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THE SUNNY SOUTH
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ATLANTA, OA„ SEPTEMBER 3. 1881.
The city tax books close on the 20th inst.
It is now in order to talk of the soap stone
man.
Wheat street belles fight with crimping-
irons.
Efforts are being made to revive the choral
society.
The City Hall Park is now arrayed in liv
ing green.
Atlanta has five or six female bar-keepers
and owners.
Oar great crop will soon be ripe—the fes
tive ’possum,
B. W. Wren is working hard for the Cot
ton Exposition.
The new line of street railway is approach
ing completion.
Allie C. Billups has been elected librarian
of the Y. M. L. A.
The first baptist church will soon have a
new and fine organ.
A marriage at Mount Airy is called a mar
riage in “nigh” life.
A. A. Vernoy has severed his connection
with the Kenntsaw Route.
Lock your front doors while at supper as
the festive burglar is about
Work on the new Capitol should begin at
the close of the Exposition.
After the flush times of the Cotton Exposi
tion there will be a great calm.
DeGives Opera House is being renovated
inside and made more cheerful.
J. H, Goldsmith, the Clerk of Council has
the Clerk’s office in apple-pie order.
Catoosa Springs was recently sold to G.
W, Wilson of Milwaukee for $18,000.
Judge Strong is perfectly at home in the
office of Clerk of the Superior Court.
During the Exposition Atlanta for a radi
us of 80 miles will be a vast boarding house.
An Atlanta painter fell 30 feet from a scaf
fold and dislocated one of his wrists.
The genial smile of Major S. Frank War-
ren now illumines the Kimball House.
Atlanta has eighty licensed bar-rooms.
Fifteen bar-rooms have closed up since June
first.
CoL D. P. Ellis, the auctioneer, is one of
the most knowing and known men of the
Gate City. •
L. W. Scoville, of the Kimball House, is
one of the lessees of the Duvall House at
Jackson, Fla.
The Richmond & Danville railroad is ship
ping through daily thousands of cross-ties for
the Georgia Pacific.
The prisoners in Fulton county jail made
an unsuccessful attempt to break jail. The
jailor pooled the Betts.
Quite a number of divorce cases are being
retained to the next term of Fulton Supe
rior court—mostly colored.
The rain on last Sunday is buoying up the
spirits of the people. Potatoes and turnips
were greatly benefitted by it.
Wenona Cold-water Templars celebrated
their eleventh anniversary in the City Hall
Park on the night of the 27th.
An Atlanta photographer is offering a $10
S id piece for the finest looking baby having
picture taken at his gallery.
R. G. Thompson the noted restauranter
anticipated September by serving up on the
27th ult oysters and rice birds.
The new church edifice of St. Phillips is as
suming a shape that gives assurance of a
stately and handsome building.
Several Atlanta youths are singularly af
fected. They rave about certain Memphis
beauties, yet call them “looney.”
FOR LADIES ONLY.
Styles, Marriages, Anecdotes, Sociables,
Slanders, and General Gossip
About the Sex.
E^-Comptroller General Peterson Thweatt
died in this city on the 27th ult. He was an
honest man and faithful public servant.
Rev. Father McKinney preached in the
church of the Immaculate Conception last
Sunday night, on “The Messiah of the Proph
ets.”
The September term of the United States
circuit and district courts will not open in
this city until the i9th inst, being the third
Monday.
The session of the Georgia State Sunday
School association at Griffin was thinly at
tended. The next session will be held in Sa
vannah.
Atlanta is well represented in the officers
of the Grand lodge, Knights of Jericho. R.
P. Zimmerman is grand secretary; W. L.
Banks, treasurer; S. W. Register, grand
guard.
See advertisement of P. O. Vickery for
Agents in another column. Mr. Vickery is
Mayor of the city of Augusta, Maine, which
is a sure guarantee that all will be fairly
dealt with.
The fifth artillery band, on Tuesday night
gave a complimentary serenade to Mr. Her
man Denzon, on the anniversary of his birth
day. The Atlanta Tum-Verein was present
and the evening was enjoyed in real German
style.
Most of our City readers will remember a
bright but imprudent little white female ped-
d.er on our streets, named Puss Bone. Re
cently, we learn, she was arrested on the
charge of stealing jewelry, but owing to her
tender years she was released.
The Cole charter was ably discussed by
Gen. E. P. Alexander of the Louisville &
Nashville R. R. system and Hon. J. B. Cum
ming, attorney of the Georgia R, R. against,
and by E. W. Cole, of the Cole Syndicate and
Julius L. Brown, attorney, for.
There is no accounting for the freaks of
type. Last week the types made us speak of
the young ladies of the Christian Church
forming a Divine Club instead of a .Dime
Club, and Henry Meyers returning from
Columbus without his “boy instead of his
box.
J. W. Churchill, an estimable gentleman of
67 years, died suddenly and quietly at a
prayer meeting in the Third Baptist Church
of this city of which be was a leading mem
ber. He died from heart disease. He had
often expressed a desire that when be died to
die in church.
