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: ANNOUNCEMENTS.
| Olsrk Superior Court.
■ Tam a candidate for re-election. and so-
‘ nlbe “”” r -
I P WM. M. THOMAS.
f For County Surveyor.
1 Thereby announce myself a candidate
1 .JCounty Surveyor, of Spalding county,
I snbj ect t 0 th ° de,nocratic P n^ } ar^g L J L une
j For County Commissioner.
■ Editor Call : Please announce that I
■ m a candidate for re-election for County
■ JvLmissioner, subject to the action of the
I democratic primary, and will be glad to
■ the support ot all the voters.
■ hsvetne. i j A j TIDWELL
■ .. the solicitation of many voters I
■ hereby announce myself a candidate for
■ Chanty Commissioner, subject to the dem-
■ Cratic primary. If elected, I pledge my-
I to an honest, business-like administra-
■ nf county affairs in the direction of
[EtSes. ILF. STRICKLAND.
■ 1 hereby announce myself a candidate
■ for County Commissioner, subject to the
l&Scprimrytobe bed June 23,
■ next. If elected, I pledge myself to eco-
■ nomi'cal and business methods in conduct-
the ass lire ot the county.
W.J. FUTRAL.
hereby announce myself a candidate
County Commissioner of Spalding
•tv, subject to the Democratic primary
une 23d. W. W. CH AMPION.
o the Voters of Spalding County: I
>by announce myself a candidate for
lection to the office of County Commis
er of Spalding county, subject to the
locratic primary to be held on June 23,
J. My record in the part is my pledge
uture faithfulness.
D. L. PATRICK.
For Bepresontatiye.
i the Voters of Spalding County: I
i candidate for Representative to the
ilature, subject to the primary ot the
ocratic party, and will appreciate your
>ort. J. P. HAMMOND.
htor Call: Please announce my
eas a candidate for Representative
Spalding county, subject to the action
I ot the democratic party. I shall be pleased
I to receive the support of all the voters,and
I if elected will endeavor to represent the
interests of the whole county.
J. B. Bell.
For Tax Collector.
7 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
or 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 Udunty Treasurer,
subject to democratic primary, and if elect
ed promise to be as faithful in the per
formance of my duties In the future as I
have been in the past.
• J. C. BROOKS. ;
For Tax Receiver.
Editor Call : Please announce to th%
voters of Spalding county that I am a can
didate for the office of Tax Receiver, sub
ject to the Democratic primary of June
23rd, and respectfully ask the support of
all voters of this county.
Respectfully,
It 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-fulfill the duties of the of
fice as faithfully as in the past.
M. F. MORRIS.
CASTLES IN SPAIN
ihe Don dreams of when he dreams of the
Jowers “sitting down” on Uncle Sam.
; A ®y one can enjoy day dreams and an
® x QQisite siesta when they have a place to
in. We can furnish an inspiration
| eMnerß ‘h® coolest summer bed
furniture, brass beds, airy hangings,
soft pillows and reed sofas.
® rer ything to make life easy and pleasant.
® IDS 4 GODDARD.
■
THE BLACK DEATH.
THAT FEARFUL PLAGUE THAT FOL
LOWS IN THE WAKE OF WAR.
In the Fourteenth Century It Swept the
Whole of Europe, KUUag Twenty-Eve
Millions of People In Three Tenn—The
Pestilence la London.
The plague, or pestilence, that mys
terious and fearful visitation which has
moved its hosts in the wake of armies
to slay more than war itself, is supposed
to have first originated among the dense
masses of people who crowded together
in the great cities of Asia and Egypt, or
who farmed the encampment of Xerxes,
Cyrus and Tamerlane the Tartar. It
prbbably sprang from the impurity
which must have existed in the midst
of each vast gatherings and in part also
from leaving the unbuyied dead upon
the field of battle. At any rate the
germs of this fearful human poison have
always been most active where condi
tions similar to those have prevailed. It
has always been war and the march of
armies that has spread it broadcast over
the world from time to time, and as
war became less frequent and less
worldwide the frequency and extent of
these ravages have lessened also.
