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THE SUNNY SOUTH
5
TO ELSIE.
The last, faint flush of sunset laves
aIn' D „ r i, Ufn:e<1 p * ak 01 c,0 " (1
A Th’e H onely , beac,,n . gleams
Hesper’s golden star;
T wPr the Kloa,n m >' glances roam
a kT ™ y casement, looking down
^xho’i^tl 0 *’ wh ere—clear and slow—
The lamps are lighting in the town.
And ’round full many a pleasant board.
Th By J nany 2 ros y lngle-slde,
The hapny household I can see
In faucy. on this eventide:
.S r ' w * 1(,s e •«”« are never done,
er, and babes brown-locked or gold.
The youth, the sch jo! girl, and perchance
urandame anu gran’ther, crook'd and old.
Thrice happy hour of peace and hope!
Hour of my memory’s trooping train I
l turn me from the twinkling lights
And light my lonely lamp again.
I take your letter from my breast,
Dear heart, and read till every part—
Kach burning word, each vow—I hoard
As costly gems within my heart.
The moments slip with buoyant trip.
The circle fills—an hour, and then
I fold your perfumed letter slow,
And lay it o’er my breast again;
I clasp it there and breathe a prayer:
•’God bless you, dear, in cloud or sun I”
(Now fold me—kiss! Give this, this, this.')
Good heart I Good-night, my rosy ouei
Roxy Cboft.
BILL ARP
On His Boys, How to Spoil Children
and Train Husbands.
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I wonder what those chaps of ours are do
ing? They write us frequently and say they
are getting along well and that we must not
worry but I wonld like to look in npon them
to-night. I would tiptoe to the verandah
window and peep in awhile and see them sit
ting aronnd the big log fire—three girls and
one boy—all reading or writing, writing to
their mother or me or maybe looking dream
ily into the glowing embers And wondering
how long we will yet be gone. Carl they say
puts on the airs, of a protector and talks
about his gun being loaded and imagines
how he oonld just shoot a robber’s head oS
if he oame. It was a big thing with them
all for a while to be alone and ran the ma
chine and have all the responsibility and
nobody to sooldthem or to direct them. The
horses and the big buggy and the little bug
gy are at their own command now, and Ned,
the dooile and willing darkey, is on hand to
keep up the fires and bring water from the
spring and milk the oows and feel his re
sponsibility abont the stock and the oorn
and the sheep and the chickens and every
thing. Carl reads to him sometimes at night
or shows him the pioture papers and maybe
he is at that now. The dogs have a good
time now for they are protectors too and are
atretohei in front of the fire and nobody
there to order them out. Carl aid Jessie
tickle their feet sometimes with a straw as
they lie sleeping and it tickles them to see
the dogs jomp. Carl drops the cat some
times on Fido’s back and that makes fun,
splendid fun, and his mother scolds him
and he doesn’t dare to do it again until the
next time. Children get a good deal of
soolding that is not meant and they know it.
Soolding comes so habitual and so handy.
It is just as natural to a mother as sweeping
the hearth or punching the lire or knitting
the stockings. I know a couple of fond pa
rents who have but one ohild, a bright little
three-year old, who is always into mischief
and his mother spanks him abont once a day
and reproves him all the rest of the time
pretty macb, and he is getting UBe to it and
fattens on it, bat his fond father laid down
the law the other day and solemnly declared
that, that boy was no ordinary ohild and was
high toned and spirited and he didn’t want
his spirit broken by the humiliating process
of the laying on of hands or slippers or pad
dles or any other relic of barbarianism, and
that tor the next five years he wanted that
bey to have a lease of perfect freedom and
be controlled only by appeals to his reason
and his affections.
And so the good mother assented, with a
knowing wink of her left eye. and the live
years’ lease began, and the boy found it out
before night. At the supper-table, while sit
ting m his high ohair, he took a notion that
it would be fun to pour his milk into his
plate and see it run over on to the table
cloth. His gentle mother respectfully re
quested him not to do that and as her re
quest was not heeded, she called the pater
nal attention to him nudthe paternal appeal
ed to the boy’s reason and was discoursing
to him on the impropriety of suoh conduot,
when suddenly the boy seized his little fork
and let ffy at the paternal and only missed
hi3 ear a quarter of an inch. “My dear,”
said he to his wife, “what has got into that
boy? He might hav6 hit me in the eye.”
“Nothing," said she; “nothing at all. It is
the lease he has got, and it is beginning to
break out like the measles.” Tne next day
there was a little dining and the boy had his
little dinner one side and soon got tbrongh
and was taken down and went foraging
around for fun and frolio, and while we were
enjoying the dinner the boy crawled under
the table and baoatne very quiet and well
behaved. We were about through when the
good mother said she had anioe cranberry
pie for ns, and she just turned and reached
back to the side table for the pie and it was
gone. I saw the oolor mount to her cheeks
as she looked around for the boy, and sud
denly hearing him under the table she lifted
the hanging cloth and discovered him with
the pie, and his hands were full, and his faoe,
and the carpet, and be was pie all over. Sue
polled out the plate, and showing it to the
paternal ancestor, remarked: “The lease is
at work—he has got it bad.”