The elegant fur-lined cloaks that range in
price from $100 on heavenward, can be
bought in Europe for only $20.
The pretty dog collars of small crimson
flowers are an effective addition to black su
rah and Spanish lace costumes.
Forty ladies have gone to Europe on a four
months’ excursion, under the escort of one
mau,.but that one is deaf and dumb.
Young ladies who aim high for style, wear
tinted satin coaching bats, and carry hand
painted parasols and Watteau fans to match.
Five o’clock tea sets on revolving stands
will be the thing this autumn. They come in
the choicest wares and beautifully decorated.
The Princess of Wales is fond of wearing
natural flowers as ornaments, and always
has a small bunch of them at her throat and
belt.
Just imagine a thousand dollar fan! It
was of white and tinted ostrich feathers,
powdered with gold and with diamond set
tings.
Whole barnyards are now carried around
on the new pongee parasols. It is fashiona
ble to paint on them dogs, pigs, chickens and
ducks.
At the West Baden Springs, Ky., there is
a sign posted over the springs that reads
“Abandon dignity, style and dress all who
enter here.”
It appears dreadfully out of season to talk
of hot satins and velvets, but fashion has al
ready issued the decree that the fall will be a
velvet season.
A fine white silk handkerchief, nearly cov
ered with French embroidery of red and gold
sea moss, butterflies and roses, costs only
thirty dollars.
A woman, to be “utter” stylish, must be a
blonde, is the latest decree of fashion. Some
thing on the jaundice order, yellow hair and
pale yellow skin.
The red, white and blue—the red cheeks,
white teeth and blue eyes of a lovely girl-
are as good a flag as a young soldier in the
battle of life can fight for.
The latest fashion for a ceremonious intro
duction forbids extending the band when in
troduced, though to do so is nevertheless a
very cordial good custom.
A little 3-year-old said to her mother one
day, “Mamma, you married papa so no one
else could get him, didn’t yon?” Her ideas of
human nature were quite earnest.
An odd necklace is composed of a series of
jeweled insects; diamonds, pearls, emeralds
and sapphires are nsed for the bodies, tiny
rubies for the eyes, and white clear stones for
the wings.
Handsome Louis Quinze slippers are dis
played, made of black satin, and embroid
ered with an arabesque design in ruby and
steel beads. They have deep French heels
covered with satin.
The 14-year-old daughter of Sitting Bull is
called “ She-Who-Glances-at-You as Sbe-
Walks.” This is beiter than having a girl
who glances at every ice-cream saloon be
tween the theatre and the home of her proud
sire who keeps a dog.
Black costumes are always elegant and
stylish. A surah suit with a slightly draped
tunic and close-fitting Jersey of black stock
inet, is extremely nobby. A broad-brimmed
black hat with trimmings of feathers and
crimson roses complete this costume-
The esthetic tastes of some of our young
people, as displayed in their dress, are, to use
the language of the said y. p., “too utterly
utter.” One young lady, often seen on the
streets, and who is prominent in lawn tennis
tournaments, has a dress the underskirt of
which, at a short distance, looks like bed
ticking, while the overskirt appears to be of
red and white awning cloth. The basque is
of turkey red, and on her head she wears a
red knit cap, shaped like a sailor’s.
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LETTER FROM DAHLONEGA.
Market day In the Mine City—
Wined Buggies and Fat Men—
The Yellow Treasure— 1 The
l.ovely Valley—The Frlde—
Folly Mine—How Wold is Ob
tained.
How to Make a Sea Serpent.
As sea serpents are just now greatly in de
mand off the seaside watering places, why
does not some cute Yankee invent one. AU
that is wanted is a live grampus, a black-fish,
or a big shark; when you have secured him,
attach to his tail a good-sized rope about
thirty or forty fathom in length, buoyed up
with a score or more of empty lager beer
casks; then for an ornamental finish to his
extremity, attach a knot of vari-colored
toy ballons. Start his snakeship from Boar's
Head, and let him ply along the coast. In
vite a few “old salts’’ and the reporters of
all the sensational journals to witness the
monster’s movements, and success may be
assured.
-Ob,” said Daisy to her mamma, “I wuz in
the parlor last night, behind the sofy, when
the young preacher come in to see sister
Kate, and they did set up too close for any
thing, and the preacher said ‘Katie, dear, I
luv you;’ an’ Kate said 'Oo, 00;’ an’ then the
preacher, he kissed her right smack on the
month and said, ‘Dear Katie, bow good the
Lord is to us poor sinners;’ an’ Kate said
‘Oo, 00;’ an’ then—an’ then—” “Well,” said
her mamma, “you wicked child, what did
you do»” “W’y, mamma, I felt so good I
blurted out, ‘Let us pray,’ an’ you ought to
seen them two people, bow they jumped up,
and looked at Daisy all scrunched up in a
corner. It wuz just too awful, mamma, fo^
any use.”
A Marvelous Fight.
