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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-11-27
Robbed 0f It's Pnatru.

DR.. Nachtigal, the celebrated African
explorer, was once the guest of rich
Hamburg merchant The merchants
son, a young man of somewhat senti-
mental temperament, said that his dear
est wish was to ride across the desert on
the back of a camel. He thought such
a ride must be very poetical indeed.
"My dear young FRIEND" replied the
explorer, II can tell you how you can
get a partial idea of what riding a camel
on the desert of Africa is like. Take an
Office stool, screw it up as high as posi-
Bile, and put it into wagon without any
springs; then seat yourself upon the
stool and have it driven over uneven
and rocky ground during the hottest
weather of July or August after you
have had nothing to eat or drink for
twenty-four hours, and then you will
get faint idea of how delightfully."- po-
etc it is to ride on camel in the wilds
of Africa. London Tit-Bits.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-11-27
A Chemical Lung.

A chemical lung" is the latest thing
proposed for the ventilation of tunnels
It was lately tested in London by four.
teen scientists. A room Is by 18 was
kept for an hour at a temperature of 81
degs., and the air was loaded with
impurities. The men of science were
now called upon to enter, and the all
was madestill more impure by burning
sulphur and carbonic acid gas. Then
the chemical lung" or punkah, SC
called. measuring by go, was set in
motion.
The temperature was soon reduced to
65 degs., and the air freed from all
impurities. Then fat was burned, to
test the machine for organic substances,
and the "lung" was started up just in
time to prevent the examining gentle
men from running out for fresh air. It
is proposed to use the invention during
the construction of the channel tunnel.
Philadelphia Record.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-11-27

Every member of the noble army of
scriveners should feel grateful for new
paper pad holder which has recently
come out at London. The holder is a
square of wood, with a raised fat Dor
der on the left side and across the bot
tom; the pad of paper fits into the angle,
and the whole block can thus be held
with the greatest possible ease in the
left hand, in any position most conven-
lent to the writer.
. The underneath part of the paper pad
is sheet of thick blotting paper, and as
each sheet is torn off when covered it
can be thrust in between the holder and
pad, not only without fear of plotting,
but also thereby helping to maintain
the pad at the same level to the end. To
those who love to scribble their lucu-
brations on their knee, in bed or any,
where, in fact, except at desk, an in
vention like this paper pad and holder
will come as most decided boon and
blessing York Journal
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-11-27
TIER FIRST Fuss.


a squatter's Pathethio story OF the Time
He and His WIFE Quarreled.
The squatter's cabin had grown to
pretentious proportions during the forty
years he had occupied it. The old man
remained unchanged except for the eff
fects of passing years. The crowd of
young people that had collected at his
house to spend the afternoon pressed
him to tell them story of his early life
in that region.
After. a little hesitation he began:
.Lemme, SEE. hits jist forty-fo' year ergo
at me an rner wife wuz maird an
moved ter this country fur ter set up fer
ourse'fs. We had er log cabin with on'y
one room, allaer,shed fur ther stawk.. /
worked powerful hard er clearin' NV
Ian an e. maxim er crap at ther same
time. Wife alters fetched mer dinner
ter me, an she staid in Their fer with
me mon half her time, We wuz happy.
ez happy ez eff we wuz rich.
''One mawnin we had er fuss. | dis
remember whit hit wuz erbout, but
went erway mad an lef' her eryin'. AT
dinner time she nuver come ! lowed
ter myself at she wuz mad, an s. |, Let
her stay mad eff she wants ter Bimeby
| gifts so hungry at started fur ther
house jist er bilin' Wen | got thar
everything wuz thar 'ceptin' mer wife.
Thar wuz mer dinner ready fur ter
take ter me, but wife wuzn' thar nur
thererbouts. gifts skeered an | calls
her, but no answer.
Finely seed Their dawg er comm.
He axed me fur ter foller him plain ez
talk an done hit. He sot off fur ther
creek an me er follerin. Purity soon we
coined ter Their creek an be ruined down
thef bank an me arter 4i1n. Mex
heared him bark, 'Yere she is jist ez
plain. | ruined whar he wuz an thar
wuz wife er layin' on Their groun' pale
an white ez err ghos She smiled when
she seed me an say. Tn SO glad yer
come.
"Then she p'inted ter er grapevine full
er grapes whut wuz on er dead tree, an
she say, S she, 4 wuz er tryin' fur ter git
yer them grapes fur yer dinner fur ter
git yer in er good humor with me. En-
linn broke an I fell. Yer amt mad at
me now, air We? | felt like KILN mer
fool self fur ever bein' mad at her.
"Hit don't matter whut tol her then.
toted her ter Their house, an nussed her
twell she got well. wouldn' let nobody
do nuthin' fur her but me, an she 'peared
like she nuver wanted no one to. Well
arter er while she got well, an we wu2
happy ergin. That wuz Their on'y fuss
we ever had. Sence then eff one shows
signs er gittin' mad Their yether says
grapes an hit stops thar. Chicago
Special Press Bureau. t
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-11-27
HAD PLAYED THERE BEFORE.


