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I J berebJaUnre • or County SurwWJ county, I «nbiect to the democratic primary oi June F* *sw-.- r - For County OommiMioner. I subject to the action of the I jpmccratic primary, and will be glad to 1 k «the support oi all the voters. J have the supp j ; a. J. TIDWELL. I *t the solicitation of many voters I I i-wbv announce mytolf a candidate for I rronty Commissioner, subject to the dem- |l i hereby announce myself a candidate I County Commissioner, subject to the I democratic primary to be held 'June 23, I next. If elected. I pledge myself to eco- I nomical and business methods in conduct- I inK the affairs of the county I 114 W. J. FUTRAL. | I hereby announce myself a candidate | j or County Commissioner of Spalding i county, subject to the Democratic primary I ofjune23d. W. W. CHAMPION. I To the Voters of Spalding County: I I herebv announce myself a candidate for re-election to the office of County Commis | stoner of Spalding county, subject to the ! democratic primary to be held on June 23, | 1898. My record in the past is my pledge i for future faithfulness. I D.L. PATRICK, ■t • V-'v'* 1 i -i' For'Beprssentatiy'e. I To the Voters ot Spalding County: I I am a candidate for Representative to the legislature, subject to the primary ot 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 tne action of the democratic party. I shall be pleased to receive the support of all thß voters,and if elected will endeavor to represent the interests of the whole county. J• B. Bell.* —*- ' For Tax Oollector. J'■ II respectfully announce to the citizens of Spalding county that I am a candidate for re-election to the office of Tax Oollec ' tor of this county, subject to the choice or the democratic primary, and shall be grateful for all votes given me. T.*R. NUTT, For County Treasurer. To the Voters of Spalding Cotnty: I respectfully announce myself a/andidate for election for the office of Ootfaty Treas urer, subject to the democratic primary, and if elected promise to attend faithfully to the performance of the duties of the office, and will appreciate the support o. my friends. W. P. HORNE. L To the Voters of Spalding County: I I announce myself a candidate for re-elec | tlon for the office of County Treasurer, ■ subject to democratic primary, and if elect i 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. | - For Tax Roosiver. Editor Call : Please announce to the voters of Spalding county that I am a can didate for the office of Tax Receiver, sub ject to the Democratic primary of June 23r1, 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. p-,8. M. M’COWELUZ 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 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 as faithfully as in the past. M. F. MORRIS. r>-g_ O l ;SOI2 SPRING REMKES For "that tired feeling,’’ spring fever and the general lassitude that Comes with warm days, when the system bain’t been cleansed from the impurities that winter harvested In the blood, you will find in our Spring Tonic and Stomach Bitters. For purifying the blood and giving tone to the body they are unexcelled I N. B. DREWRY * SON, 28 Hill Street. * Registration Notice. “Pen at sooo ** regißtration bo °^ B ta® no * aU q2l2£?to do!Sa£Sd%i®Sd e S Bter - SMOKELESS POWDER. 1 CORDITE THE MOST POTENT EX ’ PLOSIVE OF MODERN TIMES. I It !• Composed of Nltroflyoerlu, Gon Cot ton and VaMllno—The Intereitlng Proc ** b* Which It* Dangerous KUmanta Are Combined. Sh&l Since the advent of the speedy torpe do boat and since rapid firing guns have been placed on battleships and cruisers an explosive that would allow to the officers and gufiners an . nnobstrucrted view of an enemy Under all conditions has been sought, and thousands of dol , lars have been expended in the effort to obtain a satisfactory substitute for black gunpowder. Cordite, the latest explo sive, is said to be the most satisfactory propellant of modern times for naval warfare, and the expert opinion seems to be that in a few years gunpowder as now understood will have vanished. The earliest records of established powder mUl< show that there was only one in Operation in 1590, this one being in England. During the year 1787 the Waltham Abbey Powder mills were purchased by the English government. They are still.ootiducted .by it TheFa versham ifiiils, which up to that date were the largest in thewdrld, passed into the hands of a private corporation in 1815. The manufacture of powder was continued without much improve ment, except in the efficiency of the grinding and mixing machinery, until about 35 years ago, the formula for black powder being saltpeter 75 parts, charcoal 15 parts and sulphur 10 parts, the whole* farming a mechanical mix ture and not a chemical compound. Smokeless powder, however, became absolutely a necessity, for the reason that smoke producing powders masked the object aimed at, and the torpedo boat, which was becoming a recognized feature of naval warfare, could dash up hfid discharge one or more deadly mis siles under cover of the smoke. Smokeless