Galveston, Texas is now putting up a mag
nificent monument to commemorate the
wonderful battle of San Jacinto, which de
cided the fate of Texas and secured its! inde-
>endence from Mexican dominion. It is now
: lorty five years since this momentuous bat
tle, and the circumstances attending it are
but faintly impressed on the minds of the
iresent generation, a writer in the New Or-
eans Times thus recalls the event. The flow
er of the Texas troops had fallen in battle on
every hill and plain of West Texas. A body
of as gallent men as ever faced a battle storm
were massacred to the last man in a heroic
defence of the ancient Church of the Alamo
in San Antonio. Texas had not a single de
fender left in all the vast region from the
nver Brazos to the Rio Grande, while Gen
eral Houston, the commander-in-chief, who
had never fought a battle, and had never
ceased to retreat before the advancing ene
my was in the marshes near what is now the
city of Houston,in full retreat for the sanctu
ary to be afforded by the neutral ground of
Louisiana in the United States.
This was the desperate st->te of affair ■ : n Tex -
as on the 21st of April, i836, when Houston’s
Texans only 800 strong were suddenly con
fronted by the advance guard of Santa An
na’s army on the plains of San Jacinto.
This Mexican force was double that of the
Texans, and commanded by Santa Anna
himself; but the Texans then and there de
clared thev would retreat no farther, but
would strike one blow for their well-nigh
hopeless cause. The men were mustered by
companies and battalions, line of battle was
formed, and the entire force of Texan’s ani
mated by despair, a desire to avenge the
slaughter and atrocities that bad been prac
ticed upon their countrymen, and inspired
by a sort of patriotic fury, and with little re
gard for military strategy and order, rushed
upon the Mexicans, the Texan band playing
the once popular air of “Will you come to
the Bower that I’ve Staled for you,” and t te
two pieces of cannon known as the “Twin
Sisters,” which had been presented to the
Texans by ladies of Cincinnati, deliverings
destructive fire.
The battle did not last long, but when it
was over the spectacle presented, well justi
fied the remark that it was a miraculous
event. There were 600 of the Mexicans laid
dead on the field. 208 were wounded and 730
including the renowned Santa Anna, made
prisoners, while the entire camp equipage,
stores and ordinance of the enemy fell into
the hands of the Texans, who, on their side
only lost eight killed and a score or more, in
cluding Gen. Houston wounded.
In New Zealand a railway extending from
the city of Christchurch and Littleton has
been constructed through a tunnel 2 620 me
ters in length. This tunnel pierces through
the walls of a volcanic cone, and thus has
laid bare its structure of successive streams
of lava and beds of scoria. ashes, and turfae,
which are again intereecred by dykes of
younger volcanic rocks. This is, perhaps,
the first volcano through which a railway
has been constructed.
To a visitor with high notions concerning
architecture, Dahlonega is not the place to
come. The houses are mostly of the same
commonplace pattern. The court house
stands in the centre of the square, a good-
sized substantial brick building, where law
and justice are meted out to those in search
of it.
It is Saturday; consequently a kind of holi
iday among the country people. Orderly
conduct impresses one, no loud voices from
the stimulating effects of strong drink, as it
is neither bought nor sold in the town. The
square is covered with marketing. The draft
animals employed are mostly oxen, the
country being so mountainous, they are surer
footed than either mules or horses.
The stock looks well, and seem to have
humane drivers. The wagons contain goodly
loads of luscious peaches, watermelons, ap
ples etc., while the industrious women,
have butter,eggs, socks, coverlids and patch-
work quilts, all to be exchanged for provi
sions, clothes and shoes.
The picturesque sportsman is here, with his
five hounds looking lazy as himself—his cap
and pouch festooned with coon tails, trophies
of conquest. His vocation is gone however
in summer in these regions, as there is no
game to bunt until it matures in autumn or
winter.
The town people or the young men here do
not drive oxen, on the contrary they have
fine, fat horses and good buggies. Cincinnati
buggies costing only forty dollars are wan
ing in popularity. The preachers proclaim
against them in the pulpit, while the old folks
say, ‘ they are stuck together with glue and
not fit to ride in.” A stout man recently
while riding in one of these vehicles, incau
tiously leaned back, when the seat tore loose,
precipitating him down a hill, bruising him
nadly, from the effects of which he has not
recovered. Buggies fastened with glue can
not stand the strain of these rough roads,over
steep hills and through mountain passes.
Cincinnati can manufacture lager that
will raise the weight of a Dutchman to
three hundred pounds, but beware of vehi
cles from that source, if you are nervous on
the subj. ct of being spilt out when and
where you least expect it.
I was an eye witness of a rather stagger
ing attempt to swindle, the other day. We
have heard of young men marrying on the
prospect of a situation, or nursing the delu
sion for a lile time, that some rich relative
might die suddenly leaving them a large for
tune, but trying to buy provisions with the
promise of paying for it, from the imagin
ary legacy ot a rich uncie who, bad died
thirtv years ago when his property was di
vided and spent, was beyond comparison.
The whole thing was a dodge or transparent
fraud, which a far seeing lawyer probed to
the bottom proving it a scheme to enable its
planners to live without work.
