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uruinary i MuvvnisoiiienTce
OFFICE,
Vz Sfaldiwg County, Ga.
Bailey, deceased, having in proper form
applied U me for leavetoaell the follow-
Ing property. Two shares of the Kincaid
MTg. Go. stock No. 89. Two shares
Griffin Oompress stock No. 85, Two shares
the Griffin M’f’g. Co. stock 196, four shares
The Merchants* Planters Bank stock No.
181, One 2nd preferred Central Income
R. R. Bond No 8911, and for the purpose
of erecting monuments over the graves of
David J. Btiley, Br., and Mrs. Susan M.
Bailey, deceased. Let all persons con
cerned show cause, if any there be, before
the Court of Ordinary, in Griffin, Georgia,
* Oh toefirst Monday la January. 1899, by
10 oclock a. m„ why such order should
V 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
fornvapplisd to me for leave to sell one (1)
undivided one fourth (i) interest in a
forty (40) acre tract of wild land being all
or part of Lot No. llfl, 21st District, 2nd
section, formally Cass now Bartow coun
ty. Georgia. Said interest being a part of
the estate ofVirginia L. Moore, deceased,
and that for the purpose of division it is
necessary to sell said land, Dec. sth, 1898.
X A- DREWRY, Ordinary.
STATE OF GEORGIA,
Spalding County.
Whereas, E. A. Huckaby, administiator
de bonis non of Nathan Fomby, represents
to the court in bis petition, duly filed and
entered on record, that he has fullv 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
onthewstMonday 1899. Dec.
’ ' 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 tb
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
cerned 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 judgment of tne court Dec. 6,1898.
J. A. DREWRY, Ordinary.
STATE OF GEORGIA,
Spalding County.
Whereas, B.R. Blakely, administrator
of Mra. 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 mfn, why said administrator
Should not aqdiscbarged from his admin
istration, 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 seL 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. Bailie 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.
Term* cash. December Sth, 1898.
Amanda E. Doe,
Guardian her minor children.
Administrator’s Sale.
STATE OF GEORGIA,
Spalding County.
By virtue of an order granted by the
Court of Ordinary of Spalding county.
Georgia as the December term of said
court, 1898,1 will sell to the highest bid
der, before the court house door in Griffin,
between toe legal hours of sale, on the
first Tuesday in January, 1899, Three
fourths (f) of an acre of land and a three
room house in toe western -part of the
cify of Griffin in the said-county, being a
fraction of lot No. two (2) adjoining lot
No. one (1), situated near the Christian
church ana near the Central railroad .of
Georgia, and for toe purpose of division
among toe heirs and legatees of said es
tate. Terms cash. W. H. MOORE,
Administrator Henry Moore, deceased.
December sto, 1898.
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A DANGEROUS DUTY.
INSPECTING DOUBLE BOTTOMS IN
OUR NAVAL VESSELS.
It M Kxtremaly naaartoaa «■« Try
lav Wort. nml Many PreeaattoM
Ar« Nece S aa.r> to Prevent Ua of
Life Daring: the Operation.
There is one phase of the ship life of
-♦he American naval officer that is
scarcely known to the layman and that
can hardly be understood, by him as he
looks upon the modern ship in all her
attractive cleanliness and meets her
neatly uniformed officers upon the spot
less upper deck. Not only are the parts
of the ship in sight kept clean and free
from rust and decay, but also those far
down, contracted spaces that never see
the light of day. These include the cel
lular compartments between the inner
and outer skins of the ship, known tech
nically as the “double bottom,“and
other plaoes that separate the magazines
and various built up atructures within
the ship from the outer akin.
These narrow compartments are espe
cially susceptible to dampness and rust,
and in order that those who have the
care of them may do their duty well
and so prevent the decay of the ship a
system of inspection has been devised,
and the inspectors mast be, under the
naval regulations, commissioned offi
cers. "A permanent board of inspection
is formed upon each ship, which must
consist of one engineer and two line of
ficers. The duty of this board is period
ically to make personal inspections of
all the parts of the ship, examine every
thing critically, suggest remedies for
any evils that may be found to exist
and to report to the commanding offi
cer, for transmission to the navy de
partment, the condition of the vessel in
detail.
