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Ariday December 3, 1915
CANARIES LIKE PLAIN CAGE
Lover of Birds Has Found OCut That
They Prefer Their Abode to
Be Simple.
Living near St. Nicholas avenue and
One Hundred and Eleventh street
there is a lady who during a period
of six months purchased no less than
three canary birds with the hope that
they would solace her with their sing
ing, only to find that after she had in
stalled them one by one in the hand
some cage she had prepared for them
not only would they not sing but
that they moped and pined and finally
died. The canary bird lover did ev
erything she knew to keep her pets
and teach them to trill the melodies
that such birds can utter, but it was
of no use.
Finally a neighbor advised her to
discard the handsome and expensive
cage and buy a new one, plainer in
make.
“What in the world difference will
that make?” the canary bird lover
asked. “A cage is a cage—what’s the
difference to the birds?”
“All the difference in the world,”
answered her adviser, “and for two
good reasons. One is that a bird has
died in it. The other is that a bird
of modest disposition does not like an
overhandsome cage.
“The best singing results have
come from the inmates of plainer
cages. I don’t know whether or not
canary birds are natural democrats,
but experience has been such as I
tell you. Buy a plainer cage that has
no canary bird ghost stalking through
it to frighten the living bird.”
So the canary bird lover discarded
the big cage and bought a plainer one.
She transferred the last bird she had
bought, and which had already begun
to mope, to its new quarters. Then
she waited a day and still another
day, but not a sound came forth, al
though the bird began to look pert
and chipper. She called in her ad
vising friend and complained there
was no result after the cage change.
“Wait,” said her friend, blowing
upon a bird whistle.
The canary heard the notes, cocked
his head and began to sing. Was it
the new cage?—New York Press.
Activities of Women.
Fngland has over twelve thousand
fercale chocolate-factory workers.
V’omen have been practicing law in
Italy since 1883. ;
ILady Juliet Tuff is the finest lady
shct in England. Her best record is
38 Dhrace of grouse in one day.
Mrs. Agnes Mcher is proprietor, gen
erai manazer and chauffeur of Wash
ington’s first woman’s jitney line,
Jules Bois the French poet, phil
oscpher, dramatist and feminist, says
that it is impcssible for American
womnen to love.
Nearly ninety thousand women are
employed by the telephone systems in
the United States, while women tele
graph operators number over eight
thqusand.
English women are now wearing
badges made of metal and enameled
in colors with the design of the union
jack, which are called “Proud of Him”
badees. They are inscribed with
“Husband With the Colors,” “Son
With the Colors.” “Brother With the
Colors,” or “Fatner With the Colors.”
Couidn’t Find Massachusetts.
“Scotland yard will get you if you
don’'t watch out” is a truism, and one
of the last Americans to realize it is
an attache of the American embassy
at Berlin.
This young man arrived in London
a short time ago and registered at the
Ritz hotel as from the kaiser's cap
ital. Within a few minutes a Scot
land yard man was shadowing him
and next morning early appeared at
the American embassy to inquire into
the dipiomatist’s antecedents.
Although he was assured that the
visitor was all right, the detective was
not satisfied.
“Of course,” he said, “if you gentle
men declare he is all right, why I've
got to accept your statemont. But I
know there’s something wrong.
“Why, when he signed his registra
tion slip at the hotel he wrote that
his destination was Massachusetts.
Now. last night at the yard, we went
all over the map of the world, and
there's no such country as Massachu-
Setts. How do you explain that, gov
ernors?”
CGood Listener Paid.
A Frerch soldier fighting in the
Argcnne has just been informed that
he has inherited $40,000 from a re
tired army officer of eccentric habits
who lived in the same villaga as the
soldier.
The officar’'s will ran: “Being with
out family, I. leave the whole of my
fortune to Paul —, farmer. [ de-
Sire thus to show my gratitude to
him for having for many years iist
ened patiently and with every air of
interest to the story I used to tell of
how [ lost my right arm in the war
of 1870.
"I pray and trust that he will be
Spared to return to his village after
he war, and my only request to him
I 8 to come occasionally to my tomb
and there relate some of his own war
experiences.”
