About The sunny South. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1875-1907 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 29, 1887)
THE SUNNI SOUTH, ATLANTA, ©A, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 29, 1887. rOBUBHKU EVERY SATURDAY. BUSINESS OFFICE 21 MARIETTA ST riTiZZZr. ^ r r epiVo^ Terms: . Two dollar, par Annum One dollar for Six Month. Advertising: otn per Line. Soventy-Sve cent, per men. insraniciM are apt to follow Sa^fn.^c^^pWoK^dijres.rf knowledge of the poetolfice address- changed, i, gnd nano© both offices* TO CONTRIBUTORS. Wri eai plainly a» possible on one side of the ™ a Z iwe Pover of me,Hum ieight. Do not ^Svrntr MSS. Fold them flatly ; a rolled paae is ZXSZmeloth to reader and printer. Le- ter size ZZmrZmost preferred. It is well to write the name MSS. at the top of each page; the paves ZwmM be carefully numbered according to their aaaedar setpienes. The writer's real name and res- ZZXZZZwritten on the MSS., as letter, are %ZZee misplaced. If a nom de plume is ,wed Mehomld be wrUten directly under the title. It must ^distinctly stated whether pay is expected for MSS. sent in. Wt cannot return MSS., nor be responsible for Khensent in voluntarily, unless socially re n(rr —. to do so and in such cases stamps must I* lurfounf The writer nhoutft always keep a copy. Address all letters concerning the paper and make ill bills payablo to J. II. SEALS & CO., Atlanta, ©a The Lady Lawyer Kills Herself. A lady lawyer, having just completed her le gal studies, commits suicide; Cause—aberation of mind. She could have stood, poor thing, the feminine mysteries of bias, passamente lie, and panelling forever, but at the contemplation of plea, rejoinder, and demurrer went mad. Cluverius. Cluverius has at last been banged, prota st ing his innocence to liis latest breath. \\ e can only judge that questkn by the rules prescribed by human experience for the ascer tainment of truth, and, according to these, lie was a foul murderer and merited bis fate. All that can be said for him is that lie died like a man, confronting the scaffold with composure and courage. Hanged to an Electric Light Pole. We read of a lynching where the offender was hanged to an electric light pole. What a curious juxtaposition of the old and the new ! The electric light is the latest and a most won derful achievement of science. Man lias suc ceeded in producing the lightning at will, and then bridling its forky radiance so as to make it serve him as an illuminator. And yet in a community where sucli a miraculous instru mentality is known and used we find justice administered in barbaiic style. 'Iruly, in the new world we sometimes see savagery in the heart of civilization. Ecclesiastical Revolt. This seems the age of ecclesiastical revolt. The Presbyterians, having disposed of Doctor Woodrow are now engaged with the case of their Andover professors. The Roman Cath olic authorities have silenced the Rev. Father McGlynn and cited him to answer before the Pope. Heresy in some form or another, is the complaint in each case. According to the Bible, man was made out of the dust of the earth bv an instautaLeous operation of God’s ..... ... I. ...» K no douu* I — will. l)r. Woodrow preferred to take the scientific view of creation, or that man was de veloped by degrees out of the monkey from the lizard, the lizard fiom a clam, and so on. By the Presbyterian doctrine man’s only- chance of salvation is obtainable in this life; but some of the Professors in the famous An dover Seminary- incline to the Catholic idea that there is a sort of purgatorial, or probar tionary stage after death, wherein a man be ing purged of mortal dross by purifying fires, may ultimately obtain access into Heaven. The Catholic church is a firm friend of the rights of property, anti the trouble with l-ather McGlynn is that he shares the agrarian views of Mr. George that property in land is mere robbery. Without Liking any side in the sub ject mat ter of these learned disputes, we must say that we uphold the various church authorities in their efforts to enforce discipline. When a man joins an army, lie must respect the arti cles of war; and so, a clergyman of any faith, owes allegiance to that faith. If its canons or tenets displease him, let him look elsewhere; bat surely he has no right to remain in tlis garrison and stir up mutiny. There is too lit tle regard for law of any sort, already-, in this country, and the present fashion of theological revolt is as bad as any other form of lawless ness. If WC may be allowed to paraphrase the famous remark of the Hon. John Morrissey we would say to all discontented divines—Put out, or shut up! If you don’t like your eccle siastical surroundings, migrate; but don’t stay- in your church and then cut its throat. The Convict System. “How shall law breakers be treated” is the question of the age. The sentiment! of en lightened Christians revolt at the it human tor tures that were once practiced. Judges may not now, as they once did, order criminals to be hewn to pieces or be roasted by slow tires. The opinion largely obtains that the gallows is A relic of barbarism which should be swept •way, and that solitary coniinement is a pun ishment mr re horrible than any offence can deserve. While the sentiment against the in fliction of severe penalties is becoming strong er suid stronger, the disposition to violate the law does not grow markedly fainter. Indeed principles inimical to the well being of society are avowed with a boldness never before known. They are not wanting who are willing and realy to put into practice what the specu lative advance in theory. Peace and good or der were never in such danger from people as at present. There were never more persons who ought to be punished in some way. How they shall be punishid then is a most impor tant question. If they may not be whipped or bung or banished, how shall they have it im pressed upon their minds that they cannot do wrong with impunity? This is a matter upon which the legislator should spend his best thoughts. He should pats by as worthless the plans proposed by visionary sentimental ists and fanatics, and weigh the subject as a great practical issue. He should regard it not from the law-breakers stand-point but from that of the peaceful citizen, and the concern should be not how the former may be spared suffering, but how the latter may be best pro tected. We have no wish to see barbarous and cruel penalties rev.ved; but we are still more opposed to placing criminals in a better condition than the law-abiding. Nothing can be more absurd than to affix the same penalty to a crime whatever may be the class of