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I or ’cw»V; ofJum I, gnbject to the democ p {t»r.r. ■, «Sr°- I candidate for re-election for County I Knissioner, subject to the action of the II A’XS g “ 10 I «•>» J. A. j. TIDWELL. ■ ' *> A I At the solicitation of many voters I r hsrebv announce myself a candidate for I Honnty Oommiaiioner. subject to the dem- I £, n of county affairs in the direction of [ Ker taxes. R. F. STRICKLAND. 1 hereby announce myself a candidate fnr County Qbmtnissioner, subject to the Cfwcratfc primary to be held June 23, -ext. If eleclpd. I pledge myself to eco nomical and business methods in conduct, I ins the affairs di the courtly. | ! * W. J. FUTRAL. i I hereby announce myself a candidate | for County Commissioner of Spalding J ss&sr“^5 SX? I To the Voters of Spalding County: I I hereby announce myself a candidate for to the office of Con nty Commis sioner of Spalding county, subject to the | democratic primary to be held on June 23, 1898. My record in the past is my pledge for future faithfulness. D. L. PATRICK. ’ .A ’* . For | a To the Voters of Spalding County: I " am a candidate for Representative to the 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. J. B. Bull. 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 ot the democratic primary, and shall be grateful for all votes given me. T. R. NUTT, >For Oounty Treasurer- To the Voters of Spalding County: I respectfully announce myself a candidate for election for the office of County Treas urer, subject to the democratic primary, and if elected promise to attend faithfully to the performance of the duties of the ®...» . 1 ■ - i 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. 0. BROOKS. —* i w ■ For Tax Receiver. Editor Call : Please announce to the voters-of Spalding county that I am a can* didaie for the ol Bos of Tax Receiver, sub-1 jeetto 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 dldatefifr re-elect ionto 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 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 my endeavor to folfill the duties of the of fice as fhithfolly as in tbe past M. F. MORRIS. WORKS OF ART. Belford, Middlebrook & Co., of Chicago, are publishing weekly a series of beautiful portfolios, devoted to the AMERICAN NAVTAND CUBA- The BfoshMfonß we reproductions of photographs, frith introduction and descriptive texts, show in,l® the 1 vessels of our navy, the 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, t rom the captain general’s palace to the hovels of itastarving 'Wmtches—shown as ” is today,. not a» it will appear after has bombarded it, that nish chr Bubp*ibewfrltb tbesfi beautiful portfolios, containing 16 reproductions in \ at 10 cents for each series. lh e regular subscription price tetSO cents, end those wishing them, who are not sub *rtbers to our paper, can secure them at that price. And they are well worth 50 We have samples of these beautiful ftnd 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. Registration Notice. Jri ®y Store qualified to do so should call and will close twenty days before each election. T. R. NUTT, T. 0. Hk I i- JAIL FOE STUDENTS? I ■ x QUEER PHASE OF LIFE AT HEIQELr BERG UNIVERSITY. Some of the Names Which Adorn ths Prison Roister and ths “Crimes" For Whloh Their Owners War* Incarcerated. The Bales of the Place. In England the student’s body is com mitted to prison only by tho civil au thority. In Oxford, it is true, the vice chancellor deals with undergraduate naughtiness, principally in the form of debt and insubordination, for which he may impose a momentary penalty, but he does not deprive the defaulter of lib erty. There is, or was, a legend that a certain apartment under the old Claren don building was really the university “quod,” but for its authenticity it is impossible to vouch. Cambridge has its spinning house for female offenders—not lady students, but ladies who might prove a delusion and a snare to the mere male undergrad. There, if we except the irksome penalty of ‘‘gating’’ (confinement to college or lodgings after a stated hour), our aca demic efforts at incarceration may be said to end. In Germany, however, the academic dungeon is a very stern fact. The Hei delberg ‘ ‘career’ ’is famous. Every read er of Mark Twain will recall his enter taining description of the place and how he conti’ivod to visit it, even unwit tingly enlisting as his guide a “Herr Professor. ” His pretext was to see a •young friend who had “got” 24 hours and had conveniently arranged the day to suit Mark—for the German student convict goes to prison on the first suit able day after conviction and sentence. If Thursday is not convenient, he tells the officer sent to hale him to jail that he will come on Friday or Saturday or Sunday, as the case may be. The officer never doubts his word, and it is never broken. . The prison is up three flights of stairs, and is approached by a “zugang” as richly decorated with the art work of convicts as the cell itself. The apart ment is not roomy, but bigger than an ordinary prison cell It has an iron grated window, a small stove, two wooden chairs, two old oak tables and a narrow wooden bedstead. The furniture is profusely ornament