About The sunny South. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1875-1907 | View Entire Issue (May 28, 1887)
4 THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 28, 1887 PUBLISHED EVERT SATURDAY. BUSINESS OFFICE 21 MARIETTA ST J. H. SEALS. - - EDITOR. Terms: Teo dollar, per Annum. One dollar for Si* Month,. Advertising: SM t—'>» per Line. Seventy-fire cent, per Inch. tVflubecriber, should dwi « iT#th ® "Sf °! tj5^oSS)fflceto which their paper, are sent-Berious « “• "and lnacuraciea are apt to foUow a dmre^ri rule. Among thousands of dttkolt to find a particular name without a certain XSUSvSS&stseas , And name both offiw** TO CONTRIBUTORS. mrU . wiuinlu as possible on one side of the ZSZSTuaa. PM them flatly, a rolled page is troublesome both to reader and printer. Letter else ^7Zupreferred.ItUweUtowritethename Srtta MSS. at the top Of each pope-, W* tXould be oareefully numbered according toJArt- remilrir seauence. The writer’s real name and res umes Should be written on the MSS., as lettertiare ZZZlmZmisplaced. If a nom de plume Is used u should be written directly under the title. It must me distinctly stated whether pay Is expected for MBS. tent In. ... m We cannot return MSS., nor be responsible for them, when tent to voluntarily, unless specially re- quested to do so and to suchcases stamps must be InrtTi—' The writer should always keep a copy. Addrees all letter, concerning the paper and make all bUU payable to } H gEAUJ & CQ Atlanta. O,. Tilden and Hendricks. After remarking that Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks both died childless; both were able lawyers; accumulated consid erable property; made wills when in the full vigor of their mental powers, and that both have a lot of collateral relatives who propose to contest their wills—the Philadelphia Times expresses the opinion that there ought to be some easy method of trading off such relatives for a worthless yellow dog and then shoot the dog. Continental Money. Specimens of “Continental money”—the (shouldbe)revered currency that helped to bring us through the “times that tried men’s souls— is becoming scarce, consequetly the following notice from the Weekly View,” published at Douglasville, Georgia, may be of interest to some of our readers: “Some time ago we mentioned the fact of having a six dollar continental bill for which we had been offered ten dollars. A friend told us the other day that he had some five or six hundred dollars of this money, that had been in his family ever since the days that tried men’s soul’s. “We presume any one wanting one of these interesting relics could procure one from this source on reasonable terms.”. OVER 600 WEEKS OLD! Volume XIII! On the" 14th instant the Sunny Soutii marked the completion of its twelfth year and entered with vigor and flying banners into its thirteenth volume. Contrary to all human calculations, and in the face of adverse predictions and false prophecies, it has lived and prospered and widened its domains till it now covers a very large portion of the civilized globe. From New England to the City of Mexico it is fa miliarly known and admired, and at no time in its eventful history has its future been so hopeful and bright as now. It is recognized everywhere as a representative journal of the South, and multitudes of those who for years predicted and watched for its collapse are now numbered among its admirers and supporters. In looking back over its past struggles we may be indulged in much pardonable pride as we contemplate its high vantage ground of to day. It has seen many dark hours and dreary days, when its friends were few and its ene mies were many. When its current demands were heavy and its hank account on the wrong side of the ledger—yea when its name would not be admitted upon a bank ledger. When a “ghastly smile” upon the lips and a “far away” look in the eye of the banker met the Editor as he entered the hanks and froze the application for money upon his lips. But it has conquered its battles, pulled down mountains, passed through the sloughs of Despond and established its right to a seat at the Council board of the great papers of America. It dwells in its own beautiful and elevated villa, is published in its own building and up on the best and handsomest modem machin ery, and bids a hearty welcome to all the world to call and see it in its new home. The South’s Persuasive Advertise ments. Here is a picture of the “New South’’ which we can all stand. It is from the Philadelphia Press: “It has long been a well-accepted axi om in this neighborhood that the newspapers of a town or city are the be3t indexes of the intelligence and culture of its people and of the liberality and progressivenes of its business men. And the South is sending out to-day no more persuasive advertisements than the news papers which come from Macon and Atlanta in Georgia and from Birmingham, Anniston and Bessemer in Alabama. In every number and on every day they tell of the new life blood which is surging through the veins of the Southern people and forcing them to cast off the old cloak of prejudice and torpidity. They are like mirrors into which every one can look and see portrayed the business energy and sa gacity, the refinement and intellectual ad vancement of the people among whom they