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V ( " Far County Surveyor. I »’ rd- —•:■ ' &:/ s '. f announce-thatl I £SSS°pri«y.“<> ’“>, *» «'“ lto ■ support ot all the voters. I hsvethesuppv j TIDWELL. 0 *?" i*-v xl/ *?■'' 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. 1 ■ 1 ""* 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. f~ L i swZZ * a J ' ' >'' 10 * ~'A~- -*- ■ - 4 > ,: - *• o •r/Tl X - 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. I - = 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. i _______ 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 ' * Insist on Having The Kind That Never Failed 100. YHI CKNTAVR ffiMFAWV. TV ttURMAV •TMMT, VOMffi 4W " 1 —' 1 " ' /"'H 1 ' ■' SHOES, - SHOES I IN MENS SHOES WE HAVE THE LATEST STYLES-COIN TOES, GENUINE RUSSIA LEATHER CALF TANS, CHOCOLATES AND GREEN AT |2 TO 83.50 PER PAIR. IN LADIES OXFORDS WE IIAVE COMPLETE LINE IN TAN, BLACK AND CHOCOLATE, ALSO TAN AND BLACK SANDALS RANGING IN PRICE FROM 78c TO $2. ALSO TAN, CHOCOLATE AND BLACK SANDALS AND OXFORDS IN CHILDREN AND MISSES SIZES, XND CHILDREN AND MISSES TAN LACE SHOES AND BLACK. ‘ TXT’. X 3. HOBITE. WE HAVE IN A LINE OF SAMPLE STRAW HATS. •'J ' ' 1 '■ x GET YOUR — JOB PRINTING DONE ALT The Morning Call Office. I ua mm 1 ■ ■' We have just supplied our Job Office with a complete line ol Stationer* kinds and can get up, on short notice, anything wanted in the way oi LETTER HEADS, BILL HEADS. 1 STATEMENTS, IRCULARB, ENVELOPES, NOTES, MORTGAGES, X PROGRAMS, JARDB, POSTERS ■ / • DODGERS, ETC., KTI We eery tor beet iue of FNVEJZIFEfI yw : this trade. Aa aitracfive POSTER cf aay size can be issued on short notice. Our prices for work of all kinds will compare favorably with those obtained to® ’ any office in the state. When you want Job printing olj any rive s cal) Satisfaction guaranteed. I 1 work done ? . . With Neatness and Dispatch.