powders were first pro duced in France, and for some time the secret Os the manufacture was. guarded jealously. As soon as the necessity for this kind of powder became however, a number of manufacturers devoted attention to it, and as a result various brands of smokeless explosives were placed on the market. The most satisfactory results eventu ally made their appearance in cordite, which was produced through experi ments made by Professor Dewar and Sir Frederick Abel. Cordite is composed of nitroglycerin 58 per cent, gun cotton 37 per cent and vaseline 5 per cent- Nitro glycerin is an oily, colorless liquid and an active poison. It is produced by mix ing a quantity of sulphuric acid with almost double the amount of nitric acid and allowing it to cool. About one eighth of the total weight, of glycerin is then added gradually, the mixture be ing kept below a temperature of 70 de grees F. by passing air and cold water through it After the mixture has stood a sufficient time the acids are drawn off, and the residue (nitroglycerin) is wash ed and filtered. Nitroglycerin cannot be ignited easily by a flame, and a lighted match or ta per plunged into it would be extinguish ed. It is sensitive to friction or percus sion, either of which will detonate it Another peculiarity is that the higher the temperature the more sensitive it becomes. It will solidify at a temper ature of 40 degrees, and its explosive force is estimated to be about twelve times that of gunpowder. One of the most approved methods used in the manufacture of gun cotton is this: The raw cotton is torn into shreds, dried and dipped in a mixture of sulphuric and nitnc acids. It is then placed in a stream of running water and washed thoroughly. The cotton is then wrung out, usually in a centrifugal ma chine. It is afterward boiled, dried, cut into pulp and pressed into disks. When the gun cotton is finished, there should be no trace of the acids remaining. Vase line, the other component part of cor dite, is the well known extract from pe troleum, and its usefulness is chiefly to lubricate the bore of the gun and thus lessen the frict&m and the projectile. It also has a tendency to im part a waterproof nature to cordite. A colorless liquid prepared from ace tate of lime- called acetone, is used as a solvent in tne manufacture of cordite. The method of preparing the explosive is: The required proportion of nitro glycerin is poured over the gun cotton, and the two, with the addition of ace tone, are kneaded together into a stiff paste. Vaseline is then added, and the whole compound, after being thorough ly mixed, is put into a machine and the cordite pressed out and cut into lengths, after which it Is dried. To the artnterist the nature of cordite is represented by a fraction whose nu meYator gives in hundredths of an inch the diameter of the die through which the cordite has been pressed, its denom inator being the length of the stick in inches. The cordite known as 30-12, which is Che size used for the 6 inch quick firing guns, signifies that its di ameter Is three-tenths of an inch, and it is 12 inches long. It is necessary to use a fine grain powder to ignite a charge of cordite, it being secured in such a maimer that a flash from the tube firing the gun will cause the explosion of the charge. A full charge of powder for a 12 inch gun is 295. pounds, while the cordite charge, having the same efficiency, is only pounds. Cordite is one of the safest explosives known, and is not dangerous unless it is confined. It can be heldjn the hand and lighted without danger. It bums slowly and with a bright flame. Al though comparatively a new discovery, it is used extensively in every navy throughout the world. It was manufac tured first in Great Britain and was in general use on her battleships before Jlopted by other powere-N™ York Sun. * ~ , „., TOURISTS ABROAD. Th. Money A m o«u So L 0,000,000 » Year. Tro amount of mcney expended by tourists in Europe has, if official records , abroad are to be accepted as authentic, increased enormously ot late years. There has been recently filed with the Swiss minister of finance and customs ' at Bern a detailed statement of hotel receipts in that country, from which it appears that the gross receipts of Swiss hotels rose from 52,800,000 francs in 1880 to 114,838,000 in 1894. The entire annual expenses of the Swiss republic amount in a year to between 80,000,000 and 90,000,000 francs (the budget for this year la given at the latter figure), and it would seem, therefore, very much as if the hotels of Switzerland take in in a year more than the government it self does. The Swiss figures are not the only ones furnished in Europe recently on this point A French record shows that every year there are 270,000 foreigners who pass from a fortnight to a whole winter on the Riviera. Every person is supposed to expend on an average 1,000 francs, or S2OO, in the country. In oth er words, the foreign visitors spend in the country every winter the sum of $54,000,000. The English are put down as contributing one-third of this amount; the