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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1909-07-22
Strict Sabbatarians,

Dean Ramsay knew of Sabbath
rians among his countrymen even
stricter than those who almost
killed" a man for whistling and
looking happy on Sunday. There
was the countryman who, asked by
an English artist to tell him the
name of a local ruined castle, re-
piled, Its no the day to be speer-
ing sic things" And there was the
cook whose kitchen was provided
with fine new roasting jack which
never stopped. On Sunday her mis-
tress found it put out of action, and
the cook explained that "she was nae
gazing to haze the fule thing clack-
ing and rinning about in her kitchen
a the blessed Sabbath day." But
over some things even Scottish Sab
batarians had no power. A henwife,
selling her fowls. remarked, en-
deed, my Teddy, they lay every dav,
no excepting the blessed Sabbath"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1909-07-22

The man with the freckles on his
nose glanced carelessly over the
morning paper which the man with
the barbed wire beard had thought
fully subscribed for.
"Will you"-
The landlady spoke his name with
infinite sweetness, for she fondlv
hoped he would pay his board after
supper.
have some oyster stew ?'
The man with the freckles on his
nose tilted back his chair in de-
fance of the laws of etiquette and
gravitation.
"No, thank YOU
A faraway look came into his eyes.
Pm not thirsty"
1t is matter of conjecture wheth-
er it was emotion or stage fright
that caused the man with the yellow
whiskers to sneeze so violently that
ne upset the salt cellar.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1909-07-22
French Tact.

A pleasant story is told of how
one of the Dukes de Nivernois show
ed himself willing to forgive and
forget. His olive branch was ex-
tended with characteristic French
wit and grace.
The Count de Tressan was elected
to the French academy in 1880. He
was surprised to learn that the Duke
de Nivernois, whose enemy he had
been and against whom he had once
directed scathing epigram, had
spoken in his favor. He FASTENED
to call on him and thank him.
The conversation turned on gen
eral subjects, and De Tressan found
no opportunity to refer to the past
or to make the embarrassed apology
which he would no doubt have Of
fered but for his hosts tact. Just
as he was leaving the duke said,
with mischievous but kindly smile
"Ah, monsieur, You see how in
growing old l have lost my mem
DRY
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1909-07-22
NHo vas WRONG?
A Lawynr's Opinion on a Lease and a
Courts Decision.


Some years ago an attorney was
ealled in bysa large company and
handed a lease.
Give US your opinion, said the
president. We have great deal
of this sort of legal business, and it
IS only fair to say that your opinion
may mean much to us and to your
SELF
The lawyer went through the
document with some care, but quick
ly and on the spot.
'.Um-will YOU tell me what firm
drew up this instrument % he asked
at length.
NO firm at ALL" was the reply.
For five years we have drawn every
lease made by our company right in
this office. Ny subordinate here.
Mr.. Johns, is the only man we have
ever found who thoroughly under
stands the complications and condi-
tons of such transactions as we en-
ter into"
The attorneys face frightened.
"This is one of the best drawn
leases | have ever examined" he
said heartily. "You are wise to
handle such matters inside your own
organization. ] commend your bust
ness judgment"
"Can you suggest any improve
ments ?"
'sNone whatever" declared the
lawyer.
"Can you discern any flaws?"
"No-emphatically! Mr.. Johns"
continued the attorney, turning to
the presidents assistant, 81 want to
congratulate YOU, as LAWYER, upon
your thorough grasp of this most
difficult branch. In my opinion this
instrument is unassailable. 1t will
hold in the highest court of this
state"
"That is what we want-your
honest opinion" said the president.
"You have given it, and we are
much obliged to you and shall be
pleased to have bill for your serv-
Ice. My dear sir, the highest court
IN the state declared this lease null
and void last week, and we lost a
$4,000 suit upon it"-Circle Mag
azine.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1909-07-22
Two Faced Meanness.

"Talk about mean men," said the
retired professional burglar; 81 met
one one night that beats them all.
cit was like this. | was Just pack
ing up some of the silverware from
the dining room sideboard when he
stole softly downstairs and had his
gun at my head before [ was aware
of his presence. I pleaded with him
to let me go and promised to re-
form.
"But he had no mercy and march
ed me straight to the pantry, where
seven large pies doomed up before
me.
"'Do you see those pies? he said.
Then eat every one of Them and
he pressed the cold steel to my head.
That man was so mean that he ac-
tually made me eat those seven pies.
When | had finished he released me,
and [ didn't even get credit for the
feat, for as | passed under his bed
room window | heard him say:
Yes, dear, | was so hungry and
your pies were so good that / could
not stop until they were all gone"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1909-07-22
A Borneo Parasite.