ed with carving, the work of languish ing captives, who have placed on record their names, armorial bearings, their crimes and the dates of (heir imprison ment, together with quaint warnings and denunciations. Walls and ceilings are covered with portraits and legends executed in colored chalk and in soot, the prison candle forming a handy pen cil. Some of the inscriptions are pa thetic. One runs, “E. Glinicke,. four days for being too eager a spectator of a row. ” If four days were meted out to a mere spectator, what, one wonders, had been the sentence of the participa tors? It must have been a moving spec tacle. Another record (also quoted by Mr. Clemens) has the savor of a great name to it Os course it is the son that is meant, not the father. The legend is, “F. Graf Bismarck, 37-29. IL ’74.” This Mark Twain interprets as a record of two days’ durance vile for Count Bis marck in 1874. Had 1874 been leap year one might have been inclined to interpret the numeral “II” os February. But the “28” makes this difficult So perhaps the humorist is right A third specimen is too tragic for comment It simply says, “R. Diergandt —for love—four days.” Ungenerous successors to that sad chamber have dealt harshly with their forerunners’ reputations by ingenious substitution Os heinous crimes, so that certain prison ers go down to posterity as having been punished for theft and murder. The prisoner must supply his own bedding and is subject to various charges. On entering he pays about ten pence, and on leaving a similar sum. Every day in prison costs sixpence; fire and light sixpence extra. The jailer supplies coffee for a trifle. Meals may be ordered from outside. Every prison er leaves his carte de visite, which is fixed with a multitude of others on the door of the cell This queer album is glazed toprotect the photographs. Academic criminal procedure in Hei delberg is Ouripus. If . the city police ap prehend' a student, the captive shows hjp matriculation card. He is then ask ed for his address and set free, but will hear more of the matter, for the civil authority reports him to the university. The Oxford regulation, by the way, is in certain cases almost identical. In Heidelberg the university court try and pass sentence, the civil power taking no further cemcerfr with the offense. The trial is very of ten conducted in the pris oner’s absence, and he, poor wight, may have forgotten all about his peccadillo until the university constable appears to conduct him to prison. But thither, seeing he may choose his day, he always repairs cheerfully.—London Sketch. How We Übo Oar Uvea. If you are fond of such statistics, read this table, drawn up by Gabriel Pei gnot: A man Os 50 years, of ordinary health, of active life, of regular habit, comfortable in all circumstances of money, should give out of 18,250 days 6,082 days to sleep, 550 to sickness, 1,522 to his meals, 5,532 to to exercise, to sports, the hunt? travel 3,803 days, and he should have con sumed 27,080 pounds of bread, 6,080 of meat, 4,675 of vegetables, eggs and fruit, 81,180 liters of wine, spirits and water. —Boston Journal It is estimated that more than 75,000 fishermen go out of New York every Sunday and that they spend on an average of $2 each on the sport. Postal authorities have decided that mail matter need not be delivered at houses where vicious dogs are kept un chained. BROWNSON’S SMILE. A STORY OF THE COMMANDER THAT SAILORMEN LOVE TO TELL How the Detroit Broke Dp - nsurgent Admiral Called a “Blookad*.** An Incident That Pleaae* Men Who Have Seen Smiling Men Fight. It was in January, 1894,' that the Civil war in Brazil was coming to a cli max in the harbor at Rio. Admiral da Gama of tbe insurgents was in tbe har bor with several ships-of-war. Tbe gov ernment held the city, but while the in surgent admiral held the water no ship ping could go up to the front as long as ho said it couldn’t, and he said ha Various governments were affected by this embargo—“blockade” the admiral called it Great Britain was concerned chiefly, but tbe United States was a good second, with Germany and other nations as well. Europe looked to America to do some thing in tbe matter and was naturally diffident about interfering in family rows on this side of the water. At last Admiral Benham .was sent down to take charge of the United States fleet in Rio harbor. The flagship was the San Fran cisco, and on Sunday, Jan. 28, Admiral Benham called on his captains to come aboard. Among them was Commander Brownson of the Detroit It is said that after the conference this commander came back to his ship smiling. However that may be, he certainly smiled next morning. Just after 5 o’clerk that even ing—it was calm as could be, almost the Yankee naval ships were seen to be in a hustle. The canvas awnings faded away, and in the night certain sounds were heard aboard them, at which vari ous listeners put their hands cup shaped behind their ears to listen harder. On the morning of the 29th there was a change in the appearance of tbe Yankee fleet. It had taken off its coat, waist coat and shirt, so to speak, and was just eying itself when day dawned to see how good its training had been. The insurgent ships Aquidaban and