circulate. This has come to be so well und :r- stood a fact that many business men in mak ing investments and people looking for accep table locations for homes are accustomed to judge as to the desirability of a place from the character of its newspapers.” Sunny South Female Seminary. Prof. Geo. C. Looney and Mrs. C. D. Crow ley, two of the most distinguished educators of the South, have been added to the Faculty of this flourishing Institution of learning, and will occupy their respective chairs at the ope ning of the fall session, which begins on the first Monday in September. The present session closes on the lath of June. The rapid growth of this young and popular institution is remarkable and its future pros pects are exceedingly bright. In less than three months it had to seek new and enlarged quarters and the Managers are now casting about for still larger and more permanent ac commodations which will he rendered necessa ry at an early day by the increasing demands. Prof. Looney and Mrs. Crowly, who are now at the head of one of the largest and most pop ular schools in the South, will bring with them not only long experience and wide reputa tions as edneators but large accessions to the patronage of the Seminary. “Don’t Like a Southern Paper.” We are in receipt of a card from the Post master at Gainesville, Texas, stating that the Sunny South addressed to T. F. West is not taken from the office and the reason given is that “he don't like a Southern paper.” Now we would like to know what this mam is doing in the Sonth and why he is tolerated and pat ronized by Southern people. U he had said he did not like our paper, the Sumer South, that would be all right, for it might not suit his taste, but he does not like any Southern paper. This shows the animus of the man. He has no sympathy with the South and her institutions, and while we open wide our gates and invite all the nations in (save the heathen Chinee) we do not think our invitation is intended to include those who eaunot enter into full fellowship and hearty accord with, our people and assist with willing hands in the building np of the oountry. And what is of greater importance than the press ? Why should Southern money go to enriching Northern papers to the total neglect of those in the South ? If Mr. West is a Northern man and seeks only to enrich himself on Southern soil, would it not be better for us if such as he refused to come? We are a tolerant and gushing people, generally speaking, hut we like to be met a part of the way, at least, or our tolerance turns to something else. The Postmaster at Gainesville may have mis understood Mr. West, and we may be doing him injustice in these remarks, but they are based upon the words of the card; and if he used such an expression, or entertains such sentiments, then we repeat that the South would be better off without such citizens. We know there are such in the South. They come not to build up, but to absorb like horse leeches and then return to enjoy their gains and nurse their hatred for us. But Texas is the last State in the South for such people to settle in. It is Southern to the core. It believes in Southern institutions, Southern enterprises, Southern genius, South ern pluck and Southern development generally. But we hope there is some mistake about the language used by Mr. West, or in his meaning, and if so we stand ready to set him right. Local Agents Wanted. The Sunny South wishes an active and re liable agent in every community and will be pleased to hear from such as will fill the bill. Liberal terms are offered. Two Grand Stories This Week We begin two exceedingly interesting sto ries this week. “THE QUEEN’S SCAEF,” RY DAVID CHRISTIE MURRAY, will repay every reader. Mr. Murray is one of the most graphic and brilliant writers of the day, and what he writes is wholesome and worth reading; his delineations are strong and vivid, and yield “an abundant harvest of excitement.” The Artie Story Begins Again. Thousands of readers will be delighted at this announcement. The story was discon tinued at a most interesting part, but it has been revised, and will now be completed un der the title of THE NEW COLUMBUS; OR, The Narrative of the Sole Survivor of Sir John Frankliu's Lad Are- tie Expedition. The Sunny South in New Orleans. Ou? readers, no less than ourselves, we feel assured will feel pleased at the following much- appreciated complimentary mention of the Sunny South and its bright and accomplished agent and correspondent, by that sterling and influential journal, the New Orleans Picayune: “Mrs. Marie Wright, the active and success ful correspondent of that interesting journal, the Sunny South, is in the city. She has just returned from the city of Mexico, where in the future the “South” will have an extensive cir culation. Edward Everett and the Little Girl. Edward Everett used to tell a story about himself. He was once traveling in Essex county, Mass., before the days of railroads. He was traveling in a crowded stage, which seemed too full for even the traditional “one more,” when a school girl came out of a house and wished to get in. They made room for her, Mr. Everett offering his knee for her to sit upon. She had sat some time upon that primitive seat, when Mr. Everett at last thought she might like to know upon whose