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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-09
wanted-rwo Good NIurderers.

Some curious letters passed between
Garrick and a man named Stone.
The latter was employed to get re-
cruits for the low parts Of the drama,
and one night he wrote to Garrick,
"Sir-The Bishop of Winchester is
getting drunk at the Bear and swears
he will not play tonight"
At first sight this seems peculiar
conduct for a bishop, but it should
be explained that the communication
only refers to the man engaged to
take that character in the play of
Henry VIII"
On another occasion Garrick wrote
to Stone: "If you can get me two
good mrderers l will pay you hand
somely, particularly the spouting fell
low who keeps the apple stall on
Tower hill. The cut in his face is
just the thing. Pick me up an Alder
man or two for Richard if you can,
and I have no objection to treat with
you for comely mayor. Cham
bers' Journal.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-09
War Secretaries.

The Office of secretary of wa was
established on Aug. Z, 1889. The
first holder of the Office was Gaeral
Henry Knox, of Massachusetts, He
was thirty-nine years old when ap-
pointed. He was one of the Aidre
court martial, served with Washing
ton in Yorktown, and arranged the
details for the evacuation of lew
York city with Guy Carleton. Iur-
ing the first half century of the re-
public's existence New York he
quently furnished the war depart
ment with its chief, but since 1916
there has been but one New York
secretary of war, General Schofeld
who served only for a short time
He was, when appointed, a residen
of the Virginia military district
though native of New York. Dur
ing his first term Mr.. Cleveland haC
a Massachusetts secretary of war
the first to hold that place since the
close of Madison's term. Exchange
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-09
HE LOOKED LIKE ARTHUR.
How Double" Made Lots of Enemies
for President Arthur.

How Double" Made Lots of Enemies
for President Arthur.
There are about 10, 900 people in
this land of the free now telling
their children how they shook hands
with President Arthur who are har-
boring delusion, said Mr.. Al DON
maud at the Lindell. President Ar
thur was the man who looked like
me. Even men who knew the presi-
dent intimately sometimes mistook
me for him, and l probably'got him
into no end of trouble by promising
fat offices to the multitudinous hang
ers on at Washington
Il was coming down Pennsylvania
avenue one day when a big fellow
from Missouri tackled me, He had
come on three months before to beg
for marshalship or something, and
had sent him home with the prom
Use that his commission should chase
him hard. It didn't chase, and he
came back to hold the chief magis-
trate to his promise. He called on
the president, but Mr.. Arthur pro-
tested that he had promised him
nothing. He expostulated, and the
president explained to him that he
had double in town who was max
ing life burden for him.
When the big Missourian swooped
down upon me saw that he had
blood in his eye l OWNED the stu
alton at once. He came up and
shook his fist in my face and ex-
pressed fervent desire to 'chaw' me
up. l got on my dignity at once, !
would have preferred to get on the
Washington monument and pull the
steps up after me, h;lt hadn't time.
l told him l was not responsible for
the wretched practical jokes of the
man who looked like me and eau
toned him not to assault the chief
magistrate of the nation.
You're not the president he
shouted. I left the president only
an hour ago Certainly, remem-
Der your visit very well. l thought
l had explained the situation to you,
| replied with all the GOODNESS /
could assume He looked complete
ly beat He apologized and hoped l
would not lay it up against him. l
freely forgave him, told him he was
an honest fellow, and limited that if
he would go home and behave him
self might make him postmaster at
st. joe He made a bee line for the
depot, and felt relieved. st. Louis
Globe Democrat.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-09
Poor Mans Belt.

Few biographies mention the dis
trict in the south known as the
Poor Mans Belt" 1t is a tract Of
country generally very sandy and
producing little timber save the long
leafed pine. 1t begins not far south
of Richmond, and extends along the
Atlantic and gulf coasts into Texas.
It's length is not far from 1, 800 miles,
while it is from so to $50 miles in
width. The soil is poor, but the for
ests produce not only lumber in
abundance, but also large quantities
of pitch, tar and turpentine. 1t got
a bad name during slavery days be-
cause no cotton was raised in it, but
since the south is beginning to look
elsewhere than to the cotton field for
its wealth, the poor Mans Belt
promises to become one Of the rich.
est parts of the southern states.-St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-09
OCTOBER WOODS.

