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[For The Sunny South.]
MAY THE TENTH.
“Let ns cross over the river, and rest In the shade of
the trees.’ - —Dyivy Jl'orrf* of Gen. “ SU.mvaH” Jackson.
How perfect the hush on him lying!
And whence is the light on his brow ?
Is he yet in the land of the dying,
Or wakes he in Paradise now?
Without, in the calm Sabbath morning,
The •• Boys in Grayare at prayer
For their hero, their hope, their adorning,
Now lying so quietly there.
He hears not their outcrying sorrow—
He knows not their passion and tears;
His spirit no shadow may borrow,
So iar from the presence of tbeirB.'
Alone, on the brink of Forever,
The palms of the Blessed he sees;
He cries, •• Let us cross o’er the river,
And rest in the shade of the trees.”
The crimson of battle is paling—
The shouting, the thundering dies;
In the beautiful future nnvailing
The forests of Paradise rise.
Behind him is clamor and clashing—
The clouds of war luridly loom;
Before are the life-waters plashing
Through vistas of fragrance and bloom.
In the flag he so oit did deliver.
They’ve laid him away in the sod:
He has passed o’er the mystical river,
And rests with his Master and God.
Oh, men who have marched to his order—
Who fought with the shield of his prayer—
W’hen ye come to that still river’s border,
W’ill ye follow your leader, too, there?
When ye’ve grounded life’s aimor forever,
And won from life's battle release,
Will ye cross to him “ over the river,
And rest in the shade of the trees?”
journeyman blacksmith, bom at Newington,
England. 1791, and died on the 25th of August,
18(17, a baronet, wearing the highest honors
which the British government could confer upon
him. and after a well-spent lile full of benefits
to his species and of 1 indness to those about
( him.
When his father was working at the forge,
Michael was apprentice boy to George Riebaw,
a book-seller of London, where he was employed
to carry around the newspapers to the customers
| of his master. He always regarded the newsboys
with friendly compassion, and, jn after life,
when a knight, was once heard to say: “I always
feel a tenderness for these boys, because I once
carried newspapers myself.” It was here, while
at Biebaw’s book-store, that the hunger of his
genius was satisfied with the food it naturally
craved, and when but thirteen years of age he
evinced a remarkable fondness for scientific re
search, which happily met the considerate at
tention of his master.
It was during this apprenticeship to Riebaw
that Faraday, then but a child, commenced a
series of experiments with electricity, which so
much pleased his master that he gave him liberty
to attend the lectnres of Dr. Tatum. Young
Faraday made voluminous notes upon these
lectures, some of which were published by
Riebaw, who began to regard his shop boy with
wonder. These publications reached the eye of
Sir Humphrey Davy, then at the head of the j
Department of Chemistry in the Royal Institute,
who soon instituted search for the newsboy of
Blanford street.
At night, in February, 1810, while Faraday,
then a youth of nineteen, was engaged in his
studies, a footman in the livery of Sir Humphrey
Davy delivered a note from this illustrious
scientist. The result of this and the subsequent
ENIGMAS AND CONUNDRUMS.
interview is best expressed in the Minutes of Atlanta Cadets.
Stumped at Last.— The enigmas in the last
paper seem to have puzzled a great many who
have heretofore been expert in solving them.
Even Dr. Low failed on No. 2, and came in to
get the answer.
The following have sent in correct solutions:
John, William and Thomas Gaillard and John E.
Portis, of Mobile, Alabama, solve No. 3, but say
26 is left out: Lucy Bruce, Bainbridge, Georgia,
solves all correctly, but says they puzzled her
sadly: “A Subscriber,” at Ashland, Virginia,
solves Nos. 3 and 4: Sallie M. Arnold, of Mon
roe, also solves 3 and 4: Mrs. R. C. Harris, - of
Butler, solves No. 4: Mollie M. Stelle. of McDon
ough, gets all correctly; H. Blagge, of Galves
ton, Texas, solves No. 4. but discovers mistakes
in the spelling of Ciesar, Cleves and Osceola;
Miss M. F. Whitney, of Atlanta, answers Nos.
