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jure the suypv J; j tjdweLL.
RF. STRICKLAND.
i hnrebv announce myself a candidate
. JSnty Commissioner, subject to the
1 F ““ir
r hereby announce myself a candidate
tor County Commissioner of Spalding
I Xntv. subject to the Democratic primary
’ ? June 23d, W. W. CHAMPION.
To the Voters of Spalding County: I
i hereby announce myself a candidate for
roelection to the office of County Commis-
B Jtoner of Spalding county, subject to the
F democratic primary to be held on Jnne 23,
1898, My record in the past is my pledge
for future faith fulness.
® D. L. PATRICK.
Tor Representative-
To the Voters of Spalding County: I
- md a candidate for Representative to the
legislature, subject to the primary of the
party,
Editob Call: Please announce my
name as a candidate for Representative
from Spalding county, subject to the action
of the democratic party. I shall be pleased
to receive the support of all the voters,and
If elected will endeavor to represent the
interests of the whole county.
J. B. Bull.
Tor 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 thia county, subject to the choice oi
the democratic primary, and shall be
grateful for all votes given me.
T. R. NUTT,
Tor 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
office, and will appreciate the support o<
my mends. W. P. HORNE.
To the Voters of Spalding County: I
myself a candidate for re-elec
hion for tiie office of County Treasurer,
’ subject to democratic primary, and if elect
| ed promise to be as faithful in the per
formance of my duties in the future as I
have been in the past.
J. C. BROOKS.
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Tor Tax Eeosiver.
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
28rd, 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.
S. 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.
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 in the past.
M. F, MORRIS.
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SPRING REMEDIES
For '‘that tired feeling;' spring fever and
fte general lassitude that comes with
warm days, when the system hasn’t been
cleansed from the impurities that winter
oas 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 1
N. B. DREWRY* SON,
Bausuwt.
Registration Notic e.
The county registration books are now
« my office in Hweelkus’ Shoe Store
qualified 40 should call and
will dose twenty days before each
’ Mion - T. k NUTT, T. U.
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FIELD GUNS IN WAR. I
THEY ARE THE FAVORITE WEAPONS
AMONG MILITARY MEN.
Th«M Long Range Death Dealers Can Ba
Fired With Great Rapidity, Are as Ac
curate as Rifle, at Their Rance and Kx
ert Tremendous Energy.
The betterment of the modern field
gun is fully equal to the development
of other branches of military armament.
It has been especially rapid within the
last dozen years. The work of special
ists and the results, of extended tests
have ended in the production of a weap
on of great accuracy and of titanic
force. The field gun of today is the fa
vorite weapon of the military man, and
he expects from it some very remark
able demonstrations when opportunity
to use it occurs, c , i ;
Napoleon is credited with the remark
that Providence is always on the side
of the heavy artillery, but the artillery
which Napoleon knew was not worthy
to be mentioned on the same day with
the light, graceful and deadly arm with
which the moderns are prepared to do
slaughter. The first great step forward,
was taken when the breechloading ac
tion was invented. Well known scien
tific rules of boring and the improve
ment in projectiles and powders have
done the rest The field gun now in use
by tho powersis as accurate at its range
as a-rifle and has tremendous energy.
The United States has no better field
guns than those with which the armies
of Germany and France are armed, but
they are every bit as good. Like our
other ordnance, they are all made on
this side of the water. The American
manufacturer yields to no one in ability
to make a perfect weapon. Indeed many
of the chief Improvements in field guns
And in the larger sizes, sometimes called
“siege” guns, are the productsof Amer
ican brains.
The field guns of the United States
army are made at Watervliet, N. Y.,
just as the large guns for the navy and
for coast defense are turned out at
Washington. They have a caliber of a
little more than three inches, are, of
course, breechloading, are rather
lengthy for their width and are lightly
but strongly mounted. They use a point
ed shell which explodes either on con
cussion or by time fuse, generally the
former, and are fired with great rapidity.
