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Columbia Sentinel
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AT HARLEM, OEORGIA.
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PORT OFFICE IN HARLEM. OA.
CITY AND COUNTY DIRECTORY
CITY COUNCIL.
J. W. BELT., Mayor.
J. C. CI'HKY.
H. A. COOK.
W. E. HATCHER.
J. L. HUHHEY.
COUNTY OFFICF.RH.
G.D.DARHF.Y, Ordinary.
(I. M. OLIVE. Clork andTroaauror.
L. MAGRUDER. Sheriff.
o. HARDY, Tax Collector.
J. A. GREEN,Tax Receiver.
W. H. HALL,Coroner.
r. n. Hatcher, surveyor.
■ MASONIC.
Harlem Lodge, No. 276 F. A. M.,mo< t.2<l and
IthHainrdaya.
CHURCHES.
Raptiat Hcrvicer 4th Sunday, Dr. E. R.Cara
well. Sundayßenool every Hnnday. Suporin
tendent Rev. J. W. Ellington.
Mntjiodlxt Every 3rd Sunday. Rev. W. E.
HliaclOefrird, paetor. Sabbath School every
Sunday, H. A. Merry, Snpt.
Magistrate'll Court, 128th District, G. M., 4tli
Saturday. Return day 1J day* before.
W. If. Rqkbuck, J. P.
Cities with 1,000,000 inhabitnnta iind
upwards have never been plentiful jn any
age of the world,[and their number is very
limited now. There arc four such cities
in Europe, three or four in Asia, anti but
one on this Continent. The doubt in re
gard to the number in Asia arises from
the fact that it is difficult to determine
whether the claim of Nanking to 1,000,
000 inhabitants is correct or not. Assum
ing it, however, to be just, the rank of
the very great cities of the world, based
on the censuses of 1880 and 1881, would
stand ns follows:
I\>puhifl n.
L0nd0n4,766,661
Pari52,269,023
< ’anton),6oo,ooo
New Y0rk1,266,593
T0ki01,140,586
8er1in1,122,360
Viennal,lo3,Bs7
Pekingl,ooo,o3o
Nankingl,ooo,ooo
The New York Times says that “one
gentleman who has given much thought
ful attention to recent Southern progress
—he is a member of the New York
Stock Exchange ami an investor in various
Southern enterprises makes it statement
of general interest by saying that one of
tire chief opportunities in the South now
is for the mechanic. He doesn't mean
only for the worker in iron and the like
that pig iron furnncei and foundcriei
must employ, but the artisan in every
branch. In towns like Anniston ami
Decatur, in Alabama, as in Chattanooga,
Birmingham and elsewhere, there is a
daily increasing demand for the skilled
mechanic. Carpenters, bricklayers, plas
terers, and the like can command as
good wages in these prosperous Southern
places as they are able to obtain in New
York, while the cost of good living is
not much more than half. In all of the
industrial towns of the South houses are
rented far faster than they can be built."
The Boston Transcript enthusiastically
exclaims: “What a country we have
altogether ! Ono section of it. that was
untouched in 1880 is now producing
4,009,000 tons of iron annually, ami an
other section (Montana) scarcely known
in 1880, is producing 80,000,000 pounds
of copper in a year. Another (Idaho) has
a mountain of sulphur, and another
(Wyoming) has vast areas of petroleum
withiu its borders. California has sent
over f 1.000,000,000 of gold to the Coiled
States mint, mid is also a veritable gar
den spot. America finds iron tonic. In
her iron ores she can furnish food, cloth
ing, shelter, and resources for any possi
ble millions of population. Axid with
the rapid extension of science (America,
by the way, took away the five god
medals at the last Paris electrical expo
sition -took the whole tive) beyond the
present limits of imaginable experience,
who can but feel the great responsibility
for developing not only these material
resources, but also those moral mid politi
cal virtues that alone make a blessing of
wealth to the common well being ; "
Scientific men in Mexico are beginning
to study the meteorological phenomena
which arc believed to be due to the build
ing of railways in the country. lieeent
serious damage done by washouts on the
northern section of the Mexican Central
road was due to waterspout' bursting on
the track, mid it is a curious fact that
waterspouts seem to be attracted by th<»
iron track and telegraph wires. Hesi
dents of the interior say that an electric
current runs along 'he track, w hieh makes
a conveniut avenue for storms, ami re- |
cently, in building the Guadalajara
biaueh of the Mexican Central, it has
been noted by the engineers that as fast
as the construction advances rai l follow s.
