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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-14
SOME NAVAL FACTS.

Here are few naval points that
may be known to many, but prob
ably cot to all Of our readers The
biggest guns in the navy are forty
nine feet long, big enough for
man to crawl into, four feet in di-
ameter at their largest part, and
weigh 1876, 900 pounds or therea-
bouts. Some of the guns can FIRE a
snot twelve miles, farther than q
man can see, Cor the guns are aimed
and sighted by machinery. The
powder is brown and in chuncks the
size of caramel. A charge for the
biggest gun weighs 500 pounds and
is hoisted to the breech by a derrick,
the powder being sewed up in bur
lap bags.
A big bsttleship has on board an
electric plant capable OF lighting a
town of FIVE thousand inhabitants.
The fastest vessels in the navy are
the torpedo beats Porter and Dupont
each OF which can travel 27.5 knost
an hour.
The Iowa weighs nearly twelve
thousand tons, and as twenty tons is
the average load Of freight car
and twelve cars is good load for a
locomotive engine, it would take
fifty locomotives to haul the grea,
steel structure. A captain in the
navy ranks with a colonel In the
army. The oldest iron vessel is the
Michigan, built in 1874 We have
the only ram-the Katahdin.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-14

Some who we're struck by the
Klcndike fever stated before going
that if they failed to find "psying
streak" in their claims, they would
resort to dey labor and hire out
their services to others, the rate at
present being SIS per day. 1t may
be matter of interest to others
who propose to visit the Klondike
to know just what the working
hours are. At Dawson City, Janu-
airy LIST, the sun rises s minutes be-
tore 10 o'clock and sets II minutes
after 2, making 4 hours and 26 min
utes from sunrise to sunset. This is
a pretty short days work when we
consider the scale of wages, but il
fellow holds his job through the
year they will get it back on him
On the first day OF June the sun
rises % minutes after | o'clock a.
N. and sets Is minutes after 10 p. m
When the days get toward their
longest it might be convenient AMI
feasible to 60 on q strike, or adept
the wages per hour system on the
winter schedule.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-14
IDIOTIC STUFF.

The New York World having re-
marked that "the readiness of the
south to fight for the nation is worth
all that our preparations for war
have cost, and vastly MORE" the
Manufacturers Record tartly re-
joins:
This idiotic stuff is out of date. 1t
wasn't worth s50,000,000 or so cents
to find out that the South is ready
to fight for the nation. Every man
who is intelligent enough to be out
side Of an insane asylum knew it.
The idiots who have. been talking
about the ''soutE's loyalty" would,
in the event of war, continue to
talk, while the south did the fight
ing. 1t is time to call a halt on
this kind OF business. The south is
part of the nation, and very big
part ct that. 1t is busy attending
to its own affairs, but whenever the
country or the country's honor is at
stake and the call to arms is made,
the south will send two volunteers
in proportion to population to every
one from the rest of the country.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-14

Southern men are.playiug quite q
conspicuous par: in the present
crisis, notes the Birmingham News.
Consul General Fitztugh Lee is a
Virginian. Several of the officers of
the ill-iated Maine were Southern
ers. Commodore W. S. Schley, who
commands the flying squadron at
Hampton Roads, is a native of Ma
ryland, and Fighting Bob" Evans,
who has just been placed in charge
Of the battleship Iowa, was born in
Virginia.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-14

Race prejudices are not sectional,
or ever national. There is as nuch
prejudice in the north against the
negro as there is in the south, and
as much in Canada as there is in
the North. In Montreal a d6eatri-
cal manager has been sued because
he refused to sell black man seat
among white people. Public opin-
ion is said to be on the side of the
manager.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-14
MOON 6 NELL,
STATE OF GEORGIA, CoBB COUNTY.

