About The sunny South. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1875-1907 | View Entire Issue (June 18, 1887)
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It must should be written directly u expeet ed foT M distinctly stated whether pay w MSS. sent in. ^ ^ responsible for t Z w^se^nroluntarily, unless speciaUy£ ZZed to do so and in such cases stamps must be The writer should always keep a copy. Address all letters concerning the paper and make all bills payable to H. SEALS 6 CO- Atlanta. On. Prohibition Camp-Meeting. The earnestness and aggressiveness of the prohibitionists cannot be better exemplified than by the fact that they will hold a mammoth camp-meeting at Decatur, Illinois, from July 30th to August «th. Yellow Fever Nurses. The Secretary of the Treasury has author ized the employment of six nurses to attend the sick in the barracks hospital at hey West, Fla , and four guards to protect the property of persons removed to the hospital. “Solitary and Alone.” Of all the Vice-Presidents of the United States, Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, who was elected nearly twenty-seven years ago, alone survives. Mr. Hamlin enjoys robust health, and bids fair to enjoy life for many years yet. “The Life of Little Rock” Exultingly tells the world of—“New streets in Little Kock. New water-works in Little Rock. New gas works in Little Rock. New business houses in Little Rock. New ‘‘Life' in Little Rock. Whoopee, what fun to be in Little Rock!” And then, with justifiable pride, says: "Arkansas Life has its own office, its own men and its own material. So much for what persevereuce and a good Sunday paper can accomplish.” Value of Women Missionaries. Bishop Alpheus W. Wilson, in a recent lec ture in Baltinyre, spoke in the highest terms of women missionaries, especially in China. As the women there are held in little esteem f and kept confined to the household and in . ‘ T great seclusion, male missionaries cannot * reach them, and at this point the female mis sionary cornea in god renders a service it is im possible to estimate—it can only be known at the "final reconing.” Important Pending Negotiations. Mr. Parch, the American ex-consul general is negotiating with the Mexican government for a steamship company charter. There is little doubt of his success, as it is expected that the concession asked will be granted. The steamers of the company will run from Rio de Janeiro to New York, touching at all gulf ports of Mexico; subsidy allowed by the Mexican government is $0,000 pt r trip. Mr. Parch has also secured a bond for the sale of an onyx quarry, in which he is seeking to interest American capitalists. The New Bullion Vault. The Treasury Department is now at work on what is undoubtedly the largest single money vault in the world, and which will hold when lull $100,000,000 in silver dollars. It will be 89 feet long by 60 feet wide, and 11 feet 9 inches high, inside dimensions. The walls surrounding this treasure house will be four feet six inches thick, the foundation being car ried down three feet below the vault level, and resting on a bed of concrete six inches thick. Tho vault itself is divided into two sections by a longtitudinal corridor, each section being again subdivided into eight cells ten by twenty feet. The cells are divided from each other and the corridor by an iron lattice work one and a half by one-half inch, the top covered in the same way, the roof being solid brick arches Bet in cement, with a flooring of con crete. The architects claim that the vault is fire and burglar proof, but it will also be guarded from the outside by the Treasury watchmen. We Tender Congratulations. An exchange remarks that Alabama ladies are progressive. Several of them have been appointed Notaries Public by Governor Seay, and Miss Georgia Holmes has appointed her self editress of the Abbeville Times, in which she has purchased a half interest. Miss Holmes did some good work on the Sunny Socth, and, while we wish her abun dant success, we congratulate the Times and its readers on their acquisition. , GA., SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 18, 1887 Two Letters from Mexico.—“How do Mexicans Dress Anyhow?” A few weeks ago a short clipping from an exchange in regard to Mexican costumes, sug gested the question, “How do Mexicans Dress, Anyhow?” We are gjad we asked it, for it has drawn from two of our subscribers—wide ly separated—brief, yet interesting letters, giv ing the asked-for information. We invite attention to them, and ta the fact that one can understand the matter better by attentively reading both letters. Each de scribes how the poor classas dress, yet there is a difference in the make-up of the garment; and one tells how the garment is cut and made —which is very primitive, and not a little amusing. We are under obligations to our correspon dents for their kind attention, and should be pleased to receive other communications— something about the country—its cities, scen ery, industries, costumes of the people, etc. Augusta and Chattanooga Railway. On Monday, the 6th, a corps of hands were put to grading the Augusta & Chattanooga Railway towards Augusta. The distance to he graded was about seven miles, which, when completed, will make nearly thirty miles of road-bed ready for the construction company. As soon as track laying is started the work will rapidly advance. Thus, without any extra ‘.