The first recorded outbreak of the
plague in Europe occurred in the six
teenth century. It came from lower
Egypt. This was the first lapping of the
wave that reached into the east again,
there to stay its movement so far as the
west was concerned until 544 A. D.,
when the returning legions of the Em
peror Justinian brought it again into
the western world from the battlefields
of Persia, Constantinople was the first
place it attacked. Here in a single day
as many as 10,000 persons are said to
have fallen victims to if. But the plague
did not stop with Constantinople. It
had found a too congenial soil in Eu
rope, which was little else than one
great battlefield at the time. It was
carried into Gaul, where it followed
close in the wake of the Frankish
armies, and from Gaul it moved into
Italy, with the Lombards, and so devas
tated the country as to leave it entirely
at the mercy of the invaders.
The various crusades, which extended
over a space of about 200 years, no
doubt did much to hold the pestilence
in Europe, for they served to keep open
the channels of intercourse between the
east and the west. Periodic epidemics
were common during their continuance,
and these seem to have culminated in
the fourteenth century with what is
known in history as the black death.
The black death was more fatal to hu
man life than any other single cause
since the world began. The havoc of war
was nothing in comparison to it. It
swept the whole of Europe, leaving in
its path such misery and destitution as
the*world had never known. It killed in
three years some 25,000,000 of people.
Such figures stagger the comprehension,
but the records of the time cannot be
doubted. The entire population of Eu
rope is estimated to have been about
100,000,000 —kept down as it was by
the constant warfare—and of these 100, -
000,000 at least a fourth perished.
' The ravages of the plague in Italy,
where it came in the track of the war
of the Guelphs and Ghibellines, was
particularly disastrous to mankind. It
raged with terrible fury in Naples,
where 60,000 persons are said to have
died. It fell upon Pisa and seven out of
every ten perished. It utterly and for
ever destroyed the prosperity of Siena.
Florence also suffered severely, while
100,000 of the inhabitants of Venice
were literally wiped off the face of the
earth. From Italy it moved into France,
where the mortality was almost as
great; in Paris alone 50,000 people died
from it. One of the worst features pre
sented by the history of the black death
was the cruel persecution it aroused
against the Jews. They were supposed
to have infected the air in some mys
terious manner, and they were accused
of having poisoned the wells and
springs. In Strassburg 2,000 of them
were buried alive in their own burial
ground.
The order of the Flagellanto arose at
this time, coming from the belief that
the sins of the world had at last brought
down the wrath of heaven. It was the
beginning of the so called Hundred
Years’ war that carried the black death
into England, where in London its vic
tims numbered 100,000. When at last
the plague had worked its ravages, it
doubled back over its course, to disap
pear in the east. In 1845 it appeared
again in England, first among the sol
diers of ‘Richmond after the battle of
Bosworth Field, and when the victo
rious army marched to London the
plague went with them to work its
havoc there. As long as it lasted the
mortality was as great as that caused
by the black death half a century be
fore. Five thousand people died in five
weeks, and then the plague left London
os suddenly as it had appeared there, to
sweep over the rest of England.
In Scotland the plague of 1568 came
immediately after the battle of Lang
side, when Queen Mary was dethroned,
but no records of the mortality it occa
sioned seem to have been preserved.
The plague visited London in 1675.
This followed after the civil war which
ended with the death of Charles 11, but
so many years intervened that it is im
possible to trace any connection between
the two events. In modern wars danger
from the plague seems gradually to
have lessened, perhaps as a result of
better sanitary conditions maintained
by the armies of today.—Philadelphia
Press.
Politic* by the Forelock.
The Denver Post takes time by the
forelock and launches the following:
For President,
Teddy Roosevelt of the Texas Terrors.
For Vice President,
Colonel Torrey of the Wyoming Wildcats.
Platform,
Tighten y»r cinches, hit ’em with the spurs
and git there!
—Dallas News.
SHE NEVER BALKED AGAIN.
