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Ordinary'* Advertisements. /'ORDINARY’S OFFICE, Bfaldimg Coumty, Ga. To all whom it may concern: Beaton Grantland, administrator Mrs. Susan M. Bailey, deceased, baaing in proper form applied to me tor leave to sell the follow ini property. Two shares of the Kincaid MTg. Co. stock No. 89. Two shares Griffin Compress stock No. 85, Two shares the Griffin M’f’g. Co. stock 196, tour shares The Merchants* Planters Bank stock Na 131, One 2nd preferred Central Income R. R. Bond No 8911, and for the purpose of erecting monuments over the graves of David J. Bailey, Br., and Mrs. Busan M. Bailey, deceased. Let all persons con cerned show cause, if any there be, before the Court of Ordinary, in Griffin, Georgia, on the first Monday In January. 1899, by 10 oclock a. m., why such order should not be granted. December Sth, 1898. J. A. DREWRY, Ordinary. STATE OF GEORGIA, Spalding County. To all whom it may concern: W. H. Moore, administrator, Henry and Virginia L. Moore, deceased, having in proper form applied to me tor leave to sell one (I) undivided one fourth (J) interest in a forty (40) acre tract of wild land being all or part of Lot No. 127,215 t District, 2nd section, formally Cass now Bartow coun ty. Georgia. Said interest being a part of the estate of Virginia L. Mure, deceased, and that for the purpose of division it is necessary to sell said land, Dec. sth, 1898. J. A. DREWRY, Ordinary. STATE OF GEORGIA, Spalding County. . Whereas, E. A. Huckaby, administrator de bonis non of Nathan Fomby, represents to the court in bis petition, duly filed and entered on record, that he has fnlly admin istered on Nathan Fomby’s estate. This is therefore to cite all persons concerned, kindred and creditors, to show cause, if any they can, why said administrator should not be discharged from his admin istration, and receive letters of admission on the first Monday in March, 1899. Dec. 6th, 1898. J. A. DREWRY, Ordinary. STATE OF GEORGIA, Spalding County. To all whom it may concern: R. H. Williamson, having in proper form ap plied to me for permanent letters of ad ministration on the estate of Henry E. Williamson, late of said county, this is to cite all and singular the creditors and next of kin of H. E. Williamson, to be and ap pear-at my office in Griffin, Ga , on the first Monday in January, 1899, by ten o’clock a. m., and to show cause, if any they can. why permanent administration should not be granted to R. H. William son on H. E. Williamson’s estate. Witness my hand and official signature, this 6th day of Dec. 1898. J. A. DREWRY, Ordinary. STATE OF GEORGIA, Spalding County. Commissioners appointed to set apart twelve months* support to Mrs. Anna B. Williamson and her minor child, having performed their duty, and filed their re port in this office. Let all persons con ceded show cause before the court of or dinary, at the Ordinary’s office, by 10 o’clock a. m , on first Monday in January, 1899, why such report should not be made the i udgment of the court. Dec. 6,1898. J. A. DREWRY, Ordinary. STATE OF GEORGIA, Spalding County. Whereas, B. R. Blakely, administrator of Mrs. Melvina Couch, represents to the court in his petition, duly filed and enter ed on record, that he has fully administer ed on Mrs. Melvina Couch’s estate. This is therefore to cite all persons concerned, kindred and creditors, to show cause, if any they can, why said administrator should not be discharged from his admin stration, and receive letters of dismission on the first Monday in March, 1899. Dec. 8 1898 J. A. DREWRY, Ordinary. Guardian’s Sale. ORDINARY’S OFFICE, Spalding County, Ga. By virtue of an order granted by the Ordinary of Spalding county, Georgia, at the December term of said court, 1898, I will sei.' to the highest bidder, before the court house door in Griffin, Georgia, be tween the legal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in January, 1899, the following real estate situated in Griffin, Spalding county, Georgia, bounded as follows: north by Shattuc place, east by(ls) Fif teenth street, south by J. D. Boyd’s estate and west by B. C. Randall, containing five acres, more or less. Also, one house and lot bounded as fol lows; nort hby Mrs. Sallie Cooper, east by Thirteenth street, south by Solomon street and west by vacant lot, containing half acre, more or less, and sold for the pur pose of encroaching on corpus of ward’s estate for their maintenance and education. Terms cash. December sth, 1898. Amanda E. Doe, Guardian her minor children. Administrator’s