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THE SUNNY SOUTH.
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48 BROAD STRRRT.
J. H. SEALS,
EDITOR
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The Sale ot Kiu Cleve and's Booh.
New York, Jane 1,1886.
To the Literary Editor: A report Is going
tbe rounds ot tbe press to the effect that only
5 000 copies of Miss Cleveland’s book have been
sold. Tbls Is erroneous. We have published
and sold more than four times tbat number.
Tbls is a larger sale, we are informed, than was
secured for Queen Victoria’s book In England.
Funk & Wa ox alls.
Wesleyan Female College.
Tbe commencement exercises ot this noble In
stitution took place tbls week. The following
changes were made In tbe Board of Trustees:
Rev. A. M. Winn, of Macon, takes tbe place
of Rev. A. T. Mann, of Augusta.
Rev. Geo. W. Yarborough, of Cedartown. takes
tbe glace of Rev. John W. Heidt, of George
town. Texas.
Judge W. R. Hammond, of Atlanta, takes the
place of tbe late Judge E H. Pottle, of Warren-
ton.
Rev. Walker Lewis, of Columbus, takes the
place of Bisbop Key.
Bishop Key takes tbe place of tbe late Bisbop
Pierce.
it Carelessness?
In bis article of elgbt pages, In tbe June num.
ber of the North American Review, General
Beauregard uses tbe personal pronoun, of the
first person singular, Just fifty timet; or say an
average of 9V4 times to each page, of 38 lines
each. In one place be uses it elgbt times In
nine consecutive lines. Twice be uses tbe aux
iliary "would” wbere “should” was probably in
tended. And on page 571 be uses “forced”
wbere “induced” was probably Intended.
One naturally expects careless writing In tbe
daily press; but in a monthly magazine of tbe
cbaracter of tbe North American Review, such
carelessness Is hardly tolerable.
W. L. 8.
In 1823 the rates of postage were, for a single
letter of one piece of paper, for any distance not
exceeding thirty miles, six cents; over tblrty
miles and not exceeding elgbty miles, ten cents;
over eighty miles and not exceeding one hun
dred and fifty miles, twelve and one-half cents;
over one-hundred and fifty and not exceeding
four hundred miles, eighteen and three-quarter
cents; over four hundred miles, twenty-five
oents. Letters composed of two pieces of paper
were charged double those rates; three pieces
were charged triple rates, and more than three
pieces, quadruple postage.
"Wblle practicing law, a number of years
ago,” said Judge Tourgee, “I had a peculiar
will case. An old lady who was a slave bolder
dying, bequeathed ber colored man, John, and
ber dusky maid, Jane, who sustained to eacb
other tbe relation of husband and wife, to the
trustees of tbe church, to be used as far as pos-
ble to the ‘glory of God.’ I was curious to know
what course was taken, and, upon Investi
gation, found that, after meditation and prayer,
the pious trustees sold their living legacy at
auction, and with tbe proceeds sent a mission
ary to China.”
Quite a ripple of excitement was created In
Boston, the other day, in a well filled car, as the
conductor stopped and admitted a delegation of
sprightly young ladles, each hearing a milking-
stooL The seats of the car being occupied, tbe
fair owners of the stools placed them upon the
floor and seated themselves. The passengers
viewed this procedure with a respectful but
profound surprise which could not be concealed.
The conductor and driver were so overcome by
the novel precedent that tbe performance of
their respective duties were almost forgotten tn
the exurberance and excitement created by tbe
new departure. It was noted that some young
gentlemen upon the platfor mallowed them
selves to be carried far beyond their destination
so Interested were they in the new movement,
The young ladies were returning from a rehear
sal of the darymaids’ festival.
Death of Judge E. E. Brown.
This simple announcement carries great sor
row to thousands of hearts, for no hotel man In
tbe South bad more friends than this old veter
an. Always genial, jelly and sympathetic It
was always a genuine treat to the traveller to
drop in at bis comfortable and cheerful house.
It was homelike and nothing pleased him more
than to know that bis guests were happy and
well cared for.
Judge Brown was a man of wide and varied
information. He read both political and litera
ry books and publications and was remarkably
well posted on all the passing events of the day,
and he was therefore most excellent company.
All his family are highly cultured and thor
oughly educated. The Editor of the Bunny
South realizes that he has sustained a great
personal loss In the death of this grand old man
whose friendship he has so long enjoyed, and
Macon will not be the same to him when he
fails to see the old familiar form sitting around
In his accustomed places about the hotel.
