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Ordinary’s Advertisements, i
QTATE OF GEORGIA,
Spalding County.
, T Wnivpr Administ rator
Whereas, A--. J - to the
O s Miss Uyonta Walker, rep an(J ( , n _
Court m his petilion, fu]ly admi . a .
tered on record, tha Walker > 3 estate,
istered Miss La persona con-
fbi9i rSedf and creditok to show
cerned. k’ndre gaW Adminis .
CS,^’ 9 houhl nos be discharged from his
Juration and receive letters of dis
n> on on the'first Monday in May, 1899.
mission on A DREWRY, Ordinary.
Febr nary 6 th, 1899.
State of Georgia,
Spalding County’.
To All Whom it May Concern : Lloyd
Cleveland having, in proper form, applied
to me for Permanent Letters of Adminis
tration on the estate of Mrs. ElizA Boyd,
late of said county, this is to cite all and
singular the creditors and next of kin of
Mrs. Eliza Boyd, to be and appear at my
office in Griffin, Ga ,on the first Monday
in March, 1899, by 10 o’clock a. m , and to
show cause, if any they can, why perma
nent administration should not be granted
to Lloyd Cleveland on Mrs. Eliza Boyd’s
estate. Witness my hand and official sig
nature, this 6th day of February, 1899.
J. A. DREWRY, Ordinary.
ORDINARY’S OFFICE,
Spalding County, Ga.
To All Whom it May Concern : Mrs,
Marie Ford, Administratrix P. S. B. Ford,
deceased, having, in proper form, applied
to me for leave to sell the following real
estate, located in Fulton county, Ga.,
to-wit: That property which is part of
land lot 143, being 3 acres more or less, or
an undivided J interest in that property
beginning at the intersection ot Chapel
avenue and an unknown street, thence
south on the east side of Chapel avenue
381 fee’, thence east 460 feet, thence south
156 feet, thence east 685 feet, thence north
539 feet to the first named street, thence
west on the south side of said street 1149
feet to the beginning point, except the
church lot 120 by 160 feet, known as
Lowe’s Chapel. Also that property be
ginning at the southwest corner of land
conyeyed to W. T. Spalding and W. B.
Sheldon April 18th, 1891, being 150 feet
south of North avenue, thence on an un
named street 114 feet, back east same
width 200 feet; and that for the purpose of
division among the heirs at law and pay
ment of the debts of the deceased. I will
pass upon same on the first Monday in
March, 1899.
J. A DREWRY, Ordinary.
February 6th, 1899.
ORDINARY’S OFFICE,
Spalding County, Ga.
W. T. Beasley, Guardian of bis two
minor children, makes application for
leave to sell the following real estate:
Two-thirds ( i ) interest in twenty-three
acres of land, more or less, bounded as
follows : North by lands of J. T. Beasley,
east by lands of E. T. Kendall, s mth by
lands of Mrs. Sarah Beasley and B. C.
Head, and west by lands of W. J. Bridges.
Situated in Union District G. M, of said
county, and for the purpose of encroach
ing on corpus of wards’ estate for their
maintenance and education. 1 will pass
upon said application on first Monday in
March, 1899. If any can show just cause
why such order should not be granted,
they can file their objections.
J. A. DREWRY, Ordinary,
February Oth, 1899.
STATE OF GEORGIA,
Spalding County.
Whereas, E. A. Huckaby, administiator
de bonis non of Nathan Fomby, represents
to the court in his petition, duly filed and
entered on record, that he has fully 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.
In Re A Application for set
fl. R. Blakely, admr. | tlement with heirs
of the estate of Mel- i and for a discharge
vina Couch, deceis- \ as administrator,
ed. f ' in Court of Ordi-
nary, Spalding
county, Ga., Dec.
J Term, 1898.
B. R. Blakely, administrator of the es
tate of Melvina Couch, late of said county,
deceased, having represented by his peti
tion dulj - filed in this office, that he is pre
pared to settle with the heirs of said es
tate, and citation having been issued and
published according to law. And it ap
pearing that there are a number of non
resident heirs of said estate, and on appli
cation made by said administrator, an or
der was granted at the December term,
1898, to serve said non-residents by publi
cation.
