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THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 29, 1887. Tbe Old Kings and Queens. Brief Biographical Sketches of the Crowned Heads of England. ENGLISH HISTORY CONDENSED. "Hr,I GEORGE IV. The first son of George the I hi "d ami Char lotte, of Mecklenburg, began to be an object of flattering admiration even in his cradle. All who were admitted the honor of looking at the royal in fun ', the prospective heir of a great empire, were loud in the praise of his beauty. Kvery where was it procia nied that so pretty a baby never had been seen. As he passed the successive stages of boyhood, youth and early manhood, the tongues auil pens of flatterers never tired of telling about liis personal come liness. Soon after lie began to breathe lie be gan t> be painted. and for sixty-seven years artists expended their skill in portraying him in every posture and in every style. Stories are told of Ms aptness as a pupil—if how he j u u t the then old, and much worn down by his bad course of living. The beauty of form, of which he was once so vain, had now almost wholly disappeared amid his enormous obesity. As King, he made no distinguished figure. He did not, like his obstinate father, persevere in effo't to govern, but was pretty well content to reign, while men of brain were directing the affairs of the nation. For something more than ten years did he continue to be called King, doing nothing whatever to make that great place venerable, and performing not one good act to impart fragrance to his memory. When he entered the world, August 12, 17(12, there were joy ful acclaims of welcome—when he quitted it, June 20, IKK), there were no wailings of grief. Strange to say,it was found after his death that lie had long been wearing the miniature of Mrs. Fitzherbert above his heart—the woman whom he had wronged only less cruelly than he hal poor Caroline of limns wick. * • Southern Literature. Professor W. M. Baskeville’s Second Lecture on the Tulane Course. [New Orleans Picayune.] A large, intelligent and enthusiastic audi ence listened to the second lecture given by Professor W. M. Ilaskcville at Tulane Hall last evening. The subject of the most inter esting and intelligent discourse was “Southern Literature.’* The following is the substance of the lcc ure: A new era has dawned upon the South and the change is greatly for the better. The art of the poet is the highest attainment, but t3 excel in it he must have absolute freedom of speech, and such was not had before the war. Prior to 1800 there was almost no Southern literature; but now author after author springs up and carries the world by storm. From their position, and the fact that they led the opinions and customs of the States around|them, Virginia and South Carolina are taken as examples of the literary condition of the South. Virginia was a continuation of Kngland; her sons found pleasure in conform ing to lie customs of England, and they loved to imitate monarchy. The great drawback to literature was the owning of slaves. This caus ed a separation of the people into plantations, which in some instances were fifty miles apart. In sue’i a raritied country how could schools and manufactures flourish. Everything was imported from England. learned languages, both ancient and modern, with the greatest readiness—ami how he caused his tutor to he made an earl by detecting him in a false quantity in Ureek. Mathematics was the branch for which he was to have most need in his siusequeu: career; for it required no mean skill in figures to foot up the sums which he was to receive and expend. Besides his allowance c f three or fmr hundred thou sand of our money, there was brought, every few years, a demand for half a miliion more, to pay off his debts. These vast su ns were sj>eiii in vices and folbes—in gaming, horse- racing and dissipation of almost every con ceivable form. When lie became of of age, he was given a separate establishment and immense sums were ex tended in ; fact was the lack of s bools For the first three generations, grandsons were not as well ed c ited as their fathers. In South Caro ina there were a few schools prior to the revolution, but during that war and fora quar ter of a century after the S:ate was without schools. It was the custom of the colonists to send their sons to England to be educated, but during that period literature was unpopular and labored against odds, hence it was not strange that the South was not distinguished for literature. Early in her history Virginia gave her most promising sons to politics, and those politi cians were always dominant at the capital. The ambitious men entered either into politics or joined the clergy, but never devoted them- lves to literature except ina few cases where Carlv>»n House, the late abode of his grand mother, for his occupancy. He here gave an entertainment remarkable alike for its costliness and for the splendor of all its de tails. Sometime after this, becoming enam ored of a Mrs. Fitzherbert, he actually married her, according to the rites of the Church of Koine, of which she was a member. This inani ige was treated as a nullity by the King, who entertained the most royal notions in re gard to the marriages of his sons and daught ers, but the woman was recognized by ladies ami gentlemen of the highest fashion. So were several other frail fair ones who about this time or a little later, were acknowl edged as mistresses of the ITince. When we write this, we seem to be speaking not of Christianized and enlightened Englaml, but of some half savage nation, far back in the middle ages. Thackeray well observes that no satire more severe could be spoken.of the British people of the first quarter of the presencen tury, than to suite the fact that they admired George IV. and dubbed him “First gentleman of Europe.” Debauchee, rake, libertine, gam bier and domestic tyrant, he had passed through every school of profligacy, and in each was a proficient. After having been mar ried to Mrs Fitzherbert for a number of years, «**"*• - * \.W* .urtifis.i* 1l.ill wife, with the most innocent coolness That flitting up j p 0 i ne8 were written for amusement. A cele brated author said that there would never be a Southern literature while