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’ Clerk Superior Court* I jcWeVote 1 Respect THOMAS. I For County Surveyor. V ; ihetebySS myedfe candidate I f y or County Commissioner, I Call : Please announce that I I B for re-election for County I J?«Xsioner, subject to the action of the I primary, and will be glad to I r?f»he support oi all the voters. I bate the supp j j. TIDWELL. I At the solicitation of many voters I I iJthv announce myself a candidate for I wto an honest, business-likeadministra- I county affairs in the direction of I fewer S K - Fl STRICKLAND. ■ i hereby announce myself a candidate ■ i n ,■ County Commissioner, subject to the ■ a/mocratic primary to be held June 28, » next If elected. I pledge myself to eco- I nomical and business methods in conduct- ■ ftz the affairs ot the county | W. J. FUTRAL. I I Thereby announce myself a candidate || joj County Commissioner of Spalding I ■ «wntv. subject to the Democratic primary I Sune 23d. W. W. CHAMPION. To the Voters of Spalding County: I | hereby announce myself a candidate for If re-election to the office of County Commis- I sioner of Spaldiijg county, subject to the z , I democratic primary to be held on June 23, I 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. Editor 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. For Tax Collector. “I respectfully announce to the citizens of Spalding county that I am a candidate for reflection 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. For County Treasurer. To the Voters of Spalding County: I respectfully announce myself a candidate 1 fir 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 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. j For 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. Respectfully, R. H. YARBROfGH. 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 dutiesjrf the of fice as faithfully as m the past M. F. MORRIS. /•/r ; . ■ CASTLES IN SPAIN the Don dreams of when he dreams of the powers “sitting down” on Uncle Sam. Any one can enjoy day dreams and an •xquisite siesta when they have a place to dream in. We can furnish an inspiration to dreamers in the coolest summer bed room furniture, brass beds, airy hangings, soft pillows and' reed sofas. Everything to make life easy and pleasant CHILDS & GODDARD. THE FARMER WON. — * But Schaefer Considers It the Shortest Game of His Life. "Some years ago,” saida sporting man, “when Scnaefer kept a billiard room in this city, he was always ready to play all comers who desired a game. Many strangers and people unknown to Schaefer naturally strolled in; many, too, who probably did not know him. But it made no difference to Schaefer. Sometimes strangers would desire to play for money, but this Schaefer would never do. To all such propositions he would say: ‘No, I won’t play for mon ey, but I’ll tell you what I will do—l will play a game, the loser to treat the house.’ “One day an old farmer entered the place, and after wandering about look ing at the pictures on the walls and ex amining the tables he asked if there was any one present who would like to play him a game of billiards. Schaefer, as usual, said that he would play the stranger. “ ‘How much shall we play for?’ ask ed the farmer. “ ‘I never play for money, ’ replied Schaefer, ‘but I will play you for the drinks for the house. * " ‘All right, • said the farmer. ‘How many points shall we play?’ “ ‘Oh, ’ replied Schaefer demurely in all the consciousness of his superior powers, ‘we’ll just play until you are satisfied, and we will call that a game. ’ “The crowd smiled as the players prepared for the contest. The balls were placed on the table, and Schaefer brought out his favorite cue, and it fell to his lot to open the game. “The opening shot in a billiard game is a somewhat difficult one, as most players know,, and Schaefer, probably through indifference, missed it He not only missed it, but left the balls close together near one of the cushions. It was what is termed in billiard parlance a ‘set up/ “The old farmer carefully chalked his cue, and after deliberation made the shot He then gazed at the balls a mo ment, laid down his cue and exclaimed: “ ‘I am satisfied.* “The score was then 1 to 0 in favor of the old farmer, but as Schaefer had agreed to make the game as long or short as the farmer desired he had to be satisfied. Schaefer of course had to in vite all present, including his conqueror, to partake of the hospitality of the house. As the crowd laughed and drank Schaefer remarked that the game was the shortest he had ever played, and probably the shortest on record.’’