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announcements.
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For County Surveyor.
subject to the democratic primary m ums
38rd. ' .
f rtr county OommiuiOMr.
Call : Please announce that I
t E f^ndldite for re-election for County
£ m ™misaioiier, subject to the action of the
have the suppu j j TIDWELL
Sit the solicitation of many voters I
.„2. bv announce mytelf a candidate for
County Commissioner, subject to the dem
otic primary. If ejected I pledge my
an honest, business-like administra
tor county affairs in the direction of
£?« toes. R. F- STRICKLAND.
thereby announce myself a candidate
Mr County Commissioner, subject to the
Socratic primary to be held June 33,
“lit If elected, I pledge myself to eco
nomical and business methods in conduct-
I hereby announce myself a candidate
tor County Commissioner of Spalding
E Lwntv. subject to the Democratic primary
of June 23d. W. W. CHAMPION.
<■' To the Voters of Spalding County: I
hereby announce myself a candidate for
re-election to the office of County Commis
sioner of Spalding county, subject to the
democratic primary to be held on June 23,
1898. My record in the past is my pledge
for future faithfulness.
D. L. PATRICK.
for [Representative.
To the Voters of Spalding County: I
am a candidate for Representative to the
legislature, subject to the primary of the
democratic party, and will appreciate your
support. J. P. HAMMOND.
hh&v
Editor Call: Please announce my
name as a candidate for Representative
from Spalding county, subject to the action
ot the democratic party. I shall be pleased
to receive the support of all the voters,and
if elected will endeavor to represent the
interests of the whole county.
J. B. Bkll.
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 this county, subject to the choice ot
the democratic primary, and shall be
grateful for all votes given me.
T. R. NUTT,
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for County Treasurer.
To the Voters of Spalding County: I
respectfully, announce jnyself 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 friende. W. P. HORNE.
To the Voters of Spalding County: I
announce myself a candidate for re-elec
tion for the office of County Treasurer,
subject to democratic primary, and if elect
ed promise to be as faithful in the per
formance of my duties in the future as I
have been in the past.
J. C. BROOKS.
For Tax Receiver.
Editor Call : Please announce to the
voters of Spalding county that I am a can
didate for th»office of Tax Receiver, sub
ject to the Democratic primary of June
23rd, 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.
8. M. M’COWELL.
For 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
toe general lassitude that comes with
warm days, when the system hasn’t been
cleansed from the impurities that winter
naa harvested in the blood, you will find
n our Spring Tonic and Stomach Bitters.
For purifying the blood and giving tone
to the body they are unexcelled I
N. B. DREWRY * SON,
K Hill Street. ’ 1 “
Registration Notice.
The county registration books are now
n “F.office in Hasaelkus’ Shoe Store
r^ B tw qasliflo<i to do 80 Bhould <* u ecd
CATACOMBS <N AMERICA.
The Only Bartel Place of the Kind la
,7 This Country.
Knowing what you expect to see here it
is only natural for you to enter the ceme
tery with some little nervousness and
trepidation, but yon are reassured when
you do enter the big gate, for there is
nothing uncanny or “triste” yet to be
seen. On the contrary, this Mexican
“God’s acre’’ is all tranquil and bright
and beautiful, and you do not think even
of the square black lettered spaces that
are honeycombed, one above the other, all
the way around the great wall of the pan
theon. These square spaces, five rows of
them, contain a vault each, and that is
where the interment is made.
It is an enormous place, this cemetery,
and’well that it is so, for during the great
typhus epidemic in 1893 it received, so
people say, about a third of the then popu
lation of Guanajuato. For a time the city
council kept some sort of tally on the
deaths, but as later on thjj council itself
and most of the physicians succumbed to
the fatal disease no count was kept, and
interment was made in a grea jdreneh dug
In the center of the pantheon Tone coffin,
with a spring in the bottom, serving for
all, when the ceremony of a coffin was
used at all.