distinguished knee she had the honor of sit ting. He said, “Perhaps you would like to knew upon whose knee you are sitting.” She said she should. He said, “My name is Ed ward Everett.” "Do tell,” she replied, “be you a sailor man?” He said that was the last time he undertook to get a reputation. Masini, the tenor, has left Milan for Buenos Ayres, where he has an engagement. He takes with him his private physician, his secretary and two valets de chambre. The Danger of Strong Adjectives. One who aims at being strictly truthful must be careful about the use of strong adjectives. Very often a proposition is true if the descrip tive epithet be in its positive degree, when it will not be done at all, if yon raise your des criptive to the comparative or superlative. “He was a perfect gentleman” we saw recently in an obituary notice of an acquaintance. We could not accept it as true. He was a gentle man would have been enongh, and to that we would agree. He was in the main gentle, kind, respectful, exhibiting at most timesja proper regard for the sentiments and prejudices of others. But he now and then gave just offence by some act not entirely candid and ingenuous. Sometimes his temper got so far the better of his prudence as to cause him to violate the rules of courtesy. These instances were rare. We did not cherish any animosity against him because of them while he lived—we are far from doing so now that he is dead. But be cause of them we cannot subscribe to the as sertion that he was a perfect gentleman. This is one of many instances where a proposition is carried from the plainly truthful to the region of the extravagant by the use of a strong epi thet. We hear such almost every day. Peo ple are not careful about their adjectives and adverbs, and as a consequence flatter by un merited praise or condemn with undeserved cansure. They who get up local items for country newspapers have a great fondness for the use of strong terms. ‘Excellent,” “superb,” “grand,” “magnificent,” and many other ad jectives of this class they are wont to ap ply on very common occasions and to very common subjects. We suppose they make those whom they thus laud feel good—for few writhe under praise'which they are conscious of not deserving. But every time they use such expressions they lessen their respect for the truth, and weaken their inclination to tell it. * * Death of Justice W. B. Woods. On Saturday, May 14th, Justice W. B. Woods, Associate Justice ot the United States Supreme Court, died at his home in Washing ton City. Judge Woods was bora in Newark, Ohio, lie graduated at Yale in 1845; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1847. He entered political life as a Democrat, and was elected to the Ohio le gislature in 1857—of which body he was chosen speaker—and to which he was re-elected two years after. In 1861 he entered the military service as Lieutenant Colonel of the Seventy-Sixth Ohio Infantry—served through the war, retiring at its close as Major General of Volunteers. He was mustered out of the service in Ala bama, in which State he remained and re sumed the practice of his profession. He was elected State Chancellor for six years but after two year’s service was appointed by President Grant to the District bench in Alabama. When the Fifth Judicial Circuit was formed he was promoted to its bench and then afterwards moved to Atlanta where he made many warm and fast friends. On December, 1880 Presi dent Hayes promoted him to the Supreme Court. His death was announced in the U. S. Dis trict Court on the 16th, and the court was ad journed until the next morning. A meeting of the bar was immediately called, Judge W. T. Newman presiding, and Hooper Alexander acting as secretary. Very complimentary speeches were made by members of the bar— including Ex-Judge H. W. Hilliard, J. L. Hopkins and J. S. Bigby, U. S. District At torney B. H. Hill and Messrs. Geo. S. Thom as. Hoke Smith, E. N. Broyles and P. L. My- natt. All spoke admiringly of his patience, his legal acumen and erudition, his manly bearing as a citizen and simple dignity as a judge, his courtesy and consideration shown the younger members of the bar,and as having the courage of his convictions. Mr. Broyles said “he knew no higher tribute than to say he had been a good judge, an impartial judge, a faithful judge.” The Anti-Poverty Society. New York, May 18.—The Anti-Poverty So ciety met in great numbers at Cooper Union this evening for the purpose of perfecting its final organization. Dr. McGlynn was present and detailed the objects of the meeting. The constitution and by-laws were read, and the following officers elected: President, Dr. Mc Glynn; Vice-President, Henry George; Treas urer, Benjamin Urner; Secretary, Michael Clark. Dr. McGlynn spoke up§n the princi ples of the Society. Quantities of tracts were given out, and the names of many taken for active work- Mr. George was not present. Five hundred and fifty-three members had al ready paid their initiation fees previous to the meeting, and many more paid before the even ing was past. An Anti-Poverty Society ! What a popular idea! And what a mammoth organization it will be if we are all permitted to join! But are we not already members? Yea, veiily— all of os, a vast multitude whom no man can number. But is there any hope in