About The sunny South. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1875-1907 | View Entire Issue (May 14, 1887)
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It is well to write the name „f the MSS. at the top of each pave-, the payee ixauld be careefully numbered according to their regular sequence. The writer’s real name and res idence should be written on the MSS., as letters are sometimes misplaced. If a rum de plume is used It should be written directly under the title. It must os distinctly stated whether pay ts expected for MSS. tent in. We cannot return MSS., nor be responsible for them, when sent in voluntarily, unless specially re quested to do so and in such cases stamps must be inclosed. The writer should always keep a copy. Address all letters concerning the paper and make .11 bills payable to ^ g SEALS & CO.. Atlanta. Os. Improved Railroad Syndicates. The l'an Handle train robbers, and the gang recently engaged in robbing the Richmond & Danville cars in South Carolina, have been advanced to the dignity of ‘ Improved Rail road Syndicates." “When Greek meets Greek,” etc. A Big Tax Dodger, Wm. H. Vanderbilt turns out to have been a big tax-dodger. It is said, he used to return his personal property at SI,000,000. Shortly after his death the same property was assessed at $10,000,000. The executors offered to pay on $5,000,000 or move out of the city. A compromise of $8,000,000 was finally agreed upon. The St. Paul Globe says in reference to President Cleveland’s Calhoun letter. “If it was treason in Mr Cleveland to write that let ter, then Daniel Webster’s monument will have to be removed from in front of the State- house in Boston, and his memory, together with that cf Henry Clay, be consigned to ob livion. In public debate, Clay and Webster were Calhoun’s ablest combatants. Yet when Calhoun was the first of the great American triumvirate to die, the other two were the first to step forward to lay immortal 11 iwers on his bier. Each stood up in his place in the senate chamber and paid a tribute to the dead man’s virtues by the side of which Mr. Cleveland’s lettler pales in comparison. A little newsboy put up a “good one”’ on Ordinary A. C. Speer, at Americus, a day or two ago. The Judge had often bantered the boy to sell him two papers, the Telegraph and Constitution, for a nickel instead of ten cents. The little gutter-snipe of course refused, but at once determined to put up a job on his cus tomer in order to get even, so going into the office one day recently and being importuned as usual, he finally yielded and banded over two papers that were printed in 1885, both of which the Judge read through with much gusto before his mistake was pointed out to him by a friend. He doesn’t say much about it, but is lying low for that boy, who now gives the court house a wide berth in his daily rounds. One Hundred Millions. Preparations are being made to build a big vault for the treasury department at Wash ington. It is to hold silver and will be large enough to hold 100,000,000 silver dollars.— Exchange. And that is called financiering and states manship! God save the mark. The govern ment with past due obligations—the navy and defenses in a tumble-down condition—the peo ple poor and needing work. Yet squander the money to build a vault to store away money belonging to tne people and which the people weed. “Turn the rascals out.” Reception of Queen Kapiolani. On the arrival of Queen Kapiolani of the Sandwich Islands at San Francisco, a repre sentative of the port from the Custom House, boarded the steamer and welcomed the Queen to this country on behalf cf the United States government. Her Majesty replied: “I thank you for your courtesy. I have always been anxious to visit this great country, and I have no doubt but my stay here will be a pleasant one.” As the steamer steamed past Fort Point she announced her arrival by firing a single gun. Immediately the guns of the Fort thundered out a royal salute of twenty-one guns. In passing the Alicatras the royal salute was re peated, and as the vessel swept down the bay and passed the British corvette Conquest, the British flag was dipped, the portholes opened, and another royal salute of twenty-one guns was fired. A Word to Florida Hotel Keepers. The Jacksonville Times-Union-thus lectures the hotel men of that State: Now that there are very few visitors in the State, and the season is past for their coming thither, the time has come to say to the hotel men that it is just as important for them to recognize the changed condition of things in the era of competition as it is for the railroads to do so. The exorbitant prices charged by hote.s has had at least equally as injurious an effect upon Florida travel as the high rates of fare charged by the railroads. During the past five years we have personally heard, or been the recipient of at least two thousand complaints against the high rates charged for interior hotel accommodations, and it is a common theme of talk among ths tourists themselves throughout the winter season, as the proprietors well know. We say plainly, however, that there is just as much need for reduced charges by the ho tels of the State as for reduced fares on the railroads. There should also be uniformity in the charges. During the height of the season a man goes to a hotel whose nominal price is four dollars a day, aLd when he comes to pay his bill he finds that he has been charged at a rate of anywhere from five to nine dollars a day. And we have been shown a bill of one of the hotels in the interior made out at six dollars a day where the rate printed on the let ter heads of the hotel was three dollars a day. In cases