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(For The Sunny South.]
LADY LENORE.
BY HRS. M. LOUISE CROB8LEY.
Oh, Lzdy Lenore, you hare trifled, 1 see,
With one who loved you most fondly and true;
Tou will barter your hand for gold and for lands.
And bitterly, vainly, the deed yon will we.
When standing beneath the old l eechen tree,
_ ' ontlg Allen knelt down at yurr beautiful feet,
' <mr heart was there drinking the liquid love-notes
That flowed from his lips so tender and sweet.
Your fair oval cheek with crimson was flushed
W hen Allen's warm lips press'd your lily-white hand;
Oh, Lady Lenore, you have trifled with one
As noble and true as lives in the land.
What if the pure hands and beautiful brow
Of him yon now scorn with suns are embrowned ?
Better reign the loving queen of his heart
lhan be lonely and loveless, tho'jewel-crowned.
But, Lady Lenore, you will wed the old Karl,
And gilt-laced vassals will wait at yonr feet;
But in yonder halls so stately and grand,
You 11 think think of those words, so tender and sweet,
Yon heard once beneath the old beechen tree:
You will weep but hear their low music again—
Your heart will cry out for that passionate love;
But, Lady Lenore, 'twill all be in vain!
You feared the on dit of the proud, vain world
You murdered a heart most true to the core;
Your years will all die in gilded regret,
And Allen la dying for Lady Lenore!
[For The Sunny South.]
LAY SERMONS.
BY KIRWAN.
NO. VIII.
Whatsoever a mau soweth that Bhall he also reap.—Epis
tle to Galati ans.
“Tne administration of God is marked by in
finite mercy, conjoined with infinite rigor of
1aw.” This saying of a German writer finds a
striking illustration in the doctrine of the text.
Events, whether in the material or moral uni
verse, are not the results of tickle chance, but
the outgrowth of inexorable law. There is a re
lation between sowing and reaping as uniform
as that between cause and effect.
SL Paul's declaration, when applied to the
operations of natural husbandry, meets with
universal acceptance. A man would be ad
judged of doubtful sanity who should sow
wheat in his held and expect as the product of
such at seed-time to gather barley into his gar
ner. But are the laws of vegetable re-pro»iuc-
tion more invariable than the laws of moral re
production? May not a man with equal certainty
forecast the results of bis moral husbandry ?
Buch is the apostolic teaching, ancLjsuch is the
practical truth.
To question it is not only to discredit Revela-
tion—it is to subvert the basis of natural reli
gion itself, and to leave us to the caprices of a
fitful fortune more to be dreuded tban the stern
est theory of Fatalism. Wordsworth’s aphorism,
“the child is father of the man," is not simply
a sparkling paradox—it is a world-wide and far-
reaching truth. Childhood is -o after-life what
the laughing spring-time is to the golden autumn
with its creaking wains loaded with ripened
sheaves and its merry harvest songs.
The piofane swearers and Sabbath-breakers of
this decade are the rogues and murderers of the
next. The records of otir Sing-Sings and Bed
lams, the statistics of our Newgates and Ty-
burus, bear witness to the fact that a youth of sin
and profligacy is followed by a manhood of
shame and an old age of disease and dishonor.
We take no account of exceptional cases, as
they do not affect the validity of the general
principle—a principle of such momentous sig
nificance that it ought to be inscribed on the
walls of every nursery, and should be thor
oughly appreciated by all who are charged with
the training of our youth.
But we hold that St. Pa til meant much more
than our previous statements imply. He re
ferred chiefly to the harvest of eternity. In this
sense every individual of our race is sowing
either to the flesh or the spirit, and will infalli
bly reap either corruption or life everlasting.
The Latins had a maxim—QuisqueeSt suae for-
tunaefaber—which well expresses the scriptural
view of man’s eternal destiny. Whatever be
our lot in the life to come, we are singly and ex
clusively responsible for its bale or buss. “ The
bitter pains of eternal death ” are not the inflic
tions of an arbitrary power; they are rather the
garnered fruits of wickedness and rebellion
against the majesty of heaven and earth.
