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MRS. A. P. HILL, Editress. The attention of all housekeepers it invited to thit Depart ment, and the Editrest urges them to tend her copies of tried receipt!. Let us make this an interesting and prof- : itable Department. Something About Roys. To regard boys as nuisances, and so proclaim them, is and-has ever been universal. As a class, j they cannot boast a long list of admirers. The ! very sight of one brings up visions of all kinds I of wearing, tearing, provoking tricks and acci- j dents, of which they have been the instigators 1 and the cause. The popular verdict is, that mis- < chief is the law of their lives: and from the time ! they leave off petticoats until they may be con- j sidered full-fledged men, the largest part of their lives is given to accomplishing the greatest amount of this in the shortest possible time. | Indeed, so prone are boys to mischief, that even ; before there is a difference iD dress, the smallest j specimens of the genus homo, by daily and hourly j feats peculiar to themselves, proclaim their sex. j Some writer has facetiously remarked that, through some oversight, no arrangement has been made for the accommodation of boys in j the world; that they are always in somebody’s way. Society accepts them under protest—or rather does not accept, only tolerates. Boys understand this, and become “constitutionally aggressive.” “ When yon see a ragged urchin Standing wistful in the street, With torn hat and kneeless trowsers, Dirty face and bare red feet, Pass not by the child unheeding: Smile upon him. Hark me—when He's grown he’ll not forget it; For remember, boys make men. “ When the buoyant youthful spirits Overflow in boyish freak, Chide your child in gentle accents,— Do not in your auger speak. You must sow in youthful bosoms Seeds of tender mercy; then Plants will grow and bear good fruitage When the erring boys are men. “Have you never seen a grandsire, With his eyes aglow with joy, Bring to mind some act of kindness, Something said to him—a boy? Or relate some slight or coldness, With a brow all clouded, when He said they were too thoughtless To remember boys make men ? “Let us try to add some pleasure To the life of every hoy, For each child needs tender interest In its sorrow and its joy. Call your boys home by its brightness,— They avoid a gloomy den, And seek for comfort elsewhere,— And remember, boys make men.” To the Members of the Knights of Jericho. Waynesboro Lodge No. 254 is beginning to wake up and work. They will soon have cause to rejoice, we hope. From this time forth, all communications must be addressed to brother F. M. Springer. Griffin, . - Georgia, formerly Vice, now Grand Chief of our members in good standin now have a home of my own: my children are well shod and clothed, and goto Sunday School, while my patient, loving wife can wear a silk dress when she goes out. Now, sir. have you a wife and children ? Do vou love them? Yes? Newnan Lodge No. 340 makes a good report Then show them that you do by throwing that for the last quarter, one hundred and eighteen bottle away. It is ei robber and a 'thief- -a murtlever of happiness and domestic comfort!' Order, as I have tendered my resignation. Brothers R. M. Mitchell and M. M. Phillips, The man, to my surprise, deliberately turned f Allatoona Lodge No. 333, organized a new alld threw the bottle Y’ours in H., T., C.. Hoke Smith. Notice to Lodges I. 0. G. T. of lodge at Midway recently, which bids fair to do effective work for ths cause. Brother J. L. Horslev reorganized Antioch Anv lodge in this State proposing to pay trav- T , Vf' L TT , , , , _ eling expenses of a speaker, can, on application T°dg e No. _9_ on the nineteenth of June, and i... "rites hopefully of tin to these headquarters, have speakers appointed for public occasions. Several able orators have tendered their services free, only requiring their traveling expenses to be paid. Fraternally, J. G. Thrower, G. W. 0. T. the work in Troup county. MouDt Lee Lodge No. 242. at Eatonton, is in a prosperous condition, yet there is work for all to do. “Why stand ye* here idle all day,” breth ren? out of the window of the car, and is to-day. I learn, an earnest, working Good Templar. That's how he became a Good Templar. [For The Sunny South.] STRONG BRINK. BY ALVAREZ. Temperance Success. Again we are constrained to call the earnest attention of temperance friends to our chief means of success. Be assured that this is not The cause is flourishing in Resaca and open opposition about ended. Faith, Hope and Char ity will remove mountains, brothers, and—dis tilleries, too. Receipts. “ Drink, which for its beastly worship, spurns the light, and bows groveling