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• ■I IB.VTKRKI) AT TH1 PpgT PMC*. IS ATLANTA, OKOROIA, TOH TRANSPORTATION THBODOH THI UXITKD BTATKH MAIL!) AT BKCO.VD CLAW KATES.] BY MRS. H. M: PLOSKBTT. PUBLISHED 1 TT/-VT T TWI(!£AHOXTII.) VUJj. 1. 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-