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THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GA„ SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 23, 1887. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. BUSINESS OFFICE 21 MARIETTA ST. .... . EDITOR. J.H^SEALS. Terms: Two dollars per Annum. One dollar for Si* MontlM Advertising: Tea cent, per Line. Seventy-five oente per lnch. ■'‘HpnBub.cribere should elwaye give the nyne of thepoefiWce to which their pepere ere eent.Henooe delay, and tnacnreciee are apt to folliiw * “J*regard thin rule. Among thoueande of euhecnbere it le dMBeolt to find a particular name without a oertam knowledge of the poetoffice adilroBe. If you wish your paper dieconfanued or chanMd. uldreee a card to this office and not to traveling TO COKTRIBUTOBS. Write as plainly as possible on one side of the paper, and use paper of medium weight. Do not roll your MSS. Fold them flatly, a rolled page is troublesome both to reader and printer. Letter site paper is most preferred. It is well to write the name of the MSS. at the top of each page-, the pages should be carefully numbered according to their regular sequence. The writer's real name and res idence should be written on the MSS., at tetters are sometimes misplaced. If a nom de plume to need, it should be written directly under the title. It must as distinctly stated whether pay to expected for MSS. ecnt 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. Addreee all letter, concerning the paper and make all bills payable to j. h. SEALS & CO.. Atlanta. Gu. Sunny South Female Seminary. I want the name of every girl in the South who ought to be sent from home to be educa ted aud who is able to pay for it. Will every oue who reads this please send me a list. W. II. Seals, 1’res. American Bar Association. The tenth annual meeting of tho American Bar Association promises to be a very inter esting one. It is cailed for August 17, is, and 19 at Saratoga. A Fortune in One Deal. The Centra) Railroad of Georgia recently issued .55,000,000 worth of bonds, which were quickly sold—even a larger amount could have been readily sold, as the securities have an estimated value of 58,575,000. They were negotiated by II. B. Iloliins & Co., of New York, who realized 5250,000 profit. At whose expense do they realize? One farmer once re marked to another that the miller’s hogs were very fat. “Yes,” was the response, “but I don’t know on whose corn they are fattened.” A New Steamship Company. Articles of incorporation have been filed in New York by Henry I). Haven, I’resident, and bis associates of the New York & Mobile Steamship Company; the company to run twenty years. It has been operating the line as an experiment the past six months. It will at once build two steamers and put them on the line between New York and Mobile; the business will be confined to freight exclusively. Bishop Quintard in Paris. Bishop Quintard, of Tennessee, delivered an address at the church of the Holy Trinity, in Paris, on the 28th of dune, on English prog ress during Queen Victoria’s reign. - — - j repeated violations undetected, the Auditor Kubber Works Shut Down. an( j judges now impose a line and tend them The National liubber Works, Bristol, Rhode to the stockade, chain-gang and rock pile. Island, have suspended work indefinitely on : This last will prove an effectual remedy, account of the large amount of manufactured Light and For Bell Transferred. The Lighthouse Board lias given notice that on or about July 15th, 1887, the light and fog bell at Croatane light station, N. C., will be transferred to the structure now being erected on an eight-foot shoal, about one and an eighth miles southeasterly from the old structure. The local plane is forty feet above mean sea level. The light should bo seen in clear weath er from the deck of a vessel fifteen feet above ,the sea—eleven and a half nautical miles. A Commendable Act. Mr. John Wanamaker, the merchant prince of Philadelphia, has added another generous act to a list already long. < >n the birthday of Miss Annie McDowell, Secretary of the In surance Association of his employes, he estab lished a library for the benefit of his women clerks. He directed Miss McDowell to select the books, locate the cases, make the rules, and put the library in operation. In honor of her lie named it the “McDowell Free Libra ry-” Obey the Law or Wear the Stripes. That is about the way the matter looks now in regard to the prohibition law in Atlanta and Fulton county. The question—“Does Prohibition Prohibit?” has become monotonous and annoying, and the officers have determined to break tlie mo- notony. If prohibition does not now prohibit 1 it looks as if it would soon from the way Aud- ; itor Anderson and Judges Clark and Van Epps arc interpreting law aud lining violators. As payment of fines was easy from tiie profits of goods on band. By this suspension twelve hundred people have been thrown out of em ployment. Augusta Attracting Attention. Nelson Sayler, Esq., of the firm of Sayler Bros., of Cincinnati, a wealthy law firm, has been in Augusta looking at real estate, lie was highly pleased with Augusta and is in ne gotiation for several large pieces of real estate. Half a Million For tho Levees. The Mississippi liiver Commission has al lotted half a million dollars to be expended in building levees in the States of Arkansas, Mis sissippi and Louisiana. Gaps which were broken in the levees during the war and have ever since been open to the