organizing? Is there any remedy against poverty? None. “The poor ye always have with you;” “In the sweat of your face,” etc. These original statutes have never been repealed. If all the lands and houses were divided equally among the people and the earth was covered a foot deep with greenbacks, it would work only a temporary change in the condition of the masses. The money, like water, would soon flow into the great channels of commerce, and the thrifty, energetic and miserly would soon control and possess all the wealth as now, while the great majority would be as poor and poorer than ever. To have, to make and accu mulate money requires certain elements in hu man nature which only a few in every thou sand possess, and which a vast majority of people do not care to possess. The highest type of human happiness is the honest toiler who makes his daily bread and is content with his lot. Money brings cares, extravagance, enervating luxuries, false pride, and a host of ills unknown to the moderate and contented liver. Societies, organizations and legislation against poverty can never benefit the masses. A Question Suggested by Oliver Twist. The question of how far the law of heredity will resist the influence of circumstances must always remain undecided. It is claimed by some that the inclination to virtue, which has been transmitted through generations of virtu ous ancestry, will assert itself in spite of en vironments all of whose trend is towards vice. Dickens takes this position in his powerfully written story of Oliver Twist. That poor little waif was bom in a hospital and nursed in the bad dwarfing, soul-killing precincts of a poor- house. While a mere boy he fell into the hands of Fagin and was subjected to the tute lage of Mr. Charley Bates and the artful Dodger. All the atmosphere of the place where he was hidden and confined was reek ing with villainy and crime. But his nature was averse to the practices into which it was sought to educate him. The lessons of virtue which he had received, few though they had been, had made a dtep impression on his heart and he withstood alike threats and seductions. From amid scenes the most corrupting he came forth innocent and undefiled. That the great novelist has not by this representation asserted what cannot be, we believe is generally admitted. The history of Oliver Twist we think possible, but it is certainly exceptional. As a general rule, boys subjected to bad in fluences will become bad men. The inherited tendencies to virtue may . keep them from be coming active leaders in schemes and plans of villainy. There may remain long, and even to the last, some base upon which a reformation might be founded. But few will fail of yield ing, eventually, to the force of evil teaching and evil example. There is no doubt a great deal in blood. There can be but a faint hope of bringing up to a high point of virtue one whose descent is from a long line of bad peo ple, even though he were taken in early in fancy. They who take foundling children to rear sometimes find that an inherited tendency to evil upsets all their efforts at moral training. Very often, too, people are startled by seeing a propensity for some form of wickedness de velop itself in children of good parents, and have to look back over several generations for an explanation of the fact. We fear, however, that good blood is not perpetuated so surely or for so long a time as is bad Does Irish Whisky Possess Antes thetic Properties. A gentleman gives to the Chicago Times anonymously, his experience with Irish whis ky. It appears that he had gone from London to Dublin some years ago, going by rail to Holyhead on the coast of Wales, thence by steamer across the Irish sea to Kingstswn Ireland, and then by rail to Dublin. He seems to have fallen in with “boon companions” in the latter city and a good deal of Irish whisky must have been consumed. He declares that he never was fond of alcoholic drinks, but his scruples against extended libations on this oc casion were met by the assertion that Irish whisky was a pure extract, without headache or other ill after-affects, which he was well aware could not be said in behalf of the Amer ican compound; for it used to be said of Cin cinnati whisky that it would “kill at forty rods.” He tells that his associates would turn off three glasses to his one, meanwhile exhibi ting no signs of intoxication. He does not seem to have been proof against the insidious power of Irish whisky to the same extent that his companions appear to have been, for he confesses that the last day of his stay “the po tations were frequent,” but claims that “neith er any of the party nor himself was unduly exhilarated.” He left Dublin about four o’clock in the afternoon of that day, returning to London by the same route that he came. Up to that time his head “was perfectly clear, but he appears to have lost consciousness soon after leaving his hotel, for he has no recollec tion of entering the car of the railway, and when he recovered consciousness he was with in five minutes’ ride of London. This is the marvelous part of the story, and we let him tell it. “There were the carriage at the Shelboume House, Dublin,” he says, “and the next mo ment the hedges and farm-houses of England, seventeen hours apart, with a stormy sea cov ering