Tamandare were up the bay above Vi ana island with their cables short, ready to trip. The Trajano and Guana bara, as well as the fleet of armed tugs, were crowded with men from the gar risons of Cobras and Villegaigon. The Liberdade flew the little blue ensign, for Admiral de Gama was aboard her, lying with the Trajano and Guanabara north of Encbados island, a few yards from tbe American bark Amy, one of tbe boats kept out by the blockade. The Parahyba was lying with its teeth, so to speak, at the throat of the Yankee barkentine Good News. Commander Brownson on the Detroit got his ship under way, having hoisted anchor at 6 o’clock, and headed toward the city between Enchados and Cobras islands. Her crew was at her guns, and as eager a lot of men as one could see anywhere at that time. The anchor got fouled in the Detroit’s hawse hole, and that was ample excuse for proceed ing slowly, which was convenient, while a couple of insurgent tugs made a sputter at the northern littoral of the city, as they had been doing a long time. After a couple of men had been killed aboard the tugs they drew back, and the Detjpit, with everything clear, rounded Encbados island and came along starboard side to starboard of tbe Trajano. The men looked through their sights and then up at Commander Brownson on the bridge. The story of what they saw is a tradition in the navy now and always will be so long as men like Brownson are in command. The commander was smiling. A man on the Trajano raised a mus ket and firedva bullet over the heads of sailors pulling away in a boat with a line from the Amy to a ship at anchor that the Amy might be warped to the forbidden docks. Two heavy insurgent tugs came around with their rams pointed at the side of the Detroit. On the San Francisco the red flag of battle had been run up to the fore truck in stops. A quartermaster stood with his hand on the halyards eager to break it out, with his eyes fixed on the admiral, who was looking at the Detroit for the sign which would cause him to give the quartermaster the order so ardently de sired. When the insurgent shot was fired, Commander Brownson turned to tbe gunner at a one pounder, and with a scarcely perceptible increase of the smile ordered the man to shoot into the Trajano at the water line six feet abaft the stern. The order was misunder stood, and the shot went across the in surgents* bow. Thereupon Captain Brownson hailed: “Trajano, ahoy I” he shouted. “If you fire again, I will return the fire, and if you persist I will sink you.” The Trajano’s crews were excited. If a nervous finger had puljed a trigger, the fight would have been on. But the shot did not sound. The sail ors on the Amy’s yawl waited to see what they were to do next. son shouted, “and I’ll protect youl” The sailors went “Aim at tbe Guanabara!” ordered Commander Brownson. And tbe greasy black muzzles of the Detroit’s broadside and the two pivot guns swung around, looking bigger and bigger every mo ment, till they stopped, leveled at the cruiser. One particularly nervous gun crew aboard theirs urgent was conspicu ous. Commander Browdson waved his hand, with a half -smile, and this crew I Then the Yankee ships led the way to the docks, with other ships crowding in with them, and after awhile the re bellion collapsed. But the sailors who were on the Detroit at that time have told the story of Commander Brown son’s smile toother sailors, and these to still others, till it has rippled to ev ery water where tbe starry flag flies, and it is beard with marked interest by men on the ships of other nations—men who have seen smiling men fight—New York Sun. ■ INVENTOR OF LEAD PIPE. ——.',, • - Ftrrt Su re «ted by Hobart SaydeU <rf Fenaaylraaia In IBM. There wm born in Milton, Pa., in 1800 a man of wonderful genius, it is said. His name was Robert Seydell, and he died in 1847. Four children survive, two of whbm reside here—a son, Jacob Seydell, and a daughter, Mrs. Gray. Mr. Seydell wm a coppersmith and ■ was almost continuously working out some device connected with tbe ma chinery in his factory. To him, it is re lated by some of the oldest citizens of this place, belongs the discovery of the process of making lead pipe, and, like many other inventors, the idea of mak ing the same was stolen from him and further developed to its present form of manufacture. It was in the latter part of tbe thir ties that the idea suggested itself to him, and the following is the way he wrought it out: He first took a slug, or casting of lead, placing it on a mandrel, or rod of steel, about TO feet long and an inch in diameter. The mandrel was highly polished, and upon thia he drew or rolled out tbe lead to the full length of the rod, thus giving him an inch bore, and the material was rolled, it is said, to a one-fourth inch, making a to tal diameter 1 % inches for the pipe. After completing several sections of the length of the mandrel he soldered them together, making the pipe of whatever length be desired. He put it to practical use by fasten ing it to pump heads, and also running it from springs to connect watering troughs and springhouses in the coun try round about here. Being greatly pleased with his discovery and receiv ing the most flattering of comments from his friends and neighbors in this section, he concluded to make his in vention more widely known, and hence made a visit to Philadelphia, taking his device with him. At the Franklin institute in that city he gave his first exhibition to quite a number of inventors, artisans and me chanics. As it is now related, every one who witnessed it was more than de lighted, and so expressed himself in his immedite presence. It was not long that he was allowed to remain in a con dition of supreme happiness over his in vention, for a short time after he made a disclosure of hip discovery, and while yet in Philadelphia, he found out that by the persons to whom he had given an exhibition of the process of making lead pipe his idea had been used and improved upon.