—New York Tribune. LOVED LIFE TOO WELL. Ancient Nitohei Indian Who Rebelled Agulnat Bela* Sacrificed. One of the repulsive features of the laws under which the Natchez Indians were governed was that when a mem ber of the royal family of the nation died itwaa necessary that several others of the people should accompany him to the tomb by suffering death at the hands of executioners. When the “great sun,’’ the hereditary chief of the whole nation, died, all his wives, in case he were provided with more than one, and also several of his sub jects, were obliged to follow him into the vale of shadows. The “little suns,” secondary qhiefs, and also members of the royal family, likewise claimed, when dying, their tribute of death from the living. In addition to this, the in exorable law also condemned to death any man of the Natchez race who had married a girl of the royal line of the “suns. 1 ’ On the occasion of her death he was called upon to accompany her. “I will narrate to you upon this sub ject,” writes an old French chronicler of Louisiana, “the story of an Indian who was not in a humor to submit to this law. His name was EtteacteaL He had contracted an alliance with the ‘suns. ' The honor came near having a fatal result for him. His wife fell sick, and as soon as he perceived that she was approaching her end he took to flight, embarking in a pirogue on the Mississippi, and sought a refuge in New Orleans. He placed himself under the protection of the governor, who was at that time M. de Bienville, offering him self to be the governor’s hunter. The governor accepted his services, and in terested himself in his behalf with the Natchez, who declared, in answer, that he had nothing to fear, inasmuch as the ceremony was over, and as he had not been present when it took place he was no longer available as a candidate for execution. ” —New Orleans Picayune. Flower Painter*. About the last literary work complet ed by the late Cora Stuart Wheeler was a beautiful tribute to “Some Court Painters to Queen Rose” published in The Woman’s Home Companion, in which she says: “As a rule, women make the best flower painters. The men who excel in this branch of art are comparatively few, even when we consider the small number ot artists of both sexes who have acquired reputation in the pictur ing of flowers. The reason is not diffi cult to see. The average woman has a fondness for flowers which brings her into the closest sympathy with them and enables her to appreciate and un derstand them as men seldom do. In the interpretation of certain subtle pharea of floral life her sensitive tem perament and the peculiarly sympathetic filing that she is apt to bring to her labor of love especially qualify her for engaging in this department of picture making. In point of technical ability some marvelously clever work has been done by artists of the gentler sex in the reproduction of flowers and in the ’ treatment of difficult subjects. ” i ■ I A Bad BegtanlM*. The Guest (an art connoisseur)—Su- ’ perbl Simply elegant! Hostess —I’m glad you like it Soups are my hobby. The Guest—Oh, I meant the tureen. , —Jewelers’ Weekly. - - - ■ " ”~ **** SOMETHING JUST AS GOOD. Bow • Billow* Maa Gave Vp Hl* Two Capo j of Breakfast Coffee. An east end man was advised some time ago not to drink coffee. His doctor | told him it helped to make his liver tor pid and bis liver was doing its best to render life miserable for himself and all , the rest of the family. But, no, he couldn’t give np his two cups at breakfast time. He couldn’t , make the sacrifice. Nothing could take < the place of the delicious Java and Socha mixed that he had learned to love. | One day his wife suggested in a mild < way that be might be just as well sat- ( isfied with one of -the brands of imita- ] tion coffee- He almost frothed at the mouth. ~ i “That infernal stuff!” he cried < “Not much. The very first gulp would ( settle me. I’d like to see anybody try to | fool me with a counterfeit of that sort. ” ; He didn’t notice that his wife quietly < smiled. But, strange to say, from. , time on he grew better. His bilious i tendency was greatly lessened He felt ] like a new man. i One day he met the doctor. “Hello, doc!” be cried. “I’m getting better in spite of you. ” “Given up coffee, have you?” queried the smiling doctor. “Given up coffee? Not much. Coffee’s all right” A few weeks later he met the man from whom he ordersjiis groceries. “Hello!” quoth the grocer. “How well you are looking!” "Yes,” said the convalescent, “I’m feeling a great deal better. ” ”By the way,” said the grocer, "you seem to like that substitute I’ve been sending yon. ” ~ 5 ‘ ‘What substitute?* ’ ■- “Why, that substitute for coffee.” And he named one of the numerous im Rations of the fragrant berry. “Never had a. cup of it in the house,” said the bilious man emphatically. “That’s funny,” said the grocer. “I haven’t sold your folks a pound of gen uine coffee in the last three montha ” The bilious man didn’t say anything further, but his thoughts were busy. The’next morning he looked at his cup a little suspiciously, but he drank it without a tremor. 