the offender. The punishment which is worse than death to one man, is none at all to anoth er. We should have the same law fer all; but Judges should be allowed ample discretion in •warding penalties. * * “ Jestice Court.” The ancient and honorable office of justice of the peace has for ages been the butt of satire and wit. When the mighty power of the law, busies itself with the ownership of a goose or the price of a herring, there is a meeting of the sublime and the rediculous which appeals irresistibly to the sense of humor. And when from the awful precincts of “the Jestice Court, some small fry cause works its way into a supreme tribunal even the gravest judge will somet mes yield to the common impulse. In the last volume of our Georgia reports occurs such au instance. In a case tried be fore the Hon. R. G. Riggins, J. 1’., one of the parties was cast in the cause. From his Honor’s decision he appealed to a jury, and, not to be outdone, the J. 1’. charged that body : “Gentlemen : this is a case which lias been tried by me before, and I decided in favor of defendant; retire and makeup jour verdidt. The jury promptly upheld the justice and cast the lit : gant again. Thence he worked his way up to the Supreme court, and, in delivering its opinion, Mr. Justice Itlandford said : The laws does not require a just ce of the peace to charge the jury at all; his ignorance of the law, as well as piopriety, would seem to demand that he should not, but if he un dertakes to instruct the jury, he must do it correctly, and in accordance with law. A justice of the peace is generally a man of con sequence in his neighborhood; he writes the wills, draws the deeds, and pulls the teetli of the people; also lie performs divers surgical operations on the animals of his neighbors. Tin- justice has played his part on the busy stage of life from the tine of Mr. Justice Shal low down to the time of Mr. Justice Riggins. Wild has not seen the gaping, listening crowd assembled around his honor, the justice, on tiptoe to catcli the words of wisdom as they fell from liis venerated lips? “And still they gazpd, And still the wonder grew, That one small head Could carry all he knew.” Tlie instructions given in this case exercised an undue and unwarrantable influence upon the jury. Such is to be inferred from the fact that they found for the defendant when the evidence was overwhelmingly in favor of the plaintiff. Judgment reversed. Despite, however, this witty and wise judg ment, there is something to be said for the J. P. It is often a thankless office, and, witli all its incumbent’s faults, the people love him still. Wherever the American plants himself, he carries the Justice too, feeling, doubtless, as our present Chief Justice Rleckley once ex pressed it: “In a justice court, local govern ment is realized in its last analysis. This tribunal is our primary—most rudimental or gan of home rule. It is the tie plus ultra of judicial simplicity.” Our Dearest Cares. Care is said to be one of the greatest foes to happiness. We do not know that the state ment made in these broad terms is true. A slight study of the human mind must convince one that an utter absence from all care would not induce a state of perfect bliss. Almost every one has cares of which to be deprived would greatly lessen the pleasures of existence. It is a law of our nature to love most those things that have been the sources of most anxiety. In this is to be found the explana tion of the strange paradox that the feeble or wayward son or daughter becomes more dear to the parent than the strong and obedient. It also explains liow wives or husbands, seeming ly full of strength and energy while nursing a sick companion, suddenly collapse when the object of their solicitude is removed. People are apt to imagine, when beset by some care, that were they only freed from that, they would he happy. The house-wife, who has to ’ "a o ' "w'Ts" T’TrJ. negligent seivants, supposes that if siie had servants who would perform their duties with out directions or reproofs, she would be in a state of bliss. In truth, however, this over looking becomes a source of enjoyment. Ser vants who need no watching and never have to be scolded, would render dull rather than happy the life of the mistress. Many a wo man who lias tlie choice of a condition free from care, will refuse it and accept house keeping with its thousands of wearyings and vexations. The details of her dairy, her laun dry, her cook-room and her poultry-yard all become such dear cares that she would hardly exchange them for a home in a palace. Men have not this fondness forrespoi sibilities quite to the same extent; yet, many—nay—most men would he rendered quite miserable ivere they at once freed from wliat tliey are at limes wont to complain of as vexations. No office holder in this land, from the President down, is free from perplexities and annoyances; but, hardly one could he found who would willing ly resign his place. It is sometimes supposed that tliey cling thus tenaciously to office be cause of the pay. They, by no means, despise tlie emolument, hut, were the prolits less by a fourth or a half, they would still hold on for sake of tlie cares which, though at tirst harass ing, become after a time unspeakably dear. A blessed tiling is this in our moral constitutions that we can come to be fond of cares, since they are unavoidable incidents of our lives. An exchange says: The Democrat party is confronted by a peril which it cannot shun, and whicli it would be a criminal folly to dis guise. We are collecting $100,0(10,000 per an num more than the needs of the government require. Tlie bonds which have hitherto ab sorbed much of this surplus are about exhaust ed. The surplus in future must be piled up in the vaults of the Treasury, withdrawn from circulation, producing tirst a stringency, then a panic and widespread commercial disasters. The Democratic party has the power and the opportunity to lessen the burden and remove the danger by reducing the taxes and leaving the surplus where it belongs; in the pockets of the people. This should have been done long ago. The grievance and the danger have been specifical ly and repeatedly pointed out. The President lias issued the warning. So has the Secretary of the Treasury. So has tlie press. But the cause of the people has been sacri ficed to the rivalries of our leaders in the lower House. They have had their personal ends to further their vanities to gratify, their preju dices and hatreds to perpetuate. An Ideal Englishman of Elisabeth’s Time. Of the knightly men who, during the reign of Elizabeth, combined a Liste for learning with a love of