Sale. STATE OF GEORGIA, Spalding County. By viriue of an order granted by the Court of Ordinary of Spalding county, Georgia at the December term of said court, 1898,1 will sell to the highest bid der, before the court house door in Griffin, between the legal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in January, 1899, Three fourths (|) of an acre of land and a three room house in the western part of the city of Griffin in the eaid county, being a fraction of lot No. two (2) adjoining lot No. one (1), situated near the Christian church and near the Central railroad of Georgia, and for the purpose of division among the heirs and legatees of said es tate. Terms cash. W. H. MOORE, Administrator Henry Moore, deceased. December sth, 1898,- wain a JVom tr.S. Journal <lf JMMm I T J Prof. w. H. Peeke, who makes a specialty of * A ■ ■ A V Epilepsy, has without ■ ■ W. doubt treated and cur ed more cases than any £ ■ ■ living Physician; his ■ ■ ■ k > success is astonishing. We have heard of cases W at so years’ standing fiirrns UUi bot tle of his absolute cure, free to any sufferer, who may send their P. O. and Express address, RILEY’S JOKES. Poet Talka lattrntlßC* Ijr to a Reporter. The Hoosier Poet, was busy when the Tales of the Town man called upon him. “Glad you oame in," he said. “Not that I’ve been—but that’s General New’s story. General New of the Indi anapolis Journal called on General Grant during the letter’s first term and found the president warrior laughing heartily. Os course New looked as though he wanted to know the reason, and the general told him. He said he’d just had a sail from an old friend who lived in Galena, Ills., one of hia early day acquaintances, who said he’d been in Washington for two or three days, but had been so busy that he was un able to cal) upon his old friend, the president, any sooner, and he apologiz ed for the delay. General Grant looked at him- in his comical fashion and gravely said: “ ‘Well, John, I haven’t been lone some I’ “Yon see, the visit occurred at a time when the president was being harassed to death by callers from all directions, who had driven him nearly to distraction. “A man who travels a good deal comes to know towns because of certain points that are usually entirely person al with him. Sometimes a bad hotel, sometimes an extremely early train, will stamp a characteristic on a town. I remember that my old friend Bill Nye was onoe chatting with Senator Shirley of Maine and remarked upon the fact that he (Nye) was born at Shirley, in the senator’s state, adding that the town had doubtless been nam ed for one of sh e senator’s ancestors. “ ’I didn't know, ’ said tbs senator, ‘that there was such a town in Maine as Shjrley.’ •“ 'L didn’t know it either, ’ said Nye, 'until I was born there I’ " And the poet went on with his writ ing.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. HE COWED THE BULLY. Harold Frederic** Encoanter With a Lordly Prussian Lieutenant. Harold Frederic’s self confidence and power of dominating strangers stood him in good stead in one of his first visits—if not his very first visit—to Berlin. The incident as he related it seemed natural enough to an American not brought up in awe of a military caste, but to those who knew Germany it was almost surprising that he came through it with his life. He had been paying some formal diplomatic calls, and in the evening dropped in at the Case Bauer in the unwonted glory of a frock coat and a tall silk hat. This hat was carefully hung on a liat stand, and Frederic sat down to read an English newspaper just arrived. Enter a particularly fine specimen of the lieutenant, booted and spurred and sworded and epauletted. He brushed against the hat stand,knocked Frederic’s bat over into the sawdust and swag gered to his seat without so much as looking around. The slight to the hat was more than Frederic could endure. In a towering passion he went to the lieutenant, stood over him and pointed to the object on the floor. “Pick up that hat, sirl" he roared. The officer stared amazed; the waiters were par alyzed with terror at hearing one so much more than human so addressed by a civilian. “Pick up that hat I" re peated Frederic in a tone more menac ing than before. And the lieutenant did what he was told. He was as irresisti bly dominated by the courage and foroe of the man as a schoolboy before his master, or perhaps he thought Frederic carried the customary west American revolver. —Saturday Review. The Danger of Disease. The danger from a case of diphtheria in New York at any