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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-06-20
LONDON IN A FOG.
An Experience on a Bus on a suffo.
eating BIaSk psX.

| remember once | was on a
Cheapside bus going toward the
bank. 1t had been pouring, and
little streams of water we're still
running on the street. The Ian
terms reflected darkly on the pave
ment. Suddenly the Of horse went
down, kicking the near ones feet
from under him. In their struggles
to get up they swung the bus head
around, and we lay broadside to the
street. | looked to see a snarl of
wagons, the bus hemmed in by ieer-
ing cabmen, gaping crowd and the
driver jerking at his fallen horses.
Not so. Six hobbies were already
on the spot. As if by magic space
was cleared about us and the traffic
checked. Under the steady hand of
the driver the horses we're soon up,
trembling and mud despatched, but
otherwise none the worse for their
tumble. The policemen lowered
their hands and Cheapside again re-
sounded with the London roar.
WhenN black fog comes down the
city vanishes. From your seat on
the bus beside the driver you cannot
make out the horses heads. The
street lamps simmer dimly, sound
seems deadened, and when you
speak your voice is strange and, I'M
familiar Your face looks like a
chimney sweeps, your chest burns
as you breathe, and near you on the
bus you hear some people coughing.
You wonder what they look like.
Down on the street somewhere
there is a thud, and some one
curses violently. The driver laughs.
'"This 'ere's tn blacklist kind,' he
says. Il guess we're fixed ere for a
bit. Yer kin just bet your bloomin'
'cad | won't bulge till | see tn
'orses. Last time | knocked down a
bloody bobby with tn pole an most
ran into tn Thames" Every little
while it seems to tighten, the horses
take a step or two, and then once
more the world is buried in suffocat-
ing blackness. Your eyes sting as
you strain them through the fog.
All at once it begins to lift, and in
the zenith the sun appears, large
and strange and red. The buses be-
gin to move again. You can see
them looming dimly, crowded with
ghostly passengers. Then as it
grows still lighter you see the
cleaning helmet of a mounted SEN
tinel and clock tower rising black
behind. 1t is Whitehall. You have
been two hours on the bus and have
gone 200 yards.-Thornton Oakley
in Metropolitan Magazine.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-06-20
Offers AS ANGLERS.
Clever at Catching Their Finny Prev
and Dainty In Eatino II.

Hunters and trappers have so de-
pleted fur bearing animals that few
are left who catch and eat fish. and
1t IS fortunate the otter is now com
paratlvely scarce in our northeast
ern states, for he is terrible and
persevering foe to fish. He is so
dainty that he will/frequentlv kill
several large fish in day, devour-
ing only those portions which best
please his palate, leaving the re-
malnder on the water side to be-
come the prey of other fish loving
creatures.
For the pursuit of his fnny prev
the otter is admirably adapted by
nature. The body is 1.-THE and SER
pentine, the feet are furnished with
a broad web that connects the toes,
which are of infinite service in pro-
polling the animal through the wa
ter; the tail is long, broad and fiat,
and the short, powerful legs are SO
loosely jointed that it can turn
them in almost any direction. The
hair of the body is Of two kinds
one a close, fine, soft fur, which
lies next to the skin, protecting it
from extreme heat or cold, and the
other composed of long, shining,
coarse hair, which permits the ami
NAL to glide easily through water.
The teeth are sharp and powerful,
preventing the slippery prey from
escaping, SO that the quick and
wary fish fall easy victims to the
offers superior aquatic powers. So
easily does it glide into the water
scarcely a ripple is seen to mark
the time and place of its entrance,
and on emerging upon the shore its
body is withdrawn from the stream
with the same noiseless ease.
When the otter is engaged in eat
ing the fish captured, it holds the
slippery prey between its forepaws
and begins with the back of the
neck, eating away the fine, faky
meat Of the shoulders and rejecting
the head, tail and other parts. The
average daily food is about four
fish, weighing two or three pounds,
not necessarily all trout, but trout
sand young salmon are preferred to
other coarse fsh.-Louis Rhead in
Recreation.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-06-20
Pretty Green.