military adventure, not one so mu - h challenges our admiration and esteem as Wai ter Raleigh. His history sounds like the story of some hero of Romance. At one time we see him a favored courtier in the brilliant circle tnat surrounded the virgin queen, repeating to her lines from Shakspeare’s plays or writing sonnets of his own composing. At another time we behold him bringing into port Spanish galleons freighted with the rich treasures of Mexico and l’eru or leading expeditions against fortresses on the Spanish main. Wherever we see him he is courtly and gallant—a knight most truly w tliout fear and without reproach. Both England and America owe him a large debt of gratitude, lie discovered the possibil ities o: a vast Britisli domain on the Western continent, and look the initiative in giving this a realization. With him that scheme of colo nization which has tilled ail the territory through which flow tlie St. La s re nee, the Mis sissippi and the Oregon with an English-speak ing population had its beginning. But that whicli more than all else impelled him to acts of daring was a desire to humble and cripple Spain. Against that system of civil and reli gious despotism whicli she sought to esLiblish every where lie cherished the strongest antago- nism. War against her assumed in tlie eyes of himself and his comrades the character of a holy crusade. To capture a Spanish ship, to sick a Spanish town seemed to be doing both God and liis country service. The high-soulcd and clear-headed Elizabeth knew how toapipre ciate a hero of this mould, and she delighted to do him honor. But when the weak-spirited James moulted the throne liis avowed prefer ence for absolutism and his secret leaning tc priest role caused- him to regard what was most admirable in Raleigh as so many defects. The sycophants who were seeking their own advantage by exalting the wisdom of this mod ern solomon were quick to perct ive this preju dice of the king, and were ready enough t furnish charges against tlie noblest of their countrymen, ilis services against those whom (with too good reason) lie regarded as the ene mies of mankind were made the grounds upon which lie was deprived of liberty and eventu ally of life. The imprisonment and final bc- lieadinent of this great loan—in whom were combined the scholar, wit, poet, courtier, sailor, soldier, adventurer and sLitesman—is tlie one dark blot upon the fair fame of James the first, and of the fargreaterchanceilor who— with the greatest of intellects—was still base enough to be tlie tool of a tyrant. * * Which is the Better Way? Miss Sophronia Stuckup finds herself in a new community. -Its people are not up to her standard. The ladies are plain and by her be ll iving a little prudish, and the young men are not glib of tongue in discussing pictures, taste, Shakspeare and the musical glosses; in a word, she votes them'ali, with perhaps one or two exceptions, too dull and slow and wanting of style and fashion, to meet her ap proval. She accordingly cuts them all—It Ls them know either by speech or act that they are not people witli whom she chooses to asso ciate. She permits them no opportunity of learning from her superior manners and de-, portment, how tliey may improve themselves. Holding herself grandly aloof, she contem plates their rusticities with an air of scorn, and never allows a single prompting of benevo lence to aim at tlie correction of what she deems faulty. The same community has re ceived another accession to its numbers in the person of Miss Evenly. She, too, lias been brought up in society far more intellectual and refined than that in which she now finds her self. But she is not always telling this. She iiiVes“not refuse association with those who seek to be her friends. She shows her supe rior cultivation :n a way so little obnoxious that all are as ready to appreciate as to recog nize it. She lias indeed proposed to herself tin improvement of this people. But she goes about it in a very graceful, and, as we tru :, it will prove in the end, a very efficient way. In stead of proclaiming, “Come up, you poor ignorant ones and be taught how to do,’’ she sets before them the more excellent way so quietly that they fa 1 into her lead without feeling that they are being taught. She intices them into adopting her better ways without ever so much as hinting that her ways are the better. ThU3 she steadily, but very quietly, improves the society of which she finds herself a member, and effec's innovations without rendering herself offensive. Every one asserts her superiority in sense, culture and fineness of feeling, while this excites no jealousy what ever. We set out by asking which of these ways is the better' That Miss Evenly is the more popular, and doing much more good, there can be no doubt. But is she not promot ing more her own happiness? MUSINGS OF MY EVENTIDE. Two Recent Sermons by Rev. Haygood. Dr. BY REV. A. A. LIPSCOMB, D. D. SEVENTEENTH PAPER. I. During this dreary season of enforced by. bernation in my sick room, I have had the te dium of the hours relieved by that quickening of intellectual and moral vitality, which I nev er fail to experience in contact witli the orig inal and versatile mind of Atticus G. Hay- good, 1). D., L. L. D. I do not agree with him in all his views but I never allow differences of opinion to affect my estimate of a man, who has uniformly maintained my respect and re gard through many close years of acquaintance ship. Reading these two discourses, delivered on occasions which called for special prepara tion, I expected the Doctor’s usual force of utterance on those topics involving local and national i lterests of no ordinary moment. Nor have I been disappointed. In both efforts, the author sustains his very definite reputation —for manly and fearless tainking; and more over in straightforwardness and obvious ab sorption in his chosen aims, he is thoroughly himself. He came up most vividly before my eye with that firm-set anil compact physique that is just bilious enough to accompany a nervous temperament and harmonize with its intense demonstrativeness. And, whether my nerves were at the instant in one of their pic torial moods, or my fancy had taken him in hand to reinstate him as he u ted to meet me in my Library twenty years ago, it is certain, that lie reproduced himself with the emphasis of Itok, tone, and manner, which was then ha.scei tly shaping him to the sturdy form and aspect, that have grown into him quite as vig orously as his talent and energy have grown into them. Those were interesting days to we when we sat together in the siient company of books, aid in the midst ot tlie'repost: fol lowing