About The sunny South. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1875-1907 | View Entire Issue (July 23, 1887)
I THE SUNNY SOUTH. ATLANTA. GA., SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 23, 1887. LETTERS »- ^•PEDPLE TO OUR CORRESPONDENTS. Circumstances beyond our control Lave in terfered with the publication of many excel lent letters and articles which deserved ami which we had marked for publication in the Si nnv Soi th. The time whi h has elapsed since they were written has divested them of the interest originally recommending them, so that we are sorrowfully compelled to consign them to a fate undeserved by most of them. ' '\e beg leave to sincerely assure the writers that however much they and we may regret the mutual disappointment, that what has hap pened was unavoidable. We eagerly avail ourselves of this opportu nity to say to our thousands of friends—one and all that we shall be rejoiced to receive letters and good articles on live topic, of gen eral interest for pablicat lamiot pledge ourselves to publish all that we may re ceive or publish them exactly as we receive them as to style or quantity. What we would be glad to recei.e would be— Letters from cities or towns, or localities of unusual promise, containing a description em bracing geography, topography, history, pop ulation, religious and educational institutions, manufacturing and other industrial enterpris es, remarkable agricultural results, social mat ters of real interest, (please don’t send too many names of pejple.) natural r.mmret forests, water powers, minerals, etc The in terchange of such information through our columns will he of mutual benefit ai d interest to our widely distributed constituency, is de sirable ami respectfully and earn, stly solicited. We venture to insist— 1 hat all matter intend, d for publication be written legibly and carefully on one side of the paper only, and on consecutive pages. It consumes too much valuable lime to be compelled to go through manuscript to correct words, spelling, grammar, punctuation, ar rangement, etc. In some instances we had rather write the matter over entirely—it would take less time. Not 1 mg ago we received a letter written on the iirst, third and fourth pa ges, and then finished on the seemd. To cor rect and transpose ar il “reconstruct” it took over an hour—yet the letter made less titan a column. In conclusion we would remark that some letters which we really wanted to print, missed publication simply because on opening them we found them so dillicult to read that we laid them aside to examine when we had more leisure. That leisure was not enjoyed until the communication had Iwcome state and out of date—and much to cur regret and the wri ters disappointment did not appear. Communications prepared as above outlined will be exceedingly welcome. Lake Weir, Fla. Summer Evening Entertainments. Kioto it Sinnv South: As the season draws near when all who have received a bonny smile from Dame Fortune are hieing away to moun tain and sea-shcre—we, who, nolens nolens, belong to the "can’t get away club,” are cast ing about in our minds for something to do to relieve the dreadful monotony and ennui of the long Florida summer months. Possessing the “fellow feeling that makes us wondrous kind,” we will in the magnanimity of our big heart five cur proposed programme to oilier unfutlunahs, hoping that they may tind the same improvement and pleasure that we have already begun to enjoy. For Mondav evenings we have a “Shttk- spearean Club,” taking up and carefully study ing the nlays of the great master, one by one. Facb person assumes a character, which adds greatly to the interest, and with copious notes on all obscure passages, we hope by the time llie summer is ended to become well up on the wondre us works of the illustrious bard. And right here let me whisper a secret in your ear. Kv sending to that national benefactor, John li Alien :!!•:{ l’earl street, N. V., you can get each play m pamphlet form, for four cents each. Truly tbe millennium has come when the facilities for acquiring knowledge and learning are in such easy reach of alt. Tut sday evenings we devote to music. e have in our little village a most thorough and highly cultivated musician, from New York—a pupil of the famous I)r. Palmer, who has a class in the “Choral Lnion Work,” now engaged in mastering the difficulties of sight-reading in music. After this course we will take the mote ad vanced grades. On F'riday evenings comes our Literary and Musical Club meetings, in which we have goal recitations, reading and vocal and instrumental music At the close of each meeting we enjoy a most charming social hour, when the iads and lasses almost make us sigh f -r the by - gone davs when the night breez -s did not give its the “rheumatics,” for oh! how lovely they find the “moonlight on the lake ; and with tn- terest we watch them as they “read in the stars their coining fate.” Tra-ia-la. We are not so far removed from the pale of civilization that we have no church services, tor everv Sabbath mot mug and event, g our sweet-toned hell bids us “come up to the house of the Lord”; and our Sabbath school, though small, is bright and interesting, The; t^rmom- eter of the spiritua ny of our "c fl hor ioo. the Wednesday evening prayer meeting, stands well. .. Hut enough for this tune hi a'stall aday ’ fetl on hay and bran and k ept ‘‘“r 8cll<l ' ),s af e excellent, well