EMILY y. STEPHENS, ] Libel for Divorce
versus No. 70, November
JOHN f. STEPHENS. Term, 1897. Cobb
Superior court.
TO John R. Stephens, greeting; By
order OF the court. l hereby notify you
that on the goth day of October, 1897,
Emily o Stephens filed suit against
you for total divorce, returnatle to the
November term, 1897, of said court under
the foregoing caption. You are further
notified to be present at said court on the
second Monday in March, 1893, TO
answer plaintiffs complaint. In default
thereof, the court will proceed thereon as
to justice shall appertain. Witness the
Honorable George F. Gober, judge of
said court, this 9Th day of January, 1898.
W. r. MONTGOMERY, Clerk.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-14

A paper says of Sam Jones' ora
tory; "Sam Jones is not the only
lightning bug in the shrubbery, but
he alone has the spontaneous flash
OF the whole Aurora Borealis."
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-14

a Maine woman caught man in
a bear trap and not knowing what
else to do with him she married
him.-Carrollton Times.
1T is not the first instance thai
man has been trapped by woman.
But he will have to shear" it.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-14

Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the most won.
derful medical discovery of the age, pleas
ant and refreshing to the taste, act gently
and positively on kidneys, liver and bowels,
cleansing the entire system, disrel colds,
cure headache, fever habitual constitution
and biliousness. Please buy and try q box
OF q. G. G. to-day; 10, %, SO cents. Sold and
guaranteed to cure by ell druggists.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-14

An exchange says fox skin is
worth 81. The man who gets fox
where he can skin him will earn
every cent of it.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-14

1t doesn't matter if beauty is only
skin deep as long as the skin is worn
outside.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-14

Every man may have his price,
but it is always greater than his
neighbors think he is worth.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-14

A woman may not be able to
drive a nail, but when she comes to
driving bargain she is in her glory.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-14

Shopping train will run only Thurs,
days of each week, and will stop at ali
Stations when tagged.
Connections made in the Union Depot
at Atlanta. Ca, with all lines, for points
in the South>East South and Southwest
close connection made at Knoxville.
with Southern Railway trains, via Hsrri,
man, Jellico and Middlesborough, to
Rates and Information quoted upon APP
plication.
j, Z. w. FIELDS. j. A. MCWILL1AMs
q A., TT &PA
Marietta, Ga. Knoxville. Tenn
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-14

A poor man never knows how
many relations he has until he be,
comes suddenly rich.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-14

To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take CascaretS Candy Cathartic. iOc or &c
II C. g. c. fail to cure, druggists refund money
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-14
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your life .w,v

Don' Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away.
TO quit tobacco easily and foreve., be mag
netc. iuu OF HE, nerve and vigor, take MOTTO
strong. All druggists. soc or 81. Cure puaran.
teed Booklet and sample free. Address
oterilng Remedy Co.. Chicago or New York.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-14

Educate Your Bowels with Cascarets.
~ candy Cathartic. cure constipation forever.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-14

No-To-Bac for Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed TOBACCO hapit cure, makes weak
men strong, blood pure. va, 81. All druggists
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-14

The man who is unable to..work
and smoke at the same time usually
smokes.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-14

AAiacste Your bowels with Cascarets.
AS.ndy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
-Scs 2oc. II g. c. c. fail, druggists refund money
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-14

To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. loc or CSC
II c. G c. fail to cure. druggists refund MONEY
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-14

The cyclist who gets caught in a
storm may have seen better days.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-14

One dollar gets the MARIETTA JOURNAL
for one year, 80 cents for six months, and
rs cents for three months Come in and
slbscribe.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-14

Without bis needle the mariner
could never thread his way through
the seas.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-09-29
omcer Lands a whisky PeddIer.

Usage journal: Deputy U. S. Mar
shall Bennett has set himself dead to
rights with the people here by the
manner in which he landed Rolla
Knapp, noted whisky peddler. Mr.
Bennett was on his way to Hominy
Tuesday night, when he stopped at an
Indians house to get out of tho rain.
While on the porch asleep, up comes
the man he was looking for with all
kinds of proteen on him. Knapp saw
Bennett and reached for his gun.
Bennett shot him in his right arm.
Knapp reached with his left and Ben
nete deposited piece of lead in his
left and Knapp was powerless to use
either arm and gave himself up. He
was brought here aud his wounds were
dressed. Bennett took him to Guthrie.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-09-29
where Clyde Mattox Is.