Uniforms are discarded while mak
ing these inspections, and olad in sea
men’s ordinary working suits these offi
cers crawl upon all fours throughout the
length of toe bottom of the ship, wrig
gle snakelike through narrow openings
and examine with their own eyes every
inch of the surface of the thin steel
plates. The paint of these compart
ments, softened by dampness in some
plaoes and by heat and the steam laden
air of the boiler rooms in others, rubs
off upon the working suits, and an
hour’s crawling transforms the neat
officer into a very sorry spectacle. In
some modern navies this duty is per
formed by the enlisted men, the officers
being excused from it, but in onr navy
the feeling exists that an enlisted man
should not be asked to go where an offi
cer Is hot willing to lead. The result is
that “things always work” With the
Americans and the efficiency of toe fleet
is assured.
Numerous precautions must be taken
to avoid the risk of losing life while
performing this duty, for it is attended
with no little danger- The atmosphere
of confined spaces entirely or -partly
closed for a considerable length of time
becomes robbed of its oxygen in the
formation of rust and is soon made unfit
to sustain life. If possible, such com
partments are blown out with pure air
led through a hose from a blower duct
and all manhole plates removed before
being entered. A lighted candle is al
ways carried by the inspecting officer
upon his crawling tour. If the candle
burns dimly or seems upon the point of
being extinguished, there is a deficiency
of oxygen, and he will immediately
seek the nearest opening leading from
the compartment and leave it at once.
Men are stationed at places as near as
possible to him, so that they may hear
this Voice and render immediate assist
ance in case of need. No one is allowed
to eut:r any confined apace on board
ship without an uncovered light, al
though in addition a portable electrio
light is carried frequently to render the
inspection more thorough.
It not infrequently happens that offi
cers and men become so wedged between
bulkheads and beams while performing
this duty as to make it extremely diffi
cult to remove them, and more than one
officer of the navy is uppn the retired
list today because of permanent injury
to his health contracted while perform
ing this arduoas labor. Because of the
care exercised it is rare that a life is
lost in this service, but in one case at
least the rashness of a man proved fatal
to him. One of the main boilers of the
cruiser Newark, while flagship of the
south Atlantic station, having been
tightly closed for a month, while empty,
in order to preserve it from deteriora
tion, the coppersmith of that vessel, an
energetic, faithful man, thbught its in
terior should be examined and, al
though warned repeatedly never to en
ter such a boiler without an open light,
removed an upper manhole plate and
crawled in upon the braces with an
electrio light He told no one that he
was going into the boiler, and no one
was stationed to assist him in case of
need. His dead body was found half out
and half in the boiler manhole with the
electric light still burning brightly
Within the boiler. He had evidently
crawled in upon the braces, felt a faint
ness creeping over him and had en
deavored to regain the open air, but lost
consciousness just as life lay within
his reach, and so died of asphyxiation.
The air in the boiler had been entire
ly robbed of its oxygen by the iron of.
the shall in the formation of rust, and
toe residuum was unfit to breathe. A
lighted candle was snuffed out immedi
ately upon being thrust into the boiler,
and this condition prevailed until a
lower manhole plate was removed, when
the heavy gas ran out as water might,
and the air within eoon came to be
quite pure. No more vivid illustration
of the dangers to be encountered in the
care of ships afloat and the precautions
necessary to be taken in this duty could
be given than this incident, which
shows that toot and shell and bursting
steam pipes are not the only dangers
that confront the officers and men of
Undo Sam’s nary New York SOU-
TH E SERFS OF RUSSIA.
rinwvina Tk»wi Wa<m» e at <*• Ba.
«Im •« th. Paltea.
Father will not be appeased, says
Prince Kropotkin in The Atlantia He
rails in Makar, the piano tuner and
subbutler, and reminds him of all his
recent tins He was drunk last week
and must have been drank yestesday,
for he broke half a dozen plates. In
fact, the breaking of these plates was
the real cause of all the disturbance.
Stepmother had reported <i»e fact to fa
ther in the morning, and that wits why
Uliana wan received with more sodd
ing than was usually the case, Wi» the
verification of the hay was undertaken
and why father continued to shout that
“this progeny of Ham” deserved all the'
punishments on earth.
All of a sudden there is a lull In the
storm. My father has taken hi* seat at
the table and writes a note to the polios
station. “Take Makar with this note
to the police station, and let 100 lashes
with the birch rod be given to him.”
Terror and absolute muteness reign
in the house.
The clock strikes 4, and we all go
down to dinner, but no one has any ap
petite, and the soup remains in the
plates untouched. We are ten at table,
and behind each one of ua a violinist or
a trombone player stands, with a clean
plate in hie left hand, but Makar is not
among them.
“ Where is Makar?” stepmother asks.
“Call him in.”
Makar does not appear, and toe order
is repeated. He enters at last, pale,
with a distorted face, ashamed, his eyes
east down. Father looks into his plate,
while stepmother, seeing that no one
has touched the soup, tries to encourage
us.
