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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1896-03-05
The Spider Tree.

DR.. Welwitsch, who has recently
explored the country about Cape
Negro in Africa, tells of a. curious
plant called the spider tree. It grows
on windy plains, it's stem attaining
diameter of four feet, although it
does not exceed one foot in height.
1t puts out two leaves six or eight
feet in length, and these are split by
the whiting of the wind into q num-
Der of stiff, narrow ribbons bearing
no little resemb lance to the legs of a
gigantic spider. This resemblance
becomes startling when strong
breeze puts the leglike leaves into
rapid motion, and the negroes shiv-
eringly exclaim that the great spi-
der is struggling to get loose.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1896-03-05
Edna Lyalrs "Dream Children"

The famous English authoress,
Edna Lyall, writing of her life and
early literary influences and work in
The Ladies Home Journal, says:
"From the early days of my author
ship up to the present time there
has always been story on hand,
and writing has become SO much a
part of my life that it is difficult
quito to understand what life with
out vocation would be like or how
people exist without dream chill
dren.' They cost one much suffer.
ing and bring many cares and anx-
ieties. They are not what we could
wish, and we are conscious of their
faults. Still they are our dream
children, and when they cheer the
dull or interest the overworked,
there comes a glad sense that it has
all been worth while, and we are
thankful that the gift was given us. "
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1896-03-05
Fireless Locomotives.

On the line of railway from the
heart of the city of Marseilles to the
metropolis in the quarter of St.
Pierre, little less than two miles
long, about 2,400 feet of which con-
stitute tunnel, fireless locomotives
are employed, these consisting of a
cylindrical receiver charged with
warm water at maximum pressure
of 227 $40 pounds per square inch.
At the end of run, as stated in The
Railroad Gazette, this drops from 43
pounds to II pounds, and tie water
is then reheated to 2O3 degrees G.. !,
corresponding to 227 $40 pounds of
pressure, by steam from the gener-
ators at the central station. The
cylindrical warm water receiver is
10 feet by 8 $40 feet, holding $50
gallons and about 81 cubic feet of
steam. The steam from the genera
tors is equally distributed through
out the warm water by means of
properly arranged pipes and is con-
densed after being used in the cylin-
ders in condenser over the receiver
consisting of 1, 1874 tubes with cool
ing surface of 538 square feet
New York Sun.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1896-03-05
Skeletons of Giants,

In one of his recent lectures Pro.
lessor Osborne of Kings college,
London, alluded to the recent dis
covery of an enormous skeleton in
one of the caves of Saxony. The
bones. which we're in good state of
preservation, were those of man
who could not have been an inch un-
der Il feet in height when living
and who had head almost as big
as bushel basket. Those of the
professors class who were inclined
to be rather skeptical on the subject
OF II foot giants instituted search
in the realms of giantology and
found plenty of corroborative evil
dence. They found accounts of 20
giants who have lived since tho time
of Christ each of whom was over 81
feet in height. The most noted of
the lot were the two Roman giants
OF the sixth century, the brothers
Cam banni, whose combined height
was 48 feet.
The French giant Ferregus, a
nephew of Charlemagne, wass2S feet
high, and Donnan, the Irish giant.
drowned in lake on the isle of Man
in the year 1907, was 90 1-2 feet in
height. Louis Republic.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1896-03-05
Dean Holes Information.

Dean Holes book giving his i'm
pressions of this country contains
some curious inaccuracies. He SAYS,
for instance, that in prohibition
towns liquor is generally dispensed
in teapots and tells about a guest in
hotel who, upon calling for some
thing to drink, was told by the land.
lord, You will find a little tap near
your dressing table in your room
which will put you in communica-
ton with the old rye, and you can
take what you please for yourself
and your friends, as there is me-
ter on the other side of the wall"
1t cannot be supposed that this was
a personal experience of tho good
dean, and it looks, therefore, as if
some wag had been "stuffing" him.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1896-03-05
His Brokers Advice.

Hicks-Want to consult your
broker? There's no dependence to
be placed upon the advice of a
broker.
Wicks-Not with some brokers
perhaps, but I have every confidence
in Pootsinkalls. I've consulted him
a hundred times, and / never re-
GREETED it.
Hicks-And you always follow his
advice?
Wicks-On the contrary, when he
says buy I sell, and l buy when he
says sell. Boston Transcript.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1896-03-05
Giving Him Hone.