The conductor had every appear
ancc of being new to the business.
The car was well filled with a mat
inee crowd, and among the passen-
gers was a fashily dressed individ-
ual escorting two oyerdressed young
women. The conductor entered,
stood before the trio and asked for
the fares. The man handed him a
dime and nickel, whereupon the
conductor asked:
"Three:"
'No; four" said the sporty chap,
smiling.
Four fares we're promptly regis
tered, and the green conductor
seemed at loss to know what the
passengers were laughing at.-New
York Times.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-06-20
Brides Of the Tchukchis.

The male brides are the pride
and wonder of far Asian people
called the Tchukchis. When the
new woman receives a 'call" here,
she becomes female suffragist.
When new man there rejoices in
the like distinction, he becomes a
bride. He renounces the garments
of his sex and assumes the raiment
proper to his new condition. He
lets his hair grow and cultivates the
gentle arts of houscwifery. Soon
he takes a lady for husband. She
assumes the attire for which he has
no further use and goes out to hew
wood and draw water, while he
stays at home and does the cooking
and mending. Thus it is not un-
common to see a handsome, strap
ping bride, fully whiskered and
mustached, shyly stitching skins,
while the female husband, a sturdy
little woman, severely male in at
tire, does the navyying out in the
world.-London Standard.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-06-20
Truaney indicated.

An old gentleman upon seeing a
small boy playing in the streets and
remembering that the school term
had begun a short time previous
thought it his duty to take the
youngster to task for being absent
from school. Approaching the boy,
he inquired:
''My son, how is it you are not at
school instead Of idling in the
streets?"
Hesitating a moment, the lad re-
piled:
"Well, pap's out of work, mas
sick, brother Johnnie got his arm
broke, the baby's gettin' teeth, [
amt got no shoes and, besides that,
there amt no school today" p
Judges Library.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-06-20
UneratefuI.

A lawyer brought a suit against
rich corporation for a man of good
standing in the community. In TIE
course of his argument he declared
in a loud voice for the purpose of
gaining the sympathy of the jury:
Gentlemen of the jury, who are
The parties to this important litiga-
ton? Why, on the one side there
is powerfuls corporation, with an
overfowine treasury, and on the
other side there is my poor, simple,
intoxicated client" "Did you win
your suit?" inquired a friend of the
plaintiff few days after. eyes,"
was the reply, Il won my suit, but
shall never employ that lawyer
again. He called me fool, and the
jury believed it,"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-06-20
Bundled Elatterv,

When Sir Edwin I-2ndseer, the
world famous painter of animals,
visited the royal court at Lisbon,
the old king of Portugal greeted
him with the salutation: "Ah, Sir
Edwin, | am glad to see you! | am
so fond Of beasts.'
But for bungled fattery this does
not begin to compare with the re-
mark of an unlucky admirer of the
great French actress, Nine. St.
Denis. Her performance of lara
had just been greeted with enthusi-
astic applause, and as she stepped
from the stage she said, ''To act
that we'll a woman should be young
and handsome" "Ah, no, ma
dame" exclaimed the unfortunate
man in his anxiety to pay the high
est compliment possible. "You are
convincing proof to the contrary"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-06-20

There are some who argue that
love is born at first sight. How
ever that be, | am certain that it is
often thus with hate. l have seen
men in my time the first sight of
whom was an insult to me-sudden,
singing, like a slap on the cheek.
1t is a strange thing, and I have
never heard it explained satisfac-
torily. Sometimes in my own case
l have attributed it to even so slight
thing as a certain turn Of the
nose, curve of the lip, a droop of
the eye, and again have felt that it
was due to nothing visible about the
man, but rather to some subtle en-
anation from the very souL>of him
that maddened me as though l had
inhaled the fumes of some devilish
drug. Have you ever felt this p
American Magazine.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-06-20
Irretrievable.

George" sharply demanded Mrs.
Ferguson as they sat at breakfast a
few mornings ago, ''what did you do
with that letter TO Aunt Rachel l
gave you to mail for me last
Wednesday,"
Mr.. Ferguson clapped his hand on
the breast pocket of his coat.
'Was it to Aunt RACHEL" he ask
ed, hastily extracting from the peck
ct a bundle Of letters and miscel-
laneous documents and looking
them over.
''Of course it was. | wrote to
ask her to come and spend the next
six weeks with u.s."
Laura" gasped Mr.. Ferguson, 81
i mailed it!'-Chicago Tribune.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-06-20
Forks In Enoland.

