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P ANNOUNCEMENTS.
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1 P WM. M. THOMAS.
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For County Surveyor.
I hereby mnonnee mysdf a
County Surveyor, of Dpsiuing county,
r democratic
For County Omminioner.
Vnrroit Cai* : Please announce that I
•m a candidate for re-election for County
subject to the action of the
£Sic primary, and will be glad to
hlCette support ot all the voters,
jjAvetnea j, TIDWELL.
At the solicitation of many voters I
announce myself a candidate for
rtoanty Commissioner, subject to the dem-
| 1 hereby announce myself a candidate
for Cbunty Commissioner, subject to the
democratic primary to be held June 23.
t next. If elected, I pledge myself to eco
nomical and business methods in conduct-
I ing the ass drs ot the county.
* W. J. FUTRAL.
I hereby announce u.yself a candidate
lor County Commissioner of Bpaiding
county, 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 oi 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.
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For Representative-
To the Voters of Spalding County: I
am a candidate for Representative to the
legislature, subject to the primary ot the
democratic party, and will appreciate vour
support. . J. P. HAMMOND.
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. Bbll.
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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 thia 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
office, and will appreciate the support o.
my friends. 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 Select
ed promise to be as faithful in the per
formance of my duties in the future as I
have been in the past.
J. O. BROOKS.
Tor Tax Receiver.
Editor 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
23rd, and respectfully ask the support of
all voters of this county.
Respestfolly,
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.
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.
MJ. 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
the geneial lassitude that comes with
warm days, when the system hasn’t been
cleansed from the impurities that winter
ass harvested in the blood, you will find
n our Spring Tonic and Stomach Bitters,
g, Por purifying the blood and giving tone
to the body they are unexcelled 1
N. B. DREWRY* SON,
28 Hill Street.
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ANCIENT TRICKSTERS
QUEER CONJURING FEATS OF THE
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
Little Kxperlmeuta In Which Boilln* the
Head* OST Livlnj Animal. Wm » Nece.-
mry Adjunct-How They Killed nftoTM
•nd Cured Him Again.
Conjurers in ancient times were not
very respectable members of society—
when successful, they enjoyed the repu
tation of having sold their souls to the
evil one, and when of inferior ability
they gained notoriety by being either
drowned or burned. The medieval ma
gicians as well as the Egyptian magi
and the Chaldean sages wCre only a
strange mixture of chemist, conjurer
and charlatan, and as these gentlemen
were in the habit of using their sup
posed occult powers to theflkwra advan
tage they were naturally unpopular.
The feats of jugglery performed by
these craftsmen were intended for the
mystification and net the amusement of
the public, and for centuries conjuring
had to it only a black side.
The amateur conjurer of today is not
always a popular individual, save with
children and the unsophistocated yokel.
To the general public he is merely a
bore of greatier or less magnitude, whose
performance is so obvious as to deceive
no one. It is hard to realize that this
person is no mere mushroom growth of
modern society, but in point of fact his
role is one of a respectable antiquity,
for he is to be found treading close upon
the heels of the magiciansand in the
'days when witchcraft was still rampant.
This is significant of his reputation
even in those early times, for had any
one taken his tricks seriously he would
doubtless have been run to earth and
done to death as a wizard.
In the middle of the seventeenth cen
tury, in the years of the res
toration, a number Os tricks were pub
lished in one of those facetious books
which seem to have occupied the press
to a great extent at this time, but
which, owing to their popularity, have
for the most part'perished. The chief
recommendation to the greater number
of these tricks is that no apparatus be
yond the utensild of everyday life iJ
necessary. Also it is suggested to the
performer that he can make some
small profit out of his entertainment by
prevailing on his audience to bet with
him on the result of the trick.
“To set a horse’s or an asse’s head
upon a man’s head and shoulders’’
seems impossible out of the land of
Faery, but v c are informed that by
boiling the head cut off from a living
animal, “the flesh boyl’d may runne
into oyle, ” and then by mingling the
hair beaten into powder with' this oil
and anointing the heads of the standers
by, “they shall seem to have horses’ or
asses’ heads’’—a costly experiment and
fearsome if successful
But, besides this, one can “make peo
ple seem headlease,” and this without
bloodshed and by the following simple
receipt: “Break arsenick very fine, and
boyle it with sulphur in a cover’d pot,
and kindle it with a new candle, and
the standera-by will seem to be head
lesse. ” Doubtless a strong imagination
is necessary for success.
