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THE SUNNY SOUTH
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J. H. SEALS EDITOR
W. B. SEALS Hnalanui Manager.
MSS NOT RETURNED.
We cannot return Mae, nor be responsible for
them under any circumstances, when sent in
voluntarily. The writer should always keep a
copy.
A Foolish Slander on the South,
The St. Louis Globe Democrat contains
the following ridiculous bit of information:
The fact that the oolored school children
of Atlanta turned ont to welcome Jeff Davis
and strew flowers before him on his recant
visit to that city has been widely published
as an illustration of tho harmonious condi-
tion of things in the South; and now the
pretty story is spoiled by information to the
effect that the colored schools were ordered
under threats to join the procession, and fur
thermore, that white ohildren who wero not
allowed by their parents to take part in the
demonstration lost their rank in their class
es and their record cf deportment. School
discipline in Georgia is very striot, it seems,
under some circumstances.
How, and why do newspaper men allow
such ridiculous falsehoods to disgrace their
columns? Why should the white people of
Atlanta foroe the oolored ohildren into a po
sition whioh they nor the whites wished them
to ooonpy? What sense is there in such
statements? If there were any oolored ohil
dren among the five or six thousand whioh
strewed flowers in Mr. Davis’ path we did
not see them and we walked the entire length
of the line and enjoyed the beautiful scene
very muoh. If any were in the throng they
were there from ohoioe and not by compul
sion. And as to any one losing caste for not
joining the ranks the statement is equally
ridioulous, for there never was a more free
and easy, or do-as-you-please oooaaion.
Will these senseless slanders never cease?
Giving: to Her that Hath-
We know of a few aged widows who draw
a small pittance from the national treasury
beoause their husbands were soldiers in
some of the nation’s wars. No money of
the nation is more rightfully bestowed.
These men did painful servioe for small re
muneration, and it is well that they whom
they left destitute should be oared for.
When we see one ot these poor widows re
ceive with grateful look her eight dollars
per month, we join in her thankfulness. But
when we hear that a pension of twenty or
thirty thousand dollars has been bestowed
upon the widow of a President or of a gen
eral—which widow had already more wealth
than she knew howto spend—we experience
no such pleasure. There is nothing of moral
beauty in giving to the rich. If a man in
his devotion to the public servioe sacrifices
his ohanoes of laying up a competence for
his family, it is altogether proper that the
government should see that his widow and
orphans do not oome to suffering. But when
the officer has long been receiving suoh pay
as would enable him with the smallest share
of economy, to lay up a handsome fortune,
there is no justioe in taxing the people to
make biB wife and children millionaires af
ter he is dead. Let us honor the memory of
every publio servant, whether high or low,
if he honorably performs his duty. But the
living will scon be hopelessly oppressed if
it become the rule to endow with large weaflth
the families of all publio officers who have
done well. The giving of pensions is not a
bad thing of itself, but it may be easily car
ried too far. Small pensions to classes,
while benefiting many, w 11 of course reach
some who do not need this aid. Special
pensions to individuals may be fo moderate
and so well merited that all will approve the
bestowal. But when a large pension is be
stowed or a large present raised by volunta
ry subscription to dower one already well
dowered, it does not seem befitting. ’Tie
the way of the world to give to those who
have, but it is not a good way. *
A SAD LETTER.
A Young Georgian in the Penitentiary
of North Carolina.
The editor of the Sunni South has received
the following sad communication, and gives
it publicity as a warning to other young men:
Raleigh, N. C., 1886.
Jno. H. Seals—Sir: This letter is to Inform
you tnat I have wandered far away from the red
hills of Georgia and fallen into bad company,
and am now in the State Penitentiary of North
Carolina for a term of seven long, weary years.
Mr. Seals, I have a modest request to make
of you, and it is this: I want you to place my
name on your subscription list for one year’s
subscription to the Sunny South. I want the
paper sent to me, at once, in care of W. J. Hicks.
