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ATLANTA. GEORGIA, APRIL, 12, 1879.
4'hief Joseph's Story of his people's wrongs
—a remarkable and pathetic Narrative.—The
most unique production that lias been added to
literature in modern times is the narrative of Chief
Joseph, published in the last N~rth American Re
view. Rev. William Hall, missionary Bishop of
Niobrara, in liis introduction to the narrative, says
that it Is “so boldly marked by the naivete and ten
der pathos that characterize the red man that it
needs no introduction, much less any authentica
tion; while in its smothered fire; in its deep sense
■of eternal righteousness and ol present evil, and in
its hopeful longings for the coming of a better time,
the Indian chief’s appeal reminds us of the old He
brew prophets of the captivity.
Chief Joseph, now in Washington city pleading
the cause of his people, is the young head of the
Nez Perees Indians-a tribe that had their home
among the mountains of eastern Oregon. They
"were a stock-raising people peaceable and indus'
trious, and more intelligent, noble, finely-featured
than any of the Indian tribes of North America.
They lived happy and quiet in Wallowa—their
beautiful valley of winding waters, until the whites
looked with envy upon the rich pastures and the
goodly flocks grazing upon them. The government
had tried in vain to buy the valley from the elder
Joseph, the young chief's father. The venerabia
brave refused to sell the homes of his people and
the graves ol his fathers, and on his death-bed he
made his son promise never to part with the valley
.hat had given him birth and where liispeoplewere
buried. But the white settlers encroached upon
the Indians narrow grounds. They stole their cat
tle, burned their lodges, insulted their women;
while at the same time frequent orders came from
the government for the Nez Perees to vacate their
i .unis in favor of the white settlers and move upon
the common reservation for the Indians, nearer to
the setting sun. This, Joseph refused to do; saying
quietly that he had never sold his country nor-
signed any treaty with the whites. But the pres
sure became too great to be borne. A!ore soldiers
were brought to the Nez Perees country, and Gen.
Howard gave the Indians thirty days in which to
move. If they had not vacated the valley at the
end of that time, they were to be driven on to the
reservation at t lie point of the bayonet and all their
cattle and horses that remained outside of it were
to fall into the hands of the white men. In vain,
•Joseph pleaded that the stock was widely scattered*
and tiie rivers were very high,and that mor?time
•was needed in which to collect, tlieir cattle and
gather supplies for the winter. The order must be
■carried out, the General declared, and Joseph, tilled
with indignation, had yet the stern self-control of
tiie Indian, mixed witli a very unsavage-like aver
sion to blood-shed. He buried his sense of wrong
in iiis breast and told bis people to prepare to move.
He says “I said in my heart that, rather than have
twelve soldiers charged into our camp and got pos
session of two lodges, killing three Nez Perees and
losing three of their men, who fell inside our lines.
I called my men to drivt them back. We fonght
at close range, not more than twenty steps apart
and drove the soldiers buck upon their main line,
leaving their dead in our hands. We secured their
arms and ammunition. We lost the first day and
night, eighteen men and three women. General
Miles lost twenty-six killed and forty wounded
Surrounded and penned in among the mountains,
out numbered, worn with the fatigue oi travel and
fight, weak with hunger and wounds and constant
watchfulness, burdened with sick women and chil
dren. and with tlieir horses exhausted and half
starved, there was nothing for the brave remnant
of Nez Perees to do but surrender, Tiie chief says;
*‘ We could have escaped from Rear Paw Alountain
if we had left our wounded and our old women and
children behind; but this we would not do. I have
never heard of a wounded Indian recovering while
in the hands of white men.”
Still, the Chief declares that, he and his people
would never have surrendered had not Geneaa.
Miles promised solemnly that if they would come
out of tlieir mountain fastness and give up their
arms, they should return to their own country. “I
believed General Miles, or I would never have sur
rendered,” says the narrative.
‘•But General Miles was not allowed to keep his
word; and the poor Indians were forced to give up
all their horses (over eleven hundred) never to see
them again. Tiie Nez Perees were then taken to
tiie low, sickly river bottoms at Leavenworth,
where homesick and despondent, they could hard
ly struggle with the unaccustomed malaria. They
pined for their mountain home. We had always
lived in a healthy country” says Joseph, “where
the mountains were high and the water was cold
and clear. Many of our people sickened and died,
.Shakespeare on
T*u<les.—This age j
Orion, the builderup
down—the irrevereif
and traditions. Not]!
ymmon Jack-of-all-
ispclastic. In place of
I vb Rhexergon, the puller
k ter of theories, creeds,
k*tife from his destroying
fingers; his cynical la'jh is heard over the land,
from the platform, tlielrinting room and the pub
lic lounging places, tbekcademic hall, everywhere.