Some of the tricks are such as would
nowadays cause the performer to be
disliked, to pat it mildly. Far instance,
“have a nut filled with ink, and give
this unto another and bid him crack it
and see what he can find in that,”
which being done “will cause much
laughter. ”
“To keep a Tapster from frothing his
Pots” must have been an amusement to
the wags of the period, and for this
“provide in readinesse the skin of a red
Hering, and when the Tapster is absent
do but nib a little on the inside of his
pots, and he will not be able to froth
them, do what he can, in a good while
after.”
“To counterfeit a diamond with a
white saphir” is a most useful accom
plishment, but the fraud is likely in
these days to be discovered and is more
a chemical experiment than a trick. ’
Several tricks are recommended which
have animals as their subject and are
for the most part brutal to our modern
ideas. Perhaps the least objectionable
is “to seem to kill a Horse and cure him
again,” Which may be thus accom
plished:
“Take the seed of hehbine and give
it the Horse in his Provender, and it
will cast him into such a deep sleep
that he will seem dead. If you will re
cover him again, rub his Nostrils with
Vinegar, and he will seem to be re
vived.” The “seem to be revived”
sounds rather ominous, and it is to be
noted that the correct quantity of hen
bane is not mentioned, so that it might
be best to try this experiment on some
one else’s horse.
“To make a shoal of Goslings draw a
Timber logge” sounds interesting, but
unfortunately the directions are-vague
“To make a shoal of Goslings or a Gag
gle of Geese to seem to draw a Timber
logge is done by the verie means that
is us’d when a Oat draws a fool through
a Pond, but handled somewhat further
off from the Beholders. London
Standard.
Whitehead Torpedoes. x
A Whitehead torpedo carries 220
pounds of wet gun cotton and weighs
ready for service 1,160 pounds. Its
maximum length is 16 feet 6 inches and
its greatest diameter is 17.7 inches. At
a speed of 28 knots per hour it has a
range of about 860 yards. The torpedo
is driven by compressed air at a pressure
of 1,850 pounds per square inch, which
operates a three stage engine.
The men of Berlin have an odd habit
of brushing and combing their hair and
whiskers in public. In the restaurants
and nafea men pall out their implements
and “spruce up” while waiting for
their orders to be filled. They do not
take the trouble to leave the table, ei
ther.
JAPANESE DECORATION DAY.
The Vlatt to th« Cemeteries Vol lowed L
Sporte and Pirates.
Army drill, discipline, inspection and
parade, with magnificent decorations, flags I
and symbolism in leaf, flower and extern
porized material, form the first part of the
celebration exercises. Then follow wor
ship, the ceremonies of religion, visitation
of the shrines and cemeteries by soldters,
people, dignitaries and priests. After re
freshing the inner man come the afteraoott
sports, picnics, fireworks and general re
laxation with lanterns, boats, river joys
and promenades or moon viewing at
night. Let me describe an occasion that
I remember well. It was in the far in
terior, away from the seaports, where the
true life of the people is seen.
In the days of 1871, when the national
spirit was bursting the cocoon of feudal
ism, it would be like describing “the Mul
ligan guards” or Falstaff’s company to tell
of the parade of a provincial regiment in
hybrid transition dress. Uniformity was,
however, gradually established in a na
tional army, navy and civil administra
tion, and then I saw in Fnknl these same
Echizen troops smartly dressed in neat
uniform of French stylo with the mikado’s
crest on their caps. They looked very
promising. In Tokyo afterward, during
three years, I saw 10,080 troops at a time,
with their drills, evolutions, dress parades
and details of barrack Hfo and training.
In earnestness and perseverance they al
ready showed what loyal soldiers could do
in the Satsuma rebellion of 1877, and
what, with the uprising of the nation, was
possible In Korea and China in 1894-5.
On May 4 as I remember, tens of thou
sands of people visited the new cemetery
in Fukui, called the Sho-Kon-Sha, or Soul
Beckoning Best. Among the new tombs
of the loyal men slain In the civil war of
1868-70 fluttered many colored streamers
and banners with memorial inscriptions.
Hundreds came with beautiful flowers to
lay before and upon the monuments. In
the afternoons the ladles of the prince’s
household visited the cemetery in their
gorgebus embroidered silk gowns and gir
dles. Then I thought myself back in the
middle ages, when the figures now on
playing cards were realities, as gorgeous
with their colors. hair was dressed
in magnificent style in an exaggerated sort
of pompadour, outlaying from the fore
head, flanking the temples in a sort of
semicircle or halo and gathered backward
into a long, single tress, which in most
cases went down to the waist and in some
almost to their feet, the back part of the
hair on the head being held together by a
pretty horn or tortoise shell comb. One
gracious lady, the prince's wife, who with
her husband did so much, in my year of
loneliness, when I saw only rarely a white
man’s face, to make my lot comfortable,
was dressed in a simple but very rich garb
of white and crimson silk.