However, waiving the matter of epidem
ics, In Guanajuato when a person dies
the family at once arrange to rent one of
the boxlike spaces in this pantheon, rental
per month, payable in advance. Then the
“deader” (as Sentimental Tommy has
It) is put away in one of the vaalts —not
to wait the feist trump, but to await the
next pantheon pay day. When the day
comes, if the family can’t raise the sl2 for
the next fiscal year, the city council has
the vault unsealed, the coffin taken out and
the “deader” transferred to the huge pas
sages below the .pantheon, ju.the cata
cumbas. The catacumbas comprise enor
mous underground passages that run all
the way around the pantheon.
The panthepn man pushes back a big flat
stone over in a corner of the cemetery and
invites you to step into a small dark hole
which admits only one person at a time
and contains a small, winding stone stair,
built pretty much on the corkscrew plan.
Some godless-person, with more sense of
humdr than grace, has placed the tallest,
ugliest and uncanniest (if there is such a
word) of all the mummies at the very bot
tom of the last step, so arranged that as
you descend the crooked stairs you land
right into his bony arms.
It is truly a grisly thing to see, once you
are safely there. Imagine to yourself long,
seemingly endless white passages, silent
as only death can make them, heaped up
at each end with great piles of bones—the
bones of those who refused to mummify—
and lined thickly with mummy after
mummy, horrible, brown, skinny things,
fastened in a standing position against
the walls, many of them with their grin
ning, fleshless faces turned toward other
mummies, as though in conversation, oth
ers with heads bowed, as In meditation or
prayer, and others with faces blankly
staring up at the stone walls above) Once
seen, it is a thing that you do not soon
forget.
Along one side are the gentleman mum
mies, on the other the ladles, and indis
criminately mixed among t*hcm are the
poor baby mummies.
There is not, strange tb say, the slight
est hint of a disagreeable odor; rather
there is a smell of lime. The place is beau
tifully clean and white, and there are
even some birds that build down here and
bring up their young ones among the
mummies.—Dr. Gilbert Cunningham in
Godey’s Magazine.
Imperfectly Understood.
At a certain east end Sunday school
some time ago the teacher talked to the in
fant class upon the evils connected with
strong drink. The little tots of 4 and 5
listened attentively to a long tirade against
the rum demon. Finally the teacher cried:
“Wine is a mocker I”
The children pricked up their ears at
the teacher’s vehemence.
“Wine is a mocker!” she cried again,
like one of the prophets of old.
The children looked veryjjrave indeed.
“.Wine is a mocker I” cried the teacher
forrthe third time, and then she turned
and wrote the sentence in big letters on
the blackboard.
“Now, children,” she exclaimed as she
whirled around, “I want you to tell me
what wino is.”
The little ones looked about vacantly.
“Wine is a mocker!” cried the teacher.
“Now, what is wine, first little boy?”
The first little boy looked thoughtful.
“Wine—ls—a—marker,” he drawled.
~ “No, no,” said the teacher. “Next lit
tle boy.”
The next little boy looked still more
thoughtful
“Wine—is—a —market,” he ventured.
“No, no,” fidgeted the teacher. “Next
little boy. ” .
The third little boy smiled. He was a
self confident little boy.
“Wine—is—a—monkey, ” he bravely
announced-
And then the teacher gave it up.—
Cleveland Plain Dealer,
Vitality of the Wild Goose.
Farmer H. N. Clement of Lowell, Lake
county, Ind., was gunning in the Kanka
kee marsh. He came upon a flock of wild
geese and bagged several of them, one of
which astonished him by having as a
breastpin an arrow 9 inches long. That
goose became the wonder of the neighbor
hood and the study of scientists, the only
conclusion reached being that wherever
the wild bird came from there it got the
arrow, so unique in formation that it could
be assigned. to no tribe of Indians in the
United States or any other known coun
try. Finally Professor O. T. Mason of the
National museum said the bird and arrow
could have come from no other plate on
the globe than the Yukon valley, for ex
cept in that region no such arrows are
made. Science does not pretend to say how
long the goose had carried the arrow of a
Yukon tribesman until it met its death
from the shot of a civilized gunner down
on an Indiana marsh. The bird disdained
the weapon of a savage, but turned its
legs up to the marksmanship of the Hoo
sier farmer years afterward and thousands
of miles from its summer home in arctic
desolation as it was journeying south
ward.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Hope.
