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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1896-05-21
Telegraphic Blunders.

The telegraph clerk, generally
jealous and painstaking, puts his
hand to remarkable phrases in mo-
ments of mental abstraction or cali
graphic WEAKNESS. In one of the late
Lord Randolph Churchill's speeches
at Bradford that statesman was
made to say:
eve are now at the parting of the
ways. Will you take the path that is
full of footballs and precipices?"
Devotion to athletics led the tele-
graph clerk astray, and he wrote
footballs" for pitfalls. His lapse,
though entertaining, was not mali
cious. 1t did not defame anybody.
It did not arouse so much indigna-
ton as the following message:
''The League of the Cross looks
with favor upon the effort to rescue
the pope from the curse of intern
perance.
This telegram, of course, should
have read that the League of the
Cross looks with favor upon the eff
fort to rescue the people from the
curse of drink. The subeditor does
not often get such an exquisite NOR
sci as mo cross, no crown" tele-
graphed "No COWS, no creami" but
he receives many telegraphiC per-
versions of the uth.-Gentleman's
Magazine.
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Conducive to TruthfuIness.

II understand that Brown claims
he hasn't told a. lie in 10 or IL years.
Do you believe it?"
"Well, it may be so. I know he
made great preparations about ten
years ago to be from that time on
a man of absolute truth.
Preparations"
Certainly. He put all his prop
erty in his wife's name and let her
make out all the statements for the
assessor. Washington Star.
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Tax Receivers Notice.

The law formerly required property
held on the first day of April returnable
for taxation. This has been amended so
that all property held on the first day of
Match shall be returned at its market
value.
will te at thcNfollowing named places
on the dates mentioned below, for the
purpose of Receiving the Tax Returns of
Cobb county for the year 1896:
Marietta, April /, 2 and 4, May /, and
5, June2.
Acworth, April 6, May and 90, June /
and 10.
Big Big s liant April mcrn., May 9
Merritts, April morn, May Z morn,
June morn.
Roswell, April 8, May 8, June 5.
Post Oak, April 10 morn Nav II
morn, June morn,
Gritter, April 10 eve, May II eve.,
June s eve.
Smyrna, April 10 morn, May 70 morn,
June 8 morn.
Lemons, April 10 eve, May, 10 eve,
June 8 eve.
Howells, April "A morn, May is
morn, June 10 morn.
Coxes, April IA eve, May 10 eve,
June 10 eve.
Austell, April Is, May "A, June II.
Powder Springs, April 16, May Is,
June 10.
Oregon. April II morn May IS morn,
June Is morn.
Red Rock, April II eve., May IS eve,
June Is eve,
Winnings, June 16 morn.
L. II. Powers, May eve, June 4 eve.
s, R. McCleskey's, June II morn
Benson School House. June II eve
Lost Mountain, June 90
at Marietta all other times till July list.
All tax payers are requested to make
prompt returns will be compelled 10
c.ose my books July 1st 1896.
The Tax Collector will be with me on
second round for the purpose of regis
tering al voters who have not registered.
W. n. GRIST,
Tax Receiver, Cobb county.
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See the young woman at the rail
way station.
She is waiting to meet relatives
who are coming on the train.
See her rush eagerly to meet them.
They have come.
They are her dear cousins.
Fifth or sixth cousins.
See the haste with which she runs
to kiss Cousin Arabella.
She doesn't lose an instant.
But she is not in such hurry to
kiss Cousin Jack.
When she sees him approaching,
she does not hasten.
She seems almost provoked be-
cause he wants to kiss her.
She keeps him waiting while
She lifts her veil.-Chicago Trib-
une.
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POLITICAL, and
FAMILY PAPER.
DON'T BE sELElsHI
Hyou take newspaper it should be one
that not only you, but all your folks will
find pleasure in reading.
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ter than any other paper in The south 1t
is not the organ OF political cranks or pers
sonal favorites, but of pure democracy of
low tariff and sound currency, and of the
economical, administration OF the state and
federal governments.
1t is Independent in all things, and does
not change its views through fear of losing
a Jew subscribers by advocating what it
knows to be right.
Daily, every day in the year 1865 papers,,
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day News, year 5000; months. $3.50;
3 months, 1926 Sunday News alone,
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Weekly News, containing the cream of
the Daily year $l.25.
We send the Daily any three days in the
week for half yearly rates,
Address
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A Mans Health and His umbrella.