like this the victims do not simply feel themselves gouged by the excessive charges, but resent them as a swindle and de ception, and they are not reluctant to spread the stories of their wrongs. It is to such things as this that the almost constant jibes at the exorkitar t charges of Florida hotels, to be found in the Northern newspapers, are due. Hon. W. D. Kelly, of Pennsylvania. This distinguished citizen—“Father of the House,” and familiarly known the Union over as “Fig Iron Kelly"—has been some weeks in the South, and at many places has been hon ored with attention. At Anniston he was banquetted, and subsequently made a trip in a special car down the Anniston and Atlantic railway—accompanied by Mr. Matthew Addy, of Cincinnati; Messrs. Sam Noble, S. J. Ran dall, Capt. T. K. Scott, Dr. Kelly, of Annis ton, and several others. These gentlemen went down for the purpose of inspecting the celebrated iron oie deposit of Capt. Jones, in Talladega county, along the line of this road, which is pronounced to be the finest and most valuable deposit of ore in this section of coun try. The gentlemen returned perfectly enthused at the enormous amount of ore shown them. From Anniston Judge Kelly went to Rome, whose citizens had made arrangements to en tertain him in a manner comporting with his honorable position, and commensurate with bis unsurpassed, if not unequalled services in the development of the resources of the coun try—not only of the State he so worthily rep resents—but of the entire country. Appreciating his services, the Macon, Ga., Telegraph informs that there has been for warded from that city an invitation to Hon. W. D. Kelly to a:cept the hospitality of Ma con. It is earnestly hoped, says the Tele graph, that he will find it convenient to ac cept. Judge Kelly is one of the foremost men in the country to-day, devoted to its industrial development irrespective of section; and though he is Republican in politics, he is con servative there, and not at cross purposes with the South on business questions. He is a for cible speaker and deep thinker, and to hear him is a privilege. A speech from such a man in a community is as the building of a factory. Are Long Engagements Judicious? Good old Dr. Primrose tells us that believing the period of courtship the happiest portion of human life, he did not hurry forward the mar riage of his son George and Miss Arabella Wilmot. We heard a friend of ours some time since urge the same reason for not insist ing that a marriage that has been planned should not be speedily consummated. We be lieve however that the general sentiment is adverse to long engagements. Most parents do not deem it desirable that young men should visit their daughters as accepted lovers for many months. They suppose that the intima cy presupposed in an engagement of marriage may he fraught with danger if kept up for a long*period. Thousands of melancholy instan ces prove this apprehension not ill founded, while the instances of happy terminations of very protracted engagements are comparative ly rare. Sometimes an untoward event forces the lovers apart, as was the case with George Primrose and Miss Arabeila. More often the two become tired of the matter, and part mu tually disgusted, with no very pleasing memo ries of what has passed between them. Per haps one, or it may be both, see others whom they think they would like better, and in such cases, if the engagement is carried out, it is with something of regretful reluctance. Ris ing above all these however is the threatenings to reputations from slanderous tongues, or the danger of a scandal in which there is no slan der. It is better, every way, that there should be no long-standing engagement. Young men should not announce that “Barkis is willin’’ until they are in a condition to marry. They should not ask ladies to cut off their chances of receiving other offers for the probability of marrying them. Young ladies too should ( knew how to prepare dainty dishes to tempt steadily refuse to compromise their pease of the dull appetite, and her hand could make mind by engagements that may be indefinitely ( beds and pillows more comfortable. With all Something About Sugar. It was announced a few months ago that a German chemist had discovered a method of extracting from common coal tar a substance that could be employed as a substitute for cane and grape sugars. This new product is called “saccharine,” and is said to be two hundred and thirty timei sweeter than the best clarified cane sugar. That will seem incredible to or dinary readers, who will be inclined to regard the thing as the result of skillful scientific ma nipulation until they can see and test the new substance. A London letter Btates that this new sugar has already become an article of commerce, and fhat it will he extensively man ufactured, while leading chemists in Germany and Holland are said to predict that it will produce a revolution in commerce and manu facturing. Among the merits claimed for the coal tar sugar is that it is a perfect antiseptic, and is not susceptible to fermentation like the cane and grape sugars. It will keep yeast for years, and preserve strawberries and other perish able fruits any length of time in the same con dition they are when gathered from the gar den. It is not necessary to cook them or to keep them in vessels hermetically sealed. It is also said to be strictly anti-diebetic, and it is recommended by leading German physicians for persons who cannot eat any ordinary kinds of sweetening. Apparently “saccharine” will be of no value as food, for it is said to pass through the organs of digestion unchanged. But as a condiment it will be as