aristocracy was counted by the number of slaves or bales of cotton. But the late cruel war, while dispell ing this bondage, unclasped the fetter of lit erature. The first years of the war produced so ne splendid poets, among them Kandall and Ticknor being most prominent, while Father Kyan’s poems are unequaled for their beauty and pathos. During the reconstruction period the poets had but little cause to sing, except at funeral dirges. But with genuine eagerness and un complaining courage ihe Southerner rebeauti- tied his land. Lee’s and Johnson’s veterans took hold of the plow or reopened the college doors. In the nob.e ranks were Inman and Nicholls, Gilder-leeve and Humphreys, Cable and Maurice Thompson. The most studious men ever in college were these old veterans— foremost among them their immortal leader. The new era < f literature does not go back farther than 1870. Our new authors are not afraid to attempt new things, to grappl} with profound principles, nor to dissect great n oral or social questions. Their originality and im agination as ton b lied the world, oy its brilliancy and truthfulness. Pearl Rivers, Maurice Thompson. James Albert Uairisoii. Margaretl J. 1'res to a ami others have accastomed our ears to delightful strains. Our Portrait Gallery. PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHIES OF DISTINGUISHED MEN AND WOMEN. Prof. Felix Adler. Child labor, which has often been agitated from time to time, has again received due at tention in the lecture givtn before the Society of Ethical Culture at Chickering Hall, Sew 1 ork. Professor Adler the most prominent person interested, quoted statistics of thous ands of children, employed at work in the United States under the age of twelve years. He earnestly n quests investigations, such as will lead to a speedy movement for the relief of these young offsprings of humanity. Speak ing personally and directly of himself Mr. Ad ler says, “Now the question of child labor is a serious one and the evil is growing. My es pecial interest in the matter is in the subject of manual training, I already direct a school for instruction in matters pertaining thereto. We have about three hundred and lifty chil dren in that school and i claim that wc have successfully worked out the problem of com- PROF. FELIX ADLER. binii g ordinary education in the English branches with manual training. Now I sug gest special schools for the experimental irial of manual training aid believe that these schools should be for children between the ages of twelve and fourteen, who should be taught the use of tools. Returning to the sub ject of child 1 tbor Prof. Adler said that it is closely related to the school pteslion, and cer tainly demands legislative tieatment, the evils complained of are real and pressing and re quire immediat; remedy if it be desired to pro tect tlie co nmunity from tin consequences of so long a proportion if young children taken from school »t so tender an age. Professor Felix Adler was bom at Alzey Hesse, Germa ny, August Pith 1851. He studied in I5erlin and Heidelberg, and came to America study ing and graduating at Columbia College, New York. 11“ was appointed professor of Hebrew in Cornell University in 1*74, and founded two years later the Society of Ethical Culture, which has its center in New York and a branch in Chicago. Mr Adler lias published several items o' interest on Ethics, his main produc tion being entitled “Creed and Deed” in 1*77. Mr. Adler’s desire to e'emte humanity has become with him a lixed purpose, from which he allows n) dtv ation. Col. Thomas Moonlight. Col. Thomas Moonlight, of Kansas, who was appointed by the President Governor of Wyo ming Territory, was an applicant for another position; but the President, it is said, was so George Stephenson. In 183!» he went to New York, where he was in 1841, employed to test the war steamer Princeton, the first ever built in which the propelling machinery was below the water-line, and out of the reach of shot. To the London Exhibition of 1851 he sent sev eral inventions for which he received prizes. In 1852 he built the Ericsson, a steamer of 2,000 tons, fitted with caloric engines which he had previously invented while in England in 1833. Although the experiment was satis factory in several respects, the engine did not develop sufficient rower to give a requisite rate of sueed, ami he thereupon turned his in tentions to the manufacture of stationary cal oric engines for purposes in which n > great amount of power was required. He will be best known in connection with the “Monitors” (so called from tile name of the first one) iron ships with revolving iron turrets for the guns. Tlie “Monitor,” a small vessel built by him in 100 days, proved more than a match for the Confederate iron clad “Merrimack,” which had just before (in March IHtig) destroyed the two finest frigates in the United States navy. Of late years Mr. Ericsson has been trying to perfect the solar engine, and he is confident that his “Destroyer” could sink tlie “Invinci ble,” the most formidable vessel of tlie British navy, in fifteen minutes. He lives in a large roomy house in New York city, which stands in tlie neighborhood abounding in cheap tene- headstrmg parent immediately suggested his I | n the fields of romance and fiction still neice, the Princess ( aniline of Brunswick, i greater success fias been achieved, it is in and negotia ions to that effect were rapidly | tiffs work that tlie best Southern talent and hurried forward. More unfortunate imp ials . genius are engaged. There is a provincial air tarred | about them, it is true, each one speaks best tlie dialect of his birthplace; but there were never consummated. The ill bride was preceded by a strong prejudic her disfavor in the minds of lit r future hus band and his mother. Site was not gifted witli tlie prudence and discre tion which could win the reluctant ap proval of those prepared to think the worst of her. But posterity must pro nounce that she was too good for the royal profligate to whom her Lite teeanie linked. Kind, confiding treatment might not have made her sensible and discreet, but it would have made tier affection ite and kept her virt uous. Inste id of this, however, the Prince showed his disgust at their fir>t