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Clerk Superior Court.
B * l^ fUl fe. M. THOMAS.
For County Surveyor.
I I hereby announce myself a candidate
nr County Surveyor, of Spalding county,
R eubiect to the democratic pri ar^gjj” ne
For County Ooxnmiuloner.
Editor Cam* : Please announce that I
m . candidate for re-election for County
, commissioner, subject to the action of the
democratic primary, and will be glad to
hive the support oi all the voters,
have me j a . j# TIDWELL.
At the solicitation of many voters I
hereby announce myself a candidate for
County Commissioner, subject to the dem-
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[ 1 hereby announce myself a candidate
| foT county Commissioner, subject to the
I democratic primary to be held June 23,
next. If elected, I pledge myself to eco
| nomical and business methods in conduct
' imr the afftirs ot the county.
* W.J.FUTRAL.
I hereby announce myself a candidate
tor County Commissioner of Spalding
county, subject to the Democratic primary
ol June 23d, W. W. CHAMPION.
To the Voters of Spalding County: I
hereby announce myself a candidate for
re-election to the officeot County Commis
sioner of Spalding county, subject to the
democratic primary to tee held on June 23,
1898. My record in the past is my pledge
for future faithfulness.
D. L. PATRICK.
For Bepressntatiys-
To the Voters ot Spalding County: I
am a candidate for Representative to the
legislature, subject to the primary oi 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
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. Bell.
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 this county, subject to the choice oi
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
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.
BROOKS.
For Tax Eecoiver.
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 ol
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 fttlfill the duties of the of
fice as faithfully as m the past.
M. F. MORRIS.
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■A P wpy
CASTLES IN SPAIN
the Don dreams of when he drcams of the
Powers “sitting down” on Uncle Sam.
An y one can enjoy day dreams and an
wquisite siesta when they have a place to
oream in. We can furnish an inspiration
1° dreamers in the coolest summer bed
room furniture, brass beds, airy bangings,
curtains, soft pillows and reed sofas.
Bver ything to make life easy and pleasant
CHILDS &GODMRD.
THE ROMAN WALL PICTURE
Now Thought Not to Be a Repreaentatioß
of the Crucifixion.
The now famous graffitto, or wall
scratching, recently discovered in Borne
was at first thought by archaeologists to
be possibly a rude contemporary repre
sentation ot the crucifixion. According
to an article by Dr. Albert Battandier in
Cosmos, experts have now quite abandon
ed this view of the meaning of the picture,
though they are not yet agreed about
what it does represent. After quoting the
earlier theory of the Italian antiquarian
Maruochi, the article to which reference
has been made, Dr. Battandier goes on to
say:
“We must confess that the impressions
received at first sight have begun quickly
to disappear. Other archaeologists see
quite differently, and M. Maruochi him
self has become less positive, as the char
acters, having been washed repeatedly,
come out more clearly. It Is now impos
sible to defend tho earliest explanations,
and we are obliged to mourn the loss of a
discovery that would have been valuable
for many reasons, but useless for our
Christian faith. The gospels ought to
suffice us.
“Let us speak first of tho scene repre
sented at the bottom of this series of graf
fltte. There are, in fact, a large number
of inscriptions, one above the other, and
we should be foolish to suppose that all
must necessarily be on the same, subject.
We should observe first that the design is
very rough. The part of it that Is clearest
represents perpendicular posts united fay a
transverse bar and forming a sort of por
tico, with ladders for mounting. Several
of the persons represented have names
written over their heads, for the most
part illegible ones. Thus we have Nbstu
lus, Eulogius, Secundus, or, better, Jocun
dus, and finally Pilatus, of which there
remain only the syllables'll’ abd'tus.’
Higher up we find numerical signa
“Now, the explanations of this scene are
as numerous as they are hypothetical.
