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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-01-09
A Benevolent Disaster.

There had been a dreadful flood.
One old fellow who had lost nearly
everything he possessed was sitting
on the roof of his house as it float
ed along. He was gazing pensively
out over the waters when a man in
a boat approached.
Hello, Bllp
Hello, Samp
Bin?" "1'1'u away
"Yes, but the ducks can SWIM"
replied the old man, with a faint
smile.
Peach trees gone, too, eh?''
/, Wei, they said the crop would
be a failure anyhow"
q see the foods above your win
dows."
THAT'S all right, Sam. Them
wln nd needed washin' anyhow"
Then the man in the boat took
advantage of the benevolent food
and moved on.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-01-09
CUBURNs MINSTREL8

The newest, SWEETEST and best minstrel
attraction of the coming season is -. A.
Coburn's Greater Minstrels" next Fri
day night, January 10th at the Opera
House, Marietta This "Great Barlow
Minstrel" reorganized, remodeled and
the new title adopted byManager Coburn
to protect his own and the interest Of
his patrons from the inferior companies
who have been disappearing and
trading upon his reputation by titles
similar to his old company. An entire
ly new company, new people, new cos
tunes, music, songs, jokes, vaudeville
and feature acts. The first part setting
this season is also departure from
those of the past, and is the most beau
tiful he has ever carried, equipped with
colored light effects, electrical and calci-
um and the ensemble numbers are new,
bright and full of motion and action.
The singing is the best he has ever car
ried with this or any other company
Tickets on sale at Leggs.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-01-09
Military Marches.

In military music the march occu-
pies a prominent position and has
been employed not only to stimu-
late courage, but also from about
the middle Of the seventeenth cen
fury to insure the orderly advance
of troops. One of the earliest in
stances of rhythmical march is the
Welsh war strain, '<The March of
the Men of Harlech," which is sup
posed to have originated during the
siege of Harlech castle in 1863. In
England the military march was of
somewhat later development. Sir
John Hawkins in his History of
Music" tells us that its character
istic was dignity and gravity, in
which respect it differed greatly
from the French, which was brisk
and alert. And apropos of this
subject the same author notes a
witty reply Of an Elizabethan SOL
der to the French Marshal Biron's
remark that ''the English march,
being beaten by the drum, was slow,
heavy and sluggish" "That may
be true" he said, "but slow as it is
it has traversed your masters coun-
try from one end to the other."-
Chambers Journal.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-01-09
A CoAsiderata Tramn.

Magistrate to tramp)-You met
this lady on the highway and de-
manded aims of her, and she re-
fused you.
Eyes, your honor"
"And then you threatened he1
life"
ooh, no! I ddnf.do that"
"You seized Your bludgeon with
both hands and said, Madam, YOU
must de- You did that, didn't
your"
eyes, but didn't threaten her
life. l said that she must die, and
so she must some time OF other,
We all must die some day. didn't
say when she must die. I think a
great deal about death and all that,
and"-
"Six months hard laborr-Lon.
don Express.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-01-09

A rich Bristol merchant was COM
ing home from the West Indies IN
vessel whish contained all his
wealth, says London paper. When
far from land the ship sprang q
leak. The crew tried hard to keen
her aAoat by pumping ont the wa
ter. The water was coming in fast
er. Although they worked at the
pumps day and night, yet it seemed
as though the ship would sink. AL
at once, to their great astonish-
ment, the water stopped coming in,
and the ship was pumped dry. On
examination of the bottom of the
vessel it was found that a dolphin
had squeezed itself into the hole
and thus saved them from destrue-
ton. Out Of gratitude the mer-
chant founded charity school in
Bristol, and all the scholars wear
on their breasts the figure Of dol
phin in brass in remembrance of
this remarkable deIiverance.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-01-09
Run Them to Skin and Bone,

A New Yorker who sometimes
varies his horseback riding by tax
ing trips through the rail fence belt
OF Long Island noticed ON one such
trip farmer sitting dejectedly ON
one such fence. At the farmers
feet was litter of little pigs SO
thin they gave the impression of
having but one dimension.
What happened the squealers? ''
the rider asked.
The farmer beckoned him to come
close, then hoarsely whispered; "Lost
my voice. Them was the latest
pigs l ever seen. l used to come
out and call 'em to me and feed 'em
three times a day. Lost my voice
and had to call 'em to grub by rap
ping with my stick on the fence.
See? Now the darn woodpeckers is
driving them pigs crazy" - New
York Sun.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-01-09
The Business Instinct.