valuable as sugar, and as a preserver of many articles of food it will have no equal. This is claiming a good deal for the new discovery, and we shall probably see how it will “pan out.” Just on the heels of this announcement comes a report Irom the East which is impor tant, if true. It is stated that there has been discovered, in British India, a blossom of such siccharine properties that “it is destined to revolutionize the sugar business of the world.” That means a good deal for a simple flower to do. It is the flower of the mahwa, or moola, a tree of large size which abounds in the Southern portion of Ilindoostan. This blos som has a sweet taste and yields one-half its weight in sugar. The Hindoos have for a long period been accustomed to extract a sirup from the mahwa’s flowers, but in the most primitive fashion, without attempting to develop a pro cess. The tree, it is stated, demands neither care nor cultivation, and produces immense quantities of blossoms. Of this report the Grocer’s Criterion says: “If this wonderful report is correct, it may be seen at a glance wiiat a disastrous compe tition the traiiwa is likely to make witn exist ing sugar industries. The best West India plantations produce 300 pounds per aspent (one and a fourth acres), and the French and German sugar-beet farms do not equal this amount. But it is claimed that the blossoms of five mahwa trees will yield the same amount, a statement not consistent with the reported weight of the bloom, which, however, must be an error. From 200 to 250 trees can be grown upon an aspent, from which it results that the crop of sugar will be from forty to fifty times greater per acre of land than that of the sugar cane. The English-speaking Hindoo press is already urging the Government to take steps for making this new sugar industry a monop oly so far as possible.” The Sugar Neutralized by the Acid. “Yes, Dorcas was a notable woman. She made many garments, and she did many alms deeds. Tidiness prevailed in her home and thrift followed upon her management. Her husband could not help feeling thankful for a wife who always made each dollar go as far as a dollar should. Her neighbors too found her helpful in seasons when help was needed. She prolonged. The cases in which any other course is advisable, are altog» ther exceptional. Courtship is, .from the admission of those who have been along there, a very pleasing episode in life. There m*y be no great harm in its being prolonged through years provided no very great intimacy should ensue. It is well however that the lady mingle no small share of distrust with the respect which sne should feel for any young man whom she admits to her society—when an offer has been made and accepted this distrust is removed in a great measure. But the assured confidence of mar riage cannot then come too soon. Foot and Footwear. A shoe merchant of Philadelphia has been talking to a reporter abont the size and shape of women’s feet, and he pointed to the fact that “the marble young women who have been left as a legacy to the modern world of art” by the Grecians and Romans of “ye olden times,” were considered ideal specimens of feminine beauty—feature and figure—but are not noted for small feet; “nor are their toes doubled up in a bunch as is the case with nine-tenths of the fashionable beauties of Philadelphia.” He declares that “women have a perfect craze for small feet;” that he serves thousands of wo men with footwear, and can count on his fin gers the number of his customers “who have sufficient common sense, let alone courage, to cover their feet with shoes of a size not calcu lated to deform their feet, or, at least, not likely to give them pain or cause them prema ture fatigue when walking.” He declares that very few women of average height and limb really can wear smaller shoes than from fours to fives. He then went on to say: “There is hardly a woman in the city who does not disguise the number she wears for shoes as carefully as, sooner c r later, she dis guises the years of her age; they always go back a size. Putting aside the cramping of the toes, however, Philadelphia women have naturally small feet; that is, smaller than their sisters in many other States. New York wo men come close to them, with New Jersey thrown in; but when you get to Baltimore and journey South, you find women’s feet grow smaller and altogether of a different shape to Northern women’s lower extremities. In New Orleans, Louisville, Memphis, Atlanta, and in a dozen more Southern centers it would be im possible to sell the stock of a Philadelphia or New York shoemaker. The Dixit-land belles have very high insteps for one thing, and the soles of their feet are very narrow. On the other hand, when you go West the size and shape again alters from the Eastern foot and becomes wider aod much larger, the climax being reached in Chicago, where the average shoe sold is from seven to nine. [A Chicago editor denounces this as a libel.] “By the way, don’t go away under the idea that only women are particular at out the size and shape of their shoes, as gentlemen share that vanity largely. Men are not as liable to wear shoes too small for them as women, but they will take a lot of squeiziogfor the sake of keeping inside a shoe that takes their par ticular fancy. Indeed, it was the French fops of the Quatorze and QitiLze era in France who started the injurious custom of high-heel shoes, the most clingmg fashion that has ever existed, for it has not been killed through two successive centuries. The worst offenders are the young men whom your newspaper fellows describe as ‘dudes,’ and their high heels are largely the cause of the spindle-shanks so