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SEASON END CLEARANGE SALE!
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With a Cut in price of all Clothing and Furnishing Goods, all
that’s left here is yours at a small part of original cost.
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30,000 Stock Will Move Reoardless of Cost
All this seasofi’s Suits--Men’s, Young Men’s and Boys’. No old stock here, at 331-3 ;:cent. discount. This sale is
. stri_cfly for cash. No goods will be charged at these prices.
MEN’S SUITS THAT WERE
$25.00 now $16.70 $15.00 now $lO.OO
22,50 2 15.00 12.50 b 8.35
20.00 - 13.35 10.00 2 6.70
16.50 o 12.35 ' 3:50 g 5.70
15.50 11.00 | . 6.50 £ 4.35
A liberal discount on all Low Cut Shoes=-
Men'’s, Ladies and Children’s.
$1.50 Cluett Shirts in this sale for $l.OO.
$l.OO Monarch Shirts at 75 cents,
50 per cent discount on all Straw Hats.
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-~ SALE STARTS THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1907.
Come early before the stock is picked over, and get your choice. This is no fake sale. Had rather have the money and
start each season with a new stock in place of accumulation of old stock, Remember, no goods charged at these prices,
TELEPHONE 292. C 4 w&zD'l P R E " ; MARIETTA, GA.
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Tiie Marietis Journal
K itered at the Post Office. Marietta, Ga.. a 8
Second Class Matter
W. S N. NEAL - - - J A MASSEY
NEAL & MASSEY,
EDITORS. PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS
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PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
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A Hard Head. l
When Farragut ran the gantlet of
Forts Jackson and St. Philip, below
New Orleans, the little gunboat Ca-
Yuga went in the lead and was ev
erywhere in Lo thick of the fight
ing. A colored boy of the crew was |
passing powder when a spent grape—,
shot struck a casting near him, shat-'
tered and flew in many directions. |
One piece hit him on the thickest
part of his forehead, says fhe au
thor of “A Sailor of Fortune,” and|
dropped to the deck.
He picked it up nonchalantly, put,
it in his pocket and kept at work. |
When the fight was over and the
members of the crew were bragging
this boy, who was not over fourteen,
stepped up to some of them andl
pulled the grapeshot from his pock
et. |
“You hush!” he said to the boast
ers. “Dat shot done hit me on de
haid an’ broke in two! Dere's de
shot an’ dere’s de place it hit me.
You can see foh you'se’f.”—Youth’s
Companion.
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OUR CLUBBIING OFFER.
We will send the Marietta Journal,
the Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal and
the Home and Farm, all three papers
for one year, for $1.75.
We will send the Marietta Journal,
the Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal and
the Bouthern Cultivator, all three pa
pers one year, for $1.75.
The Myarietta Journal, the Atlanta
Semi-Weekly Journal and a wall map
of the states of Georgia and Alabama
;.l;e?sUnited States and the world for
The Marietta Journal is an eight page
paper of 48 columns and it makes the
nlubbing offer a very fine one,
A SNAKE INCIDENT.
The Boy Was Scared, but Had Ne
Reason For Fright.
I stooped low to pass under an
overhanging limb and found that I
had planted my feet on either side
of an ugly looking blacksnake about
five feet long, says a writer in For
est and Stream. I knew instantly
that the snake was harmless, but a
crouching tiger, famished and fero
cious, could not have startled me
more.
The path was on a steep hillside,
shter ascent and descent on each
side, the boy was behind me, and
the head and most of the snake’s
body in front, so straight up was my
only line of retreat, and to the very
best of my ability I pursued it. 1
will not attempt to state how high
I jumped, nor will I stand for the
boy’s statement that it was “most
out of sight,” but I can truthfully
say that. I jumped just as high as I
could and stayed up as long as 1
could. d
The snake sprang into the air at
the same time—not trying to strike,
but evidently surprised and startled
—and when compelled to return to
the earth we were about in our orig
inal positions. Without a moment's
hesitation 1 jumped again, as did
the snake.
With the next jump I combined a
kick, which landed and spoiled the
snake’s jump, and, coming down
Jjust right, set my heel with full
weight upon it, causing it to thrash
about desperately for an instant and
then beat a hasty retreat. Straight
down the path'toward the boy it
went with wide sweeps. I could not
shoot it without endangering him
and could only call out reassuringly:
“Stand still. It won’t hurt you.”