attended, are popular and constantly improving ..... e to carry the Prohibition Amend ment, t ut by a majority that will be small con- st; ermg the large aggregate of the popular vote. Uut it will be laigeenough to kill the traffic— • ud keep it killed. Our Democratic majority is about 1.10,000 in the State. T. Dallas, Texas, June, 1887. Rich and Poor-Capital and Labor. Ekitor Sunny South: From poverty, for riches, has grown a sentiment which is leading to developments of associations, theories and placs, for action upon the two extremes, until they meet on a basis of approximative equality. Protection from oppression and restraint to power of unjust tendency, are rightful meas ures by men to and for them. In so far justice and moral right demand that the laborer have ample recompense for service, and that the employer shall not prey upon the employer, nor the speculator wield unfair advantage in trade. But by what legitimate process can poverty be converted into opulence or plenty, or can wealth be exercised? Not by force; not by ollicial edict; not by reform in civil govern ment; not by legislation; not by contention; not by mu.isli wonts; not by socialistic ineas ures. No anti-poverty society can make a man thrifty, nor change the nature that dis poses to ihriftlc8snes«. As a school and as a fort, such a society seems possibly expedient. Any vocation, .any line of honorabie buHiness pursuit, may be ad vanced by the co-operation of its followers, in the st'i.dy of interests and iu protection to these from the encroachment of exaction. Strife is apt. to demolish relationship, when pacific measures would readily pronuoteequi y. Trie 1 tboiiug classes seem attuand by hypo thetical visions of injustice and oppression ex ion. Yet to guard I erc ' se d by financial powers and legislative fa- gainst writers expecting mo much,’we cannot , The grievances even if based on , » cauiiui fact, doubtless are magnified ixcessive.y and see booger.s where none be. Prosperity to an individual, is as fruitful ness to a tree, (iood tms and bad ones, both fruiifid and barren! Much of financial suc cess depends upon individual capacity And ef fort. Tnat famous declara ion of Patrick Hen ry that ‘ me battle is not to rhe strong alone; but to the vigilant, the active, the brave," is equally applicable to the battle of life in busi ness pursuits Thrift and prosprmy are free and open to each fellow; bis emuse must decide bis out come in loss or gain. He is a fool who in sow ing chaff anticipates a possible harvest of ce reals in return for the time and effort expend ed. He is idiotic or oraz\ who thinks that, y following the road to adversity he can reach goat of prosperity. As we ll < xpect a temper- ale breeze from the ardc sea as thrift from a thriftless course. Tao men started in business wilfi equal means and advantagt s often turn out remark ably different, results. One of them will con tinue to accumulate unto a fortune or a compe tency; while the other will reap but little or no advantage in that direction, or will even lose his capital also. The scriptural parable of the talents which several servants, respestively, used with such different results, explains a broad dtlL rence in the business dispositions of men. Many men, now opilent, began man hood as poor toilers and honorably carved their ways to wealth. Examples of victorious pro gress from poverty to immense wealth are no table in .Jay Gould, .1 I) Rockefeller (the oil king), and the patriarch Vanderbilt. Some of the measures by which such status is attained are frequently decried. Hut Peter Cooper and Horace Greeley furnish characters representa tive of a large number who pursued lines of progress by methods unquestionably honorable. From this class have gone forth colossal contri butions tocuarity—these acts besp. aking hearts of noble manhood and philanthropy. The sor did and unjust is incompatible wiiu such char acters. The fact is, industry, economy and studious attention are cardinal requisites to the ascent of the heights of fortune. The requi sites, in full development and array, are scarce; yet of them nearly every sensible man can hold enough to place and sustain him and his above the inir^H and dangers of penury. The competent business nun knows that pos sibility of accumulation in property is propor tioned by preponderance cl receipts over ex penditures—that loss or gain is determined by the ratio between demand and supply. Whiskey and lager beer are prominent, fer tile, ravaging de-spoilers of the germs and buds of pecuniary success. They tempt away earn ings. tk»i vert economic diapatctinim, blaatliigL*! | aspirations, in the ways ot pursuit, from a mul titudinous number of working men. If the dimes and dollars which this class squander lor strong drink were usefully invested, or only saved even, the incubus of poverty per conse quence could be lightened speedily or entirely removed. Common observation and statistics show that the transfer of earnings to liquor dealers is one of the most common and ini- poverijthing habits of the poor among the toil ers. The public mind is just awakening to the magnitude of the burden and danger imposed by excessive foreign immigration, which daily- pours upon the shores of these United States a continuous stream of the poor, demoralized and disaffected of other nations. French, Irish, Dutch, German, Italian and other human kind, being in trouble or not able to thrive on their native