tlie war, brooded over the mysterious fortunes of our new civilization. Go far as i can recall those conversations, liis sentiments were not as well-defined and pronounced as they are now; hut I saw the germs of convic tions and those latent heroic elements of in tellect, no less than that of ingrained nature, which have very fully attested and vindicated themselves ill his later history. Nature will hold to itself tenaciously in working itself out in chan.c er; and I know of no man of his years who has been more true to his instincts and more sternly loyal to his personal concep tions of rightness fii st, and expediency next, than Alt eus G. Haygood. I have differed from some of his opinions and certain of his methods, as I have a ready said, but I have never differed with the man. II. ing out of Convicts” and the “Evil Fruits” thereof, he seems to me philosophic and state- manlike in his condemnation. It is very like the Doctor—this earnest summons of the l'ub- lie conscience to examine this subject a d con sider with moral thoughtfulness its momentous responsibilities as relative to the State and its l’risoners. It does not surprise me to learn from tlie Atlanta Constitution that tlie sermon was heard “with the profoundest attention,” and 1 do not wonder that Dr. Hawthorne should have said that he fe>t like saying “-linen,” in Methodist fashion to the sermon. And Dr. Hawthorne addi d: “I know this congregation feels the same way. I wish the Georgia Legislation would say ‘amen,’ too.” Well, tlie Southern l’ulpit teems to be enter ing on a new epoch. It is coming into closer contact with every day life in our thinking ami felling and acting, and, if gu- riled against po litical and other disturbing partisanships, I doubt rot that it will exert a most salutary in fluence on our purity and scope of thought and oil our conduct. I remember a true and ad mirable sentiment of the “Attic Philosopher'' in his I’aris lodgings: “We need men to teach us how to live in this world and to Help us get wisely and well through it, no less than men to preach to us how to prepare for a higher world.” My own heart says “Amen" to the Attic sage. ABOUT NEW BOOKS. Thanksgiving sermon, Nov. 28th, 188(1, in terests me from its connection witli the history of Dr. Haygood in relation to the New South, of whose interests and policy he lias been an exponent as well as ail advocate. Tlie intro duction to the sermon is short—only portico suilioient to secure easy and prompt access to tLe front door—and in this as in other portions of tlie effort, you see tlie eagerness of tlie au thor to reach hi! practical points. With him, tlie library method is entirely subordinate to the logic of fa 'ts, and I rather think that lie would gain in force of pertmsioii, if he were somewhat more artistic when opportunity of fers. But he resolutely eschews all wayside loiterings to gather flow! rs; a good thing for him to do when the flowers are merely poetic; but illustrai ions to enforce truth are valuable accessories to facts. Yet, even in this, he shows the mind of the New South in the di rectness and self-poised singleness of a domi nant purpose. The oratory of tlie day and tlie cast of our Southern writing indicate a very marked change going on in our midst; and, if it go not too far to abate our natural emotion alness, our innate imagination, and vigorous impulses, the new method will greatly help our speakers and writers. The general tenor and compass of this discourse are admirable tor clear-sightedness, fervor, and patriotism. When the Dr. remarks, that “tnere are few who would return to the former state,” I can heartily endorse the sentiment; but when he affirms that the 1 institution was one “that Howto Dress to Look Young. The l’rincess of Wales, the mother of grown up sons and daughters, says a writer in the Queen, looks quite a young woman, almost a girl, still, and dresses in the style that suits her aid yoi ng women|bcst. Woman of middle age, or who have passed their tirst youth, have acquired the knack of looking considerable younger than those of tlie last generation at the same period of life. Perhaps they take more pains with their face and figure, and our fashions are more youthful. Looking round at most fashionable assem blies in the present day, there is little marked distinction between tlie matrons and tlie maids. The former occasionally wear more costly fabrics, but the hair is dressed much in the same way, and no one wears a cap habitually unless compelled. It is a feature of our na tion that mothers and daughters often might be mistaken for sisters. Tlie truth is, no one can advise on these per sonal matters. A wise woman watches the lines grow in her face and studies not to strengthen them by over-juvenility of attire. A wide brimmed hat, which throws a shadow on the face, makes a woman look yeirs older, but the higli-crowned, narrow-brimmed hats are far less try ing. It requires judgment to know when to discard the wearing of hats at all. According to the present fashions, it would be best to wear high, straight collars of vel- ani where lace is admissible, plenty about tlie throat. The hair should only be turned up from the nape of the neck when the throat has no sign of scragginess and tlie style does not tend to harden the side outline was* he goes entirely too far. F >r tlie t T time NEGLECTED GRAVES. Senator Sherman’s Amendment Re garding Confederate Cemeteries at the North. Washington, January 21.—Mr Sherman has offered in the Senate an amendment to be proposed to the sundry civil bill to appropriate $.‘1,000 to put new fences around cemeteries in which Confederate dead are buried near Co lumbus, Ohio, and Johnson’s Island. Accom panying the amendment is an extract from the recent annual message of Governor Foraker, in which he refers to the dilapidated condition of the fances and the neg ected state of the grounds, and adds: The hatred and detestation that all loyal peop e must and should ever entertain for the destructive political doctrines that these men fought for ought not to stand in the way of either a cordial feeling toward the living, who have abandoned such heresies, or a proper re gard or Christian respect for the graves of the dead who although wrong, yet heroically and valorously contended for the convictions they entertained. of the cheek bones, which have lost their youthful roundness of fleshly covering. Tlie fashions of the day favor slim women, but slimness too often towards mi Idle life degen erates into undue thinness, which H by no means youthful. Therefore thin women must conscientiously study their own individuality, and not Like too great liberties on the score