many society men exhibit. A broad, low heel should be adopted by everybody.” these excellent qualities and qualifications Dorcas was not set down by her intimate ac quaintances aa exactly a lovely womsta. Manys of them were disposed to blame themselves because they could not love her more. The truth was that while she had much sugar in her make up she had also a great deal of acid, and to those who were brought about her most, the latter almost wholly neutralized the former. Her temper was quick, andhertongue sharp. She could say severe things and was much given to saying them upon very slight provocation. The virtue of patience was one which she had never been very careful to cultivate. What arose to her lips in a moment of irritation was apt to be spoken, and those abont her seldom passed a day without suffer ing some cruel wound. These did not always find it in their hearts to condone her violence for sake of her virtues. They conld not always forget her harsh speeches because her acts were kind, and so in the summing up it was not easy to say whether they who lived with her regarded her with more of love or of dread. When freshly sore under her rasping words, her husband children,and servants often found the latter sentiment the prevalent one, and thought fcr the time that when her tongue should be still in death, their relief would be an almost unmixed pleasure. But when she had passed away a more lenient judgement prevailed. The mantle of charity was cast over her frailties, and lines of erasu.e were run across all parts of her history save those that were worthy of administration. All this that we have written of Dorcas may with slight variation be written of many women who are noted for activity, energy and thrift. The sourness of the manner goes far towards de stroying the sweetness of the deeds. Nor is this record to be made only of the sex whose members are peculiarly liable to derangement of nerves. Not a few men destroy to a great extent the effect of good intentions and benev olent actions by being moody, irritable or sar castic kind acts become unkind if done in an unkind way. * * SHERIDAN'S RIDE. Ceneral Rosser Objects to his Tripping Again Through the Shenandoah Valiev. Winchester, Ya., May 3.—The following letter from General Rosser will appear in the Winehester Times to morrow morning: University of Virginia, May 2, 1887.— 4 Major Holmes Conrid* Winchester, Va.— My Dear Major: I have seen it reported recently in the newspapers that Gen. P. H. Sheridan, U. S. A., contemplates at an early day another ti ip up the Shenandoah Valley. I had hoped that our beautiful valley should never again be desecrated by his footprints. Co.d, cruel and brutal must be this character of the soldier who fondly cherishes memories of the wild, wanton‘waste and desolation which his barba rous torch spread through the valley, laying in ashes the beautiful and happy homes of iuno cent women, young and helpless children and aged men; and who, over these ruins, boasted that now a crow cannot fly over this valley without carrying its rat ous. "Gen Sherican has done nothing since the war to atone for his cruel barbarism during the war. We have not forgotten that during his reign in New Orleans be asked that our fellow-citizens in Louisiana might be pro claimed banditti in order that he might set the dogs of war on them. I have forgiven the brave men of the Union armies whom I met in honors ole battle, and who finally triumphed over us in the great struggle. Among them I can now name unny of my warmest and truest and most prized friends. They are good and true men, and tL ink none the less of us for Women as Inventors. It has been said so often by men who evi dently have paid no attention to what is act ually taking place that women do not possess an inventive brain as to have almost passed into a proverb. So loth are men to give wo men credit for trenching upon what they ar rogate to themselves as their peculiar domain, that the world has not given women due credit for their inventive faculties. A Washington correspondent of the New York World writes: “The records of the patent office show that fully nineteen hundred patents are claimed by women. Moreover, net a snail number of the patents granted to men are really for ingeni ous devices and ideas .that have originated in a feminine brain. In machinery women have done much. Almost daily improvements in sewing-machines comejfrom her brains. In the model-room of the patent-office, nearly side by side with Elias Howe’s machine, is one made by Miss Rosenthal. It is a handy little con trivance, which can be put in a lady’s pocket and screwed on to any ordinary table. It is so dainty it looks fit for the work-room of a fairy. It will be a boon to persons traveling where it is impossible to take a large machine. Machinists pronounce it practically perfect in construction, but it has not yet been put upon the market. The first submarine telescope was the production of Mrs. Sarah B. Ma’.her, of New York. Mrs. Montgomery' shows a section of a war-vessel provided with a series of iron plates so constructed as to resist shot and shell. There is also in the model-room an engine of offeuse as well as defense in the shape of a breech-loading gun, credited to Miss Ruth Goshan. Among the more peaceful in ventions by women are a car-coupling pin and an improved railway for street-cars. A life- raft is a contrivance of a Mrs. Beaseley. An appliance for raising sunken vessels has been patented by Mrs. Emily Taney, of Pennsylva nia. She has also contrived a syphon propel ler pump. Mrs. Flackelton, of Milwaukee, clams to have made two hundred women self- supporting by a means of a useful little porta ble kiln for firing decorated china. This can be attached to any gas-pipe, and is an improve ment in the usual method of heating-afford ing a much more equable temperatu.