3 and 4; W. P. Me., of Atlanta, solves all three
correctly; little Birdie Walker, a sweet and smart
little girl of Wartburg. Tennessee, only twelve
years of age, has solved Nos. 3 and 4, and wishes
to send ns some enigmas in German and French,
but we had better continue them in English
awhile yet; Willie Waters, of Key West, Florida,
sends correct answer to enigma in No. 18, but
says 31 and 39 were omitted: Mrs. Rubina Hill,
Leesburg, Florida, sends correct answer to the
same; Mrs. C. E. Fickling, of Butler, answers
Nos. 3 and 4; Minnie B., of South Carolina,
makes a mistake as to the general alluded to in
No. 4,—it is Ciesar, and not Jackson : Emily At
kinson, of Norfolk, Virginia, solves Nos. 3 and 4
correctly.
Answer to Enigma No.
Cleopatra: Dickens; A. H. Stephens;Napoleon;
a tattler; Dandie Denmont: St. Tammany; Y.
The ladies’ pet company—the Katy-Dids, or
( HAT WITH CONTRIBUTORS.
Odessa.—Permit us to retain your former nom
de plume in the publication of your story. We
have special reasons for not wishing it changed.
Mother.— No. 1 is received and accepted with
thanks. To make the series effective, condense
and make as animated and pointed as possible.
Heloise.—You had better send your play to
some popular actor, who, if he likes it, can in
fluence some manager to purchase and bring it
out.
“ Jay.''—We are glad to secure for a regular
contributor this gifted writer, two of whose
poems, together with a number of stray thoughts,
appear in this week's paper. An earnest thinker,
a pure and polished writer, his contributions
cannot fail to interest our readers.
IF. D. T.—We cannot furnish you with the real
name of Faith Mills unless she is willing for us
to do so. Y’ou are not alone in your apprecia
tion of this promising young writer. We have
received several letters from distinguished
sources complimenting the depth and delicacy
of thought evinced in her writings. Next week
we will publish an exquisite sketch from her
pen.
We call attention to our stories this week.
Farmer, Clayton county, Ga., asks: “Are the
grasshoppers of the West the same as the locusts
of the East? . . . We do not know. Would
like to hear from naturalists on the subject.
Helousa. Newbury, asks: “Is it right for a
j young lady to go out to places of amusement
with a young man yonnger than herself?” . . .
Certainly, if he is old enough to wear boots.
Such insinuations against young America will
call upon you the anathemas of that great army
of dignified nondescripts. They are men (not
boys) of consequence, and consequently regard
less of consequences.
Eva Moore, Springfield. Va., says: “Is it
wrong for a young lady to accept trifling gifts
from her brother's friend and college chum, who
is visiting the family and stays long enough to
be regarded and treated nearly like her brother?
Is not Ruth Fairfax a Chicago woman ?” .
If the presents are appropriate, it is not wrong
to receive them. Ruth Fairfax is not a Chicago
woman. You must excuse us from putting our
portrait in the paper. You and everybody else
would properly charge us with excessive' ego
tism.
W. O. G., Madison, says: “ The young people
of our little city are foolish enough to think that
if a young man accompanies a lady to a party.
Both the serials increase in interest. Mrs. Chap- he is in duty bound to escort her to supper. I
,’s extremely clever story is completed in this reat * a manual of etiquette, but using
imber. “ Sid Frazier ” purports to be a sketch _ e c ° m ™ on sense about it, I think it is
[For The Sunny South.]
REFLECTIONS IN THE SHADE.
NO. Ill,—SELF-MADE MEN. ,
BY H. D. C.
Spontaneity of production forms the basis of
the Daiwinian theory, frem which, by regular
gradations of evolution, man is said to be pro
duced, with all his wonderful completeness of
physical structure and mental capabilities. This
is the theory of the advanced school of Euro
pean scientists; but America, not to be outdone
even in theory, comes forward with the “self-
made man ” as an improvement, we take it, upon
Darwinianism.
Up to this writihg, we have met with no for
mula by which “ self-made men ” are evolved.
So jealous of their power, or so regardless of the j , v „„„
wants of the age are the se modern gods, that no- tion in the development of his mind and his
the Royal Institute, bearing date March 1, 1810
“Sir Humphrey Davy has the honor to inform
the managers that he has found a person who is
desirous of filling the situation in the institu
tion so lately occupied by William Payne. His
name is Michael Faraday. As far as Sir H. Davy
has observed or ascertained, he appears very
well fitted for the station. His habits seem
good, his disposition cheerful and active, his
manners modest and intelligent.
