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The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-15

Three OF Them Amuse the Passengers
on an interburban Line in
Connecticut.

Passengers on the car leaving this
city one afternoon were treated to a
pretty sight at the rock cut below
Egypt Brook on the Derby line when
three large deer raced ahead of the fast
running car for over 300 yards, leav-
ing the tracks when the car got SO
close that the fender touched the
hind legs of the last deer.
Motorman j. l.. Mcclure came upon
the deer suddenly as the car rounded
sharp turn in the rock cut and
sounded his gong. The deer stood
still for moment and MCGUIRE rut
on his brakes, as he was afraid that
he would strike them. He blew the
air whistle and the three were off in a
jiffy, running ahead of the car at full
speed. Mcclure then followed while
the passengers aboard the car
crowded into the front end to watch
the deer. They ran gracefully to-
gether, but could not get OF the tracks
as there is very steep declivity on
the right hand side and the bank ran
up too steep on the left to permit them
to get off the right of way.
Finally they came to spot where
they could leave and one after the
other they jumped into the under
brush on the uphill side. The last
deer fingered SO long by the side of
the track that the fender brushed it's
heels as 1t leaped aside.
Two of the deer were fair sized
while the third was one of the largest
seen by the trolleymen in their expert
ence along that line. Deer are rather
common in the Beacon Falls section
of the run and they are frequently
seen by early morning trolley crews.
Harry Hogan, conductor of the car,
said that although he has seen many
deer on the trolley tracks In that
section, these seemed less afraid of
the car than any.-Waterbury Re-
publican.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-15
BROTHERS HoRRlD THINGS
Dinner for the Eminent German
Count Was Successful Until
They Spoiled II.

The Jones girl had been abroad and
had come home cultivated. The Jones
family bore it with a resigned pride
until they learned that the eminent
Baron Acknowledgement, recently ar
rived in Harlem from the upper cir
cles of Berlin, was coming to dine.
We've lived twenty-seven years
in Harlem and this hasn't happened
BEFORE" said Mrs. Jones. II feel as
though didn't know just where to
begin"
Begin with the oysters" said
Jane, ''as usual. Only father must
speak to the boys. 1 don't want the
baron to acquire a Grass opinion of
American youth"
The night of the baron's dinner
came. Mrs. Jones appeared in old lace
and nervous expression, Mr.. Jones
unduly reminiscent of the time he
met Carl Schurz and the boys solemn
and slick in their tuxedos and silent
as craven images. Evidently father
had spoken to the boys.
AS for the baron, he was all plump
piHhhCSS anu dPpOCAIo' OuIlu6 bAAO
oysters he made one remark. Gut"
said he. During the soup he made
one remark: Gut" said he. Dur
ing the fish he made one remark:
"Ach, GUT" During the roast he
repeated himself "Ach, Gut!" But
with the salad the eminent baron
varied his refrain. Zach, gut, gut!"
said he.
Then the boys broke their silence.
In chorus they said: Pass 1t to him
again"
And what is the use of being
cultivated" said the Jones girl after
ward. What is the use when you
have New York Evening
Sun
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-15
Cement Gun.

There is cement gun which is
used to apply mortar covering to
structural steel work. A mixture Of
dry sand and cement is shot from a
nozzle by compressed air. A second
hose delivers to the same nozzle q
supply of water under pressure, and
the mixture of sand, cement and wa
ter is shot out with velocity of about
three hundred and fifty feet per Sec
ond. The nozzle is arranged to pro-
duce a thorough wetting of the ma
terial. AS the mixture strikes the
surface to be covered the coarse sand
grains rebound until the fine cement
mortar, which adheres Immediately,
has formed plastic base in which
the coarse PARTICLES become embedded.
A covering of required thickness is
then rapidly built up.
One of these guns has been used in
the Panama canal In covering the
sides of the Culebra cut with cement
to prevent the unstable earth from
sliding into the canal-Harper's
Weekly.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-15
Floating Farms of China.