The lease closed out that day as I knew it
would for that mother has got sense she nag,
and was only suffering the experiment to
prove its absurdity There is no fixed rules
by which to raise children and never will be,
for what will raise one won’t raise another,
but still there are some landmarks to go by
that are as old as Adam, and one of them is
that the ohild must be made to fear the par
ent nntil it is otdenongh to be governed by
reason. There is no sense in letting a ohild
get burned to teaoh him what fire is or get
drowned to teaoh him what water is or gat
shot to find out the danger of fooling with
a gun. Reason won’t keep a mischievous
ehild from fooling with a bottle of morphine
or a pistol, if he can reach it. If every par
ent was able to have a faithful nurse to be
with a ohild every moment it would be dif
ferent, but they are not, and when a hard
worked mother sits her ohild down with
some playthings and says now yon must stay
there nntil I come back, the child must know
its duty, even if it takes a spank or two to
teach it. Mothers know all about it, and 1
have always been willing to risk them, for
natuie is their teacher. Nature is kind. Na
ture teaches even the brutes how to raise
their young, and nature has not been uq-
mindful of the human race.
Carl and Jessie runs together. They are
mates end companions. The children in
large families must always run in pairs.
They didn't come twjns at my house for my
wife was always reasonable in everything,
but they did come along in pairs, and
the pairs seem to know eaoh other better and !
assimilate. There is a wide gap between •
the oldest and youngest— nearly 25 years, 1
and some of our grandohildren are older
than some of our children. The first that
come absorb our hope and oar pride and fill
ns with parental consequence, but the last
absorb all the love that is left, a love that is
like the last and best milk that is drawn
from the cow. It is nearly all oream. Carl
and Jessie were talking about Christmas
before we left home, and as my oorn crib
was pretty full and fat I told the boys that
money was soaroe and I was afraid that San
ta Claus wouldn’t come this way, but that if
he and Jessie would shnek two loads of oorn
they might have one and Carl might take it
to town and sell it, and he and Jessie might
have the money for Christmas provided they
wouldn’t epend it foolishly but would get
something that would do them some good
Well, I never sawAwo little ohaps get so ex
cited. "A whole load of oorn.” “Yes,”
said I, “a whole load—abont twenty-five
bushels, and it is worth abont forty cants a
bushel, maybe more.”
And now their sister writes that they
shnoked the corn and Carl went to town to
feel of the market and strutted around
among the merohants with his hat tipped up
in front ja?t like a man who has oorn to sell
and he oame back and said he believed
he would haul his oorn to Rome, if Oarters-
ville wouldn’t do any better. And Nabor
Freeman oame down and offered Carl his
price, and he dosed a bargain, and he and
Jessie will have about five dollars apiece,
and are ever so happy. About that oorn
shucking business, though, I have a suspic
ion that Ned was in it, and Ned will have a
little share in that money wnen Christmas
comes.
It is a big thing with ohildren to be trust
ed with great responsibilities. I know they
are doing something to surprise us on onr
return. They were papering their mother’s
room when I left—and I was into that se-
orot, for she left several days before 1 did—
and they had hinted that they would buy her
some new window shades and paint the
front of the house if I was willing, and of
oourse I was willing, for they do all the
work themselves, and so it wouldn’t cost
much aud it was all to pleaee their moth
er. Well, not all either, for they have
got some pride of their own—some pride
for the beautiful and the esthetic, as they
oall it. I don’t know what they have done,
but I’ll wager that their mother will hardly
know her old home when she gets baok.
God grant that she may go baok with a
heart to enjoy it. Her boy lies lingering
still. His forty days are out and the crisis
is not reached, and the doctor says “b6 pa
tient.” This fever is like a vampire and
will feed and suck upon his vitals as long as
there is bad blood or tainted flesh to feed
npon and then like a vampire it will flop its
wings and ily away to hunt another victim.
The boy is almost a skeleton now. His oir-
oumferenoehas gone and his diameter, too,
and there is nothing but a radius lelt. I
can lift him abont now easier than I could.
He is patient and long suffering and never
complains. Sometimes when I lean over
him and he pulls me down to have my old
cheeks rest on his and puts his withered
arm around my neck, I almost break down
—I do, and it does me good to know that I
still have some tears hidden away in the
pure fountain of parental love. On suou
occasions 1 get an inkling of what Solomon
meant when he said: “It is better to go to
the house of mourning than to the house of
feasting.”