great damage to navigation in the river, and destroying im mense interests over vast areas on the land, are now in a fair way to be closed up and hmi- Mr. Sayler is the brother of ex-Congressman j Jreds of square miles of rich lands restored to Sayler, of Cincinnati, and his law partner. cultivation and made habitable. This, the — New Orleans Picayune says, will complete, United States Geological Survey. A party consisting of fifteen persons, under W. L. Miller, of the United States Geological Survey, are stationed at Cartersville, Georgia. But the party will be divided in a short time, -and half of them will leave for Alabama. This survey will result in great benefit to such por tions of the South as they may visit. The New Florida Senator. Senator l’asco, of Florida, will feel lonesome in the Senate, as he is not a millionaire, and holds no military rank—not even as corporal. He went through the war as a private, aud his advancement since the war is the result of do ing his duty. We learn that since his election he has, by universal consent, been promoted to a Colonelcy. Continued Her Father’s Business. The other day in Columbus, Ga., a gentle man died leaving a wife and three daughters. The oldest daughter, not yet 20 years of age, with what the States can supplement, the en tire lines of the levees from Cairo to the Gulf, and while giving protection to several millions of people and their industries, will also go far to restore the river to the interests of naviga tion by sweeping away immense sand bars and clearing cut the channel, lip to the present some two and a half millions have been ex pended for levees. Prohibition Marching On. In Tennessee there are said to be one hun dred and live papers in favor of prohibition, eleven against* it, ami thirty-one neutral. If this is any indication of the result, prohibition will win. In addition to the fifty-five jails mentioned by us recently, as being empty in lowa, pro hibition in that State lias so diminished crime that for the first time in the history of the State, the penitentiary at Fort Madison is without a sufficient number of convicts to ena ble the authorities to fill contracts made upon is successfully continuing her father’s business. 1 the basis of the usual supply. It may be said, The blood of the. proudest families in the State j also, that in every State where prohibition has courses through her veins, but she is not above j had anything like a fair irial, the business of work. There aro people who might think | the criminal courts has been greatly increased. over this case with profit. A Beautiful Thought. One of Gen. Grant’s best answers to any question was his reply to William M. Fvarts, who, in speaking about Mr. Batcher, asked: “Why is it, General, that a little fault in a clergyman attracts more notice than a great fault in an ordinary man?” “l’erhaps,” said the General, thoughtfully, “it is for the same reason that a slight shadow passing over the pure snow is more readily seen than a river of dirt on the black earth?” Utah Anti-Moriuon Vote. The remarkable increase of the anti-Mormon vote astonishes the Mormons. In the first election since the new registration under the Fdmunds-Tucker law, an election for school trustees, the Gentiles have carried five of the twenty one districts. This result was entirely unexpected by tlie Mormons. The small Mor mon vote is accounted for in the disfranchise ment of women and the refusal of so many to take the oath promising no. to violate the law in regard to bigamy and polygamy. And the great Brooklyn preacher says: “1 Interviewed all the reporters, and all the cler gymen, and ail tlie doctors, and all the mer chants, and all the mechanics, and all tho far mers I met, and the unanimous testimony is that in Kansas and Iowa prohibition prohibits. “T. DkWitt Talm.vge.” The Cincinnali Society. William Wayne, a descendant of “Mad An thony” Wayne, presided at ihe annual meet ing of the Society of the Cincinnati which was held in Philadelphia on the Fourth of July. The society Las in its possession a fund of 5128,000 for the erection of a statue to George Washington. The site for the statue is on a bold promontory overlooking Girard avenue bridge where it crosses the Schuylkill. George W. Childs has been elected an honorary mem ber of the society. The Greenville (S. C ) Cotton Mill. The new cotton mill to be built at Greenville, S. C., will have a capital of 5000,000; will con tain between twenty and tweuty-live thousand spindles and preparation; will make tine cot ton cloths; the wages paid will amount to be tween 5100,000 and 5125,000 a year. We con gratulate Greenville on this important addition to her industries. These are the enterprises needed by the South. They are enterprises which will rapidly and permanently augment her prosperity, wealth and influence. The Boodler Convicted and Sentenced The jury in the case of the New York boo dler and briber, known as Jake Sharp, was out only thirteen minutes, and brought in a verdict of guilty. The judge sentenced him to four years imprisonment and 55,000 fine. The criminal is about seventy and an invalid, else the penalty—especially tho imprisonment— would have been more severe. Well, justice seems to be overtaking corrup tion at last. North Carolina has a colored poet. His name is James W. Poe and he has a lot of poems iu preparation for the printer. His vol ume will make 150 pages. How the Bag Barons Oppress. When we read of how chieftains in tho olden time were wont to fortify