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Splendid Showing Made By
Local Secret Order
Men.
" The showing tliat has been made by
the Fraternity men of Marietta is one
of which the city should indeed feel
proud—she has four Grand Lodge
officers—a showing that not another
town in Georgia can make
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COL. JOHN P. CHENEY
Member Legisiature.
Last week Col. John P. Cheney was
advanced to Grand Master at Arms in
the Knights of-Pythias Grand Lodge of
Georgia, and Mr. Homer McClatehey
was advanced to the position of Grand
Conductor of the Grand Lodgel. O. (. F.
of Georgia.
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MR. H. R. McCLATCHEY
Manager of Scuthern Bell Telephone
Company.
Mr. McClatchey has a string of titles
in Fraternal organizations that would
make the mailing list of the Saturday
Evening Post look small in comparison.
Some day when you are not busy get
him to name 'em over, but be sure you
have plenty of time to spare because he
sure has the titles." Mr. James H.
Croves is Grand Outside Sentinel of the
Grand Encampment 1. 0. O. F. of
Georgia and Mr. Jack R. Miller is
Chairman of the Board of Appeals of
the Grand Lodee of Red Men.
Several hunfred Red Men gathered
in Canton on Wednesday and Thursday
of this week to attend the meeting of
the Blue Ridge division of that order.
Huron Tribe No. 75, Red Men, was
organized at Blackwells on Monday
night with twenty-seven members.
They were initiated by Red Men from
Marietta.
Motor Car Designed for Arctic.
In a motor car which Mr. John A.
Cory of Leeds, England, has invented
an attempt will be made to reach the
north pole. Discussing the new car,
Mr. Cory said that tires will be dis
pensed with, and the machine will
progress oOn corrugated steel treads
fixed on an endless chain. These will
give a good grip on the ice. The in
ventor explained that crevasses would
be crossed by means of expanding
trellls bridges and telescopic rods of
hardened steel. These, he said, could
be operated from the interior of the
car.
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Queer Sign Posts.
In the neighborhood of Warmbruna,
in the Silesian mountains, there are to
be found some very curious signposts.
One seen by a writer in the Wide
World Magazine represents a farm la
borer sharpening his scythe, on which
is inscribed, in the old Silesian dialect,
“To Giers Village, One Hour.” The
signpost is well carved and painted in
natural colors, so that it appears very
life-like. Another signpost in the same
district represents a schoolboy carry
ing a slate bearing the name of the
nearest village,'toward which the boy
§s pointing.
KEEPS HEWNS AT THEIR WORK
Simple @untrivance Used by wmcmi
Ma Cures Them @f Desire
to “Set™ .
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Owners of hens are frequenfly;
greatly annoyed by ‘the persistent de
sire of their fowls to set, in seasor
and out, on eggs. stones or other ob
jects to hand: Bnt a western man has
‘evoived a plam %o circumvent the hen
in this respect.
The cure censists of a cheap wa%ch,
with a loud &nd clear tick, inclosed in
a case that is white and shaped like
an egg. When one of the hems be
longing te #his westerner manifests a
desire te set out of season he gently
places tle bogus egg under her shel
tering breast. The “egg” ticks cheer
fully away, and soon the hem begins to
evince signs of uneasiness and stirs
the noisy egg around with her bill,
thinktng, no doubt, that it is already
time for it to hatch. She becomes
more and more uneasy as the noise
continues, and soon jumps off the nest
and runs about a whike 'to cool off.
Soen, however, she retumms to her self
imposed task. Matters get worse and
worse; she wiggles about and cackles,
rufles her feathers and generally
shows distress. Finally, with a wild
squawk, she abandoms the nest for
good and all, and the incubating fever
is broken completely.
The westerner tas found use for
Malf a dozen of these moisy eggs, and
‘he claims that they pay for themselves
‘again and again during the year by
holding the hens %o their husiness of
laying and preventing them from wast
' ing the golden hours in useless incu
l bating,
SOMETHING NOT IN DEMAND
One Accomplishment That Employers
of Cashiers Make No Great Ef
fort to Foster.
Having gradmated from a business
college with honors the young man
thought himself competent to tackle
any problem in’'banking that could be
learned without actual experience, but
the old clerk knew better.
“Can you make an erasure so neat
ly that it would take an expert .to
tell where it 'had been done?’ he
asked. :
“Yes, sir,” said the yourg man with
conscious pride.