Those chaps at my house would have a
splendid time if it were not for their anxie
ty. 1 don’t mean to say they are glad we
are gone. They were for awhile, bnt not
now, for it’s getting monotonous and they
begin to feel lonely and broken up. They
have plenty to do and plenty to eat. I ex
pect they have a big fat turkey every Sun
day. If they don’t Mrs. Freeman does, for
she is just like a girl and when they are not
at her house she is down at onrs, and Nabor
Freeman now struts round like he was the
patriaroh of two plantations and the god
father of my children. That is all right.
They are not going to want for anything if
he knows what they do want, and if he
don’t his good wife will find it out and tell
him. It was a blessed thing for her when
my wife moved into the settlement. She
was young and experienced and didn’t know
how to manage a husband when ho got in
one of his mulish ways. But she was an apt
scholar, and observed my wife closely, and
she says that now she has no trouble at all.
Well, I do believe he is mnoh more subdued
than he used to be. That’s a fact. But still
there is room for improvement. He has not
yet attained to that state of sweet humility
for whioh I pride myself. But he will come
to it by and by. Time and training will
work on a man. Anno Domini aud a dis
cerning wife will tell. My nabor talked
about moving ont of the naborhood for
awhile just to get rid of my example, bnt he
don’t now. He has got reoonoiled and is
realizing what a good thing it is to be calm
and serene.
THE WOMAN’S REALM.
Feminine Fancies, Foibles and
Curious Infatuations.
Ohio’s Woman Suffrage League has a man
President.
Women own aud operate nearly one thousand
farms in Iowa.
Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson, It Is reported,
has received nearly §100,000 from her books.
Miss Mamie Dickens, the oldest'daughter o
the novelist, has written a brief biography of
her father.
Mile, de Lesseps Is her father’s confidential
secretary. No matter how far he may travel,
she always accompanies him.
Miss C. A. Thym, a Dutch lady, has Just been
appointed conservator of the new museum of
international art in Amsterdam.
Mrs. Ada Hildebrand, editor of the Courier,
Gretna, La , did all the printing, free, for the
Woman's Exposition Association.
Mrs. Agnes Leonard Hill is associate editor
of the Chaffee County Times, of Buena Vista,
Col., and is a lecturer on various literary sub
jects.
Mrs. Elizabeth B. Fairbanks, of Milwaukee,
is on the Wisconsin State Board of Charities,
and Is said to be one of the most active and
useful philanthropists of the State.
The Courier-Journal says: “Widow Giraud,
who lived on brandy and soup, died at the age
of 125 ‘An emigrant from Georgia says it Is a
wonder that the soup did not carry her off much
sooner.’ ”
A bachelor statesman says it would be auite
easy to pay the national debt by imposing a tax
on beauty, because there isn’t a woman in the
country who wouldn’t demand to be assessed.
An aboriculturlst says that Lydia Thompson
ana Maggie Mitchell are the evergreens of the
stage, because when they plant tlielr little feet
upon the boards they make a century plant be
tween them.
A Milwaukee girl, suffering from lockjaw,
was left alone with a mouse by the shrewd phy
sician, and she contrived to open her mouth
enough to give a yell that made the crockery in
the china closet rattle.
Mrs. Robert Yost, of St. Louis, nee Sallle
Moore, of Louisiana, has agreed to send her tu
rnons autograph quilt to the Exposition. This
quilt is a precious relic of most of the famous
men and women of the present century.
Miss Eva Ewing, a pupil at the Pass Christian
Institute, aud a young lady of marked intelli
gence, Is fitting herself to enter Wellesley Col
lege. aud expects to be so far advanced in Greek
by one year at the institute as to enter the fa
mous college next session.
A great deal of newspaper talk Is going the
rounds of the press as to why the female treas
ury clerks do not marry. Long articles, heavy
wiih arguments, have been written explaining
the manifold reasons why the lady treasury
clerk does not take a husband. Never were
arguments more windy, nor newspaper space
more wasted The truth of the matter is that
the reason toe treasury clerks don’t marry is
that they haven't been asked. It may sound
unfri-*nn!y but every sensible woman knows
that bat very few bard-worked. Ill-paid, lone
some women would not be willing to exchange
their service, their homeless lives,forthe sweet
seemi’y of their o»n firesides, for the love of
some good man and lor that crowning glory,
motherhood! A woman may become very fa
mous. be very learned and brilliant, and sought
after, stand at the need of her profession, but if
she is “a woman, and therefore to be won,” she
would rather take In r chauces of peaceful hap
piness as the loved and h< nored wife, than as
the diuinguidied So and So with a scratchy
crown of laurel leaves binding her brow.—-Pica
yune. ‘
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PORTRAITS AXD BIOGRAPHIES
OF DISTINGUISHED MEN
AND WOMEN.
Isabella I., Ex-Queen of Spain.
