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The Demand for Social Improvement
The Boston Budget, a most excellent and in
fluential journal, indulges in the following pun
gent observations, which we appropriate, and
would impress upon the public mind. What is
said of Boston is equally applicable to all our
large cities:
The Presidential election is over. So far as it
is permitted for human sagacity to pierce into
the future, we can look forward without a shade
of fear or mistrust as to our national prosperity.
It is to be hoped that new channels of trade and
commerce will be opened, and that the United
States may enjoy, under its new administration,
peace, prosperity, and power.
But, in the midst of our boasted progress, our
rapid extension, our great prosperity, our unpre
cedented affluence, grave judges, seated on
those benches before which are brought guilt
and depravity, teH us that crime is increasing
at a fearful rate; while capitalists complain of
the heavy taxes laid on them for the rapidly
augmenting crowd of destitute poor. Some
times admonitions come to us in another form
and we hear, even in this Pilgrim city of Bos
ton, of persons perishing from destitution, of the
prevalence of contagious disorders, of the sub
terranean holes which human beings iphabit. or
the depravity in which young girls are educated
—and this is the dark side of the picture, un
pleasing to contemplate, yet necessary to be re
garded steadily, for it is forbidden us to be In
different to human suffering.
Why this distress should exist to so great ah
extent in a land wealthy and prosperous as ours,
baffles our conjecture. Is there not enough
of wealth to relieve absolute want, with our
millions upon millions of gold In the coffers or •
our banks? Is there not enough of intelligence
to educate the ignorant? Is there not enough
of goodness to pervade the whole land, and
teach every class of the population a horror of
crime? Must the philanthropist forever despair
of a remedy for the evil he sees? Must he
charge upon God the neglect of man and of.
man's institutions? Must we be content to say,
like those hollow-hearted and shallow-minded
disciples of an empty philosophy, “Society must
take its course; the only ena of government
should be to repress and punish crime?’’ These
are grave questions, which every naan should
ask himself.
We pretend to the knowledge of no specific
for the cure of political disorders, but are,
nevertheless, far from being indifferent to the
social evils of the times. Some may think us
traveling out of our record, in referring to mat
ters of such grave moment, while we chronicle
the lighter and gayer affairs of life; but we con
sider the question of social improvement one of
far greater importance than any other question
now discussed in this country. The juggling
political topics of the day, whether advanced
by Democrats .or Republicans, are nothing when
compared with socianmprovement.
The announcement of a new national admin,
istratlon is a fit time to move in this great work-.
The stream of Past Time is strewed with hu
man sin and suffering—is swollen with human
tears. Its guilt and its misery are beyond our
regrets, beyond our aid. But the future is our
own. We can. make it what we will. Why may
we not look forward to a time, and by attrac
tions help to realized;, when haunts of infamy
and shame shall be swept away, and public
places of social amusement be instituted; when
there shall he free baths,and free wash-houses,
and free public gardens, and free public galler
ies of art, and free public libraries—where the
laboring classes shall not only be well instruct
ed ’ in their duties upon earth, but shall rise
above it.
Yet the time to come is our own! From the
dark waters of the past, let us aticipate for the
future a calm and silvery stream, on which
specks of crime and misery shall be so few in
number as to contrast with the bright surface,
not so numerous as to darken the whole body
of the water. Nor smile at these anticipations
as visionary and futile. The faith in human
progress is essential to its advance—is the read
iest m<*de of smoothing the road for its march.
Who shall dare to say that Boston wants the
means of accomplishing a great and glorious
revolution in the moral condition of our poorer
classes of population? Does she want wealth?
does she want energy? does she want intelli
gence? Not The only thing wanted—dear
renders, stamp this upon your hearts—is—the
will.
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est manner of lemittlng small amounts.
! The North Georgia Confearepaet
This dignified and it fiuehlial Lcdy. of-Metho
dist divines finished ll cir’labors at O'clock
last night, (Wednesday.) in ihe Ttt^y Church
of this city. Bishop Gianl-eriy j needed with
great dignity and efficiency and made a good
Impression generally. ^ jk q
Dr. Hawthorne’s Sermon.
We Invite special attention to tlj4’ beautiful
and ptlrring discourse on the seventh page,
which was recently delivered by (his eminent
minister of the First Baptist Church ’of this city.
He is a great intellectual giant, and doing
valiant service in the Kingdom of the blaster.
Emory College.
The resignation of the presidency of this Justly
celebrated institution by Dr. Haygood, and the
election of Dr. Hoi kins to fill the important and
responsible position, are two notable events In
Its history, and while all itsfiiendsdeeply regret
Dr. Haygood’s action, they heartiljorejoice at
thq promotion of Dr. Hopkins. He is a gentle
man of rare culture and scholarship, and the
entire denomination could not hav&furnished a
better man for the place.
