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ANNOUNCEMENTS. For Mayor. At the solicitation oi many citizens I hereby respectfully announce myself a candidate for mayor, subject to the prim mary of October lltb, promising if elected to faithfully oerfbrm the duties of the of fice in the Interest of all concerned. JNO. L. MOORE. Having faithfully served the City of Griffin as Mayor for one term, I announce as a candidate for re-election and respect fully solicit the votes of the citizens- W. D. DAVIS. For Aiderman I hereby announce myself a candidUe for Aiderman frqm the First Ward, and if elected I promise to do what in my honest judgment is to the good of the greatest number ol tax payers, regardless qf friend or foe- Yours, etc., C. HOMER WOLCOTT. I respectfully announce myself as a can didate for Aiderman from the first ward and solicit the support of my friends. J. H. SMITH. At the solicitation of friends I respect frilly announce myself a candidate for Ai derman from the Fourth Ward, and so licit the support of the citizens. Having a pride in the welfare of our city and her institutions I promise, if elected, to act for the best interest of the city and citizens and perform conscien tiously eyery duty assigned me. DAVID J. BAILEY. Having served the city as Aiderman from the 4th ward for the past two years, and conscientiously discharged my duty, I announce myself as a candidate for re election and respectfully solicit the votes and support of the citizens. M. D. MITCHELL. „ To the Voters of Griffin : lam a can didate lor Aiderman from Second Ward, and respectfully ask your support. M. J. PATRICK. r fcSBW « A RICHLY CARVED BUFFET in antique oak does more towards making an attractive dining room than anything you could furnish it with. We have handsome buffets, hand carved, with fan cy French plate mirrors. We have also extension tables to match, and rich dining room chairs at low prices. We have also an extensive stock of fine dining room sets st exceptional bargaing, L. W. GODDARD & SON. TAX COLLECTOR’S NOTICE. I will be at the different places on the days mentioned below for the purpose of collecting state and county taxes for 1898. Africa, October 17-31, November 14. Union, “ 18, “ 1-15. Line Creek, “ 19, “ 2-16. Mt. Zion, “ 20, " .’3-17. Orn, “ 21, “ 4-18. Akin, “ 24, “ 7-21. Cabbins, “ 25, “ 8-22. I will be at my office at H, W. Hassel kus’ shoe store at all dates until December 20, when my.books will close. T. R. NUTT, T, C. STATE OF GEORGIA, ‘Spalding County. J. H. Grubbs, guardian of H. W., Sarah L„ Mollie, T. J. and C A. McKneely and Amanda M. Burke, has applied to me for a discharge from the guardianship of the above named persons. This is therefore to notify all persons concerned to file their objections, if any they have, on or before the first Monday in November, 1898, else he will be discharged from his guardian ship, as applied for. Oct. 3,1898. J. A. DREWRY, Ordinary. I’are Constipation Forever. Take CaScarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c. it C.C.C. fail tc cure, drezgists refund moue* J ' GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COACH Shows the contrast in the lumbersome vehicle of that time, compared with the strong and light running gear and beautiful designs in carriages of today. We have no back numbers, or old time stiff carriages in our stock, but everything that is handsome and up* to-date in buggies,■ phetons, traps carts, buckboards, etc. L. C. MANLEY, ««r- THE TIMMER MARKET. It to a Vaieaa ACalr Held at AIM*. 4ee«, Seatlaad. On the last Wednesday of August ev ery year is a fair, called the “Timmer market,’* held in the Castle equate in Aberdeen, Scotland.' Some 50 or <0 years ago nothing could be bought at it but wooden articles, from which arose the name “Timmer.” Now.however.it is the Scotch housewife’s last chance of getting her berries for preserving. Ev ery patron of the market knows that after that month the only chance of fruit is gone; hence the rush. Great and small, rich and poor, alike turn out. x Booths set to the best advantage and numbering perhaps 300 are arranged in rows, ample room being left for the buy ers and pleasure seekers between. Fruit stalls, old clothes dealers, shooting ranges, wheels of fortune—everything to make a penny—can be found there. Schools and colleges have no recognized holiday on that Wednesday, yet the average “med” is a regular attendant. Up and down he parades, blowing his trumpet in the face of every one he meets and looking the very picture of happiness. By 7 o’clock the "tarry rope” lamps are lit and the fun commences. Country '“bumkins” fetch their “lasses” and buy them candy add pears or whatever is wished for, provided that the cost does not exceed sixpence. The elite of both sexes mix with the crowd and “treat,” the one the other. When all is about sold out, the students start for homo with a rush, upsetting