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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-23
ENTERPRIsING BooTBLACKs-
One of the Many ways to Earn a Little
Money in Big CITY.

One of the Many Ways to Earn Little
Money in Big City.
Every now and then some new
and curious phase of metropolitan
life thrusts itself upon you. No mat
ter how long you have lived in
Gotham, no matter how much YOU
have been about, no matter how
close an observer you are, it is some
thing to surprise you.
On the corner of Ninth avenue and
Eighty-first street, just below the
elevated station, is a small, unpaint-
ed wooden house about four by six
feet. 1t contains a stove and a
couple of bootblack chairs and a
dark skinned tenant who operates
these. Outside is another chair used
in fine weather, and a long board
against the fence bears an assort-
ment of daily papers, tended by the
diminutive son of the colored man
before mentioned. The mixed es-
Enlistment has been running eight
years.
If you should happen to come
along here about daylight in the
morning you would see father and
son engaged on long row of shoes
OF various styles of architecture
Some are gentlemen's shoes, and
some bear the high heel in the mid
die and half inch toes and wealth of
thstep that denote the feminine quail
ity of the wearers, and some are pol
ished up like the admiral's handle of
the big front door, some are still in
state of physical degradation, while
others are undergoing the process of
being born again under the brush.
Thus saw them once twice-then
stopped and asked whose shoes these
were, first peeping into the little
house to see if the owners were not
sitting in their stockinged feet
around the stove.
Dos the genl'men's and the la
dies of er neighborhood," says the
small boy.
''You don't mean to say they send
their shoes here to be blackedW
''N-n-no, not zactly Da puts 'em
out and we collects 'em. See? Some
dem shoes done b'long two blocks
way from hyah."
Further inquiry elected the infor-
nation that the hall boys or janitors
of the flats in the vicinity arrange
with tenants to have the latter's
shoes blackened every morning at so
much a month. The shoes are left
outside the doors The boy collects
them, and sometimes he blacks them,
and sometimes he lets them out to
adjoining stands on a percentage.
The stand collector comes around for
them and they are duly cleaned and
delivered. In the meantime the
owner is getting his or her soundest
sleep, blissfully unconscious of the
fact that the shoes outside the door
have, during the morning, been in
mixed row on the sidewalk a couple
of blocks away marked &c 1924" or
tx 2-150-62d. New York Herald.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-23
The Trouble with the Books.

A New Yorker forwarded to one of
his friends in the vests set of Colonel
Ingersoll's works. Then he sent a
telegram informing him what he had
done and expressing the hope that
the books would arrive safe and
sound. A few days afterward he re-
ceived telegram from his friend
who was an orthodox Presbyterian
which ran this way, Books arrived
safe, but not sound. New York
World
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-23
Housekeeping Clubs.

Mrs. WilkinsoD president of the
Columbian Association of Housekeep-
ers, says that is easier to start a
Dante class OF a Browning class, a
class to studymedi@val art, OF even
sanscrit, anbng women than to es-
tablish hoeekeepers' clubs in any
city. Pogibly the reason may be
that the }6usekeepers have too much
businessbn hand at home to spend
their tihe at clubs. You can take
your B6ssetti under your arm and
traipe off to club to talk it all over
wit5a lot of other women, but you
can't very well take your salad for
lugcheon or your parlor busting
with you. Discussions won't do the
Norning marketing, and dinners are
Obstinate problems which every
woman must figure out for herself,
according to the particular taste of
the man who eats them. York
Sun.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-23
Chollx,s Absorbing Troubles.