A VISIT TO THE GOLD MINES.
Men murder for gold, rob for gold, and die
working for gold, but how few know just
how the coveted treasure is obtained from its
hidden home away under the ground. As
we ascend the mountain,on our left, the Blue
Ridge rises before us where f
‘ The mountain shadows on her breast, 4
Are neither broken nor at rest,
In bright uncertainty they lie.
Like future joys to Fancy’s eye.’’
The bold picturesque mountain scenery is a
v ery attractive feature in this region, also
the fertile valleys beneath, where luxuriant
vegetation promises an abundant harvest,
where the vines intermingle lovingly with
each other, and mosses cover the uprooted
trees, while the wandering streams that go
gypsying through tbeir emerald shades as
though in search of a lost course, or mpnr—
without a purpose on a holiday frolic;
place where the echo of steam cars has never
resounded, where the solitude of ages remains
unbroken as when the “morning-stare sang
together and all the sons of God shouted for
joy.”
If cool, pure water could impart to us a
perennial existence, here it is found and we
imbibe often enough to obtain it. The Pro
fessor who accompanies us, having the agili
ty of a chamois, leaps out at every branch to
dip water from the coldest springs in Georgia.
After travelling nearly three miles, the
Bartow 20 stamp mill and mine is reached,
owned by private individuals and not in the
market This mine was formerly known as
the “Pride Folly,” from Col. George G. Pride,
at one time chief of staff to Gen. Ulysses
Grant, who expended here two hundred
thousand dollars in trving to develop the
Bartoli or amalgamating pan process which
iroved a stupendous failure. This mine has
3een worked nearly half a century and will
last a century longer. The ore is found in
auriferous quartz interspersed with a soft
belt of talacose,slate and other material. It
is worked by the hydraulic method, the wa
ter being conducted to the top of a hill where
it is stored in a reservoir, then conveyed
through a six-inch pipe to the little giant
where it escapes with immense force through
a two inch nozzle with sufficient pressure to
demolish the hills of earth and ore. This plan
dispenses with the old pick and shovel meth-
od almost entirely, except when throwing
the ore into the sluice-way or troughs nearly
a mile distant from the mills, where it rushes
with sufficient velocity to dissolve the soft
rock, also much reducing the hard ore by at-
irition when the entire mass is deposited in
an ore yard. It is afterwards taken on a
tramway to the mill, which contains forty
stamps, each weighing 450 pounds. The ore
is crushed here to an impalpable powder,
then washed from the battery over amalga
mated coppei plates, the gold being retained
by the mercury, the refuse powder known
among the miners as “tailings,” passing off
with the current of water. Some months
this mill yields more than twenty thousand
pennyweights of bullion. It is under the su
perintendence of Captain Huff, a thoroughly
practical miner. There are severed other
mines in the vicinity worked by blasting, al
so digging underground with the aid of arti
ficial lights.
It is true here lies the great gold belt of
Georgia, where an occasional nugget has
been round with little or no exertion, but it
isouly by hard and constant labor of the
roughest kind that any amoant can be real
ized. Nearly everybody here walks with
his head down looking for gold;
even the children are always digging ana
turning over rocks in search of the coveted
metal, which we fear will be conducive of
grovelling instincts.
God has created many grand and wonder
ful things for the use of his creatures, but he
never intended them to be obtained and en
joyed without exertion, This effort in the
pursuit of an object is the moving impulse of
creation, on wnich hinges the world’s pro
gress.
“Farewell, tragic and historic mountains,
Purling streams and gushing fountains.’’
The last rays of the setting sun are gilding
the tallest peaks of Blood, fray, Cedar and
Yonah, while twilight lingers as though re
luctant to leave a scene of so much beauty,
for the deeper gloom of night.
Silvia Sunshine.
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
A Bon Voyage with Charming
Companions—Saturday at
Central Park, Etc.
I and my sunny little shadow—“Maud,”
left Brunswick with flying colors on the
Western Texas—a staunch steamer with “a
right good Captain too”—(pardon the Pina-
foreism; I’ll pay the fine). Neptune’s kisses
were so gentle that we remained upon deck
and I employed my eloquence in describing
the beauties of Georgia to an agreeable Wis
consin gentleman in search of a home. He
professed himself captivated by the picture,
and more than half decided to set up his
lares and penates in the old Empire State.
Two whole melting days were we detained
in Fernandina. Talk of Florida as a “Mecca
of salubrity,” how can one pass cool, breezy,
shady Brunswick for this sultry “land of
flowers”—so-called? Shoals of vicious look
ing gar fish swarmed in the waters and I was
amused at the naive horror of my little com
panion when a man sprang from a neighbor
ing vessel to bathe. She thought to see him
devoured.
Nothing of interest happened till we sight
ed the stormy cape—Hatteras. The element
al signs were threatening and many feared
the storm predicted by Vennor, but the sky
soon cleared and the wind lulled. The passen
gers all came up from their nests at the
cry of “whale—two whales.” They proved
to be porpoises tumbling in our vessel’s wake,
their prismatic tints glittering changefully
in the sun.