soils, come here, forming a motley sur plus. To get money is their principal aim. Unable to gather it as rapidly and largely as they wish or expected, many of them become pliable to the vicious ideas of socialism and of brute force over civil methods. Lit’le or no’bing care such characters f* rthe welfare of the people, for the majesty of civil law, for the security of good government, for Constitutional sovereignty, for the principles of republhanisui, for the glory of the star- spangled banner, for the guarantees of Democ racy. Self is the grand object of their carnal affections; money is the big thing against pa triotism. Doubtless many honest, honorable foreigners come into this nation to live. No word against itiem have I. In the rabble under perverse leadership lies the menace and the danger to peace ami order. G. G. Wootten. Annona, Texas, Jane 1, 1887. Sandy Run, South Carolina. The Crops—Turpentine—New City. Editor Sunny South: Everything is very dull here and there is but little to write. Until lately it has been very dry, but recent rains have stared vegetation and helped the crops. In fact, the farmers have been lighting General Green, and are about to come off vic torious. 'I he long continued cold weather in the spring injured the fruit to such an extent that the crop will be a short one. Several owneis of limber lands have gone into the turpentine business. < fpinions vary as to the effect on timber—some asserting that it will destroy tjie timber. <£uite a settlt mem has been built up oppo site Columbia, tailed New Brooklyn. There are qui'e a number of dwellings two or three sioics, two blacksmiths’-shops, a livery stable, etc A prosperous future is predicted for the new town. I*. Sandy linn, June 25, *87. Our Portrait Gallery. PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHIES OP DISTINGUISHED MEN AND WOMEN. Cardinal Simeoni. The Propaganda at R >n»e, which has long since concluded that tli9 action of excommuni cating Father McGlynn for the doctrines he holds, was one of necessity, and, although the correspondence between Archbishop Carrigaa, of New York, and Cardinal Simeoni has been frequent, no such action aas yet been verified. Cardinal Simeoni is opposed to declaring the final decree of ex-communication and is trying to divert this curse of Rome.which hangs bus pended like the Domccles sword, from falling upon a once worthy apostle of the catholic faith. HD Eminence Giovanni »Simeoni, an Italian Cardinal, was h tii at Paliauo, in the diocese of Palestrina, July 23rd, 1810, and having been ordained priest, he was, on ac count of his solid learning, employed in offices of considerable importance. In 1847 he was Auditor of the nunciature of Madrid. After some years we find him in tune, Prefect of studies in the Pontifical Lye 1 .1 of the Roman Seminary and Proionotary .\postelic paitici- pante. For many years he was Secretary of lhe Congregation of the Propaganda, and as Consul too hr* belongs to the Holy Roman and Universal Inquisition, to the Propagai da for affairs of the Oriental Rite, to the Council for the Revision of Provincial Councils, and for tiie Extraoi dinary Ecclesiastical Affairs. When the Oecumenical Council of the Vatican was calk d, Mgr. S memii was one of iho Con suitors lor the Commission of Jrienlal Ciurch- appointed Professor of Khetoric at Bowdoin College ill 1856 at.d became Professor of Eccle siastical ILstory at Andover Theological Semi nary in 186." a terward becoming president of the faculty in 1878 Professor Smyth’s pen lias contributed much to the press of the coun try and lie is the editor of the Andover Review; he has translated Uhlhorn’s Conflict of Chris tianity with Heathenism (187P ) and publishes his addresses, sermons, etc , extensively. Prof. Egbert Smyth is a brother of liev. New man Smyth, whose hooks, entitled ‘ The Re ligious Feeling,” “Old Faith in New Lights,” and the “Orthodox Theology of To-day, ’ crea ted much sensation in Congregational and Presbyterian circles a few years ago. Mark Baldwin. When Anson left Kelley, Dalrymple and McCormick got out of his team it was pre dicted that he would rue his move, and when the Cbicagos played fur the tail end at the early part of the season the baseball enthusiasts of the “Windy Ci y” were loud in their exple tives. But occurting events have proved that Anson is too much of a manager to make any seriously great mistakes, and he stuck firmly to his “young blood” programme, despite the execrations of the crowd. Chicago is playing great ball, a r .d, although the chances are against her winning the pennant, she certainly will be among the leaders at the final closing of the season of 1887. The Macedonian cry for pitchers, which is ringing through the land, makes Mark Baldwin, Chicago's young phe nomenon, stand out in bold relief among the few successful twirlers under the new rules. Just now Baldwin is all the rage. He came from Duutb, playing with the club at that place in the Northwestern League. In 188(1 he pitched forty-one games, being eight more than anv pitcher of that league His average was .