meeting, Ids mother, who through life was one of the best of haters, conducted herself with a stern air of censure, and the old King alone showed her any favor. In no great while, he who had sworn to loie and cherish her, had become an avowed and most bitter enemy, and lie thence forth let no opportunity of annoying and mor tifying her escape. Their daughter, the sweet and herd • Princess Charlotte, upon whom the hop s of tlie nation became centered as tlitir fut ire s v ri in), for tlie offense of espousing her mother’s cause, was treated with a harsli- mss that had almost ended her life. Mrs. Fitzherbert, in the meanwhile, had no more reason to command tlie Princes’ faithful ness than had poor Car dine. As a son, tiiis first gentleman was no more admirable than as husband ind father. He not only placed himself in the opposition, but at eacli time when the state of his father indicated that a regent would have Pi be appointed he showed an indelicate eagerness to assume that posi tion. During much of the time lie was in a state of open hostility with botli of liis pa rents. Neither in his private or public life did lie show any defence to their nations or pros perity. When in 1810 the hopeless insanity of tlie old King made it impossible to post pone any longer tlie establishment of a regen cy, lie signalized his elevation to t hat position by an eiiteriainmeiit of the most hrilliantehar- acter. Giving entertainments was the only tiling in which he excelled, and these were planned and executed by persons who had more tai te than himself. Persecutions of his wife and daughter went on during all the time of his regency. Worn out by these, tlie poor Princess at length concluded to abandon the kingdom, and though her daughter and other friends advised against this, she set out on an aimless trip through the continent. The Princess Charlotte, in tlie meanwhile, having rejected the suitor whom her father tried to force upon her, married the man of her clioic The match was peculiatly a happy one, but it did not last long. After little more than a year of conjugal bliss, the young wife died at the birth of her first infant, which also died, and thus though tlie grandchildren of George tlie Third could be numbered by the dozen, tlie kingdom was for a time without an heir. There was then a great hurrying on the partof the big heavy sons of tlie old K tg, every one of whom had already wives and children, to contract state marriages, each hoping thereby to become tiie father of a king or queen. Tlie “first gentleman” would doubtless have enU r- ed this contest, but he, unfortunately, not only bad a private wife whom he professed to love, though he snub:ed and neglected her, hut also a wife of s a’e whom he cordially hated. It fell to the lot of Edward, Duke of Ken', the lead engaging though not the most wicked of the brothers, to effect the marriage which made him tlie father of Her Majesty, tlie Queen of Great Britian and Empress of India. Before this little heiress was a year old, the hard, unforgiving, much hating and much hated Queen Charlotte ami the dull old obsti nate King George were both in their graves and the ITince Regent had become King George tlie Fourth. As soon as slie learned that her graceless husband was King, Caroline of Brunswick hastened back to England to de mand recognition as Queen. Thereupon began a contest that shook the British government to its very foundations. The great body of the people who thought a Prince as much bound as a peasant to love and rt.spec; his wife, stood up to the poor, persecuted woman. It is a last ing disgrace to the British aristocracy that so many of of their number were found willing to pronounce her unfit to be Queen without ex pressing any censure of the heartless wretch who bad driven her to misconduct. But might prevailed over right, and the poor, heart-brok en woman succumbed to her persecutions and by her death, left her persecutor free. He was is also a similar freedom from sectional ism I Whether they are describing the moun tains of Tennessee nr the plantations of Louisiana, they are real and life-like, they understand the language of molln r earth and' of the human heart, “Posson Jone’,” can hardly be exc -lied. “Drifting Down Lost Creek,” is immortal. “Free Joe and the rest of the World” place before us in tlie tenderest, i kindest way imaginable the falsity and inhu- j inanity of an old phase of life, which nothing j but a master liana could do. The siiort story j thrives well in tb< land of its birth. “Mingo,” “Blue Dave,” “Free Joe and the Rest of tlie World,” “Drifting Down Lost Creek,” “The Han't that Walks Cliillioinee,” “Posson .lone’,’’ “Bellrs Demoiselles.” “A Soldier of tiie Empire,” ‘ Crow’s Nest,” and “Madame Lareveilliere,” are revealing to us tlie beauty, the pathos, the su.liinity of the varied life around us. Th se have put tlie negro, he mountaineer, the cracker and the Creole per manently in our literature. But tlie best field lias been almost untouched by genius. No ot e has as yet fully realized the depth, tlie intensity, the beauty and the passion ot tlie g-nerous, big-heaited, hospita ble, cultured old SotllherneThe urowil of immortality awaits him, that shall first achieve this success. Thomas Nelson Page, Mrs. Horace Ha rison. Miss Baylor, Miss Mc- Cleiland, Miss Grace King and others have offered just enough to create an ardent desire for tlie coming. Much lias Leen said and writte*n about tiffs new literature. Words of good sheer and lov ing appreciation are abundant, but the folliw- ing from ihe Atlantic Monthly contains a prophecy which must surely be fulfilled: “We should not lie surptised if the historian of our literature in after generations should take note of tlie enlargement of American letters at this time through the agency of a new South- The South enriches through a generous imag ination. The breadth which characterized tlie best Southern writing, the large free hand ling, tlie confident imagination, and legitimate results of the careless, yet masterful and hos pitable life which lias pervaded that section. We have had our laugh at the fiorid, coarse- flavoreil litera'ure which has not yet disap peared at the South, but we are witnessing the rise of a school which shows us the works of a