Among other pleasant passenger acquaint-
ar 063, I f< und the De Land party remarkably
agreeable and Prof. Beebe, of Madison Col
lege, Western New York—a charming gentle
man. If the witty Miss Wilson will but give
her paper such sprightly pictures of the South
ern excursion as she gave me by word of
mouth, her readers will be charmed.
We bad two services on board, Messrs.
Hilinan and Fargo, of Buffalo, and DeLand,
of Utica furnishing the intellectual pabulum,
while Miss Wilson and ye correspondent did
the singing.
We awoke Monday morning, our eyes de
lighted with the sight of mammoth hotels
and turreted mansions, and smiling cottages
on liying banks of green, and were told it
was far-famed Long Branch. We passed
quickly on between grassy shores and frown
ing forts, whose stone bastions looked out of
keeping in these times of peace; whistling
steamers and steamboats, carrying thousands
of passengers to Long Island and Rockaway
—a barge laden with the poor, pale children
of poverty, to whom a sail on pure water in
the sunsbine and balmy, salt air, was a
delicious foretaste of heaven. Soon the won
der of our western land, the great Brooklyn
bridge, came in sight; the people on the case
mates looked like mere ants. I have since
seen the obelisk, but it gave me no such feel
ing of awe and wonder at man’s power and
strength as did the massive masonry of the
work of our latter day mechanics.
How glad I was to put foot on terra firma
once more; sorry though I was to part with
my companions of the voyage.
Arriving in advance of our time, I had to
make my way up town unpiloted. Scared
could not express my “feelinks” as toiling
nearly up to the skies, I found myself, with
my “sea-legs” not yet cast off, perched like a
pelican in mid air, on a narrow platform,
with a train approaching, apparently pro-
f ailed by—the evil one, I almost fancied—for
never had seen such an engine. I was glad
enough to be hustled off the palpitating, vi
brating, banisterless platform, over the
crowded street, into the car—satisfied my
calling in life was the farthest removed from
rope-dancing.
Such interminable rows of stately man
sions and mammoth street stores; such teem
ing, restless, untiring energy and perpetual
motion, it made me groan with a sense of the
city’s awful unrest and struggling vitality.
The electric light casts its glare with a
weird effect ovei the marble front of the old
Fifth Avenue, still the favorite hotel of “old
time” southern folks, over the fairylike foun
tains of Madison Square, the grim, quaint
profile ot Sumner, and wrinkled, arbitrary
visage of old Farragut. The gigantic hand,
grasping the unlighted torch of liberty, is a
scathing reminder of the jealousy of cities;
if (as I was informed) the reason why France’s
wonderful gift does not cast its light across
the wide waters is merely because other cities
think their own claim to the statue is as good
as New York’s; and New York is too poor,
or too stingy herself to put it in position.
I went to lovely Central Park. The grass
is suffering dreadfully for -want of rain, but
how lovely the long green slopes down to the
blue lake, whereon floated stately swans and
little gondola-like boats, and miniature
yachts! Now and again, hidden in a tangle
of vines and rustling leaves, we would happen
upon a pair of lovers, telling the old story,
ever fresh and new. On Saturdays, Dod-
worth’s band gives concerts at Central Park,
and it is wonderful to see the thousands upon
thousands of men, women and children who
cluster around tbe stand or sit upon the grass
or wander np and down the mazy walks, all
soothed and comforted by the one gentle
touch that makes the whole world akin—
God’s best gift of music. My little compan
ion wearied sooner than I, tempted by the
canning coaches drawn by monster goats,
the dear little ponies saduled and waiting
riders, the inviting notices telling of wonders
of far off lands, the animals whose roar, or
the birds whose shrill cries discordantly broke
upon the music-filled air. The poor caged
beasts were so oppressed by the heat they
forgot their wild instincts, and merely lav
panting and still, the bear refusing even to
show his great teeth when poked by some in
quisitive bystander. There were lots of curious
birds. My head aches at the mere recollec
tion of the room of rainbow-hued parrots and
screaming macaws. I saw no eagle to equal
that sent from Brunswick and presented to
the man of Destiny, when in Fernandina,
with such a glowing tribute to our grand old
Georgia, by Col. Carey W. Stiles, now of the
Galveston News.
Apropos of papers, I have had a gracious
invitation from the manager of the New
York Herald to see them go to prem, and I
intend going on Saturday night. Would
you like my experiences? But my letter is
already all too long. Perhaps you will
kindly play Jack Horner, and “pick out the
plums” for your readers.
I shall have to reserve my excursion to
Coney Island for another time, also my de
lightful evenings at the theatres.
Yellow Jessamine.
Answers to Correspondents
L. M. of Ga. writes in a way to burden us
with a sense of responsibility. He says
“Year answer is all important: It may seal
my destiny so far as matrimony is concern
ed.” He goes on to say that he is engaged to
a girl who belongs to the Christian Church
while he is a Methodist. They love each
other dearly but a difference of religious
opinion is about to divide them. He has
been baptized in the manner his cbnrch re
quires, but she insists that he be immersed
He thinks it would be a useless proceeding,
and that the concession would be lowering to
his self respect. “But I love her devotedly,’
he adds, “and she seems to care for me.