The teacher was trying TO impress
upon her class the necessity of reg
ulating the sinful human heart, and
to drive her point home she pro-
duoed her watch.
'ENow, boys" she said, you all
see this watch''-an assertion so OBJ
viously true that there was no dan
ger of contradiction. ''Now," she
continued, Gust suppose for a mo-
ment that it did not keep correct
tima, that l found it was wiling to
go any way but the right way, what
should l do with it.?
There was tho usual pause which
pupils indulge in because it fathers
the teacher by making her suppose
her problem is very deep one and
that her wisdom is therefore pro-
found. Then a bright little boy
held up his hand.
please, MISS" he said, "you
would sell it to a friend p-London
Answers.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-01-09
A MISSING BUTTON.
The Way q French Detective Forced a
Criminal to Confess.

Theatric indeed are some of the
methods of the French detectives.
They look for the little clews rather
than the staring ones. Unlike the
English and American detectives,
they often do not wait to get ire
futable evidence before charging a
man With crime, but first charge
him with the crime and play upon
him so that if he is guilty he is led
to confess.
Some time ago woman was muir
dered in Paris, and from her room
were stolen $50 francs in money,
her watch and jewelry. Two broth
ers, George and Paul Amot, had
been seen near the house. The
night of the day after the murder
was committed NJ. Hamard, chief of
detectives of Paris, entered a wine
shop where the two brothers were
drinking. To the mans amazement
he arrested George. charging him
with the murder.
"You have changed your coat, /"
he said to the man, safe guess If
he had committed the murder. 'Tt
was gray this morning, and there
is blood on it"
"My nose was bleeding" replied
the man.
From excitement, I suppose, !"
said Hamard, excitement caused
by your robbery of Nine. Lucas yes
terday evening"
IT was nowhere near Nine. Lucas
last night" said the man, hecom-
ing very pale.
"You liel" roared Hamard. sT,ook
at your left boot~
Every one saw the third button
from the boot was missing.
"Here's the BUTTON" said Ha-
mard. producing one. ut was found
In your victims blood. Confessp
The man confessed. As Hamard
afterward said, he had guessed the
murderer. The detection of the
missing button from the mans shoe
was accidental.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-01-09
The Cost of Oretory.

Many speaker has been credited
with skill as an extempore orator
the secrets of whose study would
rob him Of any such honor. The
late James G.. Blaine used some
times to dictate to reporter as he
walked the floor Of his study a
speech to be delivered in the even
ing of the same day, and the speech
ot the afternoon and that u irthe
evening would be identical in every
respect. Yet the speech as deliv-
cred in the auditorium had all the
appearance, the grace and charm of
extempore oratory. Sir John Mil
lais was a graceful speaker, but his
speeches cost him a great deal of
time and labor. At a dinner given
at the Arts club on Leighton's APP
pointment as president of the Royal
academy Millais was in the chair.
He made an admirable speech
frank, sympathetic, eloquent and
apparently unstudied. His friends
congratulated him, saying they had
no idea he had the gift of oratory
OF could speak so well and so spon-
taneously, Spontaneously he said.
Why, that wretched speech has
kept me awake for the last five
weeksp
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-01-09

There is police court magistrate
of st. Louis who frequently evinces
a pretty wit IN dealing with fresh
or facetious offenders.
To onS vagrant brought before
him not long ago his honor put the
question, What oocupation?'
"Nothin' much at present." flip
PANTY responded the prisoner; Gust
curculatin' round, Judge"
Retired from circulation for thir-
ty days." dryly observed his honor
to the clerk of the court.-Harper's
Weekly.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-01-09
Hard on the Eyes.

