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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-05-21
Explain.

While he is busily explaining other
things, will Hoke Smith please say why
he was in favor of increasing the tax on
fertilizers, which would have increased
the taxes of Georgia farmers $4,000 a
year? Mr., Smith, on the It'll day of
last August, sent special message to
the general assembly urging them to
pass bill which would increase the
tax on fertilizers Is cents per ton. The
farmers would have had to gay every
cent of this tax. 1t is true that the
legislature did not pass the bill, but
Hickey did his best to get them to do
so. That is the kind of friend Hockey is
to the farmers.-Ocilla Star.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-05-21

There is whole lot of good hard logic
in the following paragraph from an ex-
change: Good schools, good public
roads, intensive farming, home produc-
tion of all farm necessities, the estab-
lishment of small manufacturing plants
and bestowal of patronage on home
enterprises are the things necessary to
build up towns, communities, counties
and states, and to all of these things
the people of this section should
awaken"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-05-21
Don't Like 1t.

A Pulaski county farmer writes to
the Macon Telegraph as follows:
1.-The farmers of this section don't
relish the idea of the town fellows (who
expect to get or hold q job under the
Governor) coming out in the country
and telling them to vote for Hoke
Smith, who has fought the Farmers
Union"; who went to Europe to work
up immigration whose administration
slipped free passes to immigration
agents, and who made cotton go down
last fall by predicting two-million-
bale crop. FARMER"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-05-21
THE THRICE-A-W WEEK WORD
IN THE PRESIDENTIAL
CAMPAIGN YEAR
More Alert, More Thorough and More
Fearless Than Ever.
Read in Every English-Sreaking
Country.

A President of the United States will
be elected this year. Who is he and
who is the man whom he will beat
Nobody yet knows, but the Thrice-a.
Week edition of the New York World
will tell you every step and every de-
tail of what promises to be a campaign
of the most absorbing interest. It NAV
not tell you what you hope. but it will
tell you what is. The Thrice-a. Week
World long ago established a charac-
ter for impartiality and fearlessness in
the publication of news, and this it will
maintain. If you want the news as II
really is, subscribe TO the 1hriee.a.
Week edition of the New York World
which comes to you every other dav
except Sunday, and is thus practically
daily at the price of a weekly.
The Thrice-a Week Worlds regular
subscription price is only 81 per year.
anc this pays for 156 per year. We Of.
fer this unequalled newspaper and the
Marietta Journal rogether for Sl.75.
The regular subscription price of ths
two papers is $500
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-05-21
Local Items.

Mrs. Nichols is the guest of Mrs.
Cleveland on Railroad ayenne.
Look after your name on the label on
this paper and see if the date is in the
rear. If so, renew your subscription at
once, as the new ruling of the Post
master General will not allow US to
mail the paper to delinquents. !
The Guinness murders wilt no doubt
put damper on matrimonial agencies
advertising for husbands and wives.
The good old way of doing your court
ing among home people is hard to beat.
The strawberry crop in Cobb county
this season has been the best and most
abundant in many years. Now, if the
blackberry crop and the peach crop
turn out as we'll, then old Cobb will be
in the swim.
The demands upon man, purse these
days multiply. Specialties in charita-
BILE and Christian work are inaugurated
with regularity. They are good causes,
but it will take large income to be a
liberal contributor to all OF them, and
there are certain people in the commu-
nifty who are singled out for these con-
| tributions.
An exchange remarks: "Jay Gould
was once map agent, Be q map agent.
Thomas A. Edison was once telegraph
operator. Be that. Rockefeller was
once store clerk at $500 per week
Be clerk. Abraham Lincoln was once
arail-splitter. Be rail-splitter. Some
men have combined ali these calli1gs,
and still amounted to nothing"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-05-21
MAKING A DEW POND.
An Old Method of Securing Water
Even In a Drought.