The enormous ruffs so much in
favor in later Tudor times are re-
sponsiblc for the introduction of
forks in England The difficulty of
reaching ones mouth when so
adorned must have impressed itself
very forcibly on every one, and SO
the invention of some means Of pro-
longing the reach became an imper-
ativc necessity, and thus, as demand
usually creates supply, forks came
into existence. = Captain G. A.
Hope in Grand Magazine.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-06-20
Seacoast and Civilization.

1t is an odd theory, yet no doubt
the correct one, that the coast area
of Europe has probably had more
to do with the commercial and So
cial supremacy of that continent
than any other cause. Investigation
will show that Europe has a mile of
coast for every 1G4 square miles Of
its land ar while the Americas,
which rightly come next, have $50
square miles Of land to every mile
Of coast. Asia has 37G miles and
Africa $50 square miles to each
mile of coast. The low order Of
culture still prevailing on the dark
continent, though its history is as
old as that Of any other portion Of
the world, is almost indisputable
evidence Of the correctness Of this
theory.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-06-20
HAVE YOUEVER THOUGHT

How many hours out of each week
would be saved by yourself, your family
and your teams, by the telephone?
Have you ever calculated how many
minutes can be saved in case Of business,
sickness, or emergency?
Have you ever thought of the dollars
you might gain, if you were only in
close connection with the market
Can you conceive Of the pleasure to be
derived from having III your home i'm
mediate communication with the homes
of neighbors and friends though situated
miles away?
The telephone will pay for itself by
getting better market prices.
L will save several dollars every
month by avoiding needless trips to
town
1T will take and deliver telegraph
me1@ages immediatel, without extra
expense.
1t will keep you informed on weather
Predictions upon inquiry.
It will order repairs instantly when
machines break down.
1t Will do the visiting and make social
.aiis without the trouble CT dressing
1p' and taking long, dusty, heated or
freezing ride.
1t will get doctor on {, moments
notice and maybe save lc-ed ones
life.
1t VIII get election returns as 500. as
hey are in.
1t will keep away insolent tramps and
prowling burglars
1t will keep the boys on the farm.
1t will make homes happier, brighter,
better and more delightful in thousand
INHERENT ways.
Progressive farmers living in th~
,onntry are installing telephones i'll their
homes, and in the near future every
2Qitivator will have direct means OF
COMMUNICATION with the outside world.
THE SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE
AND TELEGRAPH CO. will be glad to
Wrnish fall information upon ap.
Eiication 20
Apply to H. r. McClatchey,
Manager, Marietta, Ga.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-06-20
The Iron Crown.

The famous iron crown of LON
hardy was of gold and precious
stones set in thin ring of iron
which was believed to have been
formed from a nail of Christ's cross.
1t was made by order Of the queen
of the Longobards in 591 and pre-
scented to her husband. With this
crown Charlemagne was crowned
and after him all the emperors who
we're kings of Lombardy. 1t was
this same crown that Napoleon put
on his head at Milan on May 26,
1906, exclaiming as he did so: God
has given it to me! Woe to him
who touches it,"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-06-20
TEN PAGES.
Glove Money.

In the early days of English law
il was a custom for the clients to
send pair of gloves to the counsel
who undertook their causes and
even to the judges who were to try
them. These gloves were usually
the cloak for a bride, Mrs. Croaker,
for example, presenting Sir Thomas
More with a pair lined with e40,
which he returned. A bride given
in such circumstances continued to
be called glove money" long after
gloves had ceased to hold place in
the transactions.-Glasgow Herald.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-06-20
Carrying It ALONG.

An elderly and most respectable
looking man was recently brought
before magistrate, says the Lon
don Telegraph, charged with unbc-
coming and hilarious conduct.
When he was asked what he had
to say for himself, he mumbled
something about doing as the Ro-
mans do"
every good" returned the mag
istrate. Continue to do as the
Romans do. Pay rs. Cd. p
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-06-20
FI2ELESS C00ni.G.
How the Hunters Of the Northwest
Fc-ests Prepare Food.