The frost has opened the chestnut burrs
And the nuts fall lazily, two and three.
The squirrel chatters. the PARTRIDGE wbirs
And the red capped woodpecker bores bic
tree.
Oh, lightly and lightly the birch leaves 400.
Ike golden butterflies loosed in spring,
ana bright as the sails of fairy boat
The walnut leaves take wing.
Now come. now come; far down the lane
The asters beckon, the robins CALI
The shrunken brook grows broad again
And leaps in laughing waterfall.
Over the stile and over the bridge.
Auown the path where the meek cows stray,
by glen and hollow and windy ridge,
Let us follow the woodland way.
see! how the marvellous cloth of gold
A Tyrian tapestry woven fine
wide as we wander is still unrolIed
Rustling under your feet and mine,
Inc , breath OF the woodland is joy to breathe
Inc mingled odors of leaf and flower,
ana clustering fruit where the wild vines
wreathe
Ahe oak trees messy tower.
Softly into the vistaed wood
Through painted windows the sunbeans
smile;
The hushed winds walk in pensive mood
poWn many solemn gothic aisle.
Inc golden clouds hang low in air,
wrapped in their folds the late sun rests
ana the tall trees stand as if in prayer
win their boards upon their breasts.
-4da Whlpple Benham in Youths Companion
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-09
Didn't Like the Idea of the singing.


In the Kennebec valley, or toward
that way, there lives a gentleman of
the old school, in a handsome home
stead that stands a mile or more
from the nearest village and railroad
station. This gentleman is of a con-
vlvial turn of mind, and for long
time found it necessary to go to
Portland at frequent intervals
sometimes as often as two or three a
week. From every one of these
journeys he returned on the latest
train that he could get, and this was
one that invariably landed him at
his station as late as II o'clock.
AS he was not in the least in con-
ditlon to walk home it was necessary
every night for the local livery stable
keeper to harness a horse and take
him home. This went on until the
livery stable keeper resolved that the
man must be demonstrated with.
Therefore, the gentleman having ar
rived one night from Portland at the
usual hour and in the usual condi-
ton, and the horse having been put
into the conveyance and the man
loaded in, as usual, the livery stable
keeper turned to his passenger and
remarked shrewdly:
Look here, squirrel If you don't
quit this kind O business pretty soon
there'll be singin down to your house
some day, and, begad, you won't hear
word of it'll"
Something about this admonition
the grim picturesqueness of it per
haps-caused it to sink into the mans
mind, and he left off his trips to Port
land for some time. Boston Tran
script.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-09
Didn't Object to the General.

Colonel Burrows, of Texas, was at
the Great Northern yesterday and
was INDUCING in some "reminiscences
of the late unpleasantness while he
was in General Magruder's COM
mand. I'VE were all hungry one
morning." said he, land General
Magruder, going up on hill, saw a
white house in the distance. He
sent an aid to ask the mistress of
the house if she could not oblige him
with a meal for himself and staff.
while the woman, who was a
southern sympathizer. was preparing
the meal, private of Virginia
regiment came along and asked for
food. He was informed that the
meal was being prepared for the gen.
eral and his staff If there's any
thing for you when they finish, she
said, you are welcome to it. The
Virginian, who was a man of good
family, waited humbly till the ex-
pected guests arrived and then
crowded in beside the general and
began to eat. Magruder turned to
him little sharply and said, 'Doyou
know with whom you are eating,
sir2' No., said the private, I don't.
Before the war, sir, l was very care
full with whom associated, but now
I don't care darn '"-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-09
The Grave of Camille.

Over twoscore years have passed
since the woman who was the origi-
nal of Camille died She sleeps in
the cemetery of Pere la Chaise. AS
is well known, it is the custom in
France for all persons who have lost
a relative or friend to go on the an
niversary called 1.-THE Day of the
Dead" to decorate the graves of the
departed with flowers. Every year
on that day an unknown hand de-
posts on the tomb of Marie Duplessis
a superb wreath of white camelias
1t is generally conjectured that the
author of this touching act of hon.
age is Alexandra Dumas. Ladies
Home Journal.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-09
Latin Races in South America.


