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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. r —; —' " '== MM a - Awatr.&Z<>«nMiy JMMm '■ J Prof. W.H. Peek* who ,ITG kssj: srxs ■■■d ■ ■ W. doubt treated and cur ■ vto ■ ed more cases than any Cured 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. 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