“ llesolvtd, That Michael Faraday be engaged
to fill the office lately held by Mr. Payne, on the
same terms.”
From this, the humblest station in the Insti
tute, did Faraday, by his untiring devotion to
his studies, and the force of his superior intel
lect, become the representative man of science
and the worthy successor of the great Davy.
Now, here was a man who might have boasted
of being self-made, had he been less than he
was— a truly great man.
The poor newsboy of Blanford street, the son
of an humble blacksmith, rising over the pres
tige of rank and wealth in an aristocratic gov
ernment, achieving not only fame as a man of
science, but receiving from royal hands the
highest honors England could bestow, might,
indeed, boast of achievements.
But Faraday did not belong to any school of
materialism. He was content to have been made
by God, and to have served the end of his crea
Answer to Enigma No. 3.
Bier: javelin: Uranus; Dry den; urn; stern;
time; pica; stamen.
Justice may sleep, but never dies.
Answer to Enigma No. 4.
Cmsar; Cineas: David; Joan of Arc; 'Annie of
Cleves: Oeeola; Dickens; Seals.
Jacksonville, Florida.
where can we find that one of them has been
considerate enough to give to the world the
rationale of their creative genius. Hence, if we
are mistaken in our attempt at discovering the
elements of their constitution, we are to be
placed in the list of unfortunate chemists who
have blundered in an attempt at analysis.
We have no difficulty in finding-a specimen
sample of the “self-made man,” go where we
may, in our American rambles. They are in
every conspicuous place, whether city, town,
village, or hamlet.
Let us, without much ceremony, pass beyond
the drapery of circumstances, which always in
vests these wonders, only pausing long enough
to note the fact that there is a glitter about them
which proclaims in unmistakable terms the ex
istence of "flash,” and if we can survive the
din of the horn-blowing and trumpet-sounding
with which this n odtrn Jove is surrounded, let
us reach the pit st nee of his creative omni
science.
We note that to all appearances, he is in all
respects like as otl er men. He eats, drinks and
sleeps, the only ] eculiarity being that he does
these very natural things just as if he alone
could appreciate them. If he speaks, there is
no thunder in heaven like unto his utterance of
the pronoun I. If he converses, all the attend
ants about his majesty are silent as they hear of
‘‘my stocks, my bonds, my houses, my wonderful
achievements.” We listen in vain, hoping for
some other use of these personal pronouns,
until we become satisfied and retire to make our
analysis.
This boasting “self-made man,” we find in
his assumption to be a fraud. He is not of his
own making, but a creature of God’s, with but
a small per cent, of divinity in him, and a large
amount of the du>t of the earth.
We boil him dottn, roast him in our crucible,
filter him, and fr< m the remaining elements we
have this wondeil'ul creature expressed in the
following ratio of pioportions :
Egotism, 25 per cent.; speculative shrewd
ness, 25 per cent.; unscrupulous energy, 25
per cent.; gold, 25 per cent.—100paits.
The fumes from these elements sicken us, and
we turn away in disgust. The fact is, that the
term “self-made man ” has been used, tolerated
and coined into the currency of our American
thought by those who would be pleased to find
some other Divinity to shape our ends than the
God of creation.
That men differ in the strength of their minds,
in their constitutional endowments of every
character, is true, and that all these peculiarities
indicating this difference are impressed upon
the creature by his God, are likewise true.
Every great man, as the world has recognized
true greatness, received the elements of his
character in the very inception of his being.
For him to have achieved the career which his
tory preserves, of which poets sing, and the
enduring granite commemorates, was as much a
law of his being as it was for his associates, with
superior advantages, to have filled humbler
spheres in life.
These reflections have been suggested by read
ing the charming sketch of the life of Michael
Faraday, by Dr. Bench Jones, of the Royal
Institute.
In an age like the present, when it appears
that money is at once the motive power and the
ultimate object of all human action, the contem
plation of such a mind as Michael Faraday's
may be fraught with the most beneficial results,
and may save some youthful pilgrim from
wrecking his character in the effort to become a
mere sham, in attempting the role of a “self-
made man.”