The death of Alfonso XII., King of Spain, bids
fair to re-open the dynastic quarrels that have
torn that country for generations. Ex Queen
Isabella, who was forced to abdicate the throne,
is perhaps most to be feared.
Maria Isabella Louisa, *x Queen of Spain, was
born at Madrid, Oct. 30, 183 >. Her father, Fer
dinand VII., revoked the salic law; and at his
death Isabella, then only three years of age,
was made Queen under the regency of her mo
tber. The adherents of the King’s brother op
posed this. and civil war ensued, which las.ed
until the Cortes proclaimed Isabella the rightful
heir and exiled Don Carlos.
In 1843 Isabella was declared to have attained
ISABELLA I., EX QUEEN OF SPAIN.
her majority, and took her place as ruler of
Spain. Pending this her mother sojourned in
France, having been forced by popular clamor
to make Espareto regent. In 1845 she returned
to Spain only to resume her baleful influence
over Isabella. In 1846 she married the young
Queen to Don Francisco d’Assi3i. The union
was a most unhappy one. and separations and
reconciliations were frequent. In 186S a revo
lution-beginning at Cadiz aod gradually ex
tending—broke out in Spain, and the result was
the forming of a Provisional Republican govern
ment under Generals Prim and Serrano. Her
Majesty took refuge in Paris.
In 1870 she renounced her claims to the throne
in favor of her son Alfonso, and, after his coro
nation, returned to Spain. She was received by
him at Santander on July 29ib, 1876, after eight
years of exile. She is the mother of five chil
dren—Infanta Marielsabella, AlfonsoXII.,Ma
rie del Pilar, Infanta Marie del Paz, and Infanta
Marie Eulalfe. The domestic discord of the
royal pair renders the paternal parentage of the
children a mattei of uncertainty; and the ru
mors of Isabella’s love aff tirs are evidently not
without foundation in fact.
Praxedo H. Sagasta.
Long before the death of Alpbonso, a Spanish
cabinet crisis was imminent, and Praxedo M.
Sagasta was looked upon as the man for tire
new cabinet. Upon the King’s death he was
PRAXEDO M. SAGASTA.
summoned by Alfonso’s widow, and in accord
ance with her instructions formed a new min*
istry.
Praxedo M. Sagasta is fifty-nine years of age
He has always been a liberal leader, and on ac
count of his participation in the rebellion of
1866. was compelled to flee from Spain. Return
ing after Isabella’s exile in 1868, he was made
Minister ol Public Works. Ou the accession
of Amadeus in 1871, he became Minister of
War, and later in tne year trained notoriety as
the principal antagonist of Z irilla. the Radical
leader. He was also made President of the
Cortes in 1871. When Z irilla became President
of the Cortes in 1872. Sagasta resigned from the
ministry. This retignation the King refused to
accept, and the Cortes were dissolved, in the
election of 1872 S ogasta’s party were in power,
but Zorilla exposed the corrupt measures of the
former, and his impeachment, though not car
ried into effect, was seriously thought of. In
1874 Sagasta agaiu came into power as Minister
of the interior uuder Serrano. When Alfonso
was raised to the ihrone, Sagasta again retired,
and for many years was without a following.
In 1880 he J lined Campos in forming a new par
ty which gained such power that Sagasta was
made Premier in istii. In 1883 he was again
forced to retire to gIre place to Poseda Herrera,
who in turn gave way to Canovas. Since the
latter’s accession to power, Sagasta, who was
DON CARLOS.
made President of the Congress, waged unceas
ing war upon the Premier, and with such suc
cess as to again grasp the reins of government.
Hon Carlos.
By the death of Alfonso XII., the claims of
Don Carlos to the throne of Spain have been re
vived. Dod Carlos was born March 30th. 1848.
His father, Don Juan.was the brother of Charles
VI. of Spain. As Cnarles the Sixth died without
issue, his rights devolved upon his brother and
subsequently to the present Don Carlos. The
latter was educated in Austria, and was mar
ried in 1867 to Margaret de Bourbon, sister of
the present Comte de Chambord (Henry VI.),
of France. In 1872 the adherents ot Don Carlos
raised bis standard in the north of Spain, and
in July of that year he published a proclama
tion addressed to the inhabitants of Catalonia,
Aragon and \ T alencia. calling upon them to
take up arms in bis cause. Don Carlos made
his entry into Spain in 1873. and the various
governments, from time to time in power at
Madrid, strove ij vain to suppress the revolu
tion. When Alfonso was called to the throne,
Don Carlos Issued another proclamation calling
upon hts volunteers to continue in their efforts,
exhorting them to remember their many bril
liant acblevements, and that they were figbttng
for the welfare of Spain; he also promised
them to reform the government should he come
to power. Alfonso’s forces, however, made
continued advances, forcing the Carlists. who
fought with desperation, to Tolosar. In Janu
ary. 1S76, this, their last stronghold, fell. Their
leaders sought refuge in France. On July 18h,
1881. Carlos was expelled from France, on the
ground of his having ostentatiously allied him
self with the partisans of the Comte de Cham-
bord. Don Carlos has five children; the Infan
ta Blanca,born in 1868; iDfanta Jaime, born in
1870; Infanta Elvin, born in 1871; Infanta Be-
trix, born in 1874, and Infanta Alix, born in 1876
Christiana, Ex-Queer of Spain.