They hold that this is due to the large
quantity of steel rails on flat tars, which
are carried forward as fast as the work of
construction permits. Themost noticea
ble fact is that the country is dry in ad
vance B>f the construction trains, and
»lso behind them for many miles. Bains
•cat down, as tie eriie I, in bucketfuls,
just where the steel rail - are. but < nly in
•irelea a few milt s in d amete.-.
They who boa»t most fad most, for
lecds are silent.
NELECT SIFTINGS.
The first Latin writers were Plautus,
Ennius, ami T< rentius, 200 B. C.
Stone bullets were used in 1514; those
of iron arc first mentioned in 1550.
In Turkey, when a man is found sell
ing adulterated food his cars are nailed
to a wall.
William Cannon, of Kissimec, Fla, ha
a pumpkin which measures five feet ten
inches in circumference and weighs nine
ty-five pounds.
The Apollo Belvedere, the masterpiece
of the sculptor, was found in a temple at
Antium, ami for 300 years has stood in
the Belvedere of the Vatican, Home.
The slide trombone the most perfect
of brass musical instruments, is the sack
! but of the ancients, and was revived
about I*9o, after a model found among
the ruins of Pompeii
By menus of an air-gun Professor C. L.
Mees hits found that to drive straws into
pine boards ami hickory bark, ns is often
done by tornadoes, a velocity of 120 to
175 miles nn hour is necessary.
The oldest-known paintings in Eng
land are portraits of Chaucer and Henry
IV. The jiortrait of the former is on a
panel, and was executed about 1380; that
jf Henry IV. was painted in 1405.
In the island of Sumatra a flower grows
which is nine feet in circumference, and
weighs fifteen pounds. When a Sumatra
dude goes to the theatre he lias his
boutonniere brought in by unable-bodied
valet.
According to statistics, the average
man throughout the civilized world
innually consumes 446 pounds of grain,
70 pounds of meat, 7 pounds of butter,
and 29 pounds of sugar, of the total
value of £5 6s.
A carat of gold received its name from
the carat-seed or the seed of the Abyssin
ian corn flower. This was at one period
made useful when gems of gold were to
bo weighed, and so came about the pecu
'iarand now general use of the word.
A well on a Portage County (Ohio)
farm serves the near-by residents as a
great natural barometer. When the baro
meter is high the air is sucked in with a
hissing noise that, can be heard a compil
able distance. When low it is expelled
with equally great force. A tin whistle
has been inserted in the mouth of the
well, and the noise made by the air rush
ing through the orifice can be heard to a
great distance.
Architecture in Waspland.
Whatever may be the general experi
ence in regard to the number of wasps
prevalent this season, certainly they are
abundant enough in some places. At
Maiden Erlcigh, and close to the kitch
en garden, a nest was found to have been
made in a stack of turf soil. This was
smoked with sulphur.then carefully dug
out, and was found to be the largest ever
seen there, for it was about thirty inches
in circumference, and contained literally
thousands of wasps of great size. Oddly
enough, at the Erleigh Cottage Garden
Exhibition prizes are offered for the finest
wasps’ nests, these being, of course,
shown in close cases or glasses.
The one from the turf bed was put
on to a board, and under a close-fitting
hand-light, which was secured to the
board, and so exhibited, easily taking
the first prize. On one side a portion
of the outer case of the nest, which is in
all cases round, had been accidentally
broken away, and thus spectators were
enabled to inspect the internal structure
of this curious* dwelling. The tiers of
comb ran across the nest horizontally, but
somewhat hollowed, and not more than
three quarters of an inch apart; indeed,
thickness of comb and intervals seemed
to correspond with exceeding accuracy.
The wasps were far larger than were
those found with better and much smal
ler nests. The labor of making this nest
must have been great, and it would lie
interesting to know out of what materi
als it is constructed. The hollowingout
of so great a space in the soil must also
have been hard, and it seems evident
that every grain of the soil must have
been curried out and dropped away, as
no evidence of such an excavation xvas
externally visible. Gardeners’ Chronicle.