If a man were cast down to hell for no de
merit or default of his own, he would walk un
hurt amidst its hottest flames. Like Prome
theus bound, he could hurl defiance at his op
pressor and endure with the constancy of a
martyr.
But the bitterest ingredient in the unrepent
ant sinner’s cup of trembling will be the reflec
tion that his ruin is self-wrought—his own hand
kindled the unquenchable flame which consumes
him, and his own breast warmed into life the
viperous worm which feeds on his immortality
forever.
He reaps that which he has sown. The dem
onstrative pronoun is here fearfully emphatic.
His own heart may mislead him with the false
hood that although he sows to lust and avarice,
he shall reap glory and honor and eternal life.
It is the old, old story of a tempting Devil that
beguiled Adam of his Paradise, and which has
deceived and damned a multitude of his pos
terity. But sooner far may men gather grapes
of thorns or tigs of thistles than the drunkard
and idolater and murderer inherit the kingdom
of God.
Yet, men whose philosophy is never at fault
in secular matters, overlc r forget this com
mon-sense truth whenever they think or reason
concerning their relations to the infinite here
after.
It will be readily perceived that this consid
eration strips the popular argument against fu
ture punishment of its plausibility, and fully
“justifies the ways of God to man ” even from
the orthodox stand-point Indeed, the accepted
scriptural view can be vindicated od no other
theory. We can well nnderstand how some of
the Greek fathers, and such modern divines as
John Foster, shuddered and recoiled from the
once-prevalent belief that God consigned men
and women and children to a bottomless hell as
an act of simple sovreignty. Such a spectacle
of divine cruelty was alike dishonoring to God
and demoralizing to men. The ever-rebound
ing atone of Sysphus; the revolving wheel of
Ixion; the tormenting thirst and gnawing han
ger of Tantalus, by which the classic Greeks
symbolized the sufferings of the lost, was less
revolting than the meditations of the Puritan
Mather on the justice of God in the damnation
of little children.
The reaetion in consequence of snch religions
teaching was alarming. It not only transcended
the limits of sober orthodoxy, but it culminated
in the coarse infidelity of Paine and the scoffing
scepticism of the whole herd of the encyclopae
dist. Nor is it going too far to say that the po
litical and ecclesiastical anarchy from which
Continental Europe has been slowly recovering
itself for the last half century, was largely due
to these heretical indoctrinations. Fortunately
for the credit of Christianity, these extreme
views are now repudiated by divines of every
i school.
We remark again, that not only is it true that
men will reap that which they have sown, but,
furthermore, they will reap proportionately.
St. Panl, in another epistle, tells us that “they
who sow sparingly shall reap also sparingly; but
they who sow bountifully shall reap also bounti
fully.” In natural husbandry, the husbandman
reaps according to the breadth of his sowing.
Other things being equal, the product of ten
acres will exceed an hundred-fold the product
of five acres. The analogy holds in this respect
in reference to spiritual husbandry.
We may not accept literally and specifically
the circles of Dante’s Inferno, or the spheres of
Swedenborg’s Heaven. There is, however, a
sub-stratum of truth underlying both of these
theories. Every pian shall be rewarded accord
ing to bis deeds. Our Savior speaks of some
who “shall receive greater damnation,” and of
others that shall be thrust into the lowest hell.
There is also a class who shall be saved so as
by fire, and others that shall have ministered
unto thorn an abundant entrance into the ever
lasting kingdom.
This view harmonizes with Revelation, and
accords with the plainest principles of natural
equity.
The sinner, therefore, by every transgression,
is treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath.
The righteous, by every virtuous deed, is laying
up in store a good foundation against the time
to come. Herein we find a powerful incentive
to industry in the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts.
Sow beside all waters—broadcast the seed of
kindness on every side, and let no opportunity
to do good pass unimproved.
We may at times fear that our labor is lost
because there is no immediate fruit, but the
germinant power of moral goodness is imperisha
ble. It is said that grains of Egyptian wheat,
taken from the cerements of a Tffeban mummy
I after the lapse of centuries, have been as pro-
j ductive as though they were harvested but yes-
| terday. So of our good deeds. They may be
forgotten and overlaid by the rubbish of years,
yet they await a resurrection morning when they
shall come forth in resplendent beauty.