‘JTJ, and ho ranked thitd on the list. Asa In the near future __ _ of Hue and cantivating Pic ures of summer ltle 1 ■■ adopt our programme and read , of summer If von will adopt our progra. every week that best, purest literary paper t Ice land;our own Sr-xv Sol-th on' word fe nr sum’ii# r will tw as if on wings H you can’t go to a A n rccoir. Dallas, Texas, The Drouth and the Crops-Publica- tions-Jersey Cows-Public Schools—Prohibition. Editor Sunny South: We take and we like the Smotr South. It i» the biggest paper and the cheapest,and “the brightest and best m the South. Tie you print something about other places, so I thought I would tell you somelhmg ^TbertTare thirty-two papers published in Dallas—six of them daily. The Dallas Morn- r^ranks with the best in the South, and has a circulation exceeding that of its , ' J \V.twfth^ai^di^g a the drouth, corn cotton Notwitnstaii g Wbcat y ie jded mag- Tnd'quantities have been shipped to nificently, I . ^ r j C j, an d productive, S '-, I '°T.raus™rStion facilities will rapidly and with “jj^ atiori an d productions. Ratl- roathmind industrial enterprises are already on th We°5£jeniey cows that yield two pounds Tbe American Cultivator well says that, “the mistake which men are most apt to make is in supposing that great lives must necessar ily he connected with great events; that he can not he conaicered really grea who concerns himself only wit u every day affairs. It is the spirit in which ordinary work is done that makes it either trivial or grand. As usually performed the great bulk of man's work is not inspiring, but it might easily be made so. Few apprecia e the amount of thought, skid and energy required in doing oidinary common work. Almost everybody deems himself capa ble of becoming a good farmer. Yet no busi ness demands larger knowledge or the exer cise of more thought than that of farming, and if tin se be lacking the capacity for doing a great amount of muscular work will not make up lor the deficiency." Sail in the Deep Waters. A passenger said to the pilot of a steamtoat; “You have W»en a long time, 1 uupp. se, a* h : s business.” . *‘YeF,” answered the pilot, “upwaru of twenty years." “You know, then,” pursued the passenger, “every rock and shoal." “Not by a long way," was the answer, “but I know where deep water is.” Be sure you sail in the deep waters, and you will keep clear of many a rock ami shoal.— Anonymous. CARDINAL SIMEONI. es and Missions and for Ecclesiastical Discip line. The Diplomatic relations between the Holy See and the ^mirt of Spain having been re-establish’d in 1875, his Holiness l’ius IX, sent. Mgr. Sinipont as Huncio to Madrid hav ing just reco«iiuz» <1 him Archbishop of Chal- cedouia. <)»i March 15.h, 1875, l’ius IX ( created him (’animal, remained in the nuncia- * tureat Madrid in th** quality of pronuncio; and on th** death of Cardinal Artouelle, in 1873, he was appointed Secretary of State to his Holi ness l’ius IX—an office which he retained until the death of that 1’onliff—and Prefect of the Sacred Apostolic Palaces and the Sacred Lau- retan Congregation. He was succeeded as Secretary of Slate by Cardinal Franchi in March 1878, when Pope Leo XIII appointed Cardinal Simeoni Pretict of the. Propaganda. D. B. Hagar. The National Educational Association of the United States, which is to convene at Chicago in July, 1887, will no doubt, be the largest as semblage of teachers that was ever field on the American c mtinent. The association as it ex ists to-day. is the outgrowth of various more or less prominent teac.iers’ associations and institutes, th- object of allot which has been the promotion of educational interests: but not until the present organization bad been < fleet ed, did their work attract the attention of the general public. The annual meetings of the association are attended bv thousands of teachers from a 1 portions of the country, and the statement that the communities in which they labor are greatly benelitted by their at tendance, is by no means <ui exaggeration, as the discussion of timely topics and participa tion in the consideration of important matters cannot fail to inspiie them with new energy and enthusiasm. The president of National' Council •» !>,»:>!•: B xrn.ird ling.tr, l*h !>., rme of the most eminent, .tnd practical educators of the country, whose labors have attracted uni versal and favorable attention. Daniel Bar nard IIagar was born April 22 1, 1820, at New ton, Lower Fails, Massachusetts. He received his early education in the district schools of his native village, and prepared for college chiefly under private tutors He entered Union Col lege, Schenectady, N. Y., in 1830. and gradu ated at the head of his class in 1843. He suc cessfully taught, while a student, in Schuyler- ville Academy, Saratoga, N. Y., and in King ston Academy, also in the State of New York, ile was principal of the Oanaioharie Academy from the years of 1814 until 1848, inclusive, of the Eliot Hi^h Ssho *1, in Jamaica Plain, Mas sachusetts, from 1810 to 1805 In the latter year he was chosen president of the State Normal School at Salem, Mass., which position he still lills. His earnest efforts in behalf of education were recognized by his colleagues many years ago, and he was frequently called upon to hi I some of the most prominent and honorable positions within the gift of the bodies with which he is connected. lie was EGBERT C SMYTH. batsman he is weak, standing as low as eighty third, in the list of I88(i, with an average of .150. If Mark Baldwin continues the great work which he is at present doing, he will rival his great namesake, of the Detroit#, the crack pitcher of the league for 18S#». [Special for the Sunny South.] Fashion Freaks. Pretty break fat* t sacques for home wear are of linen lawn, batisc or percale, lined or specked