' “First of all, on account of a name that
was thought to be ‘Crestus,’ at the begin
ning of the graffltte, it was regarded as a
view of the crucifixion. This is what has
given to the drawing Its great notoriety
and has already caused floods of ink to be
shed on the question. Others have seen in
it a naval maneuver. The posts are masts,
only unfortunately there Is neither ship
nor sea. For others it Is a mason’s scaf
folding, traced here as a kind of rough
preliminary plan of the proposed manner
of doing some piece of work, but this does
not account for the drawings of people
and still less for the names written over
their heads. Some archaeologists find here
the preparations for an exhibition of rope
walkers or acrobats, and in this case the
figures would represent the principal ac
tors with their names written over their
heads. It is probable also that it may be a
representation of some imaginary scene
traced by soldiers with leisure
and not strong on perspective, who occu
pied an idle hour in drawing a picture that
had nothing real to correspond to it Fi
nally, to close this series of interpretations
with a note of humor, some have thought
this to represent the preparations for an
exhibition of fireworks, as if powder had
been invented at this epoch 1
“Above the scene there are numerous
inscriptions, and it has been noted already
that these do not relate necessarily to the
design placed below them. An attentive
examination shows that most of the in
scriptions are not fit for ears polite. Os
tho words supposed to be ‘Christ’ there
remain only the letters CRE S. A hole
,in the wall has caused the intermediate
letters to disappear.
“We see how the discovery of these fa
mous graffitti that have created such ex
citement both at Rome and abroad appears
at the present time. It would doubtless
have been very interesting if the first ver
sion had been correst, but historical truth
obliges us to confess that it was not.” —
Literary Digest.
Spanish Pool.
“Until we began to get Into hot water
with Spain,” said a naval officer, “the fa
vorite game of men forward on American
warships was Spanish pool, which is a
game of checkers of a peculiarly intricate
sort—so intricate that, after 12 years in
the service and much careful watching of
the game while officer of the deck, I
couldn’t play a game of it now to save my
soul. Tue enlisted men all played it,
however, and greatly preferred it to the
ordinary game of checkers, for it seems
that Spanish pool is a game wherein you
get quicker action for your brains in ma
neuvering than you do in checkers. But
I will venture to say that there has not
been a single game of Spanish pool played
in the United States navy since the Maine
disaster. I was attached to a ship on the
Pacific home station when the news was
received aboard that the Maine had gone
up in the air. After knock off work had
been piped that day the Spanish pool fiends
‘broke out’ their oilcloth Spanish pool
bodrds and rubber checkers as usual, and
I watched them curiously to see if they
would play Spanish pool. They didn’t.
Without saying a word as to their reason
for the switch, they all plunged into the
game of ordinary checkers. This struck
me as being pretty significant at the time,
as evidencing the opinion of the men for
ward in our navy as to the cause of the
Maine disaster. ” —Washington Star.
Luxury In the WUdemess.
A press dispatch from London states
that the Russian government has provided
for the Siberian line a train de luxe, com
posed of four splendid cars, built at Mos
cow. There are an open saloon car, a din
ing car, a bathroom, a library, telephone,
electric lighting, refrigerators and venti
lating apparatus, piano, chessboards and
means for gyihnastic exercise. This will
make the Pennsylvania and the New York
Central and the other American origina
tors of luxurious trains hide their heads in
confusion.
American passengers have perhaps all
the luxury that they have been taught to
appreciate, but we must admit that Rus
sia has beaten us. The first half dozen
features of the Siberian train are familiar
matters here, even telephones being at our
command if we want them. Moreover,
pianos have been used in American cars,
and something even better than a chess
board may be found in most smoking cars,
even those used by tho plebeian classes,
but when it comes to gymnastics wo give
up. We have no better expedient than to
stop 80 minutes and let the passengers
walk up and down the station platform.
Whether the Russian apparatus consists of
a pair of 50 cent dumbbells or of only a 88
inch cane is not stated. —Railroad Gazette.
Patriotic.
