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CONNECT MARIETTA .
i AND ATLANTA BY
A GOOD ROADBED
} Marietta, Ga., May 29, 1912.
| Editor of the Journal—Dear Sir:
‘5&“ there are good reasons
" why a good road has not been built
. between Marietta and Atlanta, one
| reason given is that the road is now.
| belng fixed out of Roswell and when
L. it is finished it will enable the fac-l
| tories to freight their goods to this
i city instead of Atlanta and ship to
[ the North from here. That is good
i for Roswell and good for Marietta,
f;ifiut it does seem that if there is any
~ section in the whole State of Geor-l
§mswhere the people are entitled to
E»ag\ood hard road that can be used'
in wet and dry seasons alike, it is.
ifi;etween the “Gate City of the
' South” and the “Gem City of Geor-}
E‘f"gia” for we hold that with our new
gf'monument, our “White Way”’ and
~ With the street newly curbed, gut
. tered and paved around the park
will have the (Gem City of the
- State.” It is ac&n matter
.~ for anyone who owns a'‘large auto
%,&i‘ a ponderous top heavy limousine
. toreturn from ‘Atlanta via. the
. Vinings road after a heavy shower.
It would be well nigh impossible,
~ with or without . chains, to climb
. that steepest kill at Vinings when
~_the mud is deep and thick.
' Thew again &4 road in places is
~Very narrow and ste}p' on thré sides
~ and if muddy, would he very dan
s Zerous to go too far Qver on one
laid'e in turning out %Z\other auto.
We understand thfit‘ the Vinings
. people are willing and} anxious to
_‘pay a good bonus tQ,h(zl ? build the
“road through their fown and that is
really the best reute when you-con
sider how finie the roads of Fulton
county are immediately upon cross
_ ing the river.
If those hills at Vinings could be
properly graded and hardened the
space between Vinings and our good
road fixed, we would then have a
splendid drive all the way to Atlan
ta and what a boon it would be to
. the many, many people who desire
- to use it,
Would a petition by the mayor,
_council and leading business men of
rs truly,
=OOB
that all the build
up along the Ros
t as formerly along
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Dumb Animals.
Queer Way of Fishing.
A curious mode of fishing is In
Kue at Ooochin, South India. The
@ nets are let down into the wa
on bamboo crames and then sud
¥y hoisted up by means of an ar
gement of weaights and pulleys.
s catch principally counslsts of large
. prawny. The fishermen are of a low
[ enste, known as Malars. They eat
| pork, and each man has a small plot
L _of rice by thé riverside which pro
" ~vides him with sustenance when the
[ Sishing is slack.—Wide World Maga
| sine.
L Time When Bhe Would Be Boss.
i At a long row of seaside bathing
| rooms, an important young man walk
§ “ed up to the door of one of the com
i partments, and, knocking at the same,
& geotlly Inquired: “When in thunder
" mre you going to get those trousers
§mß?’ Thefe was & falnt giggle, and
e rolos replied: “When 1 get
e Fried, I suppose” The young man
Pl inted. He land mistaken the door.—
FEWER STORKS IN ALSACE
System of Registration Is Being Tried
to Learn Abeut Migratory
Habite, |
Every year the number of storks
to be seen in Alsace becomes less. Of
the four nests perched on the big
chimneys on the old roofs of Strass
burg, only one has been occupied this
year. :
In many of the villages the great
migrators have ceased for a long time
to reliove the landscape, and it seems
only a question of time when the stork
in Alsace will be &8 memory. Various
are the causes assigned for this de
sertion—the draining of the marshes,
the multiplication of telephone and
telegraph wires and the smoke from
factory chimneys.
In Germany for the better study of
storks there has been created a sort
of service in connection with the Edu
cation Department which tends to set
up an ‘“etat civil” for each bird, or,
in other words, to register them after
the manner which obtains for citizens
in France.
Each bird is captured where possi
ble and a metallic disk affixed to its
leg, and German officials, wherever
the birds are believed to migrate, have
instructions to send to ti¥e department
any information they chAn gather con
cerning storks who e German sub
jects. (Possibly this labeling may
have something to do with the- re
ity.) By this system of registratipn
the authorities have learned
thing of the migratory habits of t
bird; for instance, one was found de
at the Cape of Good Hope whose pla
of origin was eastern Prussia.