Whats the matter, Cholly9" said
friend of that young mans, who
dropped in on him just as he was get
ting ready to go out for the evening.
I'm in deuce of worry"
"What about2"
"Too many guhls gave me neck
ties fob pwesents, don't you knowp
"That's nothing to be troubled
over"
ooh, yes it is. tell you it's next
to impossible to keep twack of which
gull gave which necktie, SO he won't
weah wong tie to see the wight gull,
don't you know. And, yet if go
cwazy I just bet they will say it wa
cigawets "-W Washington Star.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-23
AN OLD FASHIONED LOVE SONG,

Tell me what within her eyes
Makes the forgotten spring arise,
And all the day, if kind she looks,
FLOW to tune like tinkling brooks;
Tell me why, u but her voice
Ealls on mems ears, their souls rejoice;
Tell me why, if only she
Doth come into the companie,
All spirits straight enkindled are.
AS if moon lit up a star.
Tell me this that's writ above.
And | will tell you why love.
Tell me why the foolish wind
Is to her tresses ever kind,
And only blows them in such wise
AS lends her beauty some surprise:
Tell me why no changing year
Can change from spring, if she appear;
Tell me why to see her face
Begets in all folk else grace
That makes them fair, as love of her I
Did to gentler nature stir, u
Tell me why, If she but 90
Alone across the fields of snow,
All fancies of the springs of old
Within lovers breast grow bold;
Tell me why, when her he sees,
Within him stirs an April breeze;
And all that in his secret hear:
Most sacredly was set apart.
And most was hidden, thepawakes,
AT the sweet JOY her comiIg makes.
Tell me what is writ pbove,
And will tell you WY love.
-NeW York Tribune.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-23
Yawning Eases Pain.

The patient who is troubled with
excess of wax in the ear, accompanied
with pain, should yawn often and
deeply. The pain will soon disap-
pear. In cases of nasal catarrh, in
hammation of the palate, sore throat
and earache, DR.. Naegeli orders the
patient as often as possible during
each day to yawn from six to seven
times successfully, and afterward to
swallow. The result will be surpris-
ing, but it can easily be understood
upon the theory that yawning is
natures massage for certain organs.
-Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-23
A vice Presidents Cow.

Once while Mr.. Hamlin was vice
president of the United States a COW
was sent to him from Carmel, and he
came to the yards for her personally
and led her to his house through the
streets of Bangor, dressed IN his ira
ditional swallow tail. Portland (Me.)
Express.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-23
American Aristocracy.

1.-THE trouble about America" re-
marked Duffkins, lis that it lacks
aristocracy. There is no privileged
class here"
mo privileged class" exclaimed
Chumper. 'Did you ever live in q
Harlem fiat with an imported jan
itor9 You wouldn't bewail the alb
sence of aristocracy if you had."-
New York Herald.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-23

The rubber tree Of Brazil (Siphonia
elastica, near relative Of the Ficus
elastica of the East Indies and the
Urceola elastica of Asia) is really
giant species of milkweed.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-23

The heads of persons beheaded for
state offenses were formerly exposed
to view on long poles upon London
bridge. The last head exhibited was
that of Venner, the fifth monarchy
zealot, beheaded in the reign of
Charles II.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-23
Two Mothers.

Fond Mother-That new boy across
the street is bad boy, isn't he, my
pete
Little Son-No'm.
Isn't heH Then why don't you
play with him?"
His mother won't let me. "--i;oo6
News.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-23

Music, Of all the liberal arts, has
the greatest influence over the pas
siDns, and is that to which the legis-
lator ought to give the greatest en-
couragement.-Napoleon.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-23

NJ. Charpentier de Cossigny, of
Paris, a retired general of division of
artillery, escaped all the dangers of
battle only to be killed by a fall down
stairs in his own residence.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-23
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 McCarthys
Pulmonic Syrup, guaranteed to cure COM
Sold by III. M. HAMMErT.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-23
Mucl, More.

Young Mani hope you can prom
Use to be more than a sister to me.
Young Woman-I can. I'll be a
mother to you, as l am going to
marry your father.-L
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-23
DIR. E. J. SEIZE.

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
TENDERS HIS PROFESSIONAL
4 services in the practice of Medicine in
all its branches to the citizens of Marietta
and surrounding country. Office at DR.
+. }. Seize 5 Drugstore All calls prompt
ly attended to.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-23
DIR. I'll. V. REYNOLDS.
PRACTCING PHYSJCIAN

WTHEN NOT ENGAGED ELSE
w where may be found during the uay
at his office, up stairs, in McClatchy Build
ing, Southwest corner of Public Sqrare,
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, 1893-02-23

Lessmann, the humorous writer,
like Burton, put al end to himself in
a fit of melancholy
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-23
DIR. j. ID. 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. Callsln city or country answered
promptly day and night
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-23
M A RI EFT a

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. No man or woman or child ever
has given me call in the past, who has
dissatisfied with my teams or the men in
my employ. Everything and every body
about me are No. /.
I 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, go'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, 1893-02-23
DIR. P. r. CORTELYOU.
PRACTTCING PHYSICIAN

PRACTICING PHYSICIAN,
MARIETTA GEORGIA. OFFICE
w North.side Public Square, over r. b.
y orthcutt's 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, on Church street,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-05-29
FADS OF FASHION.