The Telegraph says, in January, 1880, tbe
Brows House was sold to P. C. Lansbury, of
New York, and Mr. Brown leased the National
Hotel, finally planning and building tbe Edger-
ton, which, In conjunction with his only remain
ing son, he opened on the 1st of October, 1883,
and It has continued under tbe joint manage
ment since. The name Edgerton, has long been
In the family, and was given to a younger son
who was killed on the railroad; It was given to
the hotel In his memory. The family has been
conspicuous In Its losses, another son having
died In the Confederate anny, in which heen-
Usted at the age of nineteen. The greatest be
reavement, however, is the most recent, in the
loss of the devoted wife and mother, who died
In May, 1883, leaving one son and five daughters.
They—save one daughter—have remained with
Mr. Brown and assist him in attending to the
comforts of the hotel.
With the exception of one year, for more than
forty years Mr. Brown has been continuously in
the hotel business. His health has been falling
for the last year and his death was not unex
pected. He passed quietly away yesterday
morning at tbe residence of bis daughter, after
a life well spent In doing good to others. The
sympathy of the whole community are extended
to his children, to whom he was devoted, and
the attentions of his loviDg daughters to him
since the loss of their mother was not;only beau
tiful, like that of Ruth for Naomi,hut bis great
est earthly consolation.
Misses Maria J. C. Becket and Bertha Yon
Hlllern have Just returned from their winter so
journ in Florida, and are staying at the Hotel
Rennert, Baltimore. They have brought back
with them sketches ot the lovely scenery of the
St. Johns river and the Octawaba river, quite
different from any of their previous work. They
were most captivated, they sav, with various
trips up the St. Johns by night on the line De
Bary-Baya steamers. The strong electric :.t,
thrown by these boats upon the shores mane
fairy pictures start suddenly out of tbe darkness
of night, rivaling the beaulv of the marvelous
moonlights on this same river. They go down
to their Virginia studio this week.
Summer Resorts.
This question is the absorbing topic of tbe
day. The Georgia Pacific Railway, viaBlrmlng.
bam and Atlanta, are offering very low rates to
the tourist and pleasure-seeker. Among the
latest additions to their numerous pampleis
and description books is one entitled “Nature’s
Trundle-bed of Recuperation”—a beautiful little
book, giving a description of Western North
Carolina, one of the terminal points ot this
great system of railway.
Slaves ol Corporations.
Slavery used to be denounoed as a relict
of barbarism. Perhaps it was. Yet can it
not be shown that it was more harsh or more
productive of individual suffering than the
sharp contests between the man of means
and the man of musole whioh invariably en
sue from a high form of oivilization. As
men move farther and farther from the sim
ple conditions of savage life, the individual
becomes more lost in the mass,—his own
will beoomes more merged in the condition
of his environments. Even the rioh in an
enlightened community are less absolutely
free than are the rude barbarians who know
nothing about the conventionalities of life.
When the point in oivilization is reached
that corporations are formed for oarrying
forward great enterprises the subordination
of the laborer to the employer beoomes more
oomplete. The master who reared a slave
in his household entered sympathetically in
to his joys and sorrows, and sought with
anxious oare to keep him from want or suf
fering. But the syndicate is absolutely void
of sentiment. It oan see a hero perish or
sparrow fall with the same undisturbed
equinimity. It experiences no oompunotion
if in the oarrying forward of some of its
great schemes of development a town or a
provinoe were reduoed to ruin. No ties of
affection bind it and the laborers whom it,
employs. He who wields the axe or tbe
spade as he is ordered, never feels that he
and his employers are embarked in the same
boat and must sink or swim together. He
knows that he is valued as so much labor and
nothing more, and that his enjoyment or
suffering enters not at all into the estimates
of the millions that are to accrue to his em
ployers from the enterprises in whioh he is
a worker. For all practical purposes he
wears the chains of slavery, and those chains
are never relieved of their hardness by any
coating of sentiment. * *
The Inventions of Women.