a broad area of the intervening space, The ordinary form of intoxication leaves an impression of a lapse of time of greater or less duration. In my case the hotel in Dublin and Euston Station, London, were separated by no time save the brief minutes that elapsed after I recovered consciousness up to reaching the station. I must have been driven to the depot. wh9re I entered the cars and was taken by them to Kingstown. At that point I must have gone aboard the packet, and on reaching Holyhead I must have gone from the boat to the London train. Now, all this was accom plished without difficulty, for my clothing was undisturbed in any manner, and my watch, money, and everything else in place as they were when I left Dublin. It is impossible to conceive that I was assisted into trains, or off and on the boat, or was carried, for the reason that my hair and clothing were in perfect or der. I had certainly undergone no handling on the part of strangers. I had evidently, if I may judge by the attitude of the two men in the compartment with me, been guilty of no indiscretion, or anything unseemly when en tering the car, or they would have watched me with curious glances when I woke. IT ‘All this may seem to be merely the narra tion of a common debauch, or the effects of over-indulgence in alcoholic stimulants. It is, however, nothing of the kind save in the char acter of the preliminaries. In the condition in which I was plunged, for seventeen hours of which I have no remembrance whatever, I must have appeared no way different from the ordinary traveler, and have attracted no espe cial attention. In other words, to use a com mon expression, I must have been ‘drunk’ to a most extraordinary extent, so much so that memory utterly failed me, and yet in a condi tion in which I was able to conduct myself and my affairs in a manner to attract no notice. Here were clearly two conditions in which I was placed at the same moment, each of which is exactly unlike the other—antagonistic in every particular. I was two distinct persons, one of whom was intoxicated to profound in sensibility, and the other of whom was able to select routes, change from one class of vehicle of transporation to another, to hand out tick ets, presumably in all ways to conduct himself so as to be above the suspicion of being in an abnormal condition. I was grossly intoxicated in one sense, and not the least in another. Had my inebriation been of the usual charac ter I should Vave lost the greater portion of my remembrance of what occurred, and I should have been helpless in limbs and incapa ble of locomotion, speech, or intelligent inter course with others.” The writer who thus details his experience insists that involved in that experience must be some cerebral functions that Were not op erated in a normal manner, and claims that the phenomena “point to brain conditions that are little or not at all known, and where possible results are innumerable, and likely to be start ling.” He insists further that the condition he has described must not be confounded with the ordinary conditions of inebriety. With singular frankness he confesses that he has “experienced the ordinary and common results of the average form of inebriety|often enough to he prepared” to say that his experience with Irish whiskey is quite different; but he adds that for many years he has been “a total ab stainer in regard to every form of stimulants.” This seems to be a singular case, perhaps the only one of like character on record. If other men, whose “potations were frequent,” especially of Irish whiskey, should be similarly affected, the matter would no doubt prove an interesting study to scientific men, but the freak of this man’s brain, or whatever may have caused the phenomena in his case, if phenomena it be, may have occurred to no other man, and might not occur to him again, so that its study to the medical professicn or by scientific men would result in very little of practical benefit to mankind m general, or to those in particular who test the anaesthetic properties of Irish whiskey. ASTONISHING PROGRESS. “That’s what I call tripping the light fantas tic toe,” remarked the bad boy, when his blonde-haired sister fell over the rope he had stretched across the garden walk. Archbishop Teray, of New Orleans, La., has received from Rome a commission by which Dr. Thomas Layton, of New Orleans, is promoted from the rank of knight to that of commander of the order of St. Gregory the Great. This order is a very old one and part of the papal army. Startling Figures About Birmingham It is quite probable that tbe annual report of President H. M. Caldwell, of the Elyton Land Co., of Birmingham, is the most remarkable report ever submitted to any corporation in America. The tale of wonderful progress that his figures unfold is indeed magical, and the history of this great company, under the man agement of Dr. Caldwell, might be studied with profit by every man interested in the de velopment of the South, and especially by the leaders in the many growing industrial centers of this sectl in. Starting fifteen years ago with a cash capital of §100,000, this company has passed through some trying ordeals, but since Dr. Caldwell's management has met with won derful success. His report for the past year shows real estate