It is indeed pleasant to know that a man of
perfect simplicity of character can succeed in life,
and still more so to watch the career of such an
one. when crowned with the honors his genius
had won, and to find that he maintained to the
last his original plain-dealing and truthfulness.
Cynical philosophies may divide the world
into the cheating and cheated, or the oppressors
and the oppressed; but the simple incidents of
Faraday's life, and still more, the bright spirit
that gleams forth from his correspondence, will
convince every candid inquirer that a man may
be honest and independent when he is fighting
the battle of life, and modest and benevolent
when he has won the victory.
Let me make a short review of this wonderful
life. Some mother who reads The Sonny Sooth
may have a boy who can be encouraged by it.
Michael Faraday was the son of a very poor
God-given attributes, knowing that in doing
this he was but yielding to the law of his crea
tion, beyond which he was as nothing.
PARAGRAPHIC.
Even a telegraph cable cannot be laid without
a great deal of wire-pulling.
When does a cow become real estate? When
turned into a field.
Three hundred passenger trains daily enter !
and leave a single depot in Jersey City, opposite |
New York.
Friendship is never completed till men are
bound to each other by the common experiences
of sorrow.
There can be no fashion devised that women j
will not meekly follow, from wearing no cloth- |
ing in winter to putting on bear-skin overcoats
in summer.
A lady, the other day, meeting a girl who had
lately left her service, inquired: “Well, Mary, '
where do you live now?” “Please, ma’am, I
don’t live nowhere now,” rejoined the girl; “I’m
married! ”
White a Second Adventist in Oshkosh, Wis
consin, was busily engaged in watching for the
end of the world on the 10th ult., a brother Ad
ventist maele love to and eloped with his wife.
I clasped her tiny hand in mine, I vowed to
shield her from the wind, and from the world's
cold storms. She set her beauteous eye on me,
and with her little lips said she: “An umbrella
will do as well.”
A Maine girl left her clothing in an open boat
and hid herself, and when her parents were
crying and saying if they oDly had her back
they would obey her slightest wish, she ap
peared and said she wanted to marry Jake.
Said a colored Georgia preacher: “Dar’s rob-
bin’ and stealin’ all around. Dar's de Beecher j
business, deWoodhull business, Sumner is dead,
tornadoes come whoopin’around, theFreedmen’s ;
Bank is busted, and it ’pears like de end was
nigh, mighty clus at hand.”
“Is Miss Blinking at home?” asked Mr. Saun
ders of the Irish girl who answered the ring at
the door. “Yis, I b’lave she is, sir.” “Is she
engaged?” “Faith, an’ I can’t tell ye, sir; but
she kissed Mr. Vincent last evening as if she
had not seen the like uf him before, an’ its
engaged I b’lave they are, sir.”
The best premium system to stimulate farm
ers has been adopted in North Mississippi. A
Grange lodge numbering forty members re
solved that the owner of the best acre of
corn should receive five bushels, from each
of the thirty-nine other members, and he
who cured the most bacon should receive
one ham from each of the other thirty-nine
members.
Enigma—No. 5.
The following enigma, from a friend at Char
lottesville, is very acceptable, and we want every
body in the South to work it out and carry the
answer into practice:
I am composed of twenty-four letters.
My 8, 9, 14, is an insect.
My 23, 9, 9, 12, 13, is a part.of the body'.
My 15, 22, 18, is one of the heavenly bodies.
My 13, 9, 17, is a bird.
My 10, 21, 19, 1, is what all little children are
fond of.
My 23, 16, 3, is an article used by house
keepers.
My 4, 7, 18, is what we should try never to do:
My 10, 14, 18, is a number.
My 24, 11, 2, 20, 9, is what we would be bad
oft' without.
My 5, 14, 18, 10, is a coin.
My 6, 21, 9, is an animal.
My whole is what everybody should do.
Enigma—No. 6.
I am composed of thirteen letters.
My 8, 5, 11, lives in the water; but if trans
posed, we prefer that side when the wind is cold.
My 13, 6, 7,1 3, is the farthest part from my
1, 10, 6, 6, 4, 13.
My 3, 2, 9, 8, we wish to do as long as we can;
but if the first three letters be transposed, those
who are such are disliked by all good people.