themselves in strong towers and issuing thence impose upon the surrounding peasantry a rule so stern as to make them virtually slaves, we burn with in dignation at the cruel pride of the one class and melt with pity at tl.e sufferings of the other. This state of things has passed away. The frowning walls of castles no longer pro tect haughty and insolent tramplers upon hu man rights. They who oppress now are not men of the sword, but men of the dollar. Those who can control large sums of money uow exercise a despotism little if at all less harsh than that once exercised by barons who wielded long spears and went clad in complete armor. The poor man who is honestly striv ing to improve bis fortune finds the difficulties of bis situation increased ten fold by the cruel exactions of speculators One, in order to double his millions, forces up the price of meat, and the thousands have to cut their sliceB thinner that the already excessive wealth of a few may become more excessive. An other “creates a corner” in corn and the la borer must suffer that a vast fortune may be come more vast. Another, by a bold strike, gets control of all the flour in the coun try, and thousands find their rolls a little lighter because of an ambition to make one million two. So we might go on through the whole list of necessaries, for which consumers are forced to pay more than the legbimate prices by the greed of men already rich enough. This is tlie charge against capitalists for which there is too just a foundation. It may be that employers sometimes pay too little for the service which they purchase, and build up vast fortunes while their laborers pull along with no prospect of improving their condition. That there is some ground of complaint on the part of laborers against the great corporations which, having the power to control wages, are wont to use it with little mercy is but too true. But these are people of unblushing innocence compared with the speculators who, having the bag, are determined to put therein every cent they can gain by compelling poor men to pay unjust prices for their food and raiment. He who went forth with a vow upon him to give a pres ent to the vilest of God’s creatures, could, we suspect, find in one of these the object of his search. The rich man who cuts a slice from each poor man’s loaf that he may make his two millions ten, is assuredly the meanest of Lhe mean. • • A scientific party has been sent ont by Princeton College to take observations of the solar eclipse which occurs August 19. “To Call Her Mine.” This story of Walter Basant—who, though not likely to rank as one of the great artists, is one of the most agreeable of story-tellers— opens on a far-away island in the South Pacific ocean, hut the action of the plot lies wholly in England. It represents one who had in him all the elements of a most thorough villain as suffering through years the keenest pangs of remorse for a crime which he had aimed to commit, but had not actually perpetrated. This remorse bad in it, however, nothing of genuine repentance. Its trend was not at all towards a better life. On the contrary, the bad passions became, amid his solitary self- corn muningg, more obstinate and more fierce. Though di iven by the stings of conscience to return to what he supposed the certain tragedy of the gallows—he never in all his agony reg istered a vow to avoid guilt in future, if for this he might escape. When then he did escape—when his first hysterical joy at dis covering that his remorse had been for a deed that he had not committed, was over, he gave himself over to still more diabolical schemes, lie devoted himself, with a fiendish malice, to the infliction of tortures upon his enemy far more cruel than death. Just as it is in a poet ical way, that the heartless miser should be punished by one whom he had wronged, and true to nature as they are drawn, the account of such very wicked people is not vciy pleas ant reading. The sole relief to the grimness of the picture is the self-sacrificing devotion of the niece who dots not hate nor neglect the guardian by whom she and her lover are so hastily wronged. In representing the remorse of David Leighan as in nowise tending to make him a better man, the author shows a correct knowledge of the philosophy of the hu man mind. There is a repentance that needs not to be repented of; but remorse leads only to deeper guilt. * * Wbat Is Said About Us. Few of us, we fear, would deem ourselves very popular if we could hear all that is said about us. We would, too, come to regard men and women as quite a lot of hypocrites could we know bow many of those who meet us with smiling faces and pay us flattering compliments sav unpleasant tilings about us behind our backs. Even when nothing malicious is spo ken, there are criticisms upon our weaknesses and peculiarities which we should not enjoy bearing. Mankind are sadly given to talking about oue another. 