of embonpoint, which keeps off wrinkles, though it may enlarge the waist and make the study of drapery a serious one. Stout woman should avoid waist seams, and carry the skirt and bodice in one down tlie sides as inucu as possible. Let them avoid fur oorderings to basques, just as short women should banish them from the edge of their skirts. Tall women may indulge as much as they please in soft-failing drapery, ndescriba- ble in its arrangement; but short ones would thereby acquire tublike proportions. It is a great mistake of English women that dark and fair, short and tall, thin and stout, adopt the same modes, whatever they may be. In all these things the appearance is the point to be considered, but remember, a woman is as o’d as she really looks to otln rs, not as she thinks she looks herself, if blinded by vanity. O wad the powers the giftle gle as To tee ours!Ives as itbers Sfe us. It would Ira’ many an error free ut. Bulwer, in “Kenelm Chillingly," writes! In youth a man of the world should appear older than he is, and in middle age, and thence to his dying, younger. Begin your wig early, thus you never become gray.” The advice is worth a thought as far as women are concern ed also. think, he goes entirely being, slavery did a great providential work, a great humane and civilizing work, a moral and social work preparatory to the enlarging and ennobling of the country. But I see not and I never expect to see how an institution whot immediate subjects were taken from southern hands, and made chizens as well as freemen and on tlie whole, have done so well in their new enfranchisement; I cannot see how this fact, even from the stand point of tlie North, can be other than a delib erate demonstration on tlie part of northern ai d western judgment, that slavery had exerte l a single agency in qualifying our “Brother in Black” to be a citizen and a voter without tlie slightest training for these respon sibilities except what he had acquired fri m liis Southern master, and especially tlie moral culture lie had gotten from Southern woman hood. Israel had to undergo the discipline of forty years in the loneliness and bitter expo riences of tlie Desert to make ready for tlie Land of Promise; but, in tlie instance of our slaves, a new generation had not to grow up under a prices! that purged Egypt out of their physical habits and moral character, wh le giving them an initiatory fitness for Canaan. Hay what the North may as to sla very being “the sum of ail evils,” it is strangely inconsistant with that view of tlie system find the subjects of this supposed monstrosity transformed suddenly into citizens and voters, the political peers of senators and representa tives not only at tlie balloi-box hut in legisla tive functions. It strikes me, therefore, tiiat while t'lis system hai evils, which no fair- minded Southerner denies, yet, so far from being “the sum of all evils,” it dill perform a wholesome and helpful work as a preliminary form of social eiviiizati in, which was introduc tory under Providential oversight to a wider and bitter continental civilization. Blood and race, instincts and traditions, are far more potent as permanent factors of progress than were institutions which are inherently bound down to the law of limitation. These are the granite and iron which enters into our I fe as differenced f om the fluctuant incidents of out ward exigence. The moral basis of the New South, I cannot but believe, is the same it al ways wa«, and in respect to its fundamental pi litical beliefs (the doctrine of secession ex cepted) and its religious sentiments, the New South is substantially a legitimate outgrowth of ihc (>ld South. My good friend, Dr. II., appears to me to overstate the evils of the in stitution in the quotation I have made and to which I decidedly object. III. Cordially, and from my inmost truthfulness, I agree with Dr. Haygood in his denunciation of those “who fan tlie ires of sectional pas sion, be he Southerner or Northerner.” But “the people gro w better.” From this para graph on to the close of the sermon, the doc tor is at his best in vigor of thought and in trepid speech. The monopolists who grind the people into fine dust; the greed of gain “insatiate as death, conscienceless as Satan, remorseless as hell, mikes the trouble between labor and money;” but the author speaks of the “hopeful and cheering evidences" of life and growth as indicated by the “deep, strong movement in ail civilized countries towards a more righteous adjustment between the rights of labor and tlie rights of capital.” A few more paragraphs in the direction of remedial measures adapted to our educational and po litical methods, and a pungent remonstrance against the continental Sunday as utterly foreign to the genius of a Christian na tion, bring this plain-spoken and energet ic discourse before the students of Emory College, Ga, to its close. There is so much genuine and generous manliness in this effort, that no one could regret more than myself, if there be the faintest appearance of undue crit icism in aDy portion of this article. IV. The other sermon, preached before the Prison Reform congress, in Atlanta, by Dr. Haygood, Nov. 8th, 1880, is quite as individual and characteristic as the discourse of Nov. 20th, Thanksgiving Day. If the latter is an eloquent presentation of “The Good and the Bad,” on the broader field of national and in dustrial life, the former is limited to the dis cussion of the “State and its Prisonersand hence, by reason of its focalized character, has the manifest advantage of a single aim. Al though I am but partially conversant with the details of prison systems, I can understand and appreciate the general scope and applica tion of the Doctor’s argument On the “Farm- Interesting Gossip by a Contributor From Montana. Riverdale Ranch, Mon , Dec. 22, 188(S. Dear Sinny South : A merry Christmas anil a happy Ne w Year to all. Of course it will be past tlie holiday seaion when this appears, bu; good wishes are always in order, and no one wishes the Sunny South good fortune, more than I do. I presume you shiver when you think of Christmas in Montana, and pity us pr, fouudly, but i assure you we who are litre, among the Rockies, are so in love with scenery, climate and atmosphere, wc baldly sigh for the pe fume of rose and magnolia that surround your hospitable verandahs nearly the year around 1 promised, Mr. Seals, to tell you something of Montana, but 1 hardly know how to begin. You see it is so widely misunderstood. Whenever the East suffers from a cold wave, it is credited to Montana, when we see nothing but bright sunshine, and htar of the colli through the papers. It