“Well, for heaven's sake don't tell
Your prospective employer so or wvou
will be looking for a job this time
next year,” the old clerk said.
“Employers are eofraid of too much
skill In that direction. it gives such
enormous copportunities for fraud that
they will fight shy of hiring you.
“I found that out in my young days.
I also was an expert with the ink
eraser and proudly proclaimed my ac
complishment. Finally, when 1 found
myself toeing the starvation mark I
ceased to boast, and have held .g
good situation ever since.”
Birds Flock to Their Death.
An cld sportsman of Normandy de
clares that round the lighthouse of
Barfleud last November there were
picked up im the course of four nights
10,000 birds of all sorts, including
1800 woodcoek. The lighthouse on
the Pointe de Penmarch, in Brittany,
has a revolving light of 30,000,000
candle power. Visiting this on No
vember 14 last vear, and again on the
12th, an observer saw tens of thous
ands of birds ‘whirling round, and it
seemed to him that the light shot out
a perfect hail of electric sparks among
the migrants. 'Next morning he was
present while 'the dead bodies were
being collected. They are dispatched
every day to Paris by train, and the
“catch,” he was told, often comprised
2,000 to 4,600 wictims: one morning
alone there had been more than 500
woodcock in the “bag.”
Instinct Was There.
Mr. Isaacs had had a busy day, what
with lending meney at 90 per cent.
and discounting bills at 50, and he was
annoyed on returning home to find the
apple of his eve howling the house
down. That child would not be quiet,
not even when his fond papa took him
in kis arms. Then the parent tried
walking up and down the room, sing
ing songs, but after having sung every
song from *“Baa, Baa, Black Sheep”
to “Hey Diddle Diddle,” he thought
of giving it up. However, he tried
one more song. It wag “Sing a Song
of Sixpence.” Hardly had he started
when there was an instant hush and a
tiny voice cried out: *“Make it two
shillings, fader; I'll be athleep in
thirty seconds!”-—London Answers,
Guest Room Slate.
One of the greatest conveniences
which a hostess can devise for her
guests is a clearly written card set on
the bedroom writing table detailing
the hours of meals, the times of in
coming and outgoing posts, the prin
cipal trains and other useful informa
tion.
It was someone's clever idea to pro
vide a small china slate in each room,
on which might be written instruc
tions for the housemaid. It is often
difficult to find her during the day in
order to ask for the hot bottle, the
glass of warm milk, the necessary
help when dressing for dinner, or oth
er needs that may be required, and
to ring for her often is not desirable.
Does Seem Odd.
“Napoleon was a remarkable man.”
" “Yes; he was a remarkable man.
But why should he wear seven suits
of clothes at Waterloo?”
“Seven suits?”’
“I have seen that many in various
museums,”
MARIETTA JOURNAL AND COURIER.
FEATRERED PET ON WATCH
Candry Has Constituted i Gulhil
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fant wa’ £, £e g
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Bringing home & cawmaty in a cape,
®n Yonkers man gave it to his wife
a 8 a birthday present and the song
ster was established ia the lady’s bou
doir, not far from a crib in which
the household 'baby took daily naps.
The tot immediately became interest
ed in his new meighbor and the bird
would fly against the bars of his brass
prison in efforts to get neager the
child. But ‘the pair got better ac
quainted when the baby was held
up to the cage and had its fingers
thrust inside the bars. On such oec
casions the canary would hop on the
baby’s kand and gemtly peck at the
tiny,, ddmpled digits
; Affer-»a few weeks the bird was
often released and permitted to spread
its wings in the room. Later it was
given the freedom of the house, but
although it flew into various rooms,
it would not long remain absent from
the boudoir and the crib. Baby and
bird became Imtimate friends and the
bird would hop on the baby’s head
and hands, but carefully avoided be
;ing clutched in the fat little fingers.
When the infant goes to sleep the
~canary perches on the foot of the
;'crlb, and there it stays on guard un
‘til the little one awakes. And it is a
i‘good sentinel, for if any one ap
proaches the sleeper it begins to
! sputter, ruffle its feathers and other
|wl‘se manifest symptoms of displeas
‘ure in approved bird fashion.—New
York Press. ‘
CAT MUST NOT BE STRUCK
Qther Method of Punishment Is Rec
| ommencded by an Authority on
; the Subject.