sales of §4,806,955.57; more than quadruple any previous year’s business of the company. During the year the compa ny distributed free to its stockholders §500,000 of water works stock worth par, paid in cash dividends §1,320,000, invested §250,000 in per manent improvements and set aside as reserved profits §3,614,395.58, making a grand total of §5,684,395.58 as the visible results of one year’s work. Moreover it is estimated that at pres ent the property of the company is worth §15,000,000, which must steadily increase with the growth of the town. For Sunny south. TO NIY STRANGER LOVER. BY WILHELSIINA. Believe me, when I say ’tis best That I should never meet you; So let suen Hopes forever rest, O, Louis, I entreat yon. Our meeting would a parting bring, To us, my stranger lover, And that would be a sharper sting, Than ne’er to know each other. ’Tis "othiDg bn£ a dream we Iove ’ A fl-etmg mind-creation. A vision of each other, wove By fond imagination. Then, how much easier to dispel The«e dreams, though full of sweetness, Thin it would be to breaa the spell— The spell of love’s con pleteness. O do you long for the embrace Of arms, that ne’er caressed you, And for an unfamiliar face, Whose smile has never blessed you? O, do you clasp in fancy, too, A hand that’s always missing, And long for lips, yon never Knew The ecstasy of kissing? Ah, well, ’tis better far, to pine For arms that never pressed ns Tran ’tis to lose the spell divine Of those that have caress’d us. ’Tis better, better far to yearn For lips we never kissed, Tuan after kissing them, to learn • How deeply they are missed. 1 A QUEEN’S ROMANCE. How a Fall Down Stairs Brought Throne and a Crown. [New York Mail and Express.] Among the presents which Emperor William received on his birthday one of the most re markable ones was a poem of the Queen of Ronmania. In a hundred short verses Carman Sylva had described the chief incidents of the old soldier’s lifetime. She had, moreover, copied it out herself in her own hand on white parchment, beautifully ornamented with corn flowers. The career of this lady, who is as perfect a scholar as she is true a queen and tender a wo man, is deeply interesting as sketched by an authority. By birth Elizabeth of Roumania, is a princess ef the house of Wied, and her father, a man of high ability and careful cul ture, gave her an education at once deeper and freer than that which is usually the portion of the children of royalty. The death of a young brother clonded her childhood, and to dissipate the gloom she was sent to her aunt, the Grand Duchess Helena, of Russia. From the quiet studies of the eastle of Neuwied she was thus suddenly transported to one of the first salons of the brilliant court of Russia. The summons home came with her father’s illness, and the “Wild Rosebud of Wied,” restored to her na tive health, watched his sick room and long mourned his death. When there was no kingdom of Ronmania in existence she had laughiDgiy said: “I do not want to marry unless I can be Queen of Roumania,” and as so often happens, the careless thoughts of youth found their accom plishment. Running down the palace stairs at Berlin one day her foot Slipped, and she would probably have been killed but for Frince Charles of Hohenzollern, who saw her danger and caught her in his outstretched arms. When Roumania choss him for a ruler he ciaimed her as his bride. During the Russo- Turkish war she wore the uniform of the Red Cross, and as a nurse helped to soften and assuage the sufferings which war inevitably brings in its train. At the close of the strug gle I’levna had given a royal throne to the prince and princess, and their crowns were made out of cannon captured from the enemy. The love and admiration of her subjects she has always had, and their sympathy also, when the loss of an only daughter brought desolation to her new home. She has sought consolation in duty, in earnest endeavor for the good of Roumania, and in those studies which inheri tance and education alike have made dear to her. VAIN WORLD. BY LUTHER G. RIGGS. G ather ye rosebuds of the May— Their fragrance soon will pass away; Or mark bow soon in time’s fleet glass The diamond sparkles quickly pass; Or see, amazed, the nightly march Of rushing orbs througn heaven’s arch; Or look in wonder on the sun. And think bow quick his course Is run. Alas, vain world 1 transparent cheat! Thywords and aims are sheer dfcsitl Placid tby brow, and fair thy cheek, Yet gauzy Is thy covering, And only surface-deep within; Tby heart is hideous with sin. Thou hast not power to give delight; Thy favors few, thy blessingssdgnt; Empty thy boasts, vain thy rewards, False and affected thy regards; Thy friendship often growth retards; Betrayed, who on thy word relyeth. And fool, who with thy wish complyeth, False bounty thou to man appiyeth. The child of Penury forlorn Hath felt thy cold neglect and scorn; Thy slana’rous tongue, with venom’d dart, Hath pierced too oft a guileless heart; The purest spirit, bowed in anguish, Thro’ scorching paths must droop and languish; Tby mockeries, tby woes, tby strife, Make a bowling wilderness of lifel Thou stalk’st In pride ; along the way Bright eyes grow dim, fair locks grow gray; To the young love, so pure, so fair, Thou give’st a kiss—the seal of care; It rising thy