~'SSeS SPSTS EOOCs
tircless cookers have been in use
since remote times among the
guides, hunters AID trappcrs of the
northwest, ard some Of them have
be2ome so adept that they can pre-
pare unusually tempting meals.
On many of the best known por-
tages, says the Seattle Post-Intel-
lSencer, the guides set up the tents
on the old camping places because
there they find the half frozen
stones needed to construct the oven.
On top of these they build fire,
and when the stones are red hot the
Indians set them up in the form Of
a covered box, inside of which has
been placed the saddle of venison, a
pair of cartridges or perhaps
bears ham. Instead of the heavy
felt of the German contrivance they
cover it all over with thick moss,
the green side in, over which is piled
soil if it may be had conveniently.
The next morning the roast is
certain of being cooked to a deli
cious turn. 1t has either been spit
ted on a clean wand of birch, which
imparts no i'll flavor to the meat, or
else a grill of sticks has been laid
across the oven, up@ which its con-
tents have rested.
Sometimes the easier plan is
adopted of allowing sharp pointed
stick to project through from the
outside at one corner, the outer end
being firmly stuck into the ground.
In any case the object is to keep the
Joint from touching the sides of the
oven, which are seldom very clean.
Beyond the preparation of the
oven and the building of the fire re-
CURED to heat the stones, this meth
cd of cooking requires only little
attention. The meat being proper
ly placed in the improvised oven, it
is allowed to remain there until its
presence is desired at the table.
There is no possibility of the meat
having been overdone. Many hours
are required to cook the meat, but
after that it is matter of small
moment if it is left to the action of
the heat a few additional hours.
The chances arc that when the meat
is taken from the oven it will be
found done to a turn, and it will be
voted by those who have partaken
to be the finest, juciest piece of
meat ever encountered.
While it is a fact that the meat
cooked in this manner is particular
ly well favored, its toothsome quail
tiles are in a great measure due to
the seasoning secrets of the cooks.
Men who 90 into this country on
hunting expeditions rarely ask their
cook guides about their methods of
cooking further than what is to be
seen, for they would get little salts
faction. There are certain secrets
! relative to the use of herbs and
some other tricks which are handed
down from one generation to anoth-
or and which will never get outside
of the family. Sometimes a guide
will get more of a reputation for his
cooking than for his knowledge of
the country, and his services will be
in special demand by those excur-
sionists who are wont to give some
attention to the creature comforts
on these hunting expeditions. These
hunters guard their culinary secrets
jealousy and hand them down only
to their successors along the line.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-06-20
The PerambuIator.

There is 10 pcrambulator in the
sense of baby carriage in Todd's
edition of johnson (182O, and the
earliest quotation DR.. Murray's die
tionary gives for the word is from a
letter of Miss Yonge's in 1857. But
the baby carriage seems to have an
nexed the name of an earlier inven-
ton. From the end Of the seven
tcenth century until well into the
nineteenth a "perambulator" was a
machine for measuring distances by
road and settling disputes-for in
stance, as to hackney carriage fares.
1t consisted of a wheel eight feet
and a quarter in circumference,
trundled with handle and fitted
with clockwork and a dial. Prob
ably this machine took its name
from the ''perambulators" = mer
who took part in the ofIicia! per
ambulations" or beatings Of parish
bounds.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-06-20
From a Fresh Mind.

Albert is five years old. The 9th
er day ne overheard somebody re-
ferring to his mother as a woman.
Albert took exception to the re-
mark.
"My mother is lady," he said.
''But what is the difference"
was asked.
After a few seconds of hard
thinking the child replied:
"a woman talks too much; a
lady doesn't. Chicago Tribune.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-06-20
A Precaution.

"Good"! exclaimed Welsh no
tel proprietor as a departing guest
prepared to photograph the estab-
hshment. Il rejoice to see that
you take with you one little me-
1nento of YOUR visit. 1t shows you
have been happy here. Is it not
so?"
''Not exactly" was the morose
answer '1'm taking it to prevent
any chance of my making a mis-
take and coming here again. LON
don Express.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-06-20
DISCRIMINATING.