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It isn't a very nice task to punish
j pussy if you’re fond of her, but there
!vare times when she must be chas
‘ tised. This is how to do it, according
| to Louis Wain, the great authority on
,'the fascinating feline.
. In the first place, don't actually
strike the cat. A blow merely numbs
’ it. And when the spine, which is its
most sensitive part, is struck—opar
ticularly if the cat is old—it is likely
- to spring at the striker.
. When pussy does anything wrong
frighten the wrongdoer by striking a
| stick in the ground. A cat is most
sensitive to sounds, and will connect
; this new noise with what it has done
It feels more intensely than most ani
! mals; hence its supposed savagery ip
} cases. Cats are highly electrical, and
it is, very good to have one perch on
' one’s shoulder or knees.
} Forcing Growth of Plants.
[ Plants have a mind of their own on
, the subject of winter sleep, and gar
deners have tried various methods of
f waking them up prematurely, to fur
| nish blossoms at a time when they
]are scarce and costly. Mere green
i house heat and moisture failing tc
| yield the desired results, they have
successfully tried warm baths and
ether vapors to shorten the hibernat
ing period of bulbs. From Germany
comes a description of the latest plan
devised by a man named Weber. By
sticking a needle into the base of a
| bud he has caused it to unfold two or
| three weeks ahead of its fellows. Still
!more time was gained by injecting
water into the buds. Not content with
‘water, a physician has tried injections
of water with 10 per cent. of alcohol
| By this means he succeeded in gain
| ing ten days in the budding of oak
% twigs.
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i Marked Difference in Skins.
! An importing firm recently receivec
in. shipment of tiger cat skins from
' Paraguay and the Argentine Republie
. and placed alongside a lot of North
- American wildcat skins the difference
; in color and markings was very no
| ticeable. Both anpimals are of about
[ the same size, but the South American
- cat is covered with lound black spots
| much like those of the leopard, but
. smaller in size. These spots contrast
| strongly with the surrounding fur,
Which is of a grayish white color, very
idiflerent from the reddish color of
the North American wildcat. The fur
‘ of the'South American wildcat is not
. S 0 thick as that of his North Amer!
- can cousin, but the skins are said to
[ dress well and make good robes and
rags.—Fur News.
' Sincerity.
P Roscoe, aged three, had been taken
;; to Sunday school, for the first time, by
his brother Richard, two years his
‘senior. It was customary for the en
tire class to kneei at the beginning of
: the recitation period each Sunday and
‘repeat the Lord's Prayer in unison,
slowly and solemnly, with pauses. Ros
coe had been thoroughly drilled in the
prayer, so that no trouble was an
ticipated on that score.
On the particular Sunday of Ros
coe’s first and only visit, the prayver
had reached the clause, “Give us
this day our daily bread,” when, dur
ing the pause which followed, little
Roscoe, to the distress of Richard and
the consternation of the class, added
in a shrill treble, “And a little gravy!”
—Judge.
Lesson From the Past.
Sir Isaac Newton had discovered
the law of gravitation,
“Now,” he said, “I'd like to have a
test case broughit before the supreme
court as soon as possible, to find out
whether or not it's constitutional.” I
Far he knew the aviators would in
sist that it exercised an unreaso.ible
restraint upon their trader
SWEETEST OF ALL PLANTS
South American Shrub Has Proper
tif; That Put Sugar Completely
in the Shade. 1
It has been suggested that what!
may turn out to be the great sugar
producing plant of the future is a
dwarfish shrub found in South Amer
fca. Its botanical name is Eupato
rium rebandium, and, it is said, the
results of careful experiments indi
cate that it yields a sugar from twen
ty to thirty times as sweet as ordi
nary cane or beet sugar. One ad
vantage claimed for the sugar de
rived from this plant is that it occu
pies, in proportion to its sweetening
powers, less than one-twentieth of the
bulk of ordinary cane sugar.
The world today uses more than
twice the amount of sugar that it
did a quarter of a century ago. The
people of the United States consume
a great deal more sugar, in one form
or another, than those of any other
nation. It is surprising to learn that
in Europe sugar was used at first only
at feasts and for medicinal purposes.