My brother will pay you the $2 oo for the same
as soon as an adjustment can be made of my
financial matters in Rabun county, Ga. My bro
ther is now absent in Honduras, South America,
on a mining expedition, and will not return to
Georgia until July or August. I do hope that it
will meet with your approbation to comply with
my request. A copy of the dear old Sunny
South each week will be like a letter from nome
to me, while I will try to pass off the time in a
felon’s garb and in a felon’s cell.
I am proud to say that no teachings that I
ever learned from you in my boyhood days ever
BILL BYE.
He Writes a Parental Letter to His
Son Henry.
Mi Peak Son:—I ought to of answered
your last letter before this, but, to tell the
truth, we have had another of them pesky
hoodoos at our house for the purpose of fin
ishing off the woodshed of the parsonage,
and I’ve been mighty busy. For two days I
was ohoring around the kitchen, carrying
wood and water, and borrying dishes of the
neighbors till yon can’t rest. Sinoe the mo
tion was over I’ve been mostly engaged in
thinking about it.
Our home paper gave U3 a good notioe
and said it was a suooess; also that every one
present enjoyed it highly. It alluded to me
as a genial cuss, or words to that effeot, and
said your mother was the life of the party.
She was.
If you oould have saw your mother, Hen
ry, yonr own mother, pranoing around there,
with her new No. 3 front hair tessed to and
brought me to this. The water that turned the f r0 in a dishevelled state, and downing the
mills at one time for me will never turn them "
again.
If you conclude to send me the paper on these
terms, then please do so at once.
I believe that I was the last person in this
world that had a conversation with your son on
the fatal excursion to Port Royal, 8 C.
Hoping that it will meet with your approba
tion to give me an immediate reply, I am very
respectfully yours,
Sommer Resorts and the Georgia Pa
cific Railroad.
We invite speoial attention to the splendid
facilities and luxnrions oomforts offered by
the Georgia Paoifio to all the people of the
eonthwest who oontemplate visiting the
mountains and seashore daring the ap
proaching season. This magnfioent line is
thoroughly tquiDDtd and the management
is fully alive to all the methods whioh render
a road popular and comfortable. See their
new schedule in this issue “To the Summer
Resorts,” and they are offering exceedingly
low rates.
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The New York Star.
This old established paper has recently
oome to the front and is now the leading
democratic paper of New York. In a re
oent issue we find the following editorial
statement:
Next Wednesday the “Weekly Star” will
publish an edition of 100,000 copies. The
phenomenal growth of the paper is among
the notable events of modern journalism.
In less than six months it has found its way
into thousands of honseholds, where its
clean, readable and interesting pages have
-been warmly welcomed. As an advertising
medium its value is fully established, audits
patronage in this direction has surpassed all
expectations. Reaching, as it does, the best
class of readers in all parts of the conntry,
it can readily be seen to what a large and
varied clientage it appeals, and this client
age is increasing with every issne.
A Sweet Deed.
Girls are delightful oreatnres, says an ob
server. I would rather see a pretty girl any
day than any rose that ever bloomed. I
would rather hear a girl’s langh—I mean a
low-voiced, well-bred girl’s—than hear mel
low Antes down summer winds. I would
rather see a kindly action gracefully yielded
by a young girl to a plain and unlovely old
woman than see the evening star hang like
a lily in a primrose sky. The other day I
was on the cars when a forlorn old crippled
woman hobbled in. She was rusty, and as
unattractive to every sense as a last year’s
bird-nest, or a stalk of nipped mullein. She
stumbled a little as the car started, and a
delicate, sweet-faced girl arose and led her
io her seat, returning presently to the book
she was reading with a shy little blush of
consciousness, like the flush on a wild straw
berry. The action was one of those that
"smell sweet in a naughty world.”
herself.
