of the very best meat are wasted. Horse flesh is the most nourishing of all meats, and its taste is hardly to be distinguished from that of beef. The flesh of a horse fed on oats has a smell similar to goose flesh. The fat is preferable to lard. Above all, it should be remembered that no flesh is so healthy as that of the horse. Trich inosis and similar diseases are unknown in horseX —Golden Penny. In Place of a Wardrobe. For the girl whose bedroom boasts no wardrobe and only a single closet to hold her everyday garments it is necessary to utilize any recess there is. To do this get a board the width of the recess and as high as can bo conveniently reached. Have screw hooks placed upon it for the waists. Against the wall stretch a length of cre tonne or muslin. Let this hang down just twice the length of the recess. Under the headboard have a six inch board with screw hooks on it for the skirts. Then on the Very front edge of the headboard have very small hooks screwed in and corre spondingly tiny rings on the extreme edge of the long piece of cretonne. When the skirts and bodices are hung on their re spective pegs, turn up this cretonne and catch the rings into the hooks, thus, as it were, inclosing the dresses in a loose bag. Outside of this recess, a few inches higher than the headboard, have a little brass rod fastened, on which, by rings, one can bang a pretty curtain, which will conceal the cretonne bag.—New York Post. Derivation of Settle. An amusing Instance of irresponsible derivation is given in the “ Dictionary of Architecture,” published under the aus pices of the Architectural Publication so ciety, under the head of “Settle," which is stated to be “perhaps derived from ‘seat i all people,” ex temp. Henry VIII, at the Green Dragon public house, Combe St. ; Nicholas, Somersetshire,” and “settee," , which Professor Skeat calls “an arbitrary ' variation of settle,” is defined to be a i stone bench, the word being actually de rived from the Anglo Saxon sctl, a seat. — ; Notes and Queries. I A HARVEST OF HUMAN HAIR. Millions of Foauds tvory Tear Got ThagM 1 Vp la Conin.eree. Perhaps there is no staple article about which losk is known by the aver- ( age person than human hair as an ar ticle of commerce. It will doubtlew surprise many when it is stated that the dealers in human hair goods do not depend on chance clippings here and there, but that there is a regular hair harvest that can always be relied upon. It is estimated that over 12,(K* 000 pounds of human hair are used annu ally in the civilized world for adorning the heads of women. In New York city alone over four tons of this class of goods are imported yearly. “Not a little of the hair used in this ’ country, ” said a New York dealer to the writer, “comes from the heads of American women, and it is fully as fine in shade and texture as the imported ar ticle. We had a big harvest during the craze that the fair sex had not long ago for having their hair cut short Many thousands of women who then had their locks sheared have since bitterly regret ted it, as in many instances their hair has grown se slowly that they have been compelled to wear a wig or a switch since the fashion changed. After the majority of women reach the age of 80 the hair seems to partially lose its vigor, and if cut it will not grow long again. “Two-thirds of the ladies nowadays use false hair more or less. The decree of fashion, or the desire to conceal a de fect or heighten a charm, is the reason pf; course. One woman, for has a high forehead and wishes to re duce it in appearance. Another has worn off the front hair by continued frizzing and would like to conceal the fact Both make use of a front or top piece, with a choice of many styles. “Ladies’ wigs cost from S2O to $200; half wigs, top pieces and switches from $lO to SSO, according to quality. “The largest supply of hair comes from Switzerland, Germany and the French provinces. There-is a human hair market in Merlans, in the depart ment of the lower Pyrenees, held every Friday. Hundreds of hair traders walk up and down the one street of the vil lage, their shears dangling from their belts, and inspect the braids which the peasant girls, standing on the steps of the houses, let down for inspection. If a bargain is struck, the hair is cut and the money paid on the spot, the price varying from 60 cents to $5 in our money. “A woman’s hair may grow to the length of 6 feet, and I know a lady who has been offered and refused SSOO for her crown of glory, which is over 6 feet long. A single female hair will bear up a weight of four ounces with out breaking, but the hair thus heavily weighted must be dark brown, for blond hair breaks under a strain of 2% ounces. There are some 2,000 importers, manu facturers and dealers in human hair in the United States.