“Don’t you find, children,” she says,
“that the soup is delicious?"
Tears suffocate me, and immediately
after dinner is over I run out, catch
Makar in a dark passage and try to
kiss his hand, but be tears it away and
says, either as a reproach or as a ques
tion, “Let me alone. And you, too,
when you are grown up, will be just
the same?”
“No, no; never!”
Yet father was not of the worst of
landowners. On the contrary, the serv
ants and the peasants considered him to
be one of the best. What we saw in
our house was going on everywhere,
often in mnch more cruel forms. The
flogging of toe serfs was a regular part
of the duties of the police.
LONG DISTANCE FIGHTING.
Impo.xtble to Tell Intantry From
Cavalry at Two Thousand Yard..
“Unless they have had experience,"
remarked an army officer, “people are
very likely to have a very imperfect
idea as to distances in army and field
operations and as a result get things
considerably mixed. When they read
that armies are engaging with each oth
er at 2,000 yards between them, they
may think that they can see each other,- 4
bnt the xeality is far different.
“At that distance, to toe naked eye,
a man or a horse does not look any
larger than a speck. It is impossible to
distinguish at that distance between a
man and a horse, and. at 800 yards less,
1,200 yards, especially where there is
any dust, i< requires the-best kind of
eyes to tell infantry frtan cavalry. At
900 yards the movements become clear
er, though it is not until they get with
in 750 yards of each other that the
heads of the columns can be made out
with anything like certainty.
“Infantry can be seen in the sunlight
much easier than the cavalry or artil
lery, for the reason that less dust is
raised. Besides that, infantry can be dis
tinguished by the glitter of their mus
kets. At 2,000 yards, however, every
thing is unsatisfactory, even with the
aid of field glasses, for a marching col
umn in dry weather raises a great deal
of dust ” —Washington Star.
A Tro, Caballero,
Well in the middle of the grounds
stands General Anderson’s headquar
ters. As we went up the steps a tall
man, rather shabbily dressed, preceded
us. Wa noticed his military bearing
and were told that he was the captain
of one of the Spanish men-of-war which
lies with projecting spars at toe bottom
of Cavite harbor. Following his foot
steps, we of necessity overheard what
he said to the general’s aid:
“Senor, I borrowed, some time ago,
|2OO from Admiral Dewey to pay off
my men. I have come to repay the
debt.”
He turned his profile toward us, and
we noticed how thin he looked. He
must have starved himself to collect
the money. With a very straight back,
he counted out the Spanish bills and
turned to ga
“Will you not take a receipt?” asked
the aid of General Anderson.
■"Never from an officer, ” answered
the gray haired old gentleman, with a
courtly old fashioned bow.
Here at least is a true Spanish Cabal
lero.—Harper’s Weekly.
A Gorgeou Kia*.
Luinaka, the king of Barotoe Land,
says a traveler, is held in great fear and
respect by his people. His oourt has as
much etiquette and ceremonial as that
of Louis XIV. His band of musicians
make both day and night hideous with
their performances. The music is done
td*’drive away evil spirits. Luinaka
himself is an imposing spectacle.
The king wears a long blue dressing
gown trimmed with red braid, trousers
and shirt, and on his head a scarlet
nightcap, and above it a black tend hat.
Hla Idea of Luck.
“ We don’t have no luck at our house
like they have over to Jimmy Smith
ers’.”
“Why, what kind of luck do the
Smithers have?” -»
“Jimmy Smithers’ father has dyspep
sia, on there’s always a piece of pie left
over au Jimmy gits ft!”—Cleveland
Plain Dealrr.
VULTURES OF INDIA.
GIANT GIRDS WHICH ARE NUMEROUS
ANO USEFUL.
W>«B th* Kia* Valtura Caaaea to ■
the Other WarteVto* Hava
to Stead OR Datil Hla Majeaty Has
Qorsr«4 CttSMwU.
If the city of Bombay had a tutelary
1 bird, there is no manner of doubt what
bird that should be. Ido not know,
says « writer ih The Times of India,
why the ancient Egyptian defied the
ibis, but if Bombay bore the proud fig
ure of a vulture ra.npant on her shield
everybody would know why. Os all the
nnaalaried public servants who have
identified themselves with this city and
devoted their energies to its welfare no
other can take a place beside the vul
ture. Unfortunately the vulture has
never lent itself to the spirit of her
aldry. The eagle has, enough,
though the difference between the two
has never been very well marked in the
popular mind. The translators of our
Bible Bad no notion of it.