Not only the evil men do lives alter them, but
the good likewise. The bones of Wickliffe were
dug up ami burned to ashes; the ashes were cast
into the Wye, and thence were carried to the
Severn, and then to the main ocean, whose
multitudinous waves wash every shore—thus
beautifully, us it has been said, typifying the
progress of that truth which he proclaimed.
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but the
widow’s mite shall live in story and in song (
when the Stewarts and Astors are no more heard
of in the marts of business.
Be fired by a holy ambition to win a distin-
guished place in the Kingdom of God; emulate
the flaming zeal of Wesley—the sturdy courage
of Luther and Knox—the gentle enthusiasm of
Martyn—the deep piety of Fenelon and Oberlin.
By so doing, you shall reap a full reward; your
harvest will not be meagre, like the scanty glean
ings of Ruth in the fields of Boaz, but you shall
“ thrust your sickle into the standing corn, and
gather abundant fruit unto eternal life.”
A contemporary poet has both truthfully and
beautifully expressed our leading thought in
the annexed stanzas:
•• Life, the seed-time of our being,
Swilter than the shuttle flies;
But the good or evil flowiDg
From our couduct never dies.
All who live are daily sowing
Seeds in distant Helds to fall;
And the harvest from them growing
We must gather after all.
“ Gather, when the light has faded—
When life's fleeting scenes are o’er—
In some clime by sorrow shaded.
Or where sorrow's known no more;
From the memory unfailing
Of our actions, great or small,
Perfect bliss, or weeping, wailing,
Everlasting after all.''
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SCIENTIFIC CLEANINGS.
BY B. C. WORD, M. D.
Comparative Psychology of Man.—
Herbert Spencer, in I'opular Science Monthly,
says upon this subject, that “ throughout tiie
animal kingdom the union of varieties that have
become widely divergent is physically injurious;
while the union of slightly divergent varieties
is physically beneficial. Some facts seem to
show thut mixture of human races extremely
unlike, produces a worthless type of mind.
Natures respectively adapted to slightly unlike
sets of social conditions may be expected, by
their union, to produce a nature somewhat more
plastic than either. The best genius of Eng
land resulted from a union of Celts and Anglo-
Saxons. ”
Chemical Discoveries.—
The new and useful compounds, both in med
icine and the arts, introduced by modem chem
istry are truly wonderful. Tue once useless
and ill-smeinug coal-tar has, perhaps, yielded a
greater and more useful variety of compounds
Umu uny substance known. From coal-tar has
been derived benzole, toluole, xylole, mmole, cymole,
etc. Benzole possesses great readiness for form
ing new compounds, by uniting with other
bodies. By varying its component atoms, an
almost inhnite variety may be produced. With
nitric ucid it forms nilro-benzole, a poison re
sembling the oil of bitter aluionds. This sub
stance, by distilling with iron filings and acetic
acid,produces analine. Anaiine was first obtained
trom indigo, but is also found in coal-tar. Car
bolic acid is obtained Irorn coal-tar; and from
carbolic acid has been recently derived salacylic
acid, a substance likely to prove exceedingly
useful as a medicine and as an antiseptic. Picric
acid is likewise obtained from carbolic acid, and
is useful as a yellow dye. With certain alkalies
it forms compounds that are terribly explosive.
Leathers—
A new fabric, cuir-liege, has been introduced
into France as a substitute for leather. It con
sists of sheets of cork coated with rubber and a
textile substance; said to be lighter, cheaper,
and more durable than leather.
Conflict ot Science and Religion.—
Touching the conflict between religion and
science, Dr. Le Conte, in a late article, remarks
that, some centuries ago, great theological dis
gust was produced by the announcement that
the sun, and not the earth, was the centre of the
planetary system. Recently, some annoyance
has resulted irow the finding of human remains
in situations where they ougut not to have been,
according to present theories; and, yet more
recently, great dissatisfaction is expressed at the
possible derivation of man from some inferior
organism. Yet all these facts, bat the last, have
been accepted after much bitter controversy,
and the lountain of spiritual truth remains un
clouded and undimimshed.