What shall I do? hold out. or give in to her
wish? She says she is willing to abide by
your decision.” We think L. M-, that
your betrothed is a little arbitrary. She
should let you enjoy your religious views
and you should be equally tolerant. And
you ought to form a mutual agreement never
to argue with each other upon religious mat
ters, or rather upon the forms of religious
creeds, for real religion lies deeper than these
ceremonies and tokens, which are but the
husks of the fruit of truth. To us, who be
longing to no sect, have yet a profound rev
erence for the religion taught by Christ in
bis sermon on the mount, it seems a waste of
time and thought to insist so strenuously
upon the forms which clothe the creed, while
the creed itself often suffers for want of the
vitalizing nourishment of faith and works.
“God is love,” “Greatest of all is love,” said
the Master. Therefore;
Worship thou chiefly Love, but also beauty
Wisdom and force; for they are divine!
But God includes them, as some great cathedral
Includes each separate shrine.
So, brother, howso’er we apprehend Him,
Surely ’tis God himself we all adore,—
Life of all life, Soul of all souls, the Highest,
Heart of all hearts, and more.’’
Jacinth, asks: “What is the article “kou
miss” which I read is given to the President
and is said to be so nourishing; and how
came it by such an outlandish name?” Kou
miss is an Arabic word and means milk beer.
It is a common drink among the Tartars and
is made by fermenting new mare’s milk by
mixing it with one eighth of its quantity of
very sour milk or old koumiss. It is preserv
ed and transported in bottles made of horse
skin. It improves with age and becomes
more alcoholic. The Arabs make new kou
miss simply by filling up their horse skin ves
sel (the skin of the home's hind leg makes the
complete bottle) with new milk when the
koumiss is two thirds gone. The common
koumiss which is for sale in some supply
stores and at some beer saloons is made
simply by putting a teaspoonful of sugar and
one of brewers yeast into a quart of new
cow’s milk. When sufficiently fermented, it
is put up in strong bottles.
Ellen, B., of Savannah, Georgia, in
quires:—“Is there a regular sect of spiritu
alists? Is not the association dying out ?”
There is a regularly organized sect of spirit
ualists with churches, monthly and weekly
organs, conferences and even camp-meetings.
The Bunny South exchanges with several
Spiritual journals, best of which is the “Ban
ner of Light," published in Boston. Lake
Pleasant, at Montague, Mass., is tbe Spiritu
alists’ camping ground. There are six hun
dred pretty cottages and tents scattered
around over the green hills that slope to the
lovely little lake. There are nearly 4,000
people camping there this summer, and on
Sundays the number is more than doubled.
A fine band of music gives evening concerts
and opens every public lecture at the grand
stand with delightful music.
John B, Dallas, Texas, asks: “What are
the seven wonders of the world?” We have
answered that question before in this column
but will reply again. The seven wonders of
ancient times were the Pyramids of Egypt
the Pharos of Alexandria, the walls and
hanging gardens of Babylon, the Temple of
Diana, the statue of Jopiter, the Mausoleum
of Artemisia and the colossus at Rhodes.
The seven wonders of our modern world are
the printing-press, the steam engine, the tele
graph, the daguerreotype, the telephone, tbe
phonograph and the electric fight. A writer
thinks that the Brooklyn bridge is a greater
wonder than the Pyramids or the hanging
garden.
First Signs of “Wearing Out,’
Probably the first sign of failing nervous
energy is given by some of the large organs
oftheboay; it may be functional derange
ment of the heart, with fluttering or palpita
tion, or intermittent pulse, and shortness of
breath in ascending stairs or walking quick
ly. The stomach may give timely warning,
and a distaste for food, or loss of appetite,
with acidity, flatulence, and irregularity of
the bowels, may point to loss of vitality from
waste unrepaired. Or brain symptoms may
po'nt out to the patient that things are going
wrong. He may not find himself able to
work with his usual life and activity; he may
have fits of drowsiness, or transient attacks
of giddiness, or paiD, or loss of sleep itself.
This latter would be a very serious symptom
indeed, for in sleep not only are the muscular
and nervov st tissues restored ant’ v rengthen
ed.but there is fo»- the time being a cessation of
waste itself; and if sleep be essential to the
ordinary healthy man, it is much more so to
him whose mental faculties have been over
tasked. Long hours and night work lead to
loss of sleep, and loss of sleep may lead to in
sanity and death. Loss of memory, whether
transient or general, is a sure sign that the
brain has lost its power of healthy action,
and needs rest and nutrition to restore it.