at the shrine of appetite." Experience and observation show that a me dium course between extremes is always safest and best. Human existence is really suspended . _ between two great extremes—life and death. mtlulo „„ The cause looks brighter every day. Cheering The heart contracts as if to cease its measured in the display of regalia, nor in the curiosity "* ori | s pour in upon us from all quarters and fill and incessant beating, but again it expands and excited by secrecy, nor in the respectablity of our hearts with gladness. God bless the noble the red life-current is drawn in to be thrown to its members, nor" in the pleasant social enter- me ? an d " omen all over our land who thus seek every part of the system by the next contraction, tainments of our lodges, nor in our elegant rit- to l *° B°°d to their fellow-beings. The breath of life seems at each expiration to ual, nor yet in the provision made for our sick. Liquor dealers in this city are trembling with depart as if to return no more, but the chest All these* may have their due weight. But they fear at the immense/growth of Good Templarism expands and the wheel of life continues to re- are not—nor*can they be—the temple; they are in their midst. Many of them have been heard volve. While existence, then, moves on in this no more than the scaffolding, or at most, the to express the opinion that if the license ques- medium state, it will be observed that the expan porches thereto. Even the pledge, sacred and tion was submitted to a popular vote to-day, the sion which seems to indicate or represent the solemn as it is, makes not our success nor builds result would be a closing up of bar-rooms return of life has also its limit, beyond which is our good, grand temple, but a profound under- throughout the city, and so think we. death. In a word, there is a natural or normal standing and conviction of the truth going into Brother T. R. Jones, of Oak Hill Lodge No state lor tlie body, above or below which, if the Chen that pledge, does the work. The mind, the heart 424, Melville, Chattooga conntv, writes under rrv Tam Stone the fruit' add to a wound and enli 8 htened sentiment are the grand ele- date of June 22, among other good things: “The ny Jam. Stone the truit add to a pound ments whlc]l we must control, and must have as older people, fathers and mothers, have united of it, three quarters ot a pound ot sugar. Mix the building material for our reform. Mere pag- j with us and are earnestly at work for the success and let it stand all night. Next morning, stew eantry, policy, or the most splendid strategy, ; Q f the cause in our midst. I have no doubt but slowly stir often until a mass is formed. This cal > never constitute this. For a season, such that we will have excellent success and do val- 1 To " se , al > ove this weight is to incur the risk of T r , • , . . , „ contrivances may win a little surface success, I confess to having entertained somewhat of is nice to fill tartlets or for cherry rolls. | 1mt like sto ny-ground converts, the sun withers fire of life ascends or descends, there is danger. The engineer runs his fire engine under a cer tain or medium weight of steam, which weight is adjusted to correspond to the strength of the boiler and the duties required to be performed. this popular idea of boys, as a class; but as a close investigation of a subject not unfrequently modifies or changes one’s opinion, an intimate knowledge of the nature of boys has greatly modified my opinion of the class, and converted me into an absolute admirer of a real, genuine boy, though he may be brimful and running over with fun and frolic. I am convinced that a very one-sided view of boys and their proceed ings has been taken, and a most prejudiced judgment concerning them given and accepted by the world at large. They are often misun derstood and improperly disciplined, and be come insolent and unmanageable from a sense of wrong and injustice. Their tempers are often made sullen by continual fault-finding. Sup pose they are awkward.and uncouth, will it do any good to have this continually flaunted in their faces. On the contrary, it will increase the difficulty by making them self-conscious and ill at ease. Ido not pretend to say that boys are all they ought to be. The question is, How can they be made better? How can their exuberant energy and spirits be utilized and turned to the best account? The obvious answer to this im portant question is: Give them some employ ment, and patiently, kindly and decidedly re quire them to do their work well, with system and regularity. To illustrate this idea. Upon a visit to the country, I was delighted to learn that the boys of the best families milked the cows and cared for the stock almost without assistance. So far from regarding it as a degrad ing, menial employment, there was a pleasant rivalry between the boys; each one felt a proper pride in his skill. Their labors were supervised, and often rewarded or kindly commended, by older members of the family. Every sheep and calf had its name, and these dumb brutes seemed to feel almost a human affection for their young protectors. Nothing was allowed to interfere with school duties; but work and study being over, they were ready for kites, ball, or any inno cent amusement which attracted their attention; and all with the sanction of their parents. What manly, self-reliant boys they’ were!