My 6, 10, 13, some people would rather never
do.
My whole is a city in Georgia.
Enigma—No. 7.
I am composed of twenty-seven letters.
My 7, 16, 15, 7, 18, 6, is the name of the man
who tied three hundred foxes’ tails together and
set them on fire.
My 1, 6, 16, 6, ,25, 1, 7, is the name of the man
who history tells us was struck dead for a liar.
My 9, 13, 14, 2, is a place that all men should
fear.
My 4, 23, 6, 5, 11, is something for which all
men should care.
My 12, 17, 12, 26, 8, 19, is the name of a man
who wrote history well.
My 21, 25, 24, 7, is something which all young
ladies tell.
My 24, 13, 6, 24, 10, 12, 14, 27, 19, is a person,
who, by stealing spoons, became a rich man.
My 3, 1, 14, 22, is a tree, and also a part of the
hand.
My 23, 9, 6, 20, is what a stingy man says
when asked to do a good deedi.
My whole is a ruler of a Southern city, who,
for his merits, deserves great meed.
Enigma—No. 8.
I am composed of thirty-five letters.
My 12, 15, 9, 34, 28, 31, 15, 10, 16, is a humor
ous writer.
My 24, 26, 14, 2, 4, 23, 5, 35, is a renowned
poet.
My' 27, 16, 8, 2, 16, 19, was a great general.
My 18, 6. 20, 17, 22, 12, is in every well-regu
lated household.
My 21, 1, 29, 25, 10, 30, 29, 31, 32, 33. 7, 1, 10,
13, 13, 22, 30, 35, is one of the poems in “Lalla
Rookh.”
My 30, 11, 3, 22, is what methodical people
live by.
My whole—Atlanta’s greatest pressure since
the panic of 1873.
number. “ Sid Frazier ” purports
from real life, and is written by a gentleman at
tached to the daily press of this city. “ Myra
Dodson ” is a true Southern story, and the easy,
natural, graphic manner in which it is told
evinces experience as well as talent. “ Vive
L’Amour ” is sprightly, graceful and touching.
The poems this week are also of a higli merit.
We have taken an “inventory” of our stores
of manuscript previous to transporting the well-
crammed pigeon-holes to their present quarters
in our new and elegant sanctum, and give below
a list of the greater number of those now on
hand. Those marked “received” only, have not
yet been examined. Of rejected manuscripts, we
make no public note, but inform their authors
privately by letter. *
contributions received.
•v “Eric Urquhart;” “The Wanderers;’ ‘“Madge;”
“Ralph Linsley;” “The Creole;” “Married in
Haste;” “A Woman’s Revenge;” “The Lucky
Accident;” “Manita;” “My Story;” “ The Man
of the Twelfth of May;” “Fickle;” “Oliver
Goldsmith;” “Earth’s Paradise;” “Early Dead;”
“Bells;” “Auld Lang Syne;” “By and By;”
“Past, Present, Future;” “Dreams;” “Human
Nature;” “Dead in Jail;” “Farewell;” “Alone;”
“In the Morning;” “Requiem for Summer;”
i “ Answer to ‘ Seven Years Ago;’” “ To Miss A;”
“A Woman of the World;” “The Lunatic and
the Lily;” “Compensation;” “Superstition, Old
and New;” “Old Mammy Chloe;” “What’s in a
Name?” “Rosseau;” “Sunset Gold;” “Tyranny
of Fashion;” “BeUp and Doing;” Twenty-five;”
! “VadeMecum;” “ Power of Love;” “My South
ern Home;” “Death of Jackson;” “The First
Picnic;” “Legion of Fairy Dell;” “Wanted—A
Letter Written;” “Origin of Cape Jessamine;”
“Woodland Flower;” “A Story of Gettysburg;”
“Song of Irish Emigrants;” “Love and Pride;”
“Looking Backward;” “Old Bed of a River;”
“Soldier’s Reverie;” “Lone Bird ” and “ Mock
ing Bird;” “This and That;” “Iron Captain:”
“Gallery of Memories;” “Ruth’s Lovers;” “Es
says by Rosa R.;” “Letter from a Mother;” “A
Reverie;” “Window Observations;” “All About
It;” “Howattan’s Treasure;” “Tried in the Cru
cible;” “The Miser;” “But it Does Move;” “Sap
pho:” “Aim High;” “Charity at Home;” “Con
tempt of Court;” “Cupid;” “Eglantine;” “The
Haunted House;” “Widow’s Cap;” “The Hid