Christiana, the relict of Alfonso, King of
Spain, was the second wife of that monarch.
His first wife, Mercedes, died withiu a year
after their marriage, and was much lamented.
The second marriage, which occurred on No
vember 29.1879. was a political union. Chris
tiana is the daughter of the late Archduke,
CHRISTIANA, EX-QUEEN OF SPAIN.
Charles Ferdinand, of Austria. She was born
July 2lst, 1858. During her short married life,
many stirring incidents have occurred. On
December 20th, 1879, whilst driving in an open
carriage with the King, a youth named Otero
fired two pistol shots at the royal pair.one passing
between them and the other through an attend
ant’s hat, but fortunately without doing further
damage. Otero was tried, sentenced to death
and ext cited for the crime. Queen Christiana
gave birth to two daughters—Maria de la Mer
cedes. Princess of the Asturias, born Septem
ber I2rh, 1880, and Infanta Maria Teresa Isabel,
born November 12th, 1882. The former of these,
now but five years of age. becomes tbe Queen
of Spain. Cbtistiaua is to be made Regent. The
married life of the royal pair was not always
tbe pleasantest, and Alfonso, following the ex
ample of bis mother and grandmother, was
noted for his many love affairs. Matters grew
so serious that at one time a rupture with his
Queen seem ’d imminent, and was avoided only
by tbe friends of the couple, who saw in the
separation the direst consequences. The Queen
was given a public reception, and the new peace
was heralded far and wide. Personally, Chris
tiana is anything but prepossessing, and the di
vinity that doth hedge royalty certainly does
notapply to her. In comparison, Ex-Queen Is
abella, noted libertine that she is, is dignified
and queenly.
ALEXANDER 8HALER.
Alexander Shaler.
One of the most conspicuous figures of tbe
First New York division of the National
Guards in the great military pageant upon the
burial of Gen. Grant. August 8,1885, was Major
General Alexander Shaler, and as he rode at
the head of that division, his bearing plainly
showed that he was proud of the men who were
marching behind him. It was, indeed, a body
to be proud of. They marched with a precision
of step and a measure of discipline that is sel
dom equaled, and which reflects credit upon
their commander. Major-General Shaler was
born in 1827, and came to New York in 1834.
His military career dates from 1845. In
1860 he was made Major of the Seventh New
York regiment, and in 1861, in response to Pres
ident Lincoln’s call for troops, went to Wash
ington with his regiment, where he was mus
tered into the service of the United States. His
subsequent career was one of marked activity.
In July, 1862, he became CoIodcI of the Slxty-
Fi.’th New York Volunteers. He served with
great distinction in the army of the Potomac,
taking an active part in some of the hardest
fought battles on the Peninsula. He served
under Gen. Pope in northern Virginia, and un
der McClellan in Maryland. At the capture of
Fredericksburg he commanded a brigade and
led the advance; be took an active part in the
POFORIO DIAZ.
battle of Gettysburg. Taken prisoner at the
battle of the Wilderness, be was confined in
Charleston. After bis exchange he was in com
mand at Columbus, Ky., and in January. 1S65,
he assumed command of the Second Division,
seventh army corps. In July. 1865, he was bre-
vetted Major-General. He had charge of all the
militia that attended the funeral of Gen. Grant.
On the evening of November 30;b. 1886. amost
serious charge was preferred against General
Shaler. He was accused of using his influence
forthe sale of property in New York City to the
State for armory purposes. From the sale of
the Schell and Fairchilds properly, it is assert
ed that Gen. Shaler received $9000, and applied
that amount to pay off the mortgage on his New
Jersey property. When arrested Gen. Shaler
made no protest, but made simple though hur
ried preparations to accompany the officers to
the central office. Gen. Shaler. besides being
commander of the New York militia, is presi
dent of tbe Board of Health and secretary of
the Armory Board, which chose the site of the
armories recently built.
Porforio Diaz.
Since Its conquest by Cortez, In 1521, perhaps
no country nas experienced more changes In its
government than Mexico. Immediately after
the fall of the Aztecs Mexico was made a king
dom, aud subsequently has been an empire aDd
republic. It has been ruled by a Dictator and
has been under almost every devisable form of
government. This constant change has entirely
impoverished the country, nor does the future
promtse better things. The Iturbides. who
claim the right to the throne of the country, are
anx ous for an apportunity to regain their power.