The pretty girl was lavishing a
wealth of affection on her mastiff,
and the very soft young man was
watching her.
Il wish I were a dog" he said
languishingly.
Don't you worry" she replied.
"You II grow. London Tit-Bits.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1896-03-05
Not on tbs Chase.

Waiter" called out the indig.
nant guest to the careless attendant,
who had spilled some of the toasted
cheese ON the tablecloth, Il wish
you would clean off these Welsh
rabbit tracks. "-Chicago Tribune.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1896-03-05
IN A HOSPITAL WARD.
It Is PleaSanter to BE One of Many Than
In Solitude.

It Is PleaS4nter to Be One of Many Than
In Solitude.
A Wall street broker who had
spent six weeks in big city hospi-
tai said: ST have been in the hospi-
tai three times, and this visit was
the shortest and least tedious of any
of them. The fact is I found that !
could not get private room, as I
had in previous years, and SO had
to go into common ward, although
the idea was very repugnant to me. "
II don t see how q man accustom-
ed to tho soft side of everything, as
you are, wouldstand being in COM
mon hospital ward for six weeks,
interrupted one of his listeners.
The broker, who looked so sleek
and prosperous and we'll fed that it
was difficult to imagine him in a
hospital ward and on the same level
as a charity patient, said: II can
tall you, however, that learned one
thing this trip that never knew
before-that it is much easier to get
we'll in a ward, whore you're one
of two dozen patients, than in pri-
vate room, where you're all alone
and have nothing to distract your
thoughts from your own hurts. It's
surprising how soon you learn to
take an interest in the people about
you, even if they are only bricklay-
ers or Italian laborers or hack dri-
vers, and of course the majority of
the patients belong to what we call
the lower classes" of society. And
in getting acquainted with these
poor fellows and. listening to their
talk you are often able to forget
yourself and your own broken leg
or cracked skull or whatever misfor-
tune may have befallen you.
For example, if you're in private
room and happen to see a man car
ried by your door on a stretcher
you re just crazy to know who he
is and how he got hurt, and it won't
do you any good to get your curiosi-
ty excited, because neither nurse nor
doctor nor orderly will give you the
slightest information on the subject.
1t seems to be against the rules for
them to tell anything that they
know about tho patients. But if
you're in ward there are always
two or three men to hobble out to
the elevator man and get the whole
story from him and then come back
and spread the tidings from bed to
bed. You've no idea how much bet
ter you feel when you are able to
keep track of all that's going on
around you"
Il suppose you were glad to get
out, just the same" remarked one
of the company.
"Of course I was, but there were
plenty of men in my ward who
would have been glad enough to
stay. There was one fellow named
Maginnis, whose bed was next to
mine, and he had been playing pos
sum, as every one of us knew, for
six weeks. just as I was going
away Maginnis hobbled slowly down
the room, with agony on his face
and groans on his lips, and an Irish
bricklayer, who had had his leg am
putated the week before, Gale out
to him: Look out, Maginnis. You're
limping on the wrong leg this morn
ing. The doctors will catch you.
And I'll be hanged if the fellow
wasn't SO broken up that he changed
his limp from the right leg to the
left before he realized what he was
about. New York World.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1896-03-05
AN OLD TIME NOVEL.
A pretty girl.

A pretty girl.
With wavy curl,
An evening party somewhat late,
a homeward walk,
a loving talk,
A kissing tableau at the gate,
A moonlight night,
hand squeezed tight, ;,
A little reference to papa,
A little kiss,
A little bliss,
A consultation with mamma,
A little church,
"For bad or worse
You take this maid your wife to be-"
A trembling yes,
A loving press.
Alittle wife to live with me.
Williams Weekly.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1896-03-05
Cause and Effect.