Perry Enterprise. Mrs. Hatch came
in from Ponca City today. There is
nothing strange in this except the fact
that she is the mother of Clyde Mattox
who was sentenced to death for muir
der committed at Oklahoma City. This
sentence was changed to life imprison-
ment by President Cleveland, and he
afterwards was granted full pardon
by President Mckinley, all through
the efforts of his mother who was one
of the first settlers of Perry, She in
forms us that Clyde now has position
at Homlny Post, Usage Nation. which
he is holding down at the rate of $40
per month, and that she is as happy
and contented as she looks. No moth
er ever worked harder for the release
of her son than she did, and she fully
deserved the success her efforts met
with. We hope the son may prove IA
help and comfort to her in her declin-
lug years.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-09-29
THE MINISTER GOT MIXED.
And Rang Several Changes on q
scripturaI Sentence Before He
Got 1t Right.

The minister had reached the critical point
in his missionary" sermon. He had fin.
ished his firstlies and secondlies, and with
one neat figure would link them to an impas-
stoned appeal that would strike his congre.
cations hearts, and make their rocks flow
like water.
'1f," he exclaimed, "it has truly been said
that he who makes two glades of brass to
grow where one"
The puzzled look on the face of a deaf old
member in front pew led him to pause and
repeat:
That he is benefactor who makes two
grades of .blass-"
Smiles throughout the house and his own
sense showed him there was something
wrong, but, with an attempt at lightness,
he said, arily:
"As meant, two braids of glass"
The choir was now keen cared, and the
pastor felt as if ne had met Dewey. So he
shouted: Two blads of grace"
Then the senior deacon had pity on him
and arose. MY brethren" he spoke, "our
pastor has been upset by the intensity of his
emotions, and has tripped on two blades of
grass. San Francisco Examiner.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-09-29
Was at West PolD, Under M.rr,tt.

Ponca City Courier. Prof l.. L. Eddy,
the new principal of the high school
of this city was cadet at West Point
W hen Major General Merritt was Com
mandant at the academy, BrIgadier
General HasbrouclI was also stationed
there at that time. Col. Hale of the
Colorado Volunteers, now at Manila,
was cadet Al the time Mr.. Eddy ed
tered and was graduated the next
year. Mr.. Eddy was appointed from
the 5th congressional district of Mich
igan, and won the place in competitive
examination. His stories OF life at the
u. s. Military academy are very inter-
esting. The class TO which he be-
longed was graduated in 1877, but he
was compelled by the i'll health of his
mother to give up his military career,
and resigned before the course was
completed.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-09-29
THETERRITORIES.
Late Happenings of More Than
Ordinary Interest
Oklahoma Uni,ersity Opens.

The university Of Oklshoma begun
It's school year on Septem Der IA, under
unusually favorable auspices for a
large attendance and a most successful
year. President Boyd fully expects
an attendance of at least 400 and thinks
10 may reach the 500 mark Old pupils
are coming in daily and bringing IN
new ones by the dozens. The build.
ing has been thoroughly renovated
and improved, the course of study
amplified and extended and everything
possible done to make this year grand.
er and greater in every respect than
any former year in the history of the
institution.
Among the Improvements are a new
laboratory, more than double the ca
pacity of the former one; the library
arSistically frescoed and painted, and
double the number of books placed
therein: 400 opera chairs placed in the
chapel, of latest design and patterni
eight new rooms fitted up and added
to the recitative department; the adj
dition of Professor Jean Paul De Chey-
enet, from the Chicago Conservatory
of Music, as instructor of piano and
violin, and celebrated for his pro tici-
ency on stringed instruments; five in
structors in vocal and instrumental
music-making corps of professors
unequalled in the west.
But the greatest addition is Profes-
sor A. III. Van Vleet, the occupant OF
the chair of biology, established by
the board of regents this spring. This
gentleman comes from the great John
Hopkins university and completed his
education at Leipsic, Germany. He is
recognized as one of the finest scholars
in the United States. The university
was extremely fortunate in securing
his services, and it speaks well for Ok
lahoma that it can command the SER
vices of such men. In addition to his
fine education he is also an all-round
good mana thorough bred gentleman
in every acceptatiou of the term.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-09-29
MIsCELLANEOUs.