He laughs in maliciouslelight as he picks to peices
our pet dolls of the pastLnd discloses the sawdust
of which they were mai We have grown callous
to such disclosures. W -accept, without protest
the declaration that Tllia-n Tell was a myth;
William Wallace an "dinary ruffian; Empress
Josephine no better tkn she should be; Robin
Hood a figment.; VVastjivjton’s little hatchet a de
lusion, and Washingtd' himself a commonplace
rather fogysh person/, ho got mad and swore on
occasions and was : inure jnd of bacon and cabbage
than was good f >r his dfestiou. Even when the
irreverent hands were lad upon our immortals of
the pen, and the laiirels/f originality torn from the
brows of Coleridge anc Pope, Byrcn and Moore,
Tennyson and Locgfeow, we did not tliDch, So
those singers charmd us wisely and well, it
mattered not if song wi| born wholly within tliem >
or caught as echoes frtn other singers who had
passed into the shad*. But when the modern
Rhexergon strives to pll down our throned gods—
the mightiest among tlem—Shakespeare the Jove
of the Olympus of lettek, in whose grasp were all
the hot thunderbolts (J. human passion, while the
eagle of imagir.atk>n waited his beck; when the
authenticity of Shakc^eare is assailed, we naturally
rise in revolt, 1 et thCi? seems little use in a pro
test, for the litterateursjiave fallen upon him with
their pens and they wilReave him with scarce a rag
speare’s hand-writing, which wh.
And yet against all this contempofy
and the fact that Shakespeare’s authors
plays was undisputed during his life and
the ^
against these facts are set up the objections that'll. ^jacharge of^the
tioned by after generations until this latter daffij^tpe merit 8 ought to be
the scanty records of Shakespeare's life are not I fiO’^Ltant vocation* i” j, e a ccornp ^
what a great man’s should be-that he was too I
of reputation—a mere scare-crow on the field of
il f,
■war I would give up my country. I „ ould give up
ni,» fathet s grave. I would give up everything
rat her than have tiie blood of white men upon the
hands of my pcoDle.”
But one of tiie young braves, whose father had
been killed by a white man, was not so well able to
content himself. He .end seven"
young warriors got into an altercation with some
of the'wbites, and four of tiie latter were killed: “I
•would have given my own life” says Joseph “if I
could have undone the killing of those white men
by my people. I know that they did a wrong, but
I ask: Who was first to blame? They had been in
sulted a thousand times; tlieir fathers and brothers
Bad been killed; tlieir mothers and wives had been
disgraced, they had been driven to madness by
whisky sold them by white men; they had been
told by Gen. Howard that all tlieir horses and cat
tle which they were unable to drive out of Wallowa
hunting
were to fall into the hands of white men; and added
to all t his, they were homeless and desperate.”
“ Though! as the young chief admits, he “remem
bered these wrongs” and his ‘blood was on fire he
attempted to take his people to the buffalo country
without fighting, but hardly had lie moved sixteen
miles away, before he was attacked by the soldiers
and the first battle was fought, in which tiie whites
were forced to retreat, leaving tlieir dead upon the
None of these were scalped. “We do not be-
field.
lieve in scalping” says Chief Joseph “nor in kill m
wounded men. But tiie white soldiers do not spare
wounded Indians left on the field. I have never
beard of one of tlmm being spared.”
This was the first the many attacks thathar-
•rassed the Nez Perees In their marcli westward.
Every step almost was marked In blood. Fresh
bodies of soldiers were sentafter them. Having worn
■Gen Howard out. Gen. Gibbon with his “big guns”
was sent on the track of the little handful of brave
Indians, and in the first battle with this new “war-
chief ” the white soldiers killed fifty of the Indian
women and children. Joseph says, “we stayed
long enough to bury our dead. Tiie Nez Perees
never make war upon women and children. We
could have killed a great many women and cliil-
dren while the war lasted, but we would feel
ashamed 1o do so cowardly an pet.”
Gen. Howard coming up with fresh soldiers.