'Perhaps he fancied he detected the difference; perhaps not Anyway, his wife still fondly imagines he doesn’t know of the deception.— Cleveland Plain Dealer. EARLY ARITHMETICS. Struggle* of the Pilgrim Children With One of the "RV Next to penmanship the colonial school gnd schoolmaster took firm stand on “ciphering.” "The Bible and Ag gers is what I want my boys to know, ” said the oltl farmer. I have examined with care a Wingate’s Arithmetic which was used for over a century in the Wins low family in Massachusetts. The first edition was printed in 1620. It is cer tainly bewildering to a modern reader. “Pythagoras—His Table”, is, of course, our multiplication table, Then comes “The Rule of Three,” “The Double Golden Rule, ” “The Rule of Fellow ship,” “The Rule of False,” etc., end ing with “a collection of pleasant and polite questions to exercise all the parts of vulgar arithmetiok. ” Wingate.’s Arithmetic and Hodder’s Airthmetio were succeeded by Pike’s Arithmetic. This had 863 rules to be committed to memory, and not an explanation was given of one of them. It is the most barren schoolbook I have ever read. These printed arith metics were not in common use. Near ly all teachers had manuscript “sum books, ” from which the scholars copied page after page of “sums, ” too often without any explanation of the process, though there were also many and long rules, which helped the penmanship if they did not the mathematics. —Chau tauquan. Daudet and Animal*. Daudet had a lurking kindness for sinners. He pitied them, for he could not see how in the long run they could succeed in anything. But the self right eous were more offensive to him. I think he was right in saying that men and women who pass for having never sinned are unpleasant companions, and, from the day of judgment standard, perhaps the worst sinners of aIL The sensibility shown in “Jack” and other works did not extend to animals. Dan det, though a cigalier, was deaf to the chirp of grasshopper and cricket. Birds have no place in his rural sketches. He could not understand the touching beauty of the “last friend” at the poor man’s funeral. Animals were simply brutes to Daudet At best they were warnings to human beings not to live merely to eat,- sleep and leave posterity behind them. They sometimes were vices incarnate. Such were the fox, the serpent, the scorpion. What a selfish, heartless thing the ant wasl It had a head if you will, but it was the sort of head that organizes labor in sooty fac tory towns. The dog was the beastliest beast of any. Daudet fled from every drawing room where he saw a lapdog. —Paris Letter in London. Truth. Au Arbitrary Fee. i Victor Smith tells this story in the New York Press: “My father was an old time lawyer. He tried a little case i for his bootmaker and entered on the books a charge of |ls, the price of a new i pair of boots. When the latter was de livered, the accompanying bill was |BO. > A man of any other profession would • have taken offense at the apparent effort 1 to “do” him, but the lawyer smilingly raised his fee to and Mr. Smart > Aleck Bootmaker had tapay. That was i an arbitrary, fee. Doctors sometimes en joy the privileges of it." Mo* Guilty. Mistress of the House—My good man, did you ever take a bath? I Tramp—No, mum, I never took any thing biggor’n a silver teapot.—London Fit-Bite I »■ -"I ■■■". ———- MONKEYS AT FOOTBALL. UkewtM Play Ofeket. tart Moi I oordlng to Rulo. Travelers in South Africa have noted the fact that where monkeys congregate in large numbers they also indulge in games of a certain kind. Two of these games seem to resemble cricket and : ootball. The cricket is of a primitive order. About a dozen monkeys stand in a cir cle or whatever is akin to .the simian dea of. a circle. Two ot them advance from different extremities of the circle I and stop about 15 yards apart, facing each other. The monkey at the southern end of the circle has a cocoanut in his hand. He is the bowlefiF The monkey at the other end does not, as you might snpyose, wield a full cane bat. His basinets is to dodge the coooanut which the bowler aims at his head. The delivery of the ball is tre mendously fast, full pitched and fraught with dire results if it “touches the spot.” When it does happen to touch tho spet—that is, any part of the mon key’s body—that monkey is very much out and doesn’t even stop to dispute the question. I Another mpnkey takes his place until he, too, receives his dismissal. It was presumed by the travelers that the game was finished when a