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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. 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