generom nature when it has been schooled and ordered.” Paying Clay’s Debts. Henry Clay, when staggering under a load of debt, went into the bank at Lexington one day, prepared to pay an installment on an ac commodation note. To his surprise, he was told that not only that note, but all others held by tlie hank, Lad been paid. He was over whelmed witli emotion, and when the truth dawned upon him that loving, consideiate friends had relieved him of his pecuniary em barrassments, lie exclaimed: “Good heavens! did ever a man have such friends and such enemies as Henry Clay?” Philadelphians, learning liis difficulties, had raised the neces sary funds, and the transaction was accom plished secretly, effeettully, and with remark able delicacy. I am under tlie impression there are handsomely bound books in Phila delphia at this moment containing the names in print of those subscribing, together with the respective amounts contributed. This was an intended part of the details of tlie generous minded conspiracy to make easy the declining years of one who, from his lofty position, had advocated faitliTilly and well the advance ment of tie vital interests of Philadelphia. O Easy Chair! [N. M. Leva.) O easy chair, enrobed In blue, Thv silken ai ms I praise— Thon ex* rctsest such a spell, A witchery I cennot tell Comes o’er me when thy face 1 view. Once, longing, to thy arms I flew. Since then thy vast enchantment grew, For there I found fair Claribel; O easy chaff! And so thy kindly grace I woo. For thy sweet et mfort ever sue; For since that meeting there hefel, I’ve found her excellently well, Tny realm enchanted boldeth tut— O easy chaff I SAMUEL GOMI’ERS. ment buildings, and refuses to move, living in his house exactly as it was thirty years ago. lie is one of the men of the age. Samuel Gompcrs. The conve ition of tlie federation of trade and labor unions, which opened at Columbus, (fiffo, under tlie favorable directions and au spices of Mr. Samuel Gompcrs, of New York, was attend d by several thousands of working men. Mr. Gompcrs is a native of London, where lie was horn of Dutch parents, thirty- seven years ago. He came to America when he was but thirteen years of age, finding em ployment immediately at uis trade of cigar making, at which he luul worked from tlie 10th year, lie has hien a member of tlie In ternational Cigar Maker’s Union from its or ganization in 1*04, and at the time of his elec tion to tlie office he now holds, was its vice- president. All the indications favor the belief that tlie fedi ration of labor will soon become a dominant factor in the industrial movement of the age. It differs radically from ihe Knights in several important particulars, and for the present at least, die two organizations are likely to continue the warfare wit cli has been for some time in progress. Mr. Gompcrs says, “If the bettering of the condition of the masses is all that is desired, no contlict of authority need occur, no clashing of theories or methods need disturb that unity of ac ion that should be the distinguishing characteristic of all labor bett’s interests centre greatly in the working claeses and he is decidedly opposed to convict labor, inasm ich as he contends that the State pan better afford to maintain the S(ate prison at even a greater cost, than to have its industries crippled by competiti n with convict b“* ir - He has prominently presided at various labor meetings and has sent messages to be read when he could not be present in person, anu will therefor it is thought receive the untversa. vote of tlie labor men for the United States Senatorship. Mr. I-eon Abbett is a hearty, wi 11 proportioned man, apparently m the neighborhood of thirty-five or forty years ot age, and is tlie senior member of the law firm of Abbett and Fuller of Broadway, New \ ork. His political career has been one of rapid and successful stares and he is determined to se cure the seat in the Senate, if it lies in bis power to do so. His re-eieclion to the Gov ernorship would be almost a certainty, hut governors in New Jersey canrot under the Constitution of t iat State he elected tos icces- sive terms of office. Excitement is running high over the political movements of tlie can didates and odds are being laid on Abbett s election, despite all the schemes that may be devised by the opposite parties to defeat him. HOCTES MEMORABILES. “BY B. B.” Dramatis Persona. The Doctor—a bachelor, age 50. The Judge—a bachelor, age 45. The Professor—abachelor,(suspect) age 30. The Madam—a widow, (landlady) age un certain. , , The Imp—landlady’s hopeful, age irrelevant. Time—Night. Scene—Bachelor’s Apartments in a Down- street Boarding House. [Copyrighted by Author. All rights reserved.] SIXTH XICIIT. MODEL WOMEN. New Fields and Untrodden Paths. Valuable Suggestions and Brave Examples. organizations. The Executive Committee of tlie Federation propose to setd competent COL. THOMAS MOONLIGHT. favorably impressed with him that he selected him for the office to which he is nan ed. Gov ernor Francis E. Warren, tlie former incum bent, was found to be involved as an offender against the law prohibiting tlie fencing of pub ic lands, and was therefore suspended. Mr. George W. Baxter, son of tlie late Judge Bax ter, of Tennessee, was named as Warren’s suc cessor, and it was discovered ater that lie, too, had fences not permitted by law, and so was forced to “decline” the proffered place, finally, in favor of Mr. Thomas Moonlight. Colonel Thomas Moonlight, who lias accepted the Governorship of Wyoming Territory, suc ceeds ins former incumbent in the position for which he li id yet two years to run. He is a native of Forfarshire, Scotland, rnd is fifty- three years old, having been born outlie Hull of November, 1833. He emigrated to America in 1850, became a farmer and subsequently worked in a glass far. ory, and tlien in a brick yard until the year 185:!, when lie was nomi nated Secretary of the State of Kansas. lie became a member of the State Senate in 1873- 74, and served as Adjutant-General of the State in 1883 and 1884. He has seen service in the war, having shouldered liis musket as a private in tiie war for the Union in June, 1801, anj served until the conclusion of peace, rising from a private to a Colonel of cavalry and