The battleships Iowa and Oregon
will be taken to Honolulu via Cape
Horn, the "trip requiring about four
months. u deemed expedient the
ships will ultimately proceed to Ma
nila.
ALL free soup houses in Havana,
which had been feeding the needy oven
$4,000 rations daily, were closed 10y
order of the governor general 1t was
predicted that additional distress
would follow the closing
A STEAMER from Suva brought the
news that the Falcon islands have dis
appeared in the sea, owing TO volcanic
action. Twenty fishermen on the
islands doubtless perished,
STRESS was laid upon the fact at the
meeting of the Sons of Veterans al
Omaha, Neb., on the 18th that more
representatives of the order enlisted
in the war against Spain than from
any other organization. A net gain of
500 members has been made during tn,
last year, the total membership being
at present 32,34l, distributed among
LIS camps. A surplus of over 81, lOl
mas been added to the treasury Of tn.
soSlety.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-09-29

Norman Transcript: Events follow
themselves very rapidly in this age.
Five months ago or little longer, the
Rough Riders and volunteers were
following their peaceful avocations
with no thought of war. Since then
they have taken part IN stirring
campaign in Cuba and are home again
and number of item running for
office on their war record. This is a
great country.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-09-29
Cotton Crop Wa. Never Be,,sr

The cotton is now coming to market
especially in the southern part of Ok.
lahoma and the Indian Tern itory. The
big cotton raisers in the southern sec
tions are highly pleased with the pres
ent outlook and say they never saw
any better prospects for an enormous
yield. The crop this year has entirely
escaped damage from the boil worms,
which is so seldom the case. Old cot
ton raisers in the southern part of the
Indian Territory pronounce the quail,
ty Of the cotton gathered this year
number one, and without blemish.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-09-29

THERE are in the United States sOO,-
900 railroad employees, 100, 900 station
men, $4,000 engineers, 4G,0O firemen
and helpers, $1,000 conductors and dis
patchers, $4,000 trainmen, 80, 600 ma
chinists, 100000 shopmen other than
machinists, 20, 900 telegraph oper-
ators and their helpers, as, 900 switch
men, hagmen and watchmen and l75,
600 trackmen. The payroll on all
American railroads combined, officers
and clerical staff included, amounts To
about So, 900, 900 day, or $3.50. 0OO O0O
per AMMAN.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-09-29

Guthrie Free Press; Our reader,
will remember the case of Anon
Jernigan, whose skull was fractured
by kick from a horse about six weeks
ago, a hole an inch by an inch and a
half being made just over the right
eye, and losing about two ounces of
brain. DIR. Vandervoort, viii tomor-
row discharge Anon from his cares
pronouneing complete recovery in
every respect, his eyesight uninjured
and his mind unimpaired. He is play
ing with boys of his age today and
will return to his home nine miles
northeast of Guthrie tomorrow.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-09-29

HUGGING while waltzing is under
the ban. The decree has gone forth
from the men who teach waltzing tina,
no more hard pressure shall be per
mitted during the process of the fas,
cinating whirl. Reprimands are in
store for any young men, or young
women, either, who persist in hug
ging in the dance. All this has beeu
decided at the twenty first annual
convention of the American Society o.
Professors of Dancing which has ad
journed after four days session il
New York, after adopting the new
dances for the coming season.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-09-29

In 1890 the center of population of
the United States was point % miles
east of Baltimore. In 1870 il was about
20 miles north of Woodstock, Va In
is40 it had reached a point 10 miles
south of Clarksburg, w. Va In 1860
it was 20 miles south of CEillicothe, o.
In 1870 IL had reached the neighbor-
hood of Cincinnati, and to-day it is not
far from Westport Decatur county,
Ind. The center of area of the Uuited
States is in northern Kansas. Accord
ingly, the center of population is
three-fourths of a degree south and
more than II degrees east of the cen,
ter of area
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-09-29
Minor News Notes,