A famous rarity in the vegetable
world of Borneo is the rafiesia, the
buah pakmah of Malays. The plant
is one of the most degraded of para
sites, and so completely does it sub
merge itself in the tissues of its host
that the only part which ever shows
itself to the external world is the
enormous flower. The diameter of
the flower measures about two feet.
The odor is repulsive, and there is
not one feature of beauty to recon-
mend it to man. 1t appears, how
ever, to hold an important place in
the pharmacopoeia of the natives,
who perhaps imagine that the plant
to which nature has given so unin-
viting an exterior must possess some
hidden virtue in the way of compen-
sation. Various species Of raffiesia
are known in Borneo, and, oddly
enough, their hosts are invariably
species of vine (cissus).
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1909-07-22
Ancient lnkstands.

An inkstand that was probably in
use 3,400 years ago is in museum
in Berlin. 1t is of Egyptian make
and is supposed to belong to the
eighteenth or nineteenth dynasty or
somewhere about 1900 3. c., al
though its real age can only be judg-
ed of approximately. 1t is made of
wood and has two compartments, an
upper one provided with two holes,
one for black and one for red ink
and a lower one for holding reed
pens. The black and the red inks
are certainties, for some still re-
mains, in a dry condition, within
the receptacles. Another ancient
inkstand is supposed to have been
intended for the use of schoolboy.
1t would certainly hold ink enough
for a schoolboy's needs, for it has no
fewer than four ink holes. Both
snkstands were found at Thebes.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1909-07-22
ABOVE THE CLOUDS.
A Rallocn Ascent into the Oceans of
Air, Where Silence Reiqns.

Aid, Where Silence Reigns.
You are floating softly upward
into a great blue ocean OF air. fresh.
sweet, eyhilarating. Swiftly the
earth sinks away beneath YOU, bowl
ing up around the horizon line till
it seems like the mouth of an enor-
nous crater. The noisy shouts OF
Bon voyagew die away in faint,
wavering strain. and soon you are in
the midst of original silence. Not a
sound is heard save the quick tick
ing of the Paragraph.
The earth changes into great,
strange map. Tall buildings look
like pepper boxes and then are lost
in the general squatness. Cities and
villages become mere diffused out
lines of ground plots. Fences change
into tiny, evanescent lines. Roads
look like pale yellow ribbons and
rivers like silver cracks in the
earth's surface.
Over there is a thin white streak
of smoke weaving its length over
the green vista. A train is rushing
along. Suddenly it is gone, swal-
lowed up, it would seem, in that
strange looking earth. But, no. 1t
has merely plunged into a tunnel
beneath a towering mountain, the
very presence of which is lost to the
balloonist's eye.
Now you pass above the clouds
and into dazzling sunlight. The
white pillows beneath, with the
shadow of the car upon them, look
like great trackless fields of snow.
So realistic is the scene it seems as
if you could put on snowshoes and
walk away.
You are on new planet now,
reused with a wonderful exhilara-
ton. Beautiful rainbow effects Gre
ate veritable fairyland all about
you. Suddenly faint, weird music
of sweetest cadence strikes the ear
and is gone as swiftly as it came.
That is some great, jarring noise
from the earth or the heterogene-
GUS roar of big city merged into
measured vibrations of harmony and
waited up to your new world by
some upspringing current of air
Leo Stevens in New York Herald.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1909-07-22
"Next sawbath, No sawbatb."

Ecclesiastical Curiosities,' edited
by Mr.. William Andrews, contains a
paper on Curious Announcements
In Church." from which the follow
ing are extracts:
Next Sawbath," said a worthy
Scotch beadle, ''we shall have no
Sawbath, for the minister's house is
having spring cleaning, and as the
weather is very bad the minister's
wife wants the kirk to dry things
in"
Next Sunday" declared the un-
consciously amusing Welshman,
"therell be no Sunday, as we're GO
ing to whitewash the church with
yellow ocher."
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1909-07-22
Tennyson In PLAYFUL Mood.