A mans health is something like
an umbrella. When once lost, it is
hard to get back, but when worn a
little it may be recovered Or
leans Picayune.
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Short Form Warranty Deeds for sale at
JOURNAL Office
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Disconnected

sank Upon his chest. Disconnected
scene from the past swarmed in his
mind like bees in the hive.
"Ah!" he said as the music of the
Easter hymn drifted mp the tower
stairs. they are singing the troparion."
In his imagination he sang that
hymn, again u youth, in the old church
below. The little old priest. Father
Naum. many years dead and buried.
once more was intoning the end of a
prayer. while children's voices united
in the responses. Hundreds of peasants
bowed and arose like corn before the
wind. Now they crossed themselves
dcvoutly.
The old familiar faces were OF those
long since dead. There was the stern
vislge of his father. There stood his
elder brother ut the old mans side.
signing deeply and crossing himself
again and again. There he himself
stood. young. healthful. strong. joyful.
full Of expectation of a life's happiness.
Where was that happiness now?
The old mans thoughts aickered up
like n dying flame. Recollection illu-
mined all the hooks and corners OF MS
life. And all he saw was endless.
ceaseless. merciless l%abOr-labOr far be-
yond his strength. He saw sorrow, too
much ROY and suffering unuttcr-
able. ~
All. where Indeed was hat happiness
of which he had dreamed?
The burdens OF life had wrinkled his
young face, had bent his powerful back
before the time had come. They had
made the joyous boy sigh as his elder
brother had sighed.
There on the left. among the women
of the village. with her head humbly
bent. he saw his sweetheart. She was
a good woman. May the peace OF God
be with her soul.
Oh, the pain that she had suffered.
Want and work and woman's woes had
withered her glowing w%omanhood. Her
eyes had grown dim with years and
weeping. The shocks and blignts of
life had painted a dull fright upon her
comedy face.
All. where was her happiness?
God had given them one son, their
JOY. their very soul, and he was ground
to his death by mems injustice.
The picture broadened and grew
vivid In the old mans mind. lie saw
standing in his pew the rich enemy OF
the family, bowling his head to the very
ground. CLOSING over in his prayers
the wrongs of the widows and orphans
whose lives he had blighted In his selfish
greed. Micheich felt his heart grow
hot within him now. as 1t had done
then. while the dark faces of the holy
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-04-03

es at their heads seemed to DO guarding
them with their widestretched arms.
Here and there a few birch trees bent
naked branches forlornly over the
mounds and the aromatic odors OF their
young buds arose on the silent air to
Micheich's nostrils. They bore to him
a tale of tranquil. eternal sleep.
Where would he be a year from that
moment? Would he be there again?
Would he have ace more climbed into
that tower under the clamorous copper
bells to awaken the ~slumbering night
with their sharp, resounding strokes?
Or would he lie out there in a dark
corner OF the cemetery with n white
cross guarding his everlasting sleep?
God alone knew. lie was ready to die
but in the meantime God had brought
him into the belfry once more to well
come the Easter morning.
ITO the glory Of Cod"
His old lips repeated the oft spoken
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-04-03
FASTER IIArGs.

About Easter time harcs are almos,
as m as eggs in the shop win.
dows, and many boys and girls may
wonder why this is so. 1t Is plain why
the egg should be used. The life which
comes, after so long a time, from the
Understanding egg. makes II especially
typical OF the resurrection. 1t is not
so clear what the hare has to do with
Easter Sunday.
Easter is II feast regulated by the
moon. That is, it is appointed by the
church that Easter should fall upon
the first Sunday after the first full moon
which fell upon or after the vernal
equinox" Now, the hare Is the animal
which the ancients considered sacred 10
the moon, and proper to be used at all
feasts regulated by the moon.
So among the old customs which have
been handed down to us from the old
old days is that which still uses the hare
as we'll as the egg |. the pretty fanci-
full decorations suitable for II great
spring festival Easter Sunday.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-04-03
AS JOE MANLEY SEES IT
Reeds mannGrr Predicts Major Mckiniey's
Defeat.