A Story of Lewiston Boy Who Caufd
Throw Across the Diamond.
A Lewiston young man who plstfs a
good game of baseball and who has had
the proud position of first base upon a
husthng local nine. and who can sneed a
baseball like bullet. is very effenainate
IN his manners and locks like ANYTHING
but sport.
he was out visiting in New Hamp-
SHIRE, and while there the local ball toss
ers looked at him with disgust. They
called him ''dood" and said that he
was sissy" He took it in good part
and said nothing. One day they laid out
plan to make him tired of the town.
and they invited him to play baseball.
He said that he didn't play much of a
game, but that he would like to accom-
modate them if possible. They were to
meet another nine in the same town, and
the boys were all out to see boy called
''Ratsy" paste the balls into the Lewis
ton dude first baseman."
The game began, and the young fellow
with the rodential name was pitching.
The first chance he got he snapped the
ball into the Lewiston boy at first and
the crowd just howled in glee, expecting
to see it go right through his hands.
More of them followed and he chung to
them rather bunglingly at first, just for
fun. Some of them he muffed purposely
and some he fumbled, and all the time
Ratsy" kept putting them along as
hard as he could, apparently trying to
catch the base runner off the first.
All this time the crowd was laughing
just as hard as it could. Finally the
Lewiston boy, who can throw ball like
an arrow from bow, decided that it
was time to stop the picnic. "Ratsy"
slid one in to the first with all of his
power. A sudden change came over the
Lewiston boy. He took it with a grace
that seemed new born, and then he
Strengthened up and his arm flew back
and the ball wentin. 'Ratsy" had never
played baseball outside of his native
hamlet: He had never handled red hot
pig iron or trifed with high tension
electric current.
He had never been shot with "a hun
dred ton gun or kicked by mule, but
this time he thought that he had expert
enced them all at once. The ball split a.
finger, passed through his hand and hit
him in the stomach, and "Ratsy' pitch
ed no more that game. After that the
Lewiston ball player. took Everything in
his reach, high, low, daisy cutters, foul
fiies.and all the rest, and there was not a
smile on the ball field that was not born
Of adairation of him. After that he
was the lion of the hamlet. Anyway
this IS the way some of his friends tell
the storY.-Lewiston Journal.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-11-27

While two young women were passing
Lincolns drug store atOgden avenue and
Congress street Sunday evening an ele-
gantly dressed young man accosted them
and insisted on accompanying them.
His advances were repealed, but this did
not subdue the importunate spob. Find
ing verbal protest unavailing one of the
young women, who had just come with
her companion from neighbours house,
where she had borrowed quart of
syrup, flung the contents of the syrup
pail at the head of the dude. The young
man hailed passing cab and was driven
to the West Side natatorium to get
cleansed. The woman washed the syrup
off her hands in Lincoln's drug store
Chicago Herald.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-11-27
WHERE 70 GET lob PRINTING.

Attention is directed to the jobbing de.
partment of the MARIETTA JOURNAL which
is provided with Steam Power, New Job
Presses, New and Latest Styles of Job
Type ana most approved and exten.
sive facilities for the execution of job
printing of all kindsfr the smallestlabe
to the largest poster, in black or colored
inks, at prices as low as can be had else
where for an equal grade of work. We are
prepared to printat ohort notice pamphlets
posters, programmes, circulars, letter heads
checks, envelopes, bill heads, blanks of all
kinds, catalogues, business cards, and every
hing in the line OF printing used in the con
duet Of every day business. We will du
plica,e Atlanta prices, Give us a triel
and see.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-11-27
Truth in a Blunder.