The Spectroscope.—
It has been ascertained, by spectroscopic ob
servation, that the sun and all the visible heav
enly bodies are composed of the same elements
which are in the earth, with the exception of a
supposed element in the sun to which the name
of helium has been given.
Snow as a Fertilizer.—
The opinion so common among agricultural
ists, that heavy snows are generally followed by
fine crops, finds confirmation in recent observa
tions, wnich show that the dust gathered in the
atmosphere and brought to the earth by the fall
ing snow yields, on analysis, 53 to 61 per cent
of ash, and 47 per cent, of organic matter.
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ART.
BY M. A. E. MORGAN.
NO. XIII—EARLY CHRISTIAN PAINTING.
The strong aversion of the early Christians to
imitative art. led to the purely representative
style, the belief prevailing that art was con
ducive to idolatry, thus overlooking the idea it
self and attributing an ultimate object, which
was entirely independent of it. This feeling
prevailed several centuries after the use of im
ages was tolerated and encouraged by the church,
the people feeling awe and dread at the idea of
approximating the appearance of the Pagan
idols. In early times the image was not wor
shipped, but what it represented. All works of
art were produced, not as art, but as a symboli
cal inculcation of religions principles. The
ancient schools of art were sensuous —fine
forms and beautiful colors conveying pleasant
emotions being the object. Christian artists
never dreamed of contributing to such a pur
pose; and they would have regarded it as sacri
lege, and as sinful as the changing of the
forms of prayers. The painted seeming would
at once have become to them a pngan image.
Man is naturally inclined to imitation; the ab
sence, therefore, of this quality in the works of
the artists of this period shows the presence of
some feeling against it, some antagonism that
could arise so strangely earnest against all imi
tative art as to amount to a positive prohibition.
The typical style, therefore, became sacred from
habit, though it may have been adopted at first
from prejudice.
The monogram of Christ was at first used; to
this was added the fish, the dote^the lamb, the
palm, the vine-branch and otlvts. Christ him
self was first represented as thY^ood shepherd;
later, with his right hand raislrt in the act of
blessing. The best early Christian paintings
were discovered in the Roman catacombs, under
the church of St. Sebastian. On the wall oppo
site the entrance, in a niche/*, is “Orpheus;”
over the arch in the middle is,the “Adoration
of the Kings,” of which, however, the Madonna
and child, and Bethlehem in the back-ground,
are all that remain. On the right hand is Moses
striking the rock to obtain water; on the left
hand is Daniel in the lion’s den. Several other
events in both Old and New Testament history
are on different parts of the walls. On the ceil
ing, within a circle, is a bust portrait of Christ,
which is supposed to be the first one painted,
and from which subsequent portraits have been
taken.
There is, however, according to church tradi
tion, a miraculous portrait of Christ, the Sancta
Veronica, of which the following account is
given: “Abgarus, King of Edessa, who was
confined by sickness, having heard of the mira
cles performed by Christ, sent a messenger to
Judea, to invite him to come to him nnd cure
him of his complaint. This messenger was a
painter, and he determined if he could not
bring Christ to Abgarus, to bring his portrait.
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SKETCHES OF TRAYEL.
THE VOIRONS.
Twenty miles from Geneva is the Voirons, one
of the Alps, environed by snow-clad peaks, and
affording from its summit one of the finest views
in Switzerland, if not in the world.
We started, not comfortably seated, bnt perched
on top thevoiture, that we might lose nothing of
the landscape. Day was just breaking in the
eaRt over towards hoary Mont Blanc, as we left
Geneva. The morning air was clear, crisp and
bracing.
One is surprised on passing through the little
villages of Savoy, to see the absence of cultivation
and material progress. Old and enriched with
historic legends, they present but few traces of
that high moral anil mental power with which
one is accustomed to invest the ideal Switzer
land. Reverence for obi things does not license
such utter disregard for modern improvements.
The simplicity which the world admires is that
which is guided by culture aud taste—not the
offspring of ignorance, whether rural or urban.
Hence we did not admire these villagers.