Women are among the army of inventors,
writes the Washington correspondent of the
Oinoinnati Enquirer. The majority of ap
plications filed by women for patents are
for articles used in housekeeping, or for
dress or toilet. Borne, however, display
genius for mechanism. Several have invent
ed sewing-maohinee and others sewing ma
chine attachments. A great many applica
tions have been made for patents by fe
males the principles of whioh have already
been patented. One woman has a patent for
an artificial stone composition, probably
for building or paving purposes. One has
received a patent for a disinfectant; one for
preserving eggs; another, looking to the
oomfort of her children, perhaps, has in
vented an ear-muff, for whioh she has been
successful in having a patent issued. A lady,
who is possibly a dressmaker, has applied
for and received a patent for a hook-and-
eye.
Caroline Ferguson invented a olothes-
basket, whioh was patented Jp May, 1883.
Mary Hobson, WilUamsburgf Mo., has re
ceived a patent for a “dish-washer.’’ Ellon
Bailey, St. Joseph, Mo., invented and re
ceived a patent for a “powder puff.” The
same lady has also reoeived a patent for a
“shoe-button needle,” and one for a “cor
set pnteotor.” Ellen Crain, Kansas City,
has reoeived a patent for a “hair-cutting
g rooess.” Maggie M. Hamm an, Kansas City,
as reoeived a patent for a oorset. Laura
Hitohoook invented and has been granted a
patent for a “skirt and hose suspender.”
The object of this is to do away with pins
and garters. Ellen Hatch, who is evidently
a postmistress, has invented a “stamp oan-
oeler.” One woman has a patent for an im
proved shoe last. Another woman, who
thinks she knows which aide has faireed Is
buttered on, has invented a “churn-dash
er.” A queer thing for a woman to invent
is a “building dock,” and the same lady in
dulges in another piece of mechanism in an
“artificial stove.” This woman lives in the
far West, and is evidently a “Jack of all
trades,” beoause she has had patented a
“pattem-traoer.” A woman has invented a
“fluting-iron.” One woman having a prac
tical turn of mind has invented “a washing-
machine.” This is only one in 6,000 patents
for the same purpose. Mary Warne, St.
Louis, has been granted a patent for a
“scissors holder.” Catherine Williamson
invented a stove, and Annie E. Mann a
“wash boiler” to put on the stove. All three
of these are residents of St. Louis. Eliza
beth Atkins, Monroe, La., has been granted
a patent for a “beefsteak-chopper.” Kate
C. Barton, Philadelphia, and Mary S. Car
penter, New York, have invented and been
granted patents for a sewing-machine. Ma
ry Oora Blandy, a Chicago woman, has a
patent for polishing metal, glass, eto. Mary
J. Butler, Cooperstown, N. Y., does not pro
pose ooal merchants Bhall get rioh off of
eoonomioal housekeepers. She has invented
a sifting shovel. Sarah A. Drake, Wiscon
sin, is an admirer of pretty forms, and has
invented a corset. Mary Deney, New Alba
ny, Ind., has a patent for a “dress eleva
tor.” An Iowa woman, Sophronia V.Dodge,
evidently a good housewife, has invented an
apparatus for raising dough.
There are a number for medical com
pounds, mostly all from Western States.
These are salves for sprains, burns, stom-
aoh-aobes, oolio, and oure-alls of every char
acter. Some are for removing warts, pim
ples, and f'ooVies, preparations for infants,
eto. Sarah B. Bertwig, Cincinnati, has in
vented and secured a patent for a funnel for
oanning fruit. Helen Maoker, Boston, evi
dently has designs upon silver, and has in
vented an alloy to imitate that metal. Th6
same lady has been granted a patent for an
amalgam for ooating harness trimming,etc.
Also, an alloy or bell-metal; and subse
quently the same Yankee girl invented an
alloy for hardening iron. A Cleveland (O.)
woman, Sara Mahan, has invented a lap-
board. Pearl Martin, a Massachusetts wo
man, who appears to have a literary turn of
mind, has invented a guide and blotter for
writing-books. Another girl has invented a
“mammoth bustle.” A Richmond (Ind.)
woman comes to the front with a ohoro-
dasher, and another with a stair-cover; So
phia L. Meader, Washington, with a needle-
threader and traveling crib for babies. A
New York housewife has invented a stove-
platform, and a Southern woman a peculiar
patent on a pattern for cutting garments.