can be very cold here—according to the mercury, before we feel it. The air is so dry, it is not chilly. Zero weather in the east chills one through and through, but here I have been out for a pleasure walk witli mercury over JO below zero. I often stand out in tlie sunshine, bare headed, when the river is a sheet of ice, and enjoy every breath. Just now there is no snow, except on the mountains, and the sun shines bright over the sparkling river, valley and brown hills backed by snow-capped ranges. But, let me advise you, ! f you cannot come west, and see for yourself, just send to L. Samuel, Portland, Uregon, for The West Shore, a beautiful monthly magazine, at $2.50 per year. Something of an especially undesirable char acter is connected with tlie Wett, in tlie form of Mormonism. The belief lias been assailed by ridicule, irony and bitter contempt, which has a routed bad feeling, and caused the -Mor mons to cling more closely to their faith, and hand together >.o brave opposition. A careful, candid study of the doctrine, for the purpose of argument has been rare. During the past year, a Baptist minister of Salt Lake City, Kcv. M. ’1’. Lamb, has pub lished a book entitled, “ The Golden Bible,” or “Book of Mormon.” “Is it of God!” The book originated in a series of four lec tures, delivered by the author in his’church. His promise to discuss tlie matter calmly, and without abuse, brought out a crowd of Mor mons. All were pleased, and when Governor Murray and the author’s own church, asked to have the le tures published, it was done. La ter, Mr. Lamb made deeper researches and went east to consult scholars aLd libraries, and has just issued the book referred to. The author was a former pastor of mine, which makes me take an especial interest in his work, but I am sure a reading of its pages will {ive one a correct idea of tlie" peculiar beliefs of the Mormoi s, and prove to any one, their t-v.i f.*-k : : 1. i! r - iT. vi( ,y~ • ’ 1 if)? lu ilTri i§ IB in ‘fs'Xo* prove all that to the Mormons themselves, and lie has faitli lie will succeed in many cases Tlie book is published by Ward & Drummond, 1 Hi Nasseau street, X. Y. Books for the Holidays have been w idely advertised, and beauties they arc, too! The especial season is past, but tlie books are, most of them, appropriate and just as beauti fill for birthday or wedding gifts, or friendly remembrances at any time. For instance, Miss Irene Jerome’s “Nature’s Hallelujah,” published by Lee ,4 Shepard, of Boston. It is beautiful and elegant beyond description, and is even more appropriate for Easter than for Christmas. Tlie engravings are of the finest, and fitly duplicate tlie artist’s charming sketches of Nature’s choicest nooks and lovely designs of her own. Always there are win some birds whose lunefu: throats swell in praise of Nature and Nature’s God. Lovely, graceful flowers nod their acquiescence, and rippling brooks join in the general harmony; or, the surf and breakers of old Neptune add their sound 1) tlie grand chorus. Tlie sketches generally illustrate some beau tiful sentiment by a popular poet, or a gra c ful couplet of the artist’s own. The publish- ers have done their best to clothe the beauti ful creation suitably, and it would be difficult to find a more elegant gift for any lady’s table The same firm publish this year a miniaturi edition of the tine illustrated poems of former seasons. They are, of course, cheaper, but dainty little volumes, and just the tiling to give Sunday school or day scholars. There are six in the series 60 cents in cloth and gilt, but higher ill finer, binding. They are “Home, Sweet Home,” “Curfew Shall Not Ring To night,” “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” “Rock of Ages,” “Abide In Me,” and “My Faitli Looks up to Thee.” Nearly everybody has r» ad, or heard of the “Prudy Books,” and will be pleased to see “Little Miss Weezj,” by Penti Shirley, sister of the author of the Prudy series. The small heroine is a very natural little one, and holds our attention as all infant tyrants do in fiction and real life. It is published by tlie above firm, who also publish the popular novels of Amanda M. Douglass. “The Foes of Her Household,” is her latest, and if not the best, is of great interest as all of her stories are. “Dollars or Sense!” is the striking title of a novel recently published by Brentane Bros., of N6w York. People will differ as to tlie value and interest of the story, but I am sure all will agree that the minute descriptions of society in London and Engl sli country houses, and tlie contrasts given between tlie society of England and our own country are delightful bits of reading. Several good jokes are given, and descriptions of races and different games. The reader conies to his own conclusion as to the question propounded in the title. E. P. Dutton & Co., of New York, publish some of the daintiest, prettiest little volumes seen—one series of season sketches. I have seen one of these, “Spring Songs and Sketch es.” The engravings are superb, illustrating popular poets’ sayings about spring. Tlie whole is bound in cream color, adorned with colored landscape and tied with pink ribbon, and sent protected in an envelope. Summer, autumn and winter follow, and I presume each one is a gem of art and beauty. Are any of you familiar with the rarely po etic verse of B. F. Taylor? He is the most skillful word painter I know of. Each line is a picture, and it seems as if he chooses the only words. His poems have the effect of a beauti ful picture and sweetest music. His poems, complete, are published by S. C. Griggs & Co., as are also his other works—all prose poems. “Tangles,” a story by Rachel Carew, is pub lished by the same firm. It is not the ordinary society novel it appears to be at first glance, but abounds in ludicrous situations, which cause laughs hearty enough to drive away the blues for a whole season. It is pure, whole some fun from beginning to end. Nearly everybody is familiar, more or less, with the writings of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Her latest work, published by Houghton, Miff lin & Co., of Boston, is “The Madonna of the Tubs.” It is a story of a quiet seaside resort which she frequents. She is well acquainted with Neptune’s moods and the peculiar charac teristics of the simple “fisher folk.” The book is profusely illustrated with spir ited sketches by prominent artists, and the whole is a dainty affair. I leave you to read and learn who the Madonna is, and all the charm Miss Phelps discovers in simple, honest life. The above firm publish quite a number (eight, I think) of the popular calendars, with quotations compiled from favorite author!. I have the Whitney Calendar, and when I glance at the date my eye catches some sentence of tt at peculiar and gifted author that can keep my thoughts busy all day. Thera are bright Kate Greenaway figures on tlie ecru satin ground around the calendar proper. It is a lovely ornament .is well as a useful thing, and costs only fifty cents. Some of tlie other calendars are devoted to Longfel low, Lowell, Emerson, Holmes, Whittier, etc. D. Lathrop & Co., of Boston, publish “New Every Morning,” a day-book for the year, compiled for girls, by Anna H. Ryder. She hai chosen a verse or a paragraph, here and there, from the beet authors, written!or, or about girls, relating to duty, home life, cheer fulness, health, dress, etc., and devoted one to each day in the year. 