The valley which our road traversed is very
fertile aud refreshing to the eye. Clear and rap
becanse he was too honest! These two men
wanted their associate to be that absurd and im
possible anomaly—a man who would never steal
a dime from them, bat would steal any amount
from others, and put into their pockets, or into
the firm. This, my “reliable man,” could not
get his consent to do; if he could have done so,
he, no doubt, would now be in a prosperous
condition, instead of persistently and wearily
“looking for a situation,” only to find that a
“reliable man” is not “wanted." This gentle
man also does what scarcely any one else will
do these “hard times”—pay his debts, so long as
he has a dollar with which to pay. When he had
any money, and for which he had labored hard,
he has been known to deprive himself and fam
ily of necessary clothing, wholesome food, and
remedies indispensable in illness, in order that
he might liquidate his indebtedness, far as his
money would go. A gentleman in Atlanta, who
had given this “reliable man” credit in small
amounts, from time to time, remarked a short
time since, that among all his debtors, rich or
poor, none had treated him so honorably and hon
estly as this oue had done; and that scarcely one
man in a thousand would deprive his family of
comforts to cancel debts the law could not com
pel him to pay. For such a man, should not his
idly running brooks course through this glacier- | shabby coat and neatly-darned hat, be a roba
■ and crown of honor ? He has not been a resi
dent of Atlanta for a great while, but he has a
few friends there who have known him from boy
hood, and a few others to whom he has become
known since he has been in the city. These
friends are men of character and good position
in society, and they have tried again and -t '‘in
to get this gentleman into any business flp. n
he was fitted, but he is never “wanted.” * 7
as the applicant states that he is strictly > .it
and faithtul, and a Christian gentleman in
ciple and in his every act, the answer is, “ we do
not want him.” Thus, this “reliable man ” has
found that it is no recommendation for one to
be endorsed by gentlemen —to be connected with
families of probity and intelligence, and to be
honest aud “reliable.” He has seen men who
were known to be drunkards—men who were
known to be tricksters —who were dishonest, de
bauched, aud daily frequented haunts of vice
valley—now a torrent, then a cascade, leapin
from height to lesser height, until the stream
winds away to the Arve or the Rhone.
Arrived at the foot of the Voirons we com
mence the ascent. The upward course—about
five miles—was a steep ascent, at times almost
perpendicular, was at all times marked by the
varied scenery so peculiar to the Alps. Descrip
tion is powerless to portray it. The critic who
exclaimed, “ See Naples and die!” was an enthu
siast about a most enchanting seene, but it can
not compare with this. Nor can Comeo, Loch
Katrine, nor Kiilarney, nor the mirrored sur
face of any lake compare with these grand snow-
covered peaks that kiss the skies and look down
upon the floating cumuli.
Each coup d'oeit is a triumph itself; each view
differs from its predecessor exceeding, yet adding
to it. How wonderful is the human eye, 'yhich
can thus receive at once the most varied impres-
Here the seasons lose their force, obedient to the
“higher law” of the Architect of the Universe.
At different elevations we found the blackberry,
raspberry, strawberry, whortleberry, etc., etc.,
all growing wild and lusciously sweet. To-day
is September the twenty-second ! Let the reader
reflect upon the period when these fruits ripen
in the Sunny South.
The ascent increases in interest, and each
moment adds to the beautiful prospect. It is
more than the realization of highest hopes. We
halt, and examine the old convent whose Bene
dictine monks of the mediaeval period held their
priestly vigils, and ruled the surrounding coun
try. Here the fine old ruins—sentinels of the
The painter endeavored to come hear enough to I p as t centuries, with laws anil customs that have
sions, aud stamp upon the retina paintings I uu d shame—he has seen these men put into
grander than those of the great artists called , places he was fitted to fill, and for which he had
“ The Masters.” As we ascend, the atmosphere I vainly sought, uutii he was forced to believe that
grows more rarefied and effects each inhalation. J a man must do “something bad” betore he could
Ht»r« the Hensons lose their force, obedient to the : be oue ot the “successlul people.'’ Is this any
people." is tbis any
encouragement for a man to try and he moral,
upright, and worthy of trust ? And yet how
much we talk of the “demoralization of the
people !”
