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■ support ot all the voters.
I hsvethesuppv j TIDWELL.
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I it the solicitation of many voters I
I -Jthv announce myself a candidate for
il business-like administra
8 county affairs in the direction of
I Ker S ‘ R-F. STRICKLAND.
I I hereby announce myself a candidate
I J County Commissioner; sublect to the
I xLmncratic primary to be held June 23,
I If elects. 1 Pledge myself toeco-
■ „Lical and business methods in conduct-
I „ 01^^. FUTK4L
S' t hereby announce myself a candidate
Star County Commissioner of Spalding
K subject to the Democratic primary
■. June 23d: W. W. CHAMPION.
K To the Voters of Spalding County: I
KI hereby announce myself a candidate for
W Selection to the office of County Commis-
■ «ioner of Spalding county, subject to the
I democratic primary to be held on Jnne 23,
I iS9B My record in the past is my pledge
K tofature faithfulness.
| , D.L. PATRICK.
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I For [Representative
I To the Voters of Spalding County: I
am a candidate for Representative to the
legislature, subject to the primary ot the
■^ ,te^“W!taS?4 oor
Editor Call: Please announce my
flume 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.
Jr B. Bbll.
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 County 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
’ IUW, '” KHoffi 0 -
| To the Voters of Spalding County: I
I announce myself a candidate for re-elec
f tion for the office of County Treasurer,
f subject to democratic primary, and if elect
' ed promise to be as faithful in the per
formance of my duties in the future as I
have been in the past.
J. C. BROOKS.
For Tax leeaiver.
Editor Cali. : Please announce to the
voters of Spalding county that lam a can*
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 counjty.
Respectfully,
R. H. YARBROUGH.
I respectfhlly announce myself as a can
didate for re-election to the office of Tax
Receiver of Spalding county .subject to the
.action of primary, if one is held.
8. M, M’CO WELL.
For Sheriff. £
I respectfhlly inform my friends—the
Sg of Spalding county—that lam a
ate 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.
v 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 as faithfully as m the past
M. F. MORRIS.
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SPRING REMEDIES
For •‘that tired feei|dg/ Spring fe’ser and
toe general lassitude that cornea with
. warm days, when the system hasn’t been
. cleansed ftmrttre impurities tlffit winter
cm harvested in the blood, you will find
in our Spring Tonic and Stomach Bitters.
”or purifying the blood and giving tone
to the body they are unexcelled 1
N. B. DREWRY * SON,
28 Hill Street
Bl Registration Notice.
registration books are now
n J* m y office In Hasselkus’ Shoe Store
regiatE <ln * ,ifiod to do so should call and
«IZ.i ey cloße twenty days before each
section. t. R NUTT, T, 0.
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GUNBOAT IN 1,500 PIECES.
IMS’s the Way It I. to Be Shipped From
Knglend to Lake Nyaaea. '
English naval constructors are very
much interested In a gunboat which has
just been completed for service on
Nyassa, in central Africa, and is to be
shipped to that point in pieces like a Chi
nese puzzle. The boat, the Gwendolen, to
now split up into 1,500 packages for trans
portation. A reporter of the London Echo
describes the boat in his account of his in
terview with J. A. Rennie of the engineer
ing firm which built the Guendolen:
‘ So there is going to be fighting on
Lake Nyassa?” I remarked tentatively.
‘ I never said so,” with fit
ting diplomacy.
“Then that’s my mistake. I merely
judged so from the fact oi your taking out
what oh a lake would be considered a first
class battleship, for the Gwendolen Is heav
ily armed, to she not?”
“Yes, if you eall six Maxims and four
Hotchkiss guns a big armament. She is
intended to replace the three small gun.
boats nowon the lake, which are practical
ly obsolete, and to a vast improvement on
them in every way. Her length is 136
feet, beam 23 and tonnage 360, and with a
draft of 4 feet 6 inches is intended to steam
18kjM>te.”
“I suppose the depth of tho lake did not
necessitate a shallow draft vessel?”