Telephone in Latin America.
According to statistics published by
YB2 Pan-American union, there were
"2 January 1, 1914, 232,816 telephones
in Latin America, as compared with
3542000 in the United States. Ar
sMtina stood first among the Latin-
American countrias, with 74,296, but
Uruguay led in the proportion of tele-
Phones to population, with 1.05 per
L30.--Scientific American.
MOST ADVANCED REGION OF THE
MUSCOVITE EMPIRE.
Characteristics of the People Are in
Strong Contrast to Those of the
Central Districts—Are More
Like the Westerners.
The South Russians, or the people
of Little Russia, from among whom
the colossal Muscovite empire draws
some of its bravest, steadiest fighting
men, are a people distinguished for
their contradictory characteristics in
a land that is a puzzle of contradic
tions. The South Russians, the tough
est fiber of the Russian armies, are a
people full of interest, of quaint phi
losophies, and of pieasant ways, ace
cording to a bulletin issued by the Na
tional Geographic society. The sketch
reads:
“Between Central and South Rus
sians the contrast is as strong as be
tween the Prussian an dthe Bavarian.
As in Germany, the vigor of the czar's
mighty empire is more sharply ex
pressed in the north than in the south,
and yet, in the case of both,empires,
much of the national strength and en
ergy are furnished by the south.
“Russian life is sprightly in the
south. In the north, it is sullen, mo
notonous, oppressive. In the south
land, too, there is a far greater display
of well-being and comfort. The north
ern peasant lives in colorless villages,
in grayish-brown thatched houses
built of logs, which are stretched
along unsanitary streets, redolent with
the accumulations of carelessness.
Around these houses there are almost
never any signs that their occupants
are making homes, there are no ef
forts toward improvements. The roads
are mostly just ground left between
two rows of houses; the yards are
just ground left bare around them.
“The South Russian builds his home
and orders his village, in the rule,
picturesque and inviting. There are
gardens before the door, and orchards
round about, and the houses of the
village are painted white or pale
green. Porches, balconies, glass and
vine-covered verandas relieve the ar
chitectural uniformity. There is more
cleanliness, gayety, and softer man
ners in the south to tempt the friendly
judgment of the stranger.
“The people of Central Russia con
fess that they are often more harsh
and more neglectful of appearances
than they of the south, but, also, they
cilaim that the northern Russians are
wore faithful, consistent, sturdy and
more tender than their brothers in Lit
tle Russia. North and south, east and
west, all agree that in South Russia
true laziness may be found in unsur
passed expression. It is said that the
indolent South Russian will say to his
wife: ‘Little wife, say “woa” to my
horse; I have a pain in my tongue.
“Otherwise, the South Russian has
become more like the Westerners. He
dresses a 3 the German, or the Eng
lishman, and he more often takes an
interast in the world without than the
peasant of the north. He is better
nourished, better educated, and, pos
sibly, a {rifle less religious. He is also
of purer Slavonic stock, ‘less melan
choly Finnish is in his blood, and his
dialect is strongly marked.
“He runs more to ornament, more
to bright colors, to singing and to
story-telling than does his northern
compatriot. He is an unabashed and
all-inquisitive questioner, asking the
entire stranger whether the stone in
his scarfpin is genuine or not, how
much his neckwear cost, what his re
ligion is, and other things somewhat
personal and unexpected. But he is
generally willing to be as free and
frank himself, as he demands. Lazy,
the Little Russian is vigorous and suc
cessful: of elastic, friendly tempera
ment, he is an unpeered fighter; argu
mentative at all times, about all
things; he is clannish and a patriot,
and a stay-at-home he is, yet burning
with interest for all that goes on in
the world.”
Need of Reforestation in Japan.
The forest area of Japan is decreas
ing at the rate of one million acres
a vear. This area is being cut away
partly for timber and lumber and for
firewood and partly to make the land
available for the cultivation of rice.