“Hope is a fine thing, ” said Mr. Stay
bolt, “sure. We’d be a pretty miserable
lot, most of us, without it. And a man
can get along very comfortably for quite a
spell on nothing else, without doing a
blessed thing but hope that things will
come his way. But while hope makes a
bright light it doesn’t give out very much
heat; if a man wants that, he must dig for
it. It is a fortunate thing for a manto
make this discovery early, and the man
who mixes the most digging with his hope
fulness has the most reason to be hopeful.
—New York Sun. ; ' - f
THE MOHAMMEDANS.
The Queer Manner In Which They Mia
L’P Religion and Marder.
The month of Ramadan, in which the
first part of the Koran is said to have
been revealed, is observed as a fast by
all Mohammedans. The fast extends
over the whole “month of raging heat”
and involves extraordinary self denial
and self control. No food or drink of
any kind may be taken from daybreak
until the appeaianoe of the stars at
nightfall. • ~
The rigor w(th which a Mohammedan
observes this fast and the great gulf be
tween its observance and obedience to
the moral code are both illustrated by a
story told in the life of one of the he
roes of India, Major John Nicholson.
While Nicholson in 1854 was deputy
commissioner in Bannu, a native killed
his brother and was arrested. He was
brought before Nicholson on a very hot
evening, looking parched and exhausted,
for he had walked many miles, and it
Was the month of Ramadan.
“Why,” exclaimed Nicholson, “is it
possible that yon have walked in fast
ing on a day like this?”
“Thank God,” answered the Ban
nuchi, “I am a good faster. ”
" Why did you kill your brother?”
“I saw a fowl killed last night, and
the sight of the blood put the devil in
to me.”
“He had chopped up his brother,
stood a long chase and been marched in
here, but he was keeping the fast,”
wrote the commissioner to a friend, that
he might know what sort of blood
thirsty and bigoted people he, Nichol
son, had to govern.
One day a wretched little chilf was
brought before the commissioner. He
had been ordered by his relatives of the
Waziri tribe to poison food. ,
• ’’Don’t you know it is.wrong to kill
people?” asked Nicholson.
“I know it is wrong to kill with a
knife or a sword, ” answered the child.
“Why?”
“Because the blood leaves marks,”
answered the trained poisoner.
A Pathan chief, who fell by Nichol
son’s side in a skirmish, left a little son,
upon whom the English officer lavished
care and attention. One day the 7-year
old boy asked his protector to grant him
a special favor?
“Tell me first what you want. ”
“Only your permission, sahib, to go
and kill my cousins, the children of
your and my deadly enemy, my uncle,
Faltri Khan. ”
“To kill your cousins?” exclaimed the
Englishman, horrified at the answer.
“Yes, sahib, to kill all the boys while
they are young. It is quite easy now. ”
“You little monster! Would you
murder your own cousins?”
“Yes, sahib, for if T don’t they will
certainly murder me. ”
The little boy wished to follow Pa
than usage and thought, it very hard
that his guardian should prevent his
taking so simple a precaution.
diq The girls paint?
How tbe Question Waa Voeidod and a
Bet Paid. .
Two well known society swells went
to the Imperial theater one afternoon
when “East Lynne’* was the bilL A
few evenings before there had been dis
cussed at their clnb the subject of wom
en painting their faces. Several girls
were mentioned who Were suspected by
their admirers of wearing an artificial
carnation bloom. Others defended the
yOung damsels and said it was natural
How to find out and win a wager
that was laid then and there was the
subject of the young man’s visit to the
Imperial
“East Lynne” is a play which ought
to make all women cry, they reasoned,
for it makes even men’s throats grow
thick. They sent tickets foe reserved
seats to the girls under discussion, beg
ging them to invite whomsoever they
pleased of their acquaintances, as they,
the donors, would not be able to escort
them.