Even IN EFOu9nIs
There is still in England at least
one wandering gang of men who
viii construct for the modern farm
er a pool which in any situation in
sufficiently dry soil will always
contain water-more in the heat of
summer than during winter rains.
According to an account given by
G. Hubbard in the Boston Post,
this water is not derived from
springs OF rainfall and is speedily
lost if even the smallest rivulet is
allowed to flow into the pond.
The gang of dew pond makers
commences operations by following
out the earth for a space far in ex-
cess of the apparent requirements
of the proposed pond. They then
thickly cover the whole of the hol-
low with a coating of dry straw.
The straw in its turn is covered by
a layer of well chosen, finely pud-
died clay, and the upper surface of
the clay is then closely strewn with
stones.
Care has been taken that the
margin of the straw is effectively
protected by clay. The pond will
gradually become filed with water,
the more rapidly the larger it is,
even though no rain may fall. If
such a structure is situated on the
summit of a down during the
warmth of a summer day the earth
will have stored a considerable
amount of heat, while the pond,
protected from this heat by the non
conductivity of the straw, is at the
same time chilled by the process of
evaporation from the puddled clay.
The consequence is that during
the night the moisture of the com
paratively warm air is condensed on
the surface of the cold clay. AS
the condensation during the night
is in excess of the evaporation dur
ing the day, the pond becomes, night
by night, gradually filed. Theo-
retically we may observe that dur
ing the day, the air being compare
lively charged with moisture, evap-
grafton is necessarily less than the
precipitation during the night. In
practice it is found that the pond
will constantly yield supply Of the
purest water.
The dew pond will cease to at
tract the dew if the layer of straw
should get wet, as it then becomes
of the same temperature as the sur
rounding earth and ceases to act as
a nonconductor Of heat. This prac-
tically always occurs if spring is
allowed to flow into the pond or if
the layer of clay technically called
the CRUST is pierced.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-05-21

The fellow who deceives you in poll
tics is pretty apt to deceive you in a
business transaction.-Dsrien Gazette.
Sure! There can't be two sets Of
honesty-one for politics and one for
business. Give US the man honest from
principle, and not from policy.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-05-21

A boy fifteen years old and a girl
eleven were married, by consent of
their parents, near Sergeant, KY, re-
Gently, and have gone to housekeeping.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-05-21

The Minnesota Democrats have en-
dorsed Governor Johnson as presi-
Dental candidate. They can't defeat
Bryan.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-05-21

The man who doesn't butt in oc-
cssionally seldom gets ahead.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-05-21

The farmers are putting in all the
time they can while the weather is suit
able to work.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-05-21

HERE Is AN OCCASION of than ordinary Importance
every thrifty housewife; of spring
hand sale Of this douby
important At this annual
men of home decorations housewife has
home inviting and attractive, oil wants
you'll find that she for pieces furniture
mating Now, when tell you
ing sale affords opportunity
every purchase, don't want just it,
but when have received the goods they
thing but just represented will
cheernly refund the amount of your purchase
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-06-30

exposing navigable streams t. food or
drouth. If the fight was to be under
taken in earnest il was plain the
States must do the greater part.
at the White Eouse conference on
the conservation OF our natural re-
sources this was stated many times.
Governor johnson, of Minnesota, offer
ed TO his associates the very practical
suggestion that the preservation of
trees be made financially profitable
by the suspension of State taxes on
forest land. In the end, that or some
similar step must be taken. In the
meantime, much can be gained by in
terdictory acts like those proposed in
Maine and Louisiana and the welfare OF
each State, no less than that of the
whole country, requires that other
Legislatures shall take note and follow
their lead.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-06-30
States and Forests.

Officials of the United StsteS Forest
Service attach great Importance to
the attitude of two States toward the
regulation oftimber cutting
and Maine. They may well do so. For
the purpose of those Commonwealth
to meet their own responsibility in
this cause is the most encouraging
sign yet revealed in the warfare
against forest profigacy in this
country.
Louisiana's Legislature is giving fav-
Orable consideration to a most adj
vanced project. Substantially it is
that the cutting of trees under twelve
inches in diameter at a point four feet
from the ground viii not be permitted.
AS for trees which equal or exceed that
measure, they must be feIled in a way
to cause least damage to the younger
timber, and the refuse must not be
left where its presence will invite fire
or otherwise endanger the small trees.
The proper exceptions for the clear
ing of land for agricultural purposes,
or for building roads or bitches, or in
case the owner or tenant desires the
wood for domestic purposes, are made.
But the most important feature of
Che act is this:
That each tree wrongfully cut con-
stitutes & separate offense; that each
offense is punishable by fine ranging
from SIS to 500; and that imprison-
ment may be added to the fine in the
discretion of the court.
Maine has already legislated against
the clearing of privately owned forest
hand, when the public will be injured
by the process. Now the supreme
SQUIRT of the State has upheld that
law.
Interesting as both acts are in them
selves, there is yet a consideration of
more interest still. 1t is that the
States are taking hold. From the first
it has been manifest that the National
Government could not solve this prob
lem. By ever so great stretching of
its authority, it could not create forest
reserves save as they were II have di-
rect effect on interstate commerce by
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-06-30
TUESDAY EVENING. JUNE 80. 1905
Let's Show Our COlorS.