'I’here is much food for thought, and noble suggestions for girls—or any one. The same firm publish a eerie! of four monthly magazines, Baby land, Little Men and Women, The Pansy, and Wide Awake. They are ;radii! so as to be of value in the school room as readers. They have been used thus witli god success. The Wide Awake is now only $2.40 per year and a perfect storehouse of g >od things for the young folks, and old ones too. Tile Wide Awake art prints are attracting attention, on account of their beauty and ex- cclleice. Art and music belong with literature, so I want to reccommend you to send to C. Hen- u-eke of Milwaukee and git their art catalog les —two beauties, for ten cents apiece. After looking them over, you will know where to or der casts an 1 statuettes. I see Huyett Bros., of St. Josepli, Mo., now advertise in your coi tions. I have had two or three pretty new pieces lately, “Sweet Heatherbell” a waltz song, “White Wings,” a spirited yacht s-ng, etc. But a unique thing in Lite music line, is the series of “Liberty” pieces; songs, variously arranged, and instrumental pieces, such as binders, waltz, s, quadrilles, marches, etc. Each piece has an elegant lithograph picture of tlie Liberty Statue, with portraits of Washing ton and Lafayette, and the national colors. The same theme runs through the whole set, but it is varied in key and movement. They can be got at Hitchcock’s music store, Hid Nasseau street. New York. Some new, desirab'e games have attracted my attention. One is “Flags of all Nations.” Even youngjchildren can play tlie game, and readily learn the different flags—sixty of them. Another is “Zyla Karta,” a geographical game, consisting of a map of tlie l'. S. and little blocks witluiiames of eities, wh cli are to be located. Several different games can he played, all interesting, and valuable aids to geographical knowhdge. W. R. Norris of Schenectady, X. Y. publishes it, anil many fine geographical aids. But Mr. Seal! shakes his head over my prosing, so—“an revoir.” T. A. IiEVNOI.llS. larger facts of that life. Mrs. Stowe caught the meaning of slavery in the abstract—she flooded her work with a mighty appeal—she dealt resistless blows, but she did not picture Southern life in tlie light of genuine realism, because site did not know that life. She was not to the manner bore. So much for Mr. Thompson’s estimate of the literature of the old South. Now for his opinion of the new South: No sooner had the war ended than Here and there began to be heard the fine clear notes of genuine genius all over tlie South. I lie poriod beg nning with 1875 and closing with 1885 has been one of great literary activity, and it is not ov=‘rsta .enient to say that nowhere in the world during this period has there arisen geni us of more distinct and original power than that indigenous to our Southern States. I shall not more than mention Paul H. Jlayne in this connection, for beloved as he was, and most justly beloved by the Sou h, he was not a distinctively Southern poet in liis imagina tion of his mauiier. True, he was Southern, in liis bias. His convictions were deeply rooted in a perfectly Soutln rn breeding but i l;a is.f tlm l.'iifrlivli chissipii 1 Southern Song and Story. “The Poetic and Romantic Litera ture of the South ” Editor Sunny South: It is well enough, once in a while, to look upon ourselves as others see us. Mr. Maurice Thompson, of In diana, himself a man of no mean position in tlie world of letters, has a paper in the Cliica- ;o Times on wliat tlie editor of that paper styles “the poetic and romantic literature of the South,” in which we arc given glimpses of a Northern man’s views of the ante-bellum South and of the “new South.” Mr. Thomp son thinks the South lia l no art or literature characteristically and distinctively Southern between tlie close of tlie revolutionary war and our civil war, but lie admits that “in all the fields in whicli Southern men appear to have been ambitious, especially in politics and tlie art of war, they have succeeded;” anil that “the great struggle of 18tit)-ti5 demonstrated that there was no lack of mental or bodily en ergy among the inhabitants of the ’low coun try,’ anil the history of the United States from 177fi up to 18(H) shows that Southern men were capable as well as enthusiastic states men.” Mr. Thompson, recognizing the South as an agricultural region, tells us that our cities were “mere coiton and tobacco marts, banking and brokerage centers, and nothing more;” and lie adds: “< ?f course, I do not mean to be understood as saying that tlie population of the Southern - iNfifcs' wits 7f5c“11 jTefi*t 'iaf”Trom ...m u Richmond, Charleston, Savannah, New Or leans, Augusta, Memphis, Nashville, Mobile, and other towns of tlie cotton States, were jus ly famous long ago for their brilliant soci ety and notable men and women. But they were not literary centers. They had highly ed neats il and exceptionally gifted citizens, persons who read, who thought, who knew a great deal; but there was no characteristic and original literary creation going on among them. * * * * The so-called aristocratic spirit of Southern society did not forbii literary ambition any more than it forbade political ambition. There were no social barriers across the path to success in art. But what was the trouble? There must have been some hindrance. It was not lack of effort, for literary journals and maga zines were founded in several Southern cities, notably in Richmond and Charleston. John R. Thompson edited The Southern Literary Messenger, in Richmond, and I’aul II. Ilayne presided in tbe sanctum of one or two jour nals set up in Charleston. These periodicals had a languid existence, and died without having reflected, in any adequate way, tlie character of Southern social and intellectual life, if we go back ami look over their pages we shall no . fail to note strange