French themselves contribute anoth er third; Germans, Belgians, Dutch, Russians and Americans contribute the remainder. From being a pear country when it was annexed to France in 1860 Nice has become one of .the richest de partments of the republic. Some figures recently compiled of the revenues to hotels from tourists in Paris show the average number of foreign Visitors to be 60,000. It is customary to estimate at 10 francs, at $2, a day the hotel bills of strangers in Paris. Estimating at $2 a day each the hotel bills of 60,000 tourists and at about as much more their other outlays it is to be seen that tourists in Paris can be put down for an expenditure of nearly $250,- 000 a day. • The ,total sum expended by tourists in Europe in a year is probably not very far from $700,000,000, and a very con siderable portion of this comes from the pockets, the purses and the bankers’ balances of Americafis, who are pro verbially the most liberal among travel ers. Russians come second, Brazilians third. —Exchange. SLEEPWALKING. Strange Thine* Meh Do While In a State of Somnambulism. , f _ Readers of that charming work of my late friend Wilkie Collins, “The Moon stone,’’will remember the sleepwalk ing feats of Mr. Franklin Blake when under tne influence of an opiate. What the novelist describes as a piece of fic tion may be paralleled from the sober records of science. McNish, in his classic volume on “Sleep, ” tells us of a shepherd lad who, wrapt in dumber, walked miles to the place where his flock was pastured, waded through a river and returned home without waking. In another case a lad in his Meep scaled a precipitous cliff and brought home from it an eagle’s nest, which was found under his bed in the morning. Abercrombie’s case of the Scottish lawyer who, when worried over a per plexing case, was seen by his wife to rise from his bed in, the night is an other illustration of the occasionally purposive character of somnambulism, when, directed by its private secretaries, the sleeping ego is apparently roused from its couch and made to act the part of a pure automaton. This individual went to a writing desk which stood in his bedroom, sat down before the desk and wrote for some time. Then, replac ing the paper within the desk, he re turned to bed. In the morning he told his wife of a dream he had experienced, in which he imagined he had given a satisfactory opinion on the case which was trou bling his mind. He expressed regret that he could not recall the train of thought represented hfe dream. On his wife directing hfin io his writing desk, he found therein tho opinion in question clearly written out and in every respect satisfactory.—Andrew Wilson, M. D., in Harper’s Magazine. ' Have Yon Seen It? Every big railroad in this country has a freight car in its equipment bearing the number 12,845, and yet I’ll lay reasonable odds that you may tramp this town over and you will not be able to find a man, I care not how much he has traveled, who has ever seen a car with that number. Among railroad men it is kqpwn as the “sequence car’’ or the “one-two-three-four-five car.” Perhaps you never looked for it. I have. For years in my travels I made it a 'practice to get out whenever the train stopped and take a look at the freight cars in sight, and I have met drummers who told me they did (he same thing, but never a glimpse did I get of that car nor did I ever run across a man who had been so fortunate. Try it. Go up to the freightyards in this city or across the river. You will find hundreds of cars, but itis $lO to a pint of peanuts that car 12,845 will not be among them. —St Louis Republic. Ancient Pinyin* Cnrda. The ancient Tarot packs were the ear liest playing cards known to our forefa thers. They consisted of 72, 77 or 78 cards. These cards are still used in re mote parts of Italy, France and Switzer- j land and are made in Florence, the de signs being handed down from genera tion to generation. Ostriches, which are supposed to flour ish only in very warm climates, have been raised successfully in southern Rus sia, the feathers being of good quality and the birds healthy. To be perfectly proportioned a man should weigh 28 pounds for every foot of his height HOW A MAN MADE $7,000. th. Chap Wbo HI. BuklMU I. * C»f*. “Don’t discuss your private business affairs in a public place,” said an old Brooklynite to the New Yorker who ap proached him in a case near the city hall. Than the Brooklyn man, pointing out a real estate dealer, said: .