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K B ■ I " oHrk Superior Court ■L county fl P WM. M. THOMAS. I yerCeunty Snrrsyor. II I hereby announce myself a candidate ■ nr County Surveyor, of Spalding county, I subject to the democratic £ ri f For County Commissioner. S Editor CsjJ* : Please announce that I 1 .ma candidate for. re-election for County I rnmmissioner, subject to the action of the fl democratic primary, and will be glad to I . kivp the support Ct all the voters. I ha’ etueß j. A . j TIDWELL. K At the solicitation of many voters I 8 hereby announce myself a candidate for I rim nt v Commissioner, subject to the dem- I ocratic primary. If elected, I pledge my fl «plf to an honest, business-like administra- S tikn of county affairs in the direction of i lower taxes. R. F. STRICKLAND. B 1 hereby announce myself a candidate ■ fn - county Commissioner, subject to the S democratic primary to be held June 23, W next. If elected, I pledge myself to eco- S nomical and business methods in conduet- ML fng the affairs oi the county. fl W.J. FUTRAL. ■r I hereby announce myself a candidate • for County Commissioner of Spalding S county, subject to the Democratic primary fl of June 23d. W. W. CHAMPION. fl To the Voters of Spalding County : I , hereby announce myself a candidate for re-election to the office of County Commis g sioner of Spalding county, subject to the i democratic primary to be held on June 23, f 1898. My record in the past is my pledge ■ for future faithfulness. fl D. L; PATRICK. I For Representative. I To the Voters of Spalding County: I I am a candidate for Representative to the I legislature, subject to the primary ot the ■ democratic party, and will appreciate your ■ > support. J. P. HAMMOND. I Editor Call: Please announce my I name as a candidate for Representative | from Spalding county, subject to the action | ot the democratic party. I shall be pleased I to receive the support of all the I if elected will endeavor to represent the I i nterests of the whole county. I J. B. Bell. flB For Tax Collector. Z I respectfully announce to the citizens I ’ of Spalding county that I am a candidate I for re-election to the office of Tax Oollec | tor of this eounty, subject to the choice of 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 pritnary, 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 aa faithful in the per formance of my duties in the future as I have been in the past. J. C. BROOKS. For Tax Recslver. 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. I respectfully announce my self aS a can didate for re-election to the office of Tax Receiver of Spalding county .subject tothe action of primary, if one is held. _ 8. M. M’COWELL. t Tn Sheriff. I respectfully inform my friends—the people of Spalding county—that I am a candidate for the office of Sheriff, subject to she ferdict 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 ftilfill the duties of the of fice as faithfully as in the past. M. F. MORRIS. g— I*l ■ 111 ,1 Bh' - • "Tfi/ M CASTLES IN SPAIN the Don dreams of when he dreams of the powers “sitting down? on Uncle Sam. A-ny one ean enjoy day dreams and an exquisite siesta when they have a place to 7. dream in. We can furnish an inspiration so dreamers in the coolest summer bed toom furniture, brass beds, airy bangings, curtains, soft pillows and reed softs. Everything to make life eisy and pleasant. CHILDS 4 GODDARD. FIERCE NAVAL FIGHT —■— THE WYOMING’S HEROIC BATTLE WITH THE*JAPANESE. Against Overwhelming odds the Amerieen Command** MeDugall Vought One of the Moot Darias and SuooessTul Engage ment, In the History of Marine Warfare. Strange as it may seem, the Wyo ming's oriental battle is an almost un recorded chapter of our naval annul, though it ranks even higher in point of daring and success against overwhelm ing odds than the defeat of the Ala bapia by the, Wyoming's sister ship, the Keorsarge. But the Wyoming never was in very great luck as a naval star. She had her part throughout the oivil war in all the hardest of blockading and cruising service, and fought weH when ever she had the chance, but she did not have the luck of getting into the papers. She was sent off at the same riffle as the Kearsarge to cruise for that scourge of the seas, the Alabama, and just missed her by the merest chance on two occasions in the China seas. It was in 1868, toward the end of the dual reign of the tycoon and the mika do, when Japan was in the throes of civil war, and the forces of the rebel princes were resisting to the last the passing of the old feudal system. The Prince of Nagato was one of these, and from his tiny kingdom that fronted on the straits Os Simonoseki he declared himself lord paramount of everything in sight, including the .neighboring seas, from which he took generous toll as did ever the pirate chiefs of Tarifa. He had laid violent hands and hot shot upon the vessels of various powers, in cluding Great Britain, France, the Netherlands and the United States. Meantime Prince Nagato throve and flourished by the strait of Simonoseki, and failing one day to wring tribute or blackmail by any other means he fired on the American merchantman Pem broke and killed a couple of her crew. There was another diplomatic protest of the combined foreign representatives so the Japanese government, and Com mander McDugall, who happened to be in port with the Wyoming, suggested that if the mikado could not take a fall out of his rebellious subject the Wyo ming cbuld and would without much urging. This struck the government as a good thing and an easy way out of the international difficulty, so McDugall was given carte blanche to settle ac