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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-06-02
DAVIS BIRTHDAY.

On June 3D., the Kennesaw Chapter
of Daughters of the Confederacy will
celebrate Davis birthday. Col. j. @.
Nolan, of McDonough will deliver an
address at the court house Friday morn
ing June 3d., at 10 o'clock, and also de-
liver the Confederate cross of honor to
30 veterans. The public in general is
cordially invited to attend and all the
veterans in the county are specially in
vited. The Daughters of the Confed-
eracy all over Southland will celebrate
this day. Let everybody attend this
meeting. These ladies are true to the
memory of the leaders, IThey are striv-
ing hard to erect monument in our
Confederate Cemetery and they want
to have it ready to unveil in 1907. They
are working and praying to accomplish
it. May their efforts be crowned with
success.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-06-02
BLEW ITS OWN WHISTLE.

Mr.. Mills Mcneil, President OF the
McNeel Marble Company, tells of fire
at their saw mill in the country. SHAY
lngs and saw-dust had been banked
around the mill as the result of saving
timber. The workmen had left the
mill which was situated far out in the
woods. There was no fire in the fur
mace and everything had cooled down
many hours before. Yet strange To ra-
late during the night, the saw-dust
caught fire somehow, burnt all around
and up to the mill and engine. the fire
thus kindled heated the wafer in the
boiler, the shed over the boiler and en-
CINE burned and fell on the engine. the
pressue opened the velve and mt the
whistle to blowing, which it kent nm
for two hours, until the engineer heard
the whistle and came down to see what
was the matter, Thislis a remarkable
occurrence.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-06-02
FEDERAL MEMORIAL EXERCISES.

A large crowd attended from Atlanta
and along the A. K. & N. Railroad
special trains being run. Supt. J. A.
Commerford had everything we'll ar
ranged and the exercises passed off
very nicely.
The following program was rendered
Music-The Gem City Band, Mari
eta, Ca, G. E, Henderson, Leader.
DUTY of the Day. "-Comrade ]. A.
Commerford, Com. Dept. of Ca, C AR.
Prayer-Rev. Clarence j. Harris,
Pastor First Universalist Church. At
lanta, Ga.
Reading of Department and Nation
al Orders-Comrade G. f. Fairbanks,
Post No. /.
Music-Ohoir Methodist Church. Ma
rietta-D. +. McClatchey, Jr., Leader,
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address-Com-
rade Lucius Perry Hills, Post No. /.
Festival of Our Dead"-Comrade
David /. Carson, Commander Post No. /.
Music--Gem City Band, Marietta.
Address-Comrade James w. Scully.
Post No. l. Col. U, S. Army retired
Music Choir, Methodist Church Ma
rietta.
Remarks-Lieut, Gen1 Clement A.
Evans, Commanding Army of Tenn.
Department United Confederate Vet
Grams.
America led by Band
and Choir,
Salute to the Dead-i6th u. s. In.
fantry.
Star Spangle Banner-The Gem CITY
Band Marietta. '
Taps.
Benediction-Rev. C. I. A. Pts. Roc.
tor st. James Episcopal Church Mari.
eta.
General Decoration of Graves
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-06-02
SPASMODIC ADVERTISING.

Spasmodic advertising is better than
none at all, but the kind that builds
fortunes every year for men in every
line of business is that continuous ad-
vertising that never ceases in any sea-
son of the year. 1t is the kind that
works whether the weather is hot or
cold, wet or dry, whether it be the busy
or the dull season. It's constantly
talking and impressing the advertisers
goods and store so strongly or the
minds of the people that they're un-
consciously drawn to that store. A
merchant prince of this country says,
"Ths best time to advertise is all the
time" The Journal goes to the best
homes in this community and county.
Does your advertising go with it.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-06-02