Each gun of a battery is in command
of a lieutenant, who, under the eye of
his superior, sights it and directs its
working. He has his elevation, depres
sion and wind gauge formal® at his
fingers’ ends, and with him good shoot
,ing is mainly a question of care. The
powder used in these guns is of the
smaller grained brown hexagonal kind,
though the pheroidal is preferred for
some calibers.
The recoil of this gun on level ground
is 26 feet, with the wheels unlocked.
With the wheels locked it recoils five
feet, and is run forward and resighted
very swiftly. Its point blank range is
2,200 yards. It can be made effective at
a much greater distance, of course, but
officers prefer that range for accurate
shooting.
It fell to me some seven years ago to
report the first field trial given the
Watervliet guns. Three of them were
sent to Fort Sam Houston at San An
tonio, where Light Battery F, Third
artillery, was stationed under command
of Major James B. Burbank, a most ca
pable officer, now attached to the staff
of the governor of New York. Major
Burbank was instructed to try them out
thoroughly, and for this purpose select
ed an ideal range on Ganahl’s ranch, 60
miles north of San Antonio.
The guns were planted in line and
20 feet apart on the side of a green hill
and pointed across a shallow valley.
On the opposite hill, 2,200 yards away,
a tent fly was put up as a target. It
was 15 by 9 feet in dimension and was
stretched on two poles. At that distance
it looked like nothing in the world so
much as a man’s- pocket handkerchief.
One shot was fired as a range finder,
and that shot proved the range was
found. Then the work began.
For half an hour these guns pitched
shells through or under or over the tar
'get, according to the firing directions,
with as much accuracy as a man would
use a Winchester rifle at 160 yards.
The work was done with the precision
of a clock. There was the rush of the
piece into its first position, the quick
command to load, the rapid aim and
discharge, the faint scream of the shell,
the puff of smoke and dull report as it
struck and the dust rose up in a pillar.
When it was ended, we rode across
the valley and up the opposite slope to
the spot where the tent fly had stood.
Bits of it lay about here and there. One
of the poles was bitten short off. For
50 yards below the other pole, for 80
yards on either side of it and for 100
yards above it the earth was not plowed
—ft was harrowed. An ant could not
have lived on the ground.
It was not difficult to imagine what
would have became of an opposing force.
Men and horses would have been dead
and all guns dismounted in five minutes
after the firing began. There could have
been no better illustration of the abso
lutely fatal character of these pieces
It was found that they did not become
nnmn.nagtto.hla through heat, that the
breech mechanism displayed no sign of
strain, that the recoil was not greater
than was calculated and that accuracy
was as perfect with The last shell as
with the, first These findings were re
ported to the Washington authorities,
ami the manufacture of the guns went
on. The regular army is now thorough
ly supplied with them. —Chicago Times-
Herald. ________'
Just What It Soemz.
“It seems like a dream, ” he said in
•peaking of Bas courtship.
* “My boy,” replied the veteran,
» “when you wake up after marriage you
1 wiH find that that is just exactly what
it is—-nothing but a dream. ’’—Chicago
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A CUBAN CHARGE.
How Mtxsb Depends on (be Maebete.
Strings .nd Thong. Are r.ctort.
Strings, thongs and snap catches play
important parts In the field uniform of a
Cuban insurgent Persons who have seen
the little band of Cuban patriots with
Buffalo Bill's Wild West show come dash
ing into the arena have noticed that each
man, by a quick movement of the bead,
throws off his straw hat. The hat, whioh
is held by a string, dangles upon the
horseman’s shoulders during his ride.
The movement, revealing the fine, alert
and spirited faces of the men who served
under Gomes and Maceo, looks like a trick
for theatric effect, but it is what they al
ways do when riding into action, so one
of the little band explained the Other day.
“The Spanish soldiers,” he said, “have
the Mauser rifle, which kills at 1,000 or
1,800 yards, while we have only the Rem
ington oarbine, whioh is of short range.
It is all we can afford. If we remain at a
distance, the Spanish without danger to
thelnselves will, as you Americans say,
‘wipe us out.’ Sows must get close to
them. That is the first consideration.