,oi n ed Gen. Gibbon, another fight ensued in which
the Nez Perees came off victorious. They captured
one white man and two women and released them
after three days. “They were treated kindly” says
Joseph. “The women were not insulted. Can the
■white soldiers tell me of one time when Indian
women were take-* prisoners and released without
bein“ insulted? Were the Nez Perqes women who
fell into the hands of Gen. Howard's soldiers treated
witli as much respect. I deny that a Nez Perees
was ever guilty of such a crime.”
The next attack upon tiie Nez Perees was by Gen
Sturgis, and having baffled him, Joseph says, he
hoped to proceed on his journey unmolested, when
another army under Gen Aliles fell upon his little
band. “This was the fourth army” says Joseph,
“each of which out-numbered our fighting force,
that we had encountered within sixty days, and we
had repulsed each in turn.”
The attack by Gen. Miles was totally unlooked
Tor. Joseph gives this brief and graphic
account of it: “We had no knowledge of Gen.
Miles army, until he made a charge upon us, cut
ting our camp in two and capturing nearly all our
horses. About seventy men, myself among them,
•were cut off. My little daughter, twelve years old,
■was with me. I gave her a rope and told her to
catch a horse and join the others who were cut off
from tiie camp. I have not seen her since, but I
have heard she is alive. I thought of my wife and
children, who were now surrounded by soldiers,
and 1 resolved to go to them or die With a prayer
Vn my mouth to the great Spirit chief, who rules
above, I dashed unarmed through the line of sol
diers. It seemed to me that there were guns on
every side, before and behind me. My clothes were
ut 1o pieces and my horse was wounded, but 1 was
•not Kurt. As I reached the door of my lodge, my
wife banded me my rifle, saying: Here’s your gun.
Fight!”
‘The soldiers kept up a continuous fire. Six of
men were kifted in one spot near me. Ten or
and we buried them in this strange country. I can
not tell you how my heart suffered for my people,
while at Leavenworth. The Great Spirit who rules*
above seemed fo lie looking some other way, and
did not see what was being done to my people.”
Last July, the poor wanderers were crowded into
railroad cars and carried to Baxter, Kansas, three
of them dying on the road. They remained there a
little while; when they were removed out to the
Indian Territory, yet farther from tlieir beloved
country, and there set down in a sickly spot with
out tlieir lodges. Nearly all were sick, and seventy
of them died after removing there. Their longing
for their native mountains and clear streams
amounted to absolute hunger. “Once,” says Joseph
the Inspector Chief (General McNeil) came to my
camp and we had a long talk. He said I ought to
have a borne in the mountain country north, and
that he would write a letter to the great chief at
Washington. Again the hope of seeing the nioun-
tainsof Idaho and Oregon grew up in my heart.”
At last, Joseph was granted permission to goto
Washington and to bring his friend. Yellow Bull
and his interpreter with him. We give the Chiefs
account of this and bis comments upon the Indian
question entire. They form the conclusion of a
narrative most pathetic in Us record of wrongs, its
half smothered sense of injustice; and forceful in its
hut partially repressed scorn of a government that
promises and cajoles instead of dealing fairly with
a people, that are not only our fellow creatures, but
llie really rightful possessors of the country we
have wrested f oin them.
“I am glad that I came to Washington, says the
simple hearted and yet shrewd young chief, “1 have
shaken hands with friends here; but there are some
tilings I want to know which no one seems able to
explain. I cannot understand how the Govern
ment sends a man out to fight us, as it did General
Miles, and then bretyks his word. Such a govern
ment has somethii/g wrong about it. I cannot, un
derstand why sofmany'chlfefs are allowed to talk
itiie President) lift next Great tmn u^.^.ary of
tiie Interior) tiie Commissioner Chief (Hayt) the
Law Chief (General Butler) and many other law
chiefs (congressmen) and they all say they are my
friends and I shall have justice, but while their
mouths all talk right, I do not understand why
nothing is done for my people. I have heard talk
and talk, but nothing is done. Good words do not,
last long unless they amount to something. Words
do not pay for my dead people. They do not pay
for my country, now overrun by white men. They
do not protect my father's grave They do not pay
for all my horses and cattle. Good words will not
.rive me back my children. Good words will not
make good ibe promise of your War Chief General
Miles. Good words will not give my people good
health and stop them from dying. Good words
will not get my people a home where they can live
in peace and take care of themselves. I am tired ot
talk that comes to nothing. It makes my heart
eick when I remember all the good words and all
the broken promises. There has been too much
talking by men who had no right to talk. Too
many misrepresentations have been made, too
many misunderstandings have come up between
tiie white men about the Indians. It the white man
wants to live in peace with tiie Indian he can live
in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men
alike Give them all the same law. Give them all
an even chance to live and grow. All men were
made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all
brothers. Tiie earth is the mother of all people,
and all people should have equal rights upon it,
You might as well expect the rivers to run back
ward as” that a-'y man who was born a lree man
should be contented when penned up and denied
liberty to go where lie pleases. If you tie a horse
to a stake, do you exi.ect he will grow fat? If you
pen an Indian up on a small spot of earth,and com
pel him to stay there, lie will not be contented, nor
will be grow and prosper. I have asked some of
the great white chiefs where they get their author
ityto say to the Indian that he shall stay in one
place, while he sees white men going where they
please. They cannot tell me. #
I only ask of the government to be treated as all
other men are treated. If I can not to my own
home, let me have a home in seme country where
my people will not die so fast. I would like logo
to Bitter Root Valley. There my people would be
healthy, where they are now they are dying. Three
have died since I left my camp to come to Wash
ington.