Quite, naturally there is trepidation Among the
vast army of < flU-t-liohlers. Wliat the President,
elect may or may no! do exercises them deeply
And there Is Ihe still huger aimy of hungry
Democrats vs ho have for so many years waited
to be (fficeholders. To one who can look on
quietly fn ni the outside ll e situation is of cu
rious interest. It is highly amusing to watch
the fellows who so fear they are to be put out
and tlie oilier fellows who are so anxious to get
In. The new President will be sharply criticised
whichever way lie turns. On the one hand lie
will he talked to of what Is his duly according
to lire prevailing ideas of civil service, and on
tlie oilier of ihe duly he owes lo the members of
the Democralie legion. Anil there are also that
noble collection ol siecailed lnde| eudeiil Repub
licans, many of whom will expect to be taken
caieof. Though Mr. Cleveland is to be Presi
dent, he has not an easy road lo travel.
Over to.ooo ooo quarts of baked beans are con
sumed hi Boston every year. The baked beau
t< considered tlie lest hratu fisid among the
b!ue-!>!«oded citizens of that city. The plndar
6l the standard brain food of the South.
Who does not Read American Books?
It was sixty odd years ago when Rev. Sidney
Smith, the famous English wit and divine; sneer-
ingly asked, “Who reads an American book?’*
It might now be asked. “Who does not read an
American book?” Every class In literature,
Includlc^ peltry, history, philosophy, and fiction.
Is represented by American authors Of the high-
est power and scholarship.
It is not surprising that sueba question as that
of Sidney Smith should- have been asked in 1820-
That was a period of the greatest literary aettv
Uy. The poems of Byron, Scott, Moore Camp,
bell, Wordswiprth, Colgrldgc and Sqnttiey, the uov.
els of Scott and tlie sparkling essays in the peat
Quarterly Reviews fallowed each oilier in close
succession in. the order of their publication, and
the minds of the reading public were kept lit a
constant state of expectancy or excitement. The
only really great work of American genius
which had then been published was Bryant's
“Thatiatopsis,” or this poem was published at
about that time. Nothing else, of
American literary origin had appeared to divert
the attention of readers HWJiy from the pro
ductions of tlie great English writers who com
iiose a galaxy of genius umWatled for brilliancy
in any ]>eriod of am-ient or iftndem times.
But since that time the American mind has
developed. The growth of wealth and the ad
vance of civilization have created that leisure
during which scholarship and literature are cul
tivated, and the mind ripens and produces its
fruits. The histories of Bancroft, Prescott and
Hildreth, the great works of Story and Kent in
jnrist*rudence, the poetry of Bryant. Longfellow
and Whittier, the lict-iou of Ceoper and Haw
thorne, have since that time been given to the
world. These literary productions are all
models of their kind. As authority and as
Biieclmeiis of style, tlie works of American his
torians have no superior lit any language.
American poetry is as good as any that lias been
produced within sixty years by the poets of any
country on tlie globe. American law books are
recognized as among the most enlightened com
mentaries on tlie subject to'wliieh they relate,
and there is no romantic literature more elevated
intone, more interesting’in its plots and situa-
lions or more original in its style and matter
than that produced by American novelists.
Even in the lower walks of literature, Ameri
can acliievments has beeu creditable. The
American play factories where stage dramas are
evolved from both original and borrowed mate
rials. are better than those of London or Paris,
while American humor, from the best of Saxe's
poems, “Jack l>owning’s Letters” and the
works of phoenix down to the jokes forliumorist
newspapers and comic almanacs, is as brilliant
and as enjoyable as that of either classic or
modern limes in other nations.
Tlie great Ameiican publishing houses pro
duce piles and piles of I looks of the finest edi
tions as to their artistic appearance and of tlie
crentest value as to genius and scholarship.
They pay American authors well, and some
American enpvrights have been worth fortunes
to their owners. Evidently Ihe stigma placed
by Sidney Smith on American literature long
ago disappeared. There is no stronger, purer
and more varied literature in any modern lan
guage than that which owes its authorship to
American intellect and culture.
say that this Is not true. The colored people can
individually go anywhere in the Exposition
building that they desire. But the space of
which I speak was set aside for us that we might
once and forever answer the assertion so often
made that our race was not advancing in the ma
terial things of life. This is the first and doubt
less will be tlie last time that the colored people
will want or have such an opportunity to show
their advancement, and deny the assertion so
often made that freedom has not developed in
them the higher aims and better accomplish
ments ail citizens should have. Major Burke
the Director-General, who is a very liberal man,
set this space apart for the colored people, to be
accepted by them or not, as they pleased. They
have taken it of their own accord for the pur
pose of showing to the world what they have
been able to do in less than twenty years of free
dom.”
WHAT COLORED PEOPLE HAVE DONE
“Will they make a good exhibit?”