Everything national in this blessed
country of ours centers on Washing
ton. Independence Day is more to us
of the Capital than to the people Of
any other city in the land. But we
have not made it so. We have allowed
it to be less to US, seemingly, than TO
the people of Sag Harbor, or Alexan-
dria, or Chicago.
This year there is so sharp local
accent for the day that probably no
man. woman or child will escape its
significance to him personally We
are then to dedicate our state Capt.
taI. For once we are TO assert our
existence as a political entity, to give
our influence form, to give visible and
tangible expression to our pride IN our
home.
Not many of us can take part IN
tho ceremonies But we can all con-
tribute to make them the success they
ought TO be. We can all herald TO the
world our pride in the American ma
ton, in living in its Capital, IN help
ing to make that Capital the most
beautiful city in the world.
We can do this by talking OF II
amongst ourselves. We can do it by
contributing to the fund for making
the exercises unstinted in their scope
and splendor. Particularly we can dc
it by helping in the decorations to
the extent Of making every man his
home a factor by swinging to the
breeze the colors he loves, the flag
which means so much to him as q
resident of Washington.
l. business, an employer takes care
full note of the subordinate who speaks
of the firm as eve" The employer tc
most of us, here in Washington, !;
the United States Government. The
same kind of interest, therefore, would
prompt every Government employee IL
the District of Columbia-whether g
chief of bureau, or a clerk, or a ma
chinist at the Navy Yard, or q mes
senger, or what MOTTO speak as I'VE
that day and show his colOrs. And
when the day means not only a na
tional holiday centering on Washing
ton, but the expression of our closest
local interest, surely there is hardly
one of us who will not be deeply
enough touched TO help make it 60.
The Fourth of July is ours. Thii
particular Fourth of 1908 is ours in s
double sense. Lets prove it in every
street, downtown and up, in the heart
of the city and in the suburbs.
Lets show our colors.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-06-30
CANOEIST IS SAVED
BY HEROIC SWIMMER
Rescuer Dives Among Weeds at
Ponds Bottom and Brings
Helpless Man to Safety.

DEDHAAI. June 50.-Diving into the
deep waters Of the Merchants mill
pond at East Dedham, at the spot
where a few moments before he had
seen James O-Brien sink from sight,
George Hunninglake made a thrilling
rescue.
He found O'Brien, who weighs close to
200 pounds. entangled in the weeds at
the bottom Of the pond, and Il was only
by the exertiOn OF every ounce Of his
strength that he was able 20 extricate
him. Then came the struggle to get
the heavy and unconscious form 20 the
surface, and it was a struggle, for
OBrien was fifty pounds heavier than
his rescuer.
Hunninglake. who lives on Bussey
Greet some distance from the mill pond.
was dressing when he heard cries Tor
MIN from the direction Of the pond
without more ado he ran 10 the scene.
ARRIVING fust> in time 10 see o Brien.
who had been thrown into the water
from a capsizeS canoe, sink beneath the
surface -.
Humping into the water he swan
tovVard the spot expecting every minute
- see the mans head again appear az
The sI,rface. When il failed TO appear
he dived to the bottom and found
O'Brien- -.-,o,,-
The rescued man was IN serious
,t71-sical condition, and il was nearly an
hour before he was resuscitateu; hun
D{nrlake suffered little from his OK
uRrienCe.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-06-30
EYES MARRIAGE
COMMON LAW SORT

