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|- P ANNOUNCEMENTS. I _ curk ra* I*® B ‘^^trv'man^n the county licit the V 1 P WM. M. THOMAS. L 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. ■ f 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. ■ -- 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. d A * t IW I WK -t' fcC u - y »*.- j 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. I 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. raw ■r-.-T' - , - 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. ; --- - AMAbPMI t’-r-TE’D AN OPEN LET f ER I Vs I I I I Hmm B A ' ‘ WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “C ASTORIA,” AND “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADE MARK. Z, DR. 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