The Mauser bullet will not kill any more
at one yard than at 1,000, but it is differ
ent with the machete. For it close quar
ters is necessary.
‘Wow, see how we are prepared for an
attack. The carbine hangs by this snap
catch from the belt on the left side. The
revolver, suspended by a strong string
through its butt, hangs on the left side.
The machete, by a thong through the
handle, swings from the right wrist. The
bat is made fast by a string so that it may
be thrown back out of tbe way, but net
lost, for we are too poor to lose anything,
even an old. straw bat, and when tbe fight
is over, if we are alive, we will want our
hats. But during the fight we want our
beads bare, clear, that we may see. The
Spaniard pqJM his hat down over his eyes.
“The order is given to charge! Three,
four or five hundred yards we must tfo
very fast—straight for the Spaniard*, who
all the time have us in range qf their
Mausers, while we can do nothing to
them- Then we are close enough for the
carbine to have effect, and they go bang!
Bang! bang! fast as wo can load and Are.
Ah, if we only had magazine guns like
yours! But they are too costly for us.
Quidkly we are close enqugb for the re
volver to do execution. The carbine goes
back to its book on the belt, and tbe re
volver speaks bang! bang) bapgl until it
is empty, when it is dropped for tbe string
to take care of.
“By that time we are on our enemy
with the machete. That is tbe tool to kill
with. Shots fired in a gallop may miss,
but there is no mistake about tbe chop of
tbe machete. The Spaniard knows it and
dislikes it exceedingly. A man who knows
bow to handle the machete can lop off an
arm or a head or split a man like a carrot
with it A gun may get out of order, am
munition may be exhausted, but the good
machete is always ready for service. Grind
it sharp when it is dulled on bones, and
it will not'fail to serve you well.
n When the fight is over, everything is
in place. Tbe bat is put back on the head
—for our sun is very hot—the revolver
and carbine bang in their places ready for
reloading, and we are prepared for anoth
er fight.’’—New York Sun.
Creed and Cueumbers.
Tbe Rev. W. passed through Oklahoma
the other day with his wagon full to tbe
brim of cucumbers. On top of those cu
cumbers perched two ducks. ,
The reverend gentleman was known to
the citizens of the place, although be aid
not live there, but farther north, in the
next county. These citizens challenged
the gentleman of tbe cloth on bis freight,
and he answered that he had been preach
ing up on Bear creek, and the people, hav
ing nothing else, had paid him in cucum
bers and two ducks to boot.
The good gentleman thereupon pursued
his journey, tbe nice, eool, emerald cu
cumbers jostling one another good na
turedly and the ducks quacking a conver
sation between themselves, based on the
likelihood of rain. He probably arrived
home near nightfall. Imagine the child
ish laughter that greeted him at the gate.
Imagine the baby feet mounting the dusty
wheels, aided by chubby hands, to exam
ine tbe treasure their good father had
brought home. Imagine their delight on
the discovery of the ducks, and also im
agine a steady diet of three weeks of duck
and cucumber, with the duck petering
out after the third day. Think of the in
effable delight of raising an adult appetite
by hard work in the field and rushing
home at tho sound of tbe cheery dinner
bell and sitting down to a sumptuous
feast of cucumbers. When the shades of
night are falling and the world is at peace,
see tbe bright light on the table, the hap
py family gathered around, the venerable
father giving thanks fbr their daily cu
cumbers and tbe family falling to a min
ute later and regaling themselves with the
progenitor of the piokle.—Church at Home
and Abroad.
The Ex-Serfs and the Ex-Slaves.
I have lately made a hasty trip in Rus
sia, not long enough to give me more than
a superficial observation, and yet my so* >
perflclal observation is sustained by my
subsequent reading of the best about
Russia and the Russians. My impressions
of Russia were profoundly changed. Tbe
Russian represents a huge, undeveloped
force, not merely in process of develop
ment for the conduct of war, but in the
conduct of agriculture Mid industry. They
are entering the company of the progress
ive states. Their literature, their art,
their music and all other elements of true
life give indications of an immense power
in thwfuture of industry. At present they
are in the condition of the middle ages,
but subject to the rending forces of mod
ern science and invention.