Willow, moss, salad, stem and apple
green toilets of elegant or dainty textiles
will be in highest vogue.
Toile Parisienne is used by French
dressmakers for foundation skirts and
skirt Innings to summer toilets. This fab
ric is much like a heavy batiste with a
linen finish.
AS a rule, those who elect for serge
dresses do not like the coarse weaves,
preferring the finer, softer grades, yet
this season it seems almost impossible to
obtain the latter.
For summer uses in mourning are new
semidiaphanous silk and wool fabrics
initiating crepons and china grapes that
that are very handsome, also grenadines
with alternate stripes of silk yelling or
craped lusterless silk.
Some of the French zephyrs have fine
broche designs, which are not printed,
but thrown in relief upon the surface by
new and peculiar weaving of the goods.
A beautiful design is in roses shading
from sea shell pink to rich crimson on
aground Of palest golden green.-New
York Evening Post.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-05-29
RAILROAD JOTTINGS.

The Texas Central is to extend its line
from Waco, Tex, to New Orleans.
A new station is to be built at Middle
town, N. Y, on the Lehigh Valley road.
Elizabeth, N. j., is to have big car
works, with a capacity of eight passen-
ger cars a day.
The total amount spent for equipment
on the southwest system of the Pan
handle during 1892 was 81 ,539, ,039.40.
Two of the IS leading English railroads
pay dividends amounting to 8 per cent;
two others pay exactly per cent less,
while three others pay per cent, and one
pays per cent.
Railway extensions are to be built in
upper and lower Egypt at a cost of about
e1, 100000. The existing line from Cir
geh to Keneh win be extended and a mar
row gauge railway built to Luxor.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-05-29
An Extraordinarily Rainy Season.

Even South Africa has suffered from
the extraordinary rainfalls which seem
to have been prevalent in all quarters of
the globe. The Transvaal is not, as q
rule, country that suffers from floods,
but the downfall of the 10th of Febru-
ary, full particulars of which have now
been received in London, seems to have
rivaled that which caused such wide
spread havoc in Queensland. Hotels
and houses were swept away, suburb
of Pretoria was almost destroyed, num-
bers of persons and heads of cattle were
drowned and mines were seriously dam
aged by the destruction of dams or ma
chinery.
For miles the country was under wa
ter. There seems to have been no par
allel to this flood since the Transvaal
came under European occupation. In
the country districts the consequences
will be felt most severely by the Boer
population, for British settlers have
avoided the Transvaal of late, but the
traders in the towns are largely British,
as are the shareholders of the mines, and
both these classes will experience heavy
| losses
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-05-29
ODDS AND ENDS.

1t is computed that there is 81 900, ,OO0,.
900 in gold and jewels at the bottom OF
the sea on the route between England
and India.
The Languedoc ship canal in France
by short passage of 14S miles saves
sea voyage of 1900 miles by the straits
of Gibraltar
The sounding board of pianos, the most
important part of the instrument, is
made of American spruce andis as care.
fully chosen as the wood for violin.
1t is asserted that waterproof sheets OF
paper gummed and automatically com.
pressed make a material as durable as
leather for the soles of shoes. 1t also
makes serviceable horseshoes.
About 100000 worth of pearls have
been taken from the waters of Wiscon-
sin streams during the last few years.
Some single pearls obtained there have
been estimated to be worth 81 900.
The headquarters for the sale of false
hair is at Marseilles. Twenty huge bales
of Chinese human hair arrived there re-
Gently and will be manufactured into
curls, frizzes and crimps for English la
dies.
Zante, the island that has been shaken
up by an earthquake, is the ancient
Zakunthos mentioned by Herodotus as
producing asphalt 500 B. c., and the ma
tives still call it Zakunthos and still find
asphalt there.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-05-29
GOSSIP ABOUT MEN.