® Miss Mary Broughton, New York, discovered a new mode of forming air chambers in dental plates for artificial teeth. “Miss Amelia Bird desired to make a noise in the world, and her genius soared to steam whistles. Mrs. Carolina Brooks, of Arkansas, has patented some lu bricating molds in plaster. Mrs. Brooks will be remembered as the butter artist of the cen tennial, her lovely creation of Iolanthe at tracting attention. She now has a studio in New York. Mrs. Sarah Ames, of Massachu setts, pa.ented the,bust of Abraham Lincoln. Iff what the patent-right consists does not clearly appear, as artists generally consider such things creations rather than inventions. Mrs. Cornelia Beaumont, of Ohio, lias a patent life-boat to her credit. Mrs Martha J. Coston has been very successful with her pyrotechnic night signals. She is an example of what pluck and perseverance can do. At the death of her husband his papers were in a chaotic condition and his designs not fully perfected. Unaided, she brought them to a point where they were practically valuable, and she re mained abroad ten years introducing them in the various foreign ports. She has been re warded for her perseverance by a fortune. Among the queer inventions is an instrument for restoring facial symmetry, by Miss Fanny Batchelder, of Massachusets. The numerous patents granted to women include fire-escapes, dust-brushes, baby-tenders, devices for killing mosquitoes and other insects, window-wash ers, glove-fasteners, food-preservers, cow- milkers, dish-washers, washing machines, cooking-stoves, corpse-preservers, bustles, facs lotions, and all kinds of garments.” NEW PROFESSION FOR WOMEN. A Whistling Prima Donna Who Mates a Snug Living by Puckering Her Lips. I met a professional pianist of my acquaint ance recently, and he said he was traveling on the road with a concert company,writes a New York correspondent of the Boston Gazette. "Who is your prima donna?” I asked. He hes itated a moment and then said rather apologet ically: “We have no regular prima donna, but we have a whistling lady.’’ Upon inquiry I found that a lady traveled with the company who had a gift for whistling, and who came upon the stage and whistled to his accompani ment to the no iJSiall delight of the audience I never hear* htr, bit lie said it wii really an interesting performance. 1 suppose the accouuts of this whistling lady in the newspapers has excited the interest of others, ior there is now in New York a lady who whistles at private entertainments, but for a consideration. She get* $25 a night for whistling in New York drawing rooms, and is said to have all the engagements she wants. The husband of this lady was well of at one time, but he lost his money. Whistling was her great accomplishment, and when she heard that this gift had been turned to pecu niary account, she saw no reason why she should not aid her husband by her gifts in this line, and she has succeeded beyond her expec tation. I beard a lady whistler in London last sum mer who was quite the rage, and who had had the honor of whistling before her majesty, but I did not think mnch of her accomplishments. I can whistle better than she can myself. I have heard whistling that was beautiful. When I lived on Eighteenth street I could look down into a beer saloon from my back window, and in that beer saloon there would occasionally come a man who whistled, and anything more beautiful of its kind I never heard. He could do anything that a flute conld do. The lady whistler in London had no such ac complishments. According to my judgment she was a pretty poor whistler, but she got a good deal of praise over there, and, as I said, her majesty’s endorsement. She was not a professional, however, she simply whistled to amuse her Iriends. The Baltimore Herald says: “Old Tecum- seb,” in replying to Gen. Wolseley’s article on Lee and Grant, intimates pretty plainly that having fought them; indeed they esteem him Grant was the greatest soldier of the age, and j highest among us who fought them the hard- . . , u ■ , . est. Sheridan is not one of this kind, and he Lee a greatly over-rate est Po B a uate. i uever acc0 rded to us that peace which It was “Old TecumsehV privilege never to j Grant proc Uimed. be pitted against Lee, or his judgment might j "I now say to j ou, my dear Major, and to have been as materially modified as was that ! our gallant comrades who are now ir. the val- . , _ „ _ D . , t,- i ley, that I hope you wul not allow this man to of Pope after Bull Run, Bumsiae af<.er Fred- make his triumphant ride up the valley in ericksburg and Hcoker after Chancellorsville. j peace, but have him go like his liuinb.e crow, » carrying his rations with him. The poll tax has been abolished by the Le- Yours truly, gislature of l’tnusylvania. 