1 le who says not of what he would not say to, is a rare person indeed. Now and then one does hear just a little of what has been said about him, and becomes much stirred up on account of it. lVrbaps he runs around with angry industry to trace the offending words to the one by whom first spo ken. ’Tis generally a profitless labor. lie cannot, in this way, cure the blister which the unkind tongue has raised, and he may have the cruelty of the sting much increased. It would be belter by a frigid silence to let the tale-bearer know that he is following a thank less office Still, it is no easy matter to feel or to assume indifference to the reports that may reach us of criticisms upon our characters and conduct. We may profess to regard the crit ics as beneath our resentment, and claim an assurance iu tlie regard of the good too well established to be moved by tlie carpings of the vile. Yet when the eager zeal of sc me busy body brings to our ears the dioppings from a venomous tongue, the glow of passion will in stinctively si ffuse the face. Knowing as we do, that wc are discussed, we 00 not care to know what is saiu in the discussion. We are fully apprised of the fact that they who write and they who talk owe a large part of their charms as writers and talkers to their ability to “take off” tlie idiosyncrasies of their ac- quaimances. Whether they do this with a ge nial humor that gives little pain, or whether their words have power to cut keenly and deep ly, their delineations aro almost sure to give pleasure to readers or listeners. No authors are more popular tbau those whose keen sense of the ridiculous will not allow them to spare the follies and weaknesses even of those whom they like best. A master of sarcasm will make many enemies as a mar ; but be will be almost MUSINGS OF MY EVENTIDE. Suggestions from Others rought Out. BY REV. A. A. LIPSCOMB. D. D. THIRTY-MNTfl PAPER. A Representative American Abroad. Mr. Blaine went abroad for rest and recrea tion. lie bad earned a long holiday by many months of continuous literary work and many years of arduous political service. Without forming definite plans for European travel, he was bent upon enjoying himself in his own way. Social life has always possessed pecu liar attractions for him; and when he found his table covered with invitations to meet the most prominent people in London, he was not reluctant to accept hospitality that was most cordially offered. Our London correspondent bears testimony to the unusual character of the social distinctions which have been show ered upon him and to the favorable impression which he has made wherever he has been en tertained. A11 accomplished man, thoroughly at eiuse in a drawing-room, remarkable for tact and refinement of courtesy, could not fail to derive pleasure from these social experiences; nor could he avoid charming his entertainers and new acquaintances in return. London so ciety was strongly prejudiced against him, since he was gene al.y regarded not only as an uncompromising American, but als> as a for midable political opponent of England and its economic system and an outspoken champion of Irish rights. Wherever he has gone he has been respected as a brilliant American of gen uine force of character, and so quickly has prejudice been disarmed that our London cor respondent already records the fact that no American not holding an official position has been more waroiiy received or so much liked aud admired. Mr. Blaine undoubtedly has it within his power to render his foreign journey perma nently useful to his own country. Not the least among General Grant’s services to the Nation was the opportunity offered to distin guished men in European courts and capitals of studying the character of a genuine Ameri can who had won the highest distinctions in military and civil life, llis personal dignity, unaffected simplicity of manner and keen, practical judgment of men and affairs enabled ail who met him to discern more accurately the essential qualities of American manhood and the ruling forces of American civilization. Mr. Blaine, without the adventitious aid of a military reputation or two Presidential terms, can perform a similar service. He, too, is a representative American, with unrivaled expe rience in political affairs and a practical ac quaintance with the resources of American civilization. No one else is so well equipped for a defence of the protective system under which American material progress has become the marvel of the modern w< rid. No other American has so keen a discernment of the political and economic forces of our complex national life. No other American has so pro found a faith in the genius of the people and in the democratic tendencies of modern civiliza tion. Lord Fa’isbtrry, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Goschen, Lord Bosebery, and other leaders of English public life who have met Mr. Blaine and talked freely v/if.h him, have seen an American of the Americans. If the personal impression which lie has everywhere made is very great, it is because the essential fibre of American manhood is inwrought with all bis social graces and fascinations of manner. (me of the first invitations accepted by Mr. Blaine in England came from Mr. Gladstone, with whom he is in hearty sympathy on ques tions of Irish policy. With characteristic good sense, however, the visitor has refrained from discriminating between political factions. He has found pleasure in meeting representatives of every school of thought, including Lord Salisbury, Mr. Goschen aud Mr Chamberlain on the Unionist side, and all the leaders of Her Majesty’s Opposition on the other. While he is traveling as a private citizen, he is known as the popular leader of one of the great American parties iu the last presidential canvass, and good taste and sound judgment preclude the obtrusion of bis views on political questions now exciting acrimonious feeling in England. As a leader of men and a student of contempo raneous history, he keenly enjoys the privilege of meeting socially the most intellectual