The intelligent compositor is some
times wiser than he knows, and that was
the case when recently in setting up a
list of persons whose claims against the
city had been allowed by the board of
supervisors he substituted k for an
and prefaced the list with the statement
that "the following bilks were ordered
paid" Good bless the intelligent COM
positor! He has bad heart, but his
hand is true.-San Francisco Examiner.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-11-27
Great Generals and Newspaper Men.

Great Generals and Newspaper Men.
Joe Howard says that Gen. Sherman
was largely responsible for the feeling
that obtained for long while in the
army against newspaper correspondents.
Gen. Mcclellan always welcomed them.
Burnside was as gallant and eourtly a
man in his tent as in his home in Wash
ington. Meade, although a strict dis
ciplinarian, understood and recognized
to the limit the duties of other men un-
der discipline. Grant for long time
was averse to entertaining correspond
ents, but his rare common sense came to
his relief, and under proper, legitimate
and absolutely welcome restrictions cor
respondents found themselves always at
home where Grant was in command
Ben Butler was very prince of hosts
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-11-27
Those Haunting Airs.

The way that popular tune puts out
it's invisible graphing machinery and
anchors itself in the mind is one of the
psychological mysteries. The first time
you hear it you don't possibly you
may even be glad you heard it. The
next time there is dali, apprehensive
throb; then there is a thrill of pain, and
after that an acute desire to hurl ones
self into humanity and extract gore
from the man who invented it.-Wash-
ingtOn Post.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-11-27
A Brain Disturber.

A Neosha county farmer sent this
mixed order to Chanute merchant:
Send me sack Of -four, five pounds of
COTE and one pound of tee. My wife
gave birth to big baby boy last night,
also five pounds of corn starch. a screw
driver and fly trap. 1t weighed ten
pounds and a straw hat.--Kansas City
Star
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-11-27

Crushed steel-made by crushing in a
stamp mill high carbon steel quenched
in cold water from an excessively high
temperatures being used for cutting
stone. 1t is very hard, and cheaper and
more effective than emery.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-11-27
DIR. Z. J. SEIZE

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
THENDERS HIS PROFESSIONAL
i services in the practice of Medicine in
all its branches to the citizens of Marietta
and surrounding country. Office at DR.
E. j. Setze's Drugstore All calls prompt
" attended to-
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-11-27
DIR. III. v. REYNOLDS
PRACTIClNG PHYSICIAN,

M HEN NOT ENGAGED ELSE
w where may be found during the Gay
at his office, up stairs. in McCatchy Build
ing, Southwest corner of Public Square,
and at night at his residence on Powder
Springs street. two doors above the Metho,
dist parsonage, Marietta, Ga. Telephone
No. H. iH
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-11-27
DIR. I'D. MALONE
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON

MARIETTA, GEORGIA.
OFFICE south side of Public Square,
~ at Malone's Drug Store Residence
on the corner of Atlanta and Anderson
streets. Callsin city or country answered
promptly day and night.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-11-27
NJ A Ri EFT A
Opposite the Kennesaw House. )

Opposite the Kennesaw House.)
CHUCK ANDERSON, Proprietor.
TPHE BEST OF VEHICLES, THE
safest of drivers and the fastest
horses are always ready, night and da
for hire. Ne man or woman or child eve
has given me call in the past, who ha
been, nor shall any ever in the future be.
dissatisfied with my teams or the men
my employ. Everything and every body
about me are No. ].
have cheapcd my charges propositions
ate to the stringency of the times. For
references as to the truth of what say,
as the turnouts and charges, so to my
friends, which means the people general
ly.
Parties hiring are strictly responsible
for the safely of themselves. vehicles and
horses. ], A. G. ANDERSON.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-11-27
DIR. N. N. CODE IL
PRACTICING PHYSTCIAl

PRACTICING PHYSICIAN,
TENDERS HIS PROFESSIONAL
services to the citizens Of Marietta and
surrounding country. Office, West-side Of
Square, Upstairs in Nichols Hall. Res
idenee at the Laneau house, one block
from Cherokee street, Marietta, Ga
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-11-27
DIR. G. TENNENT

Office Up Stairs in Masonic Building.
S,OUTH-SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE, MA
y rietta, Ga. Has removed residence on
Cemetery street. All calls promptly at
tended July 4th, 1888.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-11-27
DIR. III. .ROSSIGNOL

PRACTICING PHISICIIN.
TAvING LOCATED IN MARIETTA
Il respectfully tenders his professional
services to the public Office in Judge II.
NJ Hammetts Palace Drug Store Resi-
dence corner OF Lawrence and Cole streets.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28
Exhausting the Reptile.

