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MARY E. BRYAN.
L. 1. VEAZEY,
• Mrs. Bryan uses one
two •*.
The Geographical Error in Fair "
Eurasian.
We have had satisfactory evidence, besides
the original MSS. of tills story submitted to US
to establish the fact (hat the error was made in
Copying. The author is a school teacher by
profession and a fine scholar, and we appreciate
her highly as a coutributor to our columns.
Bryant’s Poems Excluded.
The Board of Education of New York City
voted yeste day to exclude William Cullen Bry
ant’s poems lnuu (lie public schools, on, the
ground that they are “second-rate.” Of course
that board is composed of a class of politicians
who are as good judges of poetry as a bull-calf
ls*of esthetics.
! <c,. Wornea as Jurors-
. ^Ctiief Justice Greene, of Washington Terri,
;tory, in Ms'last charge to .the Grand Jury, bears
the following testimony to the good effect of
Women serving on juries: “Twelve terms of
cpurt, ladies and gentlemen, I have now held,
111 which w< men have served as grand amj iietlt
jurors, and it is certainly a fact beyond dispute
that no other twelve terms so salutary for re
straint of crime have ever been held hi tills Ter
ritory.”
Bachelors to the Front
The New York Mercury says: Governor
Cleveland, who is a bachelor, will be succeeded
In the Gubernatorial chair by l.ieutenant-Gov-
enior Hill, who lias also hitherto lived a life of
single blessedness. It is something of a coinci
dence that the last Democratic Governor, Sam
uel ,1. Tilden—who was elected President, but
not inaugurated,—Is likewise a bachelor. The
girls of Hie Empire Slate s o 1J see to it that
the coincidence goes no further, and that mar
ried Democrats in the future should have a
chance to fill the highest office in the State and
nation. Meanwhile, Governor Hill and Presi
dent-elect Cleveland, who are both good looking
men, and have not passed far beyond the middle
mile ,K)st of life, are eligible candidates for mat
rimonial honors, and may yet be won over from
the error of their bachelor ways by a bright eye
and a tender smile.
Qaesn Victoria’s Lovers.
Several of the papers state, says the London
Truth, that the late Duke of Brunswick lan
guished all ids life under a “hopeless passion
for tiie Queeu. This is rubbish. The Duke en
tertained a very strong opinion In 1838 that he
was the proper person to marry the Queen, and
be was very wroth at being passed over, as he
considered himself to be superior in rank to
Prince Albert, and. moreover, lie enjoyed a
large fortune, wliile the selected Prince pos
sessed nothing whatever. The Du.e manifested
his resentment In various ways and repelled
Eng^ir^r^mnv ,, b e f^a^ »»*y <».e
though the Queen would never iiavedrU’in^i.* 1 .
marrying him. yet -lie “dHridlv wouhM^^
family 1011 The"Duke* was ‘ th« b ‘ ?<,U< i athe< * lo h< *°
Stof tbett e r. W “ the "*** “Koyal”
“Campaign” Lying.
We never feel glad that piankind are given to
lying. But we often feel gratified St reflecting!
that their lies are not truths. Suppose, for in
stance that half of the bad tilings told by the
one party and the other of tlie two distinguished
men who were candidates for the Presidency
’ had been true. Could we have been otherwise
than despondent about the destinies of a nation
the chief direction of whose affairs was about
to be entrusted to a rascal? A stranger unini
tiated into the language of political journals
would, from perusing our campaign papers,
have come to the conclusion that very bad men
had been put forward for the highest office in
our nation. Neither party has been stinted in
the language of abuse, nor can one yield much
to tlie other in inventive power for the manufac
ture of falsehoods. Fortunately the tiling has
been so far overdone that it lias proved its own
antidote. We will not say Unit no one lias been
influenced by these fabrications. A voter now
and then, of honest intention, cast bis ballot
against Mr. Blaine because lie believed hint un
worthy to be trusted with an office which lie
could prostitute for private gain, and some of
tlie rigidly righteous doubtlessly voted against
Mr.Cleveland, because they believed him a lilier-
tine. But the great mass of tlie people rated
these slanders at their true value, and cast their
tickets as their views of policy inclined them.
Tills disposit ion to malign every man who be
comes a candidate for office is to be deprecated
for many reasons. It is to be deplored on ac
count of its demoralizing effects. Young men
who are coming on may thence come to have
tlie impression that good conduct will avail them
nothing iu their efforts for popular favor. Per
ceiving that a candidate is sure to be represent
ed as bad. they may conclude that they had just
as well be b:ul if they are to be so represented
Again, it is calculated to keep our best men out
of politics. Men of modest dignity and worth
cannot afford, or at least will not afford to have
their characters misrepresented by those who
make scandal a business. We ought to have
our best men in office, Es|>eebilly should those
positions of great trust be tilled by men of integ
rity and firmness. But we caunot have them
there if one such knows that lie will have his
every act subjected to malignant criticism, so
soon as he presents himself for popular, suf
frage. Considering what hardness of cheek It
requires to pass this ordeal, It is really surpris
ing that as good men present themselves for
great places as do. The explanation lies in the
fact that, while people listen as if they believed
to abuse of a good man, they will uot readily
vote for one they know to be bad. Until our
people become far worse than they are now, we
need not apprehend the elevation of a villain to
any very high place of trust.