Like the wood merchants of north
ern Russia, who carry their wood on
great RATS to Nijni-Novgorod, Kazan,
and Astrakhan, the farmers of the up
per and central regions along the
Yang-ste-Kiang construct RATS COW
ering as much as two acres of surface,
and on the RATS they establish farms
where produce grows. On these great
floating farms are habitations for the
men and stables for the animals, pig
pens, feed-barns, and storehouses
well stocked with provisions. The
voyage to market is often one thou
sand miles, and to employ their time
on the slow journey the dwellers on
the RATS make baskets and many OBJ
jects Of household use. Arrived at
their destination, they sell their prod
uce, take apart and sell the rats,
and return to their homes by the ways
used by ordinary travelers.-Harper's
Weekly.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-15
CARELESS WITH SHIP NAMES
Americans Pronounce Them IN Most
Extraordinary Ways, According
to a Critical Traveller.

els it not curious that some stand
ard of pronunciation of names Is not
adopted in New York, particularly IN
hotels?' asked traveller the other
day. Il have in mind, particularly,
the pronunciation of the big Cunard-
er that locked ! had friends arrlV-
ing on her, and had occasion toI
make many inquiries about when
they would probably reach the hotei,
have jotted down the various pro-
nunciations / have heard in the last
twenty-four hours in this hotel. Eacn
time pronounced the name correctly
in making the inquiry.
"One room clerk made it Mewre-
tania. Another called it Mauretanny.
IN information clerk dubbed 1t
Marytanny. A porter spoke of the
ship as the Mowretania. The mead
bellboy was authority for Murrytania-
The head waiter talked about the
Mortianna, and, l assure you, | have
heard at least half dozen other
variations or combinations of these.
when / was in Paris last sum-
mer and had gone to the Care St
Lazare to take the train for the
Olympic at Cherbourg. asked man
who was obviously an American
which steamer a lot of people were
going to take who were standing near
another gate.
"'The Sicily he said, or what
sounded like it. could not think
of any ship of that name, unless a
new Italian vessel had come out, and
I could not imagine how an Italian
ship could be sailing from Cherbourg.
1t was not until / had seen the name
on a baggage label that l realized that
the other crowd was going on the
Kronprinzessin Cecilie. We Amer
leans are so careless in our pronun-
! citation of proper names"
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-15
Man Made Of Horseshoes.

Some years ago Mr.. Douglas, the
village smith of Eleensburg, Wash,
set to work to construct a giant figure
of a man out of the old horseshoes
which he accumulated in the course
of his work. Up to date he has com
pleted the legs, which are composed
of no fewer than thirty-fve thousand
shoes. Mr. Douglas is beginning to
wonder if he will ever finish the figure,
as the coming of the motor has had
an appreciable effect upon the shoe
ing trade and materials for this quaint
colossus are not coming in SO fast as
they used to do. The smiths horse
shoe man." even in its incomplete
form, is one of the sights of the town
Wide World
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-15
Oscar to Emulate carneoIe.

Where Andrew Carnegie has given
library buildings and books l shall
build opera houses and give music.
Mine Is the greater work. l shall
give pleasure and build character and
make of the world of my children
caildren better place in which to
live. While Mr.. Carnegie and Mr..
Rockefeller are giving of their idle
wealth. l am giving the public some
thing that is part of myself. l am
giving my mind and my very life.
They give directly in the form of
money; l give indirectly in the form
Of my knowledge, my experience, and
my genius. if you will. for
l have it. From my efforts come hap
piness and prosperity for others Ger.
tainly l am doing better work than
is either Mr.. Carnegie or Mr.. Rookie
felier.-Oscar Hammerstein in the
Worlds Work Magazine.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-15
Ny FavOrlte Love Scenes.

1t find it matter of great difficulty
to select one particular love-scene as
my favorite, writes Ellen Terry in the
Strand. | can at least say, however
that l have ever felt the deepest af-
lection and admiration for the pas
sage in Romeo and Juliet in which
Juliet makes apology for her maiden
holiness
My reason for selecting this partic-
ular passage is that it serves to show
to the full the perfect refinement and
delicacy of Shakespeare's conception
Of tho female character. In this pas
sage-and indeed. in all the rest
Juliet's heart, fiuttering between Joy,
hope and fear, seems to regulate her
speech in so beautiful a manner that
the thought instinctively crosses ones
mind that here, at least, the feelings
OF youth and OF the spring are blended
together like the breath OF opening
flowers. ,s.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-15
LIKE MUSEUM OF FIREARMS
Weapons Taken From West Virginia.
Coal Mine Strikers Include
FIintIocks of 76.