Porforio Diaz, ot whom our article treats, is
by birth a Mexican. He was born in ihe State
ot Oaxara in 1834 In the revolution of 1854 he
took a decided part, and was wounded at Ix-
capa. In 1858 he was made Governor of Tei-
mautepee, and in 1861 was given the rank of
Brigadier-General. After the fiasco that France
was guilty ot in trying to create an empire in
Mexico, with Maximilian at its bead, Juarez—
who had before ruled the country—was chosen
President. In 1871 there were three candidates
in the field ior tfie Presidency, Damely: Jua
rez, Diaz and Tejada. None of these had the
necessary number of votes to elect, and Juarez
announced bis intention of taking the seat
This caused tne formation of parties. The Con
gress recognized Juarez, who accordingly took
the oath ot office, but the troops of Diaz—whose
seat of operations was in Oaxaca—held the
gouDtry in a continual state of unrest. In 1872
juarez was stricken with apoplexy and died
from tue effects. Tejada then became the Pres
ident, but in 1876 Diaz flung the banner of revo
lution to the breeze and in 1877 became Presi
dent ol the Republic.
As the condition of Mexico forbids tbe imme
diate re-election of the same person to the Pres
idency. Diaz was superseded by Gonzilez, who
was also prominent in tbe revolution of 1876.
Gonzalez’s administration pro red very unpopu
lar, and in the summer of 1884 Diaz was again
chosen President. The announcement of his
election was received with great enthusiasm by
the populace. He was inaugurated Dec. 1st of
tbe same year.
Mexico is having her periodical revolution.
When President Diaz was inaugurated tbe last
time it was believed that Mexico had at last lelt
revolution and carnage behind her. The ex-
President, Gonzalez, is at tbe bottom of the
present uprising. Tne State of Unevo Leon has
always been his strong-hold, and he has accord
ingly always controlled the federal patronage
thereof. Diaz, who is anxious to succeed him
self, removed the friends of Gonzalez from offi ce
ana filled the places with his own men. In con
sequence, the friends of Gonzalez revolted.
Governor Garcia proceeded to the City of Mex
ico to settle the matter amicably; but in the
meantime affairs came to a crisis a d tbe acting
Governor, Sepulveda, called on Diaz for troops.
General Reyes was sent to the scene of the dis
turbance, but it is thought that he received pri
vate instructions not to fight the insurgents.
The troops of the State were easily defeated by
tbe revolutionists, and Sepulveda fled. The
State being without a Governor, Diaz can pro
claim martial law and rule tbe district accord
ingly.
FgRSOHALJUNTION.
What the People Are Doing and
Saving.
George W. Gable has sold at private sale,
hiB residenoe at New Orleans for $5,500.
Gen. Robert Toombs reoently defined a
fanatio as “a man with big notions and very
small points.”
Jennie Lind will sing in pnblio next snm-
mer, for the first time in twenty-two years.
Her appearanoe will be for a obaritable pur
pose.
Wilhelm j, the violinist, is living quietly at
his home in Mosbaoh and doing only enough
practice to keep himself in good condi
tion.
George W. Childs has the largest collec
tion of canes of any man in Amerioa. They
were gathered from all quarters of the
globe.
The minister of the Argentine Repunlio
never signs his name in a Washington hotel
without giving himself the tide of “His Ex-
oellenoy.”
The earl of Lnoan and eighteen other
British officers who were at Balaclava fought
the battle over in a London banquet hall the
other night.
Miss Fannie WyoJje, an exoellent young
lady and formerly a contributor to our Let
ter Box, has been appointed Post Mistress at
Leesbnrg Ga.
James Gasson Jamison, who died tbe oth
er day at Clarksville, Mo., had been fonr
times married and eaoh of his wives bore the
given name Mary.
Senator George is said by Mississippi pa
pers to have almost entirely recovered from
an affeotion of tbe eye with whioh he has
long been afflicted.
□An aged Italian Physioian has an infal
lible remedy for oholera, whioh he applies
in the shape of a pill or externally. He de
clines to reveal his methods.
If the late Mr. Eargns, otherwise known
as Hugh Conway, were to oome to life he
would be astonished to learn how many ato-
ries he had written.
Thomas A. Ball, the soulptor, who has re
oently finished a large statue of Daniel Web
ster for Concord, S. H., is now at work on a
portrait of T. P. Barnaul.
The first wife of Senator-eleotMitohell, of
Oregon, washes clothes in Oil City to help
ont her present husband, who is a poorly
paid laborer. She got tbe divorce.
Thomas James, of Gainsville, Fla., is the
father ■ f fifty-four children, thirty-three of
them still living at home with him. He had
three wives, all living at the same time.
Evangelist Moody, being asked by the
Pittsburg Commercial-Gazette for a Thanks
giving sentiment, said this: “Carefol for
nothing, prayerful for everything, and thank
ful for anything.”