At the close of the seventeenth cen
tury the sugar industry in France was
a monopoly controlled by the apothe
caries. Its introduction as an article
of table use was vigorously opposed,
eminent authorities declaring it “a
poison.” Boyle and other scientists
of his day averred that sugar induced
congestion of the lungs, apoplexy, dis
eases of the stomach and even con
sumption. By far the sweetest sub
stance known at this time is the coal
tar product called saccharine. It is
two hundred times the sweetness of
cane sugar.
CURES WROUGHT BY CHINESE
Ministrations of Physicians Have
Good Effect, Though the Cause
May Be Obscure.
“Chinese physicians are popular
with women in our city,” said a doc
tor from California. “Their method
of diagnosis is very simple. A wom
an tells a Chinees doctor where she
has a pain and he feels her pulse—
nothing more. Then he tells her for
how many thousand years his race
has understood the human body and
mind. This makes a great impres
sion upon the woman ‘patient and she
goes forth with great faith in the
learned Chinese and the medicine he
has given her, which is usuwally harm
less enough, but not to be found
among the remedies approved by ma
teria medica.
“However, the Chinese doctors are
clever, and they do efféct some cures
in spite of their medicine. Lay it,
perhaps, to the mental effect—the
. subtle influence of an alien personal
ity combined with an awe of learning
outrunning the oldest in America by
s 0 many hundreds of centuries.”
Humor of Artemus Ward.
Some years ago the real scream in
cachinnation was Artemus Ward. Our
fathers were wont to read the witti
cisms of this great humorist and
laugh till the tears ran down their
cheeks. As an example of how funny
Artemus could be when he tried, take
this extract from his letter on Jeffer
son Davis, president of the Confeder
acy, alleged to have been written in
Richmond:
“Jeff. Davis is not popular here.
She is regarded as a southern sym
pathiser, & yit I'm told he was kind
to his parents. She ran away from
‘'em many years ago and has never bin
back. This was showin’ ’em a good
deal of consideration when we reflect
what his conduck has been. Her cap
tur in female apparel confooses me in
regard to his sex, & you see I speak
of him as her and as frequent as other
wise, & 1 guess he feels so hisself.”—
Kansas City Star,
Approves of Modern Dress.
~ Many severe things have been said
of the inartistic qualities of man's
dress in modern times, so that it
comes as a pleasing surprise to hear
a word spoken in its defense by no
less an authority than Antonio de la
Gandara, the portrait painter. “In the
first place,” he says “people dress
very well in these days. Thus, as
regards the men, think of their even
ing dress clothes! Admire the sober
lines, the perfect harmony! One daz
zling point alone in the whole cos
tume, the white surface of the shirt
front, and all else is black, nothing
but black. Do you know anything
more beautiful? Never, possibly, has
man’s dress been nobler. In a cen
tury’s time, it will be said, ‘“With what
perfect art men of that time used to
dress.””
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Unique Features in Bull Fight.
At El Toreo plaza bulls from six of
the leading ganaderias of the repub
lic fought in a benetit for the white
cross, and a unique feature was intro
duced in that there were prizes of
fered for the bravest bull of the after
noon and for the best type of tighting
bull shown. A prize of $l,OOO was
hung up for the bravest bull and a
committee of aficlonados chosen which
sat as a sort of jury and rendered a
decision.—Mexican Heraid. 1
His Last Resort. ‘
A young man who sought death
jumped off a high bridge and was
saved. He threw himself off a cliff
and was picked up uninjured. He shot
himself and got well; hung himself
and was cut down in time; tried gas
just as the company shut off the sup
ply; took poison and took too much.
“Well, well,” he muttered, “there’s
one sure way left. I'll go and get a
job in some big factory.”
GOOD REASON FOR HIS HURRY
Government s Employe Bound by‘hon
: siderations Apart From the
Ordinary Man. :
It was on an oeccasion when a pg'ea!-
dent of the United States was making
a swing around the country. A man
who was carrying the mail on a week
ly route between a -Missouri county
seat town and a little postoffice out at
a country store came dashing madly
down the road in the direction of the
town. A farmer who saw him coming
and wondered at his great haste, halt
ed him and said:
“What's the matter, Jimson? What’s
your great hurry this morning?”
“Hurry?” Jimson repeated, ‘“‘why,
don't you know the president is to be
in town today?” 3 :
“Oh, I see,” the farmer replied. “You
want to get there in time to see him.”
“It’s not that that makes me hurry.”
1t ain’t?