If North America IS the adopted
home of the Teutonic races, not less
so is South America the goal for
which the Latin peoples make. The
great preponderance of English, Irish
and Germans which we see in the
northern continent has no existence
in the southern. It is to Italy, Portu-
gal and Spain that the countries south
of the equator look for their re-en-
forcements. Twenty years ago the
foreign born Portuguese in Brazil
were 49.8 per cent. of the whole, the
Germans 1873, but of late years the
relative numbers have undergone a
change.
The overfowing population of Italy
has chosen Brazil for its settlement
with surprising results. From 1888
to 1887 the Italian immigrants were
1876 per cent. of the whole number;
the Portuguese come next with 800,
and the Germans have dropped to Sc
per cent, being almost equaled by
the Spaniards with Al. In Argentina
the Italian ascendency is even more
marked. From 1879 to 1883, GA per
cent. of the immigrants were Ital-
ians, 1873 were Spaniards, 80 French
men and but IL Englishmen. In 1887
the population of 600, OOoin round fig
ures contained no less than 28O.0OC
Italians, and in 1890 alone SO, 122 were
added to it. -Edinburgh Review.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-09
He Met Mrs. King.

A gentleman who remembers the
family of Ex-Governor King in Bath,
tells a story which illustrates the
folly of judging from appearances.
A gentleman, a stranger in Bath,
called at the house and inquired for
Governor King. Mrs. King, who an
swered the knock at the door, was in
theHnidst of her mornings work and
md not present very prepossessing
appearance, The governor was not
IN, and the gentleman asked if he
could see Mrs. King. II am Mrs.
King" If the caller had charged
her in SO many words with telling a
falsehood he could not have told her
more plainly that he did not believe
her.
With a smile and a pleasant word
about the weather he turned about
and went down town. There he
found Governor King, who invited
him to dinner. He accepted. The
condition of his mind when the gov.
ernor introduced him to Mrs. King
can be better imagined than de-
scribed.-Portland Express.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-09
Jungle Fires i'm South Africa.

In southern Africa flame flicker
ing up in the sun scorched thorn jun
giles often spreads with the rapidity
of a prairie fire, and the traveller
Brehm gives a graphic description
of the resulting stampede of wild
animals-antelopes, leopards, bab-
oons, jackals and hyenas all dash,
ing off at top speed, with a mob OF
short legged creatures making fran.
tic efforts to keep their start of the
devouring element.-San Francisco
Chronicle.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-09
JAY Gould's Early business tact.

To show Mr.. Gould's shrewd bust
ness tact Mr.. Woolhiser said:
Jay proved himself sharp bust
ness boy. He had habit of getting
old pocketknives, much the worse
for wear, and going to a person
whom he knew to own fairly good
knife he would say, ''Tll swap
knives insight, unseen with you. ="
If the man or lad did not know
Gould he would trade and in nine
cases out of ten would get much the
worst of the bargain. New York
World
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-09
A Hint for Detectives.

There is another little Ratchet story
going the rounds that in its way i;
almost as good as the time honoret
one in which the father of his coun.
try figures so prominently.
Some time after the Borden muir
der, when all the world was wonder
ing where the Ratchet could possibly
be with which the deed, so it was be-
lieved, had been committed, General
Butler was travelling by rail, and this
particular topic came up for discus
sion in the course of conversation.
Close to the eminent lawyer was a
reporter, although the general knew
it not, though it would PROBABLY not
have made any difference, as he
usually says what he thiiks without
fear or favor.
Where could the hatcht be-"
Some thought in the ir,others in
the earth, and still others h the wa
tiers that are under the earth-in
fact every possible place WIS named
by some one.
At length Butler spoke. VI can
tell you just where that hatdet is. f"
he said with great deliberatiq.
"Wherel" asked two or tree at
once, for the generals opinbns al
ways carry great weight.
1T will never be found until the
murderer dies, for he or she swal-
lowed it.
Why don't the police work q this
naturalization Herald
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-09

Don't forget that the patient little
woman you call your wife was once
your sweetheart. A caress now and
then or tender word costs so little
and means so much to the woman of
your choice.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-09
McCARTY'S MAGIC IMMINENT

