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1 or County oi K of June subject lo the A? B KELL. For county Commissioner. sges®«» At the solicitation of many voters I announce myself a candidate for commissioner. suMert to We dem otic primary. If elected, I pledge my ®Sfu> an honest, business-like administra • 1 county affairs m the direction of R- ?. btrickland. i hereby announce myself a candidate Commissioner, subject to the KSSStoPriW*?** heK * , J , une 2S ST If elected, I pledge myself to eco n®„Ip*l and business methods in conduct- I hereby announce myself a candidate I tor County Commissioner of Spalding s ««intv subject to the Democratic primary I Jjune 23d. W. W. CHAM PION. To the Voters of Spalding County: I hereby announce myself a candidate for | to the offleeof County Comtnis sioner of Spalding county, subject to the democratic primary to be held on Jnne 28, 1898. My record in the past is my pledge L future faithfulness. “ D. L. PATRICK. Tor [Bepmentetiye- To the Voters of Spalding County : I a m a candidate for Representative to the subject to the primary of the democratic party, and will appreciate your npport. J. P. HAMMOND. Editor Call: Please announce my numc 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. B®ll.~ Tor Tax Oollsotor. ; 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, Tor County Treasurer. To the Voters of Spalding Countv: 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 office, and will appreciate the support o. my friends. W. P. HORNE. 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 foithfal in the per formance of my duties in the future as I have been in the past J. C. BROOKS. a For Tax Eecsiver. Editob 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 23rJ, 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, irone is held. M. M’COWELL" Tor 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. MJ. 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 as faithfully as in the past M. F. MORRIS. 4 * •'•’ww/wH' —-' -r._ ?»•;::.-»Wuki-K- SPRING REMEDIES For “that tired feeliag,*’ spring fever and toe general lassitude that Mtaes with warm days, when the system haanl been cleansed from the imparities that winter “M harvested in the blood, you win find in cur Spring Tonic and Stomach Bitters., fror purifying the blood and giving tone to the body they are unexcelled I N. B. DREWRY* SON, 28 Hill Street. Notice. Or Jhe county registration books are now ana n .u my °® oe ln Haeselkus? Shoe Store »il qualified to do so should call and ter - eIJ»s ey 1,111 close twenty days before each T.kinJTT.T.U. L THE LIFE OF A MANDARIN. It Is Rather Slow aad Monotonow to Wet Urn Notion*. I Most mandarins, says a writer in The Ummhill Magazine, pass the whole of their lives without taking a single yard of exercise. The late Nankin viceroy, fa ther of the Marquis Tseng, was considered a remarkable character because he always walked “a thousand steps a day’’ in his private garden. Under no circumstances whatever is a mandarin ever seen on foot in his own jurisdiction. Occasionally a popular judge will try to earn a reputa tion by going out incognito at night, but even then he takes a strong guard with him and, as happened when I was at Can ton, gets his head broken if he attempts to pry too closely into abuses. As the police and the thieves are usually copartners in one concern, it naturally follows that cau tion must bo used in attacking gaming houses which have bribed themselves into quasi legality. A mandarin’s leisure, which may be said to begin at 5 p. m. and continue un til 9, is spent in one or other of the follow ing ways: Either ho reads poetry by him self or he sends for his secretaries to drink, wine/ crack melon seeds and compose poetry with him, or he may shoot off a few arrows at a target in his garden, Gr and this is commonest—he may invite the rich merchants to a “feed” in his yamens or accept invitations from them. But this is rather dangerous work, for there is a sort of unwritten law against mandarins leaving their oirfag yamens except on offi cial business bent. On the other hand, merchants of high standing steer clear of the local mandarin unless, as happened when I was at Kewkiang, he happens to be a compatriot of theirs. ' » • j ,"A On hie grandmother's, mother’s and wife 's birthdays the mandarin receives con gratulations and presents—of course on his own too. On these festive occasions he may give a play. In China theatrical en tertainments are commonly hired private ly, though as often as not the “man in the street” is admitted gratis. Biiteten here caution is required, for many days in the year are nafastf, on account of emper ors having died on those anniversaries, and it goes very hard with a mandarin if he is caught “having music” on a dies non. .'