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
“What is yonr business, sir?” asked the court,
in a sharp voice. “A conchologist.” “What's
that?” asked the judge. “ I open clams.”
deliver his message, but could not for the crowd.
Neither could he make a drawing of his face.
Christ accomplished his purpose for him.
Having called for water to wash his face, he
wiped it with a linen cloth, which he gave to the
painter with nn answer for Abgarus, who found
the likeness of Christ imprinted upon it. Ab-
garas was cured by the touch of this portrait,
which afterwards became an object of adoration.
It was carried to Constantinople in 964 a. and
afterwards removed to Rome. There are other
traditions about this portrait, and it is mentioned
in church documents.
The Mosaics of the Basilicas are among the
monuments of early Christian art, the subjects
taken mostly from the Apocalypse. These were
executed from the fifth to the ninth centuries,
and are similar to the illuminations in the man
uscripts ot thfffjieriod, luake up
the only remains of art, of 5ke times. As these
designs are from those of distinguished artists,
they may be considered as representations of the
quality of art then. The “dark ages” embrace
the period between the fourth anil fifth centu
ries, and the “revival of the arts and letters,”
though even in this dark period painting was
much cultivated by the monks. The Convent of
St. Gall in Switzerland deserves mention for the
good quality of works in gold, its sculptures
and mosaics. A golden crucifix is mentioned as
wonderful, so marvelously beautiful as to be
called a miracle. There is a picture of the vir
gin, which has long been an object of veneration
at Metz, believed to be the work of the same
monk—Tutila— who made the crucifix. The
chief exception to tho works^-n mosaic and '”’1-
mination of this period, is the series of portraits
of the Popes, in the old Basiirca of St. Panl near
Rome. This remarkable series consisted of the
portraits of two hundred and. fifty-three Popes.
Painting was in a higher degree of excellence at
Constantinople than at Rome, as seen in the By
zantine manuscripts, which are vastly superior
to the Latin. There was more security for
artists in Constantinople than in the west—
more freedom of choice in selection of subjects,
less annoyance from court influence.
Manuscript illuminations nad their full value
during the dark ages. They were beautiful and
effective, and were carefully preserved by the
monks, to whom we owe a debt of gratitude,
since they have been that link uniting ancient
and modern art, and but for their preservation
we should have known little of the state of art
in that period. The manuscripts and their il
lustrations are too numerous for recapitulation
here, and though interesting to the artist, might
not bo so to the general reader.
The painting of miniatures may be included
in manuscript illustrations, as it was universally
employed in the lives of notch persons. Roman
ces contained miniatures of the heroes and hero
ines and other notables. All sacred history con-
t lined miniatnre pictures of the characters
spoken of; indeed, either fanciful or true, a pic
ture representation of the iiilportant personages
must always form a part of the “book.”
passed away—have been converted into a church
Dorn Pedro started for the East from San
Francisco, via Chicago, on Saturday, April 29.
The California Republicans, April 27, elected
Blaine delegates to tue Cincinnati Convention.
New York, May 8.—The case of Moulton vs.
Beecher was by consent put down for Thnrsduy
next.
Mr. Belknap’s replication filed, alleging that
for Church of England worship, and the finest be did not resign in order to avoid linpeaoh-
tower in all the ruins is almost shut out from ment.
view in order to furnish a steeple for this so-
called church ! Even an American feels indig
nant at such profanation of historic landmarks.
In pleasing contrast were the ruins of an old
Roman tower, surrounded by fortifications co
temporary to that period. Ascending still higher
we stood upon the loftiest peak, whence, says
DeSaussuro, the finest views of the Alps in all
Switzerland is obtained. DeSaussure might have
added, the grandest view in the world. Scotland,
with its Ben Nevis and the beautiful lakes at its
hose, is tame in comparison. To the north the
beautiful Lake Lemon, with its broad bosom
gradually narrowing till, passing Geneva the
Rhone rushes its blue current rapidly through
a gap in the Jura mountains, anil glitters in the
sunset like burnished gold. The deep blue
tinge of the long Jura range which treads to the
north-northeast, forms a pleasing background,
while the undulating summits of the snowy Alps
jut over and enclose the beautiful bason of Lake
Geneva.