‘to do” the good werk goes forward. We heartily congratulate Augusta on this important addition to her al ready great advantages. Whatever promotes her interest promotes the interest of the entire State. Doings in Florida. Boil] ini in Eager, proprietor of the Waca- sassa mills, in Levy county, is cutting out 100,000 feet of lumber to be used on DeLes- seps’ canal across the Isthmus of Panama. The order was given only a few days ago, and is now nearly filled. Charles W. White, of Citra, has just closed a trade for King & Co. for CIO acres of fine hemlock land near Wildwood, in Sumter coun ty, the consideration being $7,500. This, with another recent purchase, will make a grove of 840 acres. It will be set to orange trees at once, making one of the largest groves in the world. And, recognizing the growing importance of the commerce of Florida, the government has sent a corps of engineers down who are sur veying the harbor and bar of St. Augustine. This is said to be the flrst practical attempt to i nnrove the bar. Determined to have something no other State in the Union had, the late legislature formed a new county which was christened Lee, leaving Monroe county composed exclusively, the pa pers siy, of the island and keys off the main- and. Sunday Trains. Connecticut having stopped the running of Sunday trains by special enactment, the pro hibitionists of other States may be expected to make an effort in the same direction. If they do so they will be met, says a contempo rary, by the inter-State commerce clause of the constitution. “The United States Supreme Court has re peatedly denied to a State the power to control or regulate inter-State commerce. During the session just closed it went further than ever before in restricting the power of a State to legislate on matters involving or touching such commerce. It held that no State could impose any restrictions upon the transporta tion of freight or passengers across State lines without usurping a power exclusively vested in Congress by the constitution of the United States. No State has authority to stop the running of trains coming from or going to other States. Such trains are the means of inter state travel. They are under the protection of the general government. Only Congress has the constitutional authority to say when they shall or shall not be run, or how they shall be operated. This is a fundamental principle of the constitutional law of the nation.” We would ask— Is the Commandment, “Remember the Sab bath day and keep it holy,” of Divine origin and authority? Are the Commandments now in force, or has our constitution abrogated or superceded them? Is the United States Supreme Court the su- premest tribunal known, that is, should it le galize a violation of Divine law, or is there a higher Court, administering a higher law, that will sit in final judgment? Our Foreign Trade and Exports. Leaving the grand aggregate of our increas ing commerce for some future occasion, we in vite attention to the following, as significant so far as they go, of what this country sup plies other countries with, which have come under our eye recently: First, we are told that his Majesty, Dum Luiz, of Portugal, has purchased a cabinet or gan of American make. Another item mentions the significant and interesting fact that Pittsburg is shipping shovels to Australia, and successfully compet ing with goods of English make. And then, we meet with an item in which it is stated that clocks are exported from this country to the number of 1,000 a day. At this rate the United States will soon be setting the time for all the world. There were cleared to Europe in one day lately from Savannah, four vessels freighted with eight thousand barrels of rosin, thirty-five hundred casks spirits of turpentine, and 295,- 000 feet of lumber, valued at $86,000. And then about the same time the wires in form us that a Chicago canning company had concluded a contract for about 10,000,000 pounds of canned meats for the French army and navy. Better than all we export teachers, too, and in this line we shall excel all other nations in the quality of our exports—and infuse into the nations taught American ideas and civili zation and the principles of freedom. From among many notices we transfer this from the New Orleans Picayune of a late date: Miss Mary Mills, formerly principal of one of the New Orleans public schools, now occu pies a prominent position as an educator in the city of Havane. Miss Mills became disheart ened over the condition of the school teachers in New Orleans, and removed several years since to Havana, where her services are in constant demand by distinguished Cuban fam ilies, and where she is coining money as well as honorable recognition. A Haverstraw woman who believed there was good luck in having a bird fly in a house, chased a canary bird in, and in doing so up set and broke a ten dollar looking glass. Twenty-five thousand bar-maids, of various degrees of beauty, dispense “’alf and ’alf” to the thirsty denizens of London. Two Sides of a Question. Yes, there are two sides to the question, and the side which you have not seen, and perhaps cannot see, may be as just and as reasonable and as fair as the one at which you have been looking. Trite as is this observation, the world has been very slow to realize its truth, and