The forests of Japan at the end of
1914 covered about 45 mil Hon acres.
lixtensive efforts are being made to
increase the acrecge of forest lands
by planting surfaces now cleared off
with young trees of quick growth. It
has been urged that it i 3 necessary
to replant all surfaces as soon as they
are cleared for commercial purposes
in order to lessen the great loss an
nually caused by floods in the moun
tains.—Vice Consul Harold C. Hug
gins, Yokohama, Japan, in Commerce
Reports.
Silver Mine Under City.
Embedded under 100 feet of solid
earth, a silver vein more than a mile
long and 71 feet deep, and said to
contain nearly a million dollars’ worth
of pyrites of silver ore, has been dis
covered on the United States bureau
of mines site, Forbes and Craig
streets, Oakland. by Chief Engineer
J. D. McTighe.
This discover” was made when En
gineer McTighe was surveying land
where the boiler room of the new
Bureau of Mines building is to be
erected.
Italian workmen blasting slate saw
little, white objects, which looked like
diamonds to them, nestled among the
rocks, and this led to the strike.—
Pittsburgh dispatch Philadelphia Rec
ord.
THE MARIETTA JOURNAL AND COURIER
DIDN'T WANT THE PROMOTION
Corporal Had Good Reasons for De
clining Elevation Which Most
Soldiers Weculid Welcome.
Some soldier was Corporal A. Lin
coln Brown, and he belonged to some
regiment, too, for at the time we speak
of he was in the Ninth cavalry.
Nobody remembers how it happened
now, but there was some mix-up, and
there was no money in the treasury
for the disposal of the army, and for
five solid months soldiers hadn’t seen
what a dollar bill looked like. The
army paymasters were just laying
around and waiting for something to
happen.
Lieut. Col. John H. Gardner, now
retired and recruiting officer for the
San Francisco district, was a first lieu
tenant of the Ninth cavalry at that
time. In common with all the officers
of his command he was getting along
financially during the period of non
payment of troops by borrowing
money each month from banks. Lieu
tenant Gardner was in command of a
troop. In common with all the troop
commanders he had to loan all his
men money regularly so that they
could buy tobacco, and pay for their
laundry and all that sort of a thing,
and one of Gardner’'s heaviest debtors
in the troop was Corporal A. Lincoln
Brown.
There was a vacancy in a sergeancy
in Gardner's troop. The lieutenant
studied over the list of men he had
who were fitted to be sergeants and
finally he chose Brown as the best of
the lot. He had Brown called befcre
him.
“Corporal,” he said, “I'm going to
give you that vacant sergeancy.”
Normally when a corporal in the
army is told something like that at
least a grin of appreciation can be
counted on. Corporal Brown, how
ever, looked frightened first and then
gloomy. “Beggin’ de troop comman
der’s pardon, sah,” he said, “but you
ain't got nothin’ against me, has
you?”
“Why, of course not,” replied Lieu
tenant Gardner. “Why do you ask
a fool question like that when I just
told you I was going to have you
promoted? Don’t you want to be pro
moted?”
“Ah should say not, sah,” said Cor
poral Jones vehemently. “Ah done
owes you fo'ty dollars now, sah, when
Ah is wearin’ two stripes on mah
sleeve an’ Ah ain’t got no show fo’ to
collect even a corporal’s pay, sah. Ah
ain’t desirous of assumin’ de respon
sibility of tryin’ toe collect a ser
geant’s pay, sah. Ah done got all de
wo'’k toe do Ah can perform now,
sah.”—SBan Francisco Chronicle,
Vocation Selection.
Vocation teaching, with a selection
of students for different classes of
work by so-called scientific methods,
seems to be still in a very rudimental
stage. Prof. Herman Schneider has
had notably successful experience
with the co-operative courses of the
University of Cincinnati, but con
cludes that the plan of choosing the
lifework for individuals by their phys
ical peculiarities, is not reliable. It
has been held that such characteristics
as the shape of the fingers or of the
head disclose special aptitudes or
abilities, This is a development of
the old phrenology, and might indicate
that a certain money-making executive
"will have appropriately shaped head
and hands, but successful executives
chosen at random showed no such pe
culiarities. @ The claim of some pro
fessors of psychology that certain
mental qualities—memory, attention,
and so on—gave fitness for certain
work has proved equally misleading.