Night Air.
“It often has seemed queer to me that
so many object to night air in their bed
rooms,” observed an intelligent gentle
man. “We can't breathe any other at
night. The choice is between probably
pure air from without and certainly foul
dr from within. Half the diseases from
which we suffer are caused by keeping
the windows down. The quietness, the
absence of dust and etc., make night the
best time for airing a patient. In great
cities night air is often the purest that
can be had in the twenty-four hours. It
is conceded that the air in London is
lever so good as after ten o’clock at night.
Windows are made to open, doors are
made to shut, yet toomnny of us seem to
forget that. 1 keep bedroom windows
open these summer nights, mid there isn’t
a more healthy family in the city than
•nine. Philadelphia (nil.
The Varied Value of Silver.
Silver, in its relative value to gold, has
varied greatly at different times. In
the days of the patriarch Abraham it
was eight to one; B. C. 1000 it was
twelve to one; B. C. 500 it was thirteen
to one; at the commencement of the
Christian era it was nine to one; A. D.
500 it was eighteen to one; in 1100 it
was eight to one; in 1400 it was eleven
to one; in 1554 it wassi.x to one; in 1551
it was two to one; in 1600 it was ten to
•ne; in 1727 it was thirteen to one; in
1800 it was fiffeen and a half to
•ne. It maintained the latter ratio until
18??, when it begen to rise, and in 1876
it attained to twenty to one. It soon
slier gradually declined, then advanced
igain, and August 1, 1886, reached the
highest point ever known, since which
time it ha* gradually declined to twenty
to one. J< irelry _V< r<.
Photography by Fireflies’ Light.
Dr. John Vansant, of the United States
Marine Hospital at St. Louis,claims to lx
the first to have taken photographs bj
Hie light of tiretlies. He placed twelve
tireflies in a three-ounce bottle, covering
its mouth with tine white bobinet. The
average duration of the flash of each in
sol was half a second, and the luminous
an a ou the abdomen wasabout one-eighth
of an inch -<piare. The time of exposure
•ivas fifty flashes.—Seieoce
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
Oat meal.
Oatmeal differs from the other cereals
in cooking because it contains so much
gluten. This substance is eighteen per
cent, of oatmeal, and but ten percent, of
wheat flour, and twelve per cent, of
Indian corn. But these proportions do
not fully express the difficulty in cook
ing arising from tfie presence of the large
amount of gluten. Oatmeal does not
leaven well, anil bread made solely of it
is generally unleavened. Loaves wet up
with milk do better, and an addition of
25 to 33J per cent, of wheat flour still
further improves the fermentation. Some
of the peasants of Europe add a few pota
toes to the oatmeal dough, witli wheat
and pea flour, milk, and a little pepper,
cinnamon, nutmeg, and caraway seed,
making a loaf greatly prized by the
family. A lady, who has given the sub
ject considerable attention, says that, to
get a well leavened loaf, more than half
the flour should be wheaten.
The art of making oat cakes is one re
quiring a great amount of skill. It is
said that very few cooks can bake oat
cakes properly. In beginning the work
the best way is to wit ufftlie dough with
cold water in small quantities as required,
and only enough for one cake at a time,
kneading it out as quickly as possible,
and then baking it with equal dispatch,
sous to have what is termed sweet, dry,
crummy cakes, free from that insipid and
boardy toughne s and hardness peculiar
to them when otherwise done. Oatmeal
ha* a saccharin!) flavor when properly
cooked, both in bread and pudding, and
the difficulty in preparing and baking is
to get this.
There are buttered cakes, sugared
cakes, seed cakes, sponge r akes, etc., in
great variety, as well as plain bread, to
be marie from oatmeal. Suet is better
than butter. The fat should be melted
in the water for making the dough and
incorporated with the meal while hot.
The kneading, etc., then follows, as in
the case of plain bread. These cakes
are short lind very pdatub'e. When
sugar is added, which is seldom, it is
dissolved in the hot or cold water used
in wetting up the meal. Caraway seeds,
if used, should be mixed with the meal
before the dough is made. Soda cakes
are sometimes made, but eggs arc seldom
used.