There was a remarkable instance of pa
triotic action in City Hall park yesterday
afternoon. The tramps who frequent the
park held a meeting and unanimously re
solved that while the war continued they
would use no castlle soap.—New York
Tribune.
KOWtiU, —I Eh ?w>t***~ * -- . ÜBtyffiHk
DO PEOPLE READ POETRY?
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Ono Newspaper Answers the Question,
Showing They Do.
An eastern periodical has been trying to
answer the question, “Do people read po
etry!” and to that end has interviewed
publishers and various literary persons
supposed to have information on the sub
ject. The conclusion drawn from the data
so laboriously gained is to the effect that
they do read it. Os course they do, but it
Was hardly necessary to take such pains to
find out. A little reflection and observa
tion would have answered as well.
A magazine or newspaper editor must
beyiware, if he will stop to think, that if
only those people read poetry who write it
a large proportion of the population may
bo classed as readers. Perhaps the readers
of other people’s poetry are hardly so nu
merous, but there is no doubt that poetry
is widely read and is favorably regarded
by persons who make no literary preten
sions. Ask the very domestic woman or
the woman in a remote farmhouse if she
keeps a scrapbook, and she will in all
probability acknowledge having thus pre
served a few “pieces of poetry”—taken,
the most of them, from the one weekly
paper that comes to her home.
The clubwoman reads poetry, of course.
She has to if she would stand well, but it
is net so certain that she engages in the
perusal for personal enjoyment It is
sometimes because she must know about
“tone color” and who the “poet prophets”
are, and what Browniqg meant, and
what Whitman was and all the
rest of the poet loro—but she reads it, and
the clubwoman, as we all know, makes
up a good part of the community. What
she reads and professes to like is of
course only tnat class of verse admitted
by magazine editors to be poetry, and it is
not exclusively this which is meant when
it is asserted that all men and women
read more or less poetry.
The verses that the woman out on the
farm has in her scrapbook, that even the
clubwoman has tucked away in her desk
or her pocketbook along with samples of
silk, or that the man of business carries
in his vest pocket until the bit cf paper is
worn out, would not always pass muster
With the critics. Their meter may some
times be faulty, the thoughts may be mere
platitudes, but they somehow express a
sentiment that appeals to the heart; they
touch the emotions, not the intellect alone;
they speak of common experiences—of
love and longing and loss, of home, of
mother, of child, sometimes of religious
faith, but always a tender sentiment. The
man and woman who cherish these verses
would resent being called sentimental, but
one so callous as not to be moved by gen
uine sentiment, even crudely expressed, is
rare.
Comparatively few read volumes of
verse—poetry, the best of it, is a luxury
that even the elect are apt to take in small
quantities—and the public has learned in
stinctively to pasr by most magazine verse
as having nothing in it. That it is perfect
in form and classic in thought means
nothing if soul is not there, and it is
meehanism rather than soul that is usual
ly discernible. It is the poetry found in
the corners of newspapers that is read ard
cut out and learned by heart, the verses
perhaps contributed by amateurs, perhaps
taken from the masters, but chosen be
cause they speak the thoughts and aspira
tions, the hopes and loves and griefs com
mon to humanity. Not all of it is what
the critics know as poetry, but it is poetry
to the readers, and if that is not a final
test it is one sufficient to answer the ques
tion mentioned in the beginning.—ln
dianapolis Journal.
Why Horsefleih Is Good Food.
Everybody is aware that the horse is the
cleanliest of all domestic animals. It will
not eat anything but good, healthy food
nor drink any but pure water. A horse
would rather starve than swill the rotten
stuff often given to pigs and cattle. It is
nothing but prejudice that prevents us
from eating horseflesh. A similar preju
dice retarded the Introduction of the po
tato 100 years ago. Today we could not
get along without it. Yet the prejudice
against potatoes can be explained. The
people had been told that this American
root caused fever and rendered the ground
unfit for all other crops. The exception
against horseflesh is not even founded
upon any objection to its propertieg. It is
solely due to the influence of the cnurch.