Bar Harbor Man Pl -yed » Bluff Gama oa
a Contrary Mare.
“Speaking about balky horses and
the best way to cure them,” said
George Sperry, “I can tell you of a
trick that Stephen Leland played pua
time and It worked like a charm you
fellers all know Steve, course you do—
he lives down to Bar Harbor. Well
let’s see—it was 12 years ago on the 20th
day of January. You remember the
heavy sleet storm—same night Linniks
was married—when all the trees looked
so pretty after the storm. You remem
ber Stephen—he had a wood lot out near
the foot of Green mountain, where he
out his weod winters. That year he
had as handsome a pair of bay horses as
ever rein drew over. The nigh one was
all right in every particular, but the off
one had spells once in awhile when she
would take matters in her own way and
throw up her head. You might put
rocks in her ears, twist her tail, pound,
whip, swear and rave as much as.you
liked, but she would never move till she
got ready.
"One day I met Leland when be was
hauling out the first lead for the day.
He told me how and I told
hiiy then and there that if it was my
horSb I’d just onhitch the' nigh one and
leave on to the load in* the
woods. They went into the Harbor with
the first load all right, but when the
second load was piled on and under
way things were different. At a certain
place in the road up goes that horse’s
head again. It was in just the same
place where she balked before. Steve
was mad as a batter. He took off his
cqat and hat. He swore till the trees
around him trembled. Next he took a
shilling birch and whipped and pounded
till he was all tired out. Then he sat
down and rested. Then he thought he’d
cofix the critter, so he got a drink of
water from a spring. it.
Then he asked her to go, but not a mus
jle would she move. Stephen fussed till
he became exhausted.
"Then, as he told me afterward, he
took Sperry’s advice—onhitched the
nigh one, straddled her back and made
for home, leaving the ugly, contr’y
thing alone in the woods, hitohed to a
sled with a cord and a half of green
wood to anchor it. He never so mueh
as looked round nor said aye, yes, or no,
but made direct for home, putting up
his horse and eating bis supper. He had
become so disgusted, that he nearly dis
missed the thing from his mind. That
night began with a little fine rain. It
was like a cold mist, and wherever it
struck it froze. Then it snowed aud
blowed then again it turned
to rain—tjie queerest storm ever known
on Mount Desert island. There* was not
a minute after 7 o’clock that evening
till daylight next morning but it sn<M
ed or rained, and the wind was like a
double edged razor ’long toward morn
ing. Every tree was three times its
proper size, and the ones left standing
looked like the most beautiful plumes
you ever see in your life. Lots of trees
Were broken to the ground. The tele
graph were nearly an inch and a
half in diameter, covered with solid
ice. Little limbs of birch and maple
were like branches of coral.
"In the morning Steve took out the
old horse and started back for the woods.
When he got near the place where he
left the horse and load, he was aston
ished. The old nag was there just wtfere
she stood all night. Not the sign of a
track did she make. Her legs were the
size of flour barrels, her body surely three
times its proper size. Her eyes and ears
were hidden from view by the snow
thaAad drifted upon her; the steam from
her nostrils formed icicles that reached
the ground. All in all it was the tough
est sight he ever witnessed. Mr. Leland
at first supposed the animal was dead,
but after awhile he ax and
broke the ice and let the poor critter
out. She was Eke a chicken coming out
of an egg. The coat came off in Targe
flakes. When he hitched the nigh one
on, he only had to speak once and he
made lively time over the icy road that
morning. He kept that pair till last
year, when they both died.
“They never balked again. ”—Lewis
ton Journal.
Splendid Crystal* In California
Some time ago John E. Burton of
Lake Geneva, Wis., leased the right to
prospect for crystals in, the old Green
Mountain mine, near Mokelumne hill,
in Calaveras county, Cal. He found a
number of fine specimens, and .one of
them is claimed to' be the largest group
or mass of crystals ever found. As taken
out from the drift where it was uncov
ered it* was 11 feet 7 inches in circum
ference. -It was 4 feet **2 inches long, 3
feet 6 inches wide and 3 feet 2 inches
high. It weighed 2,200 pounds. The
mass included one large central crystal
and a surrounding group of smaller
ones. From the central one it was esti
mated that a perfect sphere 14 inches
in diameter could be out, while several
others from three to eight inches in
diameter could be obtained from the
mass. Mr. Burton has found in all
about 12 tons of crystals.—Engineering
and Mining Journal.