Death of Judge Dan Pittman-
The sodden and unexpected death of Judge
Pittman on Sunday last oarned the pro-
fonndest sorrow to thousands of people who
knew him and loved him for his many noble
traits of oharaoter. No odc was more gen
erally known in this oity where he has lived
from his early boyhood, and we doubt if he
had any personal enemies. He was always
open, genial, and sympathetic. His im
pulses were ever noble and generons. and he
was one wbo loved his fellow man. For six
teen years he held the position of Ordinary
of Fulton county and was familiar to all the
people. His death was a terrible 6hock to
the entire community, and to the Editor of
this paper the announcement brought speo
ial and genuine sorrow, for “Dan Pittman”
was one of his earliest and best friends in
this city. He leaves a noble, devoted and
trne wife, with a number of loving ohil-
dren, to mourn his loss. His wife is the ^iet tiTe'ambitious girl see what she can do” for
daughter of that grand old man, Judge John
Neel, who died not long einoe in this oity,
and to her we tender all the sympathy of our
poor bruised heart.
The Eclectic tor June is a rich and varied
number. The leading article is on “Cardi
nal Newman and Arnold,” by R. II. Hut’on,
a very suggestive and interesting paper.
“The Unemployed and the Riots,” by W.
Mattien Williams, is timely; so also is the
article “What is Bi-Metallism?” Other pa
pers touch upon a great variety of themes—
“The English Gentleman,” by W. R.Browce;
“Artist Life in Rome, Past and Present,”
by William Davies; “The Evolution of The
ology: An Anthropological Study,” by Pro
fessor T. M. Huxley, F. R. S.; “Things,
Names, and Letters,” by ■ dward A. Free
man: “Mozart,” by L. E.; “Lloyd’s,” hv H.
M. Hozier; “Sir Henry Taylor;” “The Unit
ed Kingdom and the Colonies,” by A Stu
dent of the Question; “Mesmerism in the
Mire;” “A Fire at Sea,” by Ivan Tonrgue-
neff; “The Future of‘Society’;” “Sir Thos.
Browne,” by Walter Pater; “The Old Vik
ing, ’ by John Russell; and “Franz Liszt.”
The Editor’s Department, “Literary Noti-
-oes,” “Foreign Literary Notes,” and “Mis
cellany” are well supplied. This number
closes the present volume of the Eclectic.
Published by E. R. Pelton, 25 Bond Street,
New York. Terms, $5 per year; single num
bers, 45 cents; trial subscription for three
months, $1. Eclectic and any $4 Maga
zine, $8
A Town Not in Utopia
Novalia is a town of some thonsand in
habitants of several races, and of innumer
able conditions. A few are riob, a few are
very poor, and a large number are in the
condition for which Agar prayed, with a
strong leaning toward the side of the fence
ooonpied by Lazarus. Of the one hundred
and fifty males who exercise the right of
voting for officers to direct the affairs of
t >is corporation, twenty-five are substantial
tax-payers who have fair intelligence, good
moral characters, and who are really con
cerned that the town should be well-govern
ed. Fifty have neither money nor morals,
and are confessedly open for sale to any
one who will tickle their throats with mean
whiskey. The other seventy-five are faintly
influenced by something like patriotism
with a much stronger inclination to be oan
trolled by the liquor argument, bat are
mainly under the sway of two or three
“chiefs” whom they hold themselves bonnd
to obey. These “chiefs” are not of the twen
ty five good, substantial men whom we first
named. They are on the oontrary, men who
care nothing for the well being of the com
munity, but are altogether intent on carry
ing out sohemes of their own. Against their
machinations, the good men oould, by their
wealth, their brains and their moral strength,
assuredly prevail, would they write, end
bend their every energy to this end. Bat
more than half of them have an itching for
offioe, are all the time anticipating the time
when they shall be candidates and are all
the time studying to avoid giving, offense.
As a oonsequenoe, they refuse to give them
selves heartily to the support of a good man
—refuse to throw the whole weight of their
influence against a bad man. They study
anxiously how they may pass by Saylla on
the right BDd shun Charybdis on the left,
and while thns engrossed with oaring for
their own popularity, leave important meas
urea to be oontroled by those who have not
the welfare of the community at heart.
How can this town have a good govern-
ment? * •
Born to Marry and Keep House.