people in the English capital; and they in turn find much to interest them and much to like and admire in this representative American citizen. —X. Y. Tribune. A recent writer says. “A short time ago, I had a talk with a young artist friend, which was to me a very suggestive one. He had been describing a man wbo sat opposite him in the street-car as he was going to hii studio in the morning. When he had finished, the individ ual was as vividly before me as if I had been with him in tlie car. There he sat, a success ful country merchant of the most displeasing type. * * My friend did not hear his voice, but I felt certain that it would have had the inetalic twang of a cracked symbol. All of these traits were brought out by merely de scribing the lines of the man’s face, his man ner of dress, and the way in which he sat. Only the externals were noted, yet tlie charac ter was distinctly revealed. The realism of the portrayal was such that I asked my friend how far his memory of such details was the result of ids training as an artist. “Entirely the result of it,” he replied. “For a long while, J have made it a point to sketch the more striking faces I meet along the street, and the ability to remember tLem lias kept grow ing on me until I can make almost as good a sketch of a person 1 saw yesterday as of one who is silting before me. Tlie idea was sug gested to me by hearing of the course of train ing which Conture, in Paris, requires of his pupils. He never wn-mits them to go to the Louvre and copy the masterpieces. He fells them to go and study, and then return to their rooms and paint what they remember. I11 a year’s time, his pupils can paint as well from memory as any one else’s pupils can with the original before them.” The reading of this interested me, for it was directly in a line of thought that had long ensaged mv attention, it, contains a wise hint of Ilnic tit Think and IITtuf to think about. One of the many very useful things, my old teach er, the llev. Sames McVcan, said to ine, was, that the art of cultivating the memory consisted in much more than preparing a lesson for rec itation. For immediate use before your teach er, you must have the facts of the text at com mand. Hut yon must go further. The best work done for memory is after the reciting is over. “To-night,” continued iffy friend, with much earnestness, “to-night, before you re tire, recall what has been learned to-day; to morrow morning, when you rise, re call; and take every chance to recall. Keep at it until recalling becomes a habit. The benefit will surprise you.” And so it did. “Recall, recall” became one of my watchwords, and, looking back on my long student life—a student still—I bless the hour when Mr. Me. V. laid such stress on “recall.” I low has it helped me? In later years I have found the exercise of “recall” very different from mere recollection, and never failed to multiply the specific function of memory into associations, thence into sugges tions, thence into original forms of thought. Let any one try it, and he will find that his originating or creative faculties will slowly gain an influx of power. II. Hogarth had a habit of studying faces in the streets of London, and whenever one struck him as very peculiar he wou tl step aside and sketch it on ins thumb nail. Dickens was quite as remarkable in his conceptive power as a literary artist. The physiognomy and per sonal traits of his characters seem to have had a simultaneous origin and existence in the ca mera of his genius. The young artist in the cars showed himself a metaphysician as well as a painter when lie so promptly accepted the suggestion from Couture’s method of teaching ins pupils and proceeded to apply it to himself. I do not wonder that this man grew in his abil ity to paint from memory, nor can I doubt tiiat lie constantly improved as a thinker, an accurate observer, as we I as a painter. Mem ory may deaden tlie higher faculties; it ought to enliven them. The eye in its central place of honor as the most perfect of the senses; the cerebral brain near by to receive and assimi late impressions; the hand quivering with in stinctive emotion before pencil or brush was touched; the very blood playing its secret pan tomime; these are facts co related and myste riously co-ordinated in the respective functions of mind and matter in their meeting-ground as soul and body-iSlAiid I can well believe that the genius 01 th» painter at Cologne, who re produced the eelebratid picture in the cathe dral of the city, after its removal to France by Napoleon, had wrought itself and the famous painting so completely into his being as united spirit and flesh; yea, lean easily believe that when tlie original was returned to the cathe dral and hung by the side of the copy, the most cri.ical judges of art were puzzled to tell which was the former and which the latter. Beyond question, these facts indicate a higher copart nership in the education of mind and body than we commonly accredit, and particularly iu memory. The writer in the Christian Union, who pens a weekly column or two as tho “Spectator” of that valuable paper, has given us somo reminiscences of his own school and college life iu the number, June 9th, 1887, which are very suggestive. “I could not help contrasting this training (the young artist friend) with my own. The slightest effort had never been made to train my ob servation. I had taken a fair rank in even such studies as chemistry and botany, without remembering a single experiment, or