The Use of Stimulants-
There is,an alarming tendency among Ameri
cans at the present day, says an exchange, to
increase their capacity for work, or to enable
them to withstand the drafts made upon their
constitutions in different ways, by the use of
some kind of stimulant. Intoxicating liquors
are used by some. There are others who are
fearful of the effects which the use of intoxi
cants might finally have upon their systems,
who resort to the use of other stimulants and
drugs, which they fondly imagine will serve tlie
desired purpose, without entailing any of tlie
injurious results that follow in the wake of the
liquor habit. The use of opium is on the con
stant increase; its effects ara so well known and
terrible, however, that its use is sliuuued by
those who do not dare to run the risk incurred
by itt use. But the demand for stimulants of
some kind has brought into use a long list of
“spirits,” “bienrbouates,” “phosphates,” and
what not, that are eagerly caught up by the
high-pressure Americans, who must have some
thing to build up the de|iressfon and k>s9 caused
by their disregard of the laws of nature.
A prominent piiysician said to a Philadelphia
Press reporter: “The American nation trifles
with its nerves, find no wonder it suffers from
b-aiti and «tmi!xtjjMibies. Everyday tlvere an*
fresh nerve stimulants put upon tlie market,
and people take them as if they weren’t any
more dangerous than water. It’s as bad as the
opium hahit. There is a use and abuse of that
sort of tiling, but most people abuse it. When
they are feeling badly they go and take aromatic
spirits of ammonia, bicarlHuiate of soda, or some
new-fangled phosphate. Of course all (lie stim
ulants are put forward as foods, but they are
not.” There is no need ot a resort to harmful
and insidious “remedies” by people to build up
their ' nervous systems, if they would
and Mr. Veazy hut take proper care of themselves. Na
ture lias furnished a certain and com
plete cure for nervous exhaustion in
sleep. The replacing of nature’s remedy
with artificial restoratives and stimulants is sure
to react witti unfavorable and perhaps fatal re
sults. If a man wishes to live long and enjoy
good health he must pay good attention to the
natural laws of health. Dame N»tilre is not to
be trifled with. Tlie atmosphere is stimulating
and exciting enough without recourse to artifi
cial means, if men would but lead a proper life
and not defy the laws of nature.
Tlie physician quoted above pointed out a
great danger. Stimulants of the nature referred
to by him are very dangerous. Tlieir effects
may not appear so soon and tlieir ravages uiav
not be so apparent as those of intoxicants, opium
or chloral, but lliey are none the less certain lo
present themselves. Their increasing use is an
evil which should be frowned upon and every
effort made to prevent its growth.
Shall he Woman be Stoned and the
Man Go Free?
8ociety so decrees. So i: has ever done. Poor
Hagar is driven forth into the wilderness with
her starving offspring, covered with scorn and
shame, while her tempter and betrayer lives on
in wealth and honor. The more guilty suffers
tlie less, if indeed he suffers at all. Such Is hu
man justice. But this is a partial view, and we
trust not tlie last. Even in t e hour of her bit
ter agony, the poor outcast heard advice that
assured her that though rejected and despised
even by him who had done her such foul wrong,
she was regarded with compassion by tlie pitying
eye above. Ttie story lias been recorded for tlie
comfort of those who in all time should be sway
ed by the blandishments of love to weakly
yield. It teaches that tliougu forgiveness to tlie
repenting lie refused by the human code. It is
freely vouchsafed by Heaven. He too, who
spake as one having authority, while yielding
not one particle in the demand for woman's pu
rity. insists quite as strongly upon purity in tlie
other sex. Quietly, yet most emphatically, did
be rebuke those who were willing and even
anxious to work death upon a guilty woman,
while they weie themselves guilty of the same
offense. We suspect that tills still small voice
of conscience which so discomfited these
accusers, has wrought punishment upon many
a man who h:is hidden bis sense of guilt from
the eyes of his neighbors. Many of tlie “more
unfortunate” have had their feeling of wreck
aiid wretchedness intensified by seeing their
betrayers honored and apparently happy. Their
decision, however, of the happiness may be a
mistake. We are loth to believe that men who
win the affections of women merely that they
may deceive and then throw them aside as filthy
nags, do not suffer for such cruelly. We would
prefer to think them well practiced hypocrites,
who conceal tlieir smarting sores by a smiling
app' a a lice. Not many, indeed, of those who
entice others to sin have natures so finely strung
•18 lo experience such Hiipuish as Hawthorne, in
Five Cents a Day.
Many of our readers have seen this calcula
tion before, but we believe Its lessons are ever
fresh, new, and valuable, the cumulative
power of money is a fact very generally unap
preciated. There are few men living at the age
of seventy-five, hanging on to existence by some
slender employment, or pensioners, it may be,
en the bounty of kindred or friends, but might,
by exercising the smallest particle of thrift, rig
idly adhered to in the past, have set aside a re-
spectable sum which would materially help
them to maintain Independence in their old age.
Let us ta’- e the small sum of five cents, which
we daily pay to iiave our boots blackened, to
ride in a car tlie distance we are aide to walk,
or to procure a bad cigar we are better without,
and see what its value is in Hie course of years.