The Woman’s Journal says, The end ot a wo
man is to marry and raise up a family. She
starts out in this direction when she carries a
doll in childhood. Your girl wno leaves home
and goes out tor herselt does so because she has
failed to find the man she wants to marry. By
and by she does find him, and when she does
she drops everything and goes with him. She
stops short in ber music, her acting, her art, her
literature, or whatever it is, because after all
her instinct tells her to marry, and she follows
her instinct instead of her reason.
A man can marry and go ahead in the particu
lar pursuit or profession he has chosen, but the
woman stops and subjects everything to the one
duty of wifehood. That is the reason women do
not succeed as we'.l as meD. They fall short.
Grant all this for the sake of argument. Admit
that it is the general mission of woman to marry
and raise up a family. But I am now writing
about the exceptions. There are exceptions to
all classes, all rules, all theories and all philoso
phies. Most women do marry young, and that
is right. That is as far as most of them want to
go. They are fitted for this sort of life and have
no desire or fitness for another.
But are you going to make one kind of a girl
do this when it is a strait-jacket and an
abomination to her? In other words, is she
to marry simply for the sake of marrying,
and “settle down” simply for the sake of
settling down? Why not allow her to fol
low her natural bent as well as the young
man? True, she may, as my objector says,
find some man—while herself following a
successful career—whom she will love and
whom she will marry, thus cutting short a work
that might otherwise have been rounded and
made complete. True, women are not as com
pletely successful as men in the more independ
ent pursuits of life. But the point which I wish
to make clear and emphatic is that society, and
the woman herself, and the man she marries,
and ail directly or remotely concerned, are the
better for het havfue done even something for
herself, however little.
I repeat that the self-reliant woman is a civil
izer. The busy world is improved by her hav
ing been a participator. Her words are gentle
and kind, and her presence is a restraint to the
headlong Impetuosity of men. Even though she
may not remain long with us single, let us be
thankful that she has come at all. If she falls
in love and marries, even at the sacrifice
of an independent career, her life after all is not
in vain. Her own views have been broadened,
her sympathies have been deepened, her capac
ity for enjoyment made greater and her scope
for usefulness widened. I say again and again,
A Boston Female Book Agent.
Two Buffalo Times men were reoently be-
seiged by a Boston book agent, who took
possession of the only remaining ohair in
the sanotum and began to pour in her
broadside.
“My name,” said she, “is Miss Alice Mc
Allister, and I oome from Boston, the seat
of oultnre and the home of all good wo
men.”
“What made yon leave it, Alice?” said the
reporter, seeing that the combined indiffer
ence of the two newspaper men had brought
the woman of onltnre to a sodden halt.
“I’m a travelling advocate of women’s
rights and a wandering book-worm.”
The reporter was about to ask her if the
walking was good, but by this time she had
shaken'off what little embarrassment she
might have felt at first, and would not give
the reporter a oflanoe to ntter a word.
“I have been to all the Eastern oities, and
am only stopping in Buffalo for three
months to take a few orders on this work of
‘Eminent Women.’ I am no every-day-book
agent, as you will perceive. I carry my
sample-book in my muff, in whioh I had a
pocket made for the purpose. I do no ad
vertising through the papers. I advertise
in person. I despise very yonng men and
very old men. Neither can appreciate my
work. I find ont the names of every man in
the offioe and what position they hold before
I enter it, so that I oan oall every person by
name. I pay no attention to the signs over
the doors whioh forbid agents to enter. They
never know I’m an agent until I’m fairly
settled, and then the whole offioe usnally
makes up one or more subscriptions for my
book so as to get rid of me. I am never in a
hurry. If people do not subscribe, or re
main immovable after I have used up all
my exertions then I faint and work on their
sympathy. I got into a railroad office once,
and they gave me a pass to Chioago if I
would leave the town. I onoe reoited the
first verse of a poem of my own production
in a newspaper offioe, and the editor offered
to subscribe for my book if I wouid omit the
remaining stanzas. When I called arounC
to oolleot my money they told me he was
deadband that there was no money left after
paying his fnuerai expenses.”