majority of mon- I keys lay nursing their wounds under I the friendly shade of a neighboring I Mb*. The football is of a more advanced I type. It is also played with a cocoanut. I The game, if anything, is undoubtedly I the “sooker” game and is played with I the feet. Os course there is no goalaor I any tactics to speak of, the object of each animal being to keep the ball to himself as much as possible. Still the competition to get the ball makes it resemble a rtal game of "foot er,” and the dexterity exhibited by these peculiar amateurs is surprising and wonderful. In an evil moment some ambitious monkey may elect to play the Rugby game by snatching up the ball and making off, but the game then develops into war, in which life is sometimes the prize. No mention is made of a referee, but if there is one about, like a wise and provident monkey, he is probably up a ' tree.—Brooklyn Times. SHE BETRAYED HERSELF. Dipped Her Spoon In the Milk Before the Muah. The woman mentioned in this little story will be called Mrs. Haughty, but she is known in almost every commu nity by other names. She-is inclined to do all she can to make other people be lieve she is somebody and that she is fitted for a higher sphere than the one she is forced by adverse circufestanoes to live in. A short time ago Mrs. Haughty called on a neighbor and accepted an invitation to stay to supper. Mush and milk was the principal supper dish, and Mrs. Haughty declared with sundry ejacula tions that she had never eaten the de lightful compound. The steaming plat ter of mush was set in the center of the table and a bowl of milk placed before Mrs. Haughty. ‘‘Just help yourself, Mrs. Haughty,” remarked the hostess. “Really, I do not know how to be gin,” said Mrs. Haughty as she picked up her spoon. .Mrs. Haughty made a move, and one of the children at the table leaned over to her mother and whispered : "She said she never atemushand milk, but she dipped her spoon in the milk before she dipped it into the mush.” That little movement gave Mrs. Haughty away, for every lover of mush and milk knows that if the spoon is first dipped into the milk the mush will not stick to it.—Omaha World-Herald. A Tzlkinr Sheep’* Heed. John Leitch of Rothesay once when on a visit to Dunoon dropped into the shop of Archie Mains and asked if he had any good sheep’s heads. “Oh, yes,” said Mains, “there's as fine a one as ye ever saw, ” pointing to a black face lying on the floor. “Are you sure that it is fresh?” said Mr. Leitch. “Quite sure, sir, ” replied the butcher. “It’s perfectly fresh.” Thereupon Mr. Leitch, who was an admirable ventriloquist, brought from the sheep’s head the rather Confounding ejaculation: “Oh, what a- lee! I’m stinkin.” “Oot o’my shop, ye leein deevil,” exclaimed the butcher. “Didn’t I kill ye wi* my ain hauns this very mornin?” And, suiting the action to the words, he kicked the offending sheep’s head into the street. To carry on the joke, Mr. Leitch, ob serving a fine ox tongue in the window, made it apparently say, “Shame od ye, Archie Mains!” whereupon the amazed butcher fled precipitately from the shop, leaving it and all it contained at the mercy of his waggish tormentor.—Nug «etß - ' MrtaMle'* SargMtion. Freddie’s father had just been strug gling with an old fashioned bureau, and, retiring disheartened from an un successful effort to open one of its com partments, he moved to the window, , and looking out upon the lowering sky he exclaimed, “It’s mighty strange that the weather bureau can’t give us a chamre of weather.” “Maybe,” shyly interposed Freddie, “they can’t open the bureau drawers. ” —Boston Courier. In a care before a London magistrate the question was as to the ownership of some antique ormolu articles, and two workmen, who stoutly claimed the ar tides, saVi that they “made” them. To .prove their assertion, they set to work in court and showed how ormolu was made “antique” with pumice powder. The Spartans had an iron coinage, no other being allowed. AN OPEN LETTER Ta lUmTMFRfi WE ARE ASSERTING IN THB COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THK EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTORIA,” AND * Us “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADE mark. L DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, qf Hyannis, Massachusetts, wu the originator of “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,' the same that has borne and doeg now on ever y 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 aver thirty years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is the hind you haue dtisays bought , 0,1 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. y. D March 8,1897. Do Not Be Deceived. 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