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22 THE: AT L ANT IAN-' TELL HER SO. Why, John, to be sure you love her, yes, And Molly, she knows it well, But why don’t you now, as In olden days, Lour love and your loyalty tell? Do you ever now steal from her lips ' a kiss Like you did in the long ago, And fondle the hand that is wrinkled now And say, “Dear, I love you so”? In business,'old man, you know it is true You may work real hard to get— You have to work harder and closer you do, To keep what you make you bet, And, too, in religion the rule’s the same. You man win a good Christian’s place, But it’s constant care and an endless prayer To keep you from falling from grace So, John, old man, ’cause you’ve won your wife, Don’t rest on your oars a mite, But make love to her the same old way— It’ll add to her joy a sight; So tell her she’s lovlier still to you Than all the world; then go And call her “old sweetheart” once more—yea do— And say, “Dear, I love you so." light brown in color, that are known in the locality aB “pinnacles.” These pinnacles are difficult to break even with a heavy sledge hammer. The center of the sump is soft. It is composed of a livid muck, in many places covered with yellow brackish water. On account of this soft center pass age over the marsh is extremely dan- valley at the south end and blow Senator Nathan B. Scott had his north over the sizzling surface of the sump. With every drop of moisture roasted out, they reach the upper end, dry as a furnace blast. The 1891 weather bureau party made record of one day at Furnace Creek ranch when the humidity of the atmosphere drop ped to 7 per cent. North of the ranch on the marsh it is asserted the air at times in August has zero humidity. No record chemical analysis of the muck of the sump seems to exist, but during the work of a borax company at the north end it was found to be composed of salt, soda and borax. Though soundings have been made of the marsh in a crude way, no depth has ever been found. The ljongest pole vanishes without a hint of the bottom. A weight is said to have car ried down 200 feet of line without a stop. Viewed near or far, the sump is the striking picturesque landmark of the region. From the summit of Funeral range it glares beneath the evil Death valley sun as a flood of molten steel. Standing on a moonlight night in its midst it seems a frozen, choppy sea sprinkled with snow. Viewed near or far, the sump is the striking picturesque landmark of the region. From the summit of Funeral range it glares beneath the evil Death valley sun as a flood of molten steel. Standing on a moonlight night in its midst it seems a frozen, choppy sea sprinkled with drifted snotv. memory turned back to childhood days during a recent illness. Consulting an eminent specialist, he was furnish ed with a bullet tied to a string. He was told to swallow the bullet and tie the other end of the string to the buttonhole of his nightshirt, and not remove either until next morning. “That was the worst night I ever had," said the Senator in telling the story. “Every time I moved that string would jerk and pull and kept me awake most of the night. It brought to my mind something that happened when I was a small boy and I had not not thought of for sixty years. I tied a string to a kernel of corn and tied a piece of paper on the other end of the string. Then I left it where an old gander could get it, and he swallowed the corn. As soon as it was down the piece of paper be gan to get close to him and he began to veer away from it. As he tried to get away the papei; followed him, and the gander began to shy and run, only to be chased by the piece of paper. “It was fun for a small boy, and I enjoyed it; but when I had that bullet in my stomach and the string in my mouth it was altogether different. I knew then just how that old gander felt, and I thought about him all night long."—St. Louis Republic. 3 With the Theatres 3 3rd Week DEATH VALLEY’S SALT SUMP. Easily the most prominent and dis tinctive feature of Death valley is the salt sump. This glaring white marsh covering the larger portion of the val ley floor is responsible for much of the region’s evil reputation and partic ularly some of its moBt notorious char acteristics. It goes a long way to ward singling Death valley out from the row of desert valleys in the vi cinity, says Popular Mechanics. This salt sump is the natural cis tern for a large desert area made up chiefly by the Ralston desert and Am- argossa desert. Death valley itself is the dry bed of the lowest of a cluster of lakes that once covered this portion of the desert. Consequently the drain age from these higher lake beds and the wash from the Funeral and Pana- mint mountain ranges have formed the Death valley marsh. Death valley, not including its north arm, known both as Lost valley and Mesquite valley, is about seventy miles long. It varies in width from ten to twenty miles from foothills to foothills. The sump covers perhaps one-half of this area. It extends al most the length of the valley. Its greatest width is close to eight miles. Near the middle of its length it is barely two miles across. Around the rim of the marsh the field is extremely hard and rough. It is made up at this portion of dirt and Balt dried into great Jagged chunks, W. L. ALCUTT, Member Board of Trustees and Committee of Adjustment At lanta and Columbus Division Southern Railway, and Mem ber of Div. 457, O. R. C. gerous and can be made in but few places. Across the north half are two trails for pedestrians, one leading from Furnace Creek ranch to Blackwater, in the Panamint mountains. Several foot-paths traverse it at the lower end of the valley in the neighborhood of Bennett’s Wells. Wagons can cross but one place, about midway, where a road was constructed during the days the borax industry worked the north end of the marsh. Death valley’s great heat reaches a maximum on the sump. William Mel lon of Boston and E. Brockington, a Panamint prospector, reported that in crossing the marsh in June, 1907, they caught 156 degrees with a black ther mometer. The intense heat on the marsh has its effect throughout the valley. While 122 degrees was the highest point attained in 1891, when the government maintained a meteor ological station at Furnace Creek ranch, 130 degrees has often been reached in other years durihg July and August. A thermometer hanging on the north side of the adobe house at the ranch is said to have registered 137 degrees one stifling day in 1883. The marsh unquestionably is respon sible for the valley’s exceptional arid ity. The dry winds from the Mojave and Amargossa valleys enter Death Little Emma Bunting AT THE COOL LYRIC ■■ "-IN POLLY PRIMROSE Matinee Tues., Thurs and Sat. “BIJOU” Popular Family Vaudeville House First run pictures. Best Vaudeville talent that money can procure at pop ular prices. May—Could you marry a girl with a picture face? Jack—Sure, if she had a pretty good frame. —The College Girls, at the Columbia Theatre. The Forsyth Atlanta’s Busy Theater where the crowds go. Matinee Dally “Lakewood in Full Blast” Billett & Classet in Charge— Dancing, Boating, Skating and Fishing All the Go. Lakewood in full blast. Dancing every afternoon and night, under the management of Prof. E. C. Classet Hundreds of the best people of the city throng the popular resort, one of the best bands in the city furnish music, the best order prevails at all times, and no one should be afraid to come with his family or bring his best girl. The coolest place In At lanta, -and everybody welcome. Keep your eye on Lakewood, and watch the