Mary F. Potts, Iowa, has scoured a patent
for a sad-iron. Florenoe McCarthy, Chica
go, shade and draft-blower for grates. Sa
rah Ruth, Philadelphia, sun shade for
horses. Catherine W. Shiveley, Peru, Ind.,
bleaohing-safe. Surah Mahan, Cleveland,
O., lap-baard. Ellen B. . Mitoheson, Phil
adelphia, mustache-spoon. Mary A Browne,
Chioago, attachment for sewing-maohine
tables. Mary B. Alexander, Newark, N. J.,
wood pavement. Anna Maria Harris, Co
lumbus, Ga., stove grate. Eliza H. Alexan
der, New York City, braider for sewing-ma-
ohines.
In round numbers there have been 334,000
patents issued. Of these, 22,000 were issued
last ve”r, and of the 22,000 only about Dinety
were to 7H. :nen inventors. It i safe to as
sume that ther^ are only about Sixty patents
a year issued to ladies.
Canteloupes.
Melons were first oalled Canteloupes from
being cultivated at Canteluppi, a villa near
Rome, where they bad been introduced from
Armenia, by missionaries. The name is said
to be still in use in some parts of Europe
for a class of deeply-ribbed, yellow-fleshed
melons. In this country it is applied to dif
ferent kinds of melons in different localities,
and the significance of the word oannot be
well defined as now used.—Vick’s Magazine
for May.
THE PERSMMOONSHEE.
Persian Justice, Wit, Wisdom
and Good Humor.
Short Stories Hover Before Published
in America.
A Good Reason.
A king sent for a certain learned man and
said: ‘T want to make you a Qazee of this
city.” The man answered: “lata not fit for
the office.” The king asked him why and he
replied:
“If what I have spoken is true, I thereby
stand excused; and if 1 have uttered a false
hood, then It is aoi advisable to make a liar a
Qazee.” The king was struck with his reason
lng and excused turn.
Once on a time, an Umeer was shooting an ar
row at a mark. Many archers were present, but
no one’s arrow hit the mark. A Fugeer hap
pened to come there and asked some charity.
The Umeer put into the Fugeer’s band his own
bow and arrow and ordered nlm to hit the mark.
The Fugeer took aim at the mark, and acciden
tally bit it.
The Umeer was very much pleased, and be
stowed on tbe Fugeer a hundred roopes and
told him to depart. The Fugeer said to the
Umeer: “I begged and obtained nothing.”
The Umeer put on an angry countenance and
said: “I bestowed on you a hundred roopes,
and you say you have obtained nothing; what
words are these T”
The Fugeer answered: “I reoeived a hun
dred roopes for having hit the mark; but what
have I got by my begglngf” The Umeer laugh
ed and bestowed on him a further gift.
8snail Head and Leng Beard.
One nicht a Qizee found In a book tbat who
ever bad a small bead and a long beard, is a
blockheard. The Qizee having a small head
and a long beard, said to himself, “I cannot In
crease tbe size of my head, but I will shorten
the beard.”
He sought for the scissors but could not find
them. Having no other course be took half of
his beard In his hand and held tbe other hall
towards the lamp. When the hair took fire the
flames reached his hand; upon which, letting go
his hold, the beard was entirely consumed, and
the Qizee was overwhelmed with shame, as it
verified what was said in the book.
The King and the Gambler.
Once on a time, a king was sitting on the ter
race ot his palace. He saw a man standing
close to the wall holding out a bird In his hand.
The king called to him, and asked: “Why do
you show the bird to me?” The man answered:
“O, my lord! I laid a bet with somebody on tke
E art of your Majesty and won this bird which I
ave brought to your presence.” The king was
pleased and sent the bird to the kitchen.
Two or three days afterwards, the same per
son came again to the king with a sheep and
said: “This sheep I have also won in your
majesty’s name.” The king accepted it also.
A third time he went to the king accompanied
by another person. The king, seeing him
empty handed, asked him: “Have you not
brought anything for me?”
The man said: “1 betted two thousand roop
es with this man on behalf of your majesty, and
having the lost wager to him, he Is come to you
for the money.”
The king smiled, and bestowing on him the
money, said: “Never again play at dice with
any person on my account; for in future I will
neither receive from you, nor give you any
thing.”
Tbe Three Questions.
A certain man went to a Durwesh and pro
posed three questions.
First—“Why do they say God Is omnipresent?
I do not see him In any place; show me where
he is.”
Second—“Why is man punished for crimes,
since whatever he does proceeds from God?