indeed few people have come to admit it practically. Individuals, communities and na tions are quarrelling now just as they have been quarrelling in all times past because they cannot perceive that the views which they have taken are not the only reasonable views pos sible. Few of us can look at a matter from the standpoint of another. The conclusion which we have reached—which indeed we may not have reached by any process of logic, but may have adopted as it were by accident—seem to us so self-evident that we are obliged to regard any one as a fool who thinks otherwise. It is related by some King of the olden time that he kept near him all the time a man whose business it was to cry out ever and anon, “Re member, King, you are mortal.” It would be well if all men, speakers, writers and talkers, would accustom themselves, whenever about to express an opinion, to say to themselves, “There : s another side." This would save them from the great confidence in their own opinions, and cause them to have more respect for the opinions of others. They would learn to love other people more too. The laborer, if he could be made to see that there are two sides to the labor question, would not be so ready to denounce his employer as mean, cruel and tyrannical. The sectarian, who appreciates that there is another side, need not become any less true to his convictions, but will not regard his opponent as utterly a fcol. In a word, no one who admits this most important, yet very common-place fact, will ever rush into the extremes of fanaticism. e fear many of our moral reformers, who are mean ing well, are too much persuaded that all the argument is on their side, and will have to learn their mistake by a painful experience. “The Bight Arm of Washington According to the notions of the war that used to prevail, the honors of a successful cam paign were awarded almost entirely to the gen eral whose’skill directed the movements of the soldiers. It is now, however, a well-estab lished fact that war, conducted upon any defi nite system and pursued with a definite pur pose, is very much a matter of money. There are, of course, other factors to be taken into consideration, but it may be set down as in the main,true that the party which can control the most money will eventually triumph. In awarding the honors among those who create a na ion, a place very slightly lower, if lower at all, is to be assigned to him who directs the finances than to him who leads the armies. If the former blunders and fails, the latter will apparently do so. The financier is the right arm of the General. Washington duly appre hended this truth when he accorded to Alex ander Hamilton, the founder of the American Treasury, his full and continued confidence. Of all who had parts to perform in nursing into life the new-born nation, none had a task more delicate or more important. Not one perform ed his part better. It seems indeed that Hamil ton was one of those seen at rare occasions who can do anything well. While little more than a youth, he had brought himself into notice by his vigor and clearness as a political writer, and there can be no doubt that his mind ex erted a controlling influence in shaping our national government. To his skill in financier ing, as has been stated, it is very largely due that there came to be a government. The task of bringing into existence a treasury did not, however, prevent him from showing that he was gifted with the finest capacities for mili tary chieftainship. Had the services of his adopted country called for him in the field rather than in the cabinet, he would doubtless have left a name as a captain second to few. On the other hand, such was the vigor of his intellect, and so readily could he put strong thoughts into strong words, that it is .altogether probable that had he devoted himself to the peaceful pursuit of literature, he would have become the author of works that would have made his name immortal. Considering how largely he was gifted in many different direc tions, we must pronounce that this man who came to this country a poor orphan boy, with out fame or fortune, was one of the greatest who has helped to make our national history. 1ERLAND ISLAM). A Book We Would Have Longer. In her little story, Cranford, which has just been issued in the Harper Handy Series, Mrs. GaskiU introduces us to some very pleasant people. In that retired village where widows and ladies of uncertain age constitute the con - trolling element, there reigns a good breeding and an old-fashioned morality very agreeable to contemplate. Perhaps we misname it in calling it a story; for that might convey the idea that it has a plot, with love-scenes, court ships and marriages. It has indeed a marriage or tw<?, but they come about in a very unro mantic way; and there is an utter absence of any mysteries to be explained. It ia, however, a most readable little book, which one lays down with the reflection, “Too short—oh, much too short.” Very pleasant is it to look at a picture of life in one of those little villages of England, where Trade with its hurry and its heartiessness has never obtruded itself. We here behold human nature in one of its loveliest aspects. Of course readers who can relish only stories crowded with incidents, with hair-breadth escapes on almost every page, would find little to admire in a book like