1 “Thomas L. Rosser. ’ Self-Made Women. We hear a great deal about self-made wom en, and now Celia Logan, herself a self-made woman, has compiled some interesting facts concerning some women who are well known at the present time, from which it appears that some of the most noted began life very humbly. Lucy Larcom was a mill hand. Pretty Maud Granger, with the gold-brown eyes and shapely form, first earned her liveli hood by running a sewing machine. Sarah Bernhardt was a dress-maker’s ap prentice; so was Matilda Heron. Adelaide Neilsou began life as a child's nurse. Miss Braddon, the novelist, was a utility actress in the English provinces. Anna Dickinson began life as a school teach er. Charlctte Cushman was the daughter of poor peop.e. Nell Gwynn sold oranges in the streets and theaters. From the pit, while veLding her wares, she took a fancy for the stage. Mrs. Langtry is the daughter of a country parson of small means, but the old proverb of her face being her fortune, proved true in her case. Edmonia Lewis, the sculptor, is colored. Overcoming the prejudice against her sex and color, and self-educatt d, Miss Lewis is now successfully pursuing her profession in Italy. The great French actress, Rachel, had as hard a childhood as ever fell to the lot of a ge nius Raggard, barefooted and hungry, she played the tambourine in the streets, and sang and begged for a dole. Naturally she was il literate and vulgar. Christine Nilsson was a poor Swedish peas ant, and ran barefeot in childhood. Jenny Lind, also a Swede, was the daughter of a principal of a young ladies’ boarding school. Minnie Ilauck's father wss a German and a shoe-maker, in the most straightened circum stances. Her voice early attracted the atten tion of one of New York’s richest men who had- it cultivated. Adelaide Phillips, the singer, now dead, was a very poor girl, and so was Sarah Jewett, the actresr. The mother of Clara Louise Kellogg strained every nerve to give Clara a musical education, and at one time was a professional spiritual medium. Miss Kellogg failed three times. Miss Matia Mitchell, the astronomer, was the daughter of a small farmer in Nantucket who was obliged to eke out his income by teaching school at $2 a week Maria was con stantly occupied with household duties. The most renowned woman who sprang from the lowliest estate was Jeanne d’Arc, who fed swine. Out of thirteen samples of “Toilet Cream,” warranted to beautify the complexion, ana lyzed by a Washington chemist, every one contained stuff certain to ruin the face after a year's use, and some of them were highly poi sonous. MUSINGS OF MY EVENTIDE. President Powell’s Address, April, 1887—“Heredity and En vironment.” BY REV. A. A. LIPSCOMB, D. D. THIRTIETH PAPER. L The old preachers used to have a favorite expression in the words “going to the loot of the matter.” I like it. Time has mellowed it in mymemory, and I daily see how much wis dom lies embalmed in its syllables. Dr. Pow ell, in his late address before the Georgia Med ical Association—discussed “Heredity and En vironment,” and I congratulate him on the choice of such a topic and on the manner of treating it'. This is going to the root of the matter—an excellent method for preachers and doctors whenever available. I had a dear old friend in Virginia who paid much attention to his orchards, and whenever he saw yellow leaves on his peach trees his invariable plan was to remove the dirt from the roots under these branches that gave no tice of sickliness and destroy the fat, white worms which were causing the mischief. 1 remember that surgical knife of his and how skillfully he used it; and I remember, too, how he doctored those suffering roots that were underground trees in his pomoiogical thera peutics. I am glad that the Doctor selected this sub ject, for I know of nothing within the range of scientific thought more worthy of attention; and, as involving the higher questions of phi losophy and religion, it is entitled to the most earnest and scrutinizing examination. Dr. P. is not unmindful of those grave aspects of he redity and environment, the data implied rath er than formally staled, and his aim and meth od wisely chosen for a popular address instead of a technical discussion. Whatever cannot be popularized is hardly capable of the highest utility, unless the rarest class of thinkers be an exception to the rule. And while I think that the democratizing of science and philosophy is not free from perils, I yet believe that the “gen eral welfare” doctrine of the American Consti tution” was in the ancient inagna charta of na ture long before it emerged in the work of 1785). Ou such a theme as Heredity and Environ ment, Dr. Powell is entitled to be heard, not only by his professional brethren, but by all thinkers; for the subject is of vast importance and comes very closely home to our instincts, our business, and our consciences. I have read this excellent address with deep interest and profit, and I pray that the Divine Provi dence may render it a marked blessing to our brother Georgians. In various aspecis, the address is not lacking in considering the roots. People and roots do much of their best work, hidden from the eye of observation. II. To my mini, Heredity and Environment are laws of nature—of God in nature as Crea tor and Executive of nature—Law-giver and Law-Administrator—just as certainly and ab solutely as we have Him and Iiis infinite wis dom and iove in gravitation aod other ordi nances. Planting his feet on this adamantine rock, Dr. Powell has the advantage of know ing exactly where he stands, and, in addition to this scientific security, has the inspiration of moral and philanthropic motives to give power and pathos to his maniy plea for a wiser and broader humanity. Thanks to God foi such physiciansl I owe more to them than to any profession. But I am sorry to say, that I have occasionally had dear friends among doctors who were tainted with a skep ticism on religious matteis that seemed to me utterly alien to their profession as veil as their native instincts. Let me emphasize the rare ness of such a quality, where abnormality has neither logic nor sentiment to plead its justifi cation. One such, a man of poets, of culture and position, told me years ago, that he could see no difference between the plaintive bel lowing of a cow over her lost calf, and the grief of a woman for her dead