Man has no free will, for he cannot do anything
contrary to the will of God; and if he had power
he would do everything for his own good.”
Third—“How can God punish satan in hell
fire, since he is formed of that element; and
what impression can fire make on itself?”
Tbe Durwesh took up a large clodot earth,
and struck him on the bead with It. The man
went to the Qazee, and said: “I proposed three
questions to such a Durwesh, who flung such a
clod of earth at me, as has made my head
ache.”
The Qazee having sent for the Durwesh, ask
ed: “Why did you throw a clad of earth at his
bead, Instead of answering his questions?”
The Durwesh replied: “The clod of earth
was an answer to his questions. He says he
has a pain tn his head; let him show wbere it is,
when I will make God visible to him? And
why does he make complaint to you against
me? Whatever 1 did, was the act of God; I dm
not strike him without the wfJJ ot Qop;
power do i possess? And as he is compo
of earth, how can he suffer pain from that ele
ment?’
The man was confounded, and the Qazee
highly pleased with the Durwesh’s answer.
Tbe Durwesh and Miser.
A Durwesh went to a miser and wanted some:
thing of him. The miser said: “If you wll 1
consent to one proposal of mine I will do what
ever you require.”
The Durwesh asked what it was, and the
miser said:
“Never ask me for anything, and whatever
else you say, I will perform.”
Wanted a Ring.
A person who was Intimate with a miser, said
to him one day: “I am now going on a journey,
give me your ring which I will keep abont me,
and whenever I see it, I shall remember you.”
The miser answered: “If you want to remem
ber me, whenever you see your finger naked,
always think of me, that yon wanted my ring
and I did not give It to you.” He remem
bered it.
Making Him Feel Glad.
A king sent an army against bis enemy, hut
was defeated. A person speedily came to the
king and Informed him that his troops had ob
tained the victory. The king was very much
delighted.
Two days after, accounts of the defeat ar
rived. The king warned to punish the man,
when he pleaded thus:
“Oh, my lord! I do not deserve punishment,
for I made yon happy for two days; why shoula
you make me the contrary?” The king was
pleased with the repartee and bestowed a gift
on him.
HEW 10RK SHARPERS.
The Mania of Politicians for Writing
Books-
The Cincinnati Graphic says, it Is becoming
alarmingly fashionable tor every great politician
to write a book. Tbe mode rather began a few
years ago with William H. Seward, who took a
tour around tbe world, and published his obser.
vatlons in a highly entertaining and Instructive
style. Grant’s voyage followed suit, though
tbat was not compiled by the general, but by an
admiring correspondent who accompanied tbe
f iarty. Jefferson Davis then tried his hand on a
ustlficatlon of the Ordinance of Secession and
tbe formation of the Confederate Government,
with copious remarks on his own part in the
B 'cs of the country. About the same time
e Issued his first volume, which had a phe
nomenal sale, and really was the decisive stroke
in obtaining his nomination for the Presidency
in 1881. Then General Grant, after his business
misfortune, and chiefly for tbe purpose of leav
ing his family a legacy tbat would be of financial
as well as memorial value, began the writing of
his personal memoirs. The heroic conclusion
of that task, in the face of imminent death, and
shortly before the fatal day, added Immensely
to the otherwise great Interest tn the book, and
tbe general’s hopes as to Its financial benefits
to his widow have been more than realized.
Meantime S. S. Cox brings out bis work on
Three Decades of Federal Legislation,” written
in the charming style for which the author has
been no less celebrated than for his political
success. And General Logan and General John
C. Fremont have each finished volumes that will
doubtless be interesting to the numerous ad
mirers of these gentlemen. In the foregoing
review o’ political authors, we had almost for-
f otten Henry Wilson’s “Rise and Fall of tbe
lave Power in America,” in some respects the
most painstaking and remarkable work of all.
These authors are doing a service which the
rising generation will appreciate. They con
tain, in more interesting form than the ordinary
school-book, the political history of our own
times, In our own country, with such occasional
touches upon the politics and status of foreign
civilization as will qualify the young voter to
understand the philosophy and value of a repub
lican form of government, and give bim a better
standpoint from which to view public questions
as they exist and may arise. About the dryest
reading in the world is a condensed history
which pretends to give national facts without
note or comment. The charm of Macaulay’s
History of England is his detail of personal in
cident, and his argumentative discourse upon
public measures- The reader seems to be in the
halls of Parliament listening to the debates be
tween the leading men of the times, with whom
he is, in the same connection, made acquainted
by fascinating little biographies. Kings, states
men, authors, and all the prominent figures of
the time become almost as familiar as the great
personages of to-day. All history is best read
In connection with biography ana romance.