the stalls as they go. Nothing of course is said by the police, it being “Timmer” day. Should any one be so absentminded as to forget the months and the days there of he has no doubt whatever from the head splitting noise of the last Wednes day in August FEEDING A SKELETON. A Hotel Man’s Experience With a Freak Boarder. “Once in awhile I have some freak boarders,” said a hotel manager. “One time I had a living skeleton who came very near breaking me up in business. He came here for a long stay, as he was going to make the rounds of all the museums in town. His manager came to me and made arrangements for the skeleton to live at my hotel while he was in the city. I supposed that a liv ing skeleton didn’t live on much of anything but water, so I made him a rate away down—s 3 a week, 1 believe— it was for board and room. The skele ton arrived early one morning, so the first meal he had at the hotel was break fast. "After he had finished his breakfast and gone to his room I went to the din ing room and asked the waiter what the skeleton had eaten. I nearly fell dead when the waiter told me that the new boarder had consumed three cups of cof fee, two orders of beefsteak, four fried eggs, two big baked potatoes, half a loaf of bread and a plate of buckwheat cakes. What do you think of that? That was certainly the worst surprise party I ever experienced. But there was no way out of it I had made the rates and I could not ‘fire’ the skeleton out He staid with me nearly six weeks, and he came close to eating me out of house and home. ” —Exchange. Long Service. A description of the old New England Sabbath is calculated to make restless children of the present day and possibly some of their elders thankful they were not born two centuries ago. The Sabbath began Saturday after noon with the going down of the sun. Sunday morning a horn was loudly blown to announce the hour of worship. Service began at 9 o’clock and lasted for eight hours, with an intermission of one hour for dinner and conversation. In the earliest days the congregation sat on rude benches, their seats being as signed them at town meeting. The service consisted of several parts, which are chronicled in an ancient diary as follows: “Preliminary prayer or invocation; chapter of Bible read and expounded;' psalm in meter, read out line by line by Deacon S.; long prayer on various matters, one hour and a half; sermon of 100 to 250 pages; at close of service, baptism; sinners put on trial, confessed before congregation. Minister C. bowed right and left, no person stirring till he had passed down and out of the meet ing house.”—Youth’s Companion. Origin of the Days of the Week. Sunday, the day devoted to the wor ship of the sun by our forefathers. Mon day, the day devoted to the worship of the moon by our forefathers. Tuesday, the day devoted to the worship of Tieu or Tyw, the god of war. Wednesday, the day devoted to the worship of Woden or Odin, the god of wind. Thursday, the day devoted to the wor ship of Thor, the god of thunder. Fri day, the day devoted to the worship of Freya or Friga, the Venus of the north. Saturday, the day devoted to the wor ship of Saturn, the god of agriculture, or Satyr, the god of the forest. Essential. "There is no denying,” exclaimed the Chinese emperor, “that China is a great country. Our nation is one whose importance the world canqpt fail to recognize;” “The other countries are the ones who carry on the real contests, ” mildly suggested Li Hung Chang. “1 know it. But we’re the stakes. ” Washington Star. In France the oxen that work in the fields are regularly sung to as an en couragement to exertion, and no peasant has the slightest doubt but that the ani mals listen to him with pleasure. Elephants on Indian railways pay at the rate of 6 cents a mile. The baggage (cars have compartments for dogs, cats, guinea pigs, rabbits and monkeys. — JLLX.T'Y.'JI INBgculttTY - Every prop on « Meh I lean. Kvery earthly prop, I mesa. Os whose power J chanoe to boast. B Faile u» when I need it most Lover, brother, elater, friend. On whose nearness { depend, Those whose very presence gives Strength by which my spirit lived, Fall away by some mieehaaoa, Death or other cirenmstance. And I find myself indeed Leaning on a broken reed. When these earthly tetters part. All these clasps around my heart Fall away, and I am left Os life's sweetest joys bereft. To what depths of woe I drop, Seeking vainly for some i*op All sufficient to sustain One in loneliness and pain. Like a drowning man I reach Upward and for aid beeseah. “Help me, Lord I" I cry and stand Well supported by his hand. Through the desert, through the tide. He has promised to abide Ever near; where'er I be, Whispers gently, “Lean on me.” Earthly ties, how Insecure! Heavenly ties alone endure, And my idols all were slain That I might this knowledge gain. —New York Ledger. --. . - ■■ - -■■ ' a ’ THEY GAVE THE BALLS. And the People Danced to Pay the Debt* of LotUs XIV. hr 1712 Louis XTV favored the Opera, then established in the first salle of th« Palais Royal (there have been two) with a special mansion for the better accommodation of its administration, archives and rehearsals. This hotel it situated in the Rue Nicaise. The build ing was generally designated under the name of “Magasia, ” whence the term “Filled du Magasin” (not “de mags sin”) subeequently not only to the fe male choristers and supers, but the fe male dancers themselves. It so happen ed that the king forgot to pay his archi tects and workmen. In order to satisfy them the Chevalier de Bouillon conceiv ed the idea of giving balls in the opera house, for which idea he received az annual pension of 6,000 francs. He was paid, but the king’s debtors were not, for, although the letters patent were granted somewhere about the beginning of 1718, not a single ball had been give* when the most magnificent of the Bour bon sovereigns descended to his grave. One day, shortly after his death, d*A¥genson, the then lieutenant of po lice, was talking to Louis* nephew, Philippe d’Orleans, the regent. “Mon seigneur,” he said, “there are people who go about yelling that his majesty of blessed memory was a bankrupt and a thief. I’ll have them arrested and have them flung into some deep under ground dungeon.” “You don’t know what you are talking about," was the answer. “Those people must be paid, and then they’ll cease to bellow. ” “Bui how, monseigneur?” “Let’s give the balls that were projected by Bouillon. ” So said, so done, and the people danced to pay Louis XTV’s debts, as, according to Shadwell, people drank to fill Uharlei H’s coffers: The king's most faithful subjects we In's service are not dull. We drink to show our loyalty And make his coffers full. —London Saturday Review. Chesterfield Superficiality. Chesterfield’s idea of excellence was essentially superficial, for his praise ol solid acquirement and genuine princi ple is always coupled with the assertion of their entire inutility if unaccompa nied by grace, external polish and an agreeable manifestation. He omits all consideration of their intrinsic worth and absolute dignity; their value to the individual, according to him, is wholly proportioned to his skill in using them in a social form. In one of his earlier letters to Philip Stanhope he writes: “What an advan tage has a graceful speaker with gen teel motions, a handsome figure, over one who shall speak full as much good sense, but who is destitute of these or naments. In business how prevalent are the graces, how detrimental is the want of them! If you should not acquire manners, all the rest will be of little use to you. By manners I mean engag ing, insinuating, shining manners, a distinguished politeness, an almost ir resistible address, a superior graceful ness in all you say and do. ” He would have maimers overlay individuality and goes so far as to declare that a soldier is a brute, a scholar, a pedant and a philosopher, a cynic without good breed ing.—Gentleman’s Magazine. A Former Chineie Fleet. It consisted chiefly of old junks which had not been in the water for more than 30 years. During this lengthened period the sea had receded, and the land had formed to the extent of more than a mile, the consequence being that these ancient vessels were high and dry, their masts, sails and gear had rotted away from the long exposure to the sun and rain, the paint had peeled from their sides, and, in some cases, the very planking had been stolen for firewood. —“Pioneering In Formosa,” by W. A. Pickering. Moved Mine Million Pound*. American engineers have just per formed a feat at Bismarck, N. D., which has never before been equaled. It took them an entire year to make their preparations, and when all was ready they moved a pier of the Northern Pacific railway bridge, weighing 9,000,- 000 pounds, about four feet in a few minutes. The allowance of the lord mayor of London, up to the mayoralty of Sir Sid ney Waterlow in 1878, was $40,000 an nually, but it was increased in that year to $60,000, at which sum it has ever since remained. There is an American hotel at Limon, Porto Rica It is called the Grand. It rests on piers set in tbe coral reef where ceaseless spray from the nearby sort re - fleets rainbow tints in he sunlight. ■mtaStaSE-j XL . Th. Bate* W tao “How can I learn the roles of tbe bourns?” asked a newly elected Irish member of tbe lata Mr. ParoslL “By breaking them,” wa* the prompt reply of the Irish leader, who, m is well known, spoke from experience an the point But few members would care to adopt that heroic method of obtaining the desired knowledge, and their task in mastering tbe rules is rendered all the more difficult by the curious fleet that many of these regulations are un written. Some will be found in the standing orders, or permanent