Ail this, and even the threats of the lady
that she would reoite this entire poem and
soan every meter, failed to have any eff.-ot
on the newspaper men, who oonld witness
anything np to a death scene or listen to a
funeral oration without flinohing, and she
departed in disgust, saying that she would
never oall again, that the newspaper men
had no money anyhow, and that, if they did
subscribe, they oonld never be fonnd when
she wanted to collect. So the lady took a
walk to nerve herself for a new attack.
Tokology : A Book for Every Woman,
by Alioe B. Stookham, M. D.
The antbor in full sympathy with the needs
of her sex discusses at length, with foroe and
purity, physical questions of the grea est
importance tu all females. The book is re
garded as a boon to every woman, and the
knowledge it contains should be in the pos
session of all. It contains piain instruction
about the oar6 of infants and invaluable
chapters upon Dyspepsia, Headache. Neu
ralgia, Rheumatism, Change of Lite, &o.
Address Sanitary Publishing Oo , No. 159
La Salle St., Chicago, III.
Dio Lewis' Body to be Cremated-
New Yoke, May 22 —Dr. Dio Lewis gave
the following directions in regard to the
disposition of his remains: “Although I
am averse to the somewhat unpleasant no
toriety whioh cremation as yet involves, my
very strong oonviotion is that it is the
proper disposition of the dead. I leave di
rections that my body shall be oremated and
that the ashe3 shall not be pnt into an urn,
but in the earth, over whioh my wife may
lovingly plant forget-me-nots. I direct
also, with my dear wife’s assent, that all fu
neral parade and expenses shall be avoided,
and that my remains be placed in a pine
casket for removal to the crematory. I de
sire also that no flowers may be sent by my
friends.” The inoineration of the remains
will take place on Monday at Fresh Pond,
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IN THE SOUTH.
There is a princess in the South
About whose beauty rumors hum
As honey-bees about the mouth
OI roses dewdrops falter from;
And oh! her hair is like the fine,
Clear amber of a Jostled wine
In tropic revels; and her eyes
Are blue as rifts of Paradise.
Such beauty as may none before
Kneel daringly, to kiss the tips
Of fingers such as knights of yore
Had died to lift against their lips;
Such eyes as might the eyes of gold
Of all the stars of night behold
With glittering envy, and so glare
In dazzling splendor of despair.
So, were I but a miDstrel, deft
At weaving, with the trembling strings
Of my glad harp, the warp and weft
Of rondels such as rapture sings—
I’d loop my lyre across my breast,
Nor stay me till my knee found rest
In midnight banks of bud and flower
Beneath my lady’s lattice bower.
And there, drenched with the teary dews,
I’d woo her with such wondrous art
As well might staunch the songs that ooze
Out of the mockbird’s breaking heart;
So slight, so tender, and so sweet
Snouid be’ihe words I would repeat,
Her casement, on my gradual sight,
Would blossom as a illy might.
—Jas. Whitcomb Riley in Indianapolis Journal.
The Biggest Things in the World.
The largest theatre in the world is the new
<$era house in Paris. It covers nearly three
acres of ground; its cubic mass is 4,287.000 feet;
it cost about 100,000.000 francs.
The largest suspension bridge is the one be.
tween New York city and Brooklyn; the length
of the main span is 1.595 feet six inches; the en
tire length of the* bridge Is 5 890 feet.
The loftiest active volcano is Popocatapetl—
“smoking mountain”—thirty-five miles south
west of Puebla, Mexico; it is 17,748 feet above
the sea level, and has a crater three miles in
circumference and 1,000 feet deep.
The longest span of wire in the world is used
for a telegraph in India over the river Kistnab,
between Bezorah and Sectynagrnm. It is more
than 6.000 feet in length and is 1 200 feet high.
The largest ship in the world is the Great
Eastern. She is 680 feet long, 83 feet broad aDd
60 feet deep, being 28,627 tons burden, 18,915
gross and 13 844 net register. She was built at
Millwali-on-the-Thames and was launched Jan
uary 31,1857.