When I think of onrcsfiSRiorrnTy
I sec men of my race treated as outh
from country to country, or shotdow
I know that my race must change
hold our own with the white men
only ask an even chance to live as
We ask to be Tecognized as men. \
same law shall work alike on all men?
dian breaks the law, punish him by •
tiie white man breaks tiie 1 w, punish hiflji|®* \ ffe ,-
Let me be a free man—free to travel, freai?-«CKo' 1 ^ oVJ g tbe oS ,’ 0 r
free to work, free to trade where I choose a ny co nten '
choose my own teachers, free to follow :he reli.X^ ' I, . s 'y>eea vftC 8 ° or di
of my fathers, free to think and talk and actSpb* y ‘ gcd tb elU s ° re
myself—and I will obey every law or submit to\’^P r |\‘ e ^bnkcsP^*
penalty
Whenever the white man treats fhe Indian tl
they treat each other, then we will have nomoi
ambition. Before tliej] found out that he was
myth, they had stocke.lthe world with discussions
uncounted upon this gnat universal genius. Shake
speare had for centuries jeen a mine of wealtli to the
essayist, the lecturer, the book maker. We had beau
ties of Shakespeare, sublimities of Shakspeare, wit
of Shakespeare, Shakespeare as a philosopher, as a
physician, as a naturalist, as a lawyer, as a soldier
—in fact every phase of taegreat full-orbed intellect
was t jrned to tiie gaze of the public, and they were
nvited to admire it through the lenses of enthusi
astic bibiiopolists, until the public said pretty in
telligibly “Too much of this.” Then there was a lull
until suddenly the Shakespeare craze burst out ii,
a new and startling place, and we were informed
that there was no Shakespeare after all—no great
dramatist and poet. Shakespeare, only a Mr. Shake
speare, manager of I lie London theatre, clever in-
terpolater of stage business into plays, and thrifty
architect of a moderate Ortune. As for the immor
tal dramas, they wfcrff written by Bacon, Raleigh—
or somebody—“some cur|ed darling” of tiie court o f
letters who had access to Greek. This bright idea
emanated first from our American brain (Miss Ba
con’s) some thirty years ago. Since then, several
books pro and con the theory have been published,
together with innumerable magazine and news
paper articles. Among the best of these is one in
ilie last number of “Appleton's Monthly” called
“The Sbakesperian Alytli” andjwritten by Mr. Ap
pleton Morgan; whost ts out by assuming that well
informed people of the day are pretty general in
tlieir disbelief in Shakespeare, and that “it is ns
well established and proved that Willism Sliake-
spoare was not the author of the plays that go by
ins name as any other fact,occurring in London three
hundred yearsago.” “This is ttieageandgeueration
for the explosion of myths,” says Air. Alorgan, “and
the presumption as to William Shakespeare’s
authorship of the great dramas that fur-three centu
ries had gone by his fame had only to be touched
by tiie thumb and flDger of common sense tocrackle
and shrivel tbajt sat on the wall in tiie
KijuuergjfeLe no a] , the Ki[li ,- S armv
sense’’ during all those threfe nndred years ?—none
until in these latter days, when tiie sensatioc-
Jack Horners !