Customer-Your milk isn't so rich
now as it used to be.
Milkman-Is that so? I'm sorry
to hear you say so. By the way,
Mr.. Sloper, here is a statement Of
your account with me for the last
eight months. -Somerville Journal.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1896-03-05
Not an Iconoclast,

do you ever expect to marry
your ideal?"
What, and destroy him? Nit"
And the woman who knew what
she was doing laughed lightly.-De
troit Tribune.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1896-03-05

The average walker wears away
two inches of shoe leather in year.
A pair of boots that would last a
lifetime" would consequently have
to be provided with soles from eight
to nine feet thick.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1896-03-05

Philosophers have done wisely
when they have told US to cultivate
our reason rather than our feelings,
for reason reconciles us to the daily
things of existence. Our feelings
teach US to yearn after the far, the
difficult, the unseen.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1896-03-05
Reaanted II.

mo, sir" he said Indignantly as
he turned from the electric light in
his room. II won't stop here. The
idee of the hotels putin gas in q
glass case, jest as eff 1 didD' t know
enough not to blow it outl". Wash
ington Star.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1896-03-05

Most of the mediaval manu-.
scripts have the important initials
in red ink; hence arose the term
rubrics from rubrica
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1896-03-05
5u9Ines 8 Cards.
DIR e. J. SEIZE,
PHYSICIAN IND SURGEON

PHYSICIAN IND SURGEON.
T,ENDERS his PROFESSIONAL
l. services in the practice of Medicine in
all it's branches to the citizens of Marietta
and surrounding country. Office in j.
b. Smith Il CO.. furniture store. All calls
promptly attended to.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1896-03-05
NJ A R EFT A
Opposite the Kennesaw House.s
CHUCK ANDERSON, Propr,eto,

CHUCK ANDERSON, Proprietor.
vpHE BEST OF VEHICLES. THE
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
been, nor shall any everin the future be
dissatisfied with my teams or the men in
my employ. Everything aid 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 ard
horses {, A. G. ANDERSON.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1896-03-05
DIR. III. V. REYNOLDS.
PRACTCING PHYSICIAN.

PRACTCING 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, 1896-03-05
WALTER McELREATH,
A1TORNEY ATLAW.

A TLANTA, GEORGIA. Prompt ats
N tention given to all legal business.
Business in Atlanta for Cobb county par,
ties especially solicited. Office, III Tenn.
pie Court.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1896-03-05
DIR. j. ID. MALONE.
PHYSICIAN AVID SURGEON

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
NFFICE Up Stairs over The A. P.
" Brsntley Co.'S store. Special of
fee hours 10 to II A. N, and l TO 2 and 4
to Pm Residence corner oflAtlauta
Anderson streets Marietta, Ga.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1896-03-05

JUDICIoUs ADVERTISING
Creates many new business,
Enlarges many an cid business.
REEVES many dull business,
Rescues many lost business,
Saves many a failing business,
Preserves many large business,
Secures success in any business,
Therefore advertise in the Marietta JcUR.
rAL your business.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-29
LEADS TO SUICIDE.
Goycrncss Of Family Fires Two Shots Into
Hearts Cause. Dependency.

Port iervis. n, Y. June 2s.-The dead
body of Miss Augusta Bause. governess
IN the family of William Strauss. = cloth
ing IN, reliant of Brooklyn. y. Y. was
found Il O'Clock. yesterday morning IN
the sl,n at Milford Pa. Two bullet
wounds In her breast and revolver with
suicide.
The young woman was q years old and
Frank Bause, three years ago. During
that time she has been in the service OF
Mrs. Strauss, who rents Il cottage at Mi
ford in which the family spends the sum
mer Nrs. Strauss and family and Miss
Bausc anne to Milford short time ago,
and Mr.. Strauss is expected to arrive. to-
day. With another woman to take the
place Ct he Hungarian.
The latter had been melancholy since
hel arrival at Milford. and, yesterday
afternoon. she left home for the ostensi-
BILE purpose of going to the post office.
AS she did not return at night. Il search
was instituted. but darkness prevented ii
being prosecuted to any extent Her bed
room. md two letters written in German
were found lying on the stand. one of
them vas addressed to Mrs. Strauss. and
the other to her mother. who lives with
the remaining children of the Bause
family in hungary. They We're written
in 4 neat German hand, i'll both of which
sh" Announced her intention of commit
ting - tcidc. To the mother she spoke of
being l,udly treated by the Strauss fam
lily. that Mrs. Strauss told of her being
too iii to perform her duties, and that
she WIS too proud to be a boarder on
her brother at home.
When she left hungary ii was against
the viii of her mother, but during her
service with the Strauss family she had
sent part OF her earnings home. Her
father. who is a tanner. lived in New
York. hut is now ut f.ldred. Pa. The girl
claimed that her father was satisfied
with the amount of her rcmittanees, and
she b lievcd her father should increase
his +, mittances to her mother. which
caused II disagreement between them.
The finding of the letters caused re-
ncwal o. the search for the body of the
young woman. yesterday morning.
and small boy named began recollected
having seen the body of a girl lying in
the glen. yesterday afternoon. lie sup
posed She was Intoxicated and thought
nothing more about it until he learned OF
the suicide Upon this clcw the party
was Greeted to the SPOT in the glen
where lay the iifeless body. Two shots
had been fired and one bullet had pierced
the heart She was well educated and
had an insurance policy of $1,000 Her
father will arrive. today.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-29
DOES GREAT DAMAGE.
Tidal Wave Which Visited japan Fell
on the Hawaiian Islands.
Lotsei Property Desiroyed. but No Lives arc
Reported Lost. :.