General Evans made a fine speech,
displaying liberal spirit =
The officers made about twelve arrests
Monday, Federal Memorial day. One
white man and one negro arrested for
carrying concealed pistols.
The colored people had their usual
lemonade and lunch stands erected'on
the square Monday and they did rush
ing business. Federal MemorialI dav
is a frolic with chem.
Inc largest crowd of negroes in years
were here Monday to attend the Federal
Memorial exercises. The lam at the
depot was such as to render it:impossi-
BILE for pedestrians to get through the
mass of humanity from Glover's CO
machine shop to the paper mill,
On Monday last, Mr.. Cap Garner and
Mr.. viii Dyson, while workingYin the
Freyer building, hung their coats down
stairs and went up stairsIto eat their
dinner, some thief stole both their coats.
Mr.. Garner mad dollar in money in his
coat which he regretted losing.
A very dark cloud" lowered about
Marietta on last Monday, Federal Me.
mortal day, and in consequence thereof
it, rained very copiously, which was
badly needed. The colored contingent
took the showers gloriously and patriot
'ically,
You couldn'tget negro to work last
Monday for love. or money. 1t was
Federal memorial day. "a contractor
told his negro workmen, II will increase
your wages u cts. ani hour ifl'you will
work: u ESay, boss: Fifty cenfsIan hour
wouldn't beSssanyiinducement.:- .Dis am
our day."
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-06-02
NORTHCUTT-GILBERT.

The marriage Of Mr. A. H. Gilbert
and Miss Nell Northcatt, which was
set for June 2nd was advanced week
and took place on last Thursday even
ing 26th ult., at the home OF Mrs.
Campbell Wallace on Kennesaw Ave-
nue.. Rev. J. II. Patton performed the
ceremony. 1t was very quiet affair,
only few friends and relatives being
present.
The gentlemanly groom is one of
Marietta's most excellent young men,
higly esteemed for his moral worth and
splendid business qualifications He
has recently been elected cashier OF the
First National Bank to succeed Mr. G.
S. McCandlish, who has resigned to
effect July 1st.
The bride is one of Marietta's pretti-
est and most charming and popular
young ladies, admired by large circle
of friends.
After the ceremony the bridal party
repaired to the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry puPre where an elegant recep-
ton was rendered them.
For the present Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert
will be at the home of Mrs. Campbell
Wallace.
The Journal extends hearty congrat-
ulations and good wishes.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-06-02
BUTT UP BY TRUCKING.

Correspondence of the Charleston
News and Courier from Lake City, S. c.,
asserts that nothing has done so much
for the improvement of that section as
trucking. 1t adds:
ut has helped everything. Six or
eight years ago the common opinion
prevailed that our soil was suitable for
only one crop, cotton, Then our farm
ers were in debt and their farms were
miserable weed patches. All this has
been changed, The farmers, as a rule,
are out of debt, their farms are in nice
condition, they live in better houses,
their food is better. they wear better
clothes, and their children are at school.
On every hand are evidences of i'm
provement The deposits in our local
bank amount to 10000 to $4,000, and
the depositors are our own people, The
credit for all this is due to tobacco and
truck. Besides strawberries, vegeta-
Dlcs are grown in considerable quanti-
ties, We have from 400 to 800 ocres in
beans, and will put up the market 40
900 to $1,000 crates. There are some SO
acres in cucumbers. The lettuce this
year brought the growers returns at the
rate of nearly $4,000 per acre. [ feel
sure that our trucking business amounts
to from $4,000 to 100000 year"
With good Atlanta market farmers
IN Cobb county ought to do as we'll.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-06-02
TEACHERS ELECTED.

The city Board of Education met last
Monday and elected the following
teachers:
1st. Primary Grade-Miss Frances
Foy.
lst, A.. Primary-Miss Mabel Can
trell.
I'd. Primary-Miss Olive Faw.
3d. Primary-Miss Laura Ford.
Sd. A., Primary-Miss Mcdaniel.
4th Grammar Grade-Miss Louise
Anderson.
9Th. Grammar Grade Mrs. E. L. Lit
tie.
9Th. Grammar Grade-Miss Sena
Towers.
9TH, Grammar Grade-Miss Augustus
Barnes.
1st. High School Grade-Miss Mildred
Thompson.
The election of teachers for second
and third High School Grades and SUI
perintendent was deferred.
The teachers were elected subject to
REIMBURSEMENT in assignment to grades,
when school reopens, as the interest of
the school may demand.
L. B. Norris was reelected principal
of the colored school, and all of the same
teachers were reelected except Louise
Allen, who is succeeded by URSULA
Maxwell.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-06-02

job D. Rockefeller told his sons
Bible class that when he was a bow he
was taught to milk COW, but he forgot
70 say whether he put water in the
mJk.--Houston Chronicle.
And John is still keeping up his old
habit, learned in his boyhood DAYS, and
milks the public cow and gets the rich
est cream and butter. The "Udder',
ieliow, the common people, furnish the
feed" to produce the milk.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-06-02