Tennyson's simplicitywould some
times find vent in almost boyish
freaks. One evening, at Earring
ford, he was seized with the idea
that he would like to dress up one
of Mrs. Cameron's nieces in the
garb of man. He got one of his
own long coats from the hall and
with burned cork disfgured her
pretty face, daubing upon it a heavy
black mustache and imperial, and
then retreated to the other side of
the room to gaze with manifest de-
light upon the result of his handi-
work. - From "Some Early Victo-
rians," by J. Comyns Carr.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1909-07-22
He Knew Her Name.

A Scotch minister was once cate
chising his young parishioners be-
fore the congregation when he put
the usual first question. to girl
whose father kept public house.
what is your name" queried
the minister. But there was no re-
ply The question was repeated,
and then, to the amusement Of the
congregation, the girl answered:
"Nane o your fun, Mr.. Minister.
4e ken my name weel enough. Dye
10 say when We come to oor house
on a night, Bet, bring me some
ale p"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1909-07-22
OLD FASHIONED SHOOTING.
The Record Of Lord Malmesbury and |
Slow Firing Guns.

The second Lord Malmesbury, be-
side being one of the best shots OF
his day. was without question the
most painstaking and careful chron-
icler of his sport who ever fred q
gun. For forty seasons, ending
with the year 1910, he kaTt a rec
ord of every cartridge he1R Fred and
the result of the shot-a feat which
may have a parallel, but is hardly
likely to be beaten. He fired in ali
54,987 shots and accounted for 49,
Asa head of game, besides $50
which he did not add to his figures !;
they were the birds he killed when
he hit more than one with the same
shot. As for walking, there never
was such an untiring pursuer Of
every bird and beast that could be
entered in game book. He calcu-
lated that he was out for four hours
day for ninety days in the year,
which made 14,480 hours walking
in forty years, and si5Se he walked
at the rate of two and half miles
an hour he remarks that in all he
must have covered $4,000 miles,
"very nearly once and a half the cir
conference of the globe" He was
never in bed for day and not thir-,
ty days confined to the house bv ac
cident or illness, though, to be sure,
his violent exercise affected his
heart, and he died at sixty-four.
The list of his hits and misses are
particularly interesting when YOU
compare his records of shots at birds
like snipe and woodcock, which were
as difficult to hit in his day as they
are in ours, with the kind of figures
which would be likely or possible
with modern guns. In the season
1890, for instance, Lord NAL
mesbury fired eighty-three shots at
woodcock and bagged forty-fve, and
out of All shots at snipe he actual
ly got 216, which is somewhat better
than one out of two. Any snipe
shot today would be pleased with
record of three out of five, taking
the wilder, twistier snipe of late au-
tumn and winter with the home
bred snipe killed in August and Sep
TENDER. You read these records
and those of men like John Mvtton,
who would make a point of invari-
ably killing fifty brace of partridges
to his own gun on the first dav of
the season, and wonder how with
their slow firing guns and their bad
shot patterns they managed to kill
even one bird in four. GA gun
never shoots twice alike" Colonel
Hawker wrote, and he shot with the
best guns he could buy. How did
they manage it?
Somehow, with guns which their
great-grandchildren would not bur
den keeper with. they did contrive
to shoot as well as we do, and some
how the pictures made of them
while they were shooting give you
the idea that they enjoyed the
shooting more.-London Spectator.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1909-07-22
What They Wer. poinn.

There is a government official in
Washington to whom an unneces-
sary or inane question is as a red
rag to a bull.
Last summer he made his usual
trip to Europe. On the first day out
from New York he was strolling on
the promenade deck when suddenly
there appeared before him man
whom he had not seen for years.
"Why, professor exclaimed the
man. '"To meet you, of all men,
Are you going across?"
Eyes" growled the professor
"Are you ?"-.Harper's Weekly.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1909-07-22
LOST CLASSICS.
Not One Work CT Menander or Varro
Remains to Us.