The distance was not over twen
ty-five feet, and it took but an in
stant for the snake to cover it. I
hoped it would turn aside from the
path before reaching the boy, but
apparently it had no such inten
‘tion, "R
Just as it reached th¥ little fel
low—standing wide eyed and mo
tionless—it swerved very slightly to
one side. But the quagters were too
close. With a yell all it of propor
tion to his size the boy sprang for a
gapling growing near at hand and
ran up it like a squirrel. As his feet
cleared the path I sent a load of
shot into the gnake, raking it fore
and aft, and, although I deprecate
the killing of all harmless serpents,
I have not yet felt regret for this
pne. 5
YOUNG MEN’S SUITS
THAT WERE
$6.00 now $4.00 $3.00 now - $2.00
5.00 1 3.35 2.50 i 1.70
4.50 ¥t 3.00 2,00 G 1.36
4.00 § 2.70 1.50 “ 1.00
R 2,884 7
Mm
Men’s and Boys’ Shirts that sold for 50c.,
in this sale 40 cents. '
Men’s and Boys’ Underwear that sold for .
25cC., in this sale 18 cents.
BUILT BY UNSEEN HANDS.
Jowish Legend of Solomon and the
House of the Lord.
“So that there was neither ham
mer nor ax nor any other tool of
iron hear{ in the house while it was
building” (I Kings vi, 7). The above
is a Scriptural quotation, to bLe
found at the citation given, and is
concerning the building of Solo
mon’s temple. The reason thcrein
assigned - for the perfect quietude
which existed in and about the great
building while it was in course of
erection is that the stones and tim
bers were all made ready before Le
ing brought to the site of the great
building. Heber beautifully alludes
to this in the little couplet, in which
he says:
No hammer fell, no ponderous axes rung.
Like some tall palm the mystic fabric
sprung.
The Jews have a legend to the
effect that Solomon did mot employ
men in building the great “house
of the Lord,” but that he was aided
in the gigantic undertaking by the
genii. Having a premonition that
he would not live to see the build
ing finished, Solomon prayed to God
that his death might be conceale!
from the genii until the structure
was finished. Immediately after he
made a staff from a sprout of the
trec of life, which was growing in
his garden, and leaning upon this
he died, standing bolt upright in the
unfinished temple.
Those who saw him thought that
he was absorbed in prayer, and they
did not disturb him for upward of a
whole vear, Still the genii work-d
dayv and night, thinking that they
were being constantly watehed by
himm whose eves had been closed in
death many weeks.
All this time, so the lecend says,
littie white ants (one account savs
red mice) were gnawing at the staii,
and when the temple was finally fin
ished the staff gave way, and the
boady of the dead Solomon fell prone
upon the floor. Mohammed alludes
to this queer legend in the Koran
(see Sura xxxiv), where he says,
“When he (God) had decreed that
Solomon should'die, nothing discov
ered his death unto them (the genii)
except the creeping things of the
‘earth.”—SBt. Louis Republic.
Satisfaction.
~_ On one occasion some remarks of
Incledon, the once famous singer,
{ '%)fi'cnse to a man who resoly
fi %0 have “satisfaction” for his
wrongs.. Accordingly he hunted up
gncledon the next afternoon, finding
him at dinnerin a noted hotel. “Mr.
Incledon,” said the visitor, entering
the room in a towering passion,
“you have beep making free with
my name in a very improper man
ner, and I've come to demand satis
faction!” After some parleying In
cledon rose and, striking a graceful
attitude in the center of the room,
began to sing “Black Eyed Susan”
in his most delightful style. When
he had finished the song he said
coolly, “There, sir, that has given
complete satisfaction to several
thousand people, and if you want
anything more I've only to say
you're the most unreasonable fellow
I ever met!” i
Space Fillers.
Two chance acquaintances on a
train between Washington and Phil
adelphia discovered that they had
come originally from the same
neighborhood in Delaware and fell
to conversing about old times.
“By the way,” said the passenger
in the skullcap, “whatever became
of Harry Mullins ?”
“Oh, he’s a special writer on one
of the New York papers,” replied
the passenger with the red tie.
“Gets $lO a column. Good thing.”
“And his brother Dick ?”
“Dick’s & fat man in a museum.
Weighs 410 pounds. Gets a good
salary.” .
“Well, well,” mused the man in
the skullcap. “Beth of ’em have
achieved success as space fillers,
eh?”"-—New York Times.
Better Bait.
Teddy’s father had brought home
some rare old cheese, and after
hearing his praise of its strong
points Teddy was manfully strug
gling to make away with a small
piece of it. Seeing the cheese still
on his plate and Teddy’s nose per
ceptibly elevated, his father said:
“What is the matter, Ted? Don’t
you like that fine cheese ?”
“Yes,” answered Teddy, with the
air of a connoisseur. “This cheese
is very good, but I think I like just
plain, common mouse cheese bet
ter.”—Harper’s Magazine,
Politeness.
