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I announcements.
1 ~ Olerk Suptrior Court.
V Kcß P ect,a^ [ M THOMAS .
I For County Surveyor.
I i hereby announw myself » candidate
I * County Surveyor, of Spalding county,
g subject to the democratic P ri “ ar^« f / L une
i For County Commissioner.
I Editor Call; Please announce that I
1 ma candidate for re-election for County
■ Jvanmissioner, subject to the action of the
I democratic primary, and will be glad to
I£„ .b. ..PP»rt 0} ’^ ELU
fl At the solicitation of many voters I
■ hXbv announce myself a candidate for
fl SJTLL Commissioner, subject to the dem
fl primary. If elected, I pledge my-
I £tfto an honest, business-like administra-
I Son of county affairs in the direction of
| {"’"ertwes. R. F. STRICKLAND.
■ 1 hereby announce myself a candidate
■ for County Commissioner, subject to the
■ democratic primary to be held June 23,
BR. -ext. If elected, I pledge myself to eco
»! jomical and business methods in cunduct-
■ ing the affairs ot the county.
W. J. FUTRAL.
I I hereby announce myself a candidate
■ ' for County Commissioner of Spalding
■ county, subject to the Democratic primary
II ofjunci 23d. _W. W. CHAMPION.
I To the Voters of Spalding County: I
I hereby announce myself a candidate for
re-election to the office of County Commis-
I stoner of Spalding County, subject to the
I democratic primary to be held on Jnne 23,
I 1898. My record in the past is my pledge
I for future faithfulness. *
I , D. L. PATRICK. „
For Bepresentatiye.
To the Voters of Spalding County: I
am a candidate for Representative to the
legislature, subject to the primary ot the
democratic party, and will appreciate 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
if elected will endeavor to represent the
interests of the whole county.
J. B. Bell.
For Tax Collector.
Z 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 ot
the democratic primary, and shall be
grateful for all-votes given me.
T. R. NUTT,
For County Treasurer.
To the Voters of Spalding County : I
respectfully announce myself. a candidate
for election for the office of County Treas
urer, subject to the democratic primary,
and if elected promise to attend faithfully
to the performance of the duties of the
office, and will appreciate the support o»
my friende. 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 faithfol in the per
formanee'bf my duties in the future as I
have been in the past.
J. 0. BROOKS.
For Tax Beoaiver.
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 Riis county.
Respectfolly,
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 folfill the duties of the of
fice as faithfolly as m the past.
M. F. MORRIS.
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CASTLES IN SPAIN
the Don dreams of when he dreams of the
powers “sitting down” on Uncle Sam.
Any one can enjoy day drcams and an
exquisite siesta when they have a place to
dream in. We can furnish an inspiration
to dreamers in the coolest summer bed
room furniture, brasfi beds, airy hangings,
curtains, soft pillows and reed sofas.
Everything to make life easy and pleasant
CHILDS 4GODMRD.
A KINGDOM FOR A JEST.
How William I'g Fool Got tho Title of
Klag ot Yvetot.
Gerald Brenan writes for St Nicholas
an article on “The Kingdom of Yvetot,”
After telling of the bare facts of history to
bo gathered from legal'papers Mr. Brenan
Now for tradition as unearthed by M.
d’Hauterive from many a musty tome or
taken down by tho good cure of the village
from the lips of old parishioners. This
“Ansfred, styled ‘le drolc,' or ‘the humor
ous,' ” was, it seems, none other than Wil
liam I’a court jester, and his stone image,
in cap and bells arrayed, stood In the din
ing hall of tho Chateau d’Yvetot until
those terrible fellows, the revolutionary
soldiers, pulled down both house and
statue.
Those who love to stray in history’s by
ways will remember that when William
the Conqueror landed on the English coast
he tripped and fell with extended arms
upon tho strand. Most of his followers
would have regarded this as a bad omen
had not the monarch, with rare presence
of mind, quieted tbolr fears by exclaiming
that he was “grasping the soil es England
in his arms.” Now, tradition in Yvetot
has it that the person who whispered this
cunning reply into the ear of the prostrate
William was our witty acquaintance, the
court jester Ansfred.
When England had been won, the story
goes that tho king remembered his hum
ble jester’s timely whisper and, calling to
him to the foot of the throne, bado him
ask a boon byway of reward. Ansfred
jestingly replied, “Ah, my good king, I
have an ambition too lofty for you to
gratify!”