this. But it will prove highly entertaining to those who can appreciate the society of sober, quiet, intelligent, though rather quaint people, who know little of the world’s wild ways. A builder in NewbSfcg, N.. Y., who is teaming down a building to make room for a new one, is putting the old brick and mortar to a novel use. He has contrived a grinding machine, into which he feeds the old brick and mortar, and it is ground into powder, or rather into building sand and cement., and the material will be used in setting brick in the new build ing. England’s Queen and Prince. On Monday, June 27th, will be celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the reign of Queen Vic toria, on whose dominion, it has been said, the sun never sets and the roll of whose morning drum is heard around the globe. Iler subjects in all these vast possessions will on that day celebrate a reign of fifty years that is without parallel in monarchical governments. It is as a woman more than as a queen that she is held in high esteem by the nations of the earth. There have been women in plenty who have tried living in “the fierce light that beats upon a throne,” but never one who stood the test so well as she, never having once deviated from the strict line of integrity and propriety. She seems to be popular with her people when oc casion for public demonstration offers; and yet we frequently meat with paragraphs like the following, in letters from London to American journals, in which we catch glimpses of the under-current of public sentiment: "Queen Victoria is not very popular in Eng land. Very few people know anything about her. Probably not 15 per cent, of the people of London have ever seen her. She lives such a retired life that she is rarely taken into con sideration in connection with public questions. She appears to have very little sympathy with English people, and to be as foreign at heart as if she had always lived on the continent. This is shown whenever she goes over to the continent for a change. She is quite another person when she is over there. The French people are delighted with her, and the French papers are filled with glowing accounts of her popularity at Aix-les Bains. When she is on the continent she goes out and mixes with the people and shows herself everywhere on all public occasions. But in England she shuts herself up like a recluse, and only with great difficulty can be persuaded to spend two or three weeks in London during the year. The Queen is in better health than her son, the Prince of Wales, and without any doubt, bar ring accidents, is good for the next twenty years. There are a number of people in Eng land who think that Queen Victoria will never have any royal successor; that by the time she passes away England will have become an ac tual republic, even in name.” The truth is, Queen Victoria is a monarch in name only, and the literal fulfillment of the prediction in the closing sentence of the above paragraph would surprise very few. The writer from whom we have just quoted gives the following touching the Prince of Wales, who will succeed to the throne if he should outlive his mother—provided she should have a successor. “The Prince of Wales is popular because he goes everywhere and cultivates the good will of the public. He is not regarded as a brilliant man, but a man of much more than ordinary executive capacity. He is what the English call clever. He is thoroughly well educated in the science of modern poli ics and of govern ment, but ne never interferes with politics. This is one of the rules of his life. Some of his friends think that this is a great mistake upon his part, that he could be an influential factor in p ilitics if he so desired, and could make for himself something of a career beyond the social one which seems to satisfy him. He is a member of the House of Lords, and can vote and take part in debate there when he pleases. The only part he has ever taken in legislation was to go into the House of Lords and advocate the passage, through his personal influence, of the bill to permit a marriage be tween a man and a sister ot a deceased wife. This was the popular side of the question, but his influence was not sufficient to carry it through the House of Lords. He does not himself think that he will ever be king. This is the excuse siveu for his ignoring politics and giving himself up to social life.” The Most Popular and At tractive Southern Resort. Finest Beach in the World—Crowds of Visitors and Oceans of Sport. EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE. Deab Sunny South: I am again on grand old Cumberland. But to me it brings both sad and pleasant recollections. To all others, per haps, it brings only the bappest associations for it is beyond all question one of the most delightful resorts, not only on the Atlantic, but on any American coast. Nature seems to have designed it specially for a quiet retreat where vexed and fatigued humanity might re- cuperate weary brains and worn muscles. We have here a gently sloping beach of un surpassed beauty, running slong the entire length of.the Island, 22 miles, with a rolling surf of matchless grandeur in which both sexes and all ages can sport with perfect safety and delight. Bays and inlets filled with hack wa ter from the ocean furnish as fine fishing as is to be found anywhere, while the thick forests