daughter. I could only express the shock I felt, that an intelligent and scholarly man like him could see no difference between an instinct con nected with animal hiw merely and an instil ct associated and blended with spiritual law. But he had just been reading a book of in fidel and naturalistic speculations. I thought him on the way to Harriet Mortimeau’s doctrine: “Instinct, passion, th night, are effects of organized substances. All causes are material causes. I am only the puppet to move according as the string is pulled.” Alas for the woman; alas for the doctor, who can regard the succession, of Mental Phenomena as due entirely to Physical Causation and shuts off the self-determining power of volition from Human Physiology! On the score of Christianity, it is revolting; on the score of Art, abhorrent; on the score of Science, dis gusting. How could St. Paul and St. John have been possible on such a theory of the Physiology, to say nothing of the Psychology of our constitution? Or, wl at paintings and frescoes could we have had from M. Angelo and Raphael? Or, what dramas and tragedies from Shakspeare? Or, what science from Newton, Pascal, and Lotze? “ We, your great kingdom, Suffer souls to live.'' III. Dr. Powell argues very properly, that the laws of health, religion, obedience, and civili zation, are inseparable. They go “hand in hand.” Our civilization is due to religious in fluences. If we could get the true Aiology of much of our depravity and crime, it would point directly to heredity and bad environment a3 the predisposing and enciting factors.” Dr. P. says this as a doctor and as a man. It is a voice well articulated and accented, from the very adytum of our nature. God help us to hear and heed! Rioot is very clear and strong on “Heredity as that biological law, by which all beings endowed with life tend to re produce themselves in their descendants;’’ and while omitting to notice co-equal heredi ,y, by whi'.h the sexes are mysteriously kept in approximate equality and contain other forms of transmission which seem to me entitled to recognition, yet the basic law, ‘■‘like begets like," is firmly stated and illustrated. We know what a noontide of light has been thrown upon this subject by Gaiton, Co <k, Carpenter, and similar investigators, so that Dr. P. is warranted in affirming, that “the transmission of physiological morbid processes is seen every day, on every side, and in every community. Aud it should be remembered that this law is operative alike upon both the mental and physi cal powers.” Yes, both ideas are truths; truths which have that divinest capacity of higher ideas, viz: the capacity of idealization over and above their multiplication-table capacity of truth as bare, bold fact, the stay and strength of your Grad-grind genus. And how this idea may attain its ideal development, the Doc tor goes far enough to show the agency of pa rents and teachers in studying and training the peculiarities or natural tendencies of chil dren. “All educational sys ems should be viewed from a physoiogical and sanitary stand point. * * No educator can do justice to a child without such a knowledge. * * Moral education should be aa important feature of home ana school training.” Sound and whole some views. Nor does Dr. I*, fail to empha size the tremendous fact of facts, lying behind the poin's just given, when he urges that the great laws of heredity should be patiently and profoundly considered before marriage is con tracted. Quoting from Levy, he says: “To be horn of healthy and strong parents is to have a good chance of longevity.” I rerni in- her that Dr. Lovick Pierce said to me in his last days: “VVe need never expect the millen- ium until we pay more attention to the pru dential laws of marriage." He was the best informed man on physiological subjects I have ever known except such as were distinguished in physiological researches. Marriage is the starling point in all such investigations and Dr. Powell puts the right stress on this A'pka of the thesis, mentally, morally, and physical ly. Nor does Dr. Powell neglect to make prominent the failure to educate the child’s seme of obeiience as fraught with much suf fering to children and parents. Hear him: “from what germ came our depravity, suffer ing, and death? From disobedience on the part of Adam ard Eve. The same law is still in force; it is the inexorable laws of God.” Yes; “whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” Across the space from Moses to Paul, the two thinkers join hands—ihev are as Shall we see the star of Bethletem this month? It is said the astronomers are on the lookout for it. Out in Arizona a person who talks gram matically is said to “sling United States with neatness and dispatch.” Only ten per cent, of the distilled spirits consumed in this country are used for medici nal purposes—ninety per cent, being used as a beverage. While a man lives in this world he seldom gets credit for all he dies and says. When he dies he gets credit for three times as much as he ever did or said. We are gratified at the prosperity of the Boston Globe. It is a fair, honest, dignified and able paper, and has just moved into one of the largest and best appointed printing of fices in New England. King M. Wanga, ox Africa, eighteen years old, being asked if he was opposed to single blessedness promptly replied, “No! a thousand times, so.” A thousand wives contribute to his Majesty’s household harmonies. It is claimed that the season just closed was the most successful one Thomasville has ever had. This is one of our most popular and thriving Southern towns, and yet the editor of this paper has never seen it. But if the citi zens and