We will suppose a lMiy of fifteen, by hlaekii g
his own hoots or saving his cherished rigai-
eltes, puts hv five cents a day: ill one year lie
saves *18.35, which, Iieing banked, bears inter
est at tlie rate of five per cent, ner annum, com
pounded bi yearly. On tliis basis, when our
thrifty youlh reaches tlie age of sixty-live, hav
ing set his five cents a day religiously aside dur
ing fifty years, tlie result is surprising. He lias
accumulated no less than $3,893 18. A scru
tiny of the progress of this result is inter
esting. At tlie age of thirty our hero had $595;
at forty. $877; at fifty. $1,677; at sixty, $2,962
After fifteen years’ saving his annual interest
more Ilian equals ills original principal; in twen
ty-live years it is more than double; in thirty-
live years it is four times as much; in forty-live
years it is eight times as much, and tlie Iasi
year’s interest is $86, or ten and a half times as
mill'll as tlie animal amount lie puts by. The
actual cash amount saved in fifty years is $912.-
50. the total difference between that and tlie
grand total of $3.893.18—viz., $2.970.98—is the ac
cumulated interest What a magnificent n
ii ii 11 in of thrift that cau be well represented
figures.
ALBANY,GEORGIA.
How they Celebrated the Presidential
Election in 1848-
Along about the middle of the present centu
ry. railroads were few and far between, and news
had to be carried to most parts of the couutry
by stage coaches. Tlie news of a Presidential
election went over tlie nation in from three
weeks to three mouths, according as tlie roads
and streams were passable or impassable, aud
nobody was the least impatient to hear the re
suit.
In 1818 Taylor and Cass were the Whig and
Democratic candidates.
Tlie citizens of Albauy held at that time a
joint add several title to the debris of a vener
able cannon. A long breach aod about two and
one-half feet of barrel, : broken somewhat Into
the shape of a writing pen was all that was left
of the murderous weapon!
The election came off. Dan Wlngard, a Cass
man, of Albany, was certain of Ills candidate's
success, aud secreted the cannon in his smoo\
'house, tlmf it might be on hand to proclaim the
victory. ■
Days and weeks passed, and every malt was
strengthening the prosjiects of Taylor’s elec
tion. The Whigs ::l length instituted a diligent
search for the missing artillery, anil, having
discovered its whereabouts; crept to tile back ot
tlie smoke-house,'late at uigiit. tore off a few
boards, secured tlie treasure they sought, re
placed tlie boards and escaped without sus
picion.
Major Sam’l I). Irvin, now a prominent law
yer of Atlanta, then resided at Palmyra, a vil
lage five miles from Albany, and on the Macon
stage route to that city. Tlie Major was an
ardent Taylor man, or rather boy. Every nigbt
at midnight Iiis horse sIimmI saddled, as tlie .stage
drove up, ready, if the final news was favorable,
to make a Mazeppa race to town. AlMiut the
first of December the king of the couch came
rattling up at the appointed hour, and squalled
from his imperial throne. “All the precinct's
heard from, and Taylor's elected! ' Irvin
vaulted into tlie saddle, stuck spurs, reached
Albany an,hotlr ahead of (lie mail and waved
his tin ee confidential friends. The cannon was
dragged out ;uid put ill jiositioii. They jHiured a
halfgallon of powder In the barrel, then cram
med down a quantity of shavings, saw-dusl.
brick-bats and dirt to make tlie powder stick:
after which a man with a buttling rag, fastened
to a long fishing pole, secreted himself behind
line of tlie many stumps then prevalent ip
Albany, and dropped fire into tlie touch hole.
Tlie mutilated fowling piece kicked at least
three somersaults to tlie rear, as it awoke Al
bany and sent Wlngard tlie first intelligence of,
its absence from Ills smoke-house. For thirteen j
TP^GBOESIN THE SOUTH.
FIRST MAD AND VEHEMENT, BUT
NOW FRIGHTENED.
Both Sides of the Question Dispassion
ately Stated.
Editors Sunny SouthIn your issue of Sep
tember 17,1881,1 had something to say of “Our
Brothers in Black.” The subject again presents
itself as one of peculiar and partly humorous in
let est. Since the election of Cleveland to the
Presidency, a widespread spirit of consternation
seems t> have seized upon them. Tlie last prop
—as Reappears to them—lias been kicked out
from beneath them, and many of them really
fear and feel that they have fallen again into
slavery, or at leiist to tlie mercy of tlieir former
masters. They Iiave borne themselves with such
heroic nerve since “freedom broke,” and figured
to themselves such glory in rising at least to po
litical equality with these old masters, that they
doubtless feel a peculiar goneness now.
During tlie process of reconstruction we were
continually appalled at tlieir course in South
Carolina and Louisiana especially. Tlieir out
rageous doings would never have been recorded
ii ol it not been for P itterson. Chamberlain & Co.