den Home;” “Deacon Kempsen’s Minister;” “A
Picture;” “The Orphan’s Cry;” “Crossing the
Potomac;” “Lillie Eric;” “Fair but False;” “A
Brave Boy;” “Life Pictures;” “Some Domestic
Facts;” “Spirit of the Clock;” “Ethel Myrl’s
Mistake;” “Lillian;” “Legend of Nagoochee;”
“Portfolio Scraps;” “Maud Sumner’s Lovers;”
“Howit Happened;” “Until Death do us Part;”
“Lost Friendship;” “Aubriana;” “Evening;”
“ Heart’s Secret;” “Monieka, the Choctaw Chief;”
“My Guardian and I;” “Bachelor’s Dream;”
“ Lenora’s Fate;” “Death of Summer;” “Stick;”
“ Marrying for Spite;” “Lina;” “Miller's Child; ’
“The Indian War-Dance;” “Evening Bells;”
“Stonewall Jackson;” “Musings;” “A Story;”
“Those Postal Cards;” “Poems by Kitty W.;”
“Equal Work—Equal Rights;” “What to Teach;”
“Isabel;” “Adventures of the Early Settlers;”
“ Visions of Smoke;” “A Midnight Adventure;”
“Estranged;” “The Eunuch and the Negro;”
“Moral Heroism;” “Belrieve;” “Motherless;”
“For Politeness’ Sake;” “Eminent Georgians;”
“Gipsy’s Prediction;” “Power of One Idea;”
“Literary Mosaic;” “Unity of Races;” “Hell
Located;” “Getting a License in War Times.”
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
A fellow in Kentucky ran away with a far
mer’s daughter and horse, and was hotly pur
sued. The farmer got within close range and
flourished a revolver. “ Don’t shoot, for Heaven’s
sake!” shouted the lover. “I won’t,” was the
reply, “ ’ cause I'm feared I’ll hit ther hoss. Just
leave the hoss and take ther gal.” That compro
mise was accepted by the young folks, who walked
on to a preacher’s house, and the father rode
home on his horse.
A farmer on the road to Worcester, Mass.,
[Communicated.]
Straws show which way the wind blows.
And Strauss, not Straurs, for right spelling goes.
Mrs. N. Laurens is certainly mistaken in re
gard to the enigma in No. 18. The musical com
poser’s name is in that spelled correctly. As for
poor dear Marie Antoinette, John S. Jenkins, in
his “Heroines of History,” gives October 14,
1793, as the day - of the month and the year in
which she was guillotined. I trusted to his
memory instead of mine; it’s some time ago,
and my retentive powers may possibly be im
paired.
I am obliged to Dr. Low for so kindly coming
to my defense, and agree with him, as all read
ers of The Sunny South must, that it is daily in
creasing in popularity. Scrimp.
[For The Sunny South.]
Incomes of Professional Men.
The Constitution says there are in the city of
Atlanta one hundred and thirty-five lawyers and
sixty-five doctors, and adds:
“And yet—this is the climax of our story—
having been terribly annoyed bv drummers, put ® D ^y * w0 °* the medicine men and barely a
up a sign: “No sewing machines wanted here. d° zei b we believe, ot the disciples ot Black-
stone possess property to the value of ten thou
sand dollars!”
Will the reader be good enough to add this to
what was said by the writer in these columns a
few weeks ago ? If the facts could be further
learned, so as to show how many of these men
are to-day making bread, and just what per cent,
oi them are not doing that, the lesson would
have additional val“e.
The crop of fools in-.reuses every year, and
w’" f -ntinue to do so till parents cease to en-
c .<> their sons to take professions in which
they exchange comfort for show and poverty.
Arnot.
up a sign: “JNo sewing
Got one.” It was no use—the next drummer
wanted to see the machine, “and perhaps he’d
hitch up a trade.” So the farmer put up: “Got
the small pox here.” This worked well for a
little time, but then came tu :ag a drummer
frightfully pitted with small pox. who suddenly
said: “Seeing you’ve got it bad here, they’ve p...
me on this route.”