“A magnificent one. I mvself am amazed at
what they have done and are doing. The color
ed people have shown great mechanical skill. I
will place among the other evidences of material
improvement or our race a locomotive engine,
now runningkm a railroad in Arkansas, that was
designed and built by a colored man. We will
show a good quality of agricultural instruments,
household utensils, and all the products of the
soil. The number of articles patented by color
ed people would surprise you. The various
grades of these wll be there. Books written by
colored authors will be presented. The colerea
women will make a display of needle and fancy
work that will hardly be excelled at the Exposi
tion. The art display will be very attractive.
We have a number of colorod artists who are
making good reputations as painters. The num
ber of really good pictures by colored artists is
surprising. A Mr. Tanner in Philadelphia will
show some magnificent works in oil, and a col
ored lady of this city will send a dress of her own
make that will cost several hundred dollars.
Few finer ladies’ costumes made in this country
will be at that Exhibition.
“These, of course, are only’a few of the things
that the colored citizens will send, for they have
taxen hold of the matter with wonderful energy.
The women especially are very earnest. This is
but natural, however, for the Exposition is to be
held in the largest city of what is practically
their native country. They not only tee! a pride
in seeing It a success, but in making it so as well
as showing how much they have been able to do
in a short time from a small beginning. The
colored people of Pennsylvania will send a good
deal. I have beeu here two days, and am sur
prised at what I have been able to secure for the
different classes. I am going from here East,
then West and from there through the Southern
States.
Ready to Move-
In this country it is a rare thing that oDe is
born, lives to old age and dies in the same
house. Comparatively few rest during their de.
clining years beneath the shade of trees which
they planted when young. The American is
emphatically a migrating animal. In the early
days, our fathers were tenters rather than set
tlers, and the Idea that a move is a possible and
not a remote contingency, has not ceased to ex
ist in most minds. Among the old sayings
handed down from remote antiquity is the one
that “three moves are as bad as a fire,” but your
average American does not believe it, .nor has
he indeed found it true. It has not been many
years since every man felt ready to move farther
West as soon as he was offered a price that
promised a handsome profit. , Even now, those
handholders are in the minority who expect to
be buried where they are living and expect that
their homestead will remain in the family
through generations. The difficulty of selling
land for caslt keeps many settled who do not so
will. But our lcudless population, which year
by year grows larger, to move is the rule, and
not the exception. The tenant Is rarely content
to remain long at a place. Those of the African
persuasion, especially, feel impelled to change
quarters every few years, and do so with or with
out a plea. This Is one item of his freedom
which he does not choose to forego. So con-
largest reformatory in the United States is the
House of Refuge on Randall's Island. New York
harbor, which was established in Altogeth
er over too.noo children have been committed to
institutions of this kind in this country, and
much good has been accomplished by them.
Houses of correction under different names and
forms of government are common in nearly eve
ry country in Europe, and many of them are so
well conducted as to be self-sustaining.
Georgia is amply able to establish and main
tain a reformatory institulion for juvenile crimi
nals. and there is no doubt that it is needed.
It is to l>e hoped, therefore, thatthe General As
sembly will give tne proposition not only a hear
ing, but tlie favorable consideration to which
its merits entitle it.
Pretty Girl and their Admir.rs-
It is a popular opinion among men that it is
chiefly to appear well in their eyes that the
other sex devote so much thought and trouble
to the devising of picturesque attire. We have
no wish to hurt anybody ;s feelings. We appre
ciate to the full the kindness of heart which
prompts so many young gentlemen, at a great
sacrifice of time and personal comfort, to slowly
saunter up and down the streets in this chilly
autumn weather, bestowing their gracious ad
miration upon the pretty girls who pass by, ar
rayed in all tlie early glory of furs and feathers
as'yet unmarred by wiuter storms. They think,
no doubt, that the poor things' pleasure in their
finery would be destroyed if they did not re
ceive this homage. We venture, with tlie ut
most respect and gentleness, to suggest that
they are mistaken.
A young lady, conscious of a new and becom
ing suit, is not displeased by a glance of admir
ation from a young man, especially if he looks
like a knowing one, and his eye singles her out
from among a group of companions. His
glance may even degenerate into a stare with
out a certainty of its being resented; but his
tribute excites in her no such throb of exulta
tion as that which agitates her breast when she
discovers that another girl is studying her cos
tume on the sly. Then, indeed, she knows true
triumph I She tries, of course, to seenr uncon
scious ; but the carriage of her neck becomes
positively swan-like in its elegance; she falls
into the attitude which best displays her drap
eries, and—blissfully aware that her gloves ex
actly match—she cannot resist the temptation
to lift one hand to her hair, and conspicuously
adjust the silver pin thrust through the soft
brown coil.