The clergy did everything possible to
prevent the newly converted Saxons from
returning to their heathenish practices
and prohibited the use of horseflesh to
stop the sacrifices to Odin and Thor. A
long time passed before these sacrifices
were altogether discontinued. The na
tions of Europe have suffered enormous
loss by this prohibition of horseflesh.
Especially from the humanitarian point
of view the reults are most deplorable.
Millions of people are forced to live on po
tatoes and similar food wanting in nutri
tive qualities, while millions of pounds of
the very best meat arc’ wasted.
flesh is the most nourishing of all meats,
and its taste is hardly to be distinguished
from that of beef. The flesh of a horse
fed on oats has a smell similar to goose
flesh. The fat is preferable to lard. Above
all, it should be remembered that no flesh
is so healthy as that of the horse. Trich
inosis and similar diseases are unknown
in horses.—Golden Penny.
In Place of a Wardrobe.
For the girl whose bedroom boasts no
wardrobe and only a single closet to hold
her everyday garments it is necessary to
utilize any recess there is. To do this get
a board the width of the recess and as high
as can bo conveniently reached. Have
screw hooks placed upon it for the waists.
Against the wall stretch a length of cre
tonne or muslin. Let this hang down just
twice the length of the recess. Under the
head board have a six inch board with
screw hooks on it for the skirts. Then on
the very front edge of the headboard have
very small hooks screwed in and corre
spondingly tiny rings on the extreme edge
of the long piece of cretonne. When the
skirts and bodices aro hung on their re
spective pegs, turn up this cretonne and
catch the rings into the hooks, thus, as it
were, inclosing the dresses in a loose bag.
Outside of this recess, a few inches higher
than the headboard, have a little brass
rod fastened, on which, by rings, one can
hang a pretty curtain, which will conceal
the cretonne bag.—New York Post.
Derivation of Settle.
An amusing instance of irresponsible
derivation is given in the “Dictionary.of
Architecture, ” published under the aus
pices of the Architectural Publication so
ciety, under the head of “Settle,” which
is stated to*be “perhaps derived from ‘seat
all people,” ex temp. Henry VIII, at the
Green Dragon public house, Combe St
Nicholas, Somersetshire,” and “settee,”
which Professor Skeat calls “an arbitrary
variation of settle,” is defined to be a
stone bench, the word being actually de
rived from the Anglo-Saxon setl, a seat.—
Notes and Queries
ENGLAND’S PREMIER.
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE THE BRtWI
PRIME MINISTER.
Nowhere Else In tho World la There Any
Position at Once 8o Powerful and So
Anomalous-The Ofltee Is Without Legal
Foundattea.
Nowhere else in the world is there
any position at once so powerful and so
anomalous. So long as he remains
prime minister the premier of the Unit
ed Kingdom is possessed of more real
power than any single individual, un
less it be the czar or the president of
the United States.
Yet, great as is tho power of prime
minister, the office has no foundation on
law. The prime minister ia quite as un
known to the law as is the cabinet. If
• legal pedant, blind to all facta not in
the statutes or tho textbooks of the
common law, were asked to define the
office ot prime minister and to describe
the cabinet, be would be utterly at a
loss.
In theory the prime minister is only
a privy councilor at the head of a de
partment of state who is specially in
the sovereign's confidence and wbo usu
ally presides at an informal gathering
of certain of the privy councilors who
happen to hold offices of state—a gath
ering which is called the cabinet. That
is the furthest which the legal pedant of
onr thought would dare to go. Yet, of
course, the prime minister is, in fact,
far more than the mere chairman of the
cabinet.
The cabinet, no doubt, has a great
deal of pibwer, but even if it were true
onee it is certainly not true now that
England is governed by a committee of
15 or 16 persons.