What with barbarism, religious
intolerance and Indifference, little
could have remained to us of the
literatures of Greece and Rome but
for their almost inexhaustible
wealth.
Of Sappho we possess only an ode
or two and quoted fragments. Her
works were burned in the eleventh
century by order of the great Hill
debrand. Addison says by way of
consolation that they were filled
with such bewldering tenderness
and rapture it might have been
dangerous to give them a reading.
OF 108 comedies of Greek domes-
tic life, the work of Menander, a
writer whose field was never occu-
pied by anybody else and whose
purity of style Plutarch declares to
have been surpassed by Homer
alone, not even what may be called
a fragment remains. Stray lines are
quoted here and there. Twenty,
four of the plays are known to have
existed until the seventeenth cen.
fury, when they were erased from
their rolls to make space for the
works of an ecclesiastical writer.
OF the 276 dramas of the great
Greek tragedians, Aeschylus, sophie
cles and Euripides, only thirty-two
are possessed by the world today.
The brilliant Livy, to whom Ma
caulay, among moderns, is often lik-
ened, wrote 14O volumes or rolls of
his annals" of Rome. OF these
only thirty-fve remain to us.
Of the thirty historical volumes
of Tactitus we have four.
Of Pliny the elder, the sole great
naturalist of the Roman race, but
one work has escaped destruction.
Varro, a Latin biographer, placed
by common consent beside the 9th
erwise Incompatible Plutarch, is to-
tally lost to us.
Of Caesars orations, for which
his contemporary fame was as great
as for his generalship or statesman
ship, not one Mas been preserved
Exchange.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1909-07-22

A letter written by a student in
the medical school of the University
of Michigan in 1853 tells of the
cost of living in those days. The
writer says:
at will cost me much more to
live in Ann Arbor than anticipated
owing principally to the high price
of provisions. l cannot tell vet
what it will cost to board myself,
but think that | cannot safely esti-
mate it at less than 81 per week for
provisions, besides room rent, fuel,
lights, ETC., which will swell the
amount to at least $3.50. The stu
dents generally, SO far as 1 have as
certained, pay from $3.50 to $1.75
per week for table board, and SO
seems to be about as low as good
board can be obtained, including
room, fuel, lights, etc. Michigan
Alumnus.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1909-07-22
A Lesson For the Inquisitive.


A train was just starting out from
Kings Cross when a shirt sleeved
man came rushing down the plat
form shouting, "Smith, Smith,
A man in one of the last car
riages, which was corridor one,
heard the shout and, being naturally
curious, put his head out of the win
dow. As he did so the man running
along the platform reached him
and struck him a hard blow in the
face. BY the time he had recov-
cred from his surprise the train was
outside the station, so he at once
summoned the car attendant.
"What kind of an outrage is
this?" he demanded of the attend
ant. "Here am |, an innocent pas
senger, sitting in this carriage Just
as the train pulls out of the station.
Suddenly some man runs down the
platform shriektng, Smith, Smith 2
| look out of the window, and he
reaches up and almost knocks my
head off. Now, | want to-
Pardon me-" interrupted the at
tendant. cts your name Smith %
"No. it isn't, and that is just what
makes
"Well, then, sir, what did YOU
look out of the window for? There
wasn't anybody calling you, was
re?'-London Taller.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1909-07-22
Poet and Creditor.

A Paris contemporary tells this
story about Joseph Merry, the
French poet: A creditor called one
morning early to ask payment of an
account. He interviewed the poet
in bed and expressed sorrow at hav-
ing to trouble him, but would he
settle the account. with pleasure, /"
replied Merry. "Have the goodness
to open the first drawer of that cab
met" 81 have, sir" replied the
creditor, "but there is nothing
there" Indeed? Well, try the
next" ''There is nothing in it"
'"That is strange. Try the third. +"
"There is nothing in there either"
fLook on the mantelshelf." "But
it is the same as the drawers" at
is increditable. Have you looked
on the table ?" eyes" "And in
the secretaire ?" eyes, and there is
nothing" ON my clothes ?" eyes;
l have turned out all the pockets"
"Ah, well" replied Merry, with the
greatest composure, IF there is no
money in the drawers or on the
mantel or on the table or in the sec
retaire or in my pockets, how in the
name of all that's wonderful can /
give you anything? ?"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1909-07-22
Her Diagnosis Correct.

Louise was just four years old
when one day she came to her moth
er and said, Mother, dear, rs SO
nervousw
Her mother, believing the child
was repeating words she had heard
some older person say, told her to
run on and play-that she was too
young to be nervous. But Louise
insisted, and her mother finally ask
ed her how it felt to be nervous. i
She answered, drawing her little
shoulders up and clinching her fists
tightly, 81 des feel in a hurry all
over me. "-Dehneator.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1909-07-22
Jokes Of the Enolish.