It is therefore ordered that Mrs. Sarah
Hendrix, of Water Valley, Miss., Thomas
P. Hendrix, of Water Valley, Miss., Mrs.
Martha M. Martin, of Nashville, Tenn.,
Mrs. Virginia A. Bellonr, of Boston, Mass.,
Miss Nannie F. Crawford, of Boston,
Mass., Mrs. Nancy Crawford, of Morgan
county, Ala., George Crawford, of West
Tennessee, Reckerson C. Pierce, of Acme,
Tex , Mrs. Mary King, of Oswell, 0., Mrs.
Sarah Crow, of Algiers, La., Mrs. Eliza
beth Holland, ot Montgomery, Ala., James
J. Crawford, of Mobile, Ala., Mrs. Nancy
F. Calvin, of Orwell, Ala., and the heirs of
the above named parties, if any of them
are dead, and all other heirs and next of
kin of the said Melvina Couch, late of
Spalding county, Ga, deceased, be and ap
pear at the March term, 1899, of the court
of Ordinary of Spalding county, Ga., then
and thereto submit to a settlement of the
accounts of B. R. Blakely, administrator
of the estate of Melvina Couch, deceased.
This Jan. 5, 1899.
J. A. DREWRY, Ordinary.
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A RUNAWAY ICE YACHT.
An Exciting Chase and n Marrow E«-
cape From Death.
Some years ago there was a runaway
down at Shelter Island in which a
young girl was left in the boat with a
gale blowing. She tried to throw the
sheet loose, but it was frozen and her
fingers were too cold, added to which
the sheet had fouled the tiller, and she
could not bring the boat up into the
wind to stop its way, the sail being so
set that the boat continued running
right along at a terrific rate of speed.
Occupants of the other boats soon
realized the position and made chase,
gaining slowly, one boat finally being
far in the lead of the others by the time
the end of the island was left behind
Right in front lay the end of the ice,
broken short by the action of the tide
water, and there the breaker p olled in,
throwing up the anchor ice, dashing it
down, and then retreating, sucking it
under the floe and packing it up for an
other break.
For some time it was a question as to
whether the chasing boat would catch
up with the girl before she was carried
over the edge to certain death. But at
last the boats came together for one
brief second, the girl was snatched by
strong arms to the pursuer’s yacht, the
sheet was eased off in a flash, and, spin
ning round in its own length, it was
set right before the wind instead of
reaching into it, just as the runaway
dashed over into the anchor ice.
A short, sharp crack gave notice of
the parting of the ice beneath the very
runners of the now homeward bound
savior, and with a long stagger, which
only her speed enabled her to with
stand, she dashed across the fast open
ing era k, safe, to be brought up into
the wind at a distance, while the late
runaway danced, a wreck, among the
broken ice. It was one of the close calls
of ice yachting which, thank goodness,
very seldom occur! W. P. Pond in
Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly.
LUCKY DEUCE OF SPADES.
Remarkable Run of I.nek, bat All
I'or the Other Ilan.
One by one the old superstitions are
being torn from us. People nowadays
walk ostentatiously under ladders and
stiffer no evil consequences. Friday is
quite a popular day for the commence
ment of a long journey, and sitting
down 13 nt dinner is frequently unat
tended with untoward results. A deep
ly rooted superstition among card play
ers is a belief in the lucky properties of
the two of spades. The present writer’s
faith, however, was severely shaken by
a phenomenal coincidence which occur
red only a few days ago.
Sitting dow-n to a game of whist, he
thoroughly shuffled both packs of cards,
and happened to notice that the two of
spades was the bottom card of one of
the packs.
‘This ought to bring me luck,” lie
remarked to his friends.
He then took up the second pack, and
was astonished to find that the two of
spades was also at the bottom of that.
Words failed to express his amazement
when, in drawing for partners and deal
—the cards had been shuffled again—he
once more drew the two of spades.
The odds against this triple event oc
curring must be enormous, but more
was to follow’. The deal fell to the
writer, and the turn up card was the in
evitable tw’o of spades!