Cures Nasal Catarrh, Neuralgia and
Rheumatism. Cures any kind of pain in
two minutes. Sold under guarantee by
H. M, Hammett McCarthy's Vegetable
Compound for the Liver, and Mccarthy s
Pulmonic Syrup, guaranteed to cure Com
sumption. Sold by H. NJ HAMMETT.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-09

1t is related of the late Thomas
Adolphus Trollope that he said with
the simplicity which always charac-
terized him.. my English novels I
cannot recommend. I know very
little practically of English life, but
all that l have written of Italy and
Italians is worth reading"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-09
No Rival.
fr. Blinks-Who has been here9

Mr.. Blinks-Who has been hereG
Mrs. Bhnks-No one.
Mr.. Blinks-Huhl Who's been
smoking those cigars you gave me
Christmas9
Mrs. Blinls-No one, my dear,
The lamp was turned up too high !;
that's ll.-New York Weekly.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-09
Though tfulness.

1t was Connecticut girl who mar
ried a telegraph operator, $50 that
when ma died it wouldn't cost any.
thing to telegraph the news to her
uncle's folks in Ohio. Buffalo
News.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-09

The colored janitor of a Sedalia
Mo.) public school manages by strict
economy to save forty dollars every
month out of his monthly stipend of
forty-two dollars, so it is said.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-09

The Bible seems to be full of
strangely pat local illusions, and so
pointed are they that even the truly
reverent person cannot always avoid
calling attention to them.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-09

Signals Lily Flag, a Jersey COW
belonging to General Moore, of Hunts
vile, Ala has the greatest butter
record of any cow now living, GAO
pounds in four days less than year.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-09
DIR. I'll. v. REYNOLDS.

PRACTIClNG PHYSICIAN,
WHEN NOT ENGAGED ELSE
w where may be found during the Gay
at his office, up stairs, in McClatchy 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 II.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-09
NJ A RI EFT a
Opposite the Kennesaw House. f,

Opposite the Kennesaw House.>
CHUCK ANDERSON, Proprietor.
VRHE BEST OF VEHICLES, THR
safest of drivers and the fastest OF
horses are always ready, night and day
for hire. Nc man or woman or child ever
bias given me a call in the past, who has
been, nor shall any ever in the future be-
dissatisfied with my teams or the men in
my employ. Everything and every body
about me are No. 1.
have cheaped 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, 1893-02-09
DR.. p. r. CORTELYOU.
PRACTTCING PHYSICIAN.

PRACTICLNG PHYSICIAN.
MARIETTA, GEORGIA. OFFICE
III North-side Public Square, over R. Fl.
n orthcutts Millinery store. Consultation
Hours, 81 a. m. TO l2-3 to 5 p. M, unless
otherwise engaged Telephone No. Is.
Residence nearly opposite Pres oyterian
Church, or Church street,
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-09
DIR. f. J. SEIZE.

PHYSICIAN IND SURGEON,
TENDERS HIS PROFESSIONAL
L services in the practice of Medicine in
all its branches to the citizens of Marietta
and surrounding country. Office at DR.
E. j. Seize Drugstore All calls prompt
ly attended to.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-24

stripes with deep blue corner on which
repOses a "lone STAR of white waves
above the model of the government house.
The native houses, that is of the Mandin-
goes, are OF closely woven bamboo, the in
terror bisected by a wide hall from which
four apartments occupying the four cor
ners of the house and divided also by a
lateral hall, open Off There is a strong
resem blance between me arrangements
of these houses and those of the TlinEits
of Alaska, with the difference that the
negro's is infinitely cleaner and more
comfortable. Among the curious eX-
hibits are fine fans of skin with
the hair on, stretched over
frames. Good knives, wood carvings,
simple agricultural appliances and strips
of bright-colored cloth-all the work of
Mandingoes-for a large proportion of
the display. Queer states, shaped like
wooden freight tags, only much larger and
covered with Arabic numerals and words
for the Mandingoes speak Arabic-are
shown. The Mandingoes hive regular
schools and barricaded towns and as Mr.
Naumbaugh observed, "while nearest in
religion to the Barbary states. are suifi-
GENTLY different to make it a far-fetched
conclusion on the part of the French
that Liberia would make u good country
to annex
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-24
WOMEN WHO WEAR Boards.
Some Time it May be Necessary For
the Belle to Garry Razor.
From the London STATE ard.