Nor is her satisfaction of an Ignoble kind. It
is not, as some cynics claim, that she has out-
dressed a possible rival; it is merely that the
admiration of a fellow-woman is that of an ex
pert. It acknowledges and respects details,
and perceives what difficulties have been over
come ; whereas, a man looks and admires ignor
antly, seeing only the general effect. She who
admires, too, admires, for the most part, frank
ly and generously, with-no tinge of envy, letting
her eyes linger with delight upon the spectacle,
always one of the most charming in the world to
an artistic eye, of a beautiful woman beautifully
clad.—Ledger.
Woman’s Work at New Orleans.
On* of the lady commissioners of the Expos!
tion appeals to the-prlde ant) patriotism, hi her
country wotnen for such a display of specimens
of all the various products of women’s hinds
.and brains as will do justice to the sex arid re
flect credit on the country, She says;
I urge you to send anything that you or your
neighbors have done, or are doing, not only in
the line of decorative and artistic work of all
kinds, hut we particularly desire a full and
complete exhibition Of ail tlie inventions of wo
men: of llieir skilled labor in every direction;
of every) Iiing out of tlie ordinary line of work
that tends to open up new aveuus for the em
ployment of women.
We hope for a fine display of drawings and
paintings, on canvas, velvet, plush, china, wood
or glass; wood, ivory and other carvings and
engravings ; etchings on any suitable materials:
embroideries; fancy needlework; pottery, and
all other examples of art work.
We wish not only art. but artisan work, mer
chantable articles manufactured by women on
machinery or otherwise. We want to show what
they have done in silk cultnre, also the Work of
female physicians and dentists.
Let us present tlie evidences of progress in
...... . ....... , . . household eeonomy, new methods and devices
vtneed is tie in the outset that he is not going to : t0 reU der the wot k of the home less laborious
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remain long that he will not plant a tree or do j and efficient^ also domestic spinning,
ought else that might at some future time inure
to his comfort. He not only expects to move,
but he intends to do so beford the twig can be
come a tree. To plant a tree that some suo-
weaving, knitting, etc.
It is desirable to show what women have ac
complished in professional and intelectual work.
We want you to send original j<Oenis, essays,
editorial articles, stenographic work, music,
• , ‘ 7 .. " “ . penmanship, typewriting, book-keeping, statis-
cessor may enjoy the fruit thereof Is a decree of tical compilations, etrt We also wish a sample
public spirit to which he can not rise. This fall- copyof every book or paper written or published
ure the part of the mover to provide for the fu
ture in the way of little comforts Is one lHu«|trtt_
tiendf the truth of the old saying that three
moves are worse than afire. . - r , .
The Colored People at the Exposition.
The Hon. B. K. Bruce, formerly United States
Senator from Mississippi, and at present register
of the United States Treasury, is now in New
Orleans looking after the exhibits to be made at
the World’s great Exposition In that city by the
colored people. We are gratified to learn from
Register Bruce that the exhibit to be made by
tlie colored people will be in every way a most
creditable and gratifying one.
Speaking of the forthcoming exhibit to be
made by the men and women of hts race, Mr.
Bruce says:
“I am here,” said he to a friend, “looking after
your colored people, to see wliat they will send
to the New Orleans Exposition. I am charged
with that duty and am now attending to it. You
would lie surprised to know what a showing my
race will mate. We have been alloted an,000 feet
of the most eligible space in the great building at
New Orleans, and it is our iiiteution to stock it
with tlie best evidences of the advancement of
tlie colored people we can gather.”
“The fact that you are alloted space by your
selves looks as though there was some discrimi
nations being made against tlie colored race? 1
“Not at all. I have seen it stated several
Some moralists say. “read history, but avoid
fiction.”- To these it is a sufficient reply to Stow
how very largely the fictitious enters Into the
best, books of history, so-called. Herodotus,
who Is sometimes termed “the father of history,’
did little more than compile a volume of fables^
and his successors have been much his Imitators.
To one who feels an anxiety to know what really
has occurred there is no end of difficulty in deter
mining. The imaginations of professed histori
ans have created one world of mCh and women—
the imaginations of novelists Safecreated to
other; and tlie latter is more real than the for
mer. Achilles and Hector, Diloibed and Aenas
seem to us just as fully men Whb have lived and
performed great parts on otfti- planet as Cyrus
Alexander, Hannibal or Caesar'. We- believfi as
fully in Dido aDd her unhapjijr l»*p as we dp tn
Margaret, of ADjon, or Ma/y. Quern of 8cots.
Ten persons are familiar with the Words of Ham
let to every one wbg ever-heard df- Theratstolesi
or Mark Antony, or Gtisthvus Adolphus. Juliet
and Desdegnoha are a& We^l known as Maria
Theresa; ahif though the first Napoleon kept our
little world than uproar far a quarter Af a centu
ry, lie is no mpee of a reality to most persons
than Samuel feller or the inimitable Micawber.