The Deut du Midi, far away but prominent
among the snowy range, at sunset gives to the
beholder a wonderful scene. Its peaks of ice
look like rocks seamed with strata, and tower
ing higher stiii, like the monarch of clouclland,
stands imperial Mont Blanc. The sun has made
its lofty height, where no human being can lin
ger and live, owing to the extremely rarefied air,
resplendent with the reflection of the sunset
upon its walls of ice and snow. Now the sun
has gone behind the horizon, dipped below the
earth’s rim, so to speak, when a wonderful
vision greets our deliguted eyes. Slowly Mont
Blanc begins to glow again; a faint blue, then
lighter, then merging into color after color until
all the hues of the prism are seen to glow upon
those pure white peaks of snow. It is a mysteri
ous but beautiful fact, this re-glow of the sum
mit of Mont Blanc, just when all the earth has
bidden adieu to the last rays of the setting sun.
We do not believe that scientists have ever yet
satisfactorily explained the phenomenon, but to
the eye that loves the beautiful in nature, no
explanation is necessary. Francis Fontaine.
Mr. W. H. Jardine, of Point Moullere, Mich.,
is said to have educated five wild ducks to so
very fine a point that they fly when and where
they please, come at call, and accompany their
master to the hunting ground, either perched
on the side of the boat or swimming by its side.
Arrived at the marshes, they act as decoys,
splash and call, until they attract flying ducks,
which come down and are shot, while the tame
ducks “stand up” in the water, shake their
wings and scream with delight. The day’s sport
over, they either Hy home or ride on the boat, as
Mr. Jardine directs.
Preposterous Expectations.—In a Woodward
avenue street car, a short time since, a man’s
breath smelled so strongly of whisky that a gen
tleman moved across the car to get oat of the
circle. “Any zing wrong?” asked the drunk
ard, as he observed the change. “Nothing, ex
cept your breath smells of whisky enough to
knock a horse over.” “ ’Spect she does—she
does,” was the candid reply; “but you don’t
’spect poor man like me can bay cologne an’
whisky, too, do yon ?”
Charles Glosson, a Memphis negio, sued Ella
Dailey for kissing him. The prosicntor has a
wife, and he stated that Ella’s malce did not
consist in the mere act of kissing aim, which
ordinarily he did not object to, bnt ii persisting
in kissing him in the presence of his vife, which
had a tendency to make things unpleasant at
home, and was expensive when tie broken
crockery and frying pans that had to le replaced
were taken into the account.
[For The Sunny South.]
NOT WANTED.
BY PUBLIUS.
A short time ago, I read an editorial article in
The Sunny South, entitled “Reliable Men,” in
which was stated the kind of genus homo we now
want to set against the many demoralizing agen
cies at work among all classes of people. With
due deference to the opinion of The Sunny
South, I think I can demonstrate that the kind
of men spoken of are not “ wanted,” and merely
by one illustration.
I happen to know a gentleman in Atlanta, who
is emphatically, and in the highest and fullest
sense of the word, a “reliable man.” He is one
“in whom implicit confidence can be placed,”
and
What he says
You may believe and pawn your soul upon It."
I am persuaded that “neither curiosity nor
fear, neither love of money nor power, could in
duce him to break the faith he has once plighted, ”
and that the ermine would sooner soil its snow-
white fur, than he would bring a stain upon his
integrity. He has been known to endure, and
still is enduring poverty, neglect, and affliction,
rather tban listen for one moment to the voice
of temptation, or swerve “just a little” from
the right path. I, who know him so thoroughly,
would be willing to stake my own reputation
upon his immovable integrity. He has been
tried ; men have attempted to buy him, and met
with such resistance as if they had thrown
themselves against a rock. They have come to
him, and counted the money down before him—
thousands and thousands of dollars—all his, if
he would (not steal, not be at all dishonest), but
only pat one principle of his on the shelf for a
short season, and give his influence to what that
one principle condemned. What was the result?
Though he had been for months seeking em
ployment, and without success; though he was
without a dollar and his afflicted family with
scarc^v bread to eat, never for a moment did he
listen*o the insidious proposition, bnt turned
his back upon it promptly and decisively.