“By no means, as there to plenty of wa
ter aven close inshore. That enabled us to
have twin screws, for on shallow water
such as the Niger or the Khoja, by means
Os which tho Russians in 1894 penetrated
far up toward Chitral, astern wheel to ab
solutely necessary. She to quite a normal
type, except for the fact that , she to fitted
with Fraser's under fired boilers and will
burn wood fuel, at which there is an
abundance in and around the lake. Coal
to only brought up from the coast for tho
use of two or three forges at a cost of some
£lO per ton, such is the difficulty of trans
port.” ’ ’’ ‘ ' ...
“And that difficulty will be increased in
the case cd a gunboat, I should imagine. ”
“Not so much as you think,’.’ said Mr.
Rennie. “ You see, wo can only befit, not
rivet, her together in tbe yard here, so as
to insure the perfect fitting together of
every part. In this condition the Guen
dolen was inspected by Sir Edward Reed,
who expressed himself as thoroughly satis
fied with her. Then she was taken to
pieces, every piece being previously num
bered, and on a small model these num
bers are marked off, the internal fittings—
of course the model is only of the outside
of the hull—having their proper numbers
marked on scale drawings. Drawings and
model accompany the ship, which to split
up into 1,500 packages, that containing
the boiler of 3M tons being the heaviest, so
that on her arrival there need be no diffi
culty whatever in putting her together
again.”
Mr, Rennie added that if one of the
packages should be lost, it would be diffi
cult to replace it. The packages are to be
transported for miles over a rough country
by bullock wagons, and as extra weight is
an important ‘consideration no spare ‘parts
are carried. Commander Cullen, R. N.
R., the commander in chief on the lake,
has charge of the transportation, and he
will superintend the assembling of the
parts. ____________
He Was Willing.
A distinguished musician was waited
upon one day in hto study by a rather
seedy looking stranger, who said to him
with what seemed to be genuine emotlqp:
“May a humble brother musician claim
your sympathy for one moment? I don’t
ask you to give me. anything, but will you
lend me a dollar or two? You can com
mand <lO a lesson or as much more as you
choose to ask, while I think myself fortu
nate If I can get a pupil now and then at
a half dollara sitting.”
“My friend,” said the other, touched by
this appeal, “perhaps I can help you better
than by lending you money. What to your
branch of music?”
“I give lessons on the violin.”
“Well, we will see what you can do.
Hare is a violin. I will sit down to the
piano, and we will play a duet.”
He whipped a fine violin out of its case,
handed it to the stranger, seated himself
at the piano and placed a sheet of music
before him.
The caller rasped the bow across the
strings, leaned forward, looked at the com
position and shook his head.
“Sharps?” he said.' “Sharps? I never
play in sharps 1”
The distinguished musician took the
violin from him, replaced it in its case
and coldly remarked:
- “My friend, what you need is a job as
night watchman in a soap factory.”
“Will you get it for me?” eagerly asked
the caller. —Exchange.
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The Horrible Niger Company.
That afternoon we took part in a func
tion which to only too common in every
African trading station—a funeral. A
young clerk had .breathed his last a few
hours earlier, after four days’ suffering at
a temperature of 107 degrees, and . now
they were laying him to rest. A deputa
tion from the steamer attended, and the
scene was a striking one, impressive be
cause of tbe curious mingling of the pa
thetic and grotesque. Four naked Kroo
boys were busy biding the water out of a
three foot trench, while a white trader
stood above them mumbling something
from the bookheld in a shaking hand, and
an alcohol soaked trader stumbling over
the solemn words at the last office to not a
B °A ? rough deal box, such as “long Dane”
guns are shipped in, lay sinking in the
oom, and a few dripping men stood bare
headed in the rain. Then at a signal the
naked aliens tumbled tbe case into the
trench, and it refused to sink. Olods were
flung upon it, but the buoyant deal rose
stubbornly to the surface, until two Kroo
boys- stood upon it to hold it down, and
the mold was shoveled about their knees.
Afterward a cottonwood log was laid upon
the whole, in case it might break through
yet, and as We hurried away a mate ex
pressed the feelings of the rest by saying,
"When my time comes, I’l hold on hard
• until you can launch me from under the
ensign into clean blue water.’’—Black
wood’s Magazine.
Bishop Thorold’s Crisp Notes.