The lion-hearted King of England is best-known
as lie figures around the ramparts of Alsee in
Scott’s immortal prose-poem, and we get our best
conceptions <d[ the ablest of the Tudors from the
paintings of her by the same great author amid
the pageantries of Kenilworth. When the mor
alist or the. divine would illustrate some great
truth hy a pertinent example, lie is more apt to
make his selection from the library of fiction
than from what is called history. Yet It lias be
come a sort of fashion to condemn novel reading.
The young preacher who has perhaps spent five
hours over.the pages of Bulwer, Dickens or
George Eliot to every one he lias devoted to his
“body of divinity,” feels called upon to deplore
in tlie pulpit tlie waywardness of those who burn
the late lamp over the pages of romance. It is
time that this thing should cease. It oughtto be
admitted that there are good novels, and that a
good novel Is as good reading as a good book of
any other class. * *
by women.
Georgia’s Juvenile Felons-
The blenulal report of the Principal Keeper
of the Pdhitentiary shows, says the Telegraph
and Messenger, that there are 137 fm-
ons, all negroes, in the convict camps of Geor'
gia who are under the age of fifteen years.
Captain Nelms lias long been impressed with
the couvictiuu that these youths should be in a
bouse of correction, where they could be ke| t
separate from tlie older and hardened criminals,
restrained from the commission of crime, u>’
strutted in handicrafts and the primary brandies
of English education, and have their moral facul"
ties developed by proper teaching. In this re
port Captain Nelms argues earnestly in favor of
the separation ot these young convicts from
burglars, murderers, etc., with whom they are
now thrown in contact, and be urges tlie estab
lishment of a reformatory institution whirl*
would be sure to prepare a large proportion ol
them to lead honest lives and become useful
citizens.
It is gratifying to know that there is a fair
prospect of Captain Nelms’ suggestion being
carried out. A bill has already been introduced
in file House of Kepresentalives. winch provides
for tlie establishing of a bouse of correction, and
It will, no doubt, when perfected by tlie proper
committee, stand a good chance to receive fa
vorable consideration.
Tlie idea uf a State retormatory Is by no
means a novel one. Reformatories have long
times that our being by ourselves was regarded . been in operation in other States and countries
as proscribing us. J desire moat positively to and they have done much good.. The oldest and
When Love end Lovers Are No More
It has been decided of late by several persons
whose opinion is supposed to he of vallie, that
“nobody reads poetry nowadays.” At first this
Is startling, but when we come to the root Of the
matter we grow calm,for the time, will never edme
when there will not be as many readers of ro
mantic verse as-there ever were, until youth and
love and lovers are no more. These people who
think that nobody reads poetry—gentlemen of
erudition and women of mind as they are—have
passed the verse-loving age—that is all. They
are more capable of great things, perhaps, than
they ever were, but the men will not write son
nets to their lady’s eyebrows, nor will the ladies
cry over L. E. L. s poems as they used to; there
fore they say: “No one cares for poetry.” I
knew a deaf gentleman’ once who had been fond
of bearing preachers. It had been not only liis
duty to > o to church, but the sermon had been
his ideasure. When his hearing was gone he
suddeuly declared that no one cared for preach
ing ; that the service was sufficient; and he wrote
a homily against sermons.
Soltis with folks of the older and wiser sort,
who declare that “no one wants poetry any
more." They are deaf to’ it themselves, that Is
all. Age has altered the style of most of our
livlBg poets who are, for the greater part, men
of fifty, amt sixty and seventy years. They do
not write of love, of romance, of sentiment. They
are never emotional, but- simply reason in
rhyme. What iieople want in j-oetry is “some of
tiiose charming tilings about the girls, ami all
that, such as poets write at twenty-one.” When
such poetry is furnished it is. found that people
do want verse, tlie only people who ever-do want
it—tlie young, the meu iu love, tlle glrtiWho have
lovers, and tlie few in whom romance lives for
ever, though their birthdays are many, tpid tlieir
heads as white as snow. M. K. D.
CLARA MORRIS 7 "HOME.
Where the Great Actress Lives on
the Hudson.
Her home on the Hudson, where she lives du
ring tlie summer, ami of late much of the winter,
owing to ill health, is a retreat fitting a woman
of genius. To reach it one leaves tlie New York
Cei»lr;il -tt Mt. St. Clamant, where the liuce. un-
'igl'tly convent dwarfs Forrests' little castle.