wand, lo ! tower, and wall, And sbrines of hope, In ruin fall. Thou art a reaper; nations pass Beneath tby sytbe, like blades of grass; Thou art a torrent, deep and wide, Engulfing all who stem thy tide; Thou bearest to the whirlpool’s side Tbe heroes and tbe bopes of pride. O earth, tbou art a splendid cbeat, Stupendous fraud, and fair deceit! When sweet thy smiles, deep are tby wiles; Empty tbe draught whom tby nectar would quaff; Tby pearls bnt chaff, tby diamonds paste. Empty tby laugb, thy viands have no taste. Whence then tbe goal of greatest pleasure? Is it to gather gold and treasure? Is It to gain of weight and measure, Or boarding opulent supply, To feast tbe beart and please tbe sye? No; all of tbese mock the Most High, And make of life a glittering lie. Through actions right and brave endeavor, Come to ns tbrongh tbe shades of night, A nd flood onr soul witb sbadeless light; While love to God and buman kind, Teach ns a perfect peace to find. —Goodall's Sun. An exchange enquires how to stop tramps. Well, you might saw their legs off. In Michigan a bride may be married without gloves—precisely in the way she handles her husband. An exchange remarks that Massachusetts was soon to have an “Arbor Day,” the people were drilling holes in the rocks in which to plant poles. “Smile when you can,” is the latest thing we are asked to do by that gratuitously-ad- monitory being, the poet. No one can smile when he can’t. In Dakota the threshing proves that the wheat yield has been underestimated. A sound thrashing generally does reveal the true in wardness of things. Of course when Martin Farquhar Tupper next comes to this country he will bring along with him his famous “well-spring of pleasure.” The babies all cry for it. The force of habit is so great that many At lanta families will send a servant two or three blocks beyond a grocery store for the purpose of borrowing a drawing of tea from a neigh bor. It is now reported that the anarchists have postponed their proposed uprising until 1889— whereupon an exchange suggestively adds that it will give two years more time for the grow ing of hemp crops. There are women who can go to church and afterward tell you what every woman in the congregation had on, and in some very rare instances can give a faint idea of where the text was and what the sermon was about. THE ONLY PENSIONER. An Aged Centenarian, the Widowof a Revolutionary Soldier. The sole surviving representative of the Revolutionary War, as recognized by the gov ernment, is Abigail S. Tilton, of North Wood- bridge, Rockingham county, N. H. Out of the army of persons who are entitled to pensions she is the only one who receives such as the wife of a soldier of the Revolution. Mrs. Tilton is the widow of Benjamin Stevens, who, according to the musty records of the office, participated in the battle of Bennington as a member of Captain McConnell's company, under the command of General Stark. Mrs. Tilton is now a trifle more than one hundred years old. She was married a second time in 1831, but was divorced and resumed her mai den name. Her second marriage invalidated her right to a pension as the widow of Benjamin Stevens, but the State of New Hampshire subsequently granted her an allowance of §2 a week for the remainder of her natural life. About eight years ago Congress further increased this by the addition of §16 a month, to be paid to her as a special revolutionary pension, it having been alleged that she was “houseless, home less and childless.” The old lady is repre sented as enjoying excellent health and in the full possession of all her mental and physical faculties. Until a year ago three other relics of Revolutionary heirs drew similar pensions through the Knoxville agency. But they have all died within the past twelve months and Mrs. Tilton is now the only link that is left connecting the government of to-day with the stormy scenes of 1776. In the White House. [Lippincott’s Magazine.] President Jackson’s table manners were as democratic as could be desired. He had at each plate two forks, one of which was of sil ver and the other of steel. The President used steel fork himself, and after dinner he al ways smoked his tobacco from a long-handled corn-cob pipe. Andrew Jackson entertained lavishly on the night of his first inauguration. The carpels of the East Room were ruined by the orange punch and lemonade which were served to the crowd that came to his reception. Barrels of this punch were made and it was brought into the room in buckets. At last the people began to rush for the waiters as soon as they entered the room. Glasses were broken, and ladies’ dresses were ruined. Tubs of junch were finally taken into the garden, and ;!n this way the throng was drawn off, and it was possible to serve cake and wine to the la dies. At Jackson’s farewell reception a mon ster cheese, as big as a hogshead in circumfer ence and nearly a yard thick, was cut with saw blades made into knives, and served out to the guests. Each guest received three pounds of cheese. The event was the talk of the Nation, and when Van Buren became President his New York friends, emulative of Jackson, sent him a big cheese. It was cut up in the East Room. The greasy crumbs falling upon the carpet were irampled into it, and the ruination of furniture during these two