and palmetto hammocks are the homes of squirrels, deer, wild cats, hear, eagles, etc. Nature has done everything to make it a re treat for enjoyment and relaxation from busi ness cares. Art has done but little as yet. The accommodations are plain but neat and comfortable, and the entire make-up of the place is suggestive of ease, quiet and do-as- you-please. Style and the fatiguing conven tionalities of fashion would be altogether out of place here, and long may it so continue. People fome here to bathe in the surf, to fish, hunt, laugh, tell jokes, dance, loll in the shade and grow fat. There is now a very large crowd here, prin cipally from Atlanta and Macon and all of them seem to be enjoying themselves immensely. My own health has been too bad to mix with th?m much, but they tell me they are having a fine time. I heard Col. Jno. C. Rutherford, of Macon, say that he was having a “pretty tolerable doggoned good time." He is a fine swimmer and has just this moment passed my cottage in a boat down the bay with some young ladies whom he is teaching to swim. Bathing, swimming, sailing, fishing, horse back and buggy riding by moonlight down the beach, turtle hunting, quartet singing, crab fishing, shooting, whist playing, recitations, etc., make up the daily round of enjoyments, and all hands seem to be realizing about the same sort of a time as that which Mr. Ruther ford described. Mr.-W. H. Bunkley is again in charge of the place and there is general rejoicing at this fact. He is a genial and accommodating host and has made a number of valuable improvements and has others in contemplation. A handsome open car and iron rail has taken the place of the old tram-way to the beach, and Mr. G. W. Johnson, of Brunswick, has a large and excel lent livery, while Mr. Pratt, of St. Mary’s, has a beautiful little tug, rigged with awnings and banners and run with naptha, to take ex cursion and fishing parties down the bay. There are a great many excellent people here at this writing, from Atlanta and Macon and other points, and among them we note the fol lowing irom Atlanta: Mrs. Overby, Mrs. Dr. Johnson, Mr. J. H. Porter and wife, R. J. Lowry and wife, L. H. Beck and wife, A. W. Hill and wife, Dr. Y. Woolley and wife, Miss Enla Maddox, Miss Tiny Hammond, Miss Flora Fitten, Miss Anna Bell Maud, Miss Sallie Maud Jones, Miss McGehee, Miss Sallie John son, Miss Lncy Orme, Miss Jessie Culpepper, Miss Carrie Crane, Miss Annie Reid, Miss Rosa Lee, E. W. Marsh, J. W. Goldsmith, H. Gor don, Harry Hill, John Clarke, Wm. Montgom ery, B. Sanders, E. B. Hook, C. Carter, C. A. Lane, M. F. Amorous, H. G. Kuhrt, H. H. Colqsjtt, J. H. Jones, A. A. DeLoach, F. R. WaiawrfW. H. Moor, Charley Hill and Os- gxisTA.oders. The following are here from Macon, Ga.: Hon. A. O. Bacon, Col. J. C. Rutherford, H. C. Tindall and wife. B. L. Willingham and wife, Col. C. B. Willingham and family, Chas. Campbell, W. A. Doody, Mr. Iverson Harris and wife, T. D. Tinsley, H. C. Mix, J. W. Cab- aniss, Jack Martin, C. C. Sims, Miss Nellie Sims, Misses M. L. and Gussie Bacon, Miss Kate Ros3, A. L. Butts, Miss Lamar Rinher- ford, Miss Lizzie Lawton, George A. Smith, Miss M. M. Redding, Miss Grace Townsend, Miss Anna Tennille, Miss Lightfoot. W. S. Payne and wife, L S. Worsham, W. M. Wim berly, W. B. Sparks and C. H SolomoD. There are people here from many other points. We note Miss Susie Richardson, from New Orleans, daughter of the world-renowned cotton planter; Judge Spencer Atkinson, of Brunswick; W. T. Huguley, of West Point, Ga.; S. J. Hoy don, Louisville, Ky.; E. T. Wil liams, of Augusta; G. W. Stockell and T. A. Perkins, of Nashville; C. G. Smith, St. Louis; J. A. Lewis, Columbus, Ga.; E. Womack, Covington, Ga.; Hon. Tom Eason, McVille, Ga., aud J. A. Barclay, of Bullard, Ga. Notes on the Beach. Custom makes anything au fait. Modest and timid ladies, who would be shocked at the exposure of a foot or an ankle, will don a pair of tights and knee skirt and appear before a multitude of people and kick and plunge in the billows with no tinge of shame. Dignified men and women wallow together in the sand with perfect abandon, in scanty bathing suits, and yet with no immodest thoughts. On Sunday last a party seized the jolly and unoffending Col. Womack, of Covington, and buried him alive in the sand. A. W. Hill, with his solemn face, was a leader in the ceremonies. Mrs. Beck and Mrs. Porter, of Atlanta, and Mrs. Willingham, of Macon, take to the surf like ducks. Miss Sallie Johnson, Miss Enla Maddox, Miss Annie Bell Maud, Miss Carrie Crane, Miss Tiny Hammond, Miss Annie Reid and Miss Maud Jones take every chance to plunge in the waves. Some of them go in twice a day. Miss Flora Fitten is perfectly at home in the water, and reminds one very much of the fabled mermaids. She is really pretty in the waves. Mrs. Overby has tried the surf for the first time in her life, and likes it finely. Mrs. Beck, in her bathing suit, is the most attractive looking lady on the beach. Major Bacon and Col. Rutherford never let an opportunity pass for a plunge. They go in twice a day and remain in to the last. Miss Carrie Crane says it frightens her to death all the while, but she stays in as long as any one. She make a big spring before the wave gets to her and comes down in the mid dle of it, and has to be rescued. Miss Tiny Hammond came out of the surf late the other evening