Mmc. Modjeska has sent to the New Or
leans Eiposition a doll dressed by her own
bands as the Scottish Queen Mary, and the
oostume is an exaotoopy in miniature of her
own dress in the last aot of “Mary Stuart.”
F. A. Lay land's new book abont tbe Bron
tes seems chiefly intended to rehabilitate
Charlotte’s father, old BroDte, who sadly
needs it after the dressing down given him
by Charlotte’s best biographer, Mrs. Gas-
kell.
Mr. Labonohere takes pains to state that
“Her Majesty seems to have aged considera
bly in the la3t ten months,” whioh superflu
ously shows that ten months more seem a
considerably added age to Mr. Labonohere.
Mary Anderson and Helen Dauvray have
been done in wax, and placed in the Eden
Musee of New York. Miss Dauvray is said
to have the smallest foot of any woman on
tbe stage. She wears a three-quarter boot,
whioh is a quarter less than a No. 1.
Gov. Hoadly will reoommend in his forth
coming message the increase of the salary
of the Governor of Ohio from $4,000 to $G,-
000, whioh will be for tbe benefit of young
Mr. Foraker, who will be Gov. Hoadly’s suc
cessor. But perhaps Mr. Hoadly means to
run again.
Gen. A. C. Jones, just home from six
years’ occupancy of the snag berth of United
States Consul at Nagasaki, brings baok tbe
important intelligence that what the Japa
nese particularly want just now is “popular
representation.” Probably they are tired
of popular misrepresentation.
Tbe venerable A. Bronson Aloott, whose
obituary was widely published two years ago,
will spend the winter in Boston, writing a
book abont his esrly life on his father’s
farm in Waloott, Conn, oonveying impor
tant information which the pnblio awaits
with breathless suspense.
Prof. Widdows, of Washington, proposes
to sue last year’s ooinmittee of the New Or
leans Exposition for balance of pay for ring
ing the chimes at their show; but as the Pro
fessor oalls himself a “Carolinienr,” the
committee may still be hunting the dictiona
ry to discover to whom or to what they shall
send a check.
Mr. Samuel Litobfield, a veteran farmer
of Scituate, Mass., ha3 a pear tree that bore
for two hundred years. Then the trunk rot
ted at the core, and Mr. Litohfield filled the
hollow with a oedar tree. Since then the
tree has taken to bearing again—producing
pr9bably an annnal crop of first-class lead
penoils.
QUIZ COLUMN.
Kotos, Ooories and Insircn.
S. Smith. Reidsville, N. C.: “1st. Please give
me tbe latest and best form of accepting an in
vitation to go out driving or walking, etc. 2d.
Please tell me is it etiquette to speak to each
one on entering a room full of company, or to
give a general salutation. Wbat is tbe most
graceful manner ot entering and leaving a
drawing room?”
1st. Speak of yourself as the third person and
sign day of the week on the left at the bottom
and fold, right hand upper corner. 2d. It is em
barrassing and not necessary to speak to each
person in a room when you enter. On such oc
casions it would be best to advance with a bow
and a pleasant remark for tbe assembly; the
remark addressed perhaps to some particular
individual. You will find full instructions as to
tbe edlquette of entering and leaving a drawing
room in Peele’s Popular Educator, a copy of
which is open before ns at tbis moment. But
tbe best etiquette is that which is improvised
by good taste and a sunny heart.
Fred Gordon, Glasgow, Ky.: “1 have 34 A. H.
Stephens U. S. Histories. Duffey Edition, that I
will sell very cheap. I cannot use them here.
Do you know where I can sell them?”
Open correspondence with “The Old Book
Store,” Marietta street, Atlanta.
‘A lady, of Washington, Ark., who falls to
give her name, kindly sends us a copy of the
poem “Dying Egypt Dying,” correcting errors
she says we recently made in some of tbe sen
tences. We quoted entirely from memory, and
had not read the poem in ten years. If we had
space we would publish the poem as corrected
by our fair correspondent.
Seneca. Barnesvilte, Ga.: “Are the Waverly
Novels, Dickens, Thackerey, etc., standard lit
erature. to be had in paper covers? If so,
where?”
You can get them cheap in paper covers—al
most dirt cheap in this city.
S. S., Gaffney. S. C.: 1. “How long did Dr.
Tanner fast? Did he, during tbe time, use any
stimulant or nourishment? If so, of what kind
and how often?’’
1. Forty days. 2. Nothing but water. We
have answered this inquiry once before.
8 S. C.. Salisbury, N. C.: “Will you, or any
of the subscribers, tell me how to Induce a cow
to “let down her milk” when the calf is taken
from her? I have heard mothers express doubt
about tbe power to withhold It; but, having
learned to milk, I find it is no fable. She does
refuse to yield till the calf comes. Also tell me.
please, how to make Guava jelly. We tried
sepe tbis fall and it would candy. Should any
acid be used, or would that destroy tbe flavor?”