In S' utli Carolina, and leaders fully as mceniii iry
iu other States. Tlie policy of the Republican
leaders, as we all understand, was to use them
as voters in order to control civil government in
the South. We all know, too, how we were
forced to bear it in order to avert internal war
again—iu order to live it down and to secure l>y
a wise temperance tlie benefits of civilized gov
ernment. When «e look back now at tlie iuso
lence of the leaders of tlie negroes, and compare
i hem as senators and governors and legislators,
with the enlightened men who occupied those
places of trust before the war, and wiio are be
ginning again to shape the destinies of our coun
try. we cannot repress the old feeling of disgust
md self imposed Helplessness which we felt at
the time of tlieir horrible glory. They were or
ganized and thrust forward to carry tlie polls,
md in doing this and occupying all of the places
of trust and e nolument, they hesitated at no act
nf fraud, theft or robbery. Such infamous am
bitions ruled them that we could pray for Sliak-
speare’s men clothed and strutting in a ; little
brief authority, or the fools who stepped in
wiiere angels feared to tread. We had
kn;ves as well as fools, aud tlie strut
was a small affair even to tiiem. It
was the pelf for which they strove, and authori
ty was nothing without it. Now the negro, tlie
voter who elevated these fellows, got little or
nothing, yet tlieir ears are ept full of old slave
ry times—the bull whip, the bloodhound, and at
every election it w;is dangerous for a white inau
to remain about tlie polls. The white man Bout it
was a red flag to the negro Republican, and
though the negro feared to anger him, except
when frenzied on election, or other days of tlieir
general gatherings, yet he felt in his bones that
lie would shout louder, talk stronger aud vote
ofteuer if he could kill a “rebel.” It lias been
hard to bear,- and our people have borne It until
tlie gradual change came, and we now believe
that iu spite of the wicked teaching which they
have had, that the negro will now find out that
we are better tli:in their Yankee friends who
caiue down to rob us aud them, and who k ept
them iu a fervent heat in their hatred to us.
The negro is mad now. Herein Memphis, on
tlie night of the loth iust., aud wliile the Demo
crats were jubilating on Main street, tlie negroes
met at tlie Beale Street market, and proposed to
go up in a body and clean out the "damned Se-
sesll.” Tlie words of the two colored |MiUccmen
who insisted that they Would all surely be killed
if this was attempted, cooled their ardor; but
they attacked ami beat several Democrats re
luming to tlieir homes with Cleveland banners.
They feel that this country should belong to
them, and that they are deserted tiy the “man
mi horseback” and his party, and that tlie Dem
ocrats Iiave bought off tlie Republican leaders.
It was a bold and brilliant coterie who devised
and executed the reconstruction. Those men
and limes remind me of tlie struggles in past
ages, when all means are adopted to crusti out a
conquered foe; when leaders assumed that a
live rebel, ora live member of an army of revo
lution, was a nuisance who should be abat d by
death, We are impressed witli tlie tact that, in
tliis age of civilization, refinement, culture,
science and religion, bold, bad men will come to
tlie front, and exercise all the ancient preroga
tives of insolent power, oppression and cruelty.
The negro will fume and groan for some little
time, until he forgets tlie incendiary harangues
of the past, and finds that the country is
still here, and that he is not downtrod
den. and that he ought to be satisfied
If he Inis tlie same political liberty that
Is vouchsafed to a white man in the South. The
Southern bloods, also, ought to remember that
ilie old patience ought to possess ns, and that
occupied six hours aud lasted Till^tayliglil.' re aud tow ln ; «is Imagination. He'will shout
Major Irvin was an ;i|>ostle of teiiiiieruiice but fat a meeting for political purposes as if at
be had no disciples among the Taylor men there. 4 church. He gives up tiis soul to elation, aud
Just before sunrise tlie whole party remeiie|
l>ered, for the first time, that luusic and a torch
light procession were iudis|>eiisible oil such oc
casions. Liglitwood logs lay plentiful all over
town, but there wasn’t a single fife In any of the
stores.
But with those men, as one of them stated in
a letter afterwards, there was no sucli word as
“pliale;’ aud a quill-blowing darkey marched
at tlie head of Hie procession, consisting of eight
white men, and Hut music and tiie torches min
gled witli Hie breezes aud the sunlight of that
auspicious morning.
Here 1 will drop tlie curtain and let the fur
ther frailties of “the rude forefathers” rest in
peace,
THREE GREAT GEORGIANS.
Mrs- Gregory’s Success as an Artist.
Tiie Iasi Legislature appointed committees to
secure portraits of Mr. Stephens. Governor Her-
scliel V. Johnson and Governor Charles J. Jen
kins. Tlie painting of Hie first two of these wa.-
entrusted to Mrs. Greguiy, the well-known At
Inula artist. She has taken especial pride in
tlie work and lias succeeded iu producing most
satisfactory results. Tlie committee appointed
at the present session,of the Legislature to ex
amine the portrait of Mr. Stephens iu,ve done
so and ieport that it is an excellent work in
every sense. Tlie “great commoner” is repre
sented silling in Ids historic roller chair iu life* 1
library. Tlie gritst baa eaugiit tlie expression
of her Subject with remarkable accuracy, ami
tiie result is ailfe-like portrait. It will lie lniiig
in a few days in one of -The spaces bet wee# tlie
jiertraits on tiie eastern side of tlie hall. Tlie
committee to examine the |K>rtraitof Governor
Johnson has not yet been appointed. Several
members of tlie governor’s family and a uumlier
of ids friends have seen the picture in Mrs.