/I " 1 Chinese always supposing they are not opium smokers, invalids or debauchees— retire to rest as early as they rise. In most Chinese towns everything is quiet after sunset, and by 7 or 8 o’clock every one is either in bed or is simply crooning away the time ufitil sleep comes on. Notwith standing the recent introduction of kero sene lamps (forbidden in many large towns), the usual light is the common dip or the rush. Dinners and feasts cannot take place ev ery day, so what happens on nine evenings out of ten is this: When the correspond ence of- the day has been read, drafted, achieved, sealed or dispatched, when the secretaries have struck their balances and exhibited the profits of the day, when the business of the judgment seat is at an end, the mandarin gets out of his robes, hat, collar, boots, chaplet and feathers into an easy costume in which he looks just like the ordinary frouzy, greasy tradesman, lights his pipe and retires to the harem. After performing the proper obeisances to his grandmother or mother, he may take a platonic cup of tea or gruel with his wife, after which he selects the apartment of one of his concubines. He will even take his evening meal in her room, smoke a few pipes with her—for all women smoke in China—and perhaps play a game or two at cards. The Literature of Japan. There seem to be three ideas which per vade all general works on Japan—apology for the past, wonder at the present and a glorious prediction for the future. To the western world Japan’s post is but little known, her present is reflected in the newspapers and periodicals of the day, her future may in part be read between the lines of the present. Volumes have been written about Japan, yet so far no comprehensive history of the people, their literature and arts, has ap peared in the English language. Japan is a most interesting and valuable field for some Grote or Motley of the day. The difficulty of translation from Japa nese is great. In the first place, the lan guage is an agglutinative one and conse quently hard for a westerner to acquire. The poetry is one of form and does not possess, except in the drama; remarkably deep thought or feeling. There are besides many plays upon words which cannot be transferred into a foreign tongue. The best prose tales and chronicles, which be long to the oldest or classical literature, are written in a dialect differing as widely from the Japanese now spoken as the lan guage of Homer differs from the Romaic of today. It is not making too bold an assertion, therefore, to say that the available trans lations fall far short of the merits of the originals, so much so that the western reader is apt to underestimate the true value of this literature.—Lippincott’s. Naval Code Signate. “Some newspapers, ” says a naval officer quoted by the Philadelphia Record, “have published pictures of a string of flags pur porting to signify in the international sig nal code ‘Remember the Maine I* This is not right, as it is impossible to secure the official signal letters of the lost warship Maine or any other war vessel of the Unit ed States navy because the government refuses to divulge such information. The Maritime Exchange telegraphed to Wash ington for the Maine’s letters last week for use in a flag display and received a very prompt refusal. All code books car ried on warships have leaden backs to make them sink if lost overboard. The letters in the book, moreover, are printed with a peculiar ink, which fades away when it comes in contact with the water. To make things still more safe the letters are changed every few months by the navy department. Even on the warships few officers know their vessel’s official signal code.” Colors Didn’t Match. A woman told a story the other day of those bygone times when everything in a woman’a costume must match, “especially in children's clothes,” said the woman. “Sash, sto»ktngs, neck ribbon, hair ribbon —all were required to be of not only the same color, but the same shade. I was very particular in this respect, and my lit tle daughter was naturally imbued with the same faith. One day when we were visiting in the country a shower came up which, clearing away as suddenly as it had come, left a beautiful rainbow behind it. ‘Come quick,’ I cried to my little daughter, ‘and see the rainbow f Now, it happened that the child had never seen a rainbow before. ‘Dear me!’ she cried at the first glance. green, yellow, orange and rod. taste! Why, nothing matches! Philadelphia Press. - ■ i • — — ——m NAMES. An Authority