after every one else had dressed, and it was so dark in the bath house that she could not find her clothing and for a time was in a serious dilemma. It is amusing to see what a great rarity of bathii.g costumes appear on the beach. No two alike. Mrs. Bob Lowry had great difficulty in mak ing up her mind to try the surf lest it might in crease the neuralgia in her face. But she thinks it benefits her. Miss Gussie Bacon is a fine horseback rider and delights in riding down the beach. Miss Sallie Johnson likes to wallow in the sand and shallow water after coming out of the waves. „ Misses Lucy Orme, Flora Fitten, Tiny Ham mond and E. B. Hook make a fine quartet club. , . Bob Lowry piunged into the waves like an old sailor, and male us believe he was raised in the water when in fact it was his first ex perience. The last seen of Harry Hill, of Fleevilla,” he was going rapidly down the beacn closely pursued by a regiment of tDes. He once gave away thirteen head of bogs to get rid of flees, but thev still pursue him. J H."Porter, A. L. Butts, Bob Lowry, Char ley Hill and several others went, out turtle hunting the other night and only captured an unafiending raccoou. Charley Hill says he walked all of twenty miles and it was a eood njtrin for coong, but not for tuitles Butts savs the moou was not right for turtles. Miss Eula Maddox aud Mrs. Iverson Harr's caught over twenty fish each a few days si ice and Mr. Harris ninety odd crabs. Mrs Harry Tindall, of Macon, one of the sweetest little ladies of Georgia, is quite ill at this wrifi^ and every one on the Is:and re grets it‘d%lv More anon. June 7otl 1887. J - H. b. MUSINGS0FMY EVENTIDE. Books that Have Helped Me. BY REV. A. A. LIPSCOMB. D. D. THIRTY-FIFTH PAPER. I. Few men, who have had much experience in reading, would refuse assent to the opinion that books had much to do with turning points in the history of life. We may accept Mr. Andrew Lang’s statement: “It is hard to make a particular choice of books that have helped us when, in one sense, none have helped at all.” And he argues wisely when he says, that each man will think of some authors as if they had served him better than others, the truth being that these are the authors with whom he is more in sympathy, and in whom he best recognizes something of himself; they are the brothers, or, rather, the chosen friends of his soul. Sympathy is a very occult thing —among the mysteries of our being the most mysterious—but generally an instant revela tion, and, like attraction to persons, somewhat inexplicable. Often we pass individuals on the street, meet them in church, sit near them ia lecture halls, whom we should like to know, so subtly escapes the aroma to us from the atmosphere environing them. My neighbor, though next ta me, does not breathe anything beyond common air, oxygen and nitrogen. Many times have we been conscious of this same feeling about books. Their titles, pa per, binding, look and touch, affect our sensi tiveness; aud when by some luck or purpose, we come to closer terms, the contact with them instantly converts the revelation into an inspi ration. It takes sometime to get possession of ourselves, a very protracted tutorage to spontaneoueuess in certain cases, but in all, proportioned to the plan and compass of our existence. I remember well the first book given to me by my grandmother. It was “Barents Assistant,” by Miss Edgeworth; all the stories took up a pre-emption occu pancy in me at four or five years of age; the characters were the first people in my brains and there they are yet in unfaded costume. Of all my early readings, “waste not, wantnot” remains with me most vividly. And often, very often, have I had reason to thank Provi dence for this book. It was just the thing for my nature Until we get old, we rarely know how nigh God has been to us in wise and lov ing ancestors, and how far back in the genera tions, his Divine Hand reached in shaping the elements that issued in our form and vitality. Yea, Psalmis', yea; “fearfully and wonderful ly made.” There, they are, the fearful and the wonderful back of all our fear and wonder! “our life s star cometh from afar.” II. Later on, came some of Cowper’s minor pieces, Mis. Opie, Mrs. Sherwood, Hannah More, my sisters with me in the reading class, womanly authorship predominating, the best course by all odds for the safe development of imagination as initial to growth. After that, “Thinks I to Myself,” “Fool of Quality,” “Vicar of Wakefield,” due care being taken by my mother to recognize the latency of the sense of romance in her young pupils. But I was kept somehow from Shakspeare till I was nearly grown, and while I can understand Mrs. Jameson’s auto-biographical sketch in her “Common Place Book of Thoughts, Memories, and Fancies,” in which occur the words: “Shakespeare was on the forbidden shelf. I had read him all through between seven and ten years old. He never did me any moral mischief;” and I understand by explaining the no “moral mischief” by reason of her child hood and sex, and for myself I am heartily glad that when I did come to the broadest and greatest of dramatic thinkers, I was somewhat prepared for the largest benefit from books, the Bible osly excepied. When I read and studied him, I found him the Shakespeare of the eventide amid the empurpling glow of Stratford on Avon, and to this day he is the me st