After this the dealer felt justified in
believing he was in for a good evening.
As a matter of fact, he lost six rubbers
in succession.—London Mail.
Children and Dolls.
Writing in The Contemporary Re
view, Professor Sully discusses the curi
ous aspects in which children regard
dolls. Ho says: Professor Hall has
brought to light some curious prefer
ences of children. He tells us, for ex
ample, that, whereas out of 845 children
191 preferred wax dolls, as many as 144
pronounced in favor of rag ones. Odd
preferences are sometimes shown with
regard to size. A lady writes me that
she preferred 4 inch halfpenny dolls
because there was so much more to be
done with these in the way of putting
on wigs made from doormats, inking
in eyebrows, etc. On "the other hand,
another English lady tells me that her
childish ambition was the possession of
a big doll--“one that* would fill my
arms and take some of the cuddling
that I wanted to bestow and which no
body seemed to want. ’’ This girl image
is, so far as the uninitiated adult can
divine, the true child’s doll.
Conlfleldn of the World.
Geologists estimate the great coal
fields of the world in square miles as
follows: China, 200,000; United States,
east of the Rockies, 190,000; Canada,
65,000; India, 35,500; New’ South
Wales, 24.000; Russia, 20,000, and the
United Kingdom, 1 1,500. There are
many deposits in other countries, but
their extent is inconsiderable. Eng
land’s coal area is small; still she
for years produced more than any other
country. Now the United States is
ahead. English coal veins are thin ; one
only 14 inches wide has been w-orked
1,200 feet down. On the other hand,
there are veins in tho Pennsylvania an
thracite region 60 feet thick and in
the bituminous regions 18 feet thick.
Our Appalachian coalfields are the lar
gest known, and alone could supply the
whole world for centuries to come.
An Original Oath of Allegiance,
In the old days when the Spanish
province of Aragon was a proud and
independent monarchy the people
used, when choosing their king, the
following singular form of election:
“We, the freeborn inhabitants of the
ancient kingdom of Aragon, who are
equal to yon, Don Philip, and some
thing more, elect yon to lx? our king
on condition that you preserve to us
our rights and privileges. If in this
you should fail, we own you for our
king bo longer." Harper’s Round Ta
ble.
AN ANCIENT CHESS KING.
; Haply some rajah first in the sees sone
| Amid his languid ladies fingered thee,
While n black nightingale, ,un swart ns ho,
* Sang his one wife love’s passionate oraison;
Rgply thou tnayst have pleased Old Fruster
John
Among his pastures when full royally
He sat iu tent, grave shepherds at his knee.
While lamps of balsam winked and glimmered
on.
What dost thou here? Thy masters are all
dead,
My heart is full of ruth and yearning pain
At sight ot thee, O king, that hast a crown
Outlasting theirs, and tellst of greatness fled
Through cloud bung nights of unabated ring
And murmurs of the dark majestic town.
—Jean Ingelow.
“A SAD NIGHT.”
Hotv Carlyle mid Leigh Hunt Dif
fered Even About the Sky.
Leigh Hunt and Carlyle were once
prc-ent at a small party of equally well
known men. It happened that the con
vex sation rested with these two, and the
others sat, well pleased to listen. Leigh
Hunt talked on in bis bright and hope
ful way, when Carlyle would drop some
heavy tree trunk across his pleasant
stream and bank it up with philosophic
al doubts and objections at every inter
val, but Hunt never ceased his joyous
anticipations nor saturnine Carlyle his
infinite demuis. The listeners laughed
and applauded by turns, and now fairly
pitted them against each other as the
philosophers of hopefulness and unhope
fulness. The contest continued with
ready wit, philosophy, pleasantry and
profundity and extensive knowledge of
books and character.
The opponents were so well matched
that it was quite clear that the contest
would last indefinitely, but night was
far advanced, and the party now broke
up. They all sallied forth, and. leaving,
the close room, the candles and the ar-’
guments behind them, found themselves
under a most brilliant and starlight sky.