A learned German, who has devoted
himself to the study of physiology, au-
thropology, and allied sciences. makes the
rather startling assertion that mustaches
are becoming commOner among women in
the present day than in the past
He tells that in COnstantinople among
the unveiled women that are to be met
with one out of ten possesses an unmis-
taxable covering of down on the upper
lip. In the capital of Spain. again, the
proportions of ladies with the masculine
is said to he quite equal to
American medical man states that in
Philadelphia fully per cent. of the adult
fair sex are similarly adorned, and prob
ably the proportion would be still larger
but that many women take the trouble
to eradicate the unWelcOmed
growth by the application of de
pilatory preparations. Is this increase
in the number Of women with hair on
their faces to be regarded rs sign that
the human race is improvingl Very few
men, at all events, will be disposed to
consider that a mustache adds to the
charms of the opposite sex. Englishmen,
indeed, only generation ago, had such a
deteStatiOu Of mustaChes and boards that
the practice Of shaving all the hair off
the face down TO their muttOn-chOp whiS-
kers was all but universal From one
extreme our Clean-shaven fathers
plunged into the other, ana boards and
mustaches rapidly became the fashion.
The fashion has of late years been mod
flied. Boards are less common, but the
mustache is cultivated in England as
widely as on the continent. But why
should the fair sex be visited by this in
tiictiou' Some writers on ethuology
hold that the higher races of mankind
are always the hairier, and Mr. Mott
thinks that in a few centuries men and
women viii all be clothed in hair But
we do not believe MIR Mott; and we GER
tainly do not care 10 live TO see the day
Of bearded beauty
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-24

quick a fellow can perform difficult feats
when he has to- isn't It! Instead Of be
ing lot Of wild giraffes it was only one
animal, but it had nine heads stuck on
the end Of as many long necks that
curved like a swans neck. Each head
had stubby-looking horns growing up
ward above the ears and names that
stuck out for more than a foot. and as
stiff looking as the quilts of a pOrcupine
Whatever the thing was it had butone
body TO which were attached dozen
legs Of different size the front ones being
about yard long and the others dwindled
down gradually till the rear ones were
not over foot long. The feet were like
those of an ostrich, but webbed like a
ducks. Along the top of the body was a
succession of long fins that Topped and
ratified against each other as the thing
moved along. Back from the hind legs
the body stretched out IL seemed TO me, as
/ ! watched it from the tree, for half a
mile. 1t moved like the driving wheels Of
locomotive. When 1t got to whore our
tent stood 1t took hold Of the canvas with
its nine mouths and shook It violently like
a dog would a rat. In a minute the 6ent
was torn into ribbons, and you should
have seen how quick the nine mouths
gobbled up every bit Of victuals we had in
the tent Abe recovered from his faint,
and, kicking Graham, woke him up, and
the two scooted of into the woods for
dear life I wanted 20 call them back, but
was afraid to speak for fear | would
attract the attention Of the monster.
GLAD TO GET HOME.
"The thing looked about for a little
while and then struck for the river. My,
but how it made the water boil Why
you would have thought you were at the
seashore watching the breakers come
rolling in on the beach.
II believe it was fully a quarter of an
hour before that thing got all Of itself
into the river. Then it made for down
stream faster than any steamboat / was
ever on. IL struck our boats with its
awful tail and smashed them into kindling
wood We stayed up the trees guess
for an hour after the Thing had disap-
peared and when we slid down it was
some time before either of us spoke.
Graham and Abe came sneaking back,
and were as quiet as the rest of US.
1.-THE first to break the awful silence
was Tyson, who said: Men, let's get
out of this country as fast as we can.
I'm awful sick and want to get home =
We left at once and struck out through
the woods 1t took us all night to reach
town, and we left for home without
stopping TO get a mouthful of breakfast.
When we got home we all went to bed
right here in my house and sent for the
doctor | wouldn't go through an ex-
perience like that again il they'd give me
the whole state Of Florida"