“With finger and thumb
Pick out the plum
Saying what a sm*rt boy am I?
thrifty and successful for a genius, that be sued a
man for payment lor “corn delivered,” and said
nothing in his will about his plays—(having doubt-
tess disposed of them in some previous arrange
ment). As if a man must necessarily be a fool and
a spendthrift because he Is a genius—as if imagina
tion in its broad, calm, complete development, dis
tinct from a partial and spasmodic manifestation—
may not co-exist with common sense and well bal
anced faculties. As if too, such genius can only be
produced by gentle blood and classic learning;
when it is a world-known fact that what is called
“gentle blood” has rarely vigor and strengtli in it
to evolve genius, and that “generations of culture,”
dwarf individuality and produce effeteness and
tame imitation—while too much learning is a
crushing burden to freedom and breadth of thought.
But it seems idle to discuss the question of Shake
speare's authorship farther. It is enough that we
have tiie book—the glorious, all-embracing Mind.
It does notalter its breadth of wing or keenness of
vision that certain sensation-seekers, poking
among the dry egg-she'.ls of the nest that hatched
it, should cry out that they have found the shell of
a crow’s egg, notan eagle's. Is it possible that the
fields of nature and art and humanity are so barren
or overworked that such writers as Air. Morgan
should conjure up the ghost ol a Doubt, and waste
his ingenuity in trying to galvanize itiiuto life?
of the lgnoriwois ls ° ,\>ioice the neai» ” by
part of tiie eoutnore rej.„tion of ine£ Jf.® r /feed
capable physicianfce R be th' ,roU "^J ivery
health. Illinois has infest almost ever^
health,
rection.and the other
co-operate in tiie good wde»ge of the
none but those who are ever., in tne r*s. —y.i
one but those who are ever., in ‘ “ hoU id
„ ractice medicine, and then let thJJPj 0 .” ’ aR to
see that no others do practice. -lifted to
>rities
Novel-Reading:,—What a Clergyman says
in defense of it.—Appleton’s Journal says it is
one of the settled things to sneer at novel-reading,
but it is nevertheless one of the settled things to read
novels. There are many persons who seem to fear
that their intellectual superiority would be ques
tioned if they failed to express tlieir contempt for
novels.for which purpose they have always at hand
a nmber of set phrases; but we suspect that even
these lofty persons take occasion, once in a while to
indulge themselves in a good work of fiction, for if
there are any men and women who never read a
novel their imaginations must be
Mr. Alorgan and the othejdeniers ofShakespeare’s
it
right to the world-f«moutdramas base their dis
belief on tiie impossibilii of fitting the antece
dents’ character and attaliments of the fcliake-
speare that produced ani claimed the plays in
London, with tiie ideal Slifcespeare—6Ueh as they
niagine lie ought to have Ix-n. Mr. Morgan seems
to think tliey could only iive been wriitenbya
gentleman of “abundant (sure and elegant edu
cation,” while Shakespeara-as tiie son of a wool-
comber, and had “small Lak and less Greek,” as
his friend Ben Jonson tells*. Then Shakespeare
worked himself into statloifcd moderate fortune,
and was thrifty and pracl], which, it is con
tended is incompatible witl^iiiiis. But there are
plenty of instances where hly gifted people have
been thrifty and practical ft tiie success of the
bu-iness firm of Aiorris a Riisetti in London
as dry as the remainder biscuit
After a voyage.
But even many of those readers who frankly confess
that tliey like novels, are apt to look upon novel
reading is an indulgence that at best is not. special
ly harmful, and that for really intellectual enjoy
ment tliey must go to other kinds of literature.
That there is a good deal of idle and feeble novel-
reading there is no need to say, but there is a fash
ion of judging novels solely by their weak and
foolish examples, whereas ot her branches of liter
ature are judged by tlieir best. There is a great
deal of dull and even foolish history, and a good
deal of thin gruel in the essay and the homily.
Peopie who sneer at the novel, and many who
apologize for it, seem to be ignorant of tiie breadth
and height it has attained in the hands of the mas
ters. In an address written by the Rev. Dr. Os
good, and read before the Church Congress recently
held at Cincinnati, we find the following well-put
argument:
We mast allow that there are all sorts of novels,
as there are all sorts of society, and that fiction
swarms witli vitality akin to that of nature in her
range from humming-bird to vulture, spaniel to
tiger, and from rose and lily to nightshade and
upas-tree. We must choose from fiction as irom
fact, and both belong to our being and our birth
right. We have part in each of the great schools of
romance—the revolutionary school, that began the
new fiction; tiie historical school, that sought to
counteract its madness; end llie realistic school,
that now carries the day and tries to unite revolu
tion with liistoiy in its telling portrait of tilings as
this realistic set, Jo* and They deid wURUYlTtocta S
actual life. Kings and queens, as such; fine ".ntle
men and fine ladies, and their costume ana e b
quette, have gone by, and the thing mr^t cared for
even in regard to them, is the real pinch of life, the
actual motive cr passion, the pain or pleasure that
gives color or form to tlieir experience. Every
thing that occupies or interests men and women
now goes into romance; and is treated with the
most accurate observation, the most
.ng, and the most diligent art
Who shall Decide ?—Recent legal decision.