Greatly piqued at this speech, even from
such a. privileged joker as hip “ court fool, ’ ’
William insisted upon knowing what the
ambition was which the sovereign ot Eng
land and Normandy could not make good,
whereupon, jingling his golden bells gay
ly, Ansfred said: “In sooth,, friend Wil
liam, I desire to become a king, like your
self. Nothing less can satisfy me. ”
At this the nobles of the court set up a
mighty shout of laughter, looking upon
the affair as another of Ansfred’s sallies,
but the king laughed louder than them
all. Recovering from his mirth, he cried
out: “Ansfred shall have his wish. When
we get back lo Normandy, wo win give
him a kingdom of his own. ” Then, sum
moning his ’chancellor, he demanded the
name of “the very last place to all his do
minions, tho most barren and waterless
waste in his possession. ” The chancellor
consulted his great books and found that
the last place mentioned was the hamlet
of Yvetot. Moreover, this hamlet stood in
the treeless, springjess plain of Caux and
was an extraordinarily desolate spot, little
thought of by tho abbey of St. Wandrille,
to whose monks it belonged.
William laughed again when he heard
of Yvetot, and in pursuance of his pledge
when he returned to Normandy he took
Yvetot away from the abbey and gave it
to Ansfred, the jester. In the nearby vil
lage of Bolbec, amid great merriment,
Ansfred was formally crowned ‘‘‘king of
Yvetot.” Everybody looked on the coro
nation as a joke— everybody but Ansfred
himself. As was often the case with these
jesters, the folly of this “fool” was only
on the exterior. No sooner had he acquir
ed possession of his small kingdom than
he built himself a tower there and set
about planting the wastes around. The
trees grew, but King Ansfred could think
of no plan that would supply Yvetot With
water. Always, till he died, Ansfred re
tained the title of “king,” and, William
the Conqueror’s sons being busy with their
wars, none tried to take It from him.
Ansfred’s son and heir, Richard, second
king of Yvetot, went to the crusades in
1096 and fought with great bravery.
Mexico’s New Capitol Building.
The city of Mexico is to have a national
capitol building worthy of the great re
public. It is to be built of stone and ac
cording to a Chicago architect’s design.
The dimensions are to be 830 by 880 feet —
that is to say, a perfect square on the
groundplan. The height will be one-third
the breadth, with central porticos on each
face, supported by four columns and hav
ing heavily ornamented architraves and
gables. Colonnades extend right and left
from each portico, resting updn the base
ment nnd extending to the‘top of the
building. The four corners present solid
faces, except where pterced by .windows.
To add to* the imposing appearance of
the building a square tower, composed of
82 columns, rises above the roof in the
center, bearing a heavy cornice and equal
ly heavy parapet, with statues placed on
pedestals at each upper corner. Equestrian
statues ornament the base of this tower at
the four corners, and at each angle of the
tow sloping roof of the main building
there are to be placed bronze ornaments,
griffins and the like. The style is Boman,
modified by the introduction of Italian
renaissance effects. Prominent architects
say the building will bo one of the finest
architectural efforts of modern times. It
Will cost about $5,000,000. Baltimore
Sun.
Brigandage In Italy.
Brigandage still flourishes in Italy. As
Signor Romanln-lacur, a well known dep
uty, and a dozen other men were going
toward Grossetto the other day for the
purpose of Inspecting a newly constructed
aqueduct they suddenly met a man, dress
ed like a huntsman, who leveled his rifle
at them and ordered them to halt They
obeyed, whereupon the brigand command
ed them to empty their pockets. Strange
to say, not one of them made the least re
sistance, and as a result the brigand ob
tained a few thousand francs, Deputy Ro
manln-lacur’s involuntary contribution
being five bank notes of 100 francs each.
Having secured this booty, the fearless
robber disappeared, and no trace of him
has since been found. On the following
day a wealthy landed proprietor was stab
bed and robbed by a brigand within a few
miles of Rome, but fortunately the police
were near at hand, and they, arrested the
miscreant before he could escape. As his
victim is said to be mortally wounded the
chances are that the criminal’s career is
practically ended.—New York Herald.
At Governor Atkinson’s Expense.
Governor Atkinson of Georgia tells this
story at his own expense: “It was during
my recent inspection of the convict camps.