Men Whose Only Stock
Trade is Cheek,
in
Forty Shrewd Business Men Defraud
ed by “Viola” Fresh From
Vassar.
[Allan Forman’s New York Letter.]
We hear eo much abont “bunko” and the
ingenious but simple lottery scheme whioh
is need to extract the dollars from the pook-
ets of the unwary rural visitor, that we
are wont to look upon the bunko game as
the prinoipal employment of the genus
crook. The faot is that bunko is fast going
ont of date, and is fast being supplanted by
more ingenious and leaa familiar modes of
swindling. Not long ago I was strolling np
Park row, when I chanced to meet a lawyer
somewhat prominent in a certain class of
criminal cases. After a few moment’s chat
I invited him to aooompany me to the the
atre.
■No, I have to see a olient of mine. Oome
with me and I’ll show yon a new phase of
life. I’ll introdnoe yon to the ‘crooks.’ ”
"So yon are an editor?” said one, a bright,
energetic-looking young fellow, who looked
for all the world like a rising young mer
chant or a broker. Well, I made quite a
little pile out of yonr brethren of the pen
last Sommer. 1 was strolling np Fnlton
street one day when I ohanoed to spy one of
those toy type-writers in a window. It was
simply a wire with an alphabet of rubber
letters strong on it, and retailed for $1 An
idea strnok me, and I went into the plaoe
and made a bargain with the man to boy 100
of them for $60, paid $10 deposit, and took
one of the machines home to play with. It
strnok me that the average editor considers
himself particularly well posted, and would,
therefore, be unwary and good game. I
had a lot of oiroolars printed stating that
“The Typewriter Exchange and Repairing
Company made a specialty of dealing in
•eoond-hand typewriters, and that it now
had on hand a large number of maohines
more or less used, but all in good oondition.
These I put down in three olasaee, $25, $40
and $60 respectively, and
WOUND UP WITH A GLOWING EULOGY
npon the merits of the typewriter as a labor-
saving device. J took these oirenlars and
mailed them to a carefully-selected list of
papers, each with a letter to the editor, tell
ing how charmed I was with his particular
paper, how I appreciated its value as an ad
vertising medium, and offering a typewriter
of any of the three olasaee for naif cash and
half advertising. It was not long before the
answers began to oome in, and nine-tenths
jjif the letters oontained cash. To make a
long story short, in less than three weeks I
sold my 100 typewriters, whioh oost me sixty
oents eaoh, at an average of $30 apiece, and
all to editors. Bnt then, now the abusive
letters began to pour in. They were posi
tively tiresome, except one man, who wrote
that I was an infernal swindler, but that if
I’d send a circular to the editor of the rival
paper, in the next town, I’d catch him, and
toe writer would call thinga square. I sent
toe oiroolar and eanght the editor.” The
young man paused, and one of the oompany
broke in with:
“That ie like Bob’s old game of advertis
ing fine steel engravings of Washington,
Franklin and Garfield, for fifty oenta each
and sending one, three and five oent posi
ts stamps in reply.”
“Advertising pays,” commented a hand-
young fellow, with a drawl in hia
oe and a drooping blond mnstaohe.
Spring I had nothing to do and only
$300 in my pockets. I knew if I stay-
„ New York I should blow it in at faro,
~ ^ Oed myself before going*wtt?fc
graphs of good-looking girls,
put np at the beet hotel in the plaoe.
en
f i sent a ‘febsoeal’ advebtisement
to a big newspaper in New York, Philadel
phia and Boston:
A YOUNG :ady recently graduated from Yasaar,
possessing decided dramatic ability, but no
money, wishes to meet a liberal, honorable gen
tleman, who will assist her in fit ing for the
stag?. Address VIOLA, box 10, Poughkeepsie
“The answers oame In perfect staoks.
did not know there were eo many enthusias
tic patrons of the drama. I carefully ee-
leeted the best and opened a correspond
ence. I oan write a lady’s hand. After I
had hooked my fish I sent on a photograph.