with scarlet, lavender or blue. Those of very thin material have loose fronts and ad justed back?. PDated vests of embroidered white lawn or drawn-work down each pleat or tuck may be added if dr-sired. Black lace dresues having waist and lower skirt of satin surah stripes, alternating with insertions of French lace, and over-skirt of piece lace edged with trimming lace, are fa vored by fashion. They are especially effective made up over green silk surah, but are more serviceable < ver black. The stripes run around the skirt and are lengthwise in the basque. White lace dresses are made up after divers designs, and are especially stylish with green trimmings. •fi c*i?ra.inK hi)- sbovGi ai i.ord & Taylor's is of white surah or moire ribbon and Valenciemeu insertion. Another pretty costume 1ml the while lace«*lfirt in one deep, scalloped flounce. The overskirt was made of« alternating rows of white lace insertion and salmon ribbon, in diagonal form as A pointed apron; pleaicd lengthwise rows cotfsiituteG the back drapery. Dressy light wraps for hof#l piazzas at wa tering places or other summer resorts are small squares of embroidered Uhr a crape jyithdeey, netted fringe. They may he ere in white, pale blue, light green, yellow and ( uiua pink. India ebuddah squires are chosen if wraps of greater warmth be desired. White shawls are preferred t*y old and v .ting ladies, though those of dark India red give a delightful dash of color which is in harmony with almost every toilet. Sai.lie J. Battey. Dots by the Wayside—My Quaint Visitor. Editor Sunny South: While seated in the little depot at Opelika, awaiting the arrival of the train from your own proud city, Atlanta, I noticed a handsome lady, with stately mien, enter and seat herself near me. As my eyes rested on her comely face, the lovely home of my childhood rose to mind; and I seemed to breathe again the sweet, pure air that fanned through wide casements, while the tall golden rods nodded again their graceful, plumed heads to me, as I lay on the roomy sofa in the parlor, a favorite book for my companion. “ ’TIs the golden gleam of an autumn day, With the soft rain raining as If in pUy; And a tender touch upon everything, ▲s If anthem remembered the day9 of spring. O'er the mountains the white rain draws Its veil, And the black rooks, cawing, across them sail, While nearer tbe swooping swallows skim O'er tbe steel gray rivers iratted brim.” My dear mother, who was then young and beautiful, entered the room with a handsome lady-visitor. Mother introduced me, but I felt her eyes rest on my tangled curls and slip- periess feet, and gathering up my book I beat a hasty retreat. All this was in my mind, and, turning to look at the lady again, she approached me smilingly, and said: “This must be Nettie Loveless.” 4 Yes," I answered. “I knew it must be you," she continued, “for no one else ever had such eyes and hair.” “And you are Mrs. L . I was just think ing of home and of our first meeting—although I was scarcely conscious of the fact that I recognized you." Our meeting was pleasant indeed, to me, for my heart goes out i i fond affection to all the friends of my early years. “For memory sifts from the past its pain And suffers its beauty alone to remain." I have had quite a pleasant summer’s flitting to Montgomery, Birmingham, Decatur and Athens, Alabama. I am quite pleased with Athens and her good people. The Female College is in a prosperous condition, and Com mencement exercises were unusually interest ing. I feel truly grateful for the high words of praise accorded my paintings, which were on exhibition, and as Athens will be my home another year, I appreciated the warm personal reception given me by her cultured people. Well, I am back again in the dear old hone in Salem, and must tell you of a quaint visitor 1 had this morning. An old, old woman, with bent form and a wealth of snowy white hair. She c nee had a homo and lived independently, if poorly, but is now homeless, friendless and alor e. She stays around among the good peo ple of Salem, as a help, and works uncom plainingly at whatever she may. She came in this morning with a basket of fresii vegetables, and when I had emptied it, she asked quite shyly, while her bright blue eyes searched my face: * Won't you play the I’ianny some for me?” “Yes, certainly," and I led the way into the iuuhc room. ••Don’t play anything grand for me, please, just something simple uuits me best." I looked at the kindly, but care-worn old face, and the inspiration to play what would suit her was not wanting, for tender, sweet, an 1 half forgotten strains came to mind. “Thauka, darlin! If I was a dying and you would play like that, I wouldn’t mind it a bit!” “I hope you will not mind i L . any way, when the time comes,” I answered. 4 'Ah! Lord, but it is a long leap, and I don’t know whar I’ll land. But I uhant borrow trouble, darlin, no I shaut borrow trouble. Trouble enough already, don’t j’ou think? John and his fine wife keeps on tr writin for me to come to Macon and they’ll take care of me as long as I live; but I wouldn’t live long if I went thar, and I keeps dread in that long leap in the dark, and I dont know whar I’ll land.” J’oor old soul! Nettie Loveless Kiekui.ff. Salem, Ala. CONFEDERATE NOTE MEMORIAL.’ We republish below, by special request, the lines written on the back of a Confederate “New Issue,” by Major S. A. Jones, of Aber deen, Miss The brilliancy of this little “gem” justifies its re-setting. The original note on which it wvs written is in the possession of Mrs. Kidd, of Aberdeen: Representing nothing on God’s earth now, And naught In the waters below it — A« the pledge of a nation that pas ted away, Keep it, dear friend, and show it; Show It to those who will lend an ear To the tale that ihis trifle can tell— Of a Liberty born of a patriot’s dream— Of a storm-cradled nation that fell. Too poor to possess the precious ores, Anu too much of a stranger to borrow, W»* issued to day our “promise to pay,” And beped to redeem on the morrow. The davs roiled on, and the weeks became years, But our erffers were empty still; Coin was so scarce the treasury quaked If a dollar should drop iu the nil. But the faith that was In us was strong indeed, Though our poverty well we discerned, Ami this little check represents the pay, That our stlfering veterans earned; Th**y it i»ad hardly a value in gold— Yet as gold our soldiers received it— It goZ>-d In our eyes with a piomise to pay, And each patriot soldier believed it. But our boys thought little of price or of pay, Ur of bills that were over-due; We knew if it bought us our bread to-day ’ Twas the best our poor country could do. Keep it; it tells all our history o’er. From the b'rth of the dream to i s last; Modest, and born of the Angel of Hope— Like our hope of success, *It Passed. 11 The largest, circular saw in exi se near Xeine Ind. The saw piear It inches and was made by a Milwa ’8 III over firm. I). B. IIAGAR. president, of the Massachusetts State Teachers’ Association lb5*‘ 7-8; of the American Normal School Association, 1808; of the American In stitute of Instruction, 18(50-1; of the National Teachers’A* social ion, 1871; of the Music Ed ucation Department of he National Educa tional Association, 1883-8-1; uf the New Eig- land Public School Music Teachers’ Associa tion, 1885-87, a«'d of the National Council of Education, 188G-87. Professor Hagar is the author of a “History of the Massachusetts State Teachers’ Association," a id of a series of very valuable mathematical text-books. The succ^sv of the convention at. Chicago will d fc p?nd much upon the National Council of Ed ucation. Egbert C. Smyth. Almost eveiybody has heard of the Andover theological controversy, which has just broken out afresh with t^ich vigor as to make some people say that it has only begun. The cause of the new eruption is the recent action of the Board of Visitors in dismiusing Professor Eg bert C. Smyth from the chair of the ecclesias tical history in what is officially known as the Theological Institution in Phillips’ Academy, in Andover, and more commonly termed An dover Seminary. To is institution is the lead ing theological seminary of the orthodox Con- giega ional church. It* charier, or original constitution, da e 1 August. 31, 1857, provides “Lhai no man shall be continued a piottssor in this institution who shall not continue to ap prove himself, totjie saii.*faction of the trus tees, a man of sound and orthodox principles in divinity," according to the standards estab lished in said constitution. Prof. Smyth is charged with maintaining and inculcating be liefs inconsistent with, and repugnant to the creed of the institution. Egbert Coffin Smyth, D ])., was born at Brunswick, Maine, August 24»h, 1821) He received a thorough education, graduating finally at the Theological Seminary of Bangor, in the year 1853 Mr. Smyth was MARK BALDWIN. Adventure with a Black Snake. [From the Richmond State.] Mr. Karl Kramer, while at work frescoing the interior of Mr. Joseph Bryan’s residence, after getting through with his day’h work went to the brook a short distance below Mordecai’s pond to iish. While standing on the bank he noticed a large bkei*-snake coiled up on a log. Mr. Kramer struck hi the snake with his pole to frighten i off; but the snake didn’t move. He then threw a rock at it. The snake sprang at him and fastened its fangs in his trousers. Mr. Kramer ee.z d tbe snake just boiow its heal and jerked it upwards. Instantly the snake coiled its body around Kramer’s neck and begun lighten tig its folds until Mr. Kra mer was nearly uuffoca'ed. He endeavored to to break the hold, but failed Seeing that unless he was released from the deadly em brace he would he killed, Mr. Kramer, who was growing weak from the struggle, staggered up to a large rock which was a short distance off and beat the head of the snake against it until it was killed. The snake measured eight feet long and six inches around the body. Fifteen Pensioner? in One Family. [Times- Democrat] A West Virginian named Brown presented himself at the Pension Bureau the other day to furnish evidence in a claim pending before tbe office. It was learned upon inqiriy that his mother had borne thirty-three children in all. Twenty of this number were boys, sixteen of whom had served in the Union army. Two were killed. The other fourteen survive. Each of them draws a pension from the govern ment for disabilities received while in the ser vice. The death of the two boys entitles tbe mother to a j»ension also. Gen. Black says the files of the office fail to show another record where the sixteen sons of one mother served as soldiers in the lato war. Seward an Anti Coericanist. Neither Mr. Lincoln nor any of the gentle men invited to serve in his cabinet, with the exception of Mr. Seward, was aware of the schemes which had been maturing at Washing ton for some