She Didn’t Say Nay.
“Yes,” said the summer girl to be as
she held up two shortened skirts, one
of duck, "all our gowns for exercise are
short, ending at what would be our
%hoe tops if we wore high boots, but
we shall wear low shoes. I don’t
know,” she said shyly, "whetlfißr we
think we have nice ankles or if we wish
to show our stockings, which are gayer
ibis season than ever.” "Both,” I ven
tured, and she didn’t say nay.—Pitts
burg Dispatch.
Honesty.
Watts—This is the most honest town,
I think, on the continent. conductor
missed me this morning, and everybody
in the car looked as if they were angry
because I did not pay.
Potts— They were not angry becauss
you hadn’t paid, but because they had.
—lndianapolis JouruaL
A REVOLUTIONARY RELIC.
Tarleton’* Sword That Wo* Lo*t at the
Battle of Cowpea*,
A priceless relic of Revolutionary days
has just been placed In tbc statehouse at
Columbia, S. C., for safe keeping. It is
the sword which Tarleton used in loading
the British troopers at the battle of Cow-
PfiM, that state, against the patriots un
der Morgan, Pickens, Sumter and Marion.
The sword is the property of Colonel T.
E. Dickson, and has been placed with this
sword of Marlon and other revolutionary
■relics in the possession of the state.
Tarleton lost the sword at the battle of
Cowpens, where the patriots won such a
signal victory, a victory which put fresh
heart In their brethren throughout the
colonies and hastened the coming of the
triumphant end of the war at Yorktown.
Colonel William Washington, the gallant
leader of the American cavalry, pressed
Tarleton so cloudy in his fight as to be
able to have one exchange of saber blows
with the British letuLr. Washington’s
sword cut Tarleton’s Angers and the Brit
ish colonel dropped l>ls steel, spurred his
steed and obtained safety by flight
William Scott, the father of Colonel
Dickson’• mother, wns an American sol
dier in the battle of Cowpens. He saw the
fight between Washington and Tarleton
and picked up the latter’s sword when he
dropped it. The sword has ever since been
preserved in the family as a priceless trophy
of ancestral prowess in the Revolutionary
war.
The sword or saber, for the blade curves
back so as to give greater force to its
blows, is long and heavy. The blade is a
yard in length, while the hilt is slightly
over 6 inches long, with an iron guard.
There is a long scratch on the guard and a
cutin tho iron knob at the end of the hilt,
which are believed to have been made by
the blow of Washington’s sword which
forced Tarleton to drop bis wftipon or
which knocked it out of bis hand.
The iron shank of the hilt is cased in
wood, which was covered with leather,
much of which has been worn away.
Upon the blade, close to the hilt,-Is en
graved the word "Potter,” probably the
name of its maker.
There are many notches in tho blade,
and some rust upon it, possibly made by
the blood of patriots who bad felt its edge.
In this connection it will not be amiss
to repeat two anecdotes about Tarleton
and Washington.
The patriot ladies of tho Revolutionary
times had keen wits. On one occasion
Tarleton in a bragging mood was tolling
a patriot lady how he wished ho could
meet"thcir boasted Colonel Washington. ”
Her prompt reply was, “If you had looked
behind you when running away from
Cowpens, your wish would have been
gratified.”
On another cccasion Tarleton was speak
ing contemptuously of Colonel William
Washington to a patriot lady. “Why,’’
said Tarleton, "they tell mo he Is so igno
rant that he cannot even write his name.”
With a meaning glance at Tarleton’s right
hand, which Washington had wounded,
the lady replied, “But nobody Is bettor
aware than you, Colonel Tarleton, that
Colonel Washington knows How to make
his mark.”—Washington Star.