In baking, a gridiron is used over a
clear fire, generally baking the under side
only, but sometimes the cakes are turned
anil toasted on the upper side before the
fire. The preferred way, however, is to
toast the cakes before the fire ten both
sides, or over it, on an open, slate
bottomed gridiron. The cakes cooked
in this way arc the best flavored. The
cook who does not want to take all this
trouble will use the oven, which is an
allowable way to bake these cakes. Gonl
Housekeeping.
Recipes.
Corn-Starch Custard.—Put a pint
of milk in a frying pun, let it come to the
boiling point, then add a pinch of salt
and two tablcspoonfuls of corn-starch.
Serve with sugar, and cream.
Tomato Sour. —To one pint of toma
toes add one quart of boiling water and
let boil; then add one teaspooilfitl of
1 soda, when it will foam at once; add one
pint of sweet milk or cream, salt pep
per and plenty of butter.
Fried Onions. —Have frying pan hot,
put in a good sized piece of butter (or
meat fryings after fryipg meat), put in
the onions sliced; sprinkle with pepper
and salt and pour in just a little hot
water, cover closely, let cook twenty
minutes; add a tcaspoonful of flour in a
little milk and when it boils it is ready
to serve.
Bread Gridi.e Cakes. —Soak a small
bowl of bread over night in milk. In the
morning mix half a cupful of flour into
which is put one tcaspoonful and a half
of baking powder with one quart of
milk, three well beaten eggs and a little
salt. Beat up the bread with this bat
ter until it is very light and fry a deli
cate brown. The batter should be thick.
Veal or Beef Omelets. —Three
pounds of raw veal or beef, two medium
slices of salt pork; chop the meat tine,
and then add three eggs, four crackers
(rolled), one-half cup of milk, two table
spoonfuls of sage, one-half a table
spoonful of pepper, and what salt is
needed, besides the pork, to season it
well. Mix well together, and bake in a
tin about one and a half hours. Serve
cold.
Stewed Cabbage.—Slice tine and
stow briskly in iron or porcelain till ten
der. If the cabbage is old, drain off the
water once or twice, and pour on fresh,
boiling water in its place. When tender
there should be little liquor left. Drain,
and cover with sweet milk or cream
thickened with an even tablespoonful of
flour; salt it. and simmer ten minutes
longer. This will make a more digesti
ble dish than is furnished by the ordi
nary way of cooking.
A Fish That Forages on Land.
Though a true fish, the barramunda
leaves its native streams nt night, and
sets out on a foraging expedition after
vegetable food in the neighboring wood
lands. There it browses on myrtle leaves
and grasses, and otherwise behaves itself
in a manner wholly unbecoming its pis
cine antecedents and a piatic education.
To lit it for this strange amphibious life,
the bairamunda lias both lungs and
gills; it can breathe either air or water
at will, or, if it chooses, the two together.
Though covered with scales, and
most tish like in outline, it presents
points x>f anatomical resemblance both
to salamanders and lizards ; and
as a connecting bond between the
North American mud fish on the one
hand and the wonderful lepidosiren on
the other, it forms a true member of the
long series by which the higher animals
generally trace their descent front a re
mote rate of marine ancestors. It is
very interesting, therefore, to find that
this living fossel link between fish and
reptiles should have survived only in the
fossil continent, Australia. Everywhere
else it Bas long since been beaten out of
the field by its own more developed
amphibian descendants; in Australia
alone it still drags on a lively existence
as the last relic of an otherwise long
forgotten and extinct family. Corn
hill.'
Mrs. M. E. DeGeer, a woman lawyer at
Topeka, Kan., is gaining some reputation
as an eloquent ami forcible speaker.
DODGE’S C.C. C.C.