Governor Flower of New York and ].
Sterling Morton spent their boyhood
days in school together.
Cardinal Vaughan, the archbishop OF
Westminster, keeps himself in good
physical condition by taking a 5-mile
walk every day.
NJ. Godefroy Cavaignac is a reserved,
cautious and even unpopular sort OF
man. Like President Carnot, he is a civil
engineer by profession.
Judge r. r. Nelson of the United
States district court of Minnesota is the
only man on the district bench appoint
ed before the civil war.
As a memorial to their father, Jay
Gould's children are arranging to build
a church at Roxbury, N. Y, where the
Wall street wizard was born.
Blaine was superstitious in regard to
seven and believed that if he should out,
live the completion of his ninth seven
years he would recover. He did not.
Charles S. Hamlin of Massachusetts,.
who has been appointed one of the assist.
ant secretaries OF the treasury, IS dis
tant connection of the family of Hanni,
bal Hamlin.
Mr.. Olney is the sixth Bay State man
to become attorney general Of the United
States. His predecessors were Theoph,
illus Parsons, Levi Lincoln, Caleb Cush,
ing, Ebenezer B. Hoar and Charles Dev
ems.
The Duke of Argyle, who is the father.
in-law of Queen Victoria's daughter, has
no sense of humor whatever. He is an
earnest writer and has contributed some
profound essays to the British quarterly
reviews.
The Hon. Philip Stanhope, recently
sent to parliament from Berwick, is
married to Countess Tolstoi of Russia,
who continues to use her own name,
though she took his. He is brother Of
the Earl of Stanhope.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-05-29
Had Never Seen White Rnin.

Among the arrivals on tho steamer
Gaelic was the nobloman Raden Admin,
son of the powerful chieftain, Natodi
Laga Of Java. Heisarrayed in the curl
GUS manner of his countrymen, with
sandals on his feet, declled with gold, q
sarong bound around his loins and gold
and diamond buttons on his coat
Admin, the nobleman, is n dauntless,
intrepid looking man of about 80 years.
He is tall and has an intellectual looking
face Admin has never been in America
before and speaks no English. A. r.
Kirkhoven, however, a fellow country
man who is travelling with him, told all
about him last night. He said that the
nobleman lived in the city of Sutaboime,
had wife and two children, and feeling
it incumbent on himself to enlighten his
mind on the condition of the world, had
set out, like Haroun Alraschid, to be
gone for many months.
With this end in view he will visit
Chicago, New York, Boston and other
cities of the United States and may ex-
tend his trip beyond the Atlantic.
ION the second day out from Yol1o-
hama" said his companion, when we
were about $40 miles from land, we ran
into violent snowstorm. When the no.
bleman Admin saw the flakes fall upon
the deck, he thought it was the most re-
markable thing that could happen and
called the flakes white rain. He had
never seen snow before. Later, when he
saw the passengers grasp the snow, press
it together into balls and throw it about,
he was amazed. Admin found it pretty
cold aboard ship and is greatly pleased
that it is so warm here. San Francisco
Examiner
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-05-29
A Disconnected Auctioneer.

What will you give me for this gun?
Going once, going twice, and"----
But Samuel Herzoe of 40S Milwaukee
avenue didn't have an opportunity to
say sold" Suddenly, and to the sur
prise of everybody in the room, there
was report and at the same time cry
OF pain. The weapon had been acci-
dentally discharged, and the bullet,
striking a counter, glanced off and
lodged in the calf of George De Hagen's
leg. De Hagen is employed at 81 South
Halstead street. He was not seriously
wounded. Herzoe was locked up at the
West Chicago avenue station.-Chicago
Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-05-29
What Eject WIN the Fair Haye9