Then I explained that I would need from $25
to $100 to get to New York, Boeton or Pnil-
adelphia, as the case might be, and as I
thought my victim would stand, and tbe
notes began to oome in. I cleared over
$1100 in two weeks, and oonolnded to close
things np. I wrote to my New York admir
ers that I would oome to town by a certain
train, and asked eaoh to meet me at the
Grand Central depot with a red rose in his
left buttonhole, for identification. Ab I walk
ed down the platform I was greeted by the
oomioal eight of no less than forty well-
dressed men, with red roses in their left
buttonholes, eaoh trying to look nnooneern-
ed and eaoh suspecting all the others.”
Very clever,” commented one of the
gronp, “and served the old rasoals right, too.
But I think Arohie’s pioture triok was abont
as neat as any.”
What waa that?” I inquired.
Why, yon know Arohie is a very olever
fellow, belongs to a good family, is a Har
vard graduate; he’s always np to some
scheme whioh is simply Napoleonio in its
bqldness,” replied the first speaker. “Not
long ago an old gentleman, who is a wealthy
irdn manufacturer out West and a great art
oolieotor, oame to New York and registered
at one of the big uptown hotels.
ABC HIE HAD HIS EYE ON HIM,
and early the next morning oalled. He saw
the old gentleman and represented himself
ae special partner in the firm of Gonpil &
Co. The house was in financial difficulties,
he said, having made large pnrohases of ex
pensive foreign works of art and were wind
ing np their affairs. This was, however, a
secret and not yet known to any of the em
ployes of the firm. They were quietly sell
ing off the piotnree now in the gallery at a
great sacrifice, and knowing the old gentle
man to be a great admirer of art, he had
ventured to state the ease frankly to him.
The old gentleman was highly flattered and
pleased and accompanied Arohie down to
Gonpil’s and went through the gallery. Ar
ohie is thoroughly posted on art and mat
ters, and offered toe pictures at what the
old gentleman knew to be about half their
values. Before he left he had ordered about
$7000 worth of paintings at Archie’s reduoed
prioes. ‘Now,’ said Arohie, ‘we know you
to be perfectly good, so if you will give us
your check for $3000 to bind the purchase
we will have the pictures paoked and
shipped to you at onoe, and you can remit
the balance at any time within thirty days.’
The old gentleman drew tbe oheok, and Ar
ohie went np to the oashier’B desk, borrowed
a piece otpaper and wrote out a formal re
ceipt, which he gave to the old gentleman,
who went off in high glee over his purchas
es Archie cashed the oheok at onoe and
took a trip to Florida for reoreation. Of
oonrse the piotnree were not sent. Gonpil’s
people had no idea of winding np, and the
old gentleman was obliged to pooket his
loss.”
“That is better than representing your-
self to be a needy artist and selling $2 oil
daube in $1 Dutch gold frames for $25 or
$50 eaoh through toe country,” remarked
one of the party.
“Decidedly. There is more money in it.
Besides, pioture peddling is too mnoh like
book oanvassing,” assented another.
“Well, judioious
advertising is the best game
after all,” remarked the first speaker.
“There are hundreds of fellows all over the
count*y making good livings out of adver
tising the old dodge of’How to Become
Rich,’ and the public seem to be totally for
getful of the faot that if a man knew how to
get rich he’d do it himstlf, and not waste
his time and money in advertising.
The conversation became desultory, and
the oompany began to break np, but I had
heard enough to oonvmoe me that there is
a large class of men, larger than any one
supposes, who devote their time and talente,
which are of no mean order, to swindling
their fellow-men. New eohemes are con
stantly being invented and toe old ones be
ing oast aside. As one of the party remark-
^“About toe only safe rule to go by is that
whenever a man effere yon $2 worth for $1
there is a swindle somewhere.
His justification of himself and his fel
lows was not without weight: . .
“Any man who is willing to buy what he
supposes to be an honest $2 worth for $1
must either suppose that toe goods were
stolen or that toe seller is crazy. In wtoer
oase he deserves to be taken in. In the
great majority of oases the crooks live upon
men who would be crooks themselves if
they had toe brains or the courage.
THE OLD KDM) QUEENS.
Brief Biographical Sketches with Por
traits of the Crowned Heads
of England.
ENGLISH HISTORY CONDENSED.
EDWARD II.