histrionic of dramatists to my own pri vate heart. Incomparably superior is he to the closeted student shut in from the distorted Shakespeare of the stage, if my personal expe rience can claim any value. At about nine years of age, I was put in the Latin Giammar, and, after the protracted steps in the classical journey of those times, I reached Virgil at fifteen, thence on to Cicero. So far as genuine scholastic education was concerned, I believed then as now, that these two authors gave me the first rhythmic sense of language in style. I had begun to find the man in the style and yet more to give attention to words as suggestives in trains of thought. My teacher was a Presbyterian minister of learning, taste, and character, com panionable and fatherly, and I found his edu cative power most operative upon me, long afterwards, when near Mantua, in company with Virgil aud him, the “smooth-sliding Min- cius crowned with vocal reeds,” both shadows to me, but how real! And in Rome, by, the ruins of the Temple of Concord and amid the desolate scenes of I’orum Romanum, nothing among the symbols of modern and medieval Rome affected me like the old relics. The vivid pictures in my memory were those of the school-boy with his Virgil and Cicero. But I must not forget to lay the proper stress on the influence, which two of my aunts exerted on my reading. Such an influence was not in any sense a substitute for the methods of school- study, but it proved a valuable supplement. And when ill health came on aud I had to abandon the classics and Mathematics, I was still able at intervals to avail myself of books in courses of reading prescribed by my mother’s sisters. Under the circumstances, it was the best thing that could be done. I was of a nervous-bilious temperament, like my mother in the one and my father in the other, and, in this interplay of sensitiveness and en durance in my organism, the literature of great books had some advantages over the more rigid plan of my Presbyterian instructor. But I never lost the impress of my classical friend, in whom the classics had wrought into the very texture of his being, a fact I have rarely seen in c assical teachers. The dear old man exemplified for me that book-studies consum mate their utility, when passing from informa tion into intelligence, they vitalize the soul. Even his eccentricities personalized him to my nature. HI. It was in this parenthesis of existence, that my younger aunt of the two mentioned above, who was fond of metaphysical literature, in duced me to read aloud to her Isaac Taylor’s ‘‘Saturday Evening.” With her comments, the book interested me, and, in no long time, I found myself growing into a liking for abstract thought. This taste, rather prematurely evoked, did me large service; and this class of books under her in spiring agency became a fascination, and in following years, I read with unbounded de light the “Enthusiasm," “Fanaticism,” “Phys ical Theory of another Life,” by the Recluse of Stanford Rivers. Meantime, the charmed cir cle, widening its horizon, had come to include Coleridge, Butler with his Analogy, the latter work exercising my pleasure in analogies and taxing me to convert many of his sentences into more readable forms. Through my other aunt, I was led to read Robert Hall, Mackin- torte, John Foster, and the great Reviewers. In due time how could I fail to breathe the enthusiasm in the atmosphere for Mucaulay, Ruskin, not to mention the preparation for them in Burke, Reynolds and Fusch? If I know anything of my own heart, which I confess is the greatest of all my perplexing mysteries, I have touched on my experiences with books in the hope of contributing some what to my younger readers in respect to books as companions. Yet, while I know, that every student must have favorite books as compan ions and that his love of idealty has its Arcadia in this realm of being, I am quite persuaded, that our individuality asserts itself sovereignly in this particular department of idiosyncrasy. I never read any book that conformed precise ly to the recommendation which introduced it to my attention Something always persona; crept in by side-accesses to modify the volime* and the fact is that the power that made it mine in the truest and noblest of companion ships was quite as subjective as objective, I doubt not tnat books have lueir own self com mending and self-shaping providential office. And yet I know by experiences that I am in debted to the judgement and sympathy of friends for their gracic us services in opening the way to the helpfulness of the most helpful books. The world’s fair, to be held in New York to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America, will be called “The Christopher Columbus Ei position of 1892 ” The name is pretty enough to draw a consid erable surplus-reducing appropriation from Con mess. It does seem a pity that such fine buildings as the Mercer buildings, in Penfield, should be idle. All the beer saloons in New York having been closed on Sunday, report reaches us that it is now known as Thirst-day. Fortune knocks once at every man’s door. But she doesn’t go hunting through beer sa loons for him if the man happens to be out. One sometimes loses one’s balance on an orange or banana peeling—sometimes one loses it quite as unexpectedly in a savings hank. It is an old story, but worth remembering. The