rules; bdt those that deal with etiquette and decorum have not been officially recorded any where, save in a few quaint and obso lete regulations to be found in the old issues of tbe journals of the house or la the minutes of proceedings taken by the clerk and published daily during the session. - For instance, a strange rule for the guidance of the speaker is set down un der the 16th of February, IMO, “The speaker not to move his hat until tbe third congee.” Propriety of carriage in leaving the chamber is thus enforced, “Those who go out of the house in a confused manner before the speaker to forfeit 10 shillings.” This rule is dated tbe 18th of November, 1640. Again wo find that on the 28d of March, 1698, it was ordered, “No member to take tobacco into the gallery or to the table sitting at committees. ” —Nineteenth Century. -- Useful UnthDoft. If you are going to prospect in Alaska and expect to travel much, a pair of good “Siwash” dogs are very essential —almost indispensable. These dogs greatly differ from our domesticated aogs, taking to the harness like a duck to water. They do not bark at stran gers. They are kind and affectionate, showing the wolf in them only among their kind. It seems to be against their principles to get off the trail to let an other team pass. This moans a fight, an exciting epi sode if the teams number five or six dogs each. In an instant the wildest confusion takes place. Dogs, harness and each driver with a club in his hand form one grand jumble from which or der can only be restored by some of the dogs being knocked senseless. The dogs are trained to “gee” and “haw,” like an ox and stop at the word “whoa!” “Mush” is the word used generally by the whites to indicate go ahead, a per- 4 version of the Indian word “husch. ” The dogs prefer their master, but if lent for use they work as faithfully as for their master. —San Francisco Chron icle. ‘ ! ' Damaging. A Chicago politician—a veteran in the ranks—was recently accused by • farmer henchman of having offered him a bribe of SSOO to do a job for him. The wily “second fiddle” kept the S6OO and afterward brought it in evidence against his former chief. While the scandal was being blown about town an Loquaintance of the accused met him oqo day and slapping him good natured ly on the back said chaffingly: “Well, John, so you were going to drop SSOO in Bill’s way, were you?” The politician colored, or, to speak ac curately, his already florid complexion took on a. purple tinge, as he said by way of explaining his agitation (his original language is revised): “Now, I don’t give a hang for the talk about bribing him. That ain’t nothing. But it hurts my reputation to have my friends think I was such a clam as to give that heeler SSOO when I could have bought him with a ham I” —New York Commercial Advertiser. Forgot Something. Helen and her father and mother were dining in a hotel, and Helen, who was 6 years old, had never before dined in a public place. The waiter wm so attentive and cour teous that Helen’s mother said that be iqust be tipped at the end of the meal. The word tipped was one Helen had never heard used except in connection wth a dump cart on her father’s prem ises. When they got up to leave the diping room, she mid: “Qb, pups, papal You forgot to dump the waiter!”—Youth's Compan ion. Both Satisfied. HickjhrWheeler and Brassey met for thd first time yesterday, and they got ,o» together, famously. They kept up thriOrii imtil late in tbe evening. JwidKs*"Wbat were they talking aboqt? ■ Hicks—Bicycles and golf. wxoks—But Wheeler doesn’t know th? first thing about golf. Hicks —Neither does Brassey know anything about bicycling. But that maxes no difference. Each kept it up ouols favorite topic without listening to the other.—Boston Transcript. Mb ÜBbasns - ghe Qther evening a man was rush fog Ipx'frugh Che streets of London hur-, fT»g loan appointment when a swell Misefijn front of him who bald his fifiMtfffil* at a dangerous angle. Tbe basO* pedestrian pulled the umbrella away from the swell, and then, step ping artxuty} to him, said in suavest tone: “Oh, by the way, here’s your um brella. 1 found it in ray eye.”—Pick Me Up. Wealth on Its Travel*. „ _ Miss Ollabrod There's a clever sculptress down this way. You ought to see what she can make out of butter. Miss Ritchley Gzaest She’s a good one if she can make as much out of it as my pa xaukea set of oleomargarine. -Chicago Tribune. r ' - ..eo .. „ - A man should allow none but good impulses to stir his heart, and he sbtrald keep it free from any evil that may teat it down and harden it.—Bev. J. D. Hammoud. C'AQTnDIAI Ab I UK hi The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in Ute for over 30 years, haa borne the algnatww es »>»<! lum been made under his per* • ona l zuperviakm since ftainfhncy. Allow no one teAeeetve you ha tMa. 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