Passing tlie railroad bridges up between the
convent and castle, the road leads through the
picturesque grounds of the good sisters to tlie
Broadway road, where one finds a handsome
structure of wiiod, almost hidden hy the solemn
old pines. The huuse is not only architecturally
handsome, but comfortable, and at tlie door the
visitor will be met by Mr. Fred. Harriott, hus
band of the star, who wUl accord one a courtly
welcome. ”
JiT J' n L c ?y ered w * th flowers, th
stables are filled with blooded horses, the house
is adorned with exquisite articles of art-and one
would suppose the place tlie home of luxury and
ease until the recei tion room of Hie great artist
Is reached, and the visitor finds it not only a licit
chamber but a sick room. Through all her life
Clara Morris bus never drawn a breath,that had
not in it more or less pain. And. at limes, this
b'l JIi , a. fe.rful agony. Here. locked up to
wisifi 1 y, by three quaint little dogs, and waited
pnbj a loving mother and husband, there rilims
:i silence: broken only by the ticking of tlie sil-
verv French clock on the mantle) iece.-or the
rustling of turned leaves, for our admiration is
an inveterate reader. Tlie wjnilnws to the west
give a distant vi w of (he Palisades where toe
Hudson sweeps around iheir northern termini
(if 'sle-unenT /oIV'<''Vit'/ !‘ f s:,Hs ;llut «"»>ke
oi sie,liners »ell of tins I ji*hw;iv of Ain^rin>m
Immunity. Tlie eh.se,1 roonus shot
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
tieneral comments with Pencil
and Scissors.
There are5t,000.000 sheep tn the United States
or just one for each man, woman and child, if
the dogs were not to be supported.
While aDetroltfather was keeping his weather
eye on the coachman, his petted daughter tied
her fortunes to those of the French cook and
ran away.
A lawsuit over the possession of fifteen cents
is agitating the Pittsburg courts. We’U wager
that there's a Connecticut nan mixed up in the
ease somehow.
President-elect Cleveland is being saved lots
of trouble by the kind-hearted gentlemen who
are devoting their time and energy to making up
cabinets for him now.
“Sam,” said Mrs* Weeks to the secretary of
Republican National Committee, “there's a man
outside with a wagon-load of apples.” “Well,
go out and claim ’em. Claim every one of ’em,"
said her husband.
The London Globe says that the higher the
civilization the later the dinner hour will be.
If civilization and the price keep on their up
ward march much longer some people’s dinner
hour will come sometimes after they have gone
to bed.
Inquirer: No, It Is hardly probable that the
red sunsets are wholly due to the effigies of St.
John burned every night now in the Western
8tates. Your theory is ingenious but not ade
quate.
The Republican party claims to have been
educating the colorod men for twenty years,
and now insist that the negroes expect to be en
slaved because Cleveland Is elected. Have the
negroes been given an education which edu
cates?
Washington hotel men say that a change of
administration Is of benefit to the hotel business.
This is not difficult to understand, since there is
always a crowd of strangers in Washington
during the season, on their own business intent,
the number Is nathrally largely increased when
there Is to he a new House in operation.
: Gath consoles us thus: “We are now on one
of those down grades In sale and activity which
help the people quite as much as 'flush times.
It is to be observed that all men and all trades
improve in time of slack business. When busi
ness is flush there Is but little improvement;
when it gets dull, experiment, reflection and de
sign triumph.”
BRIC-A-BRAC.
The Way of the World-
“Prom hand to moutli” he gaily said,
.And pressed her finger ti|»s,
Which salutation quic-ly led
To one ut>oii iier perfectlips,
As fair as roses in the South,
“From hand to mouth.”
So she was won, and so was he,
’Twas something like a year ago,
And now they both are one, you see.
Although which one I hardly know,
They’re living somewhere in the South
From hand to mouth
He Wants No More Lovely Blonde
Hair-
A young artist was greatly attracted hy the
beauty ot a young lady who sat at a window ta
the bouse opposite his studio. He sent glances
of admiration up to her window whenever he
passed into or out of his room. At length, one
day, seeing her in the street, his artistic taste
ran away with his good judgment, and reaching
her, panting with the haste he had made, gasped
out:. “Uh. miss, your lovely blonde hair! I am
dying to paint it t” The lady, with a quick
movement, put her hand to her head, and the*,
holding it with her hair at arm’s length ex
claimed. “Take it, there it is! Send it back
when you are .through with it, and stop starring
at my window; my husband is dreadfully jeal
ous, and will thrash you for your impudence.”
The crestfallen artist lias not been on a chase
for “lovely blonde hair” since.
A Dubious Compliment
“WeH, Jones, what did you think of my lecture
last night?”
“Capital, capital.”
“Did tlie audience seem to be favorably Im
pressed?”
“Well—er—at first It struck me that some of
the audience appeared—er—Just a little bored at
the beginning, but at the end the general
faction was very pronounced,
you, old man.”
satis-
f congratulate
The attorney General’s report shows that
robbery of the Government has its conspiring
centre at Washington, and that detected rogues
are not punished because the men who made
tlie laws have deliberately or ignorantly, or
both, left technical gaps for their escape.
