The Atlantian (Atlanta, Ga.) 19??-current, June 01, 1911, Image 22
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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