Tho former serfs “were emancipated in
1861. The negroes of the south were
emancipated two years later. The white
men of the south have since been emanci
pated. The great event of the civil war
was the emancipation of the white man
from the bonds of a bad economic system,
i Hytdmpresslons in Russia led me to the
eonolusion that in thia country, which.is
actuated by the principle of liberty
throughout tbe land, molding all races
, and conditions of men without regard to
color, the black citizens of the United
States have made much greater progress
in education and industry in one gensra
> tlon than the serfs of Russia have made in
the same period, although they are a strong
race of white men.—KdWard Atkinson in
Tradesman.
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Henry's Great Scheme.
Middle Aged Matron —And do you find
married life as pleasant as you expected?
Young Wife—Ob. it would be if it were
i not for tbe dog next door. He barks all
. tbe early part of the night, and Henry is
’ so nervous that he has to stay in town un
til 8 in tbe morning to escape the annoy
ance of hearing him.—London Tit-Bits.
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Hie Malden Speech. '
The malady known as “stage fright” U
by no means confined to the stage or to
people deficient in self confidence. It is
one of tbe peculiarities of tho house of
commons, as related by Mr. Michael Mao-
Donagh in the “Book of Parliament,"
that it not only expects but demands a
certain amount of stage fright in • mem- I
bar's maiden speech as an indication of a
“becoming awe of tbe august assembly
listening to his words.” *
Wben-Mr. Joseph Chamberlain was first
sleeted, an old friend, who wan also an old
member of. the house of commons, came
to him and gave him this bit of advise:
“You know you have come into the
bouse rather late, and you have some sort
of reputation outside. The house of com
mons does not tike outside reputation. It
is accustomed to make and unmake its
own. As you are going shortly to make
your maiden speech, if you could contrive
to break down a little I think the house
of commons would take it as a compli
ment, and you will be a! I the better for tt.“
There are occasional failures to get off
one’s maiden speech, though it may have
been conned hundreds of times. Tbe most
extraordinary breakdown that ever oo
oeured in the bouse happened some years
ago. The address in answer to the queen’s
speech was to be seconded by a young
country member in a maiden speech. Ho
came attired, as is customary on the occa
sion, in uniform—in the gorgeous attire
of a captain of moulted yeomanry. He
stood up tn hlr place, and, grasping the
hilt of his sword with his .left hand, in
dulged in some graceful gestures with his
right, but though his lips were seen to
move not • sound sould be heard by the
house.
For nearly five minutes the honorable
and gallant gentleman continued this
dumb show and sat
markable feature of the-incident was that
the honorable gentleman did not himself
miss the sound of bis vocal organs; all
through the incident he seemed to be un
der the impression that the bouse was lis
tening with rapt attention, to his eloquent
periods, set to the exquisite music of his.
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What Sympathy Could Do.
It is difficult to imagine a bright side to
prison life, and when to cobflnement Is
added the gloom of insanity the dafkness
seems Impenetrable. The author df “The
Slid Paris,” however, glyes a
are of what womanly sym
oomplished even in so ex-
strangely sympathetic side
of the prisons of Paris (St.
imen). The sick und.worn
dttt were always tenderly regarded by
their fellow prisoners, and if a woman
died in the pri*ou it was not unusual for
the ?est to olub together to provide a cost
ly funeral.
In the early years of the restoration a
pretty peasant girl named Marie was sent
to St. Lazare for stealing roses. She had
a passion for the flower, and a thousand
mystical notions had woven themselves
about it in her mind. She said that rose
trees would detach themselves from their
roots and glide after her wherever she
we3t to tempt her to pluck the blossoms.
One in a garden, taller than the rest, had
compelled her to climb the wall and gath
er as many roses as she could, and there
the gendarmes found her.