KANSAS CITY. June 3o--The Kansas
City court Of appeals decided today that
the first marriage in the worlds history
was a commOn-law contract-a mutual
agreement between the principals The
court holds that Present-day common
law marriages are likewise binding.
The suit in question was for 500.
brought by Ella Phillips Davis against
R. ". Stouffer, administrator OF her
husbands estate She asserted that she
was his cOmmOn-law wife.
The court, finding for her. said: The
marriage OF Adam and Eve was not
only without witnesses. but so far as
the records show. they married them
selves He repeated the contract, ana
she acquiesced by silence"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-06-30
Seeing Washington With The Times Guide
No. XXXVI.-PEACE MONUMENT

The contract for the monument was
given to Franklin Simmons, Of Maine
in 1S71, the price being set at 81, 600
The work was executed in Rome, and
was admired here as one Of the finest
Of the kind ever sent to America
The monument is forty-four feet
high. and was completed in 1871 It
was to the woe begOne COuntenance and
poses of the figure that Senator ingalls,
referred wheE he criticised IL.
The main figure IS that OF America
weeping. Hard by you may notice His
tory. with a tablet recording the woes
narrated by America while Victory Is
GROWING yours Neptune and Mars, and
Peace is offering the olive branch.
The foundation, platform, and steps
and circular basin were designed by
Edward Clark at one time architect Of
the Capitol.
This monument was once the sub
ject Of as much controversy as the ia
nous statue Of Washington by Green
ough, located on the opposite side OF
the building. During recent years, how
ever, nobody has made any particular
note Of it except to admire the sorrow
full fiE1EN-E
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-06-30
CHAMPION SPELLER
A COLORED GIRL
Spells 500 Words Correctly, De-
feating Large Number of
White Opponents.

CLEVELAND. June SO-Marie C
Bolden, the thirteen-year-old daughter
OF a negro letter carrier Of this city,
has won the championship in the
national intercity spelling bee. held
in connection with the annual conven-
ton of the National Education Associa-
ton.
The dusky maid spelled correctly the
500 words submitted to her-WritinE 100
Of them and spelling 100 oralIy-winning
from sixty children representing Cleve-
land. New Orleans. Erie. Pa. and Pitts
burg
When the gold badge certifying that
she vas the champion child speIler OF
the United States, was pinned on her
she was warmly congratulated, even
some OF the youngsters from Dixie join
ing in the demonstration by shaking
hands with her.
Each city was represented by fifteen
children Of the eighth grade Of the pub
lie schools. More than 5000 persons as
sembIed in the HippOdrome 20 hear the
contest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-06-30
LOVES TAPESTRY.

Said sbe GO fetch the palest stars
That blossom in the summer SKIES
The amber tissue OF the sun,
A flight OF opal butterflies.
"a sl<ein Of silver from the moon,
And trembling green from off the trees;
TIE rainbow that but yesterday
Was wonderful against the breeze.
s-The Whitest rose that ever blew,
The deWy emerald OF the lawn;
And ali the apple-buds that laid
Their pearly lips against the dawn,
And fetch the nights I watched for him.
And find the veil Of tears I cried:
And bring the little sob that broke
My heart upon the night he died.
Then IN the twilight I shall sit.
And never hear the years that flee,
But weave beauteous tapestry
OF dreams about my love and me-"
Archibald Sullivan, IN Smart Set
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-06-30
Well Done at Last.

Those who contributed to the statue
of Lafayette, about which there was
so much booming and bustling
throughout the country nine or ten
years ago, viii be glad to learn that
the enterprise is in q fair way to be
appropriately concluded in Paris this
week
The praiseworthy idea proved very
popular when first preached. 1t was
originally intended to have only the
school children contribute to the fund,
and about 100000 was received from
these young admirers of the chivalrous
and friendly Frenchman. Later con-
tributions from the Government and
from various patriotic societies were
secured, and the collection reached the
sufficiently large sum of $4,000.
France, entering heartily into the
spirit of the movement, gave fine
site in Paris. An effort was mace to
have the gift ready for dedication dur
ing the Paris Exposition Of 1900, but
the best that could be done was TO pro-
duce a plaster model for the occasion
This, after a patched and therefore
none too creditable existence, has just
been replaced by the bronze figure
wrought by Paul W. Bartlett. 1t is
pleasing to hear that Mr.. Bartlett's
work is regarded as a splendid ar
tistic success" The dedication is now
appropriately to take place on the
| Fourth.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-06-30
.HE monument which you nou'