Gregory's studio. They pronounce it an excel
lent likeness. It is a life size representation of
Herscliel V. Johnson, standing near a table on
which are some of I ts favorite books. Tlie con
tract for tlie isirtrait of Chailes J. Jenkins was
awarded to Mr. Carter, an artist who lives in
Greensboro. His work was examined and a|>-
f iroved by a committee from Isitli houses. They
lave agreed to recommend its acceptance by
the State. Tlie figure is fine and tlie expression
brings vivilllv to mind the firm lint genial face
of Governor Jenkins. Tlie coloring is excellent,
and tlie work on the whole very satisfactory.
Tlie portrait lias already been lioug on the north
side of tlie hall.
Mrs. Gregory’s portraits will be formally ac
cepted by tlie Legislature as soon as tiie frames
arrive. Many friends and relatives of Governors
Stephens and Jolinsou Iiave seen the paintings
and are delighted witli them. She lias ordered
elegant frames, and tltey will arrive next week.
She luis recently paiuted splendid portraits of
Governor and Mrs. McDaniel and Dr. Johnson,
and is now at work on a portrait of Mrs. J. H.
Seals.
To keep our feet steadily planted on Uiis earth,
In tlie ordering of life so that tlie simplest dull 8
. re daily performed, and our heads in the stars
rt-ipiriiigiii God. and communing with Him. 1-
■ ot an easy thing, it is true, but our privilege.
This attainment is the sum of human excellence.
—Marion B. Seel ye.
M. N. Foster, a farmer living near Haywards,
California, has a liog which g|iends Ids time
with a flock of geese. Every day when the geese
go into llu- pond for their accustomed swim the
hog plunges in at the same‘time, and remains as
long as the geese do. He seems to enjoy him
self lu the pond.
The following ages have, on Hie authority of
... .=-—.. . - skilled arboriculturists, been attained by trees.
Ids Scutlet letter, lias descrilied as being e«- y e w, 3 2*»years; scliidiertia. 3,000; cedar. 2.0UU-
dnred by the young minister. Suffering sucli as oak l H)0 _ spruce. 1.200; lime. 1
imagines often, as Hie Turk did of the infidel, or
Hie Crusader of the Turk.Hiat the blood of his
foe is incense to God. This trait was seized
upon by tlie Radical leaders and was encour
aged and strengthened liutil it has become part
aud parcel of their nature and teaching. Tim
social ideas of refinement, culture, virtue and
tlie ii e cut no figures with tiiem. They have
no pride proper. Unfortunately virtue was at a
discount among Hie slaves, and is still so among
be freedmen. Tlie moral idea is dwarfed—
, probably never did and never will exist iu tiie
negro as a race. They follow a natural inclina
tion, just as a cat pursues a mouse. And
teel no conscientious stings. Exceptions are
few. Education is almost Impossible witli
them. They learn to read, write and cl| her a
little. A few make larger advances, but tlie
liest of them seldom reaeii an understanding of
an angle, an arc, or a cosine. They do better in
.history, or in certain eras of history. As law
yers they are not successful; and tlie first rules
of practice seem to be black art in their minds.
Time and application, and the patience of teach
ers, may overcome these shortcomings, but 1 do
not ex|>ect it. Let tiiem rise in tlie scale of be
ing if they can. So far, they are no higher in
morals; but little better in learning, and not
near so .good at labor. Possibly they we e too
liaidly worked as slaves, and that they Iiave not
yet learned to think for themselves, d’irect tlieir
own labor or provide for tlie future; but I do not
anticipate any favorable outcome from them. If
they learn to go quietly to tlieir fields and live
upo'n tlie honest product of tlieir labors, 1 think
they will.have achieved tlie summit of tlieir suc
cess. as such laborers apd citizens the country
ought to see them fully protected; as well as iu
TOPICS DFTHE DAT.
Geaeral ComnvaiN W«s9* P«*««
g B d ttrianors.
A clergyman’s fee atTffishionable wedding In
New Yor* last week was 81,000-
A Pennsylvania man has actually been com
pelled to eat a crow as the result of an election
bet.
Public opinion seems to concentrate around
General McClellan lor a portfolio lu Cleveland s
cabinet.
Wni. Astor, of New York, a few days ago add
ed to tlie bridal presents of liis daughter a water
bond of tlie city of Boston for $100,000.
Tlie big railway managers have about decided
to abolish fast freight trains. These trains are
said to be demoralizing, expensive and useless.
Some Tennessee negroes iiave Joined tlie Mor
mons. At last we iiave a prospect of solving tlie
negro and Uie Mormon problem at oue aud the
same time.
Atlanta is reaping the benefit of nearness to
tlie old and new coal fields ot Tennessee,Georgia
and Alabama. A reduction, of nearly fifty per
cent, in tlie ju ice of fuel is a sjileudid advantage
to all consumers.
A New York policeman lias actually been sen
tenced to loss of thirty days’ j>ay for unneces
sarily clubbing a small boy. It seems that New
York polieemeu are to be deprived of all kinds
of rational amusement.
It is noted as a curious circumstance by the
lndlano|>olls Sentinel,that tlie Wjislilngtou mon
ument corner-stone was laid by a Democratic
President—J:unes K. Polk; tlie capstone will be
laid by a Democratic President—Grover Cleve
land.