— truthful, frank and out-spoken, and with no false pride to make them ashamed of honest work that lightened father’s and mother’s labors. Society will, I am sure, never have cause to call them shams or parasites. Now, city boys may never be required to milk cows and attend stock; but are there not other employments in which they could be just as useful? I think so, and it is the duty of par ents to see that they have occupation, and per form their duties faithfully. You say you “have no time to be looking after boys?” Oh, what a fatal mistake! You had better leave other things undone than allow your sons to drift away from you—keeping you know not wliat company, em ployed you know not how. The very money you are striving so hard to make may be spent in getting your neglected boy out of an ugly scrape, into which he has been lured by some sharp, dissolute youth, who, you are shocked to learn for the first time, has long been the inti mate associate of your son. Another fatal mistake made by parents in too many instances is the'failure to provide pleas ures and amusements for their children at home, which their animal, or rather human, nature absolutely demands, just as they find themselves no longer satisfied with childish sports. This is the turning-point in a boy’s life, when, by a judicious outlay of time and means, home may be rendered so attractive, and home-folks so dear, that the momentous question of where his evenings shall be spent is always settled. The hours between twilight and bed-time may be pleasantly and profitably spent amidst refining influences, that, unless a boy is more than ordi narily vicious, will save him from contaminating influences and the keeping of late hours. Boys must have a jolly time: let them have it at home, where all excesses can be kindly and decidedly checked. Provide music, innocent games, books which amuse and entertain as well as instruct. Give a right direction to their taste by pictures and all the aspects of home. Give them animals to pet; if possible, a slip of ground to cultivate in flowers; by all means, spare them a few dol lars to spend upon an aquarium. Loving, con scientious parents will use self-denial to provide these and other home recreations, and in the end find full compensation in saving their sons from outside pernicious influences. Help boys to form good habits; teach them that each one can and must “ carve a noble life, without a (stain. ” Apple Jam.—Take equal'quantities of good them away. Temperance grows not in the dark, PpaI enro and but is pre-eminently a plant of the light. Hence ’ ’ truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, brown sugar and sour apples, chop them fine. Make a syrup of the sugar, clarify it well; add the apples, the grated peel of two lemons, three races of pulverized white ginger, or as much as will season the apples well. Boil until the apples look clear. Rhubarb Tart.—Peel the stalks; cut them into pieces an inch long; stew gently; add sugar to taste; cover close; no water to be used. They should not be stewed long enough to break. Bake in pie pan a rich bottom crust; lay over it the stewed rhubarb. To those who do not dis like the taste of coriander seed, they make a pleasant flavoring. The rhubarb may be baked as a pie, between two crusts. Eat with cream sauce. Snow Cake.—One cup of butter, two cups of sugar, three cups of flour, one cup of sweet milk, the whites of five eggs, tea-spoonful of yeast powder. Bake thin in pie plates. There should be five or six of these. Grate a large co- coanut; make an icing of the whites of three eggs; put a layer between each two cakes; scat ter over the cocoanut freely. When the cakes are all piled, ice the whole and scatter over co coanut. To Keep Cider Siceet.