The late Bishop Thorold’s crisp notes
were proverbial. At tho time that tho
bishop put forward his new church’s
scheme another scheme was broached by
one of the leading clergy in the diocese.
The bishop wrote:
Your scheme to excellent, but don't publish
, it now, or yours will cannon mine, and we
shall neither of us get into tbe pocket.
On another occasion a hardworking
south London parson w.oto asking tor
long leave to go to the Holy Land. His
i answer was
Mr Dkar —, By «n means. Go to
Jericho. Yours, "• “•
—lxmdon Figaro.
EDMUND BURKE.
An Able end Venatlle Statesman Who
Never Attained High Ofltae.
Tijtmgh Burke never attained high
office his abilities were so versatile as to
qualify him for any post which a cabi
net minister could fill. His practical
wisdom was as conspicuous as his power
of generalization. No one had a clearer '
tomprehension or a firmer grasp of great
principles of universal application; at
the same time his policy In every de
partment of English politics rested on
a wide and solid basis of information
and experience. He was steeped in tbe
history of the past, yet penetrated
through and through with the reality of
the present and ever and always mind
ful of that future in which the specula
tions and measures of the day were to
be tested and finally approved or con
demned. His prodigious activity in pub
lic affairs sprang not from an intellec
tual source alone, nor from his imperial
patriotism. It was constantly fed from
an inexhaustible store of moral energy.
He was animated by a detestation of all
forms of oppression, whether by kings
or governors, parliaments or peoples,
which was in him a consuming passion,
from which his noble nature could only
obtain relief by denunciation of the op
pressor and the destruction of bis power.
I cannot help thinking that Burke
must have been stimulated, too, and
sustained by delight in his studies and
his work. It is impossible, without
counting this as an additional incentive,
to understand the amazing industry
whiqh he devoted to the elucidation of
alt tho great questions dealt with in his
speeches and writings. How his method
reprove? the habit, too common in our
as in other days, of debating Sub
jects affecting the fate of millions of our
fellow creatures M-if‘they could be dis
posed of by echoing the cbattet of igno
rance, or prejudice, or vanity, or self in
terest I Wben wo read Burke’s speech on
Fox’s East India bill, wo say, “What a
great proconsul he would have made I”
When we read his speech on concilia
tion with America, we feel that the
greatest of colonial ministers was lost
. in him, and when we read his speech on
economical reform we exclaim, “Here is
an ideal chancellor of the exchequer!”—
3. O’Connor Power in North American
Review.
SMOKED CANARY BIRDS.
Do Clouds From’a Pipe Develop a Rich
Color In Their Plumage?
A little old shoemaker who has a
busy, old style cobbling shop on the east
side is a bird fancier, and he has pe
culiar ideas about canaries. One night
he was sitting on his leather covered
bench, smoking an extremely odorous’
quality 7 of tobacco in a black pipe. A
customer was waiting for him to finish
straightening up a worn heel, and he
made several remarks concerning the
birds which hung about the cobbler’s
■hop. They were fancy birds, and he
ootild not help noticing it. Finally he
asked the shoemaker how he got such
richly colored birds.
“It’s part in the breeding and part in
the atmosphere,” said the cobbler.
“You raise birds in a shop where two
or three men are constantly smoking,
and in time you will get the darkest
orange color if you use a little judg
ment in mating and they don’t run to
green.”
“I should think that tobacco smoke
would be unwholesome for the birds,”
said the visitor.
“On the contrary, it makes them
hardy and seems to be good for them
every way. Women who have canaries
would do well to put them where they
! can get a little tobacco smoke cnee in
1 awhile, although I don’t think cigarette
smoke would do them much good.'What
' they peed is strong tobacco smoke from
<n old pipe like this or the smoke from
, a black cigar. I’ve raised my best birds
when I had two jours working Ju this
i little shop with me and all of us smok
ing pretty nearly all the time. ”
Then the old man sighed and said:
“That was before they half soled and
heeled shoes while you wait—before
machines were used for cobbling. No
two or three jours and an apprentice for
me now. I sit here alone, with my birds,
pegging away and keeping them well
smoked.’’—New York Sun.