The ruse was successful In an upper
box sat the young men ready to win or
lose the wager, and right below, in the
parquet, where they could see their
faces and every move of their hands,
were the young women. There were six
of them, two of whom shed copious
tears and hesitated not to wipe
them away with their handkerchiefs,
while the other four never winced.
Among those who did not cry were the
girls suspected of laying on the red
pigment, and it was on just that evi
dence that the bet hinged. That night
the wager was paid with a supper at
the University club. —St Louis Repub
lic.
She Will Toaeh Bonnet Making.
Mila. Valentine About, daughter of
Edmond About, the author, is going to
open a “class in hat and bonnet mak
ing. ” Everybody in Paris is surprised
at the necessity for it, as during his
lifetime About kept open house in his
hotel on the Rue de Douai, and a fete
that he gave to the Authors’ society in
the chateau he had just bought at Pon
toise is remembered aa almost princely.
By What reverse of fortune About’s
family were left destitute nobody seems
to know. Although he himself began
life humbly as the son of a grocer, his
daughter was a brilliant young society
woman brought up in luxury, and every
body is admiring the courage with
which she has undertaken to solve the
difficult problem of the “struggle for
life.” —Boston Woman’s Journal
Mar X«akr Day.
A North Carolina paper says:
“A negro struck his wife two terrible
Hows on the head with an ax. The
negro escaped to the woods, and his
wife soon revived and saids ‘I mighty
glad he done it, kase now he'll stay
cl’ar er de neighborhood en I won’t have
ter suppo’t him no mo*. It wuz • lucky
day fer me w’en he hit me wid dat
ax!’ ”
Very few of us are as thankful as that
for these little blessings in disguise.
Atlanta Constitution. ;
OLD SMOKESTACKS.
An Article hr Which There Is Always*
Among the very great variety of
things that may be bought at second
hand are smokestacks of iron at of
steel. It may be that an establishment
puts in a bigger boiler and wants a big
ger stack. If it is using a steel or an
iron stack, the old one is taken down
qarfully and a new oness| up, The old
.-stack may be sold to a dealer in second
hand boilers and machinery, or the
owner may keep it and sell it himself
to somebody that wants a secondhand
-smokestack. If it is sold to a dealer, he
may remove it to his own yard, or it
may be that the original owner keeps it
on his premises until the dealer has
sold it. A manufacturer may move from
one place to another and sell the old
plant, or parts of it. Here would be a
secondhand smokestack. Secondhand
stacks are bought by various users. It
may be that the smokestack of an estab
lishment is worn out and that the boiler
is not and that a secondhand stack
Would last out the life of the boiler. In
such a case the user would get a second
hand stack if he could find one suitable.
Secondhand stacks may be used with
various temporary plants set up by con
tractors and others. A smokestack may
be blown down in a windstorm and the
user supply the place of it with one
bought secondhand.
A steel or iron stack costs about half
as much as a brick stack. A secondhand
iron stack costs about half as much as a
new one. Stacks of metal are made now
usually of steel. The steel used costs
now less than wrought iron. There is
an increasing use of steel instead of
brick stacks. Steel stacks up to 6 and 7
feet in diameter would be classed as
portable stacks; larger stacks would be
of more or less permanent character.
-Steel smokestacks are now made up to
18 feet in diameter. Very large smoke
stacks may be lined with brick.
. Secondhand smokestacks up to 2 feet
in diameter are likely to be found in
stock in the yard of the dealerin second
hand boilers and machinery, and he is
likely to have stacks of larger sizes else
where. There is always a demand for
secondhand smokestacks.—New York
Bun. ____________
AVOIDING “A TOUCH.”
One Woman’s Cheerful Method of Deny
ing » Polite Reqwit.