—Washington Star. Valorous Cows. The editor of the Condon (Or.) Globe saw a deed of cow valor that was worth recording as well as seeing. A herd of cattle, and among them two cows, ac companied by their calves, were graz ing in tall dead grass when the calves became separated a little from the rest of the herd. Just then two huge, hungry coyotes crept up through the grass, cut off the calves from the rest of the cattle and started in pursuit of them. After run ning about 200 yards the calves came to a high, five wire, barbed wire fence, and, being small, managed to get through it On the other side of the fence was an open pasture. The wolves quickly followed the calves through the fence and were rap idly running them down on the other side, when the two cow mothers discov ered what was going on. Each uttered a loud bellow, hoisted her tail and started for the rescue. It appeared to be a hopeless chase, for the wire fence -intervened, and the cows were certainly much too large to get through it They knew well enough that it was there, and could, besides, see it plainly, but both cows plunged together straight intodt The watching editor, horrified, look ed to see them hurled back, frightfully wounded, but instead one of the posts gave way under the onslaught the wires sank down, and in another mo ment the mothers were on the pasture side of the fence, badly cut and bleed ing, but still able to charge the wolves successfully and put them to flight Soon the cows were licking the res cued calves affectionately, and the coy otes were howling a disappointed duet from the summit of a knoll near by. Cat Basket*. Cat baskets are made especially for the convenient carrying of cats in trav eling, and they are also used to some extent for small dogs. Those of Ameri can manufacture are made of whole willow and are oblong in shape. Cat baskets imported from Germany are rather more costly, and are made of split willow. The German cat basket is oval in form, made larger at the top than at the bottom, and with the top finished rounding. There is in the side of the basket a grated door of willow rods, which opens on hinges and gives the cat -light and air. In each end of the basket, higher up than the door, there is a small square window. Cat baskets are made in various sizes, and in the course of a year there are sold a considerable number of them.— New York Sun. Perhaps She Came Down Too. She—So you are engaged to Miss Spry? He—Yes, but it’s a Mg oome down for me. She—Why, I thought she was such a sweet girl He—She is, but she rooms on the first floor and I’m on the eighth.—New York Journal * * -- - "T Al irATADC r UAQCrUfI MM, TU, small stuffed alligator, which may also be made to servo a useful purpose. Why* lucky nobody know*. One man, whose stock in trade is al ways an infallible Indication of popular taste, says that ho Is selling upward of to the demands mode upon it. He Re ceives orders, too, for small alligators ar ranged in a variety of original ways and has sent no small nuinlxw of the baby rep- ’ tiles to the various summer resorts, where the summer girl and man are trying to beat their previous records tn the way of golf and tennis. As a mascot or fetich the alligator is considered far superior to the old time rabbit’s foot, and he or sh< who finds and captures one personally is indeed lucky. AH sorts and sizes of the Infant saurlans are liked, and the fad id by no means an inexpensive one. Two dollars and a half Is the sum required to purchase even the smallest representatives of alligatorship, with an ascending scale which reaches the sls mark for specimens 1 % or 2 feet long. The very large or very tiny ones are best liked, and these are mounted with the greatest care. The “seconds” —those spec imens which arc less perfect or have been marred In the killing or mounting—com mand but slightly smaller prices, how ever, and even those which show marks of shot or other wounds are anything but hard to dispose of. “Anything so long as it Is an alligator,*' seems to be the watch word of superstitious people just now. The conventional way of mounting the precious creatures is by bending the tall backward in such away as to support the < body in an upright position with the as sistance of the hind legs. The front feet are extended to serve as a support on which to place the painted seashell, small saucer, match safe or other trinket which is to render the ugly thing useful. In some cases the body is fantastically draped with bright colored silk or chefesocloth, and the addition of a gaudy cap is of fre quent occurrence. Thus decorated or merely in a state of nature, the quaintly traced figure is placed in the entrance hall to receive cards, upon the smoking table with matches, cigars or tobacco, or, If the owner is a summer girl, In her room, where it acts as a file upon which to pin all sorts of scores, records or memoranda of the season’s games.