The New York Sun is discussing why
men don't attend church Exchange
Might discuss also why women do
not attend church. According to
population, the men and women of this
country are non church going people.
The poorer classes stay away and do
not enter our city churches. There is
great work to do in this country.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-06-02

Rev. Sam Jones is holding a series of
meetings in Rome this week. We guess
Tribune and Herald will now be on their
good behavior.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-06-02

Alexieff is hopeful of the Port Arthur
situation. Alexieff is the most hopeful
cuss that wears whiskers on the banks
OF the Ialu.-Dallas Times Herald.
The Russians are great producers of
whiskers, but we had no idea thew
would grow them on the blanks of the
Yalu f"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-06-02

The election of Judges by the people
will be a source of endless trouble.
But for this method, the people of the
Blue Ridge circuit would be in more
friendly condition, as it is there are
many people at enmity.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-06-02

Old Bishop Turner still advises all
the negroes to go to Africa. Why don't
he advise them to be good and 90 to
Heaven instead.-Darien Gazette,
What's the use They stand as good
chance to reach one place as the other.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-06-02

Private banks should be inspected
the same as state banks, and the next
legislature should enact law TO that
effect.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-06-02

The Daren Gazette says unless the
unexpected happens both Senators
Bacon and Clay will be reelected when
their terms expire.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-06-02

The Russians say they killed 5000
Japanese at Port Arthur in one fight
last week, but nobody believes it.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-06-02

Bryan talks like he will bolt the Demo-
cratic nomination at st. Louis if the
Chicago platform is not endorsed. We
had given Bryan credit for being a very
sensible man, and we regret to see him
act the fool because things may not go
his way.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-06-02

The State Democratic Convention
met in Atlanta Wednesday, June lst.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-23

situation. The Italians are the best hope of the south and of cotton grow ing today, and if the tide of Italian immigration can be turned southward there will be no need of resorting to Asiatic labor.
 The question is a national one. If this country Is to retain control of the commercial crop there must be more labor in the cotton belt, and Italy is the best source from which to get it. The New England manufacturers see the situation clearly. It has long been plain to southern producers. All the testimony from Mississippi planters is favorable to the efficiency and pro- duetiveness of Italian labor. They can lease land and make money where negroes cannot. But the question does not involYe the supplanting of negro labor. The latter needs reinforce ment
 The crop in Alabama is stationary at about 1050, 900 bales. We give the figures for the last five years, as fol lows;
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-23
Control of the Sea.

Capt A. T. Mahan, who is a high grade mixer of literature and naval wisdom, endeavors to show that the modern battleship still has it's uses because any class of vessels can carry the automobile torpedo, and because of steadiness the battleship can use them effectively.
 All very true but the battleships that cost seven millions apiece can be as readily sent to the bottom of the sea by torpedo as can cruiser which costs much less. Our navy IS inclining too much to battleships. We seem to want the biggest ships, and a great many of them We have not adopted Captain Hobson's programme, but we are leaning that way.
 In view of what has occurred in the Far East it would seem to be wiser to build fewer battleships and more cruisers, ana eSpeclally more torpedo boat destroyers and subma- rine torpedo boats. We are in no con. dition to fight an alert nation like Japan.
 The control of the sea will probably rest with the speedy cruiser aided by a torpedo fleet in harbor. No douDt the bat eship may be useful in some 'vplaces, but the prestige of the big ship has been seriously impaired ir tie Far East Yet we go on building big ships to the neglect of the req controllers of the sea. We need more torpedo boat destroyers and subma rines, and fewer battleships.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-23
HAY PAYS BETTER THAN GOLD.