A motley and interesting collectionl
of firearms has resulted from the dis
arming of strikers in the coal mineI
district of West Virginia, where mar
tial law has been declared by Governor
Glasscock The arms taken from theI
guards hired by the mine operatorsl
are commonplace enough-hundredsI
Of Winchester repeaters with boxes
of the ammunition for them. But the
other pile takes one back to the days.
of the minute men.
There were old English fowlingI
pieces of beautiful workmanship;
Kentucky rifles with barrels six feet
long; fiintlock muskets that probably
did good service in 1776; Sharp's
rifles like those that the free sellers
carried into Bleeding Kansas" in
'58; a dozen varieties of carbines-
Burnsides, Maynards, Spencers and
others such as the troopers of '61-'65
knew how to WELD so well, and mod
ern military rifles, effective weapons
that are now sold for few dollars
apiece by many department stores as
a result of the war departments pol
icy of selling discarded firearms at
auction. Among the old pieces are
guns by such famous makers as Ty-
ron and Deringer of Philadelphia,
Sutherland of Richmond and Balti-
more and others of seventy-five or
one hundred years ago, to whom gun
making was a fine art.-Springf1eld
Republican.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-15
Aa TO SneIIin0

Consolation for people whose SPELL
Ing is faulty was contained in the ad-
dress delivered recently by Sir James
Donaldson, principal of st. Andrews
university, to the education section of
the British association in Dundee.
Nothing like our spelling existed any
where, he said. Other nations had
phonetic spelling, but we were terri
bly, behind other nations. 1--WE are
slaves of the printers. If we do not
spell according to them, they change
us over and over again-and there is
no redress" The right way for teach
ers was not to regard spelling as q
valuable exercise at all. Everyone
should be allowed to spell as they
liked, just as Shakespeare did, just as
our ancestors did. and just as many
parents of the present day would like
their children to learn.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-15
YOUNG PRINCES OF INDIA
Extravagance and Luxury That Sur.
round the Future Rulers of
That Eastern Land.

A sketch in st. Nicholas tells Amer
lean boys and girls, under the title Of
His Highness the Young Rajah,"
about the lives of some of the future
rulers of India.
1T is almost impossible for an
American boy or girl to imagine the
extravaganza and luxury that sur
round some of these young princes"
says Mabel Alberta Spicer, author of
the sketch. Servants attend them
night and day. fan them, dress them
and obey their slightest wish If a
wind stirs while they sleep, curtains
are drawn that they may not be dis
turbed. When they drive out, a
mounted escort accompanies them,
and all the people salaam as they
pass. Once, when taking tea with a
rajah In his garden, ] was amused TO
notice that, as he moved about among
his guests, servant followed carry
ing cup which he kept always with
in reach of his masters hand The
rajah would take sip Of tea, and
with perfect unconcern set his cup
down in mid air. With unfaiIing dex-
terity the saucer was placed under it
by the servant in time to avoid acct
dent. One prince had, suspended
from the ceiling, silver couch which
was kept gently swaying while he
slept or read. Another had a beauti-
full vine-covered arbor where artificial
rain was made to fall, while the nabob
sat under marble canopy in the Gen.
ter, cool and refreshed, with the rest
of the world broiling about him"
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-15
Moving pictures in Education.

moving Pictures IN EDUCATION
The use of moving pictures in edu-
cation has had real impetus in Ger
man official circles, according to infor-
imation recently received at the Uni
ted States bureau of education. The
Prussian ministry of education is con-
sidering the feasibility of employing
cinematograph films in certain
courses in higher educational institu-
tons. A number Of film manufac-
turers are having an opportunity to
show what films they have that are
adapted to educational purposes.
A philanthropist has recently given
two fully equipped moving picture
machines to the schools of Berlin.
One is to be used in the continuation
institute for higher teachers and the
other in the high schools of Greater
Berlin.
Moving-picture films are now avail
able in Germany for anatomical, bio
logical and archaeological courses.
The manufacturers are confident that
an enormous field for their products
will be opened up when educators
realize the value of moving-pictures
in education.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-15