Men have something to learn from
women in the art of warding off
“touches” for ooin. Women respond to
such reqnests about oqoe in every thou
sand times, but they are scientific in
their refusals. A Washington woman
with a reputation as a borrower turned
up at the home of one of her friends the
other morning with a much done over
story about a persistent and threatening
dressmaker and the usual request for
the loan—“pay it back tomorrow, cer
tain”—of <5.
“ Why, my dear, certainly,” was the
pleasant response to her carefully re
hearsed little yarn. “You poor thing,
you I Just wait till I run up stairs and
get my purse. ”
She ran up stairs. The male head of
the house happened, to be in the room
where she kept her purse. He saw her
dig the purse opt of a chiffonier drawer
and deliberately remove a wad of bills
from it. leaving about 87 cents in silver
and copper in the change receptacle.
The man was mean enough to lean over
the stair railing, when his wife went
down stairs to the parlor with her flat
tened'pocketbook in her hand.
“Oh, I’m so sorry, Mrs. X,” he
heard her say, “but I really thought X
had the money. I find, though, that
John, as usual, has been 4t my purse—
I heard him say something about set
tling a plumber’s bill last night when I
was half asleep—and the mean thing
has only left me enough for carfare.
Too bad! Os course, you know, if I had
it,” etc.—Washington Post.
The Cota Came Baek.
“I havepnoe or twice read bow small
the world) was,** said a young fellow,
“and once’or twice I have seen stories
of the same-kind, lam going to tell. 1
confess I nover believed them, but now
I know’better. Last summer, when in
New'York on my annual visit, I was
struck' with a sudden whim and
scratched my initials on a 25 cent piece,
cutting; into the silver deep enough to
make a>lasting impression. I paid for a
cigar-in the Hoffman House with the
coin, and guyed myseff with being foed
ish. I had forgotten all about the quar
ter when I entered a Carrollton car and
gave a half dollar to the conductor. Im
agine my. surprise when he handed me
in change the 35 cent piece I spent in
the HoffmantHouse! I think I will keep
the coin now and ever more as a curios
ity,*’ an A the speaker pulled, the money
from his pocket and showed it in veri
fication of his r story.—New Orleans
Times-Democrat.
Churloiui Poltetes*
Accident insurance policies have tak
en many curious "shapes, ranging from
the penny in the slot to the coupon in
/the*weekly newspaper, but the limit
has been reached in London, where the
purchaser of a book of cigarette paper
is insured for 350 for a period of 70
days. The annual cost of this amount
of insurance is about 75 cento a year,
provided the holder of tbe novel policy
is not a cigarette fiend. The amount of
ineurance is specifically set aside for
the defraying of funeral expenses in the
event cf accidental death.—New York
Journal.
Animals are often able to Mar very
protracted fasting. In the Italian earth
quakes of 1795 two hogs Were buried
in the ruins of a bufidigg. They were
token out alive 43 days later, but very
lean and weak.
During the last 50 years Great Brit
ain has been at war more frequently
than any other nation. The total num
ber of large and small wars waged dur
ing that time amounts to about 50, or
one a year.
AN OPEN LETTER
To MOTHERS.
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE
EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CABTOBIA,” AND
“ PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADE MARK.
L DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, qf Hyannis, Massachusetts,
vas the originator of “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” the same
that has borne and does now every
bear the facsimile signature of C&a&fflcUcZtU wrapper
This is the original “ PITCHER’S CASTORIA/’ which has been
used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty
years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is
the kind you have always bought on
and has the signature of wrap-
per. No one has authority from me to use my name ex
cept The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is
President. a a »
March 8,1897. Z
Do Not Be Deceived,
Do not endanger the life of your child by excepting
a cheap substitute which some druggist offer y?”
(because he makes a few more pennies on It), the in
gredients of which even he docs not know.
“The Kind You Have Always Bought” I
BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE CF .
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Insist on Having
The Kind That Never Failed You. /
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IN LADIES OXFORDS WE HAVE COMPLETE LINE IN TAN, BLACK.
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PRICE FROM 75c TO $2.
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