Kxplniu* Their Prop., Pre- pie find difficulty In pronouncing a new word when it first meets their eye. This was illustrated many times in thia city while the Spanish man-of-war was in New York harbor. Some said Vlz-ky-ya, others Vla-kee-ya and still others Viz-ka-ya. Ac cording to Udo Reger, a professor of lan guages in Rochester, the correct pronunci ation is Witb-kl a, and the accent is on the second syllable. The 1 is long, and the th has a sharp hissing sound. The profess or is authority for the assertion that all the z’z that occur In the Spanish language have the sound ot w and b fused, with the preponderance of sound in favor of the w. B has the same affliction as the v. C, se the professor says, sometimes has the sound of th, and then, again, it is ta, but for a change it is sometimes given its own hard sound, k. ® Professor Reger gives the correct pro nunciation of a number of the names which hare appeared in connection with Cuban affairs and the disaster in which the Maine was lost In the following list the word is spelled as it is written In the first column and as it should be pro nounced in the second: Havana—Hah-wah-nab, accent on sec ond syllable. Madrid—Mahdree, accent on second syl lable. Blanco—Blahng-ko, accent on first syl lable. Cabanaa—Cah-wah-nas, accent on sec ond syllable. Sagaste—Sa-gas-ta, as spelled, the a’s sounded as in cat. * Gomez—Go-meth, accent on first sylla ble; o long. Canovas—Car-no-was, accent on second Syllable; o long. Ruiz—Roo-eeth, equal accents. Mtoffo—Mah-the-o, accent first syllable. Maria Rodriguez—Mah-reo-a Ro-dree getb, accent second syllable both words; o In Ro is long. - Perioo Diaz—Per-ee-ko Dee-ath, accent on second syllable in Perioo; accents equal in second word. Reina Mercedes—Rayee-nah Mer-tbe dez, accent first syllable in Rftina, second In Mercedes. Gallcla-Gal-eeth-ce-ab, accent on sec ond syllable. Jorge Juan—Whorg Whahn; In these words the J has the German sound of ch, but it can best be represented in English by wh. Bernabe—Bear-nah-eo, accent on first syllable. Cadiz—Kah-deetb, accent on first sylla ble. Eujatb— Abo-lah-te, accent on second ■ylMtble. / Santa CruzV-Sahn-tah Krooth. Puerto del \Padro—Poo-er-to del Pah dro, accent second syllable of Puerto, first syllable of Padropq’s long. Castillo del Principe—Kah-steel -yo del Pring-see-pay, accent second syllable of Castillo, first syllable of Principe. Dry Tortugas—Dree Tor-too-gas, accent second syllable. Luperoio Martinez—Loo-per-cee-oh Mar tee-netb, accent second syllable of Luper oio, second syllable of Martinez. Dupuy de Lome—Doo-pwee duh Lohm. This is a French name, somewhat modified in change from that tongue into Spanish. Weyler—Wl-ler, accent first syllable; 1 long. This name comes from the German and retains the Gerinan pronunciation. Cristobal Colon—Kris-toh-ahl Koh-lon, accent on first syllable in Cristobal, second In Colon. Du Bose—Doo Bosk. Matanzas—Mab-taha-thas, accent on second syllable. Azore—Ab-tboh-ray, accent second syl lable. Rayo—Rah-yob, accent first syllable. Arieto—Ah-reeay-tay, accent second syl lable. Almlrante Oquendo—Al-meer-ahn-tay Oh-kwen-do, accent third syllable In Al mlrante, second syllable In Oquendo. Pedro Rivas—Pay-droh Ree-wahs, ac cent first syllable in both. Pando—Pahn-doh, accent first syllable. —Rochester Post-Express. Railroad Woos In China. A missionary writing from China to a friend in this city recently described the difficulties under which the newly com pleted railroads are conducted in that country. Passengers in the first class coaches, he said, exhibited so strong a desire to carry off various articles from the cars as souve nirs of their trip that the coaches were speedily stripped of those things that con tribute to the comfort of the passenger. They took away with them hat and bun dle racks, mirrors, lamp brackets, hooks, small tables and even doors. They were considerate enough to leave the car frame and wheels. And the purloiners were gov ernment officials and people belonging to the wealthy classes. The stations along the railroad over which the writer traveled were rude sheds, very unclean and without a chair or bench. The cars, too, were very dirty. While this was especially true of the second class coaches, which were oftentimes crowded with half naked, unwashed people, the first class coaches also became very unclean In a short time. It soon became necessary to take out all the upholstery and replace It by plain seats. When the railroads were being built, re ports were spread that the foreign con tractors were stealing Chinese children and burying them In the readbed so as to propitiate the god who rples over rail roads. These reports greatly excited the people, and in one instance a mob attacked two missionaries near Peking and would have killed them bad not a detachment of soldiers rescued them. Under guise of these reportp children were really kid naped and taken Into'the cities for Im moral purposes.