Knights of the grip will appreciate
this yarn, which la told of one of their
number. He had been summoned as
a witness In a case at court, his en-
ployers having sued a delinquent GUS
toner, and the lawyer for the defense
was cross-examining him.
you travel for Hooque G. Crooque
company, do your" asked the at
torney.
Yes, sir"
How long have you been doing it?"
About ten years"
Been travelling all that time, have
your"
well, no, sir" replied the witness,
making a hasty mental calculation;
mot actually travelling. have put
In about four years OF that time wait
ing at railway stations, functions and
watering tanks for trains"
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-15
SAMPLE OF CzAR'S JUSTICE
Frightened BY Soldier With Petition,
He Furnishes Him and His SUI
perIor Officers.

Details of an extraordinary scene
which took place while the car was
inspecting troops near Moscow re-
Gently are now leaking out. While
his imperial majesty was passing
down the lines of the Second In
fantry regiment, private of the
Fourth company suddenly stepped out
of line, threw down his rifle and
rushed up to the car to hand him a
petition. At first 1t was believed that
an attempt was being made on the
cars life, and officers standing by
threw themselves upon the man. It
was ascertained, however, that the
tition, stating that he had been
forced to serve in the army instead of
his brother, who had not drawn the
free ticket. He was placed under ar
rest.
The car was greatly annoyed at
the occurrence. and ordered the pun
ishment of all the officers connected
with the regiment. The chief COM
mander of the military district has re-
ceived a severe note, the commander
of the army corps a caution, the
commander of the Second Infantry
regiment service reprimand. The
commander of the battalion to which
the company belongs has been asked
to retire, and the captain of the COM
pany and the officer of the mans de-
tachment have been dismissed from
the service. The man himself has
received thirty days imprisonment,
but it is stated that his grievance
will be inquired into.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-15
"speIIIna Without Drudaerx."

Miss Haynes, Boston school teach
er, should have a monument raised to
her memory by the boys and girls of
the world. She has devised a way Of
teaching spelling without drudgery.
Her pupils range from five to six
years, and she has made each one of
them to represent letter of the al
phabet, and the class spends It's time
in playing game called putting the
letters together" The consonants are
all cousins, and the vowels are either
short brothers or long brothers, repre-
senting the different pronunciations
of the letters. The child who repre-
sents doubled wears a green coat be-
cause of the pigeons that COO in the
green trees. There is hint from
which the whole game may be con-
structed
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-15
! WHY THE LEAF FALLS
As Explained by the Scientists, This
II q Complex and interesting
Proceeding.

TO most people the fall OF the
leaves does not. apparently, excite
sYuch establishment or curiosity. The
ayes die. and hence fall that is all
here is about it. But the scientist
nows that the proceeding Is high
complex one. In the first place,
Preparations for the leaf-fall begin
the minute the leaf is formed, and in
many cases the leaf falls while yet
freGn and green. In 175S a botanist
named Duhamel advanced the theory
that the change was caused by the
rupture of thin texture between the
Leaf and the stem In the middle OF
the nineteenth century there was dis
covered, traversing the leaf-stalk and
touching the stem, a. layer of cork
ISSUE analogous to that of bark on
the tree. 1t was recognized at once
As interfering with the continuity be-
tween stem and leaf The formation
of this layer, however, Is not general,
and is not observed in certain ferns.
In the beech tree, the poplar and
many others. Nevertheless. this dis
novery furnished the key to the
phenomenon. The leafstalk is form
cd of strata of cellular tissue. One
pf these strata hardens and tends to
being absorbed, and consequently on
one side or on both, the other strata
gradually grow together. The leaf
1 then adheres to the stem only by
hbrous, woody tissue-that is to say,
by tissue to all intents and purposes
| dead This is broken mechanically on
4 the impulse of the wind or under the
pressure of the weight of the stem,
and makes the leaf fall These Or
gans have not in them the strength
TO sustain the cold during the winter,
and the tree dispenses with them
Harper's Weekly.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-15
Wireless on KINGS Auto.