From the New York Commercial.
 good hay farm in the Yukon valley is a better paying proposition than an ordinary gold mine This fact has been demonstrated by a Dawson freighter, who Is farming a large tract of, native hay at Gravel Lake. on the trail between Dsw- son and the Duncan district, Stewart river.
 Last fall this man put in an immense quantity of fine hay. enabling him to bale more than 800 tons this winter. Be- sides wntering his own large herd of stock, he has considerable feed for sale. receiving $40 ton. At this price his crop was worth $S40O0. He clears a prof. of at least 100 per cent. Winter weather has not vet prevented continuous work. A crew of ten men has been employed and two six-mule teams to collec. the bales and carry them to market. His entire crop was cut with scythes and handled in q primitive manner. Next season he will replace these methods with modern farming implements. greatly re- ducing the cost of handling the crop.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-23
Grover Cleveland is still possibility
QUAINT ENGLISH AUCTION.

From tho New York Commercial.
 The annual letting of a deld at Bourne in south Lincolnshire. England, is look ed forward to with increased curiosity year by year.
 The auctioneer, as soon as he receives bid, starts a lad to run a distance of about one hundred and fifty yards. and the last bid received before the lad re- turns secure the field. This year the field realized 914 10s.
 As soon as the letting is over the com pany adiourns to a neighborng hotel. where a tripe and onion supper is pro vded out of the proceeds of the letting. Whatever sum Is then left is spent on bread. which is distributed to the poor of the parish
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-23
Corner Fruit Stands.

Birmingham is town devoted large ly to the fruit stand business" said stranger. At least that is the impress sion I received when l first arrived believe there are more fruit stands In Birmingham than any other town of the size 1 ever saw and nearly every one of them is on a corner. When store space can not be rented enterprising vendors pile their stock up on the streets and proceed to do a rushing business. In great many towns there are regulations against fruit stands on the streets and remember there was great discussion in the city council of Houston. Texas. few years ago to abolish all street stands The matter was finally compro- missed by requiring fruit merchants not to occupy more than two feet of the pavement extending from the wall of the building against which they heaped up thei: wares.
 T believe that money is easily made by men who conduct these fruit stands. The business must assuredly be profit able In Birmingham, for the fruit stands are increasing every year"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-23
High Diver Arrives.

''rhe high diver is in town and it will soon be time for the season at the lake to open" said a man who had just re- turned from visit to the popular resort. "The high diver is person of some standing in the community and while he is inclined to look down upon other people at times he will not be the whole show at East Lake by any means. High dives have become quite eormon at all amusement resorts but they still retain fascination for the popuace and no one can resist the temptation to see one of the daring leaps made. I under stand that the young man who will dive at East Lake when the season opens May 30 Is good at his trade and is not afraid to jump from almost any old thing, so It Is up in the air."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-23
To dle Is to be banished from myself.
 Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Populated Southern Bonds.

New England holders of repudiated southern bonds are more excited over the recent decision of the United States supreme court in the South Dakota case than are the states that did the repudiating. The latter see no danger ahead, because the New Hampshire case forbade recovery by a state unless the sueing state is the real owner of the bonds.
 The New Hampshire case arose about twenty years ago. Certain hold CTS of repudiated bonds grew cunning, and they induced the New Hampshire legislature to pass an act authoring individual holders of repudiated bonds to deposit them with the attorney general of New Hampshire, who would proceed to sue the state that issued the bonds, recover the money, and pay it over to the owners of the bonds. One state may sue another, but an individual cannot sue state. The scheme was a good one, but it broke down because the supreme court held in a test case that New Hampshire could not maintain the suit because she was ont the real owner Of the bonds.
 The Sonth Dakota case arose upon a donation outright by a New York Sbroker, Simon Schafer, of ten $l000 bonds issued by the State of North Carolina. The successful suit relates, too, to bonds that were a lien upon a railroad, and it remains to be seen what the decision would be in the case of lack of lien upon definite prop erty Altogether the South Dakota decision does not hold out much pros pect of money to individual bondhold- CTS. although it may lead to few gifts to states.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-23
Yellow Pine Now and Hereafter.