The Rome Courier reminds farmers that oot-
Find Something to Love.
BY LILLA S. CUSHMAN.
Find some thing to love—though only a flower,
And sometime that love like a spell shall bo,
To save tliy soul in temptation’s hour—
Iu its might thou sliait bid the tempter flee.
Find something to love—the Father is Love,
And whoever loveth is born of Him;
Would’st thou ever his changeless mercies
prove?
O let.not His love in thy heart grow dim.
Find something to love, to cherish, to pet,
For the heart which loves hath God’s imago
there; ...
Though one falls he shall rise I fo.r love is yet
To redeem the fallen,.to save from despair!
Find something to love—be It bird or flower,
’Twill strengthen thy soul in temptation’s hone.
She d idn’t Wish to Transfer Her Pat*
ronage. 4
A woman who had buried three husbands was
inconsolable Over the loss of the fourth.
It was necessary to order the funeral para
phernalia: and she was asked if she bad any .
preference as to which undertaker should be em
ployed. •;.
1 “Oh. g-go to Mr. Mould,” she sobbed. “H-he
has been my undertaker for forty years, and.
haa always given the best of satisfaction.”
Resignation Just What He Doesn’t
Want
The Hatchet
“Well, Charley, old fellow, you Just brace up
and look upon tins tiling will) resignation,” con
solingly remarked a friendly Democrat to an In
terior Department clerk, who was mourning over
tlie pros|>ectlve change of administration and
probable loss of his official position.
” Resignation?’ That’s Just what’s bother-
, Vina. Ing me! For they’ll be sure to ask for my reslg-
ton is selling at a fair price, and that all kinds d;,!),,,] jf Lleveloud comes In,” was the heart-
of commodies were never cheaper. So the ’
planter is faring much better than manufac
turer or merchant. The consumer .has, there
fore, nothing to complain of in the way of
over-production of fabrics.
Daring the cholera in Paris they have been
very grateful for the services of the Sisters of
Mercy. These Doble women, with all self-sacri
fice and courage, presented themselves when
the infection raged the worst, and were tireless
in their, attentions. Everywhere the accounts
of them have been! the same. They haver eboven
to forget alt uhkfndness they have received from
Paris and went at once where they felt that duty
called them.
A New York toper went into a saloon where
a pefaligator was kept. He picked up the anB
mal iby the tall, and the ’gator retiirned the
compliment by twisting around and bitibg him.
Shortly after the ’gator died, and when the toper
arrived next day the proprietor mournfully ad
dressed him: “I wish you would keep sway
broken reply.
The Riddle Solved.
To bashful men who wish to “pop”
I’ll show an easy way;
You go to see your girl some night,
And thus to tier, you’ll say:
“I have a riddle for you Kate,”
And then you sit down by her;
“Why am I liken grain of corn
That’s placed upon the fire?”
Of course she’ll say’ ! ‘I give up,”
Then whis|>er sweet and low;
“I'm like Ike gralu of oorn because
. I’m goiug to pop, you know.”
Thus having broken through the lee.
You are not worth a copper
H vou don’t manage so that she
Will say “Go.ssk my popper.”
She Detected a Difference Between An*
anias and the Editor-
Merchant-Traveler
“Good morning,” wheezed an old lady, som
from here. Take some whlsty and go »way ^^ ev ^^‘^^^4 gj
and don't opine, back. .When the ’gator bit you editor?”
he-was poisoned, you are so full of rum. Don’t
go near the dog.
for ten doilaf*-"
I wouldn’t have him bite you
“Yes madam,” the man at the desk responded
as he threw a ciiew of tobacco down a knot hole
in Uie floor and slipped his suspenders up o*
his shoulders. “Gan I do anything for you to
day?”
“Well, not very much. I heard something
about you, and as 1 had been reading your
paper, I came to see for myself if it wet*
The report comes from Arkansas that a mete
or about the size of a tea cup fell In Montgom
ery county, of that State, Monday evening, cut. true. ’
its way like a cannon ball through the Urge hope!’ 1 lwleed? What was it? Nothing, bad, I
limb of a tree, passed entirety through the body I “Not so bad, and not so very good either,
of a farmer named Julius Robb, and buried itself They only told me you were just like Anauiai.
i. | Yon know who he was, don’t you?”
deep In, the earth. It Is to be hoped the | -fjot exactly, madam, thought have see*
meteors will not begin to fall In Georgia. It some reference to him during the recent cam*
would be almost Impossible for one to get to the, Pkik* 1 -”. , ... _
i— t “I didn’t think you would kuow him. He was
ground in the interior counties without striking . a i$ibi e character, who was struok dead for
a candidate for county office. ” ’ I being a liar.”