—Let the new cider fer ment from one to three weeks, as the weather is cold or warm. "When the fermentation is brisk, add to each gallon from half a p&und *0 two^uf. white sugar; the quantity of sugar will depend upon the acidity of the cider. Make it pleas antly sweet, no more. Now, pour out a quart of the cider and add to it sulphate of lime, allowing for each gallon a quarter of an ounce; stir well; pour back into the cask; shake well. The fer mentation will soon cease.. Bottle in two or three days. If kept in the cask, remove the sed iment. Always use new corks. Blackberry Wine.—To every gallon of fruit add a quart of boiling water; mash and stir well, then strain the juice into a jar. To every gal lon allow two pounds of sugar. Divide the sugar into three parts; add one part every twelve hours; stir well and cover the jar with a thin an explosion and destruction; to fall below, is to render it useless and a dead weight so far as the necessities of progress are concerned. The foregoing well-known lines are referred to as pertinent to, and illustrative of, the subject iant service in this section.’ There will be a grand rally of Good Templars at Homer, Banks county, on the sixth and sev enth of August, at which half a score of lodges in that and adjoining counties will be present to “f thYs'‘article.' Indulgence of the appetite in near brother Hickman, tlie silver-tongued ora- j r i n fc j s to stimulate the physical, and through ^ r * Our gaUant leader will also meet thousands them the mental powers to'an unnatural and at the grand barbecue in Louisville, Jefferson ex t r eme state, which, if persisted in, leads to as certain destruction as would follow with an en- Brothers Hickman and Robinson addressed gine if the weight of steam were increased above an immense temperance meeting in Dalton, out its proper medium. at Hamilton Spring, June 22. A splendid picnic . Man at best is not superabundantly supplied dinner rendered it one of the most pleasant oc- with reason,but the stimulation of drink steals casions of the season. At night, Tippet Hall was away even that which he has. In its normal crowded to suffocation by an audience eager to state, it is calmly cognizant of and active in the Colaparchee Council is still on the alert to do 116111 tlle great orator. Sixty-five new recruits daily duties of* life—between the extremes of something good. At the next meeting, two can- "’ as the result of the lecture, and now Dalton is stolid apathy on the one hand, and flaming fa- put down as one of the strongholds of the tern- naticism on the other. The intoxication result- perance cause in North Georgia. ing from drink partakes of both these extremes, Canton, Cherokee county, was taken by storm hut is utterly destitute ot any redeeming trait by the Good Templars of the county on the that might be claimed as belonging to either, twenty-fourth instant. Three hundred in rega- The wretched subject of this tell agent at once lia—an army with banners—(like Gideon’s band! with a splendid band of music, marched in and took possession, and as each carried a basket filled with good things, it looked as if they had come to stay. Brothers Robinson and Hickman made stirring speeches, and set the hardy moun taineers and their fairer companions all aglow with zeal for the cause. There is no more retail license in Cherokee county. Twenty-seven new members was the result of the visit. can rear it to perfection. Now to this grand element let us all look. Let ns hear, think and speak. Getting our souls well stored ftfth temperance facts, let us out of YYY S YYmnY'i a the abundance of our hearts speak. ^ ® United Friends of Temperance. Lutherville Council is always prompt to duty. Brother J. 4V. Taylor is a faithful and energetic Deputy.—G. S. ’olaparchee ( lething good didates will be initiated.—G. S. Mount Zion Council is doing a good work near Newnan, Georgia. Brother H. A. Martin is our energetic, go-a-head Deputy.—G. S. Tennille Council, we are glad to learn, is doing a fine work. It is small as yet, but good is being accomplished, and the council gradu ally growing. Dublin Council is now on the road to success. Brother Burch writes: “Hope we are now on the.right track again.” This is one of our best councils, and must surpass its former self.—G.S. Brother Wilson H. Cooper writes of Oak Lawn Council: “Our council is still in a flourishing condition. Initiates at almost every meeting. 4Ve are much pleased with the supplementary ritual.” Brother V. A. Chaffin writes from Monticello: “4Ve are getting along finely, and have good meetings. May God speed the cause the world over, and save our young men from intemper- ance.” __ v tf w in toil* < r ou n cil continues to do a good work. It has a faithful Deputy in brother T. N. Beall. Keep the light shining, brethren; there will come a time when you can look behind with pleasure at the noble work you have done.—G.S. Brother L. B. Hicks, writing from Reynolds, Georgia, says: “ Our council is in a prosperous condition. 