Bead and Biver.
f The brave Pierre Stuppa, the Swiss
genend, having been deputed by the 18
cantons to solicit the arrears of pay
' which had been owing for a long time
to the Swiss officers in the French serv
ice, M. do Louvois, the war minister,
who was present, said to the king,
: LouisXlV:
“Sire, those Swiss are v«ry importu
. aate. If your majesty had all the money
' that your royal predecessors have given
1 to that people, it would form a road
from Paris to Basel.”
“That may be,” observed. Stuppa
, with an air of firmness, “but at the
, same time if your majesty had all the
i blood that the Swiss have shed in the
> service of France it would form a river
1 from Paris to Basel. ’’
The king was so struck with the ob
servation that he ordered M. de Louvois
to pay the whole of the money without
delay.—Nuggets.
He Wm Cruel.
Mrs. Nubbons—My husband is a per
i feet brute.
Friend —You amaze me.
Mrs. Nubbons —Since the baby began
teething nothing would quiet the little
angel but pulling his papa's beard, and
yesterday be went and had his beard
■haved off.—London Tit-Bits.
d.
Chinese cannot be telegraphed. Fig
ures have to be used corresponding to
certain words. Only one-eighth of the
words in the language are in this code,
but this has been found sufficient for
practical purposes.
For the burdens which God lays on
us there will always be grace enough.
The burdens which we make for our
selves we must carry alone.—A. W.
Thorold, D. D.
AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVES.
An English Journal's Beftunl to BoUnva
In Antrinaa Booords of Speed.
The Engineer of London does not, we
are sure, Intdhd to pose as a humorous
journal, but nevertheless it la sometimes
julte amusing, particularly when trying
a demonstrate to Its own satisfaction and
to make Its readers believe that things
regularly done hero In America Are, as a
matter of fact, "Impossible, don't you
know.”
In Its issue of Sept. 10 it published tbe
official record of the fast run between
Philadelphia and Atlantic City, N. J.,
for the month of July last, this rooord
showing the time from btart to stop to av
erage 48 minutes
figures varying slightly on different days.
The table was furnished by the Baldwin
Locomotive works and showed tho per
formance of tho train In detail for every
day of the month, while accompanying it
was a profile of tho road, showing the
grades traversed.
Ono would imagine such information
from such a source to bo entitled to accept
ance in a respectful manner, and, in fact,
for the time being, the figures were al
lowed to go unchallenged, and ln its issue
of Oct. 22 The Engineer even published a
letter from E. K. Clark of Leeds testify
ing that he made the trip on tho locomo
tive of the train on a day when the dis
tance was covered in 47 minutes. In its
issue ot Nov. 19, however, the paper re
turns to the subject in a leading editorial,
and, referring to the official record before
published, it says: “Beyond all question
that official record is quite fallacious. It
is not true either in substance or in fact.
It is a record of mechanical impossibili
ties. Nevertheless we think wo have ac
tually got the scientific truth in Clement
Stretton’s letter, which will be found in
another page.”
Reference to Mr. Stretton’s letter, throe
pages back, shows that it relates to a run
made in 1898, when the time made was
55J4 minutes. There is not a scintilla of
evidence against tho record of 1897, but
because of tho slower tluie in 1893 tho
record for tho last season “Is not true
either in substance or in fact. ”
Now the question is, Does The Engineer
really believe that because a certain rate
of speed was not attained in 1893 there
fore it cannot be in 1897, and that any one
who claims it can be is mendacious, or
does it deliberately intend to resort to
mere pettifogging methods to deceive its
readers? We must confess that we see no
other alternative.
Nevertheless The Engineer is forced to
admit from Mr. Stre ton’s figures of the
run as made four years ago that Ameri
can locomotives £o make faster time than
English ones.—American Machinist.
Objections to Football.
Our football rules, orthose to which ob
jection is specially made, are ingenious
and cunning, but theg lack common sense
and intelligence. They tend more and
more to eliminate individual effort and to
depend upon combinations whose effect
shall be irresistible. But what sport is
there in being irresistible? What sport de
mands is open competition of man against
man, or, if you please, of equal numbers
against each other. Nothing oould be
more stupid and objectless than the heaped
uprushes and collisions of our football
matches. The true game is to get the ball
through the enemy’s goal, and any rule
which tends to take the accomplishment
of that aim from individuals and give it
to masses is a rule in tbe wrong direction.