—New York Sun. Salmon For London. In the list of big salmon contributed an nually to The Times one sees a record of numbers of fish running from X) pounds to over 60 pounds. These big flsu are usu ally bought by the most fashionable fish mongers, for they are rather difficult to sell to ordinary customers. Even at the best shops one wonders how three magnif icent salmon, weighing from 40 pounds to 46 pounds sack, will be disposed of in the course of 84 hours. Now that every course at dinner Is served out of sight of the table there is no particular credit in having a very magnificent fish, even at a city banquet That, however, is the desti nation of most of the monster fish. Some of the best hotels, too, always have salmon one day in the week at the table d’hote, and there a 86 pound fish may of ten be seen lying ready for subdivision among the guests. Smoked salmon, main ly cured in Norway, b ridiculously dear. No reason can be giveh for thia, Jar the fish costs little to cure, and there is no risk of its turning bad, as in the case of tbs fresh fish.—Cornhill Magazine. roman - —MMnNMg I SWORD 2,000 YEARS OLD. —— Presetted by th* Csar of Bomia to Prea lalp nt Toll T. P, Farmer, the county surveyor of Columbiana county, 0., who resides at Lisbon, has in his ixisseMion one of the rarest historical specimens in existence. It i< an old Damascus blade which, it ta claimed, is over 8,000 years old. It is of erode design and. workmanship and was made entirely by hand, the Irregularity of its lines proving more conclusively than anything else its antiquity. Shortly after the assassination of Presi dent Lincoln an unsuccessful attempt was made upon the life of the czar of Russia. A fleet of American warships was sent on a cruise across the ocean and incidentally carried a message of congratulation to Russia’s ruler from President* Johnson. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Fox ac companied the squadron on board the Miantonomoh, commanded by John J. Cornwell of Lisbon, O. Secretary Fox was presented with the swerd by the czar in person, as a token of bls high esteem, ac companied by the following speech: “I present to you, sir, as the represent ative of one of the foremost and mightiest of modern nations, this saber, as a ma terial appreciation of your nation’s high regard formy welfare and safety. Through ages it has been treasured in the archives of my fathers as a semblance of the mighty races that swayed the destinies of future generations on the shores of the Mediter ranean; it was through scenes of carnage which marked the upbuilding of tbe-powerful sovereignty of western Asia and has outlived the kingdoms it helped build.” The ancient treasure was accepted by the secretary, with an appropriate re sponse, and as the fleet steamed out of the Russian port he presented the sword to Commander Cornwell. While the fleet was off Toulon, France, Commander Cornwall died suddenly of heart failure. The vessels pulled In at the port and a telegram was sent to Paris for a burial casket. A squad of marines under command of a lieutenant was sent on shore to receive the casket from the train and convey it aboard the dead command er’s vessel. The casket missed connections, but the sailors, who were unaware of the fact, hustled a casket which arrived on the train off to the Ironclad. The fact that the box whs quite heavy did not excite the suspicion of the sailors and after it bad been taken to the cabin the mate opened the cover. Consternation reigned on board when there was disclosed the body of a beautiful young lady, buried in a wealth of flowers. The lid of the casket was hurriedly re stored to its place, and preparations were promptly made to return the body to the depot in Toulon. But the story of the al leged seizure had spread, creating intense excitement in the French port, and a city official was preparing to board the Ameri can warship with a search warrant. Ex planations were made, but the mistake came near causing an international dis ruption. The French newspapers characterized the actions of the American sailors in the most scathing terms, assuming that the taking of the body of the young lady was ■ prearranged plan. Commander Cornwell was burled at Toulon, and the old sword was given into his widow’s keeping, and she In turn pre sented it to her brother-in-law, Mr. Farm er. The bjade is inches long and 1 inch wide, tapering to a point. The hilt is made of horn, ornamented with twisted brass Wire, and is as hard as adamant The crosspieces are of leather, tipped with sheet brass. The scabbard is as Interesting as the blade, being fashioned from wood, with a sheet brass covering. It was orna mented in crude style by Indents of • pointed tool. Near the hilt, on the blade, are a number of odd characters resembling ancient Hebrew inscriptions.