counts with the Prince of. Nagato in be half of all the powers concerned, and he forthwith sailed away. It was the middle of July when the Wyoming found herself in the strait of Simonoseki and in sight of the shore batteries which were a part of the prince’s defenses to seaward. Before she had time to open on the batteries two Japanese gunboats loomed up, one ahead and one astern, in the narrow strait, and presently a third came cruis ing out from among the neighboring is lands. It was a nasty place for a fight, McDugall being without charts or pi lots, and the odds were more than enough for Nelson himself, being 48 guns of the three Japanese vessels to the 26 of the old Wyoming, to say nothing of the batteries on shore. There was still a chance to run, barring some dan ger of grounding in the narrow channels among the islands, but the idea does not seem to have occurred to any one aboard the frigate. Working to windward of the nearest Japanese, the Wyoming opened at long range and worked down on her till, close aboard, there was nothing of the enemy left standing above decks. The other two vessels had come up in the meantime and engaged the Ameri can on either ride, but she lay to and gave them shot for shot, port and star board, till her gunners were smoke blind and the flame of the guns no lon ger served tp light the battleoloud that rolled in white billows over the smooth waters of the strait It was desperate wofk in the shallow water, but the Wyoming was the best vessel, and she outmaneuvered her two opponents from start to finish, though twice aground and once afire, with as many men knock ed ojt from splinters and heat as from the enemy’s shot Fighting themselves out of one smoke patch into another, the three com batant eircled around like two crows and a kingbird till they had drifted down in range of the shore batteries, which gayly took a hand in the game. But McDugall ran across the bows of one of his enemies, raked her as he went and left her a floating wreck, and then turned his attention to the bat teries. The Wyoming’s men rigged the smith’s forge on deck and tossed hot shot into the works ashore till they set them afire and the soldiers fled, and the other Japs on the remaining cruiser, de ciding enough was as good as a feast, followed their example. So McDugall xnqnded his rigging and patched his bulwarks, and meanwhile sent word to the recalcitrant prince to come down and settle or he would sail inland and shell the royal palace about its royal owner’s ears. The prince, who was no less discreet than Colonel Crockett’s coon, came down promptly, and of the resulting in demnity 1800,000 fell to the lot of the United States. It was many years be for© this money got into the treasury of the United States, but meantime the state department had charge of it and had invested it so well that there was a very little short of $2,000,000 finally turned over to the government, which, after all, was pretty good pay for one day’s fighting, with a loss of only five killed and six wounded. —Washington Post. • Doctor—l just mqt your wife. That medicine I sent her by you seems to have benefited her greatly. Dumley—Sent her? Why, doctor, I thought you said that was for me, and I was in the hospital a week after I took it—Richmond Dispatch. SOME WHITE INDIANS. Htmlxn oT Tribe* Who Were Not Prop er Government Warda There ore too many white Indiana, says a writer In the St. Louis Globe-Democrat The increasing value of the reservation*, the distribution of great sums of money by the government to members of tribes, the development of splendid educational institutions for the exclusive benefit of Indian children, these and other advan tages have had the effect to draw back into tribal relationship thousands whose title depends upon a small strain of the blood. These changed conditions are Simulating marriages between white men and Indian women and between Indian men and white women. In the Indian school nt Lawrence, Kan., can bo seen blue eyed, fair haired little Indians receiving living, clothing and education at tbo cost of the government. The same is true at Carlisle and at Hampton and at all of the ludiau schools. The richest people per capita in this country are the members of some of these tribes. The problem of tho five civ ilized tribes is complicated by the presence of “squaw mon,” white men who have married Indian women, to tho great advantage of their personal fortunes. It is enough to bring tears to the eyes of a graven image to hear these squaw mon talk of the wrongs of tho poor Indian. Governor Brockmeyer of Missouri wont down to the Indian Territory some years ago to transact business with one of the tribes. When be came back, after having driven a hard bargain for his clients, he commented on the people he had dealt with. “Indians!” said he. “Theas fellows are not Indians. They are mighty smart Yan kees, tanned a little.” The new superintendent of Indian schools is impressed with the growing numbers of white Indians, and he calls the attention of the government to them in a forcible manner. “Inspecting officials,” Superintendent Hallman says, “are frequently embar rassed on visiting boarding schools by the discovery that among the children there are many who apparently have very little, if any, Indian blood. On. inquiry these children claim a slight degree of Indian blood, varying from one-sixteenth to one sixty-fourth. In a number of instances, hewever, it is found that they are the chil dren of white parents'who were adopted into the tribe previous to the census for registering its members. In most crises the parents of these children ore sufficient ly well to do and able to