| ty has over 400 acres of waterme IONS.
Governor Barnes and his staff go TO
Omaha September IA, in special car.
Noble, Oklahoma, has suspension
bridge, the only one IN the territory.
An effort is being made to have the
Frisco completed to oklahoma City by
October 10.
Kid Miller, the gambler shot at
Shawnee while resisting arrest, died
Friday night.
Albert b. Farriera Guthrie boy who
enlisted in the regular army, is back
home. He is sick.
They are giving away business lots
in Fort Gibson to anyone who will
build upon them.
Tahlequah is trying to secure the
Pittsburg and Gulf railroad with a
fair prospect of success.
c. V. Rogers seems to be the choice
of large numbers of Cherokees for
chief, to succeed Chief Mayes.
The governors report to the secre-
tary of the interior is fine. Our people
should send it to friends in the east.
A church newspaper in the Indian
territory recently printed plate ac-
count of prize fight, through over
sight.
Agent Pollock of the Osages has ord
cred that no patent medicines con
tanning alcohol must be be sold to the
Indians.
William Ashpaugh was arrested on
,,.h
tempted rape upon Susie Thaxton
l7-year old girl.
An addition TO Ponca City recently
plated gives the streets named as fol-
lows: Dewey, Hobsop, Schley, Samp-
son and Wainright
Captain Roy Hoffman, of the Okla
homa troops now stationed at Fort
Reno has resigned, but his resignation
has not been accepted.
d. Owen who was until lately one
of the publishers of the Ma rlow News,
was run down and killed by switch
engine in Hillsboro, Texas.
First bales" are coming in all over
the country. The first bale at Okla
homa City drew premium of S25, and
The urSt dJ Slo'
The little two-year old child of Bud
Powers died at Woodward on Monday.
Death was caused by the lodging of a
peanut in the child's throat.
The Duncan Il. T.) Banner says it
was General Miles who ordered the
irons placed on jefferson Davis when
he was a prisoner at Fortress Monroe.
Mr.. and Mrs, Arthur Palmer of Still
water were arrested by a Pinkertop
detective, charged with the murder of
an illegitimate child in Iowa about a
year ago.
At Perry primary pupil will attend
school half day There is only one
teacher and she will teach one grade
in the morning and the other in the
afternoon.
The county weigher at Newkirk, re-
ceived word few days ago from the
assistant United States attorney that
the county weighers do not have to
use war stamps or their receipts.
The horse disease which is now ex-
citing farmers in central Oklahoma
first attacks the stomach and the dis
ordered stomach effects the lungs.
The disease is not contagious but epi-
demic.
Monte Woods, four years old, was
playing with a rope tied to a calf. The
rope became tangled about the child
and the calf ran around several
blocks bruising Monte up badly. The
parties live at Cheyenne.
Daniel Neale of Omaha is at Fort
Gibson and has just closed contract
with the Missouri Pacific railway to
riprap the banks of the Grand river to
protect the property of the company
from washing out. About 10000 will
be expended On the work.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-09-29

THE official records of the war de.
partment at Washington as far us
completed, show that there were 80
officers and 23! enlisted men of the
army, 264 in all, killed in battle dur
ing the war with Spain. These casu.
alties included all the lives lost by the
army in the battles in the Philippines
as well as those in Porto Rico. The
percentage of officers killed is strik-
ingly large and is said to be unprece.
den ted in the battles of the world.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-09-29

On the night of August 20, No. 4os,
the north bound Santa Fe passenger
train picked up an unknown dead man
three miles south Of Edmond. He was
taken TO Edmond and left. Nothing
that would lead to iden tificstion was
found on him. A pint of whisky was
found in one of his pockets, The body
was not mutilsted and from appear
ances it was thought that he was
struck by some train ahead of No. 40s
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-09-29

THE annual report of the United
States geological survey upon the pc.
troleum industry, complied by Mr. II.
III. Oliphant, has been completed. 1,
states that the total production OF
crude petroleum in the United States
in 1897 was 90, sos, 0s! barrels, as com
pared with 60, 900, 3sl barrels in 1896,
showing a decrease of only two-thirds
of one per cent The production foi
1896 was the largest ever recorded in
the history of the industry.