—Philadel phia Times. Zola at Home. Zola’s great source of material enjoy ment is sumptuous furniture. His taste in this respect is Italian. French country houses arc very simply furnished. The curtains, when there are curtains, are gen erally chintz. Zola’s place near Trlel is an exception. The study, salon and din ing room there reminded me, so far as furniture went, of the staterooms at Isola Bella. The bedrock of Zola’s sensorium is Venetian. Ha has the instincts of the magnifioo. This may seem discrepant with what I said about his presence being like St. Paul’s. But his mother was a French peasant. She redeemed him from Italian trickiness and gave him his toughness and love of hard work. He has, in spite of his nervousness,ltalian suavity. The agitation is only surface; down deep be is pococu rante. No task daunts him. He is as methodic as Anthony Trollope and writes whether tn town or country so many pages and no more a day and then cycles, boats, gardens or chats with friends who come down to Trlel to pass the afternoon. The house there waa at first a one story road side cottage, with a room to right and left of the little hall Addition after addition have made it quite a big place. The gar den has been widened and lengthened down to the river, where there is a boat house. Zola is owner of an island facing his garden. The fine furniture greatly ties him down. It represents, with the villa, the interest of so much money that he thinks he cannot afford to summer unless atTrieL The simplicity of La Salle de la Gomme at Ste. Pelagic will be a great change after Zola’s domestic sumptuoelties. Fortunate ly that prison la on a hill and the air and view extensive. “La Salle de la Gomme” means “the swell’s room.” Rochefort made there last week a charming halt In his feverishly busy life, and he wrote a preface—an exquisite gem of French liter ature—for the Caran d’Ache edition of Lafontalne’s “Fables.”—Paris Cor. Lon don Truth. A Story of CapoaL Alas, poof Paul Capouli His once over whelming popularity availed him little when he arrived in Paris to oomppte for the directorship of the Opera Comique, and he has been obliged to return again to his admirers in America. Talking of Capoul, I heard a rather funny tale about him the other day. It waa when be was at the height of his popularity, when ooate and hate, shoes and socks were being named after him and half the men in Parle wore their hair a la Capoul. The celebrated tenor was traveling In the prov inces and went into a hairdresser’s shop in a country town to have his hair cut. “What style would you like, slrf” said the man as Capoul sat down. “Can’t you see how I like it cut?” said the singer, puffing with self importance. “A la Ca poul, my good man—a la Capoul, of course.” “Oh, Indeed, sir!” returned the man; “but, If I might make so bold aa to give you a word of advice, I should say, change it, sir. It may suit some people's face, but it really isn’t at all beooDjipf Jp you. Sketch. _ j --- - AN OPEN LETTER To MOTHERS. WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “C ASTORIA,” AND “PITCHER’S CAHTORTA,” AS OUR TRADE MARK. L DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, 908 the originator “PITCHERS CASTORIA,” the same that has borne and does now on hear the facsimile signature qf wrapper. This is the original “ PITCHER’S CASTORIA,’’ which has been used in the homes of the Mothers qf America for over thirty years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is the hind you have always bought on and has the signature of , per. No one has authority from me to use my name ex' cept The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President. . < a j March 8,1897. Do Not Be Deceived. Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer yo” (because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in gredients of which evea he docs not know. “The Kind You Have Always Bought” . - ' Insist on Having The Kind That Never Failed You. tmc etwvavn rr atiaiuv *t«««t. hcw v««x m*v. SHOES, - SHOES I IN MENS SHOES WE HAVE THE LATEST STYLES-COIN TOES, GENUINE RUSSIA LEATHER CALF TANS, CHOCOLATES AND GREEN AT |S TO 13.50 PER PAIR. 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