The prime minister, as a rule, makes
his cabinet. Re is commissioned by the
queen to form a cabinet, because he il
the man whom she considers to possess
the confidence of a majority of the house
of commons. He forms his cabinet by
asking certain members of the two
houses to hold the great offices of state.
He might do this in one day and with
out consulting any oqp.
As a matter of fact, what usually
happens is this: As soon as the commis
sion to form a government has been re
ceived, the prime minister takes into
bis confidence the two or three wbo will
hold the chief offices, and they talk
together over the other names. When a
man is decided upon, be, as a rule,
joins the conclave and helps to consult
as to men and places, and so the cabinet
gradually evolves itself. No doubt, as
generally happens in this world, the
prime minister’s choice i*s never really
free.
Certain men must be in the cabinet,
whatever happens, and hence they may
be said not to be chosen by the premier,
but to be ministers in their own right.
In spite, however, of this, the fact that
they are asked to serve by the premier
makes them feel his superiority. When
the cabinet is made, the theory of the
unwritten constitution is that the cabi
net governs. In reality it seldom does
anything of the kind. -
Each cabinet minister has very great
power in his own department, but the
cabinet as a cabinet can do little. Since,
however, it knows everything that is
going on it can exercise a great deal of
indirect povror. The previous knowl
edge that the majority of the cabinet
would like or dislike a particular pol
icy has a great influence, but still the
cabinet does not rule. Q?he prime minis
ter summons, presides over and largely
controls the cabinet meetings. If a va
cancy occurs, he fills it up, and so can
promote from the lower to the higher
offices.
Then he can and does confer with his
colleagues in regard to the bnsiness of
their departments, and so has ahold
upon the whole machine of government.
Sir Robert Peel saw every member of
his cabinet separately everyday. Again,
if there be a difference between two
other members of ’the government, the
premier decides. If there be an irrecon
cilable difference between himself and
a minister, it is the minister and not
the premier who resigns.
Lastly, the prime minister can, byre*
signing himself, dissolve the whole min*
istry. These things, small in them
selves, taken together, make the prime
minister’s position what it is. He
makes and oan unmake a cabinet. He
presides over it, and he has the right
to advise in regard to every department,
though thia right is of course seldom
exercised, and he has secured to him
beforehand the support of the rank and
file or of any cabinet if It cornea to a
struggle between him and a colleague,
because. t|je rank and file know that it
the premier is beaten he has it in his
power to upset the whole, machine of
government.
Hence the voices of those who want
to keep in office are always found on
the side of the premier.— Pearson’s
Weekly.
A Ruutaa Miracle.
An iconoclast at a Russian convent
has Seen hoist with his own petard in a
significant way. An infernal machine
was ret near a picture of the Virgin
Mary, in a convent at Kursk, the pic
ture having a reputation for working
miraculous cures. The machine explod
ed in due time and wrecked the sur
roundings, demolishing a cast iron
screen round the picture, damaging
doors and breaking down a wall, but
the picture itself escaped unhurt. If
there ever was any doubt among the
faithful at the Snamenski convent as to
the wonder working properties of their
holy picture, it will be dispelled by this.
—St James Gazette.
During about 700 years the Latin
language was the language of court,
camp and polite society from the river
Tweed, in Scotland, to the Euphrates,
in Asia, and from the Crimea or Cher
cenese, in the Black sea, to the pillars
of Hercules, at the western extremity
of the Mediterranean.
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To MOTHERS.
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE
EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “ C ASTORIA,” AND
* PITCHER’S C ASTORIA,” AS OUR trade mark.
jr DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, qf Hyannis, Massachusetts,
was the originator qf “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” the same
that has borne and does now m
Dear itie jac-siinue NffnaumQj lyiuppa.
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 the
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. IL Fletcher is
Do Not Be Deceived.
Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting
a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer yo”
(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”
BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE OF
Insist on Having
The Kind That Never Failed You.
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