- The old method of testing ability by
trying varied lines of work seems to
be the only dependable one, and in the
several years of a college course may
serve as a very good guide.
Palestine an Agricultural Land.
Lucerne, grown without irrigation
in the valleys, produces three crops a
year, and does not suffer seriously, if
at all, in living through the long dry
season, as the roots penetrate the
crevices of the underlying rocks and
find moisture. One year it fell be
neath the writer’'s notice that the dry
season lasted eight months, that is,
this time elapsed before sufficient
rain fell to moisten the ground to a
depth of three inches, but this hardy
plant was not in the least injured.
Around Jaffa and Haifa some few
thrifty German colonies have been es
tablished, and modern farm machinery
is used with very fine results. Fur
thermore, there are in various locali
ties throughout the country thriving
agricultural colonies under the direc
tion of the Jews. These were started
on funds given by Baron Edmund
Rothschild and other philanthropic
Jews in Europe.—Scientific American.
Belt Buckle Saves Life.
John Irato of 150 St. Ann avenue,
The Bronx, while painting one of thx
bridges of the Harlem river branc!
of the New Haven railroad near
Beechwood avenue, New Rochelle.
came in contact with one of the elec
tric wires charged with 11,000 volts
that supplies power to the electric
trains.
Flame was seen to spurt apparently
from his body to the steel upright
near which he stood. He fell to the
ground, got up and walked away. He
was taken to the New Rochelle hos
pital against his will, where it was
found that he was cut about the face
and that there was a sglight burn on
one shoulder. ‘
1t was discovered that the electric
current had passed out of his body
through the point of his belt buckle,
which was open, without injuring him.
FABLE CARRIES MORAL
LESSON LEARNED BY PATRON OF
- BARBER SHOP.
Sage Who Looked Betimes at the Mir
ror Had Reason to CTongratulate
Himself That the Experience
Had Been His.
Now it fell on a day that I entered
the establishment of a tonsorial artist,
which is, being interpreted, & barber
shop, says a writer in the Advance.
And I sat and waited till the barber,
with a loud veice, cried : “Next!” and
I seated myself in his chair. And he
wielded over me divers deadly weap
ons, and therewith he cut my hair
and trimmed my beard. And I sat
and looked at myself in the mirror
and I saw myself in & great bib and
tucker, with patches of hair falling
down the front of the same and re
flecting itself in the glass. And what
he was doing to me X saw as in a
glass darkly, and what he was saying
to me was many things on divers top
ics, for he was a man of fluent speech.
And after I had beenx shorn both as
to head and beard he passed his hand
over my head and said: “Thy scalp
is not very clean. Thou hast need of
a *shampoo.” And I consented, and
he soaped my head and washed it,
and rubbed it, and twisted it upon
my neck until it was nnigh unto break
ing off. Then he passed his hand
across my head and he said: “Thy
hair across thy head grows thin. Let
me rub into thy scalp some of my fa
mous hair restorer. It will make hair
grow, upon the top of a cowhide
trunk.” But I said unto him: “I am
not a cowhide trunk.”> And he said:
“Thou wilt soon be as bald as one
if thou apply not my famous hair re
storer.” And I asked: “Speakest
thou as the friend of humanity or as
a man who hath hair restorer for
sale?” And he answered: “I gpeak as
a friend of humanity, mevertheless, for
thq .hair restorer and the rubbing in
théreof thou shalt pay to me the
toqrth part of a dollar, in addition to
what thou already owest me.”
Now, it came to pass as he spake
these words, I looked in the glass and
belold, he stood behind me, with the
bo{tle in his hand and with his left
hapd spread ready to rub it in, and I
saw in the glass his eager face, and
abbve it his own head. And he leanad
forward as he spake, so that I saw in
the glass the top of his head, and be
hold, it was bald. Then spake I unto
him, and sail: “Oh thou friend of
humanity, who sellest hair restorer
and thy soul for the fourth part of
a dollar, keep thou thhy medicine and
use it upon thine own head, for I
have ten times as mxuch Lair on the
outside of my head as thou hast, and
mlch more within it.”” And he was
wroth, and he combed my hair with
fury, and dug the bristles of the brush
into my scalp, and added a dime to my
bill. Nevertheless may heart rejoiced
that I had spoken unto him as I did.