season of the year is far greater than the danger from a case of yellow fever in the same place. Still persons who would shun a street where a case of yellow fever existed would deliberately enter the apartment of a person suffering from diphtheria. A serious outbreak of typhoid fever creates but little consternation, and the presence in our midst of innumerable cases of tuberculosis, a disease which is responsible for an incredible number of deaths, is looked upon with indifference by the public. The misconception in regard to the danger from this class of diseases often renders the efforts of health officials ineffectual. —Alvah H. Doty, M. D., in North American Re view. Too Sugraeatlve of Luxury. “Doctor,” said the member of parlia ment for a rural district, “are you sure it’s gout that has attacked me?” “Positive. But you needn’t be alarm ed. It’s nothing very serious.” “Doctor, you don’t appreciate the situation. You don’t know what a prej udice againstgout there is in my com munity. I don’t ask you to do anything contrary to your conscience, but if I manage to get the story started that I caught my toe in a piece of machinery think of my prospects and the welfare oi your country and don’t contradict it.’’—London Tit-Bits. Thu First Celebration of Christmas. Christmas was first celebrated in the year 98, but it was 40 years later before it was officially adopted as a Christian festival. Nor was it until about the fifth century that the day of its celebra tion became permanently fixed on the 25th of December. Up to that time it had been irregularly observed at various times of the year—in December, in April and in May, but most frequently in January.—Ladies’ Home Journal. Just What He Meant. “It was a pitch battle,” he said. " ‘Pitched,’ you mean,” ehe correct ed. “1 don’t mean anything of the kind, ’ he replied. “I mean ‘pitch.’ It was a between tars. Post. / ( v x HYPHENATED NAMES. Cmuona Why the Yaahlen of Caio* VkMW I« Bccomlna Popolar. One of the fashions which, at first sight, seem difficult to account for is that par ticular weakness which causes an endless number of people to change their sur names. But a little thought will give the clew to the rapidly increasing army who yo through the world labeled in a form differing from the original advertisement of their known male ancestors. It is strange, but nevertheless a true fact, that the undoubted tendency of aristocratic families is to become extinct, or to end in heiresses. There Is no legitimate male descendant of any king of England who sat on the throne before the reign of George I. Os tiie 25 barons who set their hands to Magna Charta not a single male descend ant remains. There is not a single Eng lish barony by writ (heritable by or through females) now held by a male of the family In which it was originally created. There are only about 800 noble or gentle families now holding the same land in male succession which their male ancestors held even as, recently as the reign of King Henry VIL There is scarcely an English pedigree without a break. It is doubtful If there are 50 authentic male pedigrees today in England which can be taken back to the conquest. Thus the necessity of changing one’s name argued a connection with and de scent from an ancient family—ergo, it was ail aristocratic thing to change one’s name or take a double name. After that of course came the deluge of such changes. At a much later date camo the class who, with no inherited obligation to do so, were glad enough to perpetuate by a change of surname or by the adoption of a double surname the fact of their descent in a female line from an ancient house. At a still later date, probably within the last 50 years, has arisen yet another class, a typical product of the days wo live in, who for mere purposes of distinction, one might say from the necessity of distinc tion, have been glad to seize any plausible excuse to either make a complete change or more often to hyphen on some other name In the hope that the combination will be more or lees distinctive. While such names as Plantagenet, Maltravers, Mauloverer, Conyers, Fitzalan, De Bohun, etc., have become extinct, the names of Smith, Brown, Jones and Robinson still increase and multiply as the sand upon the seashore. And with this ghastly mul tiplication and duplication, small wonder that distinction becomes advantageous. It seems to be a-very general idea that a man may change his name, as, how and when ho likes, seeking the approval and authorization of no one save himself. Nearly every solicitor will advise you to this effect, because the textbooks he crams from and relies upon do not teach him to the contrary. This idea, unfortunately, is rapidly spreading and to a great extent dates from the following dictum of a judge, who remarked from the bench, “I know of no law to prevent any man chang ing his name as often as he likes, provided that it is not done for the purposes of fraud.” This is not the only case in which a judge has gone wrong by endeav oring to apply the rules of law court law •nd jurisdiction to matters of “honor,” which are in the sole prerogative of the crown and which are within the jurisdic tion of the earl marshal’s court.