-HE monument which you notice
before you, just opposite the
pathway leading to the Capitol,
20 the Monument Of Peace, alias the
Peace Monument, sometimes called the
Naval Monument. In fact, this monu-
rnent has been called many other names,
some of them pleasing and some uncom-
plimentary. but that is neither here nor
there.
Senator ingalls, Of Kansas, ne OF the
keen-edge6 tongue, said once If that
monument were mine, I'd put It In my
back yard. It is the most woeful thing
I ever saw But nobody made any at
tempt to move the monument
THE monument was designed by Ad-
mlrai Porter L. S N, as memorial
to honor those officers and seamen Of the
United States navy who died during the
civil war, and was erected from sub
scriptions started by him in 1865 in his
fleet, on the fall Of Vicksburg. The
officers, midshipmen, and seamen sub
scribed So. 900. private citizens 5000, and
later Congress helped cut considerably.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-06-30
Polar Bear Picks Out Dog
To Be His Pal in the Zoo

NEW YORK, June S0.-Dr. hansen,
the big polar bear which arrived at
the Bronx Geological Park a few days
ago, seemed lonely for a while ia his
new quarters. but now he has become
reconcIed. And the medium for his
reconciliation Is another animal of an
other species
DR.. hansen is a trick bear. For
many years he Travelled with a circus
which toured New Jersey. His principal
tricks were 70 waltz and TO exercise
with a pole, balancing II on his nose
and pointing it from his shoulder as
though 1t were a gun. When he arriv-
ed at the park and was introduced 10
the long-vacant polar bear den. with
its great pool IN the center. the stick
with which he had performed in his
circus days was showed through the
bars. The keepers thought it might
amuse him.
But DR.. Nansen. p fter exploring
his new home, set up a dismal howl.
From Thursday until yesterday he re-
fused all food. The noises made by the
other bears. the grizzlies and brown
bears and japanese bears, in the cages
near by. seemed to brighten the polar
bear. Altogether he was very sad. That
was until yesterday. He is apparently
as happy now as any animal in the
park.
Keeper Dick spicer was standing near
DR.. Nansen's cage early yesterday
morning, before the Sunday crowds be-
san to arrive. He had tempted the
ear With fresh meat for breakfast.
hrrr nv
It. He sat with his sharp snout held
,raight up in the air. and now and
then a deep-chested moan would come
from between his clenched teeth.
Too bad, old fellow. 70 take you
away from the circus" said Keeper
Spicer.
Nansen Finds Friend.
Just then there was a scraping sound
on the asphalt walk behind The keep
er turned ana saw a small, half-starv-
ed dog. such as Is to be seen on al
most any back street in the Bronx.
How in the dickens did you get IN
here2" said Spicer, and he clapped his
hands az the visitor 20 drive him away.
The dog lodged. but did not run away.
He had smelled the meat the keeper
had put in the bear cage and he want
ed il.
All right. Old chap. II you are as
hungry as all that / we'll get a chunk
of the bears breakfast for you" said
Spicer. and he walked closer TO the
cage ana began fishing with a long pole
for the meat. The dog followed close
at his heels and stood looking through
| the iron bars.
Is Suddenly he sprang forward and be-
| fore the keeper could stop him had
/ squeezed between the bars and was in
| side the cage. DR.. hansen had been
watching the whole performance. He
! likes the sound of a human voice and
when the keeper had begun 20 talk 10
| the dog he had become interested
| Spicer expected 10 see the bear crush
| the life out of the dog at once. But
! instead
| Or. Nansen walked over TO where the
| dOS was squatting on its haunche,
| chewing the hunk of meat. The dos
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-06-30
FIND MILLIONAIRE
IN GOTHAM HOTEL

NEW YORK, June 30.-Newton Ben
nington, the millionaire turfman, who
was reported 10 have escaped from DR..
Combes sanitariUm at Corona, L. l.,
was found by the police at the Hotel
Imperial, Thirty-second street and
Broadway, today, and taken to the
West Thirtietn street station.
Bennington had gone to the Imperial
in the night, and was registered under
his own name He accompanied the DO
lice without any protestation to the sta
ton, where he Is being held to await
the arrival OF Mrs. Bennington. Sha
reached the institution at Corona from
Newburg after he had left.