The ingenious French have contrived a novel |
way to impress the barbaric mind. M. de Brazza,
who has charge of the expedition to Senegal,
carries an electric battery in his pocket com- ;
municating with two rings on his hand and !
with other apparatus scattered about his person.
When he shakes bands with a savage chief, that
chief will be very much astonished, for an elec
tric shock will run up his arm and he will see
lightning about the head of his visitor. Natur
ally he will think that he is being interviewed
by the devil, and will be ready to ct. T ’.-'nt to
anything to get away.
G. A. R., Rome, says: “Will you please tell
me who Annie M. Barnwell, that wrote "Parting
Words,” in The Sunny South, is and where she
is from ?” .... Get a copy of “ Southland
Writers,” by Mrs. Tardy, and it will give you
full information.
W. P. H. asks: “ Is there any arithmetic giv
ing a rule for such questions as the following:
A tree 128 feet high was broken in a storm so ;
that the top reached a point 64 feet from the
root, the other part remaining on the stump.
What height did it break?” . . . Sanford’s
Arithmetic, under the head of “Mensuration,” j
analyzes such problems beautifully.
Amice, Cusseta, Texas, says: “Please inform
me who the blind preacher was that William
Wirt heard in Orange county, Va. He writes so
eloquently about him that I am anxious to know
who he was, and if his biography can be ob
tained.” ... A correspondent of the Lynch
burg Virginian says it was Rev. James Waddell,
who died near Gordonsville.
Marion, Americas, asks: “Where there is a
young lady boarding with a family, and the gen
tleman of the family is in the habit of having
some of his family to scratch his head, is it
proper on the part of the young lady to scratch
it for him ?” . . . Instead of scratching his
head, it would be better to use a fine-tooth comb,
and that would obviate the necessity of scratch
ing.
Little Alfy, Selma, Ala., says: “lam called
little by the ladies of our town, and it is very
hard for me to stand; so I ask you if you know
of anything that will make me grow faster or
prevent them from calling me little?” . . Eat
“pot-licker” and turnip greens, or swallow cow-
peas and drink water to make them swell. If
that doesn’t do, get mad. A mad little man usu-
ally weighs a thousand pounds.
B. Y'. Turpin, Herndon, Ga.. says: “I am anx
ious to retain my natural head-covering, if pos
sible—not only because I think it more becom
ing, but because the ladies seem interested,—at
least, one of them. A sure preventive against
the coming out of the hair will oblige a reader.”
Use cold water and a stiff brush freely, and be
sure not to marry a fierv-headed woman, nor one
with a thunder-cloud in the comer of her eve.
rong. I wish you would give your ideas
about it.” • . . It is the duty of the gentleman
to see that she is provided with an escort to the
table. If no one else goes with her, it is clearly
his duty to do so.
W. H. W., Macon, says: “ Where I board, we
have waffles for breakfast and a number of ladies
to assist in getting away with them. The waiter
first passes them to the ladies, and as there is
always a certain number of them brought in at
a time, only one is left when the plate reaches
me. Would you consider it impolite to take it?”
By no means. Take it every' time, and thank
those voracious lady waffle-eaters for leaving you
even that one. And besides, the old idea of
leaving one pea in the dish for manners doesn’t
hold good in hotels and boarding houses.
R., Eatonton, Ga., says: “Please let ns know
through your column of ‘Answers to Corres
pondents ’ the origin and meaning of the words
‘bonanza’ and ‘ carmagnole,’ the first now used
by advertisers, the latter prominently used in
the Stephens-Hill controversy last year. ”...
The following lines, by Carl Brent, answers hap
pily your first question:
'■ You wander through the mountains of Nevada,
Forlorn, alone, and think how very sad a
Life lot is yours; then strike deep, getting madder,
When suddenly, as if your heart to glad, a
Big golden nugget pops into your pan, sir—
That’s a bonanza.”