Reeds Manager Predicts N,Iur Mckinley.
Defeat.
WAsnINGroN, March 10 MIR 7 n.
Marley scnt the following telegram
yesterday To the Massachusetts Re-
publicans:
a the close of Your convention
.hor, will have bccu 3gS. delegates
elected Governor Mckinley will have
III! delegates, provided you assign To
him the entire delegation from Wiscop.
sin. Indiana aud Minnesota. i;ut thrrs
should be taken from this. number
twelve delegates from the States. who
have declared since their election in
favor OF Mr.. Reed, and rs they were
not instructed they should be- taken
from tdc Mckinley column aud placed
in MIR. Reeds. This gives Governor
Mckinley $50 delegates, MIR. Reed ~.
Governor Morton 81, senator Allison
Is, Senator Quay "a, senator Cullom
H.: contested. Vi.
You Will see that this gives Mckin-
ley $50 delegates, against 20 anti
Mckinley delegates.
The situation is precisely rs it vas
twenty years ago You will rcmcin-
Der that three months before the con.
vcntiOn met NJ CINCINNATI we were
confident " Mr.. Blninc's nomination.
lie stood then as the apostle of pro-
lection, but he had opposed To his
nomination, Senator Conkling of New
York. senator Morton of Indiana, Sec
rotary Bristow of Kentucky, Governor
Hayes Of Ohio, and Governor Hart.
ruuft Of Pennsylvania. We felt so
sure Of MIR. Blainc's nomination that
wo regarded IL rs settled, and yet he
was defeated in the convention, and
the Maine man VENT owr before the
ohio governor.
History will repeat itself at ST,
Louis. Governor Mckinley is, and
will be, the leading candidate IN the
convention, but he will have opposed
to him us u candidate Governor Nor
ton OF New York, Senator Allison OF
Iowa, senator Cullom OF Illinois. Sen.
ator Quay os Pennsylvania, and Mr..
Reed of Maine. You will find that
the tnbles will be turned, and the
Governor Of ohio will go down before
the man from Maine.
,Signcdl ~. II. MANIEy."
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-04-03

He SEIZED THE BELL ROPES.
formula, and his old eyes gazed into
The deep sky above. burning with its
millions upon millions of stars.
"Micheich! Oh. Micheich!"
The voice came from below. 1t was
the old sexton. who had come from the
church into the graveyard beneath the
tower and who was gazing upward. with
his hands shading his blinking. tear
mOistened eyes in vain effort to make
out the form of the bellringer In the
darkness overhead.
what do you want?" answered old
Micheich. bending over the railing. Il
am here. Can't you see me?"
Il do not see" cried the sexton. "Is
1t not time to ring? What do you
shink?"
Both gazed upon the stars. Thou
sands OF Gods lanterns were blinking
ar them from the armament. The night
was waning. Micheich thought.
mo. not yet" he said. wait awhile.
I know when" o y
But 1t was time TO salute the Easter
morning. Old Micheich gazed at the
stars once more. and then arose. He
removed his hat, crossed himself and
gathered up the bell ropes. A moment
more and the night air shivered under
the first resounding stroke. Then came
the second. the third, the fourth. The
lightly sleeping Easter air quivered
with the joyous music Of the shouting,
singing bells.
Then tho bells ceased. The solemn
service began In the church below.
In bygone years Micheich had always
gone down to the service and stood In
a corner neal the door. praying and lis
tening to the music. But 1t was hard
for him TO do this now. He felt tired.
So he sat down on the bench beneath
the copper bells and listened to their
waning resonance.
He thought. About what? Micheich
himself could hardly answer the ques-
ton. His %glimmering lantern scarcely
lit up the belfry. He could not make
out the droning bells. They were lost
In darkness. From the church below
his old ears caught the singing now
and then. The old mans gray head
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-04-03
SCORED BY ROSEBERY.
Lord saii,bury's Foreign Policy Dcnouno-
Ell by tho Liberal Leader.