Among other places I visited were the
coal mines, and in order to make a thor
ough inspection it was necessary to go
down into the mines and see convicts
at work. Two guards accompanied me;
down, into the mines. They showed me
everything of Interest and finally took me;
where the convicts were at work. As we
approached them one of the convicts rush-'
ed over to me, crying: ‘Good Lord! Bill
Atkinson, as sure as I live! I never ex
pected to see you here. What on earth,
Bill, did they convict you of doing?’ I
readily recognized the man as one whom
I had known since my boyhood."
CANADA’S.NEW GOLDFIELDS.
Tbo Vast nation That laAboat to Be Open
ad In Jforthern British Columbia.
Lying between the Yukon, basin and
Caribou is a vast, untrodden region, which
oilers tempting reward for thorough ex
ploration. The territory is a continuation
otttmtgwat gold beating beit ot which
California, Colorado, Nevada, Kootenai,
Caribou and the Yukon, are sections. The
riches of Caribou were long ago unlocked
to the world, and .soen prospectors will
have overrun every part of the famous Yu
kon. but the wild mountain fuFtneaara of
this unexplored territory have so far re
sisted the white man's entrance, and the
great area stretching between latitudes 54
degrees and 58 degrees and extending from .
the Rocky Mountains on tho east to 128 de-
Swest longitude, remains a terra in
to. That streams tributary to the Yu
kon, Peace riefr and the Liard, known to
be rich in placer gold, and rivers flowing
through Caribou and Cassiar. noted for
their gold beds many years ago, all take
their rise bn the outskirts of this vast ter
ritory, would indicate the presence of Min
eral wealth in the unknown field.
This supposition is supported by more
than mere probability. Since 1885 Indians
and half breeds have vaguely talked of
gold “up in the interior” and taciturn
Chinamen in ragged clothes have com'o
down to the coast with bags containing
large and small quantities of the precious
metal. As the industrious celestial has
been washing gold in old placer beds for
years, earning a pittance which the white
man would not consider worth his labor,
the appearance of these uncommunicative,
mysterious fellows at Pacific ports excited
little interest until Klondike discoveries
aroused every ona Then prospectors be
gan to suspect the existence of hew gold
fields south of the Y ukon an 1 last summer
miners ventured along the margin of the
unknown -region.
Two men who had been washing gold
along streams of this outlying district
brought out $48,000 worth of the yellow
dust. During the summer one prospector
found a nugget worth S7O, and in October
1 large nugget worth S3OO was sent from
6 southern part of the territory. With
the past few weeks tho discovery of exten
sive bodies of fine milling gold quartz was
reported to the British Columbia minister
of mines by prospectors who left last sum
mer to explore the southern outskirts.
Winter had prevented more thorough ex
ploration, but the veins were said to be of
extraordinary width and were exposed for
miles across tho country. Samples Os
quartz, rich in gold, accompanied tho re
port, but so wild and inaccessible is the
region that these deposits cannot be worked
until the Teslin Lakq-Telegraph Creek rail
way or the Cassiar Central has been built..
The unopened territory is variously des
ignated by the names of its different sec
tions, as the Omlneca, the Peace river, the
Liard country. Roughly speaking, it is
bounded on the east by the Rocky moun
tains, on the west by the Yukon and the
Pacific slope and on the south by Caribou.
The nearest point on the Canadian Pacific
railroad is almost 600 miles from itsqouth
ern limits, but the Omlneca can be reached
byway of the coast, going up the Skrena
river and following a thirty clear trail for
150 miles. «,
Discovery of gold in Omineoa caused a
great rush northward from Caribou jtnd
the coast in 1870, but without modern hy
dremlip appliances the gravSl was difficult
to work. When rich diggings were found
in Cessiaf, the crowds stampeded to the
newer field. During the eight years that
followed at least $1,000,000 in gold was
taken from Omlneca by miners satisfied
with moderate returns. The general im
pression that the diggings on the southern
outskirts were shallow discouraged explo
ration until last fall, and then, when the
discoveries were announced, the season
had advanced too far for prospecting. -
- For hundreds of miles north of Omlneca
is a vast expanse absolutely Unknown to
the white man. It lies between Peace riv
er and the Yukon. A party under Lord
Avonmore is spending the winter in the
Liard country In order to be on hand for
thorough exploration of that section of the
t£rra Incognita when the season opens.
Between the Peace and Liard rivers the
climate is not so rigorous aqd forbidding
as In the Yukon. The country Is densely
wooded. There is a superabundance of
timber tor fuel and for building purposes.