administrations led the later President’s to discontinue the practice of serving eatables at general recep tions. Now no guest comes to a dinner at the White House unless invited. In Van Buren’s day, Bacourt, in his “Souvenirs d’un Diplo mat,” says that the President’s cook told his valet that for several months preceding the election of 1840 many persons arrived at tie White House for breakfast or dinner, and threatened to vote agaiast Van Buren if they were not entertained. The cook stated that he had ail the trouble possible in satisfying them, and they often returned what he sent up, doing so on the pretext that it was uneata ble, and ordering something else. There is little hope for a man who retires so ber and gets up drunk. But if he goes to bed drunk, and gets up sober, he has an average chance of running along some months before the kindly offices of the undertaker will be re quired. Fasting from four to eight days, with water and lemonade at intervals, is the latest “sure” cure for rheumatism. Most persons would in stinctively sour on so meagre a diet, and re gard the remedy as positively worse than the original affliction. Somebody claims to have discovered a sub stance “three hundred times as sweet as su gar.” That’s no new discovery. Connois seurs, affirm it to be something sixteen to eighteen years old, ever varying in form, yet always distinguishable. Extraordinary Club List. The new mayor of Chicago has hit upon a new idea-so it is reported. He,like other newly eelcted officials is pestered by an unending stream of office-seekers. He thinks of adver tising for bids for small pox, so he’ll have something to give to everybody. Emile Zola, the very Frenchy French novel ist, is said to he “completing his best novel.” It must be infinitely better than anything he has ever yet written, lo be St even for the most solitary reading of a recluse in the her mit life of a Chicago bachelor. There are lots of Editors like-minded with that one in the West, who, having heard that persons in a drowning condition instantane ously recollected all the transactions of their lives, wished that some of his subscribers would take to bathing in deep water. In Philadelphia, all the Quaker evening hells are rung promptly on the 9 o’clock notch, to warn forgetful benedicts that the hour for re tiring has arrived, and that they must make speedy exit from club rooms and their busi ness offices, and rush to the open and out stretched arms of their waiting, anxious and devoted spouses. A Rhode Island young woman was attacked recently, on a lonely street, by a ruffian who cut off her hair. When a man’s wife keeps teasing him, day after day, for money to buy a new hair switch, it is likely to drive him to desperation and make him utterly reckless of |he methods employed to secure the coveted hair-loom of hair-mony. Our inventor is at work getting out forty- four millions of fancy cards bearing the words, “You can just bet your life it is-” They are intended to be worn on the lappel of the coats of all the men in the United States, in answer to the query, “Is it hot enough for you?” They will meet a long felt want, and will have a tremendous sale. Six years ago a man arrived in this country with five dollars in his pocket. He started a patent-outside newspaper in Chicago, and last week he died and left property in the town, valued at two million dollars. He left it be cause he coulin’t take it with him. And the owners of the property wouldn’t have permit ted him to take it, if he could. This is the white-washing season—persons are white-washing walls and fences—and Con gressional and other committees avail them selves of the opportunities offered and white wash be-smutted character. Thera will he no genuine political reform until this white-washing business is indignant ly frowned down by the people. The Greensboro, North Carolina, Workman facetiously remarks that with a Wolfe for jan itor of the new pistoffice building, and a Lyon on our police force, it might be thought that we are a fierce and dangerous people, was it not for the fact that little Lambs play about on our streets without fear of molestation. Be sides the Lambs, Foxes and Bullocks also are frequently seen on our streets. A nice mayor is the mayor of Nice. It is im possible not to admire his pluck. Whatever our opinion may be in regard to the perform ance of his promises. It is reputed of him that after the late earthquakes visited his municipality he restored confidence by giving his “official assurance” that the worst was over, and that they had nothing more to fear. A mayor who can guarantee a city against an earthquake shock is a mayor worth having. The Sunny South and Other Paper or Magazin About the Price of Clubbed with Dailies at Less the Price One. By special arrangement with the leading publishers we are able to offer the most liberal clubbing rates that have ever been presented to the public. Examine the list and see for yourself. Any leading paper or magazine may he secured with the Sunny South at very nearly the price of one. For instance, the reg ular subscription price to Puck is §5 and the Sunny South §2, but we furnish them both for §6.75. No subscription for less than a years will be forwarded for other publications. 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