Irritability of temper, and fits of melancholy
both point in the same direction, to an ex
hausted nervous system. Now, I may safely
say that there are verv many thousands of
brain-workers in these islands who are suf
fering, sadly and it may be silently suffering,
from the effect of excessive toil and over-
mental strain. To warn such that they are
positively shortening their lives, and that
they cannot have even the faintest hopes of
reaching anything like an old age, is only to
perform part of my duty as a medical ad
viser. I should try to point out some reme
dy for the evil. To bid them cease to work,
would, in a great many cases, be equivalent
to telling them to cease to live. They must
work, or they cannot eat. Well, but there it
one thing that all can do, they can review,
remodel and regulate their mode and system
of living.—Cassell’s Magazine,
Kentucky has produced a mule with eight
legs. If the Irish skirmishers want to ship
something more terible than an infernal ma
chine to England let them buy that critter
before the United States army secures it as a
Gatling gun.
A. L. T. says: “What is meant in the
bible by making bricks with straw?” The
bricks of that day were made of mud mixed
with straw. The Spanish Cubans and Mex
icans still make brick in this way. The adobe
bricks of which many of their houses,
roofs and all, are constructed, are made by
mixing mud and chopped wheat straw to
gether, moulding in a box a foot and a half
long and turning out to dry in the hot trop
ical sun. If the weather falls damp, grass,
and wheat seeds sometimes sprout in the
new made brick, and they present a comical
appearance.
Annie Dunbar, New Orleans, writes: “I
have just come from looking through the
mint in this city, and an interesting place it
is. I should like to describe it to your read
ers sometime. But just now I want you to
tell me where we get the word money from.
A teasing old wiseacre of a bachelor asked
my escort and I while we were in the mint,
and grinned sardonically when we couldn’t
answer. I would like to know.” It was no
disgrace not to know, since the word is irreg
ular in its origin. The first silver money
ever coined in Rome was made in the temple
of Juno Moneta, and this circumstance oc
casioned the origin of our word money.
Paulina says: “Yesterday I was coloring
some jelly with cochineal and noticed for the
first time that tbe cochineal resembled little
bugs. My friend L. says they are a species
of ant found in 8outh America. Is it so?”
The cochineal is an insect—a bug—which
feeds on a plant in South America. The
plant is cultivated for the sake of the insect
that feeds upon it. They are brushed from
the leaves of the plant and killed by exposure
to heat. A pound of cochineal contains, it is
estimated, 70,000 insects. The plant they
feed upon is of the cactus variety.
MiloW. asks: “What reward did the
government give the inventor of postage
scamps? Was it Spinner, the treasury man
who wrote his name so queerly who invented
postage stamps?” It was not Mr. Spinner.
If we remember aright, it was Hon. E.
Mitchell, Postmaster at New Haven, Con
necticut. who invented the stamp some thir
ty years ago. He bad them printed for his
own convenience, while he was postmaster.
They were then a kind of receipt for letter
postage, were of common brown paper and
had printed on them “Paid; New Haven
postoffice, five cents-”
Dan S.,Dallas,Texas,asks: “What causes the
heat of the water at Hot Springs Ark? Are
there any other hot springs in the world P
The waters are supposed to gnsh from the
crater of extinct volcanos. There are nu
merous hot springs in different quarters of
the globe. The geysers or boiling springs in
Sicily and a number of springs in Mexico and
South America, the average temperature of
which is 140 degrees.
HUMOROSITIES.
Exciting Love fliane.
£ a rpenter and Ollie Brown of Scotts-
ville, Kentucky,deterc ined to marry,though
Ollie was only fourteen and the desired moth-
nnl n H«rJl?™^ dar £ ly u P° n the «nion.
One day lately, young Carpenter drove to his
sweetheart’s house, pleaded once more in
va *n withthe hard-hearted mamma and then
asked Ollie to choose between him and her
cruel payrent. She answered just as novel
heroines do, by springing into his arms, and
away he drove, with a young justice of a
police court m hot pursuit, cheered on bv the
“““P 4 - £ seemed nip and tuck for a while,
but the western Lochmvar reached the Ten
nessee line a few minutes before the justice
A town was reached. ’Squire Fikw was
hastily summoned ; the knot was almost tied
when, alas, up rode the horseman, hot and
angry and forbade the marriage, The pru
dent squire hesitated, and while he was Pon
dering over the case the young people slinned
away and started in hot baste for Gallatin.
The justice was after them with equal sDeed
ho P e ,h P w a shoe and he succumbed
to fate. He arrived, however, in season to
congratulate the couple with the best grace
possible a few minutes after they were mar
ried at the principal hotel of the village, in
guests*” 801106 ° f 80me “•Pcc'aUy invited
An Indian's Retort.
The late chief Spotted Tail had a good deal
p a ii v ® hu P 0r ’ In i8 7S, at the council held
at ft e “, ci ? ud “«ency, a reporter of a promi
nent Eastern journal wanted to interview
him, who looked at the scribe for a moment
or two, and then said, “You are paid for this
wMPk, are you not!’’ “Yes,” replied the re-
2 01 ™? r * I. have nothing to say,” replied
Spotted Tail. ‘What do you mean?” asked
the reporter. I have nothing to say,” reit
erated old Spot Some one who seems to
have been posted said to the reporter, “You
give him five dollars and he’ll talk ” The
correspondent did so, and Spotted Tail then
began talking and answering all the ques
tions for quite a while, until when rignt in
the middle of an interesting subject, he sud
denly stopped. “What’s the matter?” asked
the puzzled reporter. “I have talked five
dollars worth,” answered Spot. Se another
$5 was handed over, and Spotted Tail went
on and finished the interview.