A well known comedian while in
Quebec was sightseeing with a
Tommy Atkins one day. They had
as companion and guide an old SOL
der.
When they at length reached the
Wolfe monument, which is on a
historic spot, Tommy said, "Wot's
this ?"
The guide replied, "'Ere's where
a great zero fell"
did hit 'urt i'm ?" asked Tom
my, who was thirsting for informa-
ton.
curt tint" was the reply. ivy,
hit killed i'm" - Los Angeles
Times.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1909-07-22
OUR CLUBBING OFFER.

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the Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal and
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for one year, for $l.75.
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The Marietta journal, the Atlantis
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The Marietta Journal is an eight page
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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1909-07-22
TEN PAGES.
THE COLORADO DESERT.
w Sound Carries and the Way Mi
RACES Come and Go.

RACES Come and Go.
Talk about wireless telephones
lie Colorado desert goes science
e better in that line. According
travellers in that neck of sand
d sagebrush, you can dispense
tn any kind of telephone, with or
shout wires, at least up 20 a GER
In distance.
Two men a mile apart can carry
a conversation in an ordinary
ne of voice, particularly if there
"opens to be small hill behind
ch, writes Harvey Hall Kessler in
e Travel Magazine. The prevail
K silence is so intense that it
light be called deafening.
Perhaps, after all, the weirdest
hong many strange features of the
esert is the mirage. We have
lmped perhaps and gone to bed
lrly in the evening with the Their
iometer registering not far below
lie hundred mark. We awake,
hivering with cold beneath our
lankets, and look toward the east.
There is the slightest suggestion
I light in the sky there, which as
e watch grows slowly in strength.
/ grayish haze marks the horizons
lge, which stands out more sharply
/ one point, from which broad,
ale rays creep up and out high
bove in the sky. These again
lowly fade as point of brilliant
lght appears at their base. This
loint grows to a half circle, then
freaks and runs along the sky line
a a surging, golden lake.
& Upon the shores of this lake
ities spring up, towers, spires and
Did blocks. These fade into fields
nd forests and farming scenes
ields Of golden grain, cattle stand
ng in green alfalfa, sheets of wa
,er The mountains near the edge
If the lake separate from their
bases and float upward, topple over
and stand on their heads, their I'M
aieldy feet in air.
Soon our lake begins to contract
and collect into big round bali of
brilliance hung just above
me horizon. Farms and forest dis
appear. The mountains, as though
ibashed at being caught in such an
lnseemly attitude by the broad
light of day, quickly resume their
aormal position, while all the stark
landscape stiffens into unstirring en-
lurance of the garish light and
blazing heat of the desert sun. The
mirage is gone like a bubble. Only
she gray desert remains.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1909-07-22
DINNER ann DARLING.
A Railway Incident Of Young Cou-
Pies Honeymoon Trip.


Still shedding an occasional trio
kle of rice from their garments
when they moved. a very young cou-
pie recently provided for a carfnl Of
bored trayelcrs the touch Of comedy
relief for long journey through a
fog dimmed landscape. The Youths
Companion tells the story;
They were SO very young, so very
fond, so very oblivious Of the pene-
trating quality of the whispers in
which they exchanged tender moth
ings, they had captured the amused
attention of the entire car. They
had been too occupied with each
other to remember to dine until the
train was rapidly nearing the place
where the dining car was to be drop
ped and where they were to leave
it for long drive by coach.
Then the young husband fastened
back to see if there was yet time to
snatch a mouthful, while the girl
wife began gathering their things
together, putting on her waterproof
and tying big blue veil over her
bridal hat.
Presently he returned, glanced
down the aisle, fixed an adoring
gaze upon gray waterproofed fig
ure with a blue veil halfway along it
and, dropping into the seat beside
her, said rapturously in a voice of
excellent carrying quality:
Darling, we can have an oyster
stew"
Waterproofs are deceptive things.
The gray figure turned, and rich
Irish voice replied:
"Darlin' | may be, sor-Ill niver
be denyin' the name I've often an
swered to-but I'm not the darlin'
yell be feedin' eyesters to, worse
luck. Yell find her three seats be-
yant."
He found her, rapidly, and the
irrepressible litter that followed
their exit in search Of oysters arous-
ed them suddenly to consciousness
of other inhabitants than loves and
doves, even in this rosiest of worlds.