Game, large and small, is plentiful. For
naturalist, sportsman and prospector no
part of the unxeplored world offers more
attractive prizes.—New York Sun.
Wasps Assist In a Tragedy.
“Oneof the most comical experiences in
the history of the stage,” saida local man
ager, “befell tho Tom Keene company in
a northern New Yorktown. The company
was playing ‘Julius Caesar,' and at the
last moment it was found that the prop
erty man had failed to d’end up the regular
throne chair used Id the senate scape, and
an old rustic chair was hastily procured
from the loft of the theater, and after be
ing covered with draping was pressed into
service. In the midst of the scene a large
wasps’ nest was discovered attached to thS
chair, and its Inhabitants, becoming in
dignant at the disturbance they had suf
fered, began to swarm about the stage
seeking revenge upon the Romans in their
low necked and short sleeved dresses. The
wasps seemed to be particularly offended
with Cossar, and it is doubtful if Casar’s
death scene was ever acted with more feel
ing, for at the moment he was being
pierced by the conspirators’ daggers the
wasps were most industrious in their
work.
“In the tent scene, where Caesar appears
to Brutus, one might almost bave doubted
its being the true Casar- It was the same
in form and dress, but the face was no
longer the same. In the last act Brutus
had one eye closed, Antony a swollen lip,
Cassius, an enlarged chin, Lpclus an iu
equallty ln the size of his hands and Octa
vius Caesar a nose that would have done
service as .the famous now of Bardolf in
, ‘Henry IV.’
“ The tragedy came very near becoming
a roaring comedy, when Mr. Keene, as
Cassius, said, ‘Antony, the posture of your
blows is yet unknown, but for your words
they rob the Hybla bees and leave them
honeyless,’ and Mr. Hanford, as Antony,
replied, ‘Not stingless too.’ ’’—Cleveland
Header.
Lily Baiba With
Shortly after the holidays a congressman
from one of the western states received bis
quota of bulbs and garden seed from the
department of agriculture and forthwith
distributed them among his constituenta
In most instances they were fully appre
ciated, as scares of letters attested. But it
is doubtful if a more appreciative constitu
ent has been recorded since the distribu
tion of seeds was inaugarated than one
writer whose wife had been sent some of
the lily bulbs. “Many thanks for the
vegetables so kindly sent,” said the writer.
“The onions were particularly fine and
greatly enjoyed with our beefsteak. ’’—Chi
cago Record.
OLD CATERER ON TERRAPIN.
——
When It la Ready, the s-UetoUon U la
< ‘‘Eating It All YounelL”
James Prosser, a famous colored ca
terer of this city, dead long ago, fur
nished the following formula for pre
paring and serving terrapin, which was
published in a gastronomi journal at the
time when he wag on earth;
“You can’t enjoy terrapin unlesb the
day isnippin. Temperature and terra
pin go hand in hand. Now, as to your
terrapin. Bless you, there it all the
difference in the world in them. The
more northerly is the terrapin found the
better. You eat a Florida terrapin—
needn’t despise it. for terrapin ja terra
pin everywhere—but you get a Chesa
peake one or a Delaware bay one, or,
better still, a Long Island one, and there
is just the diffurenc > between $lO i
dozen and SB6. Wtrin water kinder
washes the delic ite fl. vor out of them..
Don’t you let Mr. Btrgh know it, but
your terrapin must bo boiled alive.
Have a good big pot, with a hot fire un
der it, so that he shan’t languish, and
when it has got on a full head of steam
pop him in. Wbai lam goin to give is
Axecipe far a single cue. If yon are aw
fully rich and go in for a gross of terra
pin, just use your multiplication table.
Just as soon as he oaves in watch him
and try his flippers. When they part
when you pry them with your finger
nail, he is good. Open him nicely with
a knife. Bilin of him dislocates the
snuffbox There ain’t overmuch of it,
more’s the pity. The most is in tho.
jints of the legs and side lockers, but if
you want to commit murder just you
smash his gall, and then your terrapin
is gone forever. Watch clorely for eggs
and handle them, gingerly. Now, bav
in got him or her all fnto shape, put
the meat aside. Take three fresh eggs—
you must have them fresh. Bile ’em
hard and mash ’em smooth. Add to
that a tablespoonful of rifted flour,
three tablespoonfuls of cream, salt and
pepper Cred pepper to a terrapin is just
depravity) and two wineglasses of sher
ry wine. Wine as costs $2.50 a bottle
ain’t a bit too good. There never was a
gotega in. all Portugal that wouldn’t
think itself honored to have itself mixed
up with a terrapin. Now you want quite
a quarter of a pound of the very best
fresh butter and put that in a porcelain
covered pan and melt it first—mustn’t
be browned. When it’s come to he oily,
put in your terrapin, yolks of egg,'wine
and all. Let it simmer gently. Bilin
up two or three times does the business.