months preceding his inaugura tion. In a speech made in the Senate on the 12ih of January, Mr. Seward expressed Lis intention “to meet exaction with concession," and hi^readiness to change the Constitution to get over difficulties. He wrote to Mr. Charles Fra icis Adams: “Only an imperial or despotic government would subjugate thoroughly dis affected and •insurrectionary members of the itate." He would have permitted the “way ward sisters to go in peace," and to be brought back by a national convention, “in which the organic law can, if it be needful, be revised so as to remove all real obstacles to a reunion, so suitable to the habits of the people, and so eminently conducive to the common safety and welfare.” These views, there are good reasons for believing, met with the approbation of the leaders of the secession movement. They believed that in a national convention a new union might be framed, in which New England wouid be one State and slavery would be recognized. Mr. Seward presented no fixed principles nor any clear and well-deliued pol icy. He anticipated ai.d said there would be harmony and reconciliation within ninety days, but he did not state how this harmony was to be xestored. To some of his associates he was the personification of oid Polonius, who by indirection found direction out. He claimed the right to name the nppohi.meats for t he StaLe of New York, and undertook to direct military and naval movements without consulting the gentlemen who had been placed in charge of those depar.incuts. When the new administration finally decided to reinforce Fort Sumter, and issued confidential orders to that effect, the information was promptly tele graphed to Charleston. It was subsequently ascertained that this information was sent by Mr. Harvey, a South Carolinian who had re sided some years at Washington as a newspa per correspondent, and who was intimate with Mr. Seward. Soon afterwards Mr. Harvey was appointed ininistev to Portugal on the recomme idaiion of the Secretary ot State. On Mr. Seward’s recommendation an attempt was made to create a new bureau iu the Treasury Department, and to place at the head of it Commodore Barron, who wouid know ever} - thing that was going on. Mr. Welles found this out iu time and stopped it, and in a lew weeks Commodore Barron joined the Confeder ates. Mr. Seward himselt went into the State Department with no acquaintance with the forms of business other than tiiat obtained in cidentally while he was in the Sena.e. Among other examples cited of the pol.tical proscrip- toiti which he sanctioned was his granting a request from Mr. Weed that a naturalized Eng lishman who had for years been a willing whip per-in for the Whigs of New York should be appointed consul at Falmouth, that he might end his days in his native land. When Me. Weed call# d at the Slato Department lor the commission, Mr. Hunter, the old chief clerk, expressed his regret on delivering the doc ument. “The consul whom you remove," said Mr. Hunter, “is one of the most correct and tfficient officers in the consular service, as was his father before him. The father was the open, steadfast ai.d true friend of our country in the War of Independence. Gen. Washington, when President, iu grateful re membrance of the sympathy and friendship of this English gentleman, appointed him consul at Fa'mouib, and at his dea'.h Gen. Jackson appointed hie son, whom you now remove after years cf faithful service.” Mr. Weed was forced to acknowledge that he was ashamed. He had wished to serve his friend, without giving a thought for the faithful incumbent or the welfare of the Government, and he declined to take his commission. Who Wrote It? Mary A. A., Lexington, Ky.: Please give me Lhe author of the following lines: “Man was made when Nature was But an apprentice; but woman when she Was a skillful mistress of the art.” Don’t know the author, but you will find it in Cupid’s WhirPgig—1007. Ail that we have to say upon the subject is, that if woman is not an improvement upon man, she is a great comfort to him in many respects; iu fact, we don’t see how we could well have done with out her. She is not an angel, but she is very good indeed when treated right and loved as she should be. Love is woman’s greatest characteristic; and for that reason we love her. Sign of Death. Robt. A., Louisville, Ga.: “Is there any way to be sure a person is dead before they are put in a cell in? The French Government offerei a reward for a sure test, and gave it to the one who offered the following as a sure test: “When the fingers of a person who is sup posed to be dead are fully extended, but kept near together, and if placed in front of a can dle-light in a dark room, a peculiar bright color, due to the capillary circulation, will be visible where the fingers touch each other, if there is any life left. The otoer is based upon the Veil-known fact that the muscles of a human being will never respond for a longer time to the strongest elec trical current than for oae hour and a half after death; while as long as life lasts, may ii« evidence be ever so little, the contractility of the muscles, if not affected by some forms of paralysis—and in cases thus affected, when death seems to occur, it is always real—re mains.’’ ; Stores. Carrie Van: Will you please tell me, in your answers to correspondents, if it is the contct thing for an author to send to one pe riodical a contribution which has been pub lished already, in another. I sometimes notice stories and sketches re-written after they have been published appear again in this way. Please answer promptly .and oblige a reader. That depends upon what kind of stories, and the understanding between writer and pub lisher. Many of the stories you see are bought, and the buyer uses them'as he pleases. You are not up to all the ways of the press writers and publishers. Stories, many of them are very cheap and published in many papers, but articles paid for by a paper, belong exclusively to that paper, and unless permission is given to other papers to publish, it cannot be done. When you see at the head of a story or any other article, “Copyrighted by Author—All rights reserved," or “Copyrighted by publish er,"—such a story cannot appear in any other paper except by special permission. But the stories that you no doubt see and read in the papers, are published not under the copyright law; but by some special contract between writer and publishers. The Sunny South FEMALE SEMINAKY, miYIT 6E0IMJ. FACULTY: W.B. SEALS, A. M., Pesidont, Professor of Natural and Moral Sciences. Prof. GEO. C. LOONEY, A. M., Chair of Mathematics and Astronomy. Mrs. C. D. CRAWLEY, M. A., Chair of English Literature. Mile. VICTORIA KONTZ, Chair of Ancient and Modern Languages. Mrs. L. H. SEALS, Principal of Preparatory Department, M.\i»am VON DER IIOYA SCHULTZE, Piano and Organ. Prof. W. F. CLARK, Violin and Cornet. Prof. Wm. LYCETTE, Art Department. Prof. A. C. BRISCOE, Stenography. Miss JENNIE RUSHING, Telegraphy. FOREMAN OF “SUNNY SOUTH" OFFICE, Teacher of Type Setting. Miss LILY MAY DAN FORTH, Calligraphy. Mrs. W. F. SEALS, Supt. Boarding Department. Mrs. GEO. C. LOONEY, Matron. THE FALt T£KM WILL UKGIX ON 1st MONDAY IN SEPTEMBER 18&7. The departments are well nigh full, and an ear y appli. ation is Important to secure a goo place for th** next term. Oar ot ject is to meet, as faras practicable, along- f- If waul in theSoutn, viz: a thorougn literary and practical burtmss educatioi for f. males. Every member of our faculty Is an experienced,ed ucator. All are acKnowledged to stand aDrea.t wltn the Dost teachers of the Suite, in their respective departments, while some enj >y even a national rep utation. Anyone haying ijirls to educate is respact/iilly re ferred to the Slate at large fi r character, iCholar- ship and management. NEW FEATURES. will be introduce! aio of this school Dike adapted to her sex, and which tits her to'entei once upon ufi active business life. In no other school in the South will she imd these advantages. ATLANTA AS A LOCATION. Of all points in the South, not one combit es so many of the essentials for a school of the ch&iacter proposed, as Atlanta. It is llGli feet above s’ea level. It is blest with pure water and good air. It is healthy. It has never been visited by an epidemic of ary kind. It is out of the range of storms and cycloner. It is the capital of the State, where pupils caa see ai.d near all the celebrities of the day. It is a progressive city, where everythirg new in science ami art is sure to come. It is a city of churches, and is without a peer in the observance of the Sabbath. Its people are cultivated and reiiued, a and its un>- rality is phenomenal. It rs the music center of the South, and its very air GENERAL INFORMATION. This school is not denominational. Boardirg pu pils will attend the church specified by their parents. The number of pupils will be limited to sixty, and in no event will more than that number be received. Tuition must bo paid monthly iu advance, and no deduction will be made except in cases of sickness protracted beyond two weeks. An experienced horse- keeper will take charge of the boarding department, and a skillful physician will look after the health of the pupils. The «laily sessions will be six hours, beginning in tho morning at eight o'clock, and dismissing at 4:30 in the afternoon, with two hours’ intermission at noon ami two recesses. We do not like the one ses sion plan, as now taught in our popmar schools. The government of the school will be hurnare, but firm. UNIFORM. In order to prevent extravagance, a uniform to be worn by the pupils to church or on the street has been adopted, which will be made known to ary one on application. Send for a catalogue to W. B 8EAL8, 1’iesident. SOLID FACTS! “Seven Springs” Iron-alum Mass, will give you an appetite, strengthen you up, cure Dyspepsia, Dta- rhoea and all Headaches, purify tbe blood, act ou the Kidneys, relieves Catarrh and wards off Ma laria Prio« 502t«» And $1.00 per bottle. DICKEYS FA I LKfc* KY « \v IT KU cures inflamed eyes at once. No Cure—Jfo Pay. Ask for it. Sold by ail drupelets or sent by mall postpaid. Price 25ct9. oiiuey Manuiacturers, Hr stol, Tenn. 58SMkn ENGLAND AND FRANCE. In addition to our Lome practice, legal business of evory description undertaken in the above conn tries, including recovery of debts and claims, bank ruptev, common law, chancery, probate and admin i?«ration, divorce, shipping, conveyancing, compa- J ny law and sales and purchases of real and perso- nal property. Toeffec'uate the above purpose wt? have formed bus:ne-s r ounections with responsible and efficient lawyers in London and Paris. BROYLES & JOHNSTON, Atforaeys-at-Law, No. 8 S. Broad Street, Atlanta, Ga. 583-tf TKRHON, PROPRIETORS. Importers and Dealers in ITALIAN AND AMERICAN MARBLES. No. 77 Waverls Snow and Bean. L. L. L., Marshall