Certain Chicken Cholera Cure,
Eight years of careful experiment and pains- i
taking research have resulted in the discovery j
of an infallible specific for the cure and pre- I
vention of that most fatal and dreaded enemy
of the feathered tribe- Cholera. After the
fullest and fairest tests possible, in which every I
Claim for the remedy was fully substantiated. |
the remedy was placed upon the market, and i
<v i vwliert' a single trial has been all that was
required to prove it a complete soccers. The
directions for its use are plain and simple, and
the cost of Hie remi dy so small that the saving
of a single fowl will repay the expense. Its
effect is almost magical. If the remedy is
given as directed, the course of the disease is
stopped at once. Given occasionally as a pre
ventive, there need be no fear of Cholera,
which annually kills more fowls than all other
diseases combined. It is true to name, a Cer- |
tain Cure for Chicken Cholera. No poultry .
raiser or farmer can afford to be without it. It
wilLdo all that is claimed fur it. Bead the fol- j
lownig testimonial :
STATE OF GEORGIA,
Dbl'Aiitmeni; or Aguiculture,
Atlanta, Ga., March 19, 1887
To the Public ; The high character of the
testimonials produced by Mr. Dodge, together
with his well known reputation fur truth and
veracity, afford convincing evidence of the
high value of the Chicken Cholera Cure he is
now offering upon the market. If I were en
gaged in the business, I would procure a bot
tle of his medicine, little doubting the success
that would attend its administration.
Yours truly,
J. J. HENDEBBON,
Cotn’r of Agriculture.
Price 25c. Per Package,
Manufactured Exclusively by
R. S> &OX>CE
No. 62 Frazier Street, - - - - Atlanta, Ga
For Sale by all Druggists.
SINGLE PACKAGE BY MAIL 30 CENTS
Also breeder of the best variety of thorough
bred Chickens, of which the following are the
names and prices of eggs for retting. Chickens
in trios and breeding pens for sale after Sep
tember Ist, 1887:
Langshans72.oo per setting of 13.
Plymouth Bocks 2.00 per setting of 13.
White Face Black .
Spanish 2.00 per setting of 13.
Hondans 2.00 per setting of 13.
Wyandotte 2.00 per setting of 13.
Silvers. Hamburgs.... 2 Ou per setting of 13.
Amer’n Dominique 2.00 per setting of 13.
White Leghorns 1.50 per setting of 13.
Black Leghorns 1.50 per sotting of 13.
Brown Leghornsl.so per setting of 13.
Garno 3.00 per setting of 13.
C. C. C. 0. for sale by G. M.
Reed, Harlem, Ga , and W. J
Keggie, Grovetown, Ga.
s. wi. H.
THE CREAT
PIANOiORGAN
DEPOt OF THE SOUTH
oosit at o&et ‘oszs ‘oiss ‘osit 'sowd
W?-Olw’
SEEING
fa believing. Behold na mwe ara. Immense!
Bo it if, and all usod In our own Music and Art
ly a in°the Ut ßde i of PIANOS AND ORGANS
in which we lead fill, ajid SAVE buyers
s•<'«*» 0,1 Instrument sold.
IxIVE Right you are. Dixie’s blaz
ing sun don’t even wilt us one bit. See our
GRAND SUMMER SALE
Commencing June 1. 1.000 PIANOS arid
ORGANS to be sola by Oct. 1. Splendid Bar
gains ! Prices way down. Terms easier than ever.
PIANOS $5 to SIO Monthly.
ORGANS 53 to SB Monthly.
BETTER YET!
® OUR o
p SPECIAL 4|
SPOT CASH PRICES, with credit
until Nov. 1. No Monthly Pay
ments. No Interest. Buy in June,
# July, August, or September, and
pay when crops come in.
Write for Circulars.
REMEMBER
Lowest Prices known.'
Easiest Terms possible.
Finest Instruments
Fine Stools and Covers,
All Freight Paid.
Fifteen Days’ Trial.
Full Guarantee.
" Square Dealing Always,
„ . . Money Saved.
Writ, to
ft MTT
sauuEW2, u"ubu=;. s;
Home Council
We take pleasure in calling your
attention to a remedy so long needed
in carrying children safely through
the critical stage of teething. It is an
incalculable blessing to mother and
child. If you are disturbed at night
with a sick, fretful, teething child, use
Pitts’ Carminative, it will give instant
relief, and regulate the bowels, and
make teething safe and easy. It will
cure Dysentery and Diarrhira. Pitts
Carminative is an instant relief for
colic of infants. It will promote di
gestion, give tone and energy to the
stomach and bowels. The sick, puny,
suffering child will soon become the
fat and frolicing joy of the household.
It is very pleasant to the taste and
only costs 25 cents jer bottle. Sold
by druggists.
For side at Holliday’s Drug Store
and Peeple’g Drug Store,Harlem, Ga.,
and by W J. Heggie, of Grovetown.
