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— > *- yor County Sumjw, r w o s , * P “"tjSS*. roTcouniy *® B uXner subject to the action of the 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. ■' ■ 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. * a 'F* - 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. i. ik * 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 1 Post ■ I • .. -..nr 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. « - - 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. 1 ** —-e ■ "mrttewese . " ; V, ’-X if... 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. ’bloe. / - • . 0 ■ 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 . Insist on Having The Kind That Never Failed You. TMC CCNTAUN COMMIT. TT MURRAY RTRCCT* NEW VRRR *|YV. 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