knowing what the things looked like concerning which I recited, lly means of a blind, parrot-like pho nographic memory, I had often passed almost perfect examinations. This was what Mark Twain might justly call “brickbat culture.” III. Spectator proceeds to say: “I shall always bear, I tear, a kind of grudge against the teachers of my boi hood because they so con tinually ignored the fact, that eyes were in tended to see something besides books, and that the memory was intended to bold some thing besides words.” And he feels, that what little faculty «f observation nature en dowed him with, would not have been lost in the course of his sixteen years’ schooling, had he been educated to think as well as to remem ber. This is a very frequent complaint. I have heard it innumerable times. It appears in the letters of Davy, Wordsworth and F W. Robertson, as well as in essays and volumes on Modern Education. There is much truth iu what Spectator says, but 1 am far from thinking ’.liat all die blame should rest ou teachers. In very many institutions the entire stress .s laid on verbal accuracy, and, as one result, tlie ‘ blind parrot-like" memory is the main object of education. The mark on tlie class-book is the absorbing interest, aud I have personally known scores of students to “make a rise” and finally win college honors, simply by virtue of good memories. Not the ntau, or the man’s inspiration in behalf of true learn ing, but the memory was the automaton in tlie hypothetical man who bore off tbe distinctions. And many times have I personally witnessed tuis result despite of professors doing their lit most to break up tlie ‘'phonographic’’ method, as “spectator” calls it. La l’lace was uuques- tiouably a great original thinker in mathemati cal science, but as Minister of the Interior, Napoleon who had appointed him, found it necessary to depose the grand scientist for in- compelency in an office, where he presented a sorry picture. To be sure, the weight of statistics in colleges seems to fa vor Honor men, but, I have noticed, that, in many cases, these same men owed their distinction in after life to a wide departure from the cramming method (inemo- riter) on which such numbers rely for success in college. The real test of an educated man is to have complete possession of his mental faculties—to know them as they are in himv self and to understand the best modes of their use—and, in addition to this intelligence, to have sufficient information in bis special pur- suit to direct h:s practical judgment. It is very hard to get this possession of ourselves— the hardest of all tasks—and, while I think that this supreme possession of our own en dowments and of our acquired powers is due far more to contact with aituai life than to college-education, I have no doubt, that if our educ itors and tneir students laid less emphasis on tlie culture of mere mechanical and animal memory, and more on tbe antecedent attrib utes of attention, observation, along with the associative and suggesting functions, our Honor Men of commencements would be of- tener heard from as the Honor Men of every day existence. Too much of a college-course is a course in rocking-chairs in the same arc of movement in tlie memory, very fascinating to the near-sighted teacher and his pupils but no progress in the rocking chair. “Young man,” said Michael Angelo to a student, “don’t be so anxious for my opinion on your statue, the light of the public square will give you its judgment.” Wee Willie Cottage, Athens, Ga. Notes in a Library. [itY THETIS ] A friend whose op nion is valuable intimates that Thetis’ letters to the Sunny South are like hot mullins, full of emptiness; “an admir able quality in muffins/' she adds, “but not so desirable in a literary correspondence.” “My dear," I answer, “muffins are out of the question; look rather for isicles.” Nothing so freezes the genial current of the soul and frost bites the tip of one’s wit, so to speak, as the thought that one’s ideas may gei into print. As to frivolities, listen to this: An acquaintance of mine, a book-worm like myself, was recently introduced to an editor, who requested her to write something for him. “What shall it be?” she asked. “Lately I have been studying astronomy and biology.” “Oa,” he laughed, “we don’t want anything of that sort; give us the description of a lady’s dress!" Society, growls Teukelsdrockh, is founded upon cloth! No po.ut of view could be more favorable to the contemplation of every pattern of hu manity than is afforded in the Free Library of a large city. Here we have the scholar, the merchant, the mechanic, the artist, the sailor, the dude; men of all occupations and men of none; men who come to read, and men who come because “poor Tom's-a-cold,” and a straight-backed chair in a warm corner, on a winter evening for instance, is in luxurious contrast to the wind and the rain. There are also those who come apparently for the same reason that many worthies attend church—be cause it is a nice place to nap; nor can it be denied that there is something peculiarly sopo rific in the atmosphere of a library or of a church. Jn a crowd there are always men and women wbo constitute its distinguishing fea tures; they are not to be classified at all—they are individual; but, as Bacon says of books, that some are to be tasted, others swallowed, and a few to be chewed and digested, so the majority of readers may be divided into three classes—the tasters, the swallowers, and—I beg pardon—the