Edward the First, the oonqueror of Wales
and almost the oonqueror of Scotland, was
snooeeded by his son Edward. At the time
of bio accession this Frinoe was twenty-
three yearB of age, was of good mien and
agreeable manners, and no snspioion as yet
existed that he lacked the qualities that were
essential to the maintainanoe of his royal
dignity. The weakness of his character
however soon became notably apparent. He
not only did not posh on the oonquest of
Scotland with vigor, bnt he to a large extent
gave over that enterprise. He farther dis-
gusted the Barone by f ondneee for his favor
ite, Sir Fiere Gavieton, whom he loaded
with wealth and honors, and lifted above
their heads by marrying him to his nieoe.
This partiality was not greatly diminished
^ his marriage with Isabella of France, a
looses of bold and enterprising temper,
who, finding that the King needed to be gov
erned, deemed it most befitting that she
should assume that part. She therefore
j cined heartily with the nobles in efforts to
destroy toe influence of Gaveeton. Tbe Par
liament demanded that the favorite Should
be banished the oonntry. The King evaded
this by sending him to Ireland ae lord lien-
tenant, where hia military talents enabled
himto make a very respectable figure. But
thefeing pined at bis absence and devoted all
his .thoughts to the procurement of his re
turn, which he at length attained by per
suading the Pope to absolve Gaveston from
toe oath that he bad taken never to return.
The Parliament taking advantage ot toe
King's easy temper and toe hatred inspired
by his minion, made innovations that ef
fected almost a total ohange in the oonsti
tntion of the realm. They insisted that
Gaveston should again be banished, and cre
ated a board of ordainers upon whom they
conferred all the powers of the orown.
Weak as Edward was he did not quietly sub
mit to this. He entered a protest against
their proceedings, and having esoaped to
York, he revoked all his concessions, and re
called his favorite. The Barons grew more
indignant than ever, and under the lead of
the Earl of Lancaster, and encouraged by
the sanction of the olergy, raised a formida
ble insurrection. Amid the hostilities whioh
ensued, Gaveston was captured and slain,
and afiej this, the country had for a short
season, some measure of peaoe. Edward de-
terminedfo take advantage of this respite
to proseolte the war against Scotland,which
amid domestio broils had been suffered to
drag along without any formal discontinu
ance. Robert Bruoe had in the meanwhile
won muctf upon the confidence of his coun
trymen, so that when the King of England,
after vast effort, advanced towards Stirling
with a large army, he was able to meet him
with a respectable foroe. Then w is fought
the celebrated battle of Bannockburn where
the English Buffered toe most signal over
throw of fheir whole history. This battle
may be said to have settled forever the ques
tion of the oonquest of Sootland by foroe of
arms, and henoeforth that nation was cor
responded .with npon equal terms. One re
sult of Edward’s disastrous oampaign was
that he fell eo completely under the oon-
tempt of hu people that the Earl of Lancas
ter was able to usurp all the powers of the
government. A very slight circumstance
placed it in. toe King’s power to disenthrall
himself am} incited him to do so. Lancas
ter was defeated, captured and slain, and
Edwaid was agaia free, but not popular.
He had ohoaen a new favorite, one Spenser,
by whom he was quite as muoh infatuated
as by Gaveston, and whose deportment was
really more objectionable. Th6 Queen fierce
ly resented his influence with her husband,
and entered deeply into all the plots of toe
maloontonts. About this time she proposed
to take a trip to the continent to visit her
brother, the King of Franoe, with a view to
adjusting some points of dispute between
tbe two sovereigns. While there, she be-
oame so much enamored of one Mortimer
that she betrayed her marriage vows, and
beoame the leader of a scheme for the de
thronement of her husband. After exten
sive preparation, she set sail and landed in
England, with a considerable foroe. Many
of the ipdst powerfnl barons flocked to her
standard and toe poor King found himself
nnable tc raise any foroe for resistance. He
made ar: effort to esoape into Ireland bnt
was driven baok by oontrary winds. He then
fled into Wales, where he was pursued and
captured by his enemies. At first they treat
ed him gently, but after a short time a band
of assassins were admitted to his chamber,
who murdered him in a horribly orael man
ner. His whole reign of twenty years had
been a continuous succession of disturb
ances. The meek and gentle qualities of
his character would have rendered him be
loved in private life, but unfitted him alto
gether for toe difficult position tbat he wa
oalled to occupy. Of all the “sad stories of
the deaths of Kings,” none are more sad
than hia. * *
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