The flower decorated monuments, the
streaming pennants, the fluttering banners
and the new and shining monuments,
with the reverent and exceedingly polite
and well breff crowds of people in that new
cemetery—which contrasted in its fresh
ness with the century old daimios’ ances
tral burying ground not far away, where
the mosses and lichens seem to have been
feeding on the granite for ages, and, on
the other hand, with tho large city ceme
tery below, with its cremation furnaces
aU4 ascending columns of smoke, having
near by a great mound many rods long
and wide and several feet high, where in
indistinguishable mass lay the ashes and
bones of humanity swept off ’ In successive
and old time periodical famines*—made a
scene forever impressed on my memory.
Tradition locates the burial place of one
of Japan’s 123 emperors on this MIL
Hence It is a place of much interest.—ln
dependent.
The Ameer of Afghanistan.
There is nothing of that slatternly un
tidiness, combined with lavish expendi
ture, in the ameer’s establishment that
characterizes the residences of Indian
princes. Except on state occasions, when
he dresses in a sort of European uniform,
he wears a long, loose coat made of some
lovely pale colored French brocade er sat
in, lined in winter with fur—sable, stone
marten or red foxes’ feet perhaps—and In
summer with the shot glace silks that
come from Bokhara. Harmonizing with
these, but seldom matching them, are his
skullcap and handkerchief, the whole
making a charming mass of color with his
couch, which is draped In the most elab
orate style and is constantly being altered.
In summer it is generally covered with
silks and satins, and in winter with cash
mere shawls, furs, etc., and has a velvet
valance bordered with a massive gold
fringe..
I have constantly seen him throw off a
shawl that offended his eye because it did
not harmonize with the rest and order in
another, and when he chooses Ms handker
chiefs for the day (never less than three or
four, for he snuffs, as'do most Afghans)
he mechanically, as it were, holds first
one and then another up against his coat,
and if he does not fancy the shade throws
that one down and takes up another, and
so on until he is satisfied, talking all the
time as if he were hardly conscious of
what he was doing.—Pearson’s Magazine.
The French Bed Crass.
According to the Figaro of Paris, the
French Red Cross has recently opened a
subscription for the benefit of the future
wounded of the Spanish-American war
and has headed it with a contribution of
50,000 francs. “To speak frankly,” says
the writer of the article, “we owe tMs ac
tion to foreign nations, forthey all showed
an admirable generosity toward our
wounded during the war es 1870-1. The
United States sent us at that time 600,000
francs; Canada, 800,000! Spain, 20,000;
Italy, 19,000; little Denmark, 180,000;
ths Argentine Republic, 250,000; Chile,
100,000; Peru, 60,000; Russia, 50,000; in
all about 3,000,000 francs.
“Our Red Cross, having spent more
than 12,500,000 francs for our wounded
during the fatal year, had still remaining
in its treasury more than 2,000,000 francs.
At present the society has on hand 8,000,-
000 francs. It sent to Spain 80,000 francs
for the wounded in the Carlist war, 297,-
000 in the Turco-Russian war, 90,000 for
the wounded in Tunis, 530,000 for Ton
quin, 316,000 for Madagascar—in aU
8,000,000 francs since the war with Ger
many. The president of the society is now
General Ferrier.”
Cate Md Junta.
A woman who speaks Spanish tells ma
that we don’t even pronounce the name of
the island we’re fighting about correctly.
She confesses that she has heard “junta”
pronounced “boonta,” which I believe is
the proper pronunciation, frequently, but
she declares that even those among uswho
say “hoonta” call Cuba “Kewba.” It
isn’t "Kewba” at all, she rays. It’s“Koo
ba,” and hereafter let u» try to pronounce
it correctly.—Washington Post.
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As we left Sandy Gulch for Rising
Sun there were six male passengers to
go by the stage, and the route wan over
the mountains and full of chances of
disaster. The driver came out from
breakfast aa soon as the stage was ready,
Md looking abont ah wmnnorn he
ttMllp'pale and
tavfted him to climb up beside him.