chewers. To the first of these belong ilie novel readers, not all who read novels, but those who read merely for pastime, to whom the lightest food is the most palatable. The “swallowers” read neither for pleasure nor pr >lit, hut for the gratification (if a false kind of ambition. This sort get through a book as rapidly as possible without analysing the flavor, finish with a hazy idea of the contents and forthwith enter the author’s name on tbe list ol their intimate acquaintances. We come at last to the true book lovers, and they are to be found not only among one’s “cultivated” neighbors. It would indeed gladden the heart of a philanthropist, on entering tbe library of an evening, to see so many groups of intelli gent looking working men who come hereafter tlie labors of tbe day to strengthen their spirits at the tables of knowledge. A man whose birthright is poverty, to whom every advantage gained, is the result of personal t ffort, is a more interesting subject to a student of men than one born to wealth and its concomitants, in the former there is less of Art and more of Nature. Nothing in this world of shams is so positively real as a thoroughly honest, self- made man. Popular literature covers so wide a range that it is difficult to decide which books are most read. Among the favorite novelists, Dickens, Scott, and Thackeray are, of course, pre eminent. Marion Crawford is very gener ally appreciated, and, tell it not in Gath!—Mrs. South worth has a large circle of admirers. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin" is always in demand. (). W. Holmes has a host of friends, and Mark Twain is read all to pieces. Mill, Spencer, Proctor, Flammarion, Tennyson and Longfel low are all favorite writers. Emerson has a few ardent adorers; only studerts read Shak- speare, and Browning collects the dust. Before closing I want to call your attention to one of the distinguishing features above al luded to. She is a little old woman. Little enough and old enough to have been the hero ine famous in nursery annals for her home in a shoe and a very large family of children. The children have all died long ago, I fancy, .and the shoe is a wreck, nothing saved from it apparently but a few old clothes, which are fpirotvs fcrjASY (hair Said a friend the other day: “There’s some cloud resting on Squander. Every time I meet him he is gloomier than before. He must owe a lot of money.” “That isn’t what troubles him, though. It s beeause he can't owe any more.” Providence, It I., claims in the columns of the Journal to be unique in this that “not one other municipality of half i ts size or impor tance can boast that its geographical centre is occupied by a marsa worth something like $1,000,000, and utilized for the production of mosquitoes, malaria and noxious odors.” What a cruel book-review is that given of a volume of poems by the Literary World, which says: “The book has a cubic content of 117 inches; it contains <>08 pages, comprises (we take the author’s word for ii) fiOO poems, and it weighs two pounds three ounces—all for $2, with the portrait of the author thrown in. The “school for scandal,” we believe, is an English institution, and we observe it is pro posed to supplement it with a school for wives the pupils of which will be instructed in prac tical housewifery. Now let some one in Eng land open a school for husbands, for tbe prac tical instruction of the ruffians who beat their wives. The 1 Yeekty Dispatch, printed in Wine Office Court, Fleet street, London, E. C., calls Mrs. Cleveland the “Presidentiess.” That, says New York Sun, is not a title recognized by tbe constitution, or by any law of etiquette, diplo macy, etymology or common sense. Neither is the lady in question Mrs. President Cleve land. She is Mrs. Cleveland. A countryman in one of the country towns, noticing the airs put on by a city drummer with shiny shirt bosom and studs and stiff cuffs, remarked that “these ere dude drummers needn’t be so proud of their fine fixin’s, as he guessed he could wear biled shirts, too, if there was any foundry in town where he could git ’em done up.” This country excels all others in the field of invention, and exceeds all others in its patent business. The proof is in the fact that this couutry consumes about $22,000,000 worth of patent medicines every year; or rather it pays that amount for the patent medicines which it consumes. And yet Americans are a healthy people. Governor Hughes, of Arkansas, is reputed to be a good lawyer, and never allows himself to be non-suited; and the following significant fact proves it, it, being reliably stated that Gov. Hughes, of Arkansas, gets two suits of clothes a year regularly from Georgia, the material being woven and his clothes being made up in this State. lie has just received his summer outfit from the Goober State. It is made of checked cottonado. If any further proof is wanted that lightning is spiral, it came in the shape of a story* that a negro boy who was standing under a tree in very much tbe worse for wear, and of a style I Southern Georgia, struck by lightning, spun piite obsolete; but this little old woman re tains something of the pride of earlier days. Her literary diet consists exclusively of the fashion papers, and she is evidently absorbed in the plates! (I don’t mean that for a pun.) I think tho imumHitl which o«UhratL h«r management of her family should be altered to read, “She gave them some broth without any bread. But dressed them so gayly in yellow and red.” How many there are who live upon similar principles. Society is founded upon doth. The eldest daughter of the late Gen. Worth has been recently removed from a clerkship in the Qurtermaster General’s office in Washing ton. Miss Worth is about <>0 years of age, (piite feeble, and she has been in the govern ment service a great many years. She' has no means of support, and it is understood that her removal is a serious blow to her. Her father was one of the leading figures in the war of 1812 and in the Mexican war. CAN’T DO WITHOUT IT. The Sunny South Indispen sable in Southern Homes. See What They Say. C. II. Coffield, Rockdale. Texas, says: I en close you postal note for 5:! 