Dogs and Hound*.
In the Roman period not only wore
sight hounds and scent hounds fully dif
ferentiated, but there were also various
kinds of lapdogs and housedogs, although
none quite like our modern breeds. Even
as far back os about 8000 B. C. Egpytian
frescoes show not only groyhoundlike
breeds, but one with drooping ears like a
hound and a third which has been com
pared to the modern turnspit, while house
dogs and lapdogs came in soon afterward.
Whether any of these are the direct ances
tors of modern breeds or whether all such
have been produced by subsequent cross
ing is a very difficult question to answer,
more especially when we recollect that if
an ancient Egyptian artist had to draw
the portrait of a modern dog it would bo
very doubtful whether ,4$ would be recog
nized by its master or mistress.
But the record of the antiquity of the
domesticated dogs does not even stop with
the earliest known Egyptian monuments.
Not only were such breeds known in Eu
rope during the iron and bronze ages,
but also during the antecedent neolithic or
polished stone period. These have been de
scribed by Professors Buttimeyer and
Woldrich, and those who are acquainted
with the difficulty of distinguishing be
tween some of the living species by the
skulls alone will understan<nho laborious
nature of the task. Still these authorities
appear tahavo made out that the SwiSs
neolithic dog(Canis palustris) bad certain
cranial resemblances to both hounds and
spaniels, and thus indicate an advanced
typo, which is considered to have been de
rived from neither wolves nor jackals, but
from some species now extinct Two oth
er breeds have also been recognized* from
the superficial deposits of the continent,
and if, as is very likely to be the case, any
or all of theso races are tho forerunners of
some of the modern breeds it will readily
be understood how complexis the origin
of the mised group which we now call
Canis familiarls.—Knowledge.
Mediaeval Students.
We find a Paris scholar complaining of
the disorders of the schools and expressing
fear of personal violence, and a student at
Toulouse writes that a certain P., against
whom he had been warned before, leaving
bis homo in Narbonne, bad taken forcible
possession of bis room and so disturbed
him in his work that he would like per
mission to go home at Easter. At Orleans
a young man pleads for help from his fa
ther because, having quarreled with a cer
tain youth, os the devil would have it, ho
struck him on the head with a stick, so
that he is now in prison and must pay 50
livres for bis release, while his enemy is
healed of his wounds and "goes free.
That the pranks of students were not al
ways, severely judged Wo may perhaps in
fer from the letter of a professor of law at
Orleans to a father at Besancon In which
it is said that, while no doubt tho man’s
son O. was one of a crowd that had sung a
ribald song pn an organ, the matter was
of no Importance, as the young man’s
general record was good and he was mak
ing excellent progress in law. Naturally,
too, tho examples of parental reproof have
something to say of the evils ot the time,
particularly gambling and riotous living,
but in general the formularies reflect the
more virtuous side of student life, and for
a more adequate portrayal of its vies and
violence we must turn to tho records of
courts, the Goliardio literature and the
vigorous denunciations of contemporary
preachers.—American Historical Review.
About Indian*.
The various tribes excelled in different
manufactures. The Iroquois made the
best bark lodges, the Algonqulns the best
skin tents, the Dakotas the best stone
pipes, the Pacific tribes the best boskets.
IAN OPEN LETTER
To MOTHERS. . “
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE
EXCLUSIVB USE OF THE WORD " CASTO BI A,” AND
“PITCHER’S CARTORTA,” AS OUR TRADE MARK.
7, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts,
90S the originator qf “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” the same
that has borne and does now
bear the facsimile signature of wrapper.
This is the original “ PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” which has been
used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty
years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is
the kind you have always bought on^c
and has the signature of wrap-
per. No one has authority from me to use my name ex
cept The Centaur Company of whieh Chas. H. Fletcher is
President. 7 7 «
March 8,1897. .p.
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 OF
if''
Insist on Having
The Kind That Never Failed You.
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