The largest bedv of fresh water on the globe
is Lake Superior, 400 miles long, 160 wide at its
greatest breadth, and having an area of 32 000
square miles. Its meau depth is 900 feet, and its
greatest depth is said to be about 200 fathoms.
Its surface is about 635 feet above tne level of
the sea.
The biggest cavern is the Mammoth Cave, in
Edmonson Co., Ky. It is near the Green River,
about six miles from Cave City and twenty-
eight from Bowling Green. The cave consists
of a succession of irregular chambers, some of
which are large, situated on different levels.
Some of these are traversed by navigable
branches of the subterranean Echo River.
Blind fish are found in its waters.
old pelicans of our thriving town to the
tune of twenty-five osnt3 and upwards, yon
would have said also that verily she was
THE LIFE OF THE PAHTY.
Yonr mother believes that soads beoome
purified as quick as they light in the plate,
no matter where they oome from. I am
more conservative. I hesitate to knook a
man down with a doughnut and then go
through his clothes. I aim to be a Chris
tian, Henry, but not strongly seot3rian in
So it hurt my feelings a little to see yonr
mother rare aronnd through the crowd
Tuesday night and peddle bokays of these
here little blamed gerainm blows that falls
off as soon as you put them onto yonr ooat
and laugh onot or twiot.
Somehow it made me nervous, and the
goose flesh stood ont all over me a foot high.
I ain’t like yonr mother to go aronnd at her
time of life, with a boy 20 years old and a
real oamel’s-hair mustache, and learning
more blamed foreign staff than yon oould
shake a stick at. I say it aiat like her to
prance around among the old ganders of
our plaoe, and be giddy and garrulous like
a brazen bear j9rker or toe red-headed bis
cuit-shooter at a tavern.
And I know she wouldn't do it if it wasn’t
for her “zeal,” as she calls it. Z3al is «m-
bittering my declining years, Henry. Zeal
and skin games and raffles and tee hee hee
and twenty-five cents please, and the whole
ootifitenoG game has made me premature
ly sour.
I got to talking with Lon Taft and Jim
Fuller about this thing yesterday. They felt
just the same way. Lon says it pains him
to see his wife, now that she is getting a lit
tle fleshy and never was a very good road
ster, tettering around the corral with a grab
bag in one hand and some kind of a bnnko
game in the other,
He says that’s why so many men|are seek
ing the flowing bowl. They eat this here
black aud-tan cake at a sociable onot a week
or onot a fortnit, and it busts their digest
ers. Then they
SEE THEIB WIVES ACTING AS CAPPEBS
and bnnko-steerers to help raise a chattel
mortgage od. the belfry or some other suoh
thing, and it depresses their spirits
I am no man to complain, but, Henry, if
yon go into any chnrch in this country today
you will find three quarters of the congre
gation is women; they are coble women,
too. God bless a good woman, Henry, is
what I say. We like to have our mothers
and our wives and our sisters Oristians, ev
en if we are inclined to be liberal in our own
views; but the kind of zeal that fills np
ohurohe3 with overworked women, while the
sulky husband and father is at home trying
to digest a large three cornered fragment
of sorrel cake that was left over from last
week’s debanoh and benefit, is a mistake.
We have voted or die quilts to the hand
earnest baby, plated bracelets to the most
popular young lady, and a gold headed cane
to the man who wanted to be sheriff, and
all that, but when they voted a brass-mount
ed twd-year-old swamp-elm olub to the mad
dest man in tne United States, Henry, I wish
yon would oome home and do a little work
for me. I am a candidate.
I enolose $14 post office order to buy yon
another matriculation fee. Don’t overdo
this matriculation business, thongh. Yon
know, as well as I do, that matriculation in
moderation is a good thing, but it may be
oarried to exoess. So good-by. Your Fath
er, Bill Nye.