Quaker’s consideration for his better half: “All the world is queer, excepting three and me, and three is a little queer.” It is said that a pension is claimed by some thrifty dame, in one of the back counties, on the ground of nervous debility produced by seeing a wounded Federal soldier’s leg ampu tated. A preacher says: “No man ought to asso ciate with his inferiors, but always with his superiors.” It seems to us this must be pret ty hard to do, unless this rule doesn’t apply to superiors. Chief Justice Cole, of Wisconsin, pretty clearly expressed the functions of a court when he said in reply to the question of what he was busy at: “Oh, guessing out cases. We have the last guess.” Captain Carraway, a U. S. Postoffice In spector, found the stingesc man in the world down in Florida. He asserts that this man, in order to save expense, uses a wart on the back of his neck for a collar-button. A scientist having discovered that the mos quito’s mission is to purify stagnant water, the question naturally arises Why in the name of common sense doesn’t he keep away from people, then, and attend to business? It is stated that the King of Portugal has bought an organ of American make—but there is a failure to state whether it is a Blaine, Cleveland or Hill organ—Free-Trade or Prohi bition. It is better to be more explicit. A rich “find”—that of the Inter-State Com merce Commission. They have found that though railroads pay little or nothing to stock holders—and often-times let bonds and Inter est go unpaid, the presidents soon become millionaires. An old lady, having heard some one read from a paper that Etna was “in a state of eruption,” in the kindness of her heart very solicitously remarked that “they ought to give some warm teas, and keep it kivered, and not let the ‘eruption’ strike in.” The best beloved wife of the King of Da homey weighs, it is said, 530 pounds, and has two maids whose exclusive duty is to wait on her. If those maids haven’t a “fat job” it would be difficult to know how or where to provide, or what Would make one. The Sparta Ishmaelite estimates that there are not far from one hundred thousand able- bodied loafers and idlers in the State of Geor gia, and truthfully says that this humiliating fact should be taken into the count in making a statement of the causes of hard times. “A California blacksmith is reported to be dangerously ill with glanders, contracted while shoeing a horse.” And a Pennsylvania wo man is suffering from a spraiued ankle con tracted while “shooing” a hen. There seems to be a fatality about this shoe-shoo-ing busi ness. An Alabama man remarked the other day: “I hear they are saying that the South is not prospering. Maybe I don’t know what ‘pros pering’ means, but it seems to me when a lot of land that cost $500 six years ago sells for $15,000 now, the South has no reason to com plain.” Down in Florida is a newly-made city, just about to become the county seat. Its name suggests that it might also become the lovers’ seat. How nice to have a lovely lassie to ask a bonnie laddie, “Are you going to Kiss-ee- me?” Don’t you think he would be quick to say yes? A Mayor is public property, and the girls of Camilla, capital of Mitchell county, are pro testing that it is time for their Mayor, who knows so well how to help others get married, to try it himself. The next time the wedding bell rmgs they think he ought to have a higher place in the programme than that of usher. A large and vicious looking spider, nearly the size of an egg, was killed in an Augusta, Ga., flower garden, the other day, and, in a few minutes at least fifty red ants came crawl ing from his ugly maw. They seemed none the worse for their close confinement, and, with the aid of a little sunshine, were soon as lively as ever. One John Robinson, living in New York State, arrived at church on a bright Sunday morning, not many weeks ago, rather late, wearing a pair of new boots which squeaked frightfully. Not wishing to disturb the con gregation, he left the boots in the vestibule and entered in his stocking feet. Upon look ing for the boots after service he found they had been stolen. He heard the sermon, but lost his boots. He has lost confidence in that church as a sole-saving institution. “Mr. James Pre6ton, of BrowuttJwn, N. J., who always took a drink before going to bed, died recently at the age of 105.” So says an exchange. That may be true of Mr. James Preston, but there is no record, there can be none of (and who can count) the hundreds of thousands “who always took a drink before going to bed,” who did not live one-half of their allotted three score years and ten? And who knows but that had Mr. Preston not al ways taken “a drink before going to bed,” he might have lived a great maiy years longer? It is reported that a hidden treasure to the amount of ninety-five million pounds sterling has been discovered in the palace of the de ceased Vizier at Rabat, Morocco. The Sultan, it ia said, has confiscated the treasure, and is having it transferred to the imperial coffers. The presumption is that he came to this country, disguised himself and got a position as a bank teller or cashier for one of our many large business houses and defaulted and' ‘Swart- wouted”—as that is the only way he could secretly have accumulated so much. ” ‘ " „ Club List. 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