While the pale faced man waa climbing
the driver whispered to the rest of us:
“I picked him out in order to scare
him. to death. You fellows will see a
heap of fun before we’ve gone ten
miles.” x
Two minutes west of the gulch the
road made a sudden turn, with a sheer
fell of 100 feet down to Wild Cat creek,
and- the driver put his horses at the gal
lop and said to the man:
“We may get around all right, or we
may fetch up down below. Hold your
breath and say your prayers. ”
The passenger made no move and did
not change countenance, and after mak
ing the coarse all right the driver rather
indignantly demanded:
“Dfda’t you see that the off wheel
run within a foot of the edge of the
precipice?”
“It ran within six inches, sir,” was
the reply.
Beyond the curve was a down grade
of a mile, and with a yell and a flour
ish of his whip the driver urged his
horses to a dead run. The five of us In
side had to hang on for dear life, and
every half minute the stage seemed
bound to go over.
“'Did you know that If we’d struck a
rock we’d all been dead men in no
time?”
“Os course.”
“And yon wasn’t pray in?”
“NotatalL”
Three or four miles farther on the
driver tried his man with another carve.
In his determination to make a close
call of it one wheel ran off the edge of
the precipice, and only g sadden effort
of the horses saved the coach. We were
flung in a heap and frightened half to
death, bat the man beside the driver
never lost a puff of his cigar. When
things were safe, the driver turned on
him with:
“That surely was the brink of the
grave.”
•' **Guess it was,” was the quiet reply.
“The closest shave yon will ever her
till the last one comes. ”
“Yes.”’
“See here, now, but what sort of a
critter are you?” was the query. “Don’t
yon know ’nuff to git skeart?”
“Nothing has happened yet to scare
me.”
“But mebbe you want me to drive
plumb over | precipice 1,000 feet high?”
“If you conveniently can. The fact
is, I came off up here intending to com
mit suicide, and if you can dump the
whole of us over seme cliff you’ll oblige
me. * Atlanta Constitution.
Stopped the Bight. X
“ Well, ” said Bliggs while sitting up
in bed talking with the family lawyer,
“I*ll tell you all about it, but not a
word to any one else, mind you. I’m a
sight and scarred up like the hero of a
German university, but I suppose it’s
something to be alive.
“You know the governor has been
urging me to strikeout and see what 1
could do for myself. He’d advance the
money, to be charged against my.rshare
of the estate ot coarse. I kept my eye
open and I saw a chance that waa worth
a fortune'in one plunge. A couple d
fellows in our set bad a felling out,
with which I think jealousy" bad some
thing to do, and agreed to put on the
gloves as a safe aiffi honorable way of
settling their differences. They had a
private hall, and it didn’t require two
thoughts od my part to convince me
that a reproduction of their milk would
make a hit and fortune. To make acre
I provided myself with both a vltascope
and a veriscope. I had a big piled
films on hand for the occasion, and you
know that these films are ot celluloid.
The janitor was my fellow conspirator.
“About the third round, and while
we were getting along swimmingly,
there was an explosion like the-blowlng
up of a dynamite factory, the select au
dience stampeded, theprindpals hustled
down. the beck stairs and the police
found* me unconscious under a wreck.
Something had set that celluloid off,
and -I’ll never know what did it. No
one else has a theory. Just tell the gov
ernor that I made a bad investment.
Detroit Free Press.
X«w Yark Kngllah.
We have been t<dd by a keen and in
telligent observer who has returned to
this city after a sojourn of two yean
abroad that the average New Yorker is
becoming very careless with his Eng
lish ; not only does he jumble his'words
together la every--conceivable sequence,
but he makes a geature to supply a noun
or verb and rattles off slang the analogy
of which is often intelligiblo only to
' himself. Without recalling for the mo
ment any specific examples, we believe
our friend to be correct. He does not go
far enough, however; there is another
aide. If the New Yorker at times tries
to get an idea out in the feweat possible
words, on other occasions he is tediously
tautological and prolix. One has only
to keep an open ear in a oar ride up
town to find confirmation for thia.
Here, as though relaxing the exigency
of economy of speech that has been prac
ticed while discussing affairs all day,
needless and sndleas repetitions take
place and the obnoxious “I ray “'intro
duces half the phrases that are uttered.
We haven’t any explanation to make,
however, or remedy to offer.—New
York,Times.
Tte DUtereßM.
“Why are some statues made life
size and acme heroic size?”
“A life size statue represents a man
as trig aa he was, and a heroic aim
statue represents him as big aa he
thought he was.’’—Chicago Record.
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“PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADE MARK.
Z, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, qf Hyannis, Massachusetts,
908 the originator of “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” the same
that has borne and does noa on every
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 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. »
March 8,1897.
Do Not Be Deceived,
Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting
a cheap substitute which some druggist suay offer yd”
(because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in
gredients of which even he docs not know.
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