Wisconsin and Illinois hold that when the views o
a parent and a teacher in a public school differ as
to the studies of a pupil, the decision of the parent
mjust prevail. This is tiie true principle and it
should be the will as well as the law in every state.
The parent is the proper one to decide what studies
iiis child shall pursue If he intends that his son
shall be a farmer, or a mechanic, or a clerk or book
keeper, or that he should adopt one of the “learned
professions,” then he should pursue studies to pro
mote that end. A large portion of the studies pre
scribed in the public-schools are and can ne (.f no
earthly use to many of the pupils, for the reason
that they are to devote their energies after they
quit school to an avocition in which these studies
are practically a dead letter. It is a waste of time
to require a pupil to pursue studies that will be of
no use to him in after life, simply because they are
a part of the prescribed course,
box
was laid upon our table, fresh from the
“Don’t open it,” said a chorus of voices; “it id
April Fool—a frog or a baby alliga’or, or a ra|
least will jump out of it.” “It’s an infernal i
chine” said another, backing away from it.
curiosity conquered; tiie box was opened-a dl
cious perfume burst out like an imprisoned spif
tiie box was filled with exquisite flowers—gorget
tulips—crimson, dashed with brown and gold— y
low jessamines, great stalks of hyacinths thiolJ
set with double bells of blue, white, shell-pid
coral and pale amber. Beautiful as carved gei|
but living and fragrant. Among them lay
with “Your April Fool” upon it. Thanks to tie
donor (we guess who she is—one delicate and raj
as her flowers ) We wouldn’t mind being “fooled
in this way every day of the year.
The Public an«l Nellie Hubbard’* Mar-
riase.—We are told by tiie Northern newspapers,
particularly the Herald, that the marriage of Gov
ernor Hubbard’s daughter. Nellie, to Young Shep
ard, her father’s coach.nan, lias caused “general
condemnation on the part of the public.” We don’t
see what right tiie public lias to indulge in any
such Vere de Vere sentiment The marriage of a
young lady albeit agovornor’s daughter to an honest-,
‘ndustrious, fine-looking young man of respectable
and moderately well-off parents ought not to excite
indignation in a republican country among a peer
pie wln.se fathers framed a constitution declaring
that “all men were free and equal.” Jt’s a poor rul®
that won’t work both ways. If a whisky drinkii 1 ”
tanner is worthy to be made President of
United States, a sober coachman ought to be good
enough for tiie husband of a Yankee governor’s
daughter. *
/
The Turkish Rath—Reduction in price.—It
will be good news to all who desire to keep free
from disease; to forestall fevers and cleanse their
systems from impurity to know that Dr. Stain back
Wilson has reduced the p:ice ol his Turkish Ba'lis,
so that all can now enjoy tiie advantages of tins,
the greatest of all luxuries and curatives and tli«
only one in tiie South, which is doing more for the
health and enjoyment of llie ccmmuniiy than
everything else combined. Dr. Wilson’s office and
Bath rooms are conveniently located on the corner
of Wall and Loyd street-*, and the Bathing Apart
ments are fitted up with every comfort and privacy
special
Hew Dress
ii<
Sunny South.”
rf
A
ety nest think- I
W Sl BSCK, BEKS , om
*'• ani> grand nii-itovi 1
SEE NTS TO RE rare IN THE
PAPER WITH THE BE
GINNING OF
and is likely to be the main' ° f **??«*, is
The FIFTH Volume.
• topic; but ail other
t nugs go with it and are made to be its ministers-
a 1 sciences; arts, ambitions, enterprises, crimes
chanties, affinities, hatreds, aspirations.ail gob.to
fiction and are often treated with .such depth and
U is no ,on ^ P^per to call ,he novel
course. In fact, much
prove that it is carried onlsteadily and syste
matically as if the two me^rs of the firm were
not poets of an imoginativy.d visionary type.