Belle Boyd, the ex-Confederate spy, lectured
In Detroit*on Saturday night to a 9mall audi
ence. Her lecture was made up ot graphic ac
counts of her own exploits as a courier for Stone
wall Jackson. She was several times under sen
tence of death, but escaped by commutations.
She has been three times married and has three
children. Her present husband is named High,
and the famous spy intends to live with him in
Detroit.
The ‘‘Saving Power” of Nations.
Editob Sunny South : Yonr Paris Let
ter seams to be well posted in regard to the
Parisians, sooially, politically and religious
ly. The condition of sooiety as therein
touched upon from time to time, verifies the
troth of the statement made by Edwin Ar
nold, that the “Garmanic qualities, serious
ness and moral ideas, infused into anoient
Gaul, have become quite attenuated, and
that modern France is in danger of violat
ing the preoept of whatsoever things are
pare, in the worship of the goddess, Asel-
geia.” With Catholicism turned cut of
doors, and Atheism filling the vaoant seats,
one sees the “danger” no longer approaoh-
ing, but already in the midst and holding
high carnival, with M. Reine as leader and
enconrsger. In view of the fact that the
“Protestant element is in snoh a minority as
to be soaroely taken into aooount, one hard
ly dares venture to hope that, nevertheless,
it will eventually constitute our English
philosopher’s “remnant,’' which, he avers,
must save the nations, if saved at all. That
the “majo'ity” is rotten to the core is indis
putable. Where then shall we look for the
“remnant,” if not from the “minority,” in
significant thongh it be?
Su muoh for France. England, Arnold
passes by briefly, declaring he has no mind
to say aught against his own oountry be
hind her back, confessing, however, that ev
en she “may be in danger of violating the
precept of whatsoever things are just and
amiable, as in the case of Ireland, perhaps.”
That the “saving power” will be found in
her “minority” as well, he is no less confi
dent.
But what oonoems n3 chiefly is the free
dom with whioh we, as a nation, are hand
led, and the dead earnestness with whioh we
are warned of “breakers ahead.” It is not
that we fail to do justice and love meroy, or
that our standard of morality is low; but
that there is in us an “absence of the discip
line of respeot, a tending toward hardness
and materialism, an exaggerativeness, a
boastfulness, a false smartness, a false au-
daoity, a want of soul end delioacy.” There
it is, the old, old story; it may be crushing,
but not killing. Thackeray described us
long ago as a “mighty republio where peo
ple ar9 notoriously fond of passing off
their claret for port,” whioh amounts to the
same thing, only having the advantage of
brevity. Perhaps, when we>.are as many
hundred years old as our mother, England,
we may be able to contemplate our astonish
ing progress with more equanimity. A pre
cocious child is apt to be pert. Besides, we
have not been held in with bit and bridle by
a long line of Sings; but being allowed our
own sweet will from the cradle np, it is not
surprising that we should develop an inde
pendence of thonght and action not altogeth
er agreeable to our elders.
It seems, however, that our ease is not en
tirely hopeless, being assured almost in the
next breath, that we have the “best parent
age, Anglo-Germanic, that a modern nation
oan have,” with an “invaluable Puritan
discipline. Does even the New Englander
believe that virtue went out of Plymouth
Rook two hundred and sixty odd years suffi
cient to heal this mighty nation?
VlBGINIA.
OLD MEXICO.
A Delightful Visit to Chihuahua.
Beautiful Piazzas, Social Habits, Quaint
Scenes, Burial Rites, Etc-
A short sketch of this beautiful Mexican city
might prove interesting to our readers.
It would be difficult to find a more enchanting
or idylic place than Chihuahua, as I first viewed
it by early dawn. Nor were my impressions dis
pelled by daylight, though they were somewhat
modified.
The great glory of every Mexican city Is its
piazzas. They are all located in rhe heart of
the place, and usually contain one or more acres.
My hotel, La American, is only across from the
main piazza, and as I write I see the elite of
Chihuahua on the usual afternoon dress parade.