The prizefighters are justified in saying
that football, as now played here, is a
more brutal and dangerous game than
prizefighting. It is lack of intelligence in
framing rules which has made it so. A
little common sense and independent
thought would make the game not only
free from serious danger, but far more in
teresting both to play and to watch. But
the whole idea thus far has been to plan
such combinations as the other side, being
taken at a disadvantage, cannot withstand.
Success becomes a mere question of me
chanics, with the human element mote
and more eliminated. In war this princi
ple is sound. But sports are not war in
that sense. They are designed not to
win a certain prize, but to find whieh man
or men are the best A football team
drilled in devices more ingenious than
those of the other side wins the game, but
the glory belongs not to tho team, but to
the plannoaof the devices. What sport or
what legitimate satisfaction Is there in
that? The game might as well be played
on the blackboard and every once in
awhile a player be crushed to death under
a steam hammer.—Collier’s Weekly.
Easy When Yon Know How.
A Dresden paper, the Weldmann, which
thinks that there are kangaroos (beubel
ratte) in South Africa, says the Hottentots
(Hottentoten) put them in cages (hotter)
provided with covers (lattengitter) to pro
tect them from the rain. The cages are
therefore called lattengitterwetterkotter
and the Imprisoned kangaroo lattehgitter
wetterkotterbeutelratte. One day an as
sassin (qttontater) was arrested who had
killed a'Hottentot woman (Hottentoten
mutter), the mother of two stupid and
stuttering ohbdren in Strattertrotei. This'
woman, in the German language, is an
tilted Hottentotenstrottertrottelmutter,
and her assassin takes the name Hotten
tetenstrottermutterattentater. The mur
derer was confined in a kangaroo’s cage
(beutelra ttenlattengitterwetterkotter),
whence a few days later ho escaped, but'
fortunately he was recaptured by.a Hot-'
tentot, who presented himself at the
mayor’s office with beaming face.
“I have captured the beutelratte,” said
he.
“Which one?” said the mayor. “Wa
have several.”
‘ ‘ The attentaterlattengltterwetterkotter
beutelratte. ”
“Which attentate? are you talking
about?”
“About the Hottentotenstrottertrottel
mutterattentater. ”
“Then why don’t you say at once the
Ho 11 e n totenstrottelmutterattentaterlat
tengitterwetterkotterbeutelratte?”
Waterprotoqpg For BccM.
Here are three recipes for waterproofing
boots which you will find good, the last
one being perhaps the most suitable for
heavy outdoor work: (1) One part of ozo
kerit in 3 parts castor oil and 1 part lamp
black added makes an excellent prepara
tion, as tb> boots will take a thin polish
afterward. (3) Salad oil, 1 pint; mutton
suet, 4 ounces; white wax and spermaceti,
of each 1 ounce, melted together and ap
plied to the boots, warmed before the fire.
(8) Melt 8 ounces of spermaceti in a ladle
and add three quarters of an ounce of Im
dia rubber cut into shavings. When dis
solved, add half a pound of tallow, 3
ounces of pure lard and 4 ounces of amber
varnish. Mix well, and while still warm
apply with a brush. It leaves a good pol
ish and is preservative as well as water
proof. —N uggets.,
AN OPEN LETTER
To MOTHERS.
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE
EXCLUSIVE USE OF WORD “C ASTORIA,” AND
“ PITCHER’S CASTORIA,’’ AS OUR TRADE MARK.
Z, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, qf Hyannis, Massachusetts,
was the originator qf “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” the same
that has borne and does now on ewriJ
bear the fdb-simile signature of wrapper.
This is the original M PITCHER’S CASTORIA,’’ which has been
used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirti;
years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it h
the hind you have always bought
and has the signaiurjs of wrap-
per. No one has authority from me to use my name ex
cept The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Hclcher is
“a.
Do Not Be Deceived.
Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting
a cheap substitute which some druggist ma/ offejr yo’
(because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in
gredients of which even he docs not know.
“The Kind 'You Biave Always Bought”
BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE CF
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Insist on Having
The Kind That Never Failed 100.
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