They looked up. Carlyle can have no
answer to this, thought Hunt, and
shouted: “There! Look at that glorious
harmony that sings with infinite voices
an eternal song of hope in the soul of
man I”
Carlyle looked up. They all remained
silent to hear what he would say. They
began to think ho was silenced at last,
but out of the silence camo a few low
toned words in a broad Scotch accent:
“Eh, it’s a sad night!”
They all laughed and then looked
thoughtful. There might be some reason
for sadness, too—that brilliant firma
ment perhaps contained infinite worlds,
each full of struggling and suffering
beings.
t-n reco»x nixed.
Perhaps when one makes that conver
sational blunder which is known as a
“break” it is best to say nothing what
ever about it. Extenuation only ren
ders a bad matter worse.
Not long ago a lady was visiting the
studio of a portrait painter and trying
to make herself as agreeable as possible
in return for a welcome and afternoon
tea. She enjoyed the pictures, although
in each case they seemed to her much
idealized, and sho went from one to an
other, civilly expressing her approba
tion.
“Ah,” she said to her hostess, “you
must tell me all about them! Whois
this?”
“Mrs. Lorraine.”
“I don’t know her; charming, but
of course I can’t speak for the likeness. ”
“I try to bo faithful,” said the artist
humbly.
“Oh, I know! I know I And who is
the very pretty lady in brown?”
“That,” said the other, with some
frigidity, “is myself!”—Youth’s Com
panion.
Below Deck* During n Fight.
The position of the men below decks
on a modern vessel of war, they being
isolated by tho watertight hatches and
doors, has been frequently commented
upon, but their position is not always
so hard as has been supposed. On the
Brooklyn, during the fight before San
tiago, Admiral Schley sent orderlies
among the men behind easemates and
below decks telling them the effects of
the shots and how the fight was going.
When the chase of the Colon began, tho
orderlies went down to the stoke holes
and engine room and told the men
there that the race had be.gun and ev
erything depended upon them. The wis
dom of the action was partly shown in
the outcome. —Argonaut.
People of Stone Acre.
“Tho stone age” is not, properly
speaking, an expression of time. It re
fers to a stage in civilization which
passed long ago in Europe and Asia,
but still lingers in some out of the way
corners of the world. A report of La
Plata museum in Paraguay describes
the Quayoquis, a small tribe of 800 or
600 living near the headwaters of the
Acaray river, as a true stone age people.
They are timid, harmless folks, desper
ately afraid of the whites, and with
reason, as they have been shamefully
abused by them. They have no weapons
for defense save bows, lances and stone
tomahawks. They are undersized and
round headed.
IniprewMithe Neighbor®.
Mr. Wigsby—See here, my love,
there is some mistake. The baggage de
livery man has left seven trunks on our
front porch.
Mrs. Wigsby (who has just returned
from the mountains) —Imbecile! Don’t
you understand? He’s coming back after
dark for the extra five.—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Hot llUNinem.
“Fightin’s hot business, ” said Willie
as he read about the regiments. “First
thing, they got peppered at by the ene
my, an they they get mustard out by
their own gov’ment. ’’—Harper’s Bazar.
It takes 72,000 tons of paper to make
the post cards used in England each
year.
In Ptolemy’s time anyone who killed
a cat was put to death.
INDIAN AND TIGER.
A Clever Trick by Which fie Former Ont
wilted the Latter.
According to a good and true tiger
story in Cornhill, an Indian who had
learned some of the elementary princi
ples of jugglery and contortion went
out one evening to walk upon a ridgy
plain. When he reached the top of one
Bf the mounds, he saw a tiger ahead of
him, 500 or 600 yards away. Before
the man could hide behind a mound the
tiger had seen him and began to bound
toward him at its topmost speed.
Having no im.tns < f defense, there
was nothing for the man to do but to
race for the nearest tree, but though he
tried it and put f< rth his utmost
strength the tiger steadily gained upon
him.
What was h»> to <1 ? In sheer despera
tion he resolved upon an unusual
scheme. Ju. tas he disappeared for an
instant from the tiger’s .sight in run
ning over a ridge he halted, stretched
out his legs at right angles, curled
down his head so as to look between his
legs to the nur and ext, nded his arms
upward in a L - tio manner, like the
sails of a windmill.