44 T e initiate from one to five at each meeting. Thus far our efforts for temperance have been crowned with success. May the glo rious work continue.” Forsyth Council, recently organized with our good friend, Dr. Morse, as Worthy Primate, is flourishing. At the last meeting, eight or ten were initiated. This council will do good. It has many clever, working ladies and gentlemen in its membership.—G. S. Milledgeville Council, continues to lead the State. It is our corner-stone. This council fFor The Sunny South.] HOW I BECAME A GOOD TEMPLAR. BY H. K. SHACKLEFORD. In the summer of 1874, I met, while going to a neiglilioring town, a gentleman from Charleston, South Carolina, who, at first sight, impressed me very favorably. He occupied the seat in front of me, and appeared to be studying the to pography of the country through which we were passing. On the seat back of me sat two middle- aged gentlemen, apparently well-to-do in the rivals the maniac in his senseless ravings and idiotic actions, and descends below the level of brutes in his worse than beastly state of disgust ing drunkenness. It is useless and insulting for the adherents of drink to advance the argu ment that it is the only antidote for all of the numerous ills with which they claim to be af flicted. Even were some individuals benefited by its use, its terribly vicious and destructive results on society should forever banish it from all decent, intelligent communities. The position is taken, however, that even those who propose to use it for the benefit derived, inwardly chuckle at the idea of the gross deception which they are attempting to palm off. The fact is they are pandering to a depraved appetite, and the excuses which they offer are so flimsy in their texture that the ostrich hiding its head in the sand is creditable in comparison. Another argument offered by the friends of drink—viz, the vast revenue derived from its manufacture, and the means which it offers to so many’ hundreds of making their living by its sale—is too abominable and hideous in its char acter to oe a moment considered. That any one should claim the right—and exercise it, too—to make their living by degrading, destroying and world, who talked incessantly about everything murdering theif fellow-men, seems incredible. Suddenly, n ill ,i i: _.i ^— muslin; skim every morning for a week; stir. 1 demonstrates what true men can do, and is a , ... ~ . . . . livino example of the triumphs of our principles. 44 hen fermentation ceases, strain into a cask or Brot g ers Crawford, 4Vadsworth, 4Vindsor, Hun- jug; cork tight; put in a cool place where the ter and others, make a mighty team.—G. S. that presented itself to their minds, one of them stooped forward and took up a va lise, opened it and drew forth a large black bot tle. Leaning forward, he held it over my shoul der, and in a very hearty, but polite tone, asked: “ Won’t you try some good old rye, stran ger?” “Thank you, sir,” I answered; “but I never drink.” “You don’t, eh?” and the man looked incred ulous for a moment. “ 44’ell, I’m blest if I hain’t The priests of this degrading and destructive worship offer up every year many thousands of victims on the altar of depraved appetite which they have set up; and nearly all of the deeds of darkness, discord, crime and murder are directly traceable to their infamous dens. New Temperance Paper. vessel will not be shaken until the end of Octo ber; then bottle, cork with new corks and seal. The blackberry is the most valuable of our wild fruits, and should be made into wine, cordial, jam, and also canned. The berry is medicinal, beside being very pleasant to the taste. Food for an infant from three to six.inontlis old, unfortunately deprived of its natural nourishment.— Soak five grains of gelatine inapintof hot water; strain it when dissolved. Mix twenty-five grains of arrow-root to a paste with cold water; stir this well to the gelatine. Three gills of fresh sweet milk; stir well and boil five minutes. Rev. J. J. Hyman has recently connected him self with Magnolia Council, and will take the field at once for our Order. He is quite an acqui sition to our ranks, and will do us much good. The readers of The Sunny South will hear from brother Hyman soon, through our department. Blue Spring Council has three ministers among its membership. Members all attend promptly. Three bar-rcusH have been closed since the council was organized, and not a single one re mains. The council works the second degree and supplementary rituals, and is doing well.