"You always think of a clerk or
bookkeeper as the boy with the Job
that's hard or the eyes," remarked
an elevator man the other day.
But this is the job that gets your
eyes, or at least it does me. You
see, we are obliged to look straight
ahead of us, and the blur of things
as we try unconssious to focus our
eyes on thenA makes a constant
strain. / would rather he bending
over a set of books myself, so far as
my eyes are concerned. columbus
Dispatch.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-01-09
Winning His WAGER,

A tall, hercnhean Gasoon astride
a wretched pony encountered as he
rode over bridge richly dressed
cavalier mounted ON a noble staed.
Saluting the horseman, the Gascon
said to him:
Il will bet you ten golden pieces
that l can do with my horse what
you can't with yours"
"Done," said the cavalier, where
upon the Gascon dismounted from
his miserable hack and, taking it
up in his arms, threw it over the
battlements into the river, thus
winning his wager, to the great dis
comfture of the owner of the noble
steed.-London Mail.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-01-09
Still Wonderina.

Worn out by long series of ap-
palling French exercises, wherein
the blunders were as the sands OF
the sea, hapless high school mis-
tress declared her intention of writ
ing to Florence's moth&.
Florence looked her teacher in
the face. "Ma will be awfully an
cry" quoth she.
81 am afraid she will, but it is my
duty to write to her, Florence"
81 don't know" said Florence
doubtfully. "You see, mother al
ways does my French for me-"
The teacher is wondering wheth-
CT she will write London Express.
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Reflected Iiohk

A tailor who was obliged to move
was looking for a desirable location
for his store.
Il want place." he said to the
agent, shat is sandwiched in be-
eWeen two well lighted stores. I
ma that | can cut down my ex-
penses for lighting considerably if
my store has other brightly lighted
shops for neighbors. Where / was
before there was a saloon 81 one
side Of me and a restaurant on the
ofher side. The proprietors of both
places kept their premises so bril-
! 5lantly Illuminated that 1 profted
y Their reflected glory and kept my
S1e 'front.' agIows1by burning only
halt as many lighty8s | should have
Aad to burn if there had been dark
houses on both sides" New York
sun.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-01-09
DUCK SHOOTING.
II Is Killing Work Drawing the Pene.
tratino ley Blasts.

The elementary details of the
duck shooter outfit are familiar to
all who haze patiently braved the
clustering weather in blind,
watching the waterfowl from dawn
to sunset. Duck shooting demands
that you adopt high waders, heavy
rasping aannels, visored caps with
ear flaps, corduroy trousers, gloves
and big brutes of ten bores that car
ry half across the lake. These and
the sneak boat full of decoys seem
essential to complete success, for
usually-and in some localities al
ways-they are the proper things
for the duck hunter.
His alarm clock scares him out of
a troubled sleep and routs him from
warm bed at 3 80 a. m. of q nasty,
storm tormented morning, and he
rigs himself hastily in fannels and
canvas and corduroy and rubber
that he may live through the pleas
ant work on the choppy waters, with
only the sleet and the north wind
and occasional streaks of ducks to
keep him company.
l have often gone through a day
of such tortures and only duly con-
gidered it great sport-after the
flight was over and the ice driven
out of my system by the blazing log
fire of the clubhouse. A good sup
per and an easy chair before the fire
put a fellow in contented humor,
even if the flight was thin and the
weather thick.
1t honestly is killing work breast
ing the icy blasts, freezing slowly
from fingers to toes if the fowl are
not plentiful enough to keep the
guns in active play and finally doing
numb fingered stunt at gather
ing ice covered decoys into bounc-
ing boat. Sometimes the tidewater
duck shooter has balmier weather
and suffers less at his chosen sport,
but not often. However, there are
other ways to shoot ducks and other
fields where one need not get wet
feet, freeze to death, incumber him
self with clothes of three men or
even use his beloved boat and de.
coys.-Charles Fl. Morton in Recre-
alton.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-01-09
THE MAHRATTA METHOD.
Queer Devices by Which Some Debts
Are Collected In India