LONDON, March 80. The Earl Of
Itoseberry, leader of the Liberal
party, made Nh important speech last
night before the National Liberal
Federation, charging tho government
with a dcplorablc n of continuity
in the foreign policy. lie pointed out
that within six months they had been
on the verge of war with the United
States, and then with Germany, and
now they were embarking ON a war
with no particular enemy. He passed
over the black and bloody page of
Armenia, he said, which English
men would all look back to
with shame and rcmorse Lord Sails
bury, up to the end of December,
had displayed leanings TO the Drei-
bund. by the beginning of January
his continuous policy had landed
Great Britain in the arms OF France,
whose affections it was intended to
gain by the monstrous Siam conven-
ton. That state had lasted about
six weeks, and then Lord Salisbury
embarked ia a march to the Soudan,
which outrages France and throws
Great Britain back into the arms of
the Dreibund, Lord Rosebery pro-
ceedcd in detail to very strongly criti-
else the Nile expedition.
Continuing, Lord Roscbery corr
planned Of the INDIGESTION and failure
of the government To- take the country
into its confidence. lie greatly feared
that the government was fooling it.
self as well as the country. WAS it
the time" he asked. when We were
mcnaccd with complications in all
quarters of the world, to scatter our
forces in the deserts OF the Soudan in
awar which nobody could foresee the
end of. and to- waste the money which
Egypt needed for great irrigation
works." The remainder of his speech
WRs devoted to home nolitics.
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ows on the fields beside it. All was
silent. The village slumbered.
Hours passed. and long before the
night was gone its still charm was
broken. Lights began to giimmer In
the windows Of cottages whose wretch
edness was disguised in the bewitching
s%pringtime gloom of night. A gate
crcaked. The tread OF a foot was heard
here and there. Moving figures, darkly
outlined. emerged froIn the shades of
the wood. A dog baraed. and then an
other and another.
Then a horsenan clattercd along the
village street. a passing cart groaned
ard crcakcd Under its early morning
burden. The darby outlined figures
increased in number. The villagers be-
gan to gather in their church to bid
welcome to the spring holiday.
1t was a quaint little church. 1t stood
upon q hillock in the middle of the viii
lage. All at once its windows glowed
dimly among the shadows. Then their
brightness increased. The church was
all alight.
High into the darkness overhead
reached the old belfry tower. It's top
was lost in the azure gloom.
Then the rickety belfry stairs began
to creak. Old Micheich. the bellringer.
was clambering aloft. Soon his lantern
hung in the bell window, shining like
a new star in the sky.
It was hard for the old man to climb
those steep and crooked stairs. His
old eyes no longer served him. and he.
like they. was worn out.
AS he climbed, he pondered. II was
time indeed, he thought, that he should
rest. But God would not send him death.
He had Q e his children buried. He
Sad stood by the open graves of his
"a nichildren. He had followed the
, lid TO their last resting place, He had
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-04-03

The voice came from the chnrchyarJ
without.
Good Cod" cried the old man, re-
Wondering the further duty that
awaited him. Did really fall
asleep"
lie seized the he'll ropes and pulled
them with slillful hand.
Far below the people swarmci from
the church. as ants swarm from tho ant
NIL. Golden standards reared them.
selves in the air of the unborn Easter
ornin Forming as a cross. the pro-
cession began TO move around the
church, amid joyful cries of Christ
mas risen from the dead
h words went to the old bcllring-
ers heart. and glanclng out he was
exalted in spirit. II seemed to him that
the wnXen candles that the people bore
biazed with suddenly increased bril-.
iance IN the gray darkness. that the
thronE moved more and more swiftly.
that the standards waved the more Joy
ously. and that the awakening wind
~ Wv JoSlHl 'loIHS i'oih p'l'"
n turned 1t to the bells bra2cn pcals
with Il sweetness s|upcrhuman.
Never did Michcich ring the bells
with such joy and spirit.
N seemed rs IL his old heart had been
welded into the dead copper of those
Dells, which laughed and sang and wcpt
AT the enhancing melody that rose 10
the stars above. And the stars seemed
10 fairIy blaze with Joy of II as the
music poured upward into heaven and
fell backward to carcss the earth.
What a hymn of JOY It was &c bell,
pealed forth. The great bass weakened
the sky with the grand bragen cry Of
Christ has risen" And the tcnors
struck 10 their hearts. shouted sonor.
onsly. Christ has rison!' while the
changing sopranos. rs though fearing
their lesser voices should be lost to the
grand chorus, hurriedly. like g%leeful
children trying to outstrip each other
screamed a thousand times. Christ has
risen.'
And that sad old heart forgot its
'diVS' iS sDlTOWS. anu IT'S lnSuitS'
The gray bellringer heard only the
brazen music. now singing, now weep.
ing. 10Y floating to the starry sky, o
sinking TO the wretched earth: and II
seemed to him that he was surrounded
by his children and his grandchildren
and that these were their happy voices
the voices of old and young to.
gcthcr pouring out in II grand chorus
a hymn of JOY and rapture.
So the old bellringcr pulled the ropes
with strong, nervous arms while tears
poured down his cheeks and his heart
ran fairly over with IA happiness he
had never known before. And below
the people listened. and they said to
each other that Micheich had never
rung so wonderfully before.
Then suddenly the great bass bell
hesitated-and was silent. For a mo-
ment the others sang aN unfinished. un-
certain harmony. Then they. too
ceased, and there was silence save fOr
the low. sad. trembling droning OF their
stilled but still resonant throats.
The gray bellringer had fallen help
lessly on the bench beside the ropes
and two tears silently rolled over his
pale cheeks.
Send a substitute! The old bell
ringer has rung himself out.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-04-03
Tho New Reform psr.y's Call.