san FRANCISCO, June .2S.-The tidaI
wave which y recently twisted the
northern provinces Of Japan with dis.
astrous results. was felt in the Ha
waiian Islands A. H nuld1 ~ CORE
s sn1nd sa Writing undx the d. s@' ,,, of
island Of Hawaii onstlse .t5ths DONG
great damage to >pnSxerty, 4ut causing
no loss of life. The first wave struck
Kawaihal at SIS A. NJ demolishing
the wharf; tlailus, 50 miles south. al
$50 a. NJ. destroying lumber yards
and flooding the lower floor of Miss
Pariq s hotel.
AfterA Damaging various Nv harves
and landings on the Konas coast, the
tides feunded the southrpoint, striking
the kau landings at o.!e A. NJ. doing
little damage. Hilo was reached at 10
A. NJ, the water rising only eight feet,
" ithout serious damage being done.
III Bayson.. on the kona coast. the sea
came to points 20 and 80 feet above the
mean tide. The tides continued to
come in all day at half-hour intervals
after ebb and flow.
.Alogether, Indications are that thesa
waves came from the northwest, Hon
olulu harbor experiencing but slight
effect. At the narrow head of the har-
Dor there was an alarming succession
Of deep GIBBS and flows every half hour.
NJ the harbors on the east side OF
Kauai, the sea ebbed and flowed so az
to seriously move vessels and boats:
No satisfactory theory is mooted as to
the location of the terrestrial convul-
sion causing these waves.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-29
.tvANQUISHED!
Bangor Tossers Defeat U.s.
Saturday, 9 to 4.
Errors Of Augusta Team Lose Came
weskes Very Materially Helped
Portland, Brsckion and Pawtuckes the Othel
= winners In New England League.

For eight innings it was as fine q
game as ever was seen in this city
Roth pitchers were doing wonderful
effective work. Up to that time only
six hits had been made off Wheeler and
seven hits off Weekes. Both twirlers
were doing beautifully effective work.
In the first half of the ninth, AFTER
one man was out the situation changed.
THE home team seemed to go all to
pieces. and to vie with one another in
n race to see who could make the most
errors. Weehes started the trouble on
an overthrow to second. 1t was his
fourth fielding error in the box and
proved a very costly one. Then came
couple of. hits, base on balls. a
wild throw to first by Bean, short
passed ball by Conner which Weekes
was obliged to run. in and get. and upon
which dumb play a man was permitted
% score.
All these things combined to give the
+ Banyors Ave unearned runs, and lose
q game, in which for seven innings the
home team had maintained a lead.
1t was certainly a hard game to lose.
and while the grand playing of the
first eight innings was well worth the
price Ct admission 20 see, it was { con-
tes. that was on that very account. al
the harder to LOSE The following is
the tabulated sco{e:-
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! FIGHT " CONNECTICUT.
eicctde eempanies will Rage War Against III
NY. N. n. and Hartford Railway. =

