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■ - ; announcements. m -- m A M Ft MM mA **" 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- K'tSS' 7 [ 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. g“" .|" |. 1 ■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? - 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. ■ xkn open letter 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. 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