a Brigadier-General by brevet in February, 1805. In August last he was nominated by the Dem ocrats for Governor of Kansas, but was over whelmingly defeated by Governor John A. Martin, the Republican candidate for re-elec tion. JOHN ERICSSON. John Ericsson. Tlie ino*t prolific inventor of the nineteenth century is John Ericsson. Cap ain John Eri-- sson, who carries the weight of his eighty-four years with much dignity, was born in the province of Weruieland. Sweden, in 1803. He entered the navy as ensign in 1820, was em ployed in surveys in northern Sweden and rose to the rank of capta n. In 1820 became to England to introduce his invention of a “flame engine,” but owing to the circu nstances under wliich it was tried, it proved unsuccessful. Soon afterwar 1 he resigned liis commission in the Swedish navy, and devoted himself in England to mechanical inventions, including that of the steam boiler, on the principal of ar tificial draught. This principle wai applied in the “Novelty,” a locomotive engine which he constructed :o compete for a prize offered in 18211 by the Liverpool and Manchester railway for the lightest and fastest locomotive engine. The “Novelty” failed by accident to meet the conditions of the prize, which was awarded to JUDGE THOMAS M. COOLEY. speakers throughout the States to preach its doctrines, and they will also shortly begin tlie publication ot an official journal, to be called the Union Standari. It will be under the edi torial management of Mr. Gcirqiers (its presi dent), who is not witl-.out experience in jour nalism. Judge Thomas M. Cooley. Recent railway troubles have brought num bers of men of noted ability into prominence, among these may be mentioned Judge Thomas M. Cooley, tlie present receiverof tlie Wabash Railroad, who has recently announced a num ber of conspicuous appointments for leading positions, which have mot wi h the highest ex pressed commendation of elevated authorities concerned. Thomas M. Cooley was born at Attica, New York, January titii, 1824. He re moved to Michigan in tlie year of 1843, and be came one of the prominent citizens of tlie West, studying law and receiving liis admit tance to the bar of that State in 184(i. He is tlie author of numerous legal reports, digests and compilations which are much and often referred to by tlie modern jurist. Through his ability be became professor of law in Michigan University in 1850, a justice of the Supreme Court of Michigan in 1804, and three years later was honored by the offer of tlie chief jus ticeship, which he accepted with much manly dignity and little effusion as to the great hon or conferred upon him. Of Judge Cooley, it is related that in early life lie was not thought to be much of a lawyer, and, indeed, he once abandoned that orofession for farming, and LEON ABBETT. bought 100 acres of land near Adrian, which for a long time claimed more of his atten tion that did his profession. He fell in love with a rosy young l.ass, the daughter of a farmer. But when “Tom” made his tint d proposal to the old gentleman, the latter dark ly swore that no child of Lis should marry a man that could not earn his own living. The young lady herself had another, and as it proved, a more wiser view, she consented to run away, and married “Tom” in the face of her father’s refusal. Judge Cooley often re fers, with a calm, joking seriousness of the time when he was a larmer. Leon Abbett. There is scarcely a doubt but that all the la bor men will poll their respective votes for Governor Leon Abbett of New Jersey for the U. S. Senatorship. Mr. Leon Abbett has sub mitted his last annual message to the Legisla ture and it is vigorous in handling certain mat ters that will attract much attention. Mr. Ab- Slie gets playful sometimes, it is true, when out in the meadows or roaming through the fields, but though she must gambol occasion ally site never gets down off her stiits to do it, not she; but hops about on them quite couti- j ance of dy rally, and oddly ewnuli to be sure. j Frequently she is hopelessly obscure. This is owing sometimes to an attempt to appear exceedingly analytical. The most massive thought under the hyper-analytical dissecting knife may become so finely attenuated as to wholly escape the observation of ordinary minds not provided with good metaphysical microscopes; sometimes to a pardonable de sire to he—or a less excusable desire to be thought to be—very profound; but chiefly due to what Do Quincy calls “tlie barbarous effect produced by a German structure of sentence,” which slic evidently affects, both in the dis position of her clauses, and her studious aver sion totlie use of parlicipi 1 phrazes. it is a well known fact that of all onr mod ern languages the English and tlie Spanish are the only ones that in their complete sentence- structure are capable of combining ptrfcct strength with perfect t-ase, perfe.-t grace: and pen ect perspicuity—of expressing a complex thought at once as a whole, forcibly, elegantly and clearly. In this respect—and also in their peculiar adaptability to oratory and tlie highest form of poetry (her lie blank verse), growing out of it—they both resemble tlie Latin, to whirii, in fact they are botli indebted for this very prop erty; the first by appropriation, tiie other by inheritance. Tlie distinguishing characteristic of these two languages, tlie common peculiarity in which they differ from all others is in tlie fre quent use of participial phrases, where other languages—notably the German and its kin dred tongues—employ relative and adverbial clauses: tire subordinate qualifying or explan atory thought in tlie first two being assumed and incorporated into the leading one; whereat in tlie others t is affirmed, predicated ami mere y tacked on. Hence tlie thought in tlie longest English or Spanish sentence stands out sharp and clearly defined, a complete whole, strong, graceful, flowing, a garment woven without seam throughout; while in the German it is patciied up of many separate pieces but illy stitched together, and quite ragged and ravelled often in spite of tlie greatest care. For a good example of the effect of these two methods of sentence building—or, more properly, for tlie difference between sentence w- aving and sentence tailoring—take your Bi