provide for their education. “For a number of reasons the presence of these‘white Indians’in the schools is liable to become a disturbing element in its life, either through the greater natural turbulence of white blood in their veins or through fancied superiority of race. Moreover, these children upon graduation may seek employment in the Indian serv ice and gain admission thereto without being subjected to the civil service exam ination which stands between other whites and appointments. “On technical grounds all this may be correct, but in equity it seems to hold ele ments of unfairness both to tho real In dians and the white citizens of the United States, who pay the bills for the education and maintenance of these people. Inas much as there seems to be no remedy for this in existing laws it is imperative in the interest of justice to both races that congress should at an early date indicate toy statute what degree of blood shall con stitute an Indian and to what extent adopted Indians shall be entitled to gov ernmental support in matters* of educa tion.” Charlotte Bronte. v. He must be a Pharisee indeed who can fail to see that Charlotte was more to be pitied than blamed fer the growth of her strong attachment to her teacher. Owing to’ her shyness and the isolation of her po sition she had known no man intimately till she went to Brussels save her father and brother. She had met at Haworth only a few of those curates whom she de scribed as “highly uninteresting, narrow and unattractive specimens of the ‘coarser sex.’ ” Then suddenly her duty brought her dally into close association with one whoso personality was magnetic, whose intellectual gifts had an irresistible attrac tion for such a mind os hers, and whose sympathy was during long lonely months her only solace amid a world of strangers. The ripening of friendship and gratitude inhra stronger feeling would be by imper ceptible stages. She herself would not know when that line was crossed which divides friendship from that stronger form of attachment which makes separation from its object an agony. If we call this attachment love, it is for want of a more discriminating word. Whatever the feeling was, It was known in her consciousness only as suffering and was kept prisoner in secret in the depths of her own heart. She was “martyr by the pang without the palm.” Even Miss Frederika Macdonald, who seems to hold a brief for Mme. Heger and her daughters, qcknbwledges that Charlotte’s feeling for her teacher “was not tainted or disfig ured by the shaddw of any attempt or de sire to draw on herself affections that were pledged elsewhere. ” Under all the circum stances it seems to me that, like Jane Eyre in the story, she was drawn into love of her “master” quite innocently. If we have nothing but pity for Jane in the ro mance, we can have no harsher feeling for Charlotte in real life.—“ The Brontes; Fact and Fiction,” by A. M. Mackay. Franklin** Grave. The Philadelphia Inquirer utters a pro test against the people who get up agita tions to restore the graves of eminent peo ple. Taking for its text a recent statement that Benjamin Franklin’s grave is in a state of neglect, it says: “There never was anythingtheifiatterwith Franklin’s grave, and there isn’t today, except perhaps in the minds of those persons who think that the modern cemetery is an idenl of beauty, and who imagine that something essen tially pretentious, huge apd modern in marble would be a suitable thing to place over the grave of a century ago. Frank lin’s grave is just as U shouid be, in. keep ing with its time and the tastes and Rim pie personal habits of the Philadelphia printer and statesmy.” Ftewery. A flowcry young preacher was sent to a vacant city church to preach. His elo quence dazzled the younger members of the congregation, and the elders of the ahurch were besieged to have him down again. They at length consented, but they had forgotten his name. Bo they wrote to one of the seminary professors, ssying: “Please send us that floweret, streamlet, rivulat, starlight man to preaeh for ns next Spbbath. We have forgotten his name, out we have no doubt you will be abio to recognize him." lie was recognized. He was sent. He became minister of the church.—Strand DIED IN HIS BERTH. A* ImprflMMtwi DMitli Scent* • PnllaMMl Sleepinx Car. quota of tragedy and comedy in railroad ing, but never was a more pathetic vi gnette of real life portrayed than was fur nished by tho arrival at the through train from the west the other morning. When the trainmen entered the sleeper from San Francisco, they found a young man in his berth who was unable to leave it and who was then in the last stage ot « consumption. Although » day train, be had been allowed jo occupy his berth all the way from Houston, having taken the train at San Antonie. He carried a ticket for Jackson, Miss. That was all the trainmen knew of tho stranger. A physi cian hod been a passenger on the train and had administered what comfort he could during the Journey east of Houston. Who: Algiers was reashed, le advised that it would prove fatal to take the young man from bls berth. Acttnt; upon this advice, the sleeper was detached from tho train and placed on the ferry, a thifig that is not-usually done. Bringing it to this side, the stranger, who, by the way, was about 85 years of age, was seen to be rapidly sinking. Dr. Formento was summoned, and ar rived in a short-tlnie. Ho said nothing could be done. A stimulant'was admin istered, however, in tbo hope of reviving life-until the patient could be got from the car. Harry Abbott, city passenger agent of the Southern Pacific, was in the car long before this. Seeing