Many queer stories are told of the
persistence and clever devices of
the collectors of bad debts, but even
a professional humorist would find
it hard to invent anything more abb
surd than the method actually in
use among the Mahrattas-at least
if travellers tales are to be trusted.
In that country, SO they say, when
a creditor cannot get his money and
begins to regard the debt as desper-
ate he proceeds to sit "dhurna"
upon his debtor-that is, he squats
down at the door of his victims
tent and thereby in some mystic
rious way becomes master of the
situation. No one can go in or out
except by his sanction. He neither
himself eats nor allows his debtor
to eat, and this extraordinary star
walton contest is kept up until Ell
Their the debt is paid or the cred
itor gives up the siege, and in the
latter case the debt is held to be
cancelled.
However strange it may appear to
Europeans, this method Of enforc-
ing a demand is an established and
almost universal usage among the
Mahrattas and seems to them a
mere matter Of course. Even their
"scindiahs" OF chieftain, is not ex-
empt from it.
The laws by which the "dhurna"
is regulated are as well defined as
those of any other custom what
ever. When it is meant to be very
strict the claimant takes with him
number of his followers, who sur
round the tent and sometimes even
the bed of his adversary to make
sure that he obtains no morsel of
food. The code, however, pre-
scribes the same abstinence for the
man who imposes the ordeal, and
of course the strongest stomach
wins the day.
A similar custom was once so
prevalent in the province of Benares
that Brahmans were sometimes sys-
tematically put through a course of
training to enable them to endure a
long time without food. They were
then sent to the door of some rich
person, where they publicly made
a vow to remain fasting until GER
tain sum Of money was paid or until
they persisted from starvation. To
cause the death Of Brahman was
considered 80 heinous an offense
that the cash was generally forth
coming, but never without reso-
lutte struggle to determine whether
the man was likely to prove stanch,
for the average oriental will almost
as soon give up his life as his mon
ey.-London Chronicle.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-01-09
Tortoise She'll

The finest tortoise shell comes
from the Indian archipelago, but 6
good quality is also obtained on the
coast of Florida.
There are three rows of plates on
the back Of the tortoise, called
blades by fishermen. In the central
row are five plates and in each Of
the Others four plates, the iattes
containing the best material. Be
sides these there are twenty-five
small plates round the edges of the
shell, known as feet or noses. The
largest turtle does not furnish more
than fifteen Hpunds of shell. The
tortoise shell bf present day CON-
merce is ma largely from the
horns Of nitals.-St. Louis Re-
public.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-01-09
THE HURRYING MAN.
And the Man Who Keeps Cool and
EeesSThings Without Hurryine.


II like to see a man quick about
his work" said Dir. Quilkinton, shut
| don't like man who habitually
hurries.
"The hurrying man gets on my
, nerves. He grabs things up and
slams things down and makes a
great show Of doing things. For
that matter, the earnest, hurrying
man may actually do things, but
he does them at the cost of an un-
necessary expenditure of nervous
force on his own part, and J. am sure
he must wear on the nerves of other
people around him.
"Now, the hustler is very diff
ferent proposition from the hurry
ing nan and so also the man of en-
ergy. The hustler is indeed a man
of energy, but he is one working,
or compara lively so, within com
paratively narrow compass OF along
some special line of work. He is q
bull sort Of man, driver, who
makes it his business to get things
done and to keep on getting them
done and always with the least pos
sible waste of time or force. There
are other sorts Of hustlers, men who
make great to do and don't accom-
plish much. But the one have de-
scribed is the hustler of the best
type.
"The man of energy is a man of
strength and momentum who gives
also an impression of reserve power.
He is likely to be the head of the
enterprise, and he communicates his
strength to the hustlers and diffuses
power all around. Everybody with
in range of his influence feels his
strength and works better for it,
and he puts his own shoulder to the
wheel on occasion.
"But neither the hustler of the
best type nor the man of energy
ever hurries. The hustler rushes
things; he crowds 'em hard and
keeps c1owding, but he doesn't hur-
ry, for hurry means impairment of
strength, and on big Job hurry is
likely to mean confusion worse con
founded
''The real hustler first lays out
the WORK to be done clearly in his
own mind, and then, with no false
moves, with no waste of time or
effort, he crowds the work forward
to its conclusion, all without the
turmoil Of hurry. And the man of
energy diffuses strength always
steadily, ever contributing to the
highest RESULTS.
so l don't personally fancy the
individual man who, however eff
cient he may really be, does things
in hurry. l like the cool man, the
man who keeps his head and who is
easy and deliberate in his move
ments. In him and in his work you
feel full confidence, and the effect of
his presence is good in every way
on all around him.
"GiTe me cool men, not men who
work in hurry. New York Sun.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-01-09
Local Items.
Court adjourned Monday evening.