bles and read in these three languages the ser- ’uioi'To'r 1 eter oiYtiie u.iy'oT rWiteCusY * ' Now Miss Cleveland—in rejecting this parti cipial phrase and substituting in its stead the awkward adverbia and relative clauses—has allowed iter pardonable love of tlie German to blind her to Hie advantages of one of the most charming and powerful idioms of her mother tongue, and to mislead her into sacrificing the chief element at once of its wonderful beauty, strength and persp.cuity. She has a trick, too, of jumbling, German fashion, a half dozen unconnected (or but re motely conne.ted) thoughts, more or less, into one sentence, with no little confusion, since the English—owing to its paucity of inflec tional terminations—positively refuses to bear anything like excessive crowding or violent in versions without degenerating into hopeless obscurity or absolute nonsense. She handles her relative and adverbial clauses with a reckless defiance to all rules of grammar and composition, that would be al most admirable if it were not so provokingly perplexing to the reader who is accustomed to look for some kernel of thought in these huge lull's of words. I have another and more serious fault to find with Miss Cleveland. She seems to be utterlv wanting in what ®e might term the perception of word appropriateness—the pow er to see and seize upon, iuteutively, the very one right word in all the. language that will express most exactiy, most comprehensively, forcibly, clearly and pleasingly the intended idea, the power to so express a thought in words such that any addition, subtraction or change however slight would he seen to mar and digrade i>; tlie power that will ever distinguish the true child of genius from all the host of pretenders tliattiirong the courts of liter ature. If to “suit the action to the word” be tlie task of the actor, suiting the word to the thought is tiie mucli more difficult task of the writer; and the power to do it is the very seat of genius. The object of t lie novel is simply to tell an interesting story interestingly, a humorous one humorously, an— The Doctor: Aha! l’rofessor Will, I’ve caught you napping at last. Mr. Howells «ays there are now no stories left to tell. How about that? The Prof.: My dear Doctor, does the noon day sun hide his face simply be muse some blind man foolishly imagining the universe to be contained in liis own little body, happens to cry out, “It is all dark, and there is no light any where at all!”! Mr. Howells’dictum when translated into truth means simply that Mr. Howells himself lias no stories to tell. Or perhaps, be wanted to say something striking and chose to make a statement at variance with facts, truth and common sense, as the more likely to attract attention th* refor. He might with no less regard for truth and no greater display of ridiculous self-conceited tx- cat lied raisin, have said: “There are no more poems to write, or there are no more songs to be sung. Given the ten Arabic figures and there is no limit to tlie combinations into which they may enter. My algeht a teaches ire that v ith a sin gle infinite factor my product must necessarily be infinite. Now when we take into consider ation the different passions, emotions amide- sires that lodge in a single human bosom, the infinite motives, eter varying intinitively, that actuate a single human being, tlie infinite va riety of circumstances under which ttey act, the ever changing surroundings and condi tions, and that for no individual at any two moments, nor for any two individuals at any time are these all ever tlie same; and when we pause a moment to think that of these infinite and ever infinitely varying factors is made up the grand product of what we term human ac tion, it requires no further arguments to con vince us that the possibilities of new combina tions arising is by no means unthinkable—in fact, is the only thinkable conclusion. To ob serve and record these new combinations as they actually occur, or with the giveu factors Editor Sunny South : I am perhaps something of a monomaniac tinon tlie subject of less wearing and more re munerative work for women than that supplied by tlie school room, the counter ami the wash- tub. During many years the following in stances of original occupations have fallen under my personal observation, one of which may give a hint to some struggling soul. I know a well edit ,-atcd, charming little married lady who makes quite a sum regularly by The Sale of Saratoga Potatoes. These were always a favorite dish of hers, and among her own circle of friends she had acquired quite a reputation for their delicious cooking. Thinking one day how she would love to make a visit to her Eastern home, with plenty of new clothes and a nurse to relieve her from the care of the children, tlie idea of frying Saratoga potatoes for sale occurred to her. -he sa» her grocer, taking a sample of her wares, who aiilingly became her agent. Soon it kept her quite busy to supply tlie d< - niand. She added several to the number of her servants, teaching them her methods, and site now frequently prepares a barrel of Sara toga chips to fill a single order. Her reputa tion has spread to New York and San Fran cisco, where her potatoes are regularly sent, and arc as much in demand as in St. Louis. Beautiful Feather Flowers. A lady and her daughter, living in ( Iiicago, lost not only fortune, hut husband and father. F -r tlie decoration of their own home, and as gifts to friends, these ladies had frequently made most beautiful feather flowers. Now they earn tlieir entire support by manufactur ing them for sale. The exquisite white lilies that everybody tries to smell, the lovely fuch sias—in fact, imitations of-all flowers are made simply out of chicken feathers, with the assist- : for colored blossoms. A Female Scalper. l’assing down the principal street of a thriv ing town one day, I was struck with a very fe rocious looking sign. It was eight feet Irgli by two feet wide, of white canvas, and repre sented an Indian, arrayed in all his war paint and feathers, grasping several scalps, upon which were the letters “15. it O. if. 1!.,” “O. & M. it. It.,” “I*. Ci I!. It. It.,” etc. I called a friend's attention to this work of art, who said, in reply to my