Next to a difference of taste in
jokes an incompatibility Of musical
appreciation is surely the greatest
strain upon the affections. Here is
a story to prove it. 1t is the story
of a musical daughter and an un-
musical mother. The daughter is
barely more than three years old,
but she has already shown every
sign Of the keenest musical liking.
The mother, on the contrary, can
hardly turn a tune. The other
evening the mother wanted the
daughter to go to bed. The daugh-
ter didn't want to go. "Come, Eth
eI," said the mother by way Of final
persuasion, eff you'll 90 to bed like
a good girl, I'll undress you and
sing you to sleep myself" ooh, no,
mamma" the daughter FASTENED to
add. "You can undress me if you
like, but please let nurse do the
singing"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-06-20
John Runvan,s Game.

Tip cat has never been very
fashionable sport, but it has been
popular enough at least since the
sixteenth century. 1t was at this
game that the boy John Bunyan
was playing when a sense of sin
overwhelmed him. GAS l was in
the midst of a game of cat and, hav-
ing struck it one blow from the
hole, just as I was about to strike
it a second time voice did sudden
" dart from heaven into my soul,
which said, wilt thou leave thy sins
and go to heaven or have thy sins
and go to help At this | was put
in an exceeding maze, wherefore,
leaving my cat upon the ground, |
looked up to heaven and was as if
| had with the eyes Of my under
standing seen the Lord Jesus look
ing down upon me as being very
hotly displeased with me and as if
he did severely threaten me with
some gricyous punishment for these
and other ungodly practices. p
London Standard.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-09-12
Death OF . Naive o. cnel,s.

~ Goodwin Lang, a native Of this
town, where be was toFn in 1917, died an
his home In Concord, Mass. sspt. -
the oldest resident Of his town. Mr.
Lang was born on the West hlll near
where Albert Dennison lives, His moth.
er was sister Of David Goodwin. Tor
whom he was named. When a bow. Le
lived with Deacon Dewey and al the age
OF 10 his family removed from town and
he attended Newbury academy for two
years, Ia 1887, he entered the employ of
the Hamilton Mtg, Co, at Lowell, Mass.
as clerk and three years later was made
paymasteF for the company, which posi-.
ton he held until 1865, when he vent 10
Concord, Mass, and purchased farm on
Monument street. lie held many offices
OF trust in his adopted town and was dep
uty United States marshal al Boston
from 1870 TO 1878, serving under Gen.
Andrews aud Roland G. Usher.
Mr.. Lang's las, visit 10 this town was
IN 1885. His uncle, David Goodwin, was
then living.
Mr.. Lang was one Of those bright,
strong characters OF the old school, evil
IDENTIFY much beloved by his townspeople,
and viii be sadly missed by them in
spite OF his advanced age. His daughter,
Mrs. Ellen v. Webster, lived with him
and assisted in caring for him in his old
age.
Hon. j. X. Darling, when in Concord
this summer, visited Mr.. Lang at his
home, where be had very pleasant hour.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-09-12
BRAINT Rec

]. e. French and wife were in Ran
dolph Monday.
Irving Burgess of Brattleboro was at
the Inn Monday.
Clint Dickerman went to Burlington
Monday on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. wilfred Raymond visited
in Randolph over Sunday.
Mrs. A. L. wilkins visited at Nj. j.
Montgomery's over Sunday.
Master Dan Jones has gone to Alourgh
To work in store and attend school.
Mrs. Harry Kendall and children OF
Northfield visited her mother, Mrs. AL
Pratt, last week.
Mrs. Lewis Durham and daughter,
Nav. are visiting at the drawbridge al
Rouses Point, n. Y.
Mrs. Laura Cummins of Hardwick VIII
sneak in Braintree hall Sept. 10 and ~
for the Spiritualists.
Mrs. Maggie Nelson and Mrs. Mary
Ann Brown of Barre visited in Bralntree
lost Sunday. also Dennis and llama
leonard Dennis of Toledo, o., after an
absence of 80 years.
Mr. and Mrs. w. c. Thompson OF
Rroo<lvn. n. Y, visited at M. ). Mont
comery's the first of the week. MI.
Thompson has been in Italy Tor the past
two years studying voice culture