—Genea logical Magazine. Life on a Transport. You have no idea of what a transport is, and especially one that is overcrowded. It is really a hell on earth, or rather on wa ter! Thank heaven, the weather has been fine, and I have slept on deck every night, not oven going below when It rained. I never felt better in my life and have come to the conclusion that I can stand any thing. As I have not been at all seasick, I vol unteered for the stable police, who have to clean up below decks where the horses are. If you could put all the terrible smells in the world together, you would get some idea of what it is. We can only stand it for about half an hour at a time and then have to take a spell on deck to recover. If we had a storm, I am afraid it would go hard with some of the lads, as a good many are pretty seasick now. The food is fierce, and we onlyhavecon densed steam to drink, which is allhost hot, but still I seem to thrive upon it. Every morning we get up at 5 and form a line in our birthday suits and have a great hose played on us. Then we have break fast, and after that comes target practice at boxes over the stern. We were on fire three times in two days and only had hard tack and rotten coffee to eat and a little dirty water to drink.—Harper’s Weekly. Blsmarok's Head. Some accurate particulars as to the form and measurement of Prince Bismarck’s head have been contributed by Herr Fried rich H. Kranz, the present head of the old Frankfort, firm of hatmakers, Martini & Co., to the Hamburger Naohrlchten. As the Bismarck family objected to a cast of his head being taken after death, the trade statistics supplied by Herr Kranz may be valuable to future biographers and physi ologists. Fifty years ago, according to the first record of the Martini Kopfmass machine, Bismarck’s head had a width of 59J4 centimeters. During the later years of his life his head had swollen to the width of 62 centimeters. His skull was of a peculiar formation, the “bumps” being considerably larger on the right side than on the left. Perhaps this was a phrenological symbol of his po litical sympathies, for, though he once said that the old Adam in him was in clined to republicanism, he never allowed these early inclinations toward the left to influence his resolute determination to up hold the contrary side in politics, and the physical development of the right side of his skull may have been a trophy of the victory of bis will over his inclinations.— London News. An Odd Kentuckian. The Rev. Charles Kesterson is an odd Kentuckian who has been on both sides of the law. His father was one of the early pioneers of Hancock county, Tenn., and his mother was an Indian, being a member of the tribe of famous Malun geons. The Rev. Mr. Kesterson is 7 feet 8 inches tall, though he claims when in the prime of manhood he was over 8 feet tall. His weight is 309 pounds, and he is 73 years old. When lawlessness was at its height, the Rev. Mr. pesterson terror of that country. He never heard the whistle of a locoii < five or saw the iron monsters till a year <u when he went to Knox ville tmed by many of his neigh- bor br.s killed At least seven Th- ei.er denies this. He ac- kn< ' frroni of his youth, but sayi 'er lulled so mtwy.