In the ante-bellum days, this “reliable man”
was the possessor of an independent property,
gained by his own effort", and gained hon
estly. Since the war, he was, for a short time, a
co-partner with two other men in a profitable
business, and had to withdraw from the firm
Hatiett Kiibourne was released on five thou
sand dollars bail by order of the United States
Supreme Court.
Over twonty thousand dollars have been col
lected for the General Lee Monument, to be
erected at Richmond.
1 Augusta, May 8.—James McEvoy, who killed
| James G. Gregg, at Gramteviile, S. (J., is to hang
I on J une 3(1 at Aiken, S. C.
When a dock of wild geese was passing over
j Idaho recently, a goose egg fell to the ground.
It has been secured Dy an Indianapolis base-ball
nine.
A bill introduced in the English House of
Commons to remove electoral disabilities of
women, was rejected, April 26th', by a vote of
239 to 152.
Mrs. Boggs, the wife of General Grant’s for
mer business partner, disclosed the sale of a
pension agency in Missouri, by herself, for $100
per inontn.
There are $14,000 tame ostriches at Cape
Town, Africa, and during 1875 there were sold
at Fort Elizabeth alone $600,000 worth of os
trich featners.
Charges were published against Senator Mor
ton, accusing him of having, while Governor of
Indiana during tue war, misappropriated $250,-
000 of a Government appropriation.
The New York Democratic State Convention
at Utica, April 27, elected a lull delegatiou to
St. Louis, re-indorsed the platform of 1874-5,
and presented the name of Samuel J. Tilden for
President.
A canned-meat panic is imminent at Boston.
Two or three cases of poisoning nave lately hap
pened from eating this kind ol food, the laswa
pretty serious one, aud there is a growing lack
of confidence in it.
The Treasurer of the Ladies’ Memorial Asso
ciation in Augusta forwarded last week twenty-
one dollars to the widow of Stonewall Jackson.
At this time last year, tue same Association sent
from that city $302.
General Rufus Ingalls, U. S. A., testified be
fore the investigating Committee that the charges
against him 01 aiding in the introduction of a
patent motn-extermiuator into tne Quartermas
ter b Department were fafse.
At the regular weekly meeting of the New
York Methodist Minister Association, a com
mittee was appointed to report at tne next meet
ing on the desirability 01 using unfermented
wine in communion in place of fermented wine
now in use.
The people of San Francisco, who revolt at
Chinese emigration, are being warned that any
act of violence on their part will caff down upon
them “the interference of the Federal Govern
ment.” For luff particulars of what that means,
apply to Gen. Sheridan.
The Republican State Convention of Massa
chusetts elected E. it. Hoar, Kicnard H. Dana,
Jr., J. M. Forbes aud Fresideut Faul A. Cnad-
bourue delegates at large to Cincinnati. Tue
delegation wus left unpledged. Resolutions
commending Mr. Bristow aud Mr. Blaine sever
ally were offered, but not aoted on.
A Texan disciple of Izaak Walton struck a
pleasant little bonanza the other day. He had
gone down to the neighborhood of Cottonwood
Spring to gather some fish-bait, and while dig
ging around struck a bag of gold containing be
tween $2,000 and $3,000, whicu had been buried
there some years before by a gang of robbers,
who left their estates to be administered upon
by a vigilance committee.
Boston, May 8. —It is now qnite certain that
Piper was tne assailant of Mary Tina, wno was
mysteriously beaten on July first, but recovered,
und is now an inmate of a lunatic asylum.
He confesses that Ue attempted to kill her, and
says the murder of Mabel Young and Bridget
Landregan were both prompted by the use of
stimulants, under the influence of which he had
an insane desire to shed blood.
The three meetings in Augusta, on Snnday,
conducted by Mr. Moody, were largely attended.
Tne service in tne Baptist Church at nine a. m.,
embraced a lecture upon the cuaracter of Daniel,
and was one ot, il not the ablest, efforts made
during the labors of thi? wonderful evangelist
in that city. There were times during the lec
ture when the audience were held with breath
less attention, and looked as though they sap
Daniel passing in review before their eyes.
W
M