Jay Gould projioses lo replace much of the
iron ou Iiis roads witli steel rail, and so lias con
tracted for 150,000 tons at $27 per ton. He takes
advantage of tiie market and Ids roads are to
dc bettered for tlie public welfare. It is not
11 s eiy that steel rails will go lower, and now is
tlie time for railways to get a perfect track, if
they can possibly raise the money.
A wise man has discovered that the figures
“22” occujiy considerable space in President
Cleveland’s history. To begin, there are 22 let
ters in iiis name. He was born on the 22d day
of tlie mouth, is tiie 22d President of the- United
States, executed a man on the 23d of the month,
and there are just 22 letters in Rev. Mr. Bur-
chard’s celebrated alliteration. He Will also
dedicate tlie Washington monument on the 22<1
of February-
Tlie “Capital vs. Labor” question Is of unend
ing Interest in all countries. Next January
there Is to be held iu tlie city of Edinburgh,
Scotland, a'conference of artisans, cartalists
and persons interested in tlie study of social
jiroblems, to discuss from every poiut of view
tlie questions connected with the distribution of
tlie results of labor between the actual workers
;uid those supjilying the capital. A gentleman
of Edinburgh has given $5,000 toward carrying
out the projiosed programme.
Our more sanguine exchanges are confident
that many causes operating to create business
depression are rapidly being changed for tlie
better. Much of tlie surjilus product has been
worked off. Consumption witl be more lively
soon. There was a splendid recovery after 1873,
and the reaction from 1883-’8t will be equally
remarkable. The Xmas holidays and the confi
dence iuspired by Cleveland will work wonders
for trade and tradesmen.
It is stated that the Jews in Italy and France
have scarcely been affected by the cholera. The
Jewish journals attribute this comparative im
ism. An authority on tins subject says that tills
letters if they are able to grasp them.
A Girl Should Learn
G.
dnred by the young minister. i oak. X.NKl. spruce, 1.200; lime. 1 000; Orie»<ai out so man
lie bore can lie felt only by those delicate y con- .,| ;inei i.ooO; walnut, 900; olive and cypress, 800;, the soln
sHluted mortals to whom n 2Lt*?mrfuH» lint" orange, 6 30; maple, 500; elm, 300. I
To sew. •
To cook.
To mend.
To be gentle.
To value time.
To dress neatly.
To keeji a secret.
To mind tiie baby.
To avoid idleness.
To lie self-reliant.
To darn stockings.
To res|iect old age.
To catcli a husband.
To hold her tongue.
To make good bread.
To keep a house tidy.
To be above gossiping.
To humor a cross man.
To control her tenqier.
To take care of the sick.
To make home happy.
To sweeji down cob-webs.
To marrv a man for iiis worth.
To lie a iieljemate to a husband.
To keep clear of flash literature.
To take plenty of active exercise.
To see a mouse without screaming.
To read some books besides novels.
To lie light-hearted and fleet-footed.
To get into a mother-in-law's good graces.
To wear shoes that won't cramp her feet.
To give poodles the second jilace in her heart.
To lie a womanly woman under all circum
stances.
To use no cosmetics but soap, water and fresh
air.
To live on more healthful diet than cake and
confections.
To be jKilite to all people at all times and in
all jilaces.
To distinguish a suit of clothes from the man
who wearsthem.
To respect herself that she may know how to
win resjiect from others.
To know tlie worth of her heart and hand and
not to give them away too easily.
To be mistress of some lucrative branch of
Industry if -die is to depend on her own exer
tions for a Hi lug.
To look on a man as a creature with a head
and heart, and not as a mere machine to turn
i out so many dollars a day and keep a woman iu
id comforts of life.—Terre Haute Mail.
science brings the keenest torture. But,
iidniitting as much juinishnient of this kind to lie
i. a: . 1 il... oa 1V0 I11SSV 1 IIP fflPt
The evidences of the presence of the ancient
people, the mound builders, are found, every-
..o...— ■■—- n ,, f . Mr. Twynam. of 'Winchester. England. .. _ _ _
remain!! th-it'^ic'i'etv is not jast "n ft's awards, sertsibata single grain uf wheat lias rrmh eed {^TeVe iijion the North American continent, ex-
reiiMlns tli.it society imitnlv severe lo thirty-nine ears containing in ail 2,809 grains, i.erhans upon tlie Atlantic coast. They
™?roan H.’ouglfwedo believe there are in: ny aloi'ml 1 'erJ!L U ‘ e earS ^ r9 ' consist of raounis, sometimes of imimslng size,
' w'lid-e reclamation might be effected were speuively tot, 103 and 101 grains. alM j ,,t|, er earthworks, so numerous that in Ohio
i.ases wiiere rename . ”— ..... .....—u , — alone there are, or were till quite recently, esti
mated to be not less than 10,000 of the mounds,
besides hundreds of enclosures of earth and
stone.
claim is unquestionably justified by fact and
exjierience, and adds Uiat it is not a little singu
lar that Christianity, in adopting from Judaism
its high spiritual conception, should have made
so little of tlie wonderful body of hygienic
science which the Moslac law contains.