visitors have not killed and frighten ed away all the quails, he may yet see it next season on a bird hunt. It is estimated that fifty-two thousand peo pie are engaged in the oy ster industry in this country. Nearly fifty million people eat the products of this industry, regardless of the presence or absence of an R in the month of the feast. The oyster is no longer the morsel of the millionaire; it is fast becoming the food of the common people. A Rich Kansas City merchant fell in love with a girl’s voice through a telephone and sought her out and married her. Now he stays away from home every night just to hear that sweet voice through the telephone. But won’t some girls modulate their voices into still sweeter accents after this, and won’t it make the telephor.e more popular than ever? A Mrs. Campbell, of New York, the other drew $8,000 from a bank. She put it in her bosom for safe keeping. Mrs. Campbell be lieves in dress reform, and wears her garments very loose. When she reached home she felt for her money and it was gone. It had slip ped through her loose garments to the ground. Therefore it is suggested that ladies should lace. Mayor Hewitt’s administration is said to be a reign of terror to the “dives” of New York. Scores of the most disreputable dens in that city have been broken up, and many others have been compelled to become comparatively decent. Tom Gould, the proprietor of one of the worst of the places, defied the authorities. He has just been sentenced to pay-a fine of $10,000. _____ A cotemporary says, Comparatively few people remember that Henry Ward Beecher is the author of a novel. Jmt after the war he wrote “Norwood” for the New York Ledger. It increased the circulation of that paper won derfully. Over sixty thousand copies of “Nor wood” were sold when it appeared in book form. It has been re-published, and is again having a great sale. In the matter of dead shot whiskey we are far behind the heathen. In Barmah they have a liquor called “Sham sho,” made of rice and lime, that will dissolve a 45,calibre conical bul let in fifteen minutes. It works more slowly on the heathen stomach, but it brings the “drunk” in double quick, time and kills off the drinkers with marvelous rapidity. Our whis key men are getting up brands of wet goods that promise to rival the Burmese “Sham- sho.” George W. Childs has two maxims which stand him in good stead. They are: “Do the best and leave the rest” and “What can’t be cured must be endured.” These bits of phi losophy and the habit of taking long walks keep Mr. Childs in a state of unruffled temper. He is a great pedestrian. He will not go any where in a vehicle if he can travel on foot. He walks from his town house to his office and back every day. As soon as he had recovered from his recent fall he insisted on resuming his walks. It is said that Mrs. Ilettie Green, the rich est woman in America, her fortune being esti mated at $25,000,000, recently paid a visit to Chicago *o look after her property interests there, she being the owner of buildings valued at $1,000,000. While wandering through one of the structures to which she holds title, the janitor began asking questions,- and not re ceiving satisfactory replies, asked her to with draw. Mrs. Green admired the man’s vigi lance so much that she increased his wages a dollar a week. The writer was in Macon in the early months of 1805, just before and when Generrl Cobb considerately tendered the hospitalities of the city to one General Wilson and his friends. One day just previous to this memorable so cial courtesy, a very tall, bony, country look ing man entered the office where the writer was, aud was not long in making it known that he was a member of General John B. Gordon’s command. Having known the General during his college days, and having been present at the depot in Atlanta when as captain of the “Raccoon Roughs,” he stood on the rear plat form of the car and bade adieu to the crowd, the writer had watched his career—his glorious military successes and deserved rapid promo tion with unusual interest; so he asked the soldier what he thought of Gordon. “What do I thirk of Gordon? Why he’s just one o’ the greatest Gen’rals on this green earth. I was in the ranks when the brigade was drawed up at the foot o’ the hill at Fred- er.cksburg, aud Gordon rode along in front o’ the lines. You ought to a seed him—he look ed grand, and then how he rode—it looked like he and the horse was all one. Bye an’ bye he stopped arid took off his hat and made a speech, one—and the physiology and spiritual laws of ! But what a speech! I'd heerdlotso’ speeches, each are essentially the same in both. I have j none like that afore—and, by I don’t seen, at times, the peculiarities of hereditary ; wMt lQ hear more like it L either.” descent traveling down through a household t J ’ from grandparents to parents, thence on to the '' hy—what was the matter. chi,dren of the third generation. And I won der if in our day and in our country, the law of transmission is not asserting its ancient character in a very significant and most alarm ing intensity. God seems to me to be putting an awful emphasis on the Unities of Nature in Natural and Spiritual Laws; very different laws and yet adjusted to the same supreme end. Wee Willie Cottage, A'hens, Go. “Wa’al,” he replied, warming up, “I felt by like I could storm hell—and I don’t want to feel that way any more—J don’t!” And excitedly swinging himself through the office-door he was soon lost to sight though he never will be to memory. He said he was from Spalding county, where he may be living now. Extraordinary Club list. 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