shortcomings in art, as if the writers had labored under re strictions and limitations of no ordinary sort. Tlie contributions lacked fiber and individual fore 1 . True, in certain instances there was promise, together with tantalizing giimpses of genius; but there was no free, full, thrilling expression of tlie warm, glowing, passionate, picturesque South. Gilmore Simms wrote novels of Southern life, but no well bred South erner will admit that those stories, strong and dramatic as some of them are, reflect the best of that life. Simms was superficial in his rep resentations of character, and liis vision was retrospective. He did not study contempora-y life and manners, indeed, I am not sure that this avoidance of the contemporary is not the most noticeable defect of the ante-bellum Southern literature. Let it not be supposed for a moment that I am claiming less for the South than is her iue. If it were collected into a body the song and story of that lovely part of our country would be far from weak or insignificant; indeed, they would be both strong and full of mean ng. * * * * “Bifora the war” means a great de il that is tine and fair in the low country. He is a heartless chronicler who pauses to smile at a phrase, it is a bead in the rosary of tlie past. “Before the war” was a period of pict uresque splendor the like of which is foun d nowhere else in the world’s history. It was a peculiar splendor, suggesting a poetry and a romance which in those days were apoarently inexpressible. From New Orleans all round the gulf and Atlantic coasts to Norfolk and Richmond, undi r a sky as blue as that of Ita ly and amid landscpe scenes of dreamy, semi- tropical beauty, life wai itself both song and story. In tliose days l’rentiss poured out his eloquence beside the Mississippi arid young Albert I’ike touched his lute in the woods of wild Arkansas. Just here I may note that tlie rollicking song of “A Fine Old Arkansas Gen tleman Close to the Choctaw Line” is to my mind the sincerest bit of realism wrought by onv Knntlipritpr tlia wie »» ikn.,.', i. :_ his literature was of the English classical school. He was \ o ished, pure and correct in style, and he was up to a high level of dignity that came near sublimity, but he never was truly a poet of the sun. He was not Sidney Lanier’s equal as a representative Southern poet. He never could quite catch the spirit of the new South—the spirit of a freedom at once the freshest and the most precious that the world has ever seen. Still he was a poet faithful to his gift, and a man whose life was as beautiful as his verse was pure and sweet. Of Lanier it may be said that he was a lyrical prodigy His poem “Corn,” and his “Hymns of the Marshes” are unique, while his “Tal lulah” is a wonder of word-music. He had gra re faults of style, mainly due to an irre- presible desire for new modes of expressitn; but he was original, and distincly Southern— almost tropical. His imauination was like a strong, unruly flame, flaring over his work and beating his words till they glowed. He was of the young schools, and belonged ex clusively to the new South. It is sad that he died so young. His ambition was lofty, and his influence thoroughly good. * * * woel Chai dler Harris is best known as “Uncle Remus,” but to my mind his stories are the strongest ex amples of liis art. He sees life from a fresh point of view and he has the courage to as sume an original attitude toward the subjects of liis sketches. Thomas Nelson l*age is an other thoroughly strong and true Southern writer of tlie new school. His stories are marked by that free-hand cleverness of stioke and that regard for the picturesque and the characteristic in local customs which must always be of highest va ue in representing Southern life. Of ihe poets Sidney Lanier, as I have indicated, lias taken tirst place easily and without question, Robeit liurns Wilson is giving line promise, and. as a light and graceful singer, men ion must be made of Samuel Minturn Peck, of Alabama. I cannot speak of the war poets of the South. Father’ Ryan,James R. Randall, Henry Lynden Flash, and A. J. Requier ceased to sing when the battle echoes died on the hor izon. They are a group apart. The future of the South appears bright to Mr. Thompson and full of promise. “With the spread of liberal education among the masses and the consequent fertilization of dormant genius, art and literature will rise and flourish m the Southern Suites as it once flourished on the .Southern shores of Europe and on the sweet islands of the Mediterranean and the .Kgean.” KIND WORDS. any Southerner “before the war," though it is as crude and rough as the border of Indian Territory has ever been. Judge Longstreet made some pleasing sketches of the “poor whites” in his “Georgia Scenes,” and every- body has read Col. Thompson’s “Maj. Jones’ Courtship” and “Chronicles of I’ineville,” but sincerity compels one to admit that these works lacked jnst the element which wou d have made their art distinctly and unmistaka bly Southern and original. John Eston Cooke wrote excellent stories of Southern colonial life, and Simms, as I have remarked, made some po werfully dramatic pictures of the Revolutionary period. I’aul Hayne before the war had not come fully to his singing voice, and l’oe identified himself witli the Nor h. Indeed, the South had no poet or novelist of contemporary life. It was natural enough for the Northern bards and ro mance writers to cast longing eyes into a field so rich and so wholly unworked, and it was impossible that these outsiders should fa: 1 to bring an alien mood to the task they under took. They could not be expected to repro duce faithfully a social, political, and domes tic life of which, in the very nature of things, they knew only the most superficial phase. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was an incomparably powerful romance, but no person having com petent knowledge of Southern life and man ners will say that the story is true to the What They Say About The Sunny South. 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The purity of its tone, the typographical beauty of its mecanisanisu, as well as the tbe varied and extensive information crowded into Its pages, render the S. S. the most welcome visitor; the most valued friend, the most trusted adviser at Southern firesides. Mr. Oates, of Alabama, made a legal and constitutional argument directed especially against the long and short haul section, op posed the centralizing tendency of the meas ure, and denounced the gnat powers which were conferred upon the lommis-ion, by which it could raise or depress stocks in Wall street at its pleasure.