W. I. DELPH,
831 Broad Street,
AUGUSTA, - - - GEORGIA.
3 car loads COOKING and HEATING STOVES.
1 carload of GRATES, Plain and Enameled- 13, 14,15,16, 17,*18,19 and 20 inches.
160 boxes ROOFING TIN, 20x28, standard brands,
6,000 FIRE BRICK, 15 bbls. FIRE CLAY.
200 Joints Terra Cotta Pipe, 500 Sets of GBATE BRICK,
1,000 pounds No. SOLDER. 500 pounds half and half SOLDER.
100 bnndlewSHEET IRON. a
One car load Til. Ware, Pressed and Pieced.
Buckets. Cups, Dish Pans, Wash Pans, Milk Pans, Milk Buckets, Strainers, Oil Cans, toffee
Pots Pie Plates, Measures and Funnels, Woodenwaro in great variety. *
Has been sold for the past fifteen years giving satisfaction. TwqiJty different au'e"' The New
Excelsior is very handsomely finished. We have a few Portable an<- Stationary Baugce Steel
and fron. « . rs
Call or send your orders to 831 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.
W. I. Delph:
mm a
COTTON FACTORS AND COMPRESSORS.
AUCUSTA, GA.
Warehouse and Compress occupying block bounded by Washington,Twiggs
Calhoun and Taylor streets, and connected with all the rail roads center
ing here by double tracks extending into our yards.
Moderate Charges. Drayage Saved.
Consignments Solicited- Liberal Advances Made cn Consignments-
OFFICE :739 REYNOLDS ST.,
Rooms for Several Years Occupied by Aufiusta Colton Exchange.
ZE. schneidhb,
IMPORTER, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
Fine Wines, Cigars, Brandies, Tobacco,
Mineral Waters, Whiskies, Gin,
Porter, Ale, Etc.
Agent for Veuve Cliquot, Ponsardin, Urbar.a Wine Company,
Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association.
601 slikl 802 DHOAI) STTtEET,
AUGUSTA, GA.
AT
J. H. FEARERS;
Call and examine my Stock before making
purchases.
J. iSyjMiLiL, ~
Cotton Factor and Commission Merchant,
CONTINUES BUSINESS AS HERETOFORE AT
FIRE-PROOF) WAREHOUSE,
No. 19 Mclntosh Street, Augusta, Ga.
attention to all Consigning ts and prompt Remittances.
w. s. jessup. (Sign Red Front.) GEO - K - JESSUP
1W05..,
' WHOLESALE AND BETAIL DEALERS IN
Stoves and Ranges, Fi replace Heaters
Furnaces, Tinware and Heuse-Furnishing Goods. Sole agents for the Cel
ebrated “Favorite” Cook Stoves, conceded by all to be the best Stove ever
made. Roofing, Guttering, Spouting and Repairing done in the best man
ner by the best mechanics.
032 Bread sireet« Augusta? Ca
CfiRR'Y 2 OU
Cotton Factors and Commission Merchants,
105 MUINTOSH St. (Cor. Reynolds) JUG GSV'J, .
Save money by sending your Cotton to us. Commission 50c per bale.
Insurance 10c. per bale. No other charge when left for immediate sale.
Consignments Solicited.
Liberal Advances made on Consignments.
JNO. U. MEYER, who lias bad several years experience, will have charge
of the Sales. Hoping to have a share of your business,
We remain, yours respectfully,
CUURY Ac CO.
Pure and Fresh Candies.
-TT TE are making up our F;ill Stock of CANDIES and can assure our customers that all our
W goods are FRESH AND ITHE. having none but the best. We manufacture our goods
and know what we are selling. We arc expecting a large trade and shaikhs pleased to see all
our old customers and many now ones. He.vlqnarters for
Stick Candy, Fruits;, Bluts, Etc.
DENNING & CO.
awm a? mm
& Having secured the Agency for the celebrated
Burnham Water Wheel
Georgia and South Carolina, I am prepared
special inducements to parties wishing to put in
am also prepared to do any kind of Mill Work.’ne'y or re-
Correspondence solicited.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
■qooo OOSS 01 S'S ‘S9t OSt ‘tZS ‘SNVOHO