— 4V. H. Ousley. Brother F. M. NVilliams, one of the cleverest young men in Georgia, presides at Red Bluff, and with that faithful apostle of temperance, The Friend and Champion is the title of a new forgot how to read sign-boards then, that’s all;” temperance monthly, to be published by the and the two joined in a hearty, good-natured Supreme Council of the United friends of Tern laugh at the joke at my expense. “ Perhaps you never studied but one kind of ‘sign,’ ” I retorted, not a little nettled at the tin Sweeten as near like the mother’s milk as possi- brother 44'illiam 4Valker, is doing a noble work, ble. Remove from the fire and stir in a gill of ® ed 111 Council will do its work well and T , . .... always contribute its part to the triumph of our sweet cream. It the child is constipated, use o rder (j g brown sugar, less milk and more cream. In the opposite case, less cream, and boil in the gela tine a little cinnamon bark, inside bark of sweet gum. In summer, be very careful to keep sweet. Make no more than can be kept sweet. Steamed Beef.—Almost all stoves lia’ve a perfo rated steamer for cooking Irish potatoes. It will also answer a valuable purpose for steaming meats not sufficiently tender cooked by any or dinary process. These steamers are made to fit in the mouth of a kettle, being somewhat smaller than the kettle. Fill the ketUe not quite half full of hot water; the water must not touch the meat. Put the meat in the steamer, shut down the cover carefully, set the kettle on the back part of the stove, and let it simmer four hours. Replenish the water if necessary. Just before the meat is served, thicken to taste with brown flour. Stew the meat in it a quarter of an hour. Season the gravy with a little tomato catsup. Or instead of stewing, pour the gravy in a stove pan, put the meat in it, and bake a light-brown color. 4'ery few minutes will brown it suffi ciently. This is nice, cold for supper, or made into hash, or croquetts. Brother M. J. Cofer has gone on a tour through Southern Georgia, and will be sure to work up a new council or so before his return. Brother Cofer is now one of the most successful lecturers in the temperance field. 4\'henever he gets an audience, and warms up to the importance of his great theme, the results are bound to come. Stonewall Council, at Savannah, is one of our best. The able and efficient Deputy, brother E. L. Neidlinger, writes: “44’e have some good young men—a few active and zealous.” The ministry take but little interest in the council. The greatest impediment to ultimate success is the moderate drinkers. There are only about one hundred bar-rooms in Savannah. Zohoola, noble Zohoola, stands like a beacon light among the mountains, to emit the golden rays of temperance over the highest mountain and through the lowest valleys of upper Georgia. Brother 44*. J. 4VarIy, our faithful Deputy,writes: “ Our council is now in a prosperous and liealthy condition.” 44’e wish Zohoola well. Always true to principle in the past, she will continue true in the future.—G. S. Sunny South Council continues to prosper. Brother J. N. Stewart writes: “Our council is prospering. 44’e have nearly all our young la dies in the council. The voting men, still out, will follow after awhile. appreciated familiarity of the strangers; “the kind you carry yourself. I am a Good Tem plar.” No sooner had the words “Good Templar” passed my lips than I felt my hand seized by the Charlestonian in front of me, and held in a strong, manly grasp, under the cover of which the grip was given. He was a brother, and we were instantly acquainted. Just at that moment, the black bottle was presented to him with the remark: “Perhaps you will join us in a taste, Mister?” ! “No, sir. I used to drink to excess, but lam I a Good Templar now.” “Did you ever hear the like?” exclaimed the man with the bottle, turning to his companion. “Everybody and his wife has joined the Good j Templars. Guess we’ll have to go it alone, Ben. ” “ Hold on, my friend,” said the Charleston ian, interrupting the man as he was about to drink from the bottle; “let me tell you how I came to be a Good Templar before you drink any more. It won’t take me many minutes, and you may be interested. I live in a beautiful ‘city by the sea,’where it has long been the rule and custom for gentlemen to drink. The city is full of magnificent saloons, where the finest wines, liquors and cigars are sold. I was a salesman, getting a good salary, and my little wife and children were well cared for and happy. But the custom of social drinking soon made me thirst for strong drink, until I was never happy unless I had my blood at a boiling heat by alco hol. My credit was good at all the saloons, be cause one was not considered a gentleman who could not treat his friends when and wherever they met. I paid all my bills monthly, though I often reeled and staggered home from the rev elries at