A point of interest relative to the
scarcity of the stork has been brought
under the notice of the German au
thorities by a doctor at Port kliza
beth, who suggests that they have
been poisoned through eating grass
hoppers or locusts which have been
killed by arsenic. A correspondent,
however, of an Alsace-Lorraine jour
nal hints that the cause is to be found
nearer at home.
ADDING DAYS TO HIS LIFE
Paradoxical Problem Is Bolved
Through Obvious Point in Cir. -
w cumnavigation,
~ A correspondent sends to the Her
ald a paradoxical problem which, he
believes, originally appeared in
Plesse’s “Chymical, Natural and Physi
cal Magic,” published some 50 years
Bgoo. Two persons were born at the
same place, at the same moment of
time, Fifty years after they both died,
also at the same spot and at the same
Instant; yet one had lived 100 days
more than the other.
The possible solutfon turns on a
curfous tut very obvious point In cir
cumnavigation. A person going round
the world toward the -west loses a
day; ;Solns towat.lrd' the sast he gains
one. Buppose, thei, two persons born
together et (e Cape of Good Hope,
wl\enco a voyage round the world may
be perforn* in & year; if one per-
Qflns this constantly toward the west,
L 50 years he will be 50 days behind
the stationary inhabitants; and if the
other s.il equally toward the east, he
will be 50 days in advance of them.
One, therefore, will have seen 100
days more than the other.—Glasgow
Herald.
Home Life in the Windy City. i
Gustav H. De Kolkey of Chicago
had his wife arrested on the charge
of robbing hl’in his ewn house. |
“My wife, hér brother and a board
er,” he declared, “sneaked up behind
me and bore me down to the floor.
Then, while the two men held me
down, your honor, my wife went
through my pockets and robbed me of
$11.”
“Did you rob your husband?” quer
ied the court,
“I cannot tell a lie,” replied Mrs. De
Kolkey, simply. “There was no other
way to get money out of him. He
hasn’t given me a cent for a year, and
first I tried to chloroform him, but he
always sleeps on kis face. So I called
my brother and we held him and I got
what was in his peckets.”
“Perfectly justifiable,” announced
the court.
Seafaring Races.
The portraits of Captain Amundsen
show a certain likeness to Dr. Nansen.
Both have in a marked degree the long
narrow skull of the Vikings. It is a
ocurfous circumstance that the seafar
ing races, whether on the Baltic or on
the Mediterranean, have this type
of head, while the inlanders of Europe
are predominantly of the broad headed
Alpine sort.
But it will hardly do to make long
headedness the cause of seamanship,
as some enthusiasts have dome, for
the Japanese, who are round headed,
take readily to the sea.
The Beautiful Mooniight.
The fresh air children were camp
ing beside a small lake in the Jersey
hills. There was a full moon rising
and trailing its light across t®e water.
“Children,” cried the attending social
worker. “ILook! See the beautiful
moonlight.”
“Go on,” remarked a amall FEast
Bider. “That shiny wiggle out there?
That's gasolene.”
Sometimes Best to Be Patient.
Frequently the worm that turns
merely gots itself brulsed on the other
slde.—Chicago Record-Herald.
- MARIETTA JOURNAL AND COURIER
DIVORCED FROM DEAD MAN
Queer Requirements Made In France
That Official Records May Be
Completed,
In Prance, as in some other coun
tries, every citizen has an official his
tory. Not as varied and interesting
as his real history, but still import
ant. From this there follow at times
quaint consequences. If a woman is
married, for example, a wife she re
maing officially though the husband
may be missing.
Consider the case of the painter
who went fishing on Anthie bay. He
has not since been seen. The body of
one man who went with him was
washed ashore lifeless, You would
call this tolerably convincing proof
that his wife had been made a widow.
She thought so and in due time she
sought to have it recorded in her of
ficial history that she was a widow.
We are familiar with applications to
a court of justice for leave to pre
sume the death of persons who have
vanished. But the French judge was
not to be so easily persuaded as our
courts, The wife was in her official
history a wife and there was no certifi
cate to justify her appellation being
changed to widow. Without a certifi
cate or reasonable documentary evi
dence no man obviously ought to die.