Genius of partial and feverifcmi may b erratic
and incapable of every dajjsicess, but Shake
speare's mind, it must be rerfcered, was not dis
proportionately developed—| ts nearly sphered
perfection—such a rounded jj complete fruitas
the tree of humanity bears oL nce j n many cen
turies. For this reason Shalt> are w - as j n a jjj an _
ner independent of the plo<^ study of books.
A good common education A ttle jrisJglit into
Greek and Latin weie sulficieijp S [ 0 j,j s j n ( K)rn
strengtli. If te neeced morejj e . lrued friends _
tlic young wits andlcholars were habitues oi
his theatre aud befop whose \ , e 0 f ten satj had
“loads of learned lunber” in t , ates andal i the
choice situations and speech t j, e grand o]d
Greek tragedies ft their tongi , ds They had
no use for them Jxcept io liancy to their
talk, to fling t' 1<n out l avisil r their cups as
suggestions., o> comparisons , h tiie youug
(1 ,. iu ^sanginatk,nseized ditupon. Such
’ ’ help were sufficien hat vitalizing
ation. Jiat powerful lac combination
^wondeerl intuitions. N< to make hjm _’,
«c«» lotAwIth the forms ietails of the
Wma-The merest ot flashed n
[tb e eletic larly frieud .
light reading, as a matter of
fiction is in a s"nse severely scientific, and aims to
set forth the personal impulses and socjnl instincts
ZZTl° fD 'f U . Te and su, 'J' ect to same laws of
selection
nomena,
i and fatalistic destiny as material plie-
As many readers may be surprised at finding a
clergy man defending novel-reading in these terms-
L is only just to add that the reverend gentleman
does not fail to enforce the necessity of careful and
et en the best novels should make a moderate pro
portion of our reading.” The significance of tbe
W e are bow receiving new material from T PW
l°rk, Cincinnati and Philadelphia, in which
we shall very soon array 'our funny South ’ and'’
~V‘“ wil *’ lifo bl“
Nearly five years ago it made its first appeal
mna(, y cr fiends to back it
i
!i! of ‘ i8 t.0«b!‘J
lb. Soutl, md io . little will, ha(i taken __
Snl^ ’i the popnlar ^“Pathies of the gut
southern heart that notwithstanding the fhn-
.d&l embarrassmentc i
- ^
1 embarrassments of the people h,.„ *
which i. received w„. r!!±,' tt6 P« r <»S»
It received w aa bajood , u
in tllA -r n 5
* n0WD . m the hi8tor y of Southern journalm.
Since then the financial distress has
continued, but has
not nly
increased with eaoh
iS Jl tl * erec ^ nltiou of «he :n ed l ng y ! ar * bat people have
novel as an intellectual force, as something more
t ia %™eie story-telling. Every person of alert and
sympathetic intelligence will realize the truth of
the assert tons that Dr. Osgood makes. It is tr e
t ,‘e d^en nyreatlerSarealmOSt " hol,J ' insensible Io
the deeper purpose and psychological significance
read, ana find in them
gotten The Sunny South ^1^ ’ ° ne /' for '
he«n / .. H ’ Thousand have
of the novels that tliey
little more than a stimulus to etnotion.-U exThe"
ment, but do readers of this intellectual caliber
find any higher significance in other forms of lit
erature? Is biography to themanytliingmor than
gossip or history better than a record of intrigues
at courts or of exciting conflictson the battle-field ?
been unable to continue their support tr lack
^“!!. aDyperson .^ et from books more than
best
f 8t A.nerloan
n ®. 8 the most
iglish
i En *
Jottesvi
>rated,)tbo«^- r >
’ writ* dramas, wh*
s Frd Bacon-Lord
end lelieve it was
wars. We shall all be alike —brothers of one fath*
Jiat.fe two scholars
v ; tv'' e ' \\8 e \m that the busi-
Jr jthered them,
j. V*' i itr authorship
^ \ jJM interpolating a
venY ' JEjo /the applause
h^iihfs come down
ly was t|o mention of
eous wn When the
r anden Elizabeth
and Bdeliglited ear
them f, why did not
eoik up and own
ivi private hint
In some of the
idle entertainment if his reading is not penetrative
spi.it if the imagination does not go with the
theme into its depths and its reaches? To an at
ten live reader a novel may be full of earned
thought and high philosophy; it may give insS
into character and into periods that is invaln»h
while grave books in the hands of cold a, d fn a t
tentive readers will be sure to affor.i ™ 1
i"" *«*•» .hoert.T.Vt'iTJ:
facts, it is time it came to be "enerailv r leSe
...... “l.Kht „udi„ g .» taSES .x,”r;
which is lightly read. i 8 slm P 1 y that
of means, but other thousands lave app ^
their places and it still lives and will put
on new robes and ^ pat
enlaege its mabgins.