Court adjourned Monday evening.
Col. E. P. Green and family have
gone to Tampa. Fla, to spend the win
ter for his wife's health.
Misses Matte and Callie Campbell
have returned from Cave Spring where
they spent the holidays.
The new council last. Monday night re-
elected all old officers, and will hold an
adjourned meeting.
There will be box supper at Mount
Bethel school house on Saturday night
the nth inst in the intereet of Chatta-
hoochee Church. Everybody invited
The regular monthly meeting of the
Children of the Corfederacy will be
held at the residence of Miss Marie Mas
sey, Saturday, Jan II at 3 O'Clock, P NJ.
Mrs. A. L. Dickson has returned to
her home in Birmingham, after spend
ing the holidays with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Annandale.
Mrs. e. Ralston Broadhead, nee Miss
Irene White, and little daughter, Vir-
ginia Ernestine, of Waxahachie, Texas,
are visiting her fathers family, Mr.. H.
II. White, and will visit her sister, Mrs
D. A. Hubbard at Admission, Ala.
Miss Bertha Hughes, who has been at
St. Joseph's Infrmary, Atlanta, where
she was under treatment, is at home
again, and will soon be we'll again, we
are glad to learn. Her mother, Mrs.
Hughes, has been with her and is here
now.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-01-09
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
MARIETTA, Jan. g

MARIETTA, Jan. 6, 1908.
Regular meeting. Present: Mayor
and full board except Alderman Brewer
and Garwood.
Minutes of last meeting read and APP
proved.
On motion all accounts were ordered
passed up and vouchers issued for same.
Reports of Treasurer annual report)
was read and received.
Reports of Finance Committee was
read and received.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-01-09
GEORGIA-Cobb County

To all whom it may concern: John P
Cheney, administrator of the estate of
j. Z. Mcnamara, late of said county.
deceased, has in due form applied to the
Undersigned for leave to sell the lands
belonging to said estate, and the appli.
cation will be heard at my Office on the
first Monday in February next, 1905.
This January 9TH. 1908.
JOHN AwTREY, Ordinary.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-01-09

Mr.. @ w. DuPre's half page adver-
tisement this week is full of bargains,
all clothing is marked 80 1.3 per cent
of, This is great reduction and now
time to get clothing almost at cost.
Many q toothless person IN
dulges in biting sarcasm.
A Kansas woman sent 50 for a
book on the art of Preserving, Z"
thinking it would teach her how
to preserve her complexion.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-01-09

1R7I VIR1 OF t IN 17Nh NUMMITThh.
We have received in the city treasury
for the years 1908 and 1907, So, 948 %.
Have spent on streets and other i'm +.
provements $50, 24S.26. Paid outstand :
ing debts against the city from the old
administration, $4,000, leaving debt
on the city, to date, of $1,10O 90. We
lind we spent only $4,000 more than
receipts during our administration
n. NJ. MAYRs,
Chairman Finance Committee.
On motion of Alderman Hardeman,
Council adjourned sine die.
w. j. BLACK, City Clerk.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-01-09

Look prosperous, keep cheerful and
work. 1t is pays better than to be sour
and snappish.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-01-09

Bal. on hand for next report
(annuaD ................... $7,179 81
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN P. CHENEY,
City Treasurer.
Sections REPORT.
| make following report for month of
December:
White, resident -. =. 4
" Col. ~ 2
Total. ........................... 6
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S. NJ. BRUCE, Sexton.
MARsHAL's REPORT

MARsHAL's REPORT.
l make following report for month of
December:
have made 10 cases; Is fined $58 so ;
discharged; collected on pending
cases, $4,000. | hold the Treasurer's
receipt for above amounts-$8S so.
CLERKS REPORT
/ make the following report for month
OF December, 1907:
~
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Total vouchers paid out. 81, $50 81
By bal. on hand for next report z ITO 81
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PAID
REPORT OF FINANCE COMMITTEES

W. j. BLACK, Clerk.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-01-16
TO THE POPULSTs OF THE UNITED
STATES

Abilene, Texas, January 1, 1908.
My Dear Comrades:
Acting under the authority, and by direc-
ton of the People s Party National Com
mittee, I have been engaged since the
St. Louis Conference of 1906, and am
still engaged, in the work of looking up, get
ting in touch with, and interesting some tried
and true middle-of-theroad Populists in each
Of the counties of the United States. There
about 1900 such counties, and my idea
was, and still is, to appoint County Club
Organization Committee of 5 to 10, or more,
members in and for each county, each commit
tee to be charged with the duty Of securing
an Old Guard Populist Club in and for each