1. Treat your cow with kindness. She has no
intelligence, but she bas an Instinct of resent
ment. Yon may have to practice gentle treat
ment for a time or two, but be patient and suo-
cess will reward you. A cow can withhold her
milk, and the “mothers” who deny it are mis.
taken. 2. You probably cooked your Jelly too
last. Follow the recipe and cook slowly.
Katie Did, Homer, La.: “Who Is author of
the couplet,
‘Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as oae(?)’ ”
You will find it “Ingomar, the Barbarlon,”
translated by Maria Lovell.
Richard 8., Atlanta, Ga.: “Is the custom of
di ivlog to the right wbeu you meet a conveyance
common only in Georgia, or is it adopted else
where?”
Our impression Is that the custom of driving
to right is adopted everywhere in America, and
the custom of driving to tbe left adopted every
where in Great Bjitain.
, H. L. W., Batesburg, S. C.: “A venerable
citizen of a sister town of ours, who bas been a
prominent member in almost all the profes
sions of life, has greatly agitated the miDdsof
our Inhabitants with tbe statement ‘That a
given point on the top of a cart wheel will move
with greater velocity than a given point on tbe
bottom,’ which I, with a great many others,
cannot accept.
“He and his converts to this theory claim,as I
understand it, that the gronnd is the only cen
ter of motion, and that the same principle as
regards a falling tree can be applied to a re-
, volving wheel, which we again deny. Their
trouble is that they measure both motions—the
circular and forward—that the top of the
wneel makes, aud only measure the distance
that the bottom of the wheel travels on the
ground, losing sight of the fact that while the
given point at tbe top nears tbe ground that tbe
given point at the bottom leaves the ground
with the same velocity. We draw this conclu
sion, that the forward—the rising motion of
the bottom of the wheel is equal to tne forward
and falling motion at the top. Make the ex
periment and let us have your views through
the columns of tbe Sunny South We know
it to be impossible for one point of a solid wheel
to move with greater velocity than auotner, but
can’t convince some ol tbe most prominent «lt-
izens of our town.”
Your side of the case Is presented with much
force and plausibility, but you are mistaken.
The top of the wheel moves faster than the bot
tom on the same principle that the top of afall-
ing tree moves faster than the bottom. The
forward motion of the cart obscures the appli
cation of this simple .illustration, but does net
affect the principle involved.
Corey, Matamoras, Mexico.: “Has Gen.
Tombs any middle name?”
No. In tbe act of the Legislature authorizing
him to apply for admission to tbe bar before he
was twenty-one years old, we notice he was
mentioned as Robert A. Tombs. Whether “A”
was inserted with or without authority we do
not know; but, daring bis long and brilliant
public career, it is certain that be has used no
middle initial.
Annie, Cleveland, Tenn.: “1st. How high
does our atmoshphere extend? 2d. In what di
rection does tbe earth move on its axis and the
moon in its orbit?”
1st. More than forty-fire miles, how much
more is not yet definitely known. 3d. East.
D. L., Little Rock, Ark.: “To what ages did
Shakpeare, Byron, Burns, Shelly, Keats, H. K.
White, Pope and Chatterton live?”
52, 37, 37, 27, 23, 22, 66, 17 are the ages In the
order given.
Thomas S., Columbus, Ga.: “Why do we
have so many expeditions In search of the
North pole and so few in search of the South
pole?”
Because the most enterprising people Uve
north of tbe equator and nearer the former; and
further because the northern regions are sup
posed to be more accessible, to possess more
Inviting fields, and to have an unfrozen sea and
a passable land connection with Asia, over
which the primitive forefathers of the Indian
came to America.
lONNET.
A BIRTHDAY BEFLECTIOX.
This Is my natal day. Years sixty four
Have passed away since I received my birth
And came a little stranger to this earth
To weep and laugh, learn, labor and explore
The mysteries of life, its grief and mirth,
Which shall exist till time shall be no more.
And here I am, a miracle of grace
Preserved ana kept by God's almighty power,
And sheltered by Him in the trying hour.
Cheered by the light of my Redeemer’s face
Wnose loving heart has beeu my hiding place,
Fis special providence my strength ana tower,
Thus thankful for the blessings of the way
I praise the Lord on this my natal day.
S. Moobb.
An Offaasira Breath
is most distressing, not only to the person af
flicted if he have any pride, but to those with
whom he comes in contact It is a delicate
matter to speak of, bat it has parted not only
friends bat lovers. Bad breath and catarrh arc
inseparable. Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy cures
the worst cases as thoaeaud* ean testify.
Copt. Howard, who figured with his Gat
ling gun in the Northwest rebellion this
enmmer, will establish an ammunition fac
tory at Lachute, Quebec, where the authori
ties have offered him exemption from taxa
tion for twenty years.