What you are after is to make it blend.
There ain’t nothin that must be too point
ed in terrapin stew. It wants to be a
quiet thing, a suave thing, just pervad
ed with a most beautiful- and natural
terrapin aroma. You must serve it to
the people that eats it on a hot plate,
but the real thing is to have it on a
obafin dish, and though a man ought
not to be selfish there is a kind of divine
satisfaction in eatin it all yourself."—
Philadelphia Times.
ANCIENT STUTTGART.
Postal and Traveling Accommodations of
the Old German City.
The post relations of ancient Stuttgart
were unpretentious. The two maid
servants of thi postmaster distributed
through the city the daily letters, which
they carried in the same basket with the
family marketing. Letters were carried
out of the city by postilions. There was
a number of couriers, and as a surety
against mistakes there hung in the post
office, beside the curious mail bags, a
huge whip, with which, when the com
mission had been given to the courier, a
powerful blow for the strengthening of
his memory was dealt him.
Coaches and post wagons were inno
cent of any suggestionxof comfort—a
high, clumsy wooden box was secured
by thick leathern straps, and in the
cavernous bottom wefe confined together
packages and passengers. Up and down
hill, over ruts and rocks, the cumbrous
vehicle rattled on its way, the hapless
travelers being ever on the defensive
against the assaults of fumbling boxes
and bundles. And then the weary slow
ness of the way 1 Formerly the journey
from Stuttgart toi*Tubingen was made
in 12 hours. The same journey is now
made in four hours. The < postilions
alighted to take refreshments when It
pleased them, and one traveler has left
a dismal record of a journey that he
once made, during which the driver
took the horses from the carriage and
attached them to a hay wagon that had
been left mired in the mud. The man
drove the wagon into the next village,
and when there he joined the grateful
neighbors in a carousal, while the tired
passengers languished on the dusty
country road.—Elise J. Allen in Har
per’s Magazine.
The Modern Afnoetlc.
We look at our churches with their
congregations, growing in numbers and
dwindling in faith, says H. G. Chap
man in Hhe Atlantic, and we ask our
selves: In all these buildings, cheap or
costly, what real prayers rise, and of
those that rise do any get above the
roof? What God hears them and has
there ever been an answered prayer? We
look at the face of the dead and repeat
a burial service. If after the manner of
men I have fought with beasts at Ephe
sus, what advantageth it me if the dead
rise not? And os we say the words we
ask ourselves, “Do the dead rise?” And
if any one is found who believes these
things he knows that there is another
at his elbow who believes them not a
whit or an atom, and these two can hit
on no universe that shall satisfy both,
nor can one be poet to the other.
Suspicion.
“Do you remember that girl who
came here and said that what she moat
desired was a good home?’’ asked the
housewife.
“What is the matter now?” respond
ed her husband. “Have you missed
something else?”
“Yes. I guess she has a good home
pretty nearly paid for by this time.”—
Washington Star.
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AN OPEN LE I IER
To MOTHERS.
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THB
EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD CASTOAtA," AND
“ PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADK MARK.
Z, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts,
908 the originator of “PITCHERS GASTOIW the same
that has borne and does note I
hear the facsimile signature of wrapper.
This is the original u PITCHER’S CASTORtA,’’ whigh has been
used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over tWy
years. LOOK CAREFULLY of the wrapper and see tnalit is
thehM j/ou have atwai/sbouW on
and has the signature of wrap-
per. No one has authority from me to use -my rname >
eept The Centaur Company of which Chas. N: h ‘
President zf y
March 8,1897.
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 does not know. -
“The Kind You Have Always Bought*
BEARS- THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE CF
-t-''i
' ' Insist on Having
1 The Kind That Never Failed lon.
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ALSO TAN, CHOCOLATE AND BLACK SANDALS AND OXFORDS IN
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—UKr TOVH
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