A Baptist'clergyman atGrantville, Neb., re
ceives a salary of $100 per annum for preach
ing, and ekes out a livelihood by making and
mending shoes. To say nothing of his double
labor iu saving souls and soles, it is stated that
Iiis congregation "kicked” last week because he
announced from tiie pulpit that he would patch
Hie footwear of the village iu better style aud for
less prices than his worldly rival in tlie same
business across the way. The church quarrel
is still unsettled, but cobbling is lively
In consequence of the protracted drouth, this
season's cottou crop is the cleanest ever gath
ered. The New Orleans Times-Democrat, auent
tliis fact, m ikes the timely remark that British
and other manufacturers ought to be at last sat
isfied that tlie occasioual presence of dirt iu
American cotton is not a fraud jierpetrated by
the planters, as Uiey have been wont to pretend,
but Hie result of the weather, and that with a
good dry picking season, such as we have had
tliis year, there will be no cattse whatever for
complaint.
Students of medical science generally antici
pate that the cholera will cross the Atlantic and
Invade this country next year. It has not been
entirely stamjied out iu Southern Europe, and
tlie infection will remain there during the cold
weather of winter, to come to new life iu the
early spring. It will then have the entire long,
hot season before It, whereas its ravages cov
ered but a j>art of tlie present season, and it will
require an unusually vigilant and effective
quarantine to keep out all the stray crafts at
Americau ports, wliile tiie cholera germs may
come in some loaded steamer and uot develop
till after its passengers and cargo shall have
been discharged. It is as well, at any rate, to
be prepared for it.
London, the huge metropolis of the British
Empire, still goes on widening its area, and Hie
problems of importance which it presents to the
student of political science, grand and complex
as these already are developed, are daily be
coming more difficult to solve satisfactorily.
Last year there were added 21,110 houses to this
vast centre of human habitation, and this in
crease made up 361 new streets and one new
square, and covered a distance of more than
fifty-six miles. Yet London builders considered
1883 a bad one for their business t Since 1880 the
growth of Loudon would make a town larger
than Liverpool, Manchester or Birmingham.
Nevertheless, there does not appear to be any
Berious effort on foot to obviate the dangerously
dense huddling of millions of rational creatures
who require a certain amount of air suitable for
breathing, water of a potable nature, food which
can be eaten, clothes calculated to preserve
warmth, houses that are habitable, within a
llm lted s P ac °. ■ m M
What a vast deal of time and ease that man
gaius who is not troubled witli tlie spirit of"mf
pertinent curiosity about others; who lets I U
neigh tier’s thoughts mid Ik-Iimvi... ..*!**
The Bit** Bitten.
Life.
Biff brown eyes and aiiburn halr.
Of such was the farmer s daughter,
How to flirt and «wf '“TIT! 8 ..
No one had ever taught tier.
A soft moustache and a handsome face*
Of such was tlie ban er's son.
He thought lie d teach Hits t-liiid to flirt
For tlie sake of a little tun.
Alas, he found to his dismay-
just when twas lime to part,
Wliile lie was teaching her to flirt,
She’d robbed him of bis heart.
He Could Not Rememb.r Pay ng the
Bill-
A tailor having wailed in vain for six
for iiis money, became weary,
utniili a hill. Gus tc»<»k Hie W1I, exain-
filed ii carefully, and shaking Ids head from side
to ride, handed it liac- to the collector!say iag.
“Tell your boss that I can t take that bill. To
save mv life I can't rememtier ever ha v *«j? P 8 "
it, audit would not be light for 3®
He must be mistaken about my having paid that
bill.”
Well Named.
Fullabere was riding with tne driver on %
Fourteenth street ear Hie “ther eveiiiug-
“I shay driver; whaz name of that street wnere
all tlie darkies live?”
-Sanwou street,” was the reply.
•‘Good’uuff.” said *ullabere. Oox its
stroug, I shpose.”
Reasoning by Analogy.
Philadelphia Call.
Little Dick: “What is those animals in that
big window, mama?” .
Mama: "That Is a fur store window and the
animals are s'-als and bears.”
“Is they alive.” . . _ . .
“Oil no. They were shot and stuffed, and
Uieu stood up to look as if they were alive.
-Who are those ladies iu Uie window by them,
^--Tl'Iey are Uressed-up figures to show the new
styles in furs.”
■•Ain’t tlie ladies alive?”
“No, jiet.” „ . .
“Was they shot and stuffed, too?
Fulfillment
BY FRANK ROSE STARR.
Desires that human minds retain
Are not iu vain; . ,.
The flowers that droop in Winters cold
Will bloom again.
The forms we loved so gladly here
Will reappear ;
The ray of lio|>e, by darkness won,
But shiue more elear.
Though all the powers of life give way,
Love holds Us sway
And brings tiie darkeued, prisoned soot
To tlie light of day!
The sequence of ail good in store
We’ve known before—
Love—regal through eternity,
Forevermore I
Seven Lovely Virgins as Cabinet Min
isters.
[The Hatchet.]
Had Mrs. Belva Lockwood been elected Presi
dent she would iiave called seven lovely virgins
lo her side as Cabinet ministers. It would have
been a picnic. Imagine President Belva calling
her Cabinet to order:
“ Now. girls,” she would say, “now, girls, we
must discuss tlie affairs of the country.”