In a few seconds the tiger hove in
sight, and at that instant the face of
the object assumed a hideous grimace.
A prolonged yell arose, such as had per
haps never before pierced the ear of any
tiger, and the sails of the windmill be
gan to revolve backward and forward
as if a sudden whirlwind had burst
upon the scene.
The tiger recoiled. What, ho evi
dently thought, is this? There stood a
ferocious star shaped monster, gigantic
against the sky. Its hideous head was
situated in the very center of its body
—nay, its viselike jaws, between which
those fiendish roars were issuing, were
actually placed above its two fiery eyes.
Its limbs were furiously clamoring for
action, and the man he had been chas
ing, where was he? Already devoured
by this terrible beast? The tiger could
not pause to reflect. He turned tail,
and as he disappeared over a friendly
ridge a last awful yell caused him to
redouble his pace. Ho was conquered
by the unknown.
THE POWER OF SHADOWS.
A Gloomy View of the Power of Certain
Popular Superstitions.
As antique runners passed from hand
to hand the sacred torch, so the genera
tions transmit to the generations which
succeed them all that they have of
light and knowledge, leaving them as a
heritage the care of continuing the di
vine work of enfranchisement and of
helping to dissipate the shadows of ig
norance.
Little by little these clouds are van
quished and disappear, and the touch of
intelligence flames the more radiantly
in the midst of the travailing masses.
But all of a sudden a veil covers the
torch—something surges up which
seems like the darkness of another ago.
One feels that in a corner of this civi
lization monstrous things have place.
Hero they burn a woman accused of
sorcery; there in Suabia a tribunal con
demns to four days of imprisonment a
laborer who had disinterred the corpse
of an infant. He wanted to make brace
lets of its finger nails, which, according
to a belief held in that country, consti
tute a sovereign remedy against colic.
And all the stories of vampires, of
elfg, return to the mind with all the
victims they have made and are making
still.
It seems in reading such things that
the “power of shadows” is still impen
etrable to all that science has done and
that, as I have said, the effort is vain.
Figaro.
On the Esting of Loons.
Man is a creature of prejudice. In
Scotland he will not eat eels; in Con
necticut he will not eat sturgeon, the
royal fish of England, where the first
one taken in the Thames goes to the
queen’s table; in New York he will
not eat lampreys, miscalled ‘Tamper
eels,” which are delicacies in Connecti
cut, and in England some old king—l
never could keep a record of kings—
died from a surfeit of lampreys. With
these prejudices in mind, and I hate all
prejudices except those which I enter
tain, I decided to eat the loon.
There may be differences among loons,
as there are between pigeons and
squabs. I prefer an adult pigeon, to a
squab, there is better chewing on it,
but if a man wants real hard chewing,
with a flavor of raw fish, let him tackle
an adult loon. That bird could not be
picked. It was skinned, and in its stom
ach there was a catfish recently swal
lowed, one partly digested and the
bones of another. The triggers of the
pectoral fins of the catfish were set, but
the stomach ot the loon did not ssem
to be troubled by that fact.—Fred
Mather in Forest and Stream.
A Baldheaded Reply.
A naval officer, very well and favor
ably known in London, has for some
unknown reason been advanced in bis
profession very slowly, though he has
grown gray in the service and indeed
lamentably bald. Recently one of his
juniWs was bold enough to question
him as to his remarkable absence of
hair.
“How comes it that you are so very
bald?”
The officer replied promptly and with
much vindictiveness:
“You, man, you would lie bald, I
think, if you had had men stepping over
your head for years in the way I have."
—London Judy.
Different Idem* an to Clothe*.
If the native women of Sumatra have
their knees properly covered, the rest
does not matter. The natives of some
islands off the coast of Guinea wear
clothes only when they are going on a
journey. Some Indians of Venezuela
an- ashamed to wear clothes before
strangers, as it seems indecent to them
to appear uupaiuted.
Kastoria