INIIoAoIAlS IlI0 nOHIIlOs
Said the man from Punxsutawney
II never knew that snakes would run.
atyou until one day about three years
ago. was out clearing up apeice OF
ground, and one of these darned
black-snakes, or runners, whipping
up out of a bush, put his tail in his
mouth, and came rolling at me like
the driving wheel of Shoe Fly ex-
press. But didn't I run? Jehosa--
phat!'
"Why didn't you stop? He'd have,
stopped if you had stopped, inter
rupted a listener.
"Yes," continued the gentleman,
from Punxsutaw; "but. by the holy
horn spoons, I wouldn't have STOP
ped. l ran down the road two clean,
miles for home, and every time
looked over my shoulder there was
that reptile coming like a scared grey
hound. I couldn't get in the house,,
but had to keep running around it,.
didn't even have time to think of get
ting tired. and I kept on running I'M
til that Internal reptile died from
sheer exhaustion. "-Pittsburg Dis.
patch.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28
To Oblige the Barber.

The village had but one barber,
and one day he was taken sick.
Just at this time tin peddler came
along, and when something was said
about the BARRIERS i'll luck the ped
dler opened his sympathy box at
once and said:
cts awful, awful! Poor, poor
man! His income will cease, aud his
business go to ruin. Gentlemen,
something ought to be done.
No one else seemed to care much
but the peddler grew more sympa.
thetic the longer he thought of it
and finally he posted off up to the
house and offered to open the shop
and run it q couple Of days. The
BARRIERS wife gave him the key, and
he soon had the curtains up and the
door open. The first man to enter
was a stranger in the town who had
stopped over to do some business
with a druggist. He took the chair
and asked for a quick shave. The
peddler lathered him up and down
and across, tucked up his sleeves and
picked up the first razor he could
reach. His first scrape brought
blood, his second pared off about
third of the strangers mustache.
Good Lord, man, what are you
doing?" he shouted, as he jumped out
of his chair.
'Why, what's the matter?"
"Matter? Do you call yourself
barber?"
"No, SIR"
."Then what in-are you doing
here?"
"Obliging a poor man who is sick
in bed"
"You ought to be killed, and here
goes to do it,
And he knocked him over the box
stove, kicked him out of the door,
and run him around the meeting
house and losthim in a heavy growth
Of pigweeds. 1t was late at night
when the peddler leappeared, lame
and sore and humbled, and all he
had to say was:
by gum! if I ever try to oblige an
other Teller critter as long as l live"
New York Sun.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28
TO THE B4LSovED ONE.

Heaven hath its crown Of stars, the earth
Her glory robe of flowers
The sea its pearls-the grand old woods
Their songs and greening showers
The birds have homes where leaves and bloom
In beauty wreath above:
High yearning hearts their rainbow dream
And We, sweet We have love.
We walk not with the worldly great
Where loves dear name is sold;
Yet have we wealth We would not give
For all their mines of goldl
We revel not in corn and wine,
Yet have we from above
Mama divine, and will not pine,
While We may live and love.
There's sorrow for the toiling poor,
On misery's bosom nursed;
Rich robes for ragged souls, and crowns
For branded brows Cain-cursedl
But Cherubim, with clasping wings.
Ever about us be,
And, happiest,of Gods happy thingsi
There's love for you and me.
know. dear hearth that in our lot
May mingle tears and sorrow;
But loves rich rainbow's built from tears
To-day, with smiles tomorrow.
The sunshine from our eky may die.
The greenness from LIES tree,
But ever, mid the warning storm.
Thy nest shall sheltered be.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28
A Clam Catches a Mouse.
Billy Blake uses good many

Wall S0IStA0S q Iv1O0S0s
Billy Blake uses a good many
CLAIMS, being an old settler here.
Lately he had a pail full lying longer
than he expected; becoming dry.
they naturally opened up, a custom
prevailing with them at such times.
After all had retired to bed, in the.
still hours of the night, an unfortu-
nate mouse wandered over the pail.
The mouse's tail was too great a
temptation for one of the CLANS.
who Immediately seized it and closed
on it as in a wise. A terrible racket
ensued and Billy. waking up, saw
the white shell of clam dancing up.
and down all around the room.
Billy, who has been frequently warn
cd unless he put less spirits down to
keep his spirits up that he might
see imaginary objects, began to.
think that he fully realized the situ-
alton and rising to the occasion lit
a lamp and was we'll satisfied to find
a monse ahead of the clam. Altar
he had killed the mouse the diam
still held on to the tail.-Union Civ
(Oregon) Tribune.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28
Don't Believe All You Hear.