—Chicago Times- Herald. How the Phonograph Was Discovered. Possibly the most widely known of all Edison’s inventions are the telephone and phonograph, and the latter was discovered by the merest accident—namely, an acci dent happening to the right man. “I was singing,” says Mr. Edison, “to the mouthpiece of a telephone when the vibration of the voice sent the fine steel point into my finger. That set me think ing. If I could record the actions of the point and send the point over the same surface afterward, I saw no reason why the thing would not talk. I tried the ex periment first on a strip of telegraph paper and found that the point made an alpha bet. I shouted the words, ‘Halloa, halloa!’ Into the mouthpiece, ran the paper back over the steel point and heard a faint‘Hal loa, halloa!* in return. I determined to make a machine that would work accu rately and gave my assistants Instructions, telling them what I had discovered. They laughed at me. That’s the whole story. The phonograph is the result of the prick ing of a finger.” All this sounds remarkably simple, and Mr. Edison has a habit of speaking of his inventions as though they had dropped from the clouds, but needless to say, after the principle of the phonograph had been discovered, there were days and nights of anxious thought and experiment before the famous talking machine, with which even the nursery is familiar today, had reached its present perfection. - Barbarism In Africa. It is satisfactory to note that there is considerable indignation at the Cape re garding the mutilation of the remain* of the Bechuanaland chief, Luke Jantje. The statement is that the head Was cut off and boiled in order that the skull might be preserved, presumably wa curio. However this may be, there seems to be no doubt that a volunteer was found in the laager “endeavoring with all his might to sever the dead chief’s head from the trunk,” and that when he was spoken to on the subject he replied that he was “merelyacting under orders." Aboard of inquiry has been appointed; and it is to be hoped that the matter will be probed to the bottom. There has been some ugly work in South Africa during the past year or two, but that is no reason why barbarous inhumanity on the part of vol unteers or any others should be tolerated for one moment. Surely, even a Bechu analand chief’s bones “cost more the breeding than to play at loggats with them. ” —Westminster Gazette. A Fault of Young Men. “A grave fault with a goodly number of young men is a disposition to quarrel with their surroundings, whereas the real fault is not there,” writes Edward W. Bok, in “Problems of Young Men,” in The La dies’ Home Journal. “Young men do not seem clearly to realize that where they are they were Intended to be, and for some mighty good purpose tea The place where a young man finds himself is exact ly where his Creator meant that ho should be. Therefore he is capable of filling it. God makes no mistakes. But it is meant that we should grow of our oWn efforts; get strong through the conquering of diffi culties. When a young man starts out to live a useful life, and starts out with a right determination, an adherence to hon orable principles and a faith in God, no power on earth can retard him long, seri ously interrupt his career or effectively stop him. He is bound to win. Our fail ures are always due to ounelvee; never to other people nor to our environment*.” Maddened Him. Ex-Governor Stone of Missouri recently told this story of Colonel John T. Crisp: When Colonel Crisp was running for con gress, he proposed to use the same speech all over the state. An old man who heard it the first night was so delighted that he asked Crisp where he was to speak the -next. When the colonel saw the old man in his next audience, he was forced to change bls speech to give it a semblance of originality and so delighted theoldman that he insisted on knowing the colonel’s next engagement. He followed Mr. Crisp all over the state and so worried him by forcing him to constantly alter his speech that the colonel at last, in dwqwir cried, “I speak in sheol tomorrow night, in sheol, bo gad, sir, and I hope you will be first man I see when I get thore!" flk ■ 0 B ■■BED HMi ■■■■■Ml ■ w*a ■ v ■ Bbhm B ■ 8088 B B 8888 1 W 1 M Sbmbb B I •Rf®* Bk JB BBB® B B -*?! I IwIC > I FrM 1 I V ■▼IVZ I ■■■■biXVi WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTORIA," AND “ PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR trade mark. Z, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, cf Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” ttw same that has borne and does now on bear the facsimile signature of wrapper. This is the original “ PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” which has been | used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is the kind you have always bought on the 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 Resident. 1 March 8,1897. .p. Do Not Be Deceived. Do not endanger the life of cyour child by accepting a cheap substitute which m.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 | BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE GF 1 - Insist on Having The Kind That Never Faded You. 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