Politeness is a just medium be
tween formality and rudeness. It
is, in fact, good nature regulated by
quick discernment, which propor
tions itself to every situation and
every character. It is a restraint
laid by reason and benevolence on
every irregularity of temper, of ap
etite and passion. It accommo-
Snt(‘s itself to the laws of custom
and fashion as long as they are not
inconsistent with the higher obli
gations of virtue and religion,
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MEN'S AND BOYS' ODD TROUSERS
THAT WERE
.50 now .30 $3.00 now $2.00
AD o o 0 3.50 i 2.35
$l.OO g .60 4.00 0 2.70 2
1.50 v $l.OO 4.50 e 3.00
2.00 e 1,35 500 ~ 3.35 1
2.50 1 170 | 8.00 gg o
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We have 75 Men’s Suits that we will
close in this sale, as long as they last,
at 30 per cent discount--one-haif the
original price,
AMBERGRIS. i
This Valuable Substance Comes From
' Diseased Sperm Whales.
Ambergris is one of the most val
uable products of the sea. The
mariner who spies floating on the
waves a grayish mass, fatty in ap
pearance, will, if he knows what
ambergris is, betray considerable ex
citement, for the substance brings
high prices. :
The origin of ambergris was once
a mystery, but it is so no longer, It
is a morbid secretion due to a dis
ease of the liver of the sperm whale,
in the intestines of which animal
lumps of it are occasionally, though
varely, discovered. Dr. C. H. Ste
venson of the United States fish
commission, who made a special
study of the subject, said that the
whales which yield ambergris are
invariably sickly and emaciated.
Anciently the substance was
known as amber, a name which was
subsequently applied to the fossil
gum now commonly so called. But
to distinguish the two one was call
ed “amber gris” (gray) and the oth
er “amber jaune” (yellow).
So it appears that ambergris
means simply gray amber. Like the
fossil gum, pieces of it were found
now and then on the seashore,
where they had been cast up by the
waves; hence doubtless the giving
of the same name to both.
Ambergris usually contains the
beaks of cuttiefishes, on which the
sperm whale feeds. Sometimes it is
black, but the finest is gray in color.
When dried, to cure it, it is light
and inflammable and vields an odor
faintly resembling honey. On being
melted by lLeat it evaporates slowly,
leaving no trace behind.
The substance has been used for
centuries in sacerdotal rites of the
church and with fragrant gums was
formerly burned in the apartments
of royalty, To some extent it was
employed as a medicine and to fla
vor certain dishes. Nowadays it is
utilized almost exclusively by per
fumers in the preparation of fine
scents, being first converted into a
tincturc by dissolving it in aleohol.
-=Saturday Evening Post.
A Losing Agreement.
A Jenkintown grocer says that
there is nothing like being accom
modating, even if it goes so far as to
cause a loss in cash. About a year
ago a character well known in that
section of Montgomery county, who
lives alone in a small house nearly
a mile back in the country, happen
ed to be in theWtore and said his
stock of provisions was low. He
asked the grocer ¢5 seil him o cents’
worth of flour. ~wny aon't you bl‘xly
a dollar’s worth ?” asked a bystand
er. “I ain’t got no bag,” was the
reply. “Oh, well, I’ll lend yo:;x one,”
said the merchant. “But T ain’t
got no money with me,” the man
said. “You can pay for it when you
bring back the bag,” was the reply,
and the man went home with his
flour. One day last week the man
f was again in the store, and the gro
cer said to him: ¢TI have a little bill
!against you for flour. Do you re
‘member about it#” His eyes open
‘ed with astonishment as he gazed at
the grocer and replied, “I ain’t
brought the bag back yet” The
bill has been charged to profit and
loss.—Philadelphia Record.
No Room For Argument, :
Promotion time in the publie
schools is invariably a scason_ of un
due clation and of heartburnings
among the pupils. “Did you get
promoted ?” asked a smal! girl in
front of a Brooklyn school of a
larger companion. ,
“Yes. Tt was easy for me in that
class,” was the reply. 8
“Well, they left me back,” re=
marked the small girl,* and then,
with bitterness, “But you’re not so
smart anvway.”
“Oh, T don’t know,” said the oth
er, with an air of superiority.
“There ain’t many in this schoo}
that has a better education than me.
I was promoted, and the teacher was
left back.”—New York Globe.
Cells of the Honeycomb. .
Horeybees are generally credited
with instinctive skill in making the
cells of the comb hexagonal in
shape, but it is probable that this
construction is merely the ordinary
result of mechanical {aws. Solitary
bees always make circular cells, and
the bees in a hive no doubt make
them circular also, but mechanical
pressure forces them into & hex
agonal form. A well known natural
ist in speaking of the matter says
that all cylinders made of soff; plia
ble substances become hexdgonal
under such circumstances.
Stood Up For Him.
“Do you think your sister likes
me, Tommy ?” ;
“Yes. She stood wp for you at
dinner.” y
“Stood up for me? Was anybody
saying anything against me ?”
“No, nothing much. Father said
he thought you were rather an ass,
but sis got up and said you weren’t
and told fatger he ought to know
better than judge a man by his
looks.”-—Lon(fon Tit-Bits.