Onions and Gravy.
A rather seedy looking customer came into
a restaurant on Austin avenue and said to
the proprietor:
What do you ask for nicely cooked beef
steak, well done, with onions?”
“Twenty-five cents.”
“And the gravy?”
“Oh, we don’t charge anything for the
gravy.”
“You don’t—that’s liberal. How much do
you charge for the bread?”
“We throw in the bread.”
“Is it good bread?”
“It is.”
“So you throw in the bread and gravy?”
“Certainly.”
“Then bring me some bread and gravy.
It’s not healthy to eat meat in summer.”
Beecher and “Taffy.”
Even Beecher, whom it was commonly
supposed was proof against any and every
form of embarrassment in public, was put to
rout by a gallery god. Henry Ward was lec
turing in a theatre in San Francisco and
closed with a glowing peroration on Califor
nia, and was carrying the spell-bound audi
tors with him, when a boy in the gallery
simply called out in a high treble the one
word, “taffy.” There was a fall from the
sublime to the ridiculous, and amidst the in
extinguishable laughter of tbe audience
Beecher had to sit down. “It broke him all
up,” as tbe boys say.
Sitting Boll says he wants to be free and
'go about wherever I please, and have a
waiter.” Pretty soon he will want to part
his hair in the middle, sport a single-barrel
eyeglass, and wear his watch-chain on the
outside of his coat. Then, he should be given
a toy pistol to play with.
Anybody knowing of a small boy who
would not ran seven blocks for a chance to
ride half a block with his stomach across the
edge of a grocery-wagon tail board, will
please bring him to this office, and receive
the reward originally intended for the man
who should bring in a new comet tied up in
an old paper.
Not long ago, in a French provincial thea
tre, a baritone made a fearful croak. Hisses
and laughter in the audience. Then the
artist came gravely forward and sainted the
audience: “Messieurs, I discover that I have
issued a false note; 1 withdraw it from circu
lation.”
It You Are Slick. Bead
the Kidney-Wort advertisement in another
column, and it will explain to yon tbe ra
tional method of getting well. Kidney-Wort
will save you more doctors’ bills than any
other medicine known. Acting with specific
energy on the kidneys and liver, it cores the
worst diseases coused by their derangement.
Use it at once in dry or liquid form. Either
is equally efficient, the liquid is the easiest,
but the dry is the moft economical.—Interior.
Yeuralglne.
This specific for neuralgia and headache is
offered to the public not as a king cure all,
but only as good for neuralgia and headache.
For these troubles it ie unfailing. Every
bottle guaranteed if taken according to di
rections. Hutchinson & Bro , Proprietors,
Atlanta, Ga. For sale by all druggists.
Dne West Female College.
,'XERCISES in this Institution open First
Monday in October next. Cost of Board
and Regular Tuition for year, 8162. New fur
niture. Faculty complete. French table.
German taught. For catalogue, address
J P. KENNEDY. President,
316 lOt Due West, Abbeville. Co., 8. C,
WANTED,
A
YOUNG LADY of considerable experience
desfres a situation as Governess to children,
and is willing also to render herself generally
useful. Terms moderate. Address
MARIAN,
Care of Sunny South, At’anta. Ga.
Georgia Railroad Company,
OFFICE GEN. PASSENGER AGENT,
Augusta, Ga., August IS, 1881,
PECIAL ORDER No. 108.—To Agents and
Conductors: On and alter Thursday, Sep
tember 1. proximo. Through Freight Trains
will not stop.to take on orputoff passengers,
at any point between Atlant-i and Decatur, or
Augusta and Bellair, Nor will they stop for
like purpose at any other than the regular
scheduled stopping places, as per schedule in
force attime of servl'e. Conductors will, be
fore starting from stations, ascertain the des
tination of passengers on their tnins, and are
hereby ordered to refuse, positively, to accept
passengers for points in the above described
territory. , E- R - DOR8EY.
3164t General Passenger Agent.
rriTTTI rPATT K .ITTER charms the
I H K I II X girls and quiets the noisy
boys. Fascinates all. Will knU Tidies, Rues,
Lamp Mats and lots of things. Prepaid by mail,
only 13 cents. 1 Knitter. 12 knots Worsted, la
New Worsted Work Patterns and Catalogue, 30c.
Onr NT**w Pattern Boole for worsted work,
*ver 100 designs, all new, 25c.; 6 Xew Tulv p .t-
terns. 25c.—all for 65c. Send 3c. stainf
or price-list and directions for pur
chasing bv mail at wholesale prices a!
kinds of fancy-work materials. T. t.
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without mojev. TSandsome outfit; book of Poems, revised New
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