interrogatory eyebrows, “Gome and see.” \Ve stepped inlo a large, pleasant room, whose front windows were all lllle l with blooming plants, canary birds, gold fish, and a parrot added to the attractiveness of tlie apartment, one side of which was almost covered with wood cuts taken from different pap- rs. But tlie greatest surprise, after such a terr fying sign, was tlie occupant of the room, a lady, low voiced and gentle, to whom my friend introduced me. Yankee fashion, I soon asked an explanation of tlie remarkable picture at the door. It was told me that this lady was “a scalp er” or dealer in railroad tickets, and that her income was from seventy-five to one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month, according to the season of the year. The customers com ing from the great city of Dan, instead of buy ing tickets only to their own little town, would purchase them to the metropolis of Beersheba, live hundred miles beyond. The fare from Dan to Beetsheba is only twenty dollars, but a passenger buying to tlie town where our s :a pter lived, less than midway, was charged twelve dollars, and had lie decided to continue his trip to Beersheba, he would have had to add fifteen dollars more to his traveling ex penses. So it is plain that our little lady could easily afford to pay ten dollars for the remainder of the ticket brought htr, which was always in demand at thirteen dollars, and so she made three dollars and saved iter pass enger two, Resides the two site put into the pocket of the traveler who bought her ticket. Though tlie United States is full of dealers in railroad tickets, though most roads offer a generous commission to brokers, if able to command much trade, though it requires but small capital, as tlie money is turned over very rapidly, there is bit, one woman in the United States engaged in this business. Fish Guano. Farmers, Washington, I). C: I write for Information. Will you pleise inform me of tlie method of making fish guano namely how togrir d the fish and what other ingredients and what proportions > We are too busy on tlie S. S. to study or read up on the guano question. Write to the Baltimore Agriculturist, and you will get all the informa ion desired. All such questions should be aidressed to agricultural papers, as it is directly in their line and habit if thought, and not ours. N3mes. L. L., Wildwood, Fla: f, like others come to tlie “quiz coin an” for information. I want to know how tiie narm s “Joaquin” and Juanita” are pronounced. Common sense would tell us to pronounce all names according to our own language. It is simply impossible to give French, ] alum. Russian, Indian and every other language the promt-nation given in tlie native tonge. The French say ilureun for Macon. So with a:l nt tions, you cannot get their pronunction without outraging our own letters and pro nunciation Juanita, to be foreign, is pronounc ed iranita and Joaquin, Joarquen or something like it. We are for Americanizing euery for eign word; and not twisting our tongues out of joint to talk like a foreigner. We asked an Italian how lie pronoui ced Italy. Etelay, ac cent on etc. A Frenchman cannot say, this, that or those as we pronounce it, to save his life, dis, dat, dose is as near as lie can come. You see the point. Plays. Subscriber, Scott-lioro, Ala: Will yot, through your next issus, p.ease give tlie ad dress of some good publisher of “Amateur Flays?” Write to Sam’l French & Son., 38 E. 1 Ith street N. Y., or T. S. Denison, Chicago. Car Factory. Vox, Whitney, Texas: I would like to know the address ot the most extensive car factory in tlie United States. Answer through your Quiz Column. We do not keep run of all the large manu facturing establishments in tlie U. S. They do not advertise in die S. S. But neverthe less we think I’ulimans’ car factory of Chica go tiie largest in the U. S. if not in the world. Evangeline. Enquirer, Augusta, Ark: Let me know through your quiz column if Longfellow’s “Evangeline” has ever been dramatized, and if not, the reason. We do not think it has ever been drama tized. As to the reasons they may be many. 1. Would it pay? 2. Could it be well done? Would it take with the people? And other reasons too numerous to mention. JA work oat need combinations of his own, is Ve business of the story teller. Ai d so you rest easy, Doctor, under the comforting assur ance that until the product of an infinite num ber of infinities can be proven to be a finite number, the stories will not all have been told; any statement of that hyper-analytical, self- conceited, self-constituted Prophet-Priest-and- King of Realism, Mr. W. I). Howells to the contrary notwithstanding. CONTINUED NEXT WEEK. Old Brown Is dead. And that's too bad, too. * Did he leave any thing ?” Well, yts. He bad to l . Gblc.ken.-Earm.. I know a finely educated woman, a school teacher for many years, wtiose health gave way under this nervous work, and whom paralysis stared in the face. She droop.d her books, locked iier school-room, hir d an acre or so of land with a little cottage and bam upon it, called to her side as assistant anil protector, an elderly woman who was without a home. This lady is now at the head of quite a prosperous chicken farm. Siie uses tlie in cubator successfully, ra ses fall chickens for exportation to the city in January and Febru ary, receiving large prices for them at that tim , packs her|eggs,and those of all her neigh bors, in summer, thereby doubling her profit, lias regained her health, and feels that kful every day ot her life that she had energy and courage to escape what was coming s j rapidly upon her. Selling Flowers. I know another lady whose husband was unfortunate in business. She had always been extremely fond of flowers. Their lovely home was her own, a gilt from her father. So the green-house, wliich had hi en simply a tiling of beauty before, under tiie hands of an ex pensive gardener, was now taken into her own charge, and was made to bear a very large with some poetry dedicated to a “Confederate share of the family expenses for several years, note.” Will you please inform me through There was no other conservatory in the little [ tlie columns of the Sunnv Bourn the name of _ Telegraphy. „ . Subscriber, Bowden, Ga: Through the col li ms of the Sunny South please inform me where I could learn telegraphy. Are there any schools for that purpose, if so where'. 