the sleeper on this side attracted the attention of tho Rev. Mr. Ahrens, who happened along at this time, and he climbed on the coach. Dr. For mento, Mr. Ahrens, the Pullman oon ductor and the two negro porters were now surrounding the berth of the dying man. The doctor said he could not live many minutes. Mr. Ahrens Mid it was too bad to see the man die without a word offered up in his behalf. Kneeling at the head of the Pullman berth, there was then enacted a scene which wais probaply never before witnessed in a railroad oar. Trainmen, who are not persistent churchgoers, felt the strange, impressive moment, and, aa though by in stinct, they all knelt about the couch which bore the spirit struggling between life and death. Mr. Ahrens was at the head, while Harry Abbott knelt at the foot and the Pullman conductor and the por ters bowed the knee in silence by the ride. The pjayer offered up in behalf of the dy ing man was one of the most beautiful and most touching ever said in behalf of any soul. The spirit of the supplication was that, although this man was unknown to those who knelt by his side, yet he was a common brother and* bound to them by the tie of brotherly love. For this reason all men are interested in each other, and for that reason the last and parting prajei was offered up in behalf of this dying brother. As Mr. Ahrens closed his appeal for divine mercy all of the Watchers by the bedside joined in repeating the Lord’s Prayer, even to the porters. In ten minutes after tho closing of this pathetic service the spirit ot,the man took its flight. He wm. afterward conveyed tc the hospital, and it was then learned that the stranger wasW. H. Covington of Jack son, Miss., and that he was of a good Mis sissippi family. He bad beeh a long time a sufferer from consumption, and finally determined to go to San Antonio, Tex., to see if he could not find some relief. This change was successful for a time, but, as is the case with such patients, the effect I soon wore off, and Mr. Covington deter mined to make his way back-to Missis slppi.—New Orleans Tlmes-Democrat. The Blaek Hole* of Indian Territory. The other day a prisoner was brought tc the bar in one of the federal courts of ths Indian Territory*. He was told that bi could have his choice of a jail or a pen! tentlary sentence. “Judge,” said be, “let me go to ths penitentiary. For God's sake, don’t send me back to that jail!” At Ardmore the spate between two brick buildings is inclosed by walls across the front and rear of the lot. A roof par tially covers the inclosure. The gable ends are open, pnd a driving rain or snow storm wets the interior. The mud of the dirt floors is often ankle deep. Such is one ot the United States jails of the territory. Under this shed add in .the mud the fed eral prisoners awaiting trial are herded by guards Who patrol tho front and real day and night. At Soqth McAlester is the second ol these national disgraces. Tt is a stone building 50 feet wide by about 80 feet long. The sides of the building are with out openings of any kind. In one end is a door. In the opposite end are two wfti dowa. The only air that can enter is by the door and the two windows. Men and women prisoners are confined in this stone building. Recently tho number thus housed was 176. The smell that comes from the interior is such that few persons can approach the doer without being sick ened. At Muscogee is the third of the territory jails. A fire destroyed the old building in use, and a new structure, crude for such purposes, but a marked improvement on the other two jails, is now in use. These three places, two of them without coun terparts in the whole country, are employ ed to hold between 700 and 800 prisoners, either awaiting trial or under sentence. They are the only jails for a population ot 800,000 white people. To keep the 700 or 800 prisoners within these “black holes” the United States pay* $40,000 a year to jailers and keepers.—Washington Cor. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. ▲ Sonth Sea Story. An English naturalist has just explored an island in the south Pacific only recently discovered and named Christmas island. It was not thought to be inhabited by man or beast. The naturalist was, however, astounded to run across a huge bamboo house in the center of the island and saw every sign of luxury through its open por ticoes, while the surrounding country was laid out in beautiful gardens. As he gppearsd in the open glade an aged white man .left a stockade close to the house, and, followed by his native wife and children, with 20 black servants and con cubine* bringing up the rear, came toward him. The modern Robinson Crusoe either refused to speak or had forgotten his na tive tongue, for he made himself under stood by signs, and this dumb show was to the effect that if the visitor did not leave the island at once it would be worse for him. The white man, like the natives, wore no clothing except a loin cloth made of skins. The natives treated their white master with great reverence, evidently looking upon him as a big chief ora deity. The man’s identity could not be learned. —-Vancouver (B. C.) Letter in San Fran cisco Chronicle. - --7 — _ ■MB I I I BSMI I I ■■MB fIbNIM B ■ wMBBw Tn MOTHERS WB ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CABTOBIA,” AND « PITCHER’S CABTORIA,” as our TRADE mark. Z, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, qf Hyannis, Massachusetts, 90S the onyiMlor qf “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” the same that has borne and does now f ~~' bear the facsimile signature of wrapper. 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