“Talkipg about a buainess deal in this very case cost that man $7,000, and the money Went into my pocket too. You aee, he represented a syndicate that wanted to build on some property in which I was interested as the owner of one house and city lot. The .agent did not know me from a Canarsie olammer. Well, he came in here with a friend one of the syndicate—for luncheon on an afternoon in last July. They took seats at this table. I sat at the next one. “I began to’take notice, ’ as grand mas say, when I heard the strangers at the next table discuss quite loudly a deal in relation to the property adjoin ing mine/ The agent had ordered a fine . layout for luncheon and was evidently well pleased with his deal. He said to his friend: “ 'Well, I pulled off the trick for . that property at 319 Cheap street today. The owner thought I was doing him a favor. I started in at $15,000 and final ly closed with him for SIB,OOO. He bit in a hurry. Why, the property is worth $25,000 if it’s worth a dollar to us. Now I must look for the chap that owns 221. He’ll be glad to get SIB,OOO for his house. It's lucky for us they’re not on to the fact that we want to buy that entire block. ’ “I didn’t need to do any eavesdrop ping, you see. That little speech of the agent cost him exactly $7,000. You can readily guess that I, as the owner of 221 Cheap street, was not especially anxious to sell after that. I kept Mr. Beal Es tate Man on the jump for nearly five months, and when I let up on him I got my price, exactly $35,000—-a neat little profit of $7,000 above what I would have gladly accepted. So you aee the point of my remark to you, ‘Don’t discuss private business affairs in a pub lic place.’ Now we’ll go to my office, and I’ll listen to your proposition.”— New York Sun. HIDDEN GOLD IN PARIS. Macy Yanatlerfipend Their Live* Hunting For Burled Treasure. Some Parisians are actually kept from wandering by conviction that there is hidden treasure behind the walls or be neath the flooring or in the chimney hook or under the roof, says Chambers’ Journal. You are told that during the number less sieges to which Paris has been sub jected and the internal revolutions it has undergone there exists not a cellar or a garret but has become the recepta cle of some part of the immense riches accumulated in religious houses and old families. There is, perhaps, nothing ir rational in the supposition that in thq good old times when convents were made the depositories not only of the secrets of the aristocracy, but of the familyjewels likewise, instances must have occurred wherein these deposits were buried and remain undiscovered, together with the treasures of the con fraternity. But human folly has of late years exalted this rational possibility into dazzling certainty. Every means is now resorted to and more gold and pre cious time expended than the most val uable treasure could repay in order to seize the secret which still resists dis covery. “While you of the matter of fact, plodding Anglo-Saxon race are toiling and broiling in Australia and California, searching for gold, we gold seekers of Paris find it here beneath our fegt in the old quarters of the city round Notre Dame and the Hotel de Ville, where gold is teeming in greater plenty than amid the rock bowlders of Califor nia or beneath the soil of Ballarat,” said Ducasse, the great treasure seeker. The Art of Ugntlag a Pipe. Now, comrades, not to waste time talking of style of pipe or brands of to bacco—tastes differ in those things—try this: Keep pipe and stem as clean at possible, and the time to clean them is immediately after a smoke. Fill the bowl with your favorite brand andpres* down firmly, but don’t strive to see how solid you can pack it If you make it as solid as wood, it will burn like wood and make a coal fire about as hot and ungrateful. Don’t light the entire sur face. Don , t“puir’asthoughyouhadno more matches and feared it would “go out” Light a small spot directly in the center. Smoke slowly until it works its way gradually downward. If it under takes to spread, press it down again with thumb or finger. A half minute’s care in. starting is all that is required. Now smoke slowly. The little fire con tinues downward, .delicately roasting the tobacco on the sides, and presently, when yon cave this off, there will come a revelation in soft, mellow smoke, so cool, so delicious, so soothing, that you will never regret having read this.— Sports Afield. Ven. J . In Germany “von” implies nobility, and all persons who belong to the no bility prefix “von” to their names With out any exception. Persons who do not belong to the nobility cannot have the right to put “von” before their names. A man who is knighted for some reason, however, has the same right to put “von” before his family name as a per son of ancient nobility. For instance, when Alexander Humboldt was knight ed he became Alexander von Humboldt All his descendants, male and female, take the prefix.—Philadelphia Press Switzerland enjoys the unenviable distinction of having a larger percentage of lunatics than any other country. In the canton of Zurich there are 8,2*1 in a population of 839,000. In 1564 a pair of shoes made in Eng land cost tenpence. '-, r . • AN OPEN LETTER To MOTHERS. WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTOBIA,” AND “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” as our trade mark. l 9 DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, qf Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of “PITCHER’S CASTORIA.” the same that has borne and does nw everi( bear the facsimile signature of wrapper. 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