This poor girl excited the moat vivid in
terest in that sordid pltoe. The prisoners
plotted to restore her to reason, christened
her Rose, which delighted her, anti set
themselves to make artificial roses for her
of silk and paper. Those fingers, so rebel
lious at qßotted tasks, created roses with
out number, till Marie’s cell was trans
formed into a bower.
An interested director of prison laboA
seconded these efforts, and opened in St.”
Lazare a workroom for the manufacture
of artificial flowers, to which Marie was
introduced as an apprentice.
Here she made roses from morning till
night, and her dread of the future being
dispelled the malady of her mind reached
its term with the end of her sentence, and
she left the prison cured and happy. She
became one of the moat successful florists
in Paris.
The Khedlvia Mother.
The khedlvia mother, who is also known
as Princess Eminah, is a woman of
rare beauty—a complexion in which the
rose and tbe lily blend is enhanced by her
brilliant black eyes and hair, while the
faultless contour of her exquisitely serene
countenance oomports admirably with the
majestic figure of a woman who is indeed
every inch a queen. One cannot realize
that this youthful woman is the mother
of the sedate khediva Her charming sis
ter-in-fcaw, tha Princess Fatmab, whose
guest I was, is equally youthful in appear
ance, and one would never suspect her to
be the mother of two married offspring,
the eldest of whom is fully 26 years old.
This' sunny naturod woman seems to carry
the spring of perpetual girlhood in her
heart, a wealth of golden hair crowns her
regally poised head, the energy of wer
fiowing vitality dominates her every ac
tion, but bar wonderful eyea hold one
spellbound by their ever changing depths,
which my most critical scrutiny never en
abled me to fathom, nor oan I now de
scribe their color, whether blue, black or
brown.
The rare beauty of these ladles may be
a hereditary trait from their Caucasian
ancestry, of which they manliest as great
pride as does tbe European
Saxon origin, and I had indisputable evi
dence that their brilliancy of complexion
was due'only to nature afid tbe bath, not
to cosmetics, of whlsh, however, the orient
has no deficiency.—Humanitarian.
A Telephone In Bed. ' '
One of the most Ingenious applications
of the telephone is the portable form,
which is known as the portable hospital
telephone. Its particular use is to enable
people in a sickroom in which an infec
tious disease is being nursed to communi
cate with tho people in the rest of the
house.
In hospitals this simple adaptation of
tbe telephone to tbe requirements of the
situation will be found invaluable, but an
even greater field for its utility will be the
private house. The irksomentabof having
some of the infectious diseases in a mild
form is multiplied tenfold by tbe enforced
seclusion of the patient, who is suddenly
out off from intercourse with the rest of
tbe family. Now by the mere addition of
this little instrument to tha furniture of
the apartment it is possible for a siok per
son to keep up a conversation with any
member of tbe rest of the family, and in
this way tbe tedium which is inseparable
from tbe compulsory isolation may be re*
lieved.
Furthermore, the nurse will by its
means be saved a good many journeys,
even in noDinfectious cases, for she can
ask for things to be brought to her at odd
times which in the ordinary course she
would have to go for or at least ring a bell
and have some one come to the door to
ask what she required. —Telephone.
AN OPEN LETTER
To MOTHERS. S ■
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE
EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTORIA” AND
“PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADE Mark.
Z, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, qf Hyannia, Massachusetts,
vas the originator of “PITCHER’S CASTO RIA,” the same
that has borne and does now on
bear the facsimile signature of wrapper.
This is the original “ PITCHER’S CASTORIA, ’ which has been
used in the homes of the Mothers of America for ovci' thuij
years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is
the kind you have always bought on the
and has the signature of wrap- ?
per. No one has authority from me to use r.vj name ex
cept The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is
President. j
March 8,1897. 3
Do Not Be Deceived.
Do not endanger the life of your child Ly accepting
a cheap substitute which some druggist offer yor* :
(because he makes a few more pennies cit it), the in
gredients of which even he docs not know.
“The Kind You Have Always Bought
BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE Ci- 3
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The Kind That Never Failed You.
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