—Philadelphia Press. SPEAKING PASSING SHIPS. New Efforts to Beviive Old Mme Courto sies »t Sea. The fine old custom of speaking pass ing ships is rapidly dying out among the skippers of today, and the general opinion seems to be that the modern master is, as a rule, too easy going to bother about anything of the sort Colonel Hazier, the secretary ol! Lloyds, considers that a deal of trouble and anxiety would often be avoided if captains would but take the trouble to speak ships within reading distance of their signals. In many instances anxiety with respect to overdue vessels would be allayed, and, furthermore, there would continually be news for tbe friends of masters and for the hundreds of thousands of others who are interest ed in the great merchant marine of this country. Chatting the matter over, Captain Frond, the secretary of the Shipmasters’ society, said: “The practice of speaking each other at sea and reporting at every opportunity is, I am sorry to say,-dying out among the captains of the present day. I suppose they are indifferent, or careless, and do not consider it worth the trouble of hoisting the signals and making out the other fellow’a It is a very great pity that an exceedingly use ful custom should be neglected, and I am glad to learn that Colonel Hozier is doing his utmost to induce masters to speak other ships and to report when ever it is possible. “I am convinced that if captains can be persuaded to take the trouble to do this much good service will be rendered to the public generally. This society is doing its utmost to get masters to re vive the practice. ” Captain Frond’s appeal was strength ened by the picturesque evidence of an old time skipper, who admitted that speaking and signaling had been almost entirely neglected of late yeara “ When I first went to sea,” he said, “it was the invariable custom to exchange names and destinations and sometimes reckon ings with passing ships, but nowadays captains don’t bother. Sometimes a skipper is short handed and he won’t take even one man from his work, but mostly he doesn’t bother himself about the thing at aIL That’s my experience, and I’ve been at the game a week or twa”—London Mail Hla BoaoureM. Judge Erm st on tells a good story about a man he was questioning as to his being good to go on a (600 bond. “What property have you to the amount of |600?” asked the judge. “I have S2OO in a building associa tion,” replied the witness. “Well, and what more?” “I hhve stock in trade to the amount of $800.” “Geon.” “I have household furniture worth $90.” “WeH, we stHl “I have your note, judge, for that amount, which you gave me seven yean Igo at College Corner.” Tableau I —Cincinnati Enquirer. Statistics show that in Antwerp alone nearly 4,000 horses were slaughtered last year for human consumption, and the number of shops dealing exclusively in horseflesh in the Belgian ports ex ceeds 30. Tho thieves of Gfeat Britain steal about $40,000,000 Worth of property every year. ■ - ' ' ' • ’’ AN OPEN LETTER x To MOTHERS. WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD ‘‘CASTORIA,” AND “PITCHER’S CABTORIA,’’ A8 OUR TRADE MARK. Z, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, qf Hyannis, was the originator of “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” the 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 thitty years. LOOK CAREFULLY as the wrapper and see that it is the kind you have always bpught 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 President. * , Hatch 8,1897. Do Not Be Deceived. Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting a cheap substitute which some druggist j*wy offer yo“ (because he makes a few more pennies on it), the, in gredients of which even he docs not k&ow. “The Kind You Have Always Bought” BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE C7 ■ AM J M fr eMSr A jff Jr Insist on Having The Kind That Never Failed You. TH( CIHTAVn COUM.I, TV RSW IORC iIW ‘ SHOES, - SHOES I IN MENS SHOES WE HAVE THE LATEST STYLES-GOIN TOES, GENUINE RUSSIA LEATHER CALF TANS, CHOCOLATES AND GREEN AT $2 TO $3.50 PER PAIR. IN LADIES OXFORDS WE HAVE COMPLETE LINE IN TAN, BLACK AND CHOCOLATE, ALSO TAN AND BLACK SANDALS RANGING IN PRICE FROM 75c TO $2. ALSO TAN, CHOCOLATE AND BLACK SANDALS AND OXFORDS IN CHILDREN AND MISSES SIZES, AND CHILDREN AND MISSES TAN LACE SHOES AND BLACK. xAZ . -tr. -tIOJrtJN JEd. I ! 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