the bar-rooms, and was taken care of by my good wife. All my debaucheries were car ried on by night, outside of my employer’s busi ness hours. “One day I drew my month’s salary, and started out to pay my monthly bills. I found, after paying three liquor, one cigar, and my gro cery and butcher’s bill, that I hadn't a dollar left, though our household expenses were but one-third of what I had paid out that day. 44'hen I reached home, mv wife asked me for money to perance, at Nashville, Tennessee, and edited by Rev. George B. Taylor, Most 4Vor'thy Associate of the Order. The price will be only one dollar a year. All moneys received above actual pub lishing expenses will go into the treasury of the Supreme Council. This is a move in the right direction, and we hope it will receive a liberal support in Georgia. Our people must not for get, however, that The Sunny South is 0nr pa per and our organ, and that our duty is first to it. Each council shou: l take The Sunny South to file in the counc 1 room, and raise a club besides. Then, help t-> the Supreme Coun cil will be in order, but not before. Those th us qualified can address our good friend and brother, Isaac Lytton, N .shville, Tennessee, concerning The Friend and champion. Grand Soli be of Georgia. “ The Sunny South ” am! the U. F. T. • The Sunny South, our beautiful organ, is be coming a valuable auxiliary to the United Friends of Temperance, and I trust the Order will rally to its support with increased energies, and repay brother Seals for his great kindness to us. The Sunny South is a fixed institution, and needs not our support to keep it in the ascendancy; but when its clever editor comes forward and serves us freely for his love of temperance, a re gard for our own honor requires us to labor also for his interests. 4Vill not each council raise a club at once for The Sunny Souuh ? But I started out to say that the paper is doing us good. A new council in Alabama and a new council in Georgia is its work for the past week. The paper has an immense circulation, and as our principles need only to be known to be loved by all true white men, it is of untold ben efit to us. Let us rally to The Sunny South and repay this kindness to us. 44 r . E. H. Searcy. Large Accessions to the U. F. T. A large and respectable temperance Order in the Pacific Coast States, known as the "Inde pendent Order of Red Cross,” has recently uni ted with the United Friends of Temperance. This is a grand and important acquisition, and lifts the United Friends out of the South into the 44’est. 4Ye are rapidly ext- nding our lines I will send some sub- buv shoes for the children and a dress for her- in ever}’ direction. Only two years of existence Said pious Peter: “44*e can always find some thin’ to make us happy in this world, providin we have a cheerful disposition, which I thank Him for this day.” The light of the world comes principally from two sources—the sun and the student’s lamp.— Prentice. scribers to The Sunny South soon. Should self. Their feet were on the ground, and her h as pnt us into Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, new members sign the constitution at this ini- old dresses were faded and worn. The terrible Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, tiation?” Yes! the young men will come now truth flashed on my mind that I had been rubbing Arkansas, Missouri and Ohio—eleven States; and sure. 4Vherever the ladies take hold, the cause her and the children ! My salary was as much now come our 44 r estem brethren to add C alitor- flourishes. The temperance question is in their hers as mine, and I had been squandering it nia and its sister States to our circle. This is a hands. Be sure to raise a club for The Sunny with wild, dissipated companions in bar-rooms good work truly tor two years. By the time we South. Brother Seals is very kind to serve us, and tobacco shops, while she patiently toiled at celebrate our fifth anniversary, every State in and we should repay him. In answer to your home. My dear sir, I was a convicted thief, and the T nited States will be represented on our question, I would say, new members should felt as guilty as I would now feel if detected in banner of temperance. Our States-right tern- sign the constitution, which should be tran- the act of stealing your watch. I was a robber, perance Order, modeled in its government like scribed into a blank book for this purpose. I and had robbed my wife and children. That the old constitution of our fathers, is growing mean only the constitution of the subordinate night, I vowed to steal and rob no more, and in the love of the people, councils.—G. S. the next week I joined the Good Templars. I rlT> ‘ xr ’ Grand Scribe of Geoi