Then gaid T to my soul: I will take
heed to my ways, lest I become as
he. Feor Igo forth among men and
ask them to buy of mme wisdom and
virtue and righteousness. So will I
pray night and day wnto the God of
heaven that | may be able to recom
mend among men the truth which God
hath revealed unto me, and that no
man reproacheth me with the bald
ness of mine own sowul. So shall I
learn wisdom from the folly of the
tonsorial artist,
New Aid for Cupid.
New York is full of lonesome” girls
who are just pining away because they
have no male to tote them around.
For this reason it has been proposed
that an introduction bureau be estab
lished where young people may meet,
become acquainted and help increase
the earnings of the mmarriage license
bureau. But here’'s the proprietor of
a beef-and emporiuma who advises all
lonely girls to become waitresses
He says the brown-the-hash girls have
stenographers beatem to a frazzle in
the pastime of grabbing off a meal
ticket. In fact, he says more wait
resses are marrying their bhosses than
those engaged in the gentle occupa
tion of mauling a typewriter. “I don’t
know of an occupatiom» where girls get
married quicker,” says the restaurant
man. “I have had six girls in my em
ploy marry in four months, and all
married wel.. A waitress makes good
tips and meets hundreds every week,
and men get a chance to study them
more than in any other trade. A wait
ress has a chance to study men and
car pick her company intelligently.”’—
New York Times.
Horse's Hoof Finds $3,000.
Miesing his horse, which had been
put out to pasture, Allen Moore, a
lower Augusta township farmer, found
that it had broken through the cov
ering of an abandoned well and fallen
20 feet to the hottomrm.
Moore got help from surrounding
farmhouses, climbed into the well and
made a sling of leather about his body.
A block and tackle wwas erected on a
tripod of heavy timbers and twenty
men hauled the animal to the top.
When it was got out an old, rusty
bucket was found caught in one of its
shoes. Moore found the bucket was
sealed. Taking a hatchet, he cut the
top and out rolled a stream of Span
ish doubloons valued at s3,ooo—Sun
bury (Pa.) dispatch Philadelphia Pub
lic Ledger,
Typhoid on the Decrease.
In California typhiocid fever is de
creaging as the outcome of a cam
paign that i 8 being waged by the state
poard of health,
6/ INTEREST
! INSURANCE = 3
Figure for Yourself
6% per annum interest with storage and
insurance charge of 25 cents per bale
}Jer month equals 13 1-29% per annum
Or your money—or
6% interest and storage and insurance
char%e of 35 cents per bale per month
equals 16 1-2% per annum.
The Marietta Trust and Banking Co.
will continue to lend to its customers at
reasonable rates and not demand that ihe
cotton be brought to town and”stored,
thereby adding to the burden of holding.
If you are not a customer of this bank, we
invite you to call and establish relations.
with us. We are sure you will be pleased
with our service.
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MARIETTA, GEORGIA.
OFFICERS
R. A. HILL, President. JNO. P. CHENEY, Vice President
E. C. GURLEY, Cashier.
DIRECTORS: : |
R. A. HILL. E. C. GURLEY, J. P. CHENEY,
A. A. IRWIN. JAS. E. DOBBS, R. R. PETREE,
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HISTORY REPEATS ITSELYF.
In ancient times the wise men of the East based all
their business affairs and calculations on the positions and
movements of the stars. And now in 1915 the wise men
here patronize the STAR PRESSING CLUB and TRIO
LAUNDRY,
MORAL—GET WISE.
Harry Haynes, Mgr., Phone 254
Over Grogan’s Barber Shop.
James H. Groves
Fire,' Accident. Liabilitv & Automobile Insura: ce
100 Whitlcck Avenue
Place your business with the oldest agency in Ma-iet a
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