h New Haven, Ct, June 2S.-The lead
ting officials of the electric roads of Con,
necticut. il has just leaked out, hay5
held a secret meeting 6o de h.rmine ND
on plans for one of the biggesf. fights
that has yet been made against the
| New York. New Haven d. Hartford
| Railroad. The battle will be In the next
general assembly.
| The electric road officials have re-
solved 10 make struggle for increased
privileges. which the steam road has
thus far prevented them from securing.
The electric roads are growing strong
in the state. ana with the strength
given them they feel like reaching out.
but theY hesitate to expand because Of
the laws which have been enacted to
hinder them.
The Consolidated road is without any
foe In its line to conquer in the state.
and il does not look approvingly on the
expansion of the electric roads. In the
last Legislature there was opposition
On the part of the electric companies to
laws supposed to be in the interest of
steam roads This year the electric
compar les are a powerful factor. What
the cor ference of electric men decided
WAS th;t the men in the various towns
of the state who aspire to be members
OF the Legislature shall say for GER
tanity beforehand whether they are
electric men or steam men. If they con-
fcss they are steam men the electric
companies Will strive to down them. If
they say they are electric men the
compaI-ie les will cVert their power to
elect them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-29
FOOLISH GIRL.
Eighteen Years Old Maiden EIopes, With mxp
N a Great Deal Older. .. !

Medinia, n. Y, JUG ga ssensa tion
WAS Was created in the ltles village Of MN;
L G the isyese!d a daag fs uS n
| IiorsSe Linsley one sOf the best known
and Xeathiess residents asien Of thatssecto
| ing friends in Medina, and announced her
| intenton OF making a brief call OF
| anothc rs.Aiedina friend. but failed to do
so. and .hps not since been seen, although
an acquaintance is sure that she boarded
| the east-bound train, Friday.
At the. same time that fhiss discovers
horace G. Kelley, pastor OF the Presby-
terrain society at Melville, had also disS
appeared, Taking with him three satchels:
posted in Medina sbanKs. and that lis
wife and two children had no idea where
he had gone. Miss Lfnsley and the min
l were seen In earnest nest con.yersa tigti
here, on Thursday sa4tesnoon. The family
and the friends of tkesAiri have been dis
patched in every direction y search for
Miss ,, Lip nss, d is b =, as
| time, Keeley is nearly 40 yearA Old ! and
has been pastor of the chufch at MilIville
for some years. coming. there from In
| oianapOlis, where he had been in the en-
,1oy OF the Indiana Presbyterian Synod
Fine back. kecley's sensational methods
| of preaching have been causing serious
| trouble in the church, which has been
split. up into two factions The feeling
has been very bitter against him but the
Linsey family was one of which re-
manned friendly to the DastoE.s and he
WAS a constant visitor at the house. 10
WAS not suspected dhat an attachment
had grown up between the two. although,
naturally, the pastor saw the young lady
very frequently; The aged parents Of the
girl are FRUSTRATED by anxiety, and 1t was
feared. last night. that Mrs. Linsley
would lose her reason so violent was her
grief
Miss Linsley is described as of medium
height, with black eyes. fair complexion
and light hair worn short. She is near
sighted and wears glasses. She was con-
sidered a rather pretty girl. and was
highly accomplished and of very pleasing
manners Kelley is rather a handsome
astic bicycle rider. and when last seen he
was taking an early morning spin toward
Medina.
1t has been learned that he checked his
satcliels from the little station of
knowlesville to Medina. late on Thursday
night. and they were checked to Room
ester on Friday morning. Relatives of
the girl are following up the baggage.
but as yet there is no clue to the where
;tbouts of either the young lady or her
pastor
Mrs. Kelley, who is in very delicate
health, has not been told of the sus
picions respecting the double disappear
ance. and says that she is of the opinion
that her husband has flown from his vex-
ing church troubles and will soon send
No scrap Of paper has been left behind
by either party to account for the strange
diappcarance, and the general opinion is
to tho effect that the couple have gone
by the trustees of the church that there
would be no service. today,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-29

South Framingham. Mass, June 2S.-
Three young men named Frank d.
Parks, Patrick ]. Leyden and Charles
A. Lyons. were arraigned in the dis
trict court h.re Saturday by State De-
tectivss Whitley, charged with incen-
diaris:n. The officers have been after
them since last September. for burning
an unoccupied house and barn on the
Riley estate at North Sudbury. They
were held IN $1,000 bonds each for the
grand jury