Monticello, Fla., is certainly correct in the
j position he takes, and we wish all Southerners
entertained the same ideas. “Will some of your
readers please give, through the columns of
] your paper, the address of a responsible and re
liable Southern manufacturer of paper, envel
opes, etc. I too am a lonely wretch of twenty-
six winters, and besides wanting to write a great
many letters to the girls. I have use for a large
quantity of paper and envelopes otherwise, and
would like to buy of a Southern manufactory, if
practicable. This I believe to be the plain duty'
of all true Southern people: to endeavor to
spend their little mites—no matter how small—
in a manner to build up and sustain home en
terprises and industries.
S. B. S., Americus, says: "The Furlow Ma
sonic Female College has resumed exercises,
and it is a rule that none of the girls can even
speak to us boys. I have a sweetheart in the
junior class, and she will not speak to me, al
though she has confessed that I am her favorite. .
Do you think it proper for me to write to her
and beg her to recognize me, or not? I think,
as we are lovers, it is—or should be—her duty
to speak. Please waft me some consolation.”
Let her alone during the book season. You will
only appreciate her the more after she acquires
a good education, which she cannot do if you
get her miDd from her studies. The rule is a
good one, and yon should not wish your fa vorite
to violate it.
X. Y. Z., Galveston, Texas, says: “I called on
some young ladies a few evenings since with a
friend of mine. He was well acquainted with
the young ladies, but I had never met them
before. When the clock struck the hour for re
tiring, he waited for me to propose leaving, and
I w’as waiting for him; consequently, we came
very near spending the night in the parlor.
Now, what I want to know is, whose place was
it to propose leaving—his or mine?” ... It
was his duty in the first instance, but as he
failed to move in the matter, it became your
duty to remind him of the impropriety of re
maining so late; and as neither of you made a
move, it became the duty of the young ladies to
remind you both of the lateness of the hour by
no uncertain hint.
As stated, we intended discarding from this
issue all communications from love-struck cor
respondents; but “Sappho of Richmond” puts
her case in such moderate rhyme, that we can
not refuse her a showing. She says:
“ Dear Sunny South, you’re never slow
In helping a girl to get a beau;
So, trusting to your goodness now,
I hand in my credentials with a how.
I’m just eighteen, with raven batr,
Two big brown eyes in a face so fair.
I can sew and dance, can cook and sing;
In short, can do almost anything
Except fall in love. Now. since yon know it,
(I'm sure I’ll some day prove a poet).
Won’t you try to bring about that change
Which makes the heart feel ‘sweet and strange? ’
For remember, I am young and artless.
And oh! far more, am still sweet-heartless.
So now this favor I implore,
And after this I’ll say no more:
- Tis that you’ll hasten to impress
On all young men my deep distress.”
Auld Lang Syne, Opelika, Ala., says: “I am
engaged to a beautiful blonde, and have a good
farm and a pretty cottage for my pretty bird;
but the pestiferous chicken mites are in every
nook and crevice, and are so annoying that I am
in a quandary whether to bring her home now
or postpone the marriage until winter time.
But if you can devise some plan by which I can
get rid of this pest and let me know through
your valuable paper, I will send you a spring
chicken every Sunday morning after I am mar
ried, with the mites all killed.” . . . From your
language, it seems that the mites are in what
you call your “ pretty cottage,” and so we must
conclude that yon are a genuine old rooster and
propose taking your bird or hen right into the
chicken house. If so, don’t do it, for while the
mites might play with impunity upon a tough
old cock like yourself, it would be cruel to turn
them upon a tender young hen. But if you
mean they are in your chicken house, whitewash
them thoroughly with lime and use carbolic acid
freely. If this does not rid you of them, then
chase each one down with dogs, hem him up,
cut him off', and after capturing him, shoot him
with a musket. Either of these remedies, and
particularly this last one, will rid you of them;
so send along the chicken without the mites.
“ Yes, sir,” yelled a preacher in a Dakota
church one Sunday morning, “there's l> e
l^ing and swearing and stealing and general
deviltry to the square inch in this here town
than in all the rest of the American country;”
and then the congregation got up and dumped
the preacher out of the window.
E. T. Andebson, Marietta, asks: “If a cannon
is placed on a flat car, mouth of the cannon
pointing in the direction of the running engine,
would a ball shot from the mouth of the cannon
ever leave or distance the mouth, if the speed of
the car was equal to that of the ball ?” ... It
is not a supposable case, for the car can never
attain that velocity. If it could, however, the
ball would not leave the barrel of the cannon.
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