A deputation from the Spanish
Wireless Telegraph company recently
waited on King Alfonso to beg him
to accept a magnificent motor car to
which is attached very perfect and
complete apparatus of wireless in
that will enable him to com.
municate with any one he pleases
wherever he may be by means OF
autobiography
The king accepted the gift with de-
light, examined the car and apparatus
with great interest and began to use
1t Immediately. waiting congratula-
tions to Premier Canalejas on the
birth Of little daughter that day.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-15

A Salvation army officer, brilliant
in red sweater, said:
THE late General Booth had host
of temperance stories-some to make
you weep, some to make you smile.
"Of the latter sort was a story about
q little boy who entered a saloon.
placed pitcher on the bar, and de-
manded a quart of beer.
81 can't sell you quart OF beer,
ssid the bartender. You're too young.
Tell your mother she'll have to come
for 1t herself
It amt for mother said the little
boy. It's for father-and he's a
teetotaler and don't want mother to
know"
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-15
Free shavIno.

Two local hairdressers having de-
clined to advance the price of shave
from penny to three halfpenoe the
Walsall branch of the Federation Of
Hairdressers has decided to open free
shaving saloons as near as possible to
the two BARRIERS shops. Other hair
dressers who may suffer financial loss
from the free saloons will be compen-
stated and subscription list has been
opened to help the association in its
action.---London Daily Mail
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-15
Aerial Shooting.

The English army ia getting ready
to greet aerial invaders by making It's
marksmen proficient in the art of
shooting at moving targets In midair.
The target consists of the model of a
flying machine, made about half-size.
which is passed rapidly over the
heads of the marksmen by a wire
The machine carried dummy pilot"
and recently this was struck by a
bullet at an equivalent distance of
1000 feet and another shot struck the
machine, but missed the pilot.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-15
hURING THEIR PET PUSSY
How Two London Ladies' Persuaded
the Persian Cat to Descend
From a Tree.

/ was coming home rather late
from the theater the other night, says
Robin GoodfeIlow, and all was quiet
as / walked down beneath the trees
in our modest suburban road. Then,
4 quite suddenly, | came upon a roman
tic little scene in the front garden
of one of the most respectable of the
villas.
Beneath two tall trees a fire of
sticks had been lighted, and over 1t
bent the shivering forms of two
young ladies in evening dress. l no.
ticed, to nay surprise. that one of
the ladies had a frying pan in her
hands, and an appetlzing smell of
bacon rose into the air. | wondered
whether these two products of city
civilization were playing at the sim
pie life; but the next day I found
the incident had more prosaic ex-
PLANTATION.
The favorite Persian cat had been
missed during the evening, and at
length had been located In the upper
boughs of one of the trees. All bland
ishments failed to persuade her to
come down, and yet her owners re-
fused to lock her out for the night.
AT last they remembered that she
would always make her way into the
Kitchen in the morning and sit
smiling at the frizzllng bacon, and
they decided to fry some bacon at
the bottom of the tree to attract her.
! believe that after half an hour
over the fire the ruse succeeded, at
the cost OF two bad colds-London
Telegraph.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-15

Albert Bigelow Paine, the biograph.
er of Mark Twain. was talking to a
group Of old newspaper cronies in
New York.
Mark Twain loved the Germans, ("
he said He especially loved the pom
derous German bull, which he con-
sidered far superior to the bull of Ire
land.
"Ile used to quote with approba.
ton this bull from a Reichstag ora.
ton:
ITO squeeze the juice out Of lem.
on and then give it kick-no, 1t is
too much"
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-15
ThIrteen-Inch Bore.

A retired naval officer spent a week
end at Magnolia, Mass, where he
wearied circle OF newly made
friends by his never ending prattle of
colorless "reminiscences. After he had
retired for the night Judge advocate
who had known him for some years
remarked to the group:
"Wa call him the 13inch gun"
WHY" asked a lady from Chi.
cage.
Well. madam, he is as big q bore
as We ever had in the navy"