Modern natural history has disen
tangled the two names and assigned
them to two very different families of
birds, the distinction between which in
its essence is just this—that while the
eagle kills its prey the less Impatient
vulture waits decently till its time
comes to die. Popular sentiment persists
in regarding the former as the more
noble, but there can be no question
which is the more useful
It is not easy indeed to realize to one
self the extent and beneficence of the
work carried on throughout the length
and breadth of India from year’s end to
year’s end by the mighty race of vul
tures. The writer continues: The vul
tures that one sees in such numbers on
Malabar hill belong to two species,
Which are easy enough to distinguish
when once one’s attention had been
turned to the difference between them.
The commoner of the two, the white
backed or Bengal vulture (Gyps banga
lensis) is a smoky black bird, with a
band of white extending the whole
length of the wings on the underside.
This band is broken by the dark body,
and that serves to distinguish toe bird
gt a glance.
The other species is the long billed
vulture (Gyps pallesoens) of Barnes.
Jegdon Confounded it with another spe
cies. Its general color is brown, darker
ar lighter according to age, sometimes
almost whity brown; but, however
white the underparts may be, body and
wings are alike. The two species are
about the same size and larger than one
would suspect who has only seen them
at a distance. A good specimen will
measure over seven feet from tip to tip
of the wings.
There is one curious difference in
their habits The long billed vulture
breeds always on high cliffs, while its
Bengal brother is content to build its
nest on any tree big enough to bear the
weight of such a ponderous edifice. I
have seen a single mango tree groaning
under the weight of two or three nests
on the other side of the harbor. Each
nest contains one egg, generally white,
bnt sometimes blotched with brawn.
Once fairly in the air, no bird surpasses
the majesty of its flight The question
has often been hotly discussed whether
birds can sail without flapping their
wings.
The difficulty originated, of course,
with somebody of that unfortunate class
who must reason about a question of
fact instead of looking. He demonstrat
ed that such a feat was impossible. The
vultures kept on doing it all the same,
and any one may watch them. Far
hours together they will sail in circles,
or rather in spirals, without the slight
est motion of their wings beyond trim
ming them to the wind like the sails of
a boat. Os course there must be a wind.
There are two other kinds of vultures
which may occasionally be seen in Bom
bay. One is the king vulture (Otogyps
calvus), a royal bird, not Indeed larger
than the others, but of nobler aspect and
prouder character. It appears singly or
with its mate and will not consort with
the herd. When it comes to a carcass,
the others have to stand by until it has
dined. There is no difficulty in recog
nizing this Species by its deep black col
or, relieved only by two pure white
patches on its thighs and by the blood
red tint of its bare head and neck. Our
fourth vulture is the foul bird known as
Pharaoh’s chicken, as well as byother
less reputable names. Its title in sconce
is Neophron ginginianua
It is one of the commonest birds
about Poonah and everywhere on the
plains of the Deccan, but seldom visits
the coast. X have, however, seen a pair
on more than one occasion about the
flats. It is a white bird, not much big
ger than a kite, with only the quill
feathers of the wing black. Its bill is
long and thin, its naked face yellow and
its tail wedge shaped. Ita neck is not
abut clothed with long, rusty white
•ra, pointing backward. It does
not stand upright, like the tree vultures,
but carries Ito body like a duck and
walks like a recruit. By these signs
you may know Pharaoh’s chicken. It
makes ita shabby nest of sticks, rags and
rubbish on trees, ledges of public build
ings or anywhere about March and lays
two white eggs, more or less blotched
with brown.
The Lunge and Slee*.
A physician quoted by the Boston
Transcript says that acute insomnia
may be promptly cured by the practice
of deep breathing. Draw into the lungs
as mnch air as possible and do not ex
hale it until obliged to, and then as
slowly as possible. It is somewhat of a
task when the night is oppressively
warm, but if persisted in is fairly sure
to relieve that hyperemia of the brain
which everyday folk call wakefulness.
The tricks of the sleepless to induce
sleep are many, but none is found to be
mare immediately efficacious than this
plan of forcing the lungs to take the
burden off the biain and nerves
h ASTORIA I
The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which hns bean
in use for over 30 yearn/' hat borne <he oignultaiv rs
, —-and t—terem made wadtarhlr near.
Allow no one to deceive you in this.
All Counterfteita, Imitations and Substitutes are bMt Ez*>
ptetllu&htß that trifle with and endanger the health of
intents and Children—Experience against Experiment.
What Is CASTORIA
Castoria is a substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops
and Soothing Syrups. It is Harmless and Pleasant. It
reutatas neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It a—hnilates the Food, regulates the
Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
The Kind You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years.
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