PirrsBrRo, Pa, March 3O-The pro.
visional national executive committee
of the new national Reform party has
issued u call for "a national couven.
ton to be held in Pittsburg, May IS.
In a declaration OF principles, the
committee recommends To the plat
form committee direct legislation, the
issuance Of all moneys, gold, silver
Ind paper, to be legal tender and ex.
changeablc ut par; the abolition Of
the liquor traffic, free or equal coin
ago of silver and gold at the ratio Of
" to /. and government ownership OF
railroads, telegraph and telephone. .
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-04-03
SOUTH AFRICA UPRISING
The Matabeialand Outbreak Getting de-
cidedly serious settlers In Peril.

rhe Matabrialand Outbreak Getting de-
cidedly serious settlers In Peril.
CAPE TowN, March 3D.--The situa-
tion in bcleland, where the ma.
tives arc in rebellion, is most serious,
though the prompt action Of the Brit
ish and settlers is having u good effect.
The gravest fears are entertained for
the safety OF ZOO settlers, mainly
women and children, in tho lager.ir
the vicinity of which u strong force
of Matabcles has been reported. The
settlers have only sufficient provisions
TO last them n short time.
One OF the gravest features Of the
uprising is that IL is now admitted
that the native police have been In
duced not only to take part in tho
rebellion, but to induce the various
tribes they were supposed 10 control
to also rise against the whites. 1t is
estimated that in this manner 200 well
trained fighting men, armed with
modern rides and we'll supplied with
ammunition have gone over to the
encmy. For obvious reasons the au-
thoritics are Withholding many facts
connected with the uprising, which
there Is no doubt Is far more serious
than at first believed.
Dispatches from Buluwayo to-day
announce that Frederick {. Selous,
the explorer, who left that town yes.
terday at the head Of Il strong detach.
mem OF volunteer police, met and en-
gagged the enemy, killing n large
number. Five troopers were killed.
Captain %Spreckles, ON Thursday, it
Is announced, met and repulsed u
strong body of Mata beles and inflicted
great loss upon them. The troopers
escaped with only a few men wounded.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-04-03
FACTIONS IN OKLAHOMA.

Rsri aud Mckinley Dividing tho realty
Of the Republican Delegates
OKLAHOMA CITY, Ok, March so
Long before the Republican terri.
torial convention, to select six dele.
gates to the national convention. wa
called tn order to-day, IL was evident
that the gathering would provo .
lively one. Every county had q nom.
inc. for national delegate.
There were we decided factions on
hand. one Tor Mckinley, the other ia
voring Reed, and whatever other fore
east of the conventions actions might
be made, it seemed positive that tho
st. Louis delegation would not DO
solid for either.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-04-03
workme Object to Cheeks.

WEST BAY CITY, Mich, March So.
Fourteen hundred men employed in
the ship yard of Wheeler & Co., struck
this morning against the check system
of payment. The firm gave as its
reason for adopting the system tho
Inconvenience and danger of trans
porting 5000 u every pay day.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-04-03
For Easter.

But now the stream has reached a dark,
deep sea;
And sorrow. dim and crowned, is wait.
in3 thee.
Each Of Gods soldiers bears a sword
divine:
Stretch out thy trembling hands to-day
for thine!
Then with slow, reverent step and beat.
ing heart,
From out thy joyous day thou must
depart
And, leaving all behind. come fortl
alone.
To join the chosen band around the
throne.
Raise up thine eyes! BE strong, MOI
cast away
The crown that God has given thy SOU
to-day!
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-04-03
Oiney VIII Be u Candidate.

W~AsuiyG1oN, March 80. -Secrctar,
Of State Olncy will in all probability
be n candidate before the Democratic
convention at Chicago. The present
understanding is that Massachusetts
will present his name and send a solid
delegation for him.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-04-03
Free silver Delegation.

HANNIBAL, Mo-. March 81. The Is
to / and the sound money Democrats
met last night to choose delegates to
the county convention. A solid free
silver delegation was elected.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-04-03

followed the young there. too. But
still he lived and lived. 1t was hard.
Many a time had he welcomed the
Easter morning-so many times that he
could not recall them all. He had even
forgotten how often in later years he
had hoped for death in this same old
belfry. as now he hoped for it. And
yet this early morning God had brought
him there once more.
Ii was not yet time for him to ring
the merry peals and the old man totter-
cd to the belfry window and leaned out
over the railing. Below him in the
darkness he could dimly see the neg
lected graves, The white wooden cross