—Cin- Cim. CORYDON’S COMPLAINT, ? A. . The rartaadaoa wy crook era MMk That every morn 1 once rc->-w«l. To gather whteh la rtrecrac 1 waded Or searched the woodland’s solitoga. Whose blooms tn dewy wreaths I braided— Gold, watohat, white and rosy hued. Now fie on k»vo sad all his folly! My goodly mien la quite foregone; My looks, that wore so plump and jolly. Are changed to meager, lean and was; In mournful slough of melancholy Bight bogged and mired la Corydon. Sweet, dainty maid, fur whose disdaining Ido in scath and sorrow fare. Beauty once lost nor skill nor feigning Its lovely aspect may repair. Behold these wretched blocaoma waning I Aa you aro now, ao once they‘were. -Pall Mall Gazette EXPERT TOBzXCCO TESTING. Caban Buyers and Their Highly De veloped Sense of Smell. The greater part—in fact, nearly all —of the tobacco raised in Cuba and not used by the Cnbnn cigar makers is shipped to the United States. At certain seasons of the year the Havana hotels are filled with tobacco buyers from the United States. Some of them deal through the brokers in Havana, but some who know the country and the language go out into the tobacco dis trict and deal directly with the plant ers, often buying a promising crop be fore it is picked. The tobacco buyer has necessarily to be a good judge of tobac co. He goes down into the very center of tho bale of tobacco he is examining, extracts some samples and tests them in different ways. The first test is that of smell. The Cuban tobacco has a strong and pecul iar odor. A little variation one way or the other makes the tobacco good or bad. After smelling it the buyer is like ly to roll a rudely constructed oigar out of the leaf and smoke it He will inhale the smoke and endeavor to determine exactly the flavor. He will also examine the ash carefully and test also the com bustion of the tobacco—that is, try to find out how long it will hold fire. It Is a great annoyance to a smoker who is talking or writing or otherwise engaged to put his cigar into his month and find that it has gone out. No cigar ever tastes so good after it has once gone out, and a fine Havana cigar is positively rank when it has met such a catas trophe. So one quality sought for is that of holding fire. If a sample smoked by the buyer will keep lighted four minutes, it is considered very good. Some will burn for five minutes and even longer without being puffed.— Ohio State Journal. Schley’s Loor Lears. A Kansas City man who was a class mate of Schley’s at Annapolis says that the admiral was looked upon as the best Spanish and French scholar In the navy. His department at the academy was modern languages. “I remember one thing in particular about him, and that is his Jong legs. He is not notice ably tall, but his legs are of wondrous length and he can run like a deer. In the navy they never tire of telling about Schley in Korea. During the trouble there we sent a landing party ashore in charge of Schley. The boat had not more than reached the shore when out jumped the marines to make a dash for the parapets, possibly half a mile away. In the lead was Schley. In a jiffy he was far ahead of everybody, his legs working vigorously, and when the em bankments were reached he had prac tically distanced all the others." Too Costly. The San Francisco Argonaut tells a new story about Stephen Massett, so well known years ago asPJeems Pipes.” When he was the editor of the Marys ville (Oal.) Herald, Mr. Hittell, the well known California pioneer and author, engaged him in argument on re ligion, which Mr. Hittell attacked, finally winding up by saying, “See here, Massett, you ought to get my book on ‘Evidences Against Christianity;’ that will convince you.” ’■‘Very well,” said Masset, “I will.” So the next time he entered a bookstore he asked for it. The clerk showed him the work in two volumes. “How much is it?” said Massett. “Three dollars,” replied the clerk. “What!” exclaimed Massett. “Three dollars! Take it back, sir, take it back; I prefer to remain a Christian. ” ' Couldn’t Fool Her. “Nobody can learn all there is worth knowing in this lifetime,” said Mr. Meekton wisely. “And a man ought never to assume that his education is finished. I’m going to keep right ahead with mine. I’m going to study astrono my. ” His wife looked at him sharply and then in a cold, hard tone exclaimed: “Leonidas, you’ll have to think up some better excuse than that for stay ing out all night”—Washington Star. Head Wheels and Tailrace. An answer recently filed by "the learned “council” for the defendant in a New York court contains the follow ing: “The defendant denyes that the description of a contemplated tailrace of about one rod and four inches across defendant’s land is contained in aney water right to run or flow water, but is put in plaintiff’a complaint from wheels in plaintiff’s head.”—Case and com ment. ( Inaenioua. Servant (to artist returning from a holiday)—There have been so callers since you left that I have been obliged towash the name from the slate twice to make room for others. —Pear- son’s Weekly. The British museum contains a very full collection of clay pipes, dating back as far as the sixteenth century. 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