One thing so noticeable, the senors taking one
side of the walk while the senoritas, with their
chaperones, are forced by the conventionalities
of society to walk alone on the opposite side—
contented only with a look. .
A description of these piazzas might interest
those who have never visited this beautiful
These parks are numerous and well cared for.
Fountains are everywhere. Geraniums and
callas and flowers of all descriptions grow In
profusion, to say nothing of the cactus towering
above. The walks are nicely paved, and would
compare well with the parks in any Eastern
L "oii a pleasant evening can be seen all phases
of Mexican society, all enjoying themselves.
Bonnets are never worn, the article for female
street apparel being a scarf thrown over the
head. For church and full dress, the black lace
mantle, in many instances most graceiully ar
ranged, seems the favorite head-dress.
1 often visit the Cathedral, not alone for devo
tional purposes, but to feast my eyes upon the
architectural nnga'flcence which 1 dare not at
tempt to describe. This Cathedral is over two
huuared years old, and is built without seats.
Tne devotants worship on their knees or sitting
on the floor.
The devotion of these people is something
really beautiful. No matter where they are,
when the church bells ring, morning, noon and
night, you can see them bowing with uncovered
Contrary to the general opinion, many of the
Mexicans are progressive; and among the pure-
blooded Spaniards you will find culture and re
finement. Thriity, they are not; the Spanish
phrase: “Mo liagas hoy lo que puides dejar
para manana,’’ which is, never do tieday wnat
you can put off until to-morrow, has been adopt
ed as a motto and fully carried out.
Every race or nationality has its own peculiar
superiorities, and we may learn many thiDgs
from these Mexicans. In manners especially
they set us an example worthy of imitation, and
when we take iuto consideration that these peo
ple have lived for generations on the outskirts
oi civilization (where an American would al
most, if not quite, become a savage, if we may
judge from the occasional specimens of frontiers
men who have lived in the West for one genera
tion, and also the fact that they have mingled
their blood to so great an extent with the Indi
ans) , one is forced to the conclusion that their
politeness is native—the outcome of kind or gen
erous hearts rathertban the result of education.
The children are polite to strangers—the little
boys deffiug their ragged hats with inborn
grace, when addressed.
I find no difficulty in getting along with a few
picked-up Spanish phrases.
The typical Mexican house is not a thiDg of
beauty, but well adapted to this climate; the
thick walls exclude alike the heat and cold.
That they are durable is evidenced by the fact
that they have stood centuries and are strong
enough to endure many more. The patio,
around which the bouse is built, is a cool retreat
in summer for the family, and the low flat roof
has its advantages, often serving for sleeping
purposes in the excessive hot season. The
houses are built without fire-places. No winter
is known in Mexico.
I attended a Mexican burial. It was of the
lower class and conducted without religious cer
emoDies. Burials here are very similar to those
in Italy; no coffins are used. The body is placed
in the ground and covered.
A novel sight to me are the burros, carrying
their burdens twice larger than themselves.
These living express wagons are seen carrying
loads of all descrintion. I counted sixteen,
driven oy one Mexican, laden with wood, fruit,
vegetables, and every imaginable produce.
In and around Chihuahua are many noted his
torical places. 1 stood in the old castle where
Hidalgo was so long a prisoner, and I after
wards visited his monument, erected on the
spot where he was shot.
The aqueduct, bringing the water from the
mountain three miles from the city, is consid
ered one of the finest pieces of architecture,
built nearly two hundred years ago and in con
stant use since.
Taken all in all, a visit to Mexico is full of In
terest and worthy of consideration for pleasure
seekers. More anon.
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Close by the margin of a beautiful river, whose
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sparkling spray among the glistening sands,
grew a fragile flower. Its snowy petals reached
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swift-rolling river.
“The fate of my comrades I know not. Ask
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the bank of this lonely river, wasting thy sweet
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I not, by day. refreshed by the shades of yon
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heaveDS are made radiant, with shining stars;
surely, there can be no gloom, but why am J
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the two-mourners, lily and leaf, covered them
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M. W. T.
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