a [ “Great Caesar, madam, exclaimed the
[editor, with a start that knocked his paste-
The two-tailed rats which are exhibited at pot over and sent his scissors rattling to the
floor. “ 1 hope > on don't think, uow after
. . , you
have read my paper and met me, that 1 aiu like
this man Ananias?”
museums are the result of a neat surgical trick,
and not hieua nattara. The,tail of a healthy rat
is cut off.and Immediately inserted In a V shaped "No, sir,” the old lady replied, getting up to
cut iu tlie nose of a second. Dressings are applied g°. “I notice there Is a difference,
and the animal's legs tied down to a small frame | ''tSo^SSfJSSS Is
to prevent scratching at the new member. The ’ that you are still alive.”
second bill sets in twenty-fonr hours, and In four , Tlie door closed on tlie old lady and the editor
davit nervous connection Is established After i abbed llls l’ eu **»t« Ms upset pastj^pot and to
days nervous connection is esiauiisneu. After gau hi write ou article on toe cruelly and deceit
tills the rodent guards Its front tail as zealously , of women.
as the other. ‘
Brunettes Not Coquettes.
They say the brunettes are arch coquettes,
That they break the hearts that love them,
But that eyes of blue are teuder and true
As the sky that bends above them.
on, while one whose genius revV,i„ti"nizcd o,.r
dr.inu and|il,iced Ihe divine art ou its highest
level is silently passing away. uiguest
Guideposts were formerly embellished with
maxims upon which the travHlercoii u mwlitoie
provided that he |H.ssp„ed the not too common
accomplishment of reading.
ATPr'sSarsaparilla, being highly concentrated
repuires a smaller dose, and is more effective’
dose for dose, than any other blood medicine’
II Is the cheat>est, la-cause the liest. Qualitv
and not quantity should be cousideretf.
St Louis holds to its wish fora ‘World's Fair
in 1892, in commemoration of the 400th anniver
sary of the discovery of America. It Is said
Congress will be asked to appropriate a gunran- i
tee fund of a million of dollars aud that all the I . ^ , .
States will be newtel bnt »mb,l„t„ber, Wt'e'SKltT” 1 '
and make exhibits. St. Louis has now good fair To hearts that lie back ot eyes tliat are black
grounds, but they would need to be enlarged! As to those that are blue as the morning
and other buildings erected for a World’s Fair. I Por he comeg at)d a8 the free wtadblow^
But no doubt if all else goes well 8b Louis Tint asks not us it passes
would meet this requirement and also be able If it touches the heads of tlie roses red,
Or violets down in the grasses.
So all the coqnetos are not the brunettes,
Nor tlie maidens with golileu tresses:
They are those unto whom Love never has
come
With hts kisses and fond caresses.
to accommodate with lodglugs and meals ail
who might visit the exhibition.
The contract for building the new State Capi
tol of Texas was let some time ago to a Chicago
company for the lump sum of $1,600,000. to be
paid for iu 3.000,000 acres of land at fifty cents
per' acre. Now the contractors have become
convtnoed that the building will cost them near
ly, if not quite, $3,000,000. and they are togging To nii-Tii till tlinigs site was true—
the Legislature to iuerease the price to that A blind man even could have seen lb
uinoiitib Their petition wtlldoubtless be grant- ^.f.i'aiter^'smnefet months we parted;
ed if they will take tlie land at $! jter acre.. The A , K;ir q ro| , giisieuad on her nose,
land is probably worth that much. Tlie new
Texas Capitol, U is claimed, will be. when com
pleted, second only in size to the Capitol at
Washington.
After Twenty Tears-
No doubt she flirted—all girls do:
But then, you know site didn't mean tt;
When both parents have eyes of the same
color, eighty-eight |>er reut. of tlie children fol
low their parents in this feature, and of the
twelve per ceut. born witli eyes other than the
parental color a part must lie attributed to iu-
termitent heredity. More females than males
have black or brown eyes In the proiortion of
forty-nine to forty-five. With different-colored
eyes in Ihe two parents fifty-three per cenb of
tlie children follow tlie fathers iu being dark t!ie' , h<Miy when "it was first taken lrraa**the
eyed, and sixty per cenb follow their mother in . water.” .. .
being dark eyed. I Witness: “It was wet, sorr.
Ami 1 for days was broken-hearted.
A score of years have passed away
Since then; I lately heard about her.
Her hair had grown a trifle gray.
Her figure grown a great deal stouter,
And I since then have married twice;
Mv lieari no louger reaches toward tier’s,
For she lias been a wtdnw tlirice,
And lately s gone to taking boarders!
At the Inquest.
Coroner: “Were you present when the body
of tlie deceased was taken from the water?”
Witness; -Yis. sorr.”
Coroner: “There were no signs of life!”
Witness: “No. sorr.”
Coroner: “Welt, state the exact condition Of