1 How long would it take to learn it? 2. What is the best tiling to put on tlie face, afiershav ing, to keep it from chapping. 3. What will remove dandruff from the head. 1. Write to Shennan Telegraph Co., Ober- lin, Ohio. 2. Vaseline, after shaving. 3. Bay rum to wash the head. Subscriber, Belton, Texas: Fleas e give me- through the columns of your valuable paper the cause and remedy for spavin in horses. We would advise you to write to any agri cultural paper for such information, and send to (>. Judd, Publisher, New York for liis book on the horse, or to J. B. Ford & Co., Printing House Square, New York, for his work on the, horse. Confederate Note. I). I!. W.: I send you by mail to-day a card city, and tlie demand for herazaleas, and daphnes, and crepe myrtles, was something wonderful, as well as the rapidity with wliich slit: chanted her blossoms to silver. It was no child's play, there was plenty of good hard work about it, but at tlie same time it was lie: ltliful and refining. Running Her Husband’s Business. An Ohio lady lately iost her husband, a large farmer, and a heavy cultivator of sweet potatoes. She was courageous enough to go on witli her husband's business, and instead of selling the farm for a mere song, and living dependentthe rest of her life, she superintends the lann as her husband did, lives in the same handsome style, and is inex pressibly happier than if she had folded her hands in idleness and misery. Last spring this energetic lady transacted an immense bus iness in selling the young potatoe plants, re ceiving orders for them all over tlie United States, frequent ly sending away by express one hundred thousand plants, carefully pack ed, in a single day. Occasionally she has some trouble with a new laborer who does not like “to be bossed by a woman ” but it is not long before the most unruly gro .v to admire and respect the energy, honesty and ability of their employee. Chicken Pies. A lady once came in despair to one of the patrons of the Woman’s Exchange in a west ern city. Her eyes were seriously affected, and allowed her :o do nothing in tlie way of fancy work and painting in which she excelled. She was poor and in perfect despair as to how she should eke out her little income. “Well,” said the representative of tiie exchange, “what can you do? For what have you been most Highly commended in your whole life?” “I really believe for my chicken pies,” respond ed the poor lady, laughing at the poverty of her accomplishments, now that her eyes were useless. “That is the very thing for you to do hen,” said her friend, and she did it well. Buying some little dishes just large enough to coutain enough pie for one person, she it once began supplying the Woman’s Exchange. S’.e found it far more profitable thao the nee dle work and painting had been, as her chick en pies were so n.ce they soon became the fashion. Another lady who lives in the country makes one hundred dollars each spring by simply picking the beautiful marguerites which grow wild in such profnsitn, making tlum into ar tistic little bouquets, and sending them to the Woman’s Exchange. These with their inno cent lovely faces, so suggestive of green grass, babbling brooxs and waving trees, they cheer the hearts of the much to be pitied city folks. The daises are especially good for this pur pose as the season is long and the flower is not easily injured by transportation. Dont, then follow the beaten paths, but open a bread and milk dairy, where both arti cles shall be so good that nobody can possibly want anything else for lunch, or “go west,” young woman as well as your brother, and “settle” on what may be a good farm. Dare to be a little original in your ideas and sum mon sufficient courage to carry them out. Think over what you can do best, prepare yourself thoroughly and then go to work to find success. Mrs. A. C. Coates. Pierce City, Mo. the author. We dc not think the author is known; if lie >s, we have never heard the name. We have often read tlie lines within tlie Confederate note, beginning— | “Representingnothing on God’s earth now. And naught in tlie waters below it. As the pledge of a nation that passed away, Keep it, dear friend, and show it.” It is a gem, real poetry, and will rank as such wheu real merit is considered. An Answer. Please inform “S. K., Marshall, Texas,’ that a letter addresseii to Joaquin .Miller, Log Cabin, Washington, D. C., will reach the “Poet in the Sierras.” I saw S. K.’s query in S. S. of 13th inst. Very respectfully, Magister. Concord, Fla. Did Crady Say It? C. A. IL, Augusta, Ga : Some of the North ern papers, as in offset to Mr. Grady’s speech before tlie New England Society in New York, report him as having said at tlie reception to President Davis in Atlanta, “That it was the greatest day since the ret urrectiou of Jesus Christ. ” Please say if he is correctly reported? Yes, he made use of those words or some thing to that effect. But what can tiiey make out of that ? The Last Hymn. S. T. B., Columbus, Miss.: Can you inform me who is tlie author of the poem beginning, “fhe Sabbath day was ending in a village by the sea”(?) The name of it is “The Last Hymn.” Don’t know. Will some of our readers give the information desired ? A Longer Word. V. W. H., University of Va.: In the S. S. of the tith inst. “Reader” called attention to the name of the facial muscle. levator Labii Superioris Alaeque Nasi, as containing more letters (33) than any word I e or she had found. I think this to be rather a descriptive sentence than a word, considering it a word, however, I would like to submit the following as the long est I ever saw: Methylicbeuzo-metholethyl- tetra-hydro-pyridine-carbonate, fifty-one letters commonly known as Cocaine. An active Al kaloid separated from the plant Erythroxylon Coca which grows on the eastern slope of the Andes. There cannot possibly be any such word. It may be a sentence, or nothing, we rather expect the latter. More humor than anything else, is intended, we judge. Regret. When I courted, there was no one sweeter— None to make the heart of man to ***** Then I laid that I should like to eat Ear: And now, well—I only wish I had!
