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ATLANTA, GA., OCTOBER 15, 1882.
VIEW NEAR
socintion was organized in accordance with
the primary principles of human nature.
A wise instinct seemed to have reigned over
the smallest details. They remembered that
when “the Lord God took the man and put
him in the Garden of Eden to dress and to
keep it’’ without delay he placed a woman
at his side. In tho original constitution in
the article relating to officers, we find, “and
an Executive Committee of at least fifteen,
part of whom thall be ladies." They also
remembered that “man cannot live by bread
alone;" they saw that no extent of trim
lawns, and graded, graveled walks and shad
ed drives can suffice for a creature endowed
with “intellectual being," so they took care
to provide for a social and literary anniver
sary, and this has long been the focus and
climax of the Stockbridge year. Here the
work of the year finds its formal recognition
and appreciation; here is gathered inspira
tion and impulse for new efforts, and this
MORGANTON,
they mowed the streets; they graded and
graveled the walks; they wholly reformed
and beautified the village cemetery; they
replaced hideous foot bridges and watering
troughs with more (esthetic structures; they
caused many hundreds of beautiful trees to
be planted; they paid children to pick up
stray chips, and faggots and bits of paper;
they offered the premium of membership
in the association to any person over four
teen who would plant and protect a tree. It
is esteemed an honor to belong to it. The
village itself has long been supplied with
trees, and now they are extending their
work along the highways that lead to the
town, so that when you get there, you drive
through the long arcades of living green
into a ready-made paradise.
No more striking example of woman's
power to make the most of her resources
can be given than the following official
statement made at the Quarter-Century An*
rogative to surround herself with beautiful
belongings, but the time is coming, indeed
is not far off, when, in her truest sphere, as
the guardian of the Home, she will see to it
that herself, her husband, and her children,
have clean air, clean water, and clean food,
and in her character of ChristianSamaritan,
she will see to it also that her poorer sister
in the obscure home has the same vital ne
cessities. When that day comes, there will
be a public opinion so strong and uni
versal, that such an Augean cleaning up
os was undertaken by the famous Committee
of Twenty-one in Now York City in 1881,
will be superfluous, and such efforts as
came near making their work nugatory,
impossible.
The widest plate glass that was ever put up
in America is claimed to have been placed
in position at Indianapolis the other day. It
was 113 inches by 138 inches.
“ THE I.AND OF T1IE SHY.”
We present on this page a beautiful scene
located in the “ Land of the Sky." Morgan-
ton, N. C., is in a region where mountains
are seen on every hand, increasing in gran
deur and interest. From this point excur
sions are made .into the Valley of the Linn-
ville River, which flows through high moun
tains, running generally parallel to the Blue
Ridge. These mountains, together with the
Black Mountains on the west of the Blue
Ridge, (with which they run nearly paral
lel,) form some of the highest land in the
Atlantic States. The scenery on the Linn-
ville is said to be the finest in Carolina. The
falls of Linnville and precipice of Short Off
Mountain, said to be 1,200 feet sheer, at the
foot of which flows the river, are among the
many objects of interest in this region.
Morganton is situated on the Western North
intellectual element is essential to the pur-
petuityof these associations; it is that one
"vital spark of heavenly flame,” without
which they soon become dead and inert.
Once ready for action, guided and ani
mated by the gentle and conservative spirit
of the lady who labored most unselfishly for
it, they “held fast to all that was good” in
the past. Very many of you can recall ag
gressive and iconoclastic village “im prov
en),” inspired by the spirit of geometry,
rather than of beauty, who have with ruth
less axe laid low in an hour the matchless and
symmetrical growth of a century—some um
brageous canopy—the home of countless
outraged dryads, merely because it did not
stand in the right line with some fence
corner or park-railing, or other of man’s
paltry and temporary devices. These ladies
did cause dead wood to be trimmed away;
Carolina railroad, which joins the Piedmont
Air Line at Salisbury.
A gentleman in Newcastle, N. H., has a
brood of chickens which have the run of a
part of the yard, the old ben being kept shut
up. The chickens are fed with moistened
meal in saucers, and when the dough gets a
little sour it attracts large numbers of flies.
An observant toad has noticed this, and
every day, along toward evening, he makes
bis appearance in tho yard, hops to a saucer,
climbs in, and rolls over and over until he is
covered with meal, having done which he
awaits developments. The flies, enticed by
the smell, soon swarm around the scheming
batrachian, and whenever one passes within
two inches or so of his nose his tongue darts
out, and the fly disappears; and this plan
works so well that the toad has taken it up
as a regular business.
The Influence of Women on Village
Adornment.
Twenty-nine years ago, Miss Hopkins—
now Mrs. John Goodrich—of Stockbridge,
Mass., inspired the thought and lead the
action which resulted in the formation of
the world-renowned Laurel Hill Associa
tion. Twenty-nine years gives time for re
sults to show themselves, and any one who
has doubts os to the benefits of intelligent
and organized actions can have them put to
flight by visiting the town, which a much
traveled lady, who saw it yesterday, says,
“it is the most ‘finished’ and perfectly kept
spot I have ever seen.” You ask, “What
did this Laurel Hill Association do that was
so wonderful?"
Imprimis, and the most important, the as-
niversary of the Association: “It started
with $1,306 in cash and available subscrip
tions. It had expended in the twenty-five
years, $6,866.35. It had planted 1,688 trees
and several hedges; this besides building
sidewalks, street crossings, foot bridges,
walks and drives in the cemetery and on
Laurel Hill, with the mowings, trimmings,
cleanings and gravelings bf annual neces
sity.”
It may interest the business mind to
know that this beautifying “pays,” and that
there is no computing how much it has en
hanced the price of real estate, but any one
can have some very enlightening experien
ces on that point, by going to Stockbridge
and trying to buy a building site.
Theodore Parker once said, “Most women
live for prettiness,” and it is universally ac
knowledged that it is woman’s peculiar pre-