There was a way round. The be
reaved woman applied for a divorce on
the ground of desertion, Since death
s beyond dispute the most complete
kind of desertion, the court of Mon
treuil decided that she could not be
denied. So the widow is recognized as
an independent woman and apparently
both the law and she are satisfied. But
you will observe that the official his
tory must now record the wife of a
dead man as a divorcee, which does
not seévia wvery creditable to officia)
history.
WHY THE PLANETS COLLIDE
Gravity and Other Agencies Are at
Work in Bringing Stars
Together.
There is good reason to believe that
the bodies in space—both luminous
and dead—occasionally fall together,
and his conception of such an event
was given by Prof. A. W. Bickerton
in a late Royal Institution lecture.
The collisions do not come at ran
dom. Gravity and other agencies are
at work, and before two suns collide
they come into each other’s influence
for hundreds of years, being drawn
towards each other with constantly in
creasing speed. As the velocity would
be proportionate to size, ‘the collisior
would take place in the same time—
about three-fourthg:6f an hour—fsr all
bodies. With the colifsion the two
stars beécome a new one, the tremen
dous speed is suddenly converted into
heat, and the explosive force expands
the new star at the rate of millions of
miles an hour. This, Professor Bick
erton believes, explains the origin of
Nova Persei, which suddenly flashed
out in 1801 with 10,000 times the bril
liancy of our sun. This star became
the brightest in the heavens except
Sirius, and was the most brilliant new
star that has appeared in 300 years,
Ancient Game is Chess.
It is impossible to state just when
and where chess was born. Back we
may go in the ages, but we still find it
existing. We see it painted gn Egyp
tian vases, and we find it in the Chi
nese Books of Wisdom. It has been
ascribed to all kinds of birthplaces,
its creator having been at times a
man, at times a god. Nothing posi
tive is known about it, yet the great-.
est probabilities seem to point to its
baving come from the east.
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An Expert Name Manufacturer.
At a dinner in New York Willlam
Ray Gardiner, the advertising expert,
scored neatly off an advertising fad
that has of late been rather overdone.
“A young couple,” he began, “had
been blessed with the advent of a
little son, and the wife, at dinner one
evening, said:
“‘What shall we name our darling,
Jim? |
“Jim wrinkled his brow and re
plied: |
“‘Well, I submit Childa, Firstbornio,
Theboi, Allours, Sunne, Ourown, Our
ownson—"' ‘
“But at this point his wife shut him
up. He could, of course, have kept on
indefinitely. You see, he was one of
those advertisement writers who in
vent new names for breakfast foods,
tinned soups and patent medicines.”
Starving Out Troublesome Pigeons.
City hall pigeons are once more un
der the ban in Philadelphia, and Di
rector Porter is the man who is trying
to get rid of them. Instead of at
tempting to do this, as Mayor Reyburn
and Director Clay did, by putting up
wire screen at the entrance and turn
ing the hose upon the pigeon roosts,
the director proposes to try the star
vation plan upon the flocks.
He has issued orders to the city hail
guards to stop all, persons from feed
ing the birds in the courtyard and
on the northeast plaza and to arrest
those who persist in throwing corn,
peanuts, cakes and bread to them.
Woman Bootblack.
London is to have its first woman
bootblack. A woman has just com
pleted arrangements to set up a boot
blacking stand at one of the busiest
corners in the West End. She be
lieves herself to be the pioneer woman
bootblack in England and declares
that the men in the business need not
fear her competition, since she in
wends . devote herself exclusively to
polishing the footweu: of women and
children.
“‘
His Sacrifice.
“I suppose, like all government offi
clals,” said the man who sneers, “you
are making personal sacrifices in or
der to serve your country.”
“Yes,” replied the village postmas
ter; “it's pretty hard to have to keep
reading addresses when I'd rather be
looking at the pictures on the post
cards.” :
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The One Thing That Counts.
S~me persons, I know, estimate jup
biness by fine houses, gardens and
parks—others by pictures, horses,
money and various things wholly re
mote from their own speeches; but
when I wish to ascertain the real
felicity of any rational man, I always
inquire whom he has to love. If 1
find he has nobody, or does not love
those he has—even in tha midst of all
bis profusion of finery and grandeur,
[ pronounce him a being deep in ad
versity—~From Elizabeth Inchbald’s
“Nature and Art.”
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Phone No. 67, Washington Avenue. Marietta, Georgia
Friday, June 7, 1912