00, which pays up to date and one year iu advance. I appreciate the Sunny South very much, both for its use as a valuable household instructor for the young and a staunch champion of everything •Southeri., etc. Mrs. Alor.za Erwin, Selma, Ala., says: Find enclosed 55.00 for my past dues and a re newal for another year, l’lease excuse me for not sending sooner. I think the Sunny South the best paper published anywhere. It is ever a welcome visitor in my home. C. C. Courtney, Kansas City, Mo., says: I failed to receive a last week’s issue of the S S. I’lease send it on. There are no visits to my self and family, more appreciated than the weekly arrival of your paper. H. II. Bickford, Memphis, Tenn., says: En closed find 52 30 for past dues and renewal for another year. . So excellent a paper deserves the success which it has evidently attained, and especially in this growing Sunny South of nurs. W. Bond, Winona, Miss., says: Find en closed 52 00, which please place to the credit of W. 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Evidently a section of the coil was broken off in his constitution somewhere. Th«n U u.,l,.r .,ork«..row Lhumlorbolt. ’ Among the harrowing incidents reaching us from Ireland in regard to the many heartless evictions there, it is related that on a recent occasion the last person thrown out on the roadside was an old woman, who, falling ou her knees, invoked curses on the agent. “May you never see your own home again!” she shrieked. Ford, the person cursed, while returning from the evictions, was thrown off his horse and killed. Sometimes people die cf what is called— whether rightfully or not, we cannot say— tape-worm. It would seem from the following that England might die of “red tape” without the worm attachment: The English red tape army and navy officials do queer tilings. Not only do they send canned meat to Australia, where the woods are full of meat; lice to India, and sugar and lum to Ja maica; but on a recent occasion they literally sent coals to Newcastle for some war ships on the Tyne. The mayor of a Dakota town recent y called upon the editor of a St. Paul paper. As soon as he caught a glimpse of that individual, he broke out as follows: “See here, you galoot, what do you mean by snubbing our town?” “Why, my dear sir,” replied the editor, “I have never snubbed your town.” “Yes you have,” said the mayor. “Didn’t you print a dispatch in your paper the other day about the new hearse we have just got for our town, and didn’t you fail to add ‘great enthusiasm pre vails’' Now, we can’t have any more of that. You must bear in mind that great enthusiasm always prevails over anything new in Dakota. And if you don’t run it in every time it will be wuss for you. You hear me.” Death. The stanza given below was written bv Mrs. Barbauld in extreme old age. Our admiration grows with every reading, and it seems to us increasing beautiful. Tbe l’oet Rogers regard ed it as one of tbe finest things in English literature. Henry Crabbe Robinson says that he repeated tlie stanza to Wordsworth twice, and then heard him muttering to himself, “j am not in the Lab t of grudging people their good things, but 1 wish I had written those lines.” It ts stated that in his last moments Dr. Fuller said to his nephew, Dr. Cuthbert, on taking leave oi him, “Good nigbt, James— but it will soon be good morning!” Perhaps the echo of this stanza was in tbe ear of the dying preacher: Lite! we have been long together. Through p easaut and ihiougd cloudy wea'hor ’ rts hard to part when friends are dear, ’ Perhaps ’twin cost a sign, a teat: Tnen steal away; give little warning; Uuoose mine own ttine. Bay not, Good-Night! tut in some brighter cl.me, Bid me, Uood-mornlnp!’’ Extraordinary Club u The Sunny South and A Other Paper or Magazine a About the Price of One. 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The following gems are from Mr. Moody’s Bible, given by him at the Northfield conven tion: l'.OAZ A TYPE OF CHRIST, Lord of the hat vest. Supplier of wauts. Redeemer of tbe inheritance. Man who gives rest. Near kinsman. Bridegroom. no the kino’s ltUSIXESS. Heartily, Col. 3: 23. Diligently, Ezra 7: 23. Faithfully, 2 Chron. 34: 12. Speedily, Ezra 7: 21.. BOOK OF ESTHER TEACHES. The wonderful overruling providence of God. The love of God for his own people. The power of God to overturn the devices of the wicked. CUMBERLAND ISLAND, The Gem of the Atlantic, AFFKR3 MOKE ATTRACTIONS THAN ANY U seaside res. n. In t lie suutu. To ins tuque.e mau Md °dY8Denqc a S?rhm a n Deed rest ’ aud to tl>« tnva- is_ no p’^el^K^OmfberUuid^q’h'tta^rachiV'aalt SrZtTWe hare bere 91UDS ’ saoo _ tm « i ““ 1 the finest beach in the WOKLl) nlvLA",, 4n . d ,hs Kxnily sloping beach makes it pei fectly safe even for little children. 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