“Tlie Secretary of State—“And it was shirred
in from and lmd three (deals—”
Tlie Secretary of the Interior—“He is simply
horrid I He didn’t take her to the matinee a
single—”
Tlie Secretary of War—“What, that horrid
tiling? Why, her nose is just awfully ugly, and
that wig is seven shades lighter than—”
The Postmaster-General—“Seventy-nine cents
apieee, and they have two. yoaea, and the
flounces—”
The President—“The affairs of the country—”
The Attorney-General— 1 “Aud they do say
she went with him when, her husband swore he
would—”
The Secretary of the Navy—“Two dollars s
yard! Why, at Woodward & Lathrop’s I got it
for a dollar and six—”
Tim Secretary of the Treasury—“He treats
her shamefully aud beats—”
The President—“Girls, please let’s meet and
have a talk over—’’
’7n?3ecreH?y , o?ffetSRy5^!iff?ffiaR{S*SS^I
and tlien—”
The President—“Well, girls, I think you're
just real horridly mean, and t won’t play, so
there, aud the meeting’s adjourned. Who wants
to go shopping with me?”
“Chorus—“Mel”
Had Belva been elected she would have
changed the Treasury into a bonnet factory and
ordered tlie coat-of-arms to consist of seven hair
pins rampant upon a curling-iron.
How He Minaged to Guess so Accu
rately.
Boston Times.
“Did you ever see my wife?”.asked Flatery o<
Green.
“No; can’t say that I did: but I know Just
how site looks, and I cau tell you all about
her.”
“You can?’’
“Yes; she’s got black hair, snapping black
eyes, and a big hard hand.”
“By George! you’ve hit it. How did you guess
so accurately?”
“Weil, 1 saw you comingdown town the other
morning, with oue black eye. and looking as tf
you had in ide the acquaintance of a broom-han
dle, six rolllug-pius aud a hard fist.”
Do btful Economy-
BY JEF JOSLYN.
“Now since we’ve been in irned, dear Florence,
How much more contented are we
At home here so quiet e;ich evening,
instead of amiu the gay spree
Of late bail-rooin parties, aud so forth,
And weariness that it ail gave—
We used to go through ere we wedded
While thins of the money we save!”
,‘Oh. yes! that is true, darling Edwin—
I’m glad o’er tlie chauge in iny life;
But really, tlie old social jtleasures
Entice not your loving young wife.
Indeed it is nice that at saving
At last we are learning the knack—
Have we saved enough, do you tlduk. dear,
To buy me a uew sealskin sacque?”
A Poem of Paradoxes.
[The author of tliis very curious and Ingenious
poem was one of the most eminent of English
scholars mid critics, born in 1674, and one of tlie
most distinguished divines of Hie Westminster
Assembly who annotated the Scrijitures]:
I thirst for tliirsttness; I weep for tears;
Well pleased I am to be disjileased Unis;
The only thing I fear is want of fears;
Suspecting, I am suspicious.
I cannot choose, but live because I die,
Aud, wlieu I m dead, how glad am II
Yet when l am thus glad for sense of pain,
Tu. U H l ' ,l i e U i a,ll l * should careless be,
Then do I grieve for being glad again
Al AmbUt 1 o S > ‘* car '; les . sl i eS! * take care from me.
Alll flnd lllese restless thoughts this rest I
^° r h!nd. e 0114 re8t DOt ^ ere rest be-
No Hypocrite on the Wife Question-
Kentucky State Journal,
true, Jim, that Bill Elkins has lost his
ago^kvs^ru^rg*!? 1 over “ h0ur
baiu't llke'th^rest 6 of^uIem^hpIlSws who SZ
the !- h:.'s Ve ?eTt^ onni nd wlto t2ou W r&’°£
byjMy
Th« Way Of the World.
arneta** were y° u to-fllght?” she asked as he
low! hMosrnere d»n aIk i ng . to Jone9 ’ PooT tel
know in timt ri! i ir i le t*** 1 tn the world.yoc
touffT. to seea SHong^w prelty
pletely broken dmv.f k?.* . e •'Ones so coin-
comfortable w hen I thought of our
I here held out hopes of mercy. But it should
not so readily condone tlie sin of man. We
Up to the present war the Chinese troops have
should not stone the one party to a sin wliile we 1 never had any uniform other than a small badge
treat the other with undiminished respect. •* worn on the soldier’s breast
neighbor's thoughts and behavior alone; who ^infortaSle home 'iu w,wn 1 thought or our
confines ids inspections to himself, and cares the bank aud comi?!rli he * nn K we iiave in
ebipflv for his own .b.re * ----- u - Cdre8 j never feU so h ^^^^^'^hion with his,
chiefly for bis own duty and conscience.—Zava-
The Welsh bards m-caiue so arrogant in the
twelfth century that it became necessary to con
trol them by alaw. wh ch restrained them tv?,.„
asking for the prince’s horse, towk?o?g^y"
yeanT*!f age'wTieu he\r'V* :v Y ,, '* n forty-three
tary profession' •inri^hSr* 1 en, bfaced the inill-
outaAym:wu>r%e^?mn y ^l rc ® of with-
ficer; though Derli*!!^ 1 ?® carae an excellent of-
fame of a consummate commander. r * aCtie<1 ^