“No, sir! You may not know it, but
this working for the government is
mighty ticklish business, and a man
has got to be awful careful, or he'll
lose his job. Now suppose the presi
dent gets off the train down there and
' asks about me and I ain’t there, and
he finds out I'm late. Don’t you see
there’d be trouble right off, and 1
t might be asked to resign?”
“I see.”
“Yes, sir. So I ain't taking no
chances. When the president steps
off the train and asks the crowd,
| ‘Where is Jimson? I'm going to be
there, so I can step right out and say:
‘Here I am, sir.’ ”’—Kansas City Star.
WORK THAT A WATCH DOES
Read These Figures, and You Won't
Wonder That the Mechanism
Gives Out.
It is a matter of everyday occur
rence for a person to say to his watch
maker:
“Here is a watch which you sold
me some ten years ago. It has al
ways gone well till just lately, when it
has taken to stopping without any ap
parent cause.”
The people who speak in this way
little think of the amount of work a
watch has performed in this space of
time and might be astonished at the
following figures:
In ten years, which includes two
leap years, and consequently a total
of 3,652 days, the hour hand has made
7,304 and the minute hand 87,648 rev
olutions. The end of an average min
ute hand travels more than 10,820
yards—more than six miles. The sec
ond hand has made 5,258,880 revolu
tions, and its extremity has traversed
on the dial a distance of upwards of
123 miles. The escape wheel has made
52,688,800 revolutions, and as it has
15 teeth, it has come 788,832,000 times
in contact with each pallet. The bal
ance has made 1,577,644,000 vibra
tions, and any point on the outside of
the rim has covered a distance of
about 50,000 miles, and is equal to
twice the circumference of the earth.
—Answers,
What Susie Was.
The Mexican was showing his new
ly arrived New York guest to a room,
and after the usual courtesies he
paused on the threshold to say: “By
the way, we always turn Susie loose
for the night, and she will pass
through the hall on her way to the
top floor, where she catches rats.
You'd better be careful and not step
on her, as that is the only thing that
makes her cross.”
“It wouldn't be very serious if I did
make a cat cross,” was the laugh
ing response. But the host shook his
head.
“I don’t know much about cats,” he
said. “Our Susie is a boa constrictor.
She’s as gentle as a baby, unless you
step on her. Sometimes she takes a
short cut through this room. so don't
be surprised if you see her. Good
night.”
Not the Same Thing.
~ This overheard conversation appeals
to the weary one as nearly epigram
matic. The young people on the seat
ahead of us in the homeward-bound
car the other night talked it out so
loud that we couldn't help hearing it
and jotting down a few notes on it.
*So,” said the girl, “he said he knew
me when I was a little girl?”’
- “He didn’t say anything of the sort,”
centradicted the man.
“You said he did.”
I didn't”
“Why! Then what did you say?”
“I said he sald he knew you when
he was a boy.”
That put such a wet blanket on the
conversation that we were unable to
read our sporting extra uninterrupted
for the next several blocks.—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
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Individuality.
No process is so fatal as that which
would cast all men in one mold. Every
human being is intended to have a
character of his own, to be what no
cther is, to do what no other can do.
Our common nature is to be unfolded
in unbounded diversities. It is rich
enough for infinite manifestations. It
is to wear innumerable forms of beau
ty and glory. Every human being bas
a work to carry on within, duties to
perform abroad, influences to .exert,
which are peculiarly his, and which no
conscience but his own can teach.—
Channing.
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How to Be Prominent.
“Why aren’t you a suffraget?”
“I think I can get more publicity by
opposing the movement,” replied the
prominent lady courteously.
Friday, May 31,1912
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Too Long
Our sugar is the Ameri
can Refining Co.’s “Eagle
Brand,”’—the best sugar
made. Anyone selling su
gar at a lower price is sell
ng a lower grade.
25 pound bags best
American sugar
100 Ibs finest Purina
chicken feed
Just received an
other lot of finest
California geaches
to go_ a_t per;pougq
10cC
10 Ibs Fresh Cotto
leneYjust received
to go at
6-Ib_bucket fresh
White Fish at
45c
Finest santos blend
barrel Coffee, 1b
25c
Extra values in
brooms made in
Georgia byiWhite
Labor, each
50c
Ice cream¥salt go
fingfat 12’1bs for
10c
50§ibsTgo0d flour
Flour{that{suits par
ticular people.
48 Ibs for
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