The question was asked the Listener
recently, "What great effect do you sup
pose this Chicago exhibition will have
upon the people of America comparable
with the effect which the centennial ex-
hibition had?" The question was a hard
one to answer. We never know before
hand what revolutions we are going to
have. The American people thought in
1875 that they knew everything that
there was to know, but when they got to
Philadelphia they found that they did
not. They were profoundly affected in
spite of themselves and their presump-
tuous confidence in their own perfections
and omniscience. But the influence then
came from abroad. From what we are
already able to learn of the foreign ex-
hibit at Chicago, 1t does not appearSike-
ly that we shall be profoundly influenced
by it. But perhaps we shall be.
1t seems, however, that the influence
is more likely to be exerted this time by
our own best minds, in the various forms
of art and in the application of art to in
dustry, upon the minds Of our less re-
fined people, upon our great philistine
'middle class" people. To Judge from
the architecture and landscape garden
ing Of the exhibition, cur commercial
classes are likely to see great light
Boston Transcript.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-05-29
BRFESEHRE
r~--~~ II
AMONG THE GEMS.

The emerald is now one of the rarest of
precious stones.
Very few rubies, red sapphires, exceed
FIVE carats in weight.
The most beautiful carnelians are
found in Arabia and India.
The Amazon stone is pure feldspar, first
found on the Amazon, now in many 9TH
Gr places.
Carnelian is greatly improved by ex-
posure to the sun and then heating in
earthen pots.
Tho diamond has been found on all the
continents and in almost every country
on the globe.
The pearl is the only gem that does
not require the lapidary's art to bring
out its beauty.
The diamond is not among the earliest
gems known to man. 1t has not been
found in the ruins of Nineveh, in the
Etruscan sepulchers nor in the tombs of
the Phpnicians.
The finest opal of modern times be-
longed to Empress Josephine 1t was
called "The Burning of Troy" It's fate
is unknown, as it disappeared when the
allies entered Paris.
Tiger eye is peculiar crystallization
Of quartz, formerly very rare and costly.
Large deposits have been found in the
western states and in South Africa, so
that many common articles are now
made Of it.
The Golconda mines are now exhaust
ed. AT one time 10000 men were en-
ployed in them. When the Sultan Nah
moud, who reigned 1177-12O6, died, he
left in his treasury over 400 pounds
weight of gems from Golconda.
Yellow quartz or topaz resembles the
real topaz in color only. 1t is softer,
lighter, different in crystallization and
cleavage and in electrical properties.
Much of the yellow quartz is manufac-
tured by heating amethysts.-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-05-29
A Mistake.

The tramp had look of determine
ton on his dirty face as he knocked al
the kitchen door of comfortable house
on Foundry street.
"Well, what do you want?" queriet
the cook snappishly, for she had beer
bothered much. Something to eat,
suppose"
mo, ma'am," replied the traKlp a.
honestly as he knew how.
''Oh, you don't" she sneered. ether
you want something to drink. Tramps
are always ready to drink"
"No, ma'am, l don't want anything tC
drink"
"Maybe you wantan old pair of pants
or coat, or pair of shoes, or hat?'
she suggested sarcastically.
mo, ma'am, none of those"
She stared at him hard.
"Well, what in the name Of goodnes.
do You wantf" she asked.
81 want work" ho said SIMPLY.
"Wha-what?" she gasped and fell
into his arms in faint.
Dang it" he exclaimed, dropping hel
and starting for the gate, 81 might a
knowed better than to spring that OF
her."-Detroit Tribune.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-05-29
NOVELTIES.

Smoked ivory and silver gilt unite in
salad spoons and forks of great elegance.
Emeralds cabochon and pear shaped
in dead gold form an attractive neck
trinket
A row of many colored topazes hung
from diamonds is a design shown in a
handsome necklace.
Writing pads and portfolios overlaid
with perforated silver in Louis XIV de-
signs are sumptuous encouragements to
correspondence.
Asparagus tongs and servers have come
to the fore in numbers. The handles are
much shorter and consequently are much
more serviceaBle.
The chrysoprase appears now in every
sort. Very pretty are the daffodils, wild
roses and pansies of chrysoprase with
gold and jeweled centers. One seen was
a wild rose with a diamond in the center
and a stone laid on each leaf.-Jewelers'
Circular.