And when that is done we shall u •
ery household in thfc , t0 6V *
Sunny South is admitted a ^ ThE
regal., membe , o( “ *
NEW SUBSCRIBER.
Froia Maine to Florida and trom Calif aia l
Louisiana we have most ^ ai " u,a t0
paper ha, eve, hid a ‘ e,, ° 8 »
W. have recently added 1 *.I*
. 7 aade “ to our regqj? lists of
step I„ the Right Direction,—Onnelts
llinois has slrnok n hiAm..* . cuhcks,-
Illinois has struck a blow at quackerv’m
fti l nrnfoutinn n .t.:.i. . ^ ® til© DJ6di-
cal profession which is wortliv of mi „
♦inn t* j—*_ x., .. . . _ y oi an comiiignda—
and one mother, with one sky above us and ot®
ove us anu o.* \ ^ p a s ycn j
country around us, and one gove nment for alM v does‘‘®* T - V ~S!
Then the Great Spirit Chief who rules above \w' v \' V dc0 nt® "P wr ‘
smile upon this land, and tend tain to was!rouaAb e \ 11D , . the
of that age
at day? And
peare’s friend
bloody spots made by brothers'hands from th
of the earth. For this lime the Indian rat,
waiting and praying. I hope that no more
of wounded men and women will ever go fi
ol tiie Great Spirit Chief above, and that al
may be one people. v
Iu-mut-too yali-lat-lat has spoken lor
1
tion. It is stated that the authorities of h? c.
have put a stop to the W-ef mo-et nn
thousand quack doctors tiie ‘ 1 ‘an three
whom have gone to localities imv?. ar ,. P'' 1 ’tion of
the laws of Illinois, to praetice^non^H 1 ’ 6 reael1 of
pt communities where^their onE-.u cr eduMty
known, it is a happy rid,I,S'Ml™ ar « not
Illinois, but others will sutler from tV ,e peo B !e of
It is also stated that the state n Jhe operation
taking the medical colleges in • u i* of . Uei »lth is
limitations upon the granting of dim 1 ’ and Rutting
r ’TV,'* Police medicine b i’ them
Boa.d of Health cannot he 18 action of the
substantial and lnt.it- reg * J,8tl
names from A patr °n«birty-two
from Augusta a,u ,
ilia a.l . ... ’ » forfone from
Bttesville, Ark • thirty-’ i 5 l0rK,De fro “
Ark.; sixteen from F^rtSmhh^fif Pring8 ’
from Little Rock Ark - t ^ Arf
port, Ark • fortv f V W6Dt J-tk i from New-
'on, Miss • fon.t r'omJaok-
lighte^ een W* Point.
eighteen from Ahee“d “"“a W< X '° lnt * Miss ’J
from Columhna u" e6n ' ^ ‘^nty-tbree
\i£.7Y i nea i ln fan hot be too hi ehZ „ of ‘be
Men who read medical books , eouimended
months are not prepared to riiv<-i * a ,e ' r We eks or
and responsible duties devolving ar!fe tl,e delicate
eian, and it is not S nfe to tern sueh U £? a tlle Physi-
the community to admirbstl^ h rnen bjosaunon
which they know so litUeLi t? ^ ‘'cines about
peculiarly da- gerous to their !l e *beir practice
same time they know while a t !Ihf
that afflict the human family- 6 ’ih 00 *- ‘■hedise,.es
medicines they m-esr-rih J 1 * 1 -.'.' as ‘bey do ahnnfll? 8
to be restraiuVin the w^^ 1 «»‘ieges onlht
since the effort with too of ma king doetni'J'
from Columbus, Miss - h!’ my ~ three
Ml88 - 5 sixteen from M Ok olona,
from Iuka, ’’ S6Vente ^
Mobile, A 7 a • tvail f hU “ J<1 and two f r«m
b »ndre’dsof;X:^ 0 V J t OSa ’ A,a ' ; and
the Sooth. We are 18 3 ° ther 8e °tions of
W f re 8ec wf Rood men to
resent the p aper in IO re P*
soon it will 7 ever y and very
great national family p^ofires^uth! *
100,000 cdlatign.
*«»*5 ZtZ’T “P to one
f«el like our work " CTi ± ers ™ shall
W8 must ha®-
value—