Don't Believe All You Hear.
The Rev. Myron w. Reed of Denver,
is always awake to a realization of
the comical in incidental life. He
tells q story of q man who, while
travelling in q parlor ear between
Omaha and Denver, fell asleep and
snored with such intense volume that
every one in the coach was seriously
annoyed. Presently an old gentle
man approached the sleeper, and,
shaking, him brought him out of
his slumbers with start.
what's the matter?" he ex-
claimed.
"Why, your snoring is annoying
every one in the car" replied the old
gentleman kindly.
"How do you know I'm snoring?'
queried the source of nuisance.
"Why we can't help but hear it. {"
"Well, don't believe all you hear
replied the stranger, and went to
sleep again.-1ndianapolis Sentinel.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28
Ascent on a BrOOmStick.
Two miles east of Fonda is q farm
omnod hu Ruron Chria tin mn He

AoS0iII OIl a 0IOOHIoIISNs
Two miles east of Fonda is a farm
owned by Byron Christiance. His
wife, when cleaning a well, stoop,
fell headlong into the well, striking
the water ten feet below. Fortu-
nately she did not release her grasp
on the broom she had been using and,
as it struck the water roadside, her
body turned in the seven feet of water
and her feet landed on the bottom.
On coming to the surface she grasped
projecting stone in the shaft and
stuck the end of the broom handle in
a crevice. Thus gaining support,
she screamed for help, but without
avail. The shaft was ten feet in
diameter, so that she could not get
a purchase for her hands and feet on
both sides.
Clinging to the stone with her
right hand and resting her right foot
on a projecting stone, she drew her.
self up to the surface of the water
getting support on the left from tn
broom. Then she raised the brool.
and stuck it in a crevice on a level
with her head, getting support with
her right hand and foot. Then she
raised herself up as before, and in
this way reached the curb and finally
terra firma. Mrs. Christiance will
not part with the broom. to which
she credits her marvellous escape
Albany Journal.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28
Little But Very Brave,

In the backwoods of Baker River
lives the bravest, most industrio us,
and most courageous little lady in
Skagit County. Her husband is q
man of limited means, and often has
to leave home to earn money to sup
port them while they are improving
their home.
This being the first year, their place
is not selt-sustaining, and in such
cases his wife stays at home entirely
alone. All the company she has is a
Winchester rifle and three pound
AK. Every morning, after she does
her housework, she takes her three
pound ak and goes to clearing, chop
ping, and burning brush. She is de-
termined to have a self-sustaining
and profitable home, and when her
husband is at home she shoulders
her AK and goes to the clearing with
him, in spite ofhis protest againstit.
She says she can chop to the heart
of tree nearly as quickly as he can.
This lady only weighs los pounds,
but she has a ton of ambition and
staying qualities. She was rocked
in the cradle of ease, raised in the lap
of luxury, is we'll educated and the
life she is now living is entirely
foreign to her. She has had no ex-
perience in roughing it, but she is
not one of the kind that sits and
whines over past lore. She has
strong arms, brave heart and a
willing mind, and is determined to
surmount the worst difficulties and
reap a reward.-From the La Con-
ner. Wash. Mail.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28
Donations for the Parson.

The season of donations for the
preachers being here, recalls the
story told of a certain pastor VIII ose
people were going to make him q
donation visit. He lived in q small
town surrounded by dairy farms. 1t
being supposed there would be more
or less milk brought in, a milk can
was placed at the door, that the car
pet might not get soiled when the
milk was dumped in. In the morn
ing, upon going to get a nice supply
Of cream, what was his surprise to
find nothing but water in the canl
A goodly number had poured from
small pals the night before what
was presumably milk, but the result
showed that each had dumped water,
each supposing that the little pail oil
water he brought would only slight
" reduce the quality of the milk
brought by his neighbors. In this
way he would be considered a giving
milk, and yet his can at home would
be undiminished.