An illustrated article in the Review of Reviews for April is devoted to the yellow pine industry It shows that there are now ten thousand saw mills in the south and the entire in- vstment in the cutting of yellow pine was put by the census bureau in 1890 at $150000,000.
 The annual output in board measure was in 1902 over 500,000,00O feet. There are standing in the south IT, OO0,OO0, ,O00 feet, so that the supply is good for only twenty years more. In this respect we prefer to give the words of the Review of Reviews:
 As a region of standing conlferous tim Der the south holds second place, as shown by this table:
 Pacific coast 575, ,000, 000000 feet South ....................17 IT, COG, ,000 GOO feet Lake region. n...,,........,,. 6o,OOO'OOO,OOO rect Northeast .................. 5OOO0,O0O,OW rect
 The Pacific is certainly the leading lum- Der district of the future; the south of today, and the other two-the Lake and the northeast-are fast becoming the re- gions of yesterday.
 | From present prospects it will not be very long before the south also will be- come back number Tn five years" says an eminent authority, "the amount of white pine produced will have been reduced to 1,5O0 OOO, 900 feet annually. Of this deficiency, yellow pine should sup ply at least 60 per cent, or in round ndm- bers. 1 .000 100000 feet Now, the present amount of yellow pine cut per annum is $500. .OO0 GOO feet. which at the end of five years. would amount to 47 5000 Oo0o0 feet. Take this from the present total stand. l 111000, GOO. GOO feet and there Is left 129,- 300 900. GOO feet, which divided by 10,- 500,000,O00 feet. the annual cut at the end of five years, will give in round numbers twelve years. Hence there seems much ground for believing that within seven teen years, or at the most twenty south ern yellow pine will have ceased to be an important commercial commodity.
 Large quantities of yellow pine are exported. The chief exporting cities are Pensacola and Mobile. And while we are cutting down immense quan- titles for home and foreign consump- tion we are planting no trees, and after twenty years we will have to depend upon Pacific coast lumber, which will come to us burdened with heavy transportation charges. even when it comes through the Panama canal and up the navigable Warrior river
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-23
HUMOROUS SIDE OF PENSIONS.

From the Boston Herald.
 In his article on "Our Enormous Pen- sion Roll' in the Worlds Work Robert Lincoln OBren tells some new stories. The case is well authenticated of man drawing pension for deafness incurred in the service when his playmates re- membered that his infirmity was so pro- nounced in boyhood that he always sat In the front seat at school, and was even called by them "Deafe" Of course, no one can say that this infirmity may not have been greatly accentuated by war service.
 The story of d man who applied for a pension from injuries received by 'tak- ing fright at false alarm has become classical In the old gulf states, where eolored veterans and a free northern peo- pie are about the only federal pensioners, the desire to get at the federal treasury is no less strong.
 'I had a man come to me" relates an Alabaman. 'to say that he wanted to get a general law pension for injuries really received from being thrown out of a 
 the war. He acknowledged that the pro- cedure was not quite regular, but he justified his course by saying that it was only question of time when every Union soldier would get pension, and as he might not live to see that day himself he wanted to take time by the forelock by getting his share now"
 Every town has its jokes of that sort. This Is one of the pronounced evils of system of payment based on disabilities from which straight service pension system would give a welcome relief. At least it should greatly reduce the evil There is a true story of a man who drew a pension for total deafness on the certi- ficate of an examining board and WIS discovered in charge of telephone in- strument One man who was a pensioner on the score of total blindness was fouIrid reading newspapers and doing cabinet work: another man. officially certified blind by the United States government, was encountered in a jewelry shop en- gagged in delicate mechanical tasks with a magnifying glass stuck in his eye. A man drawing $72 month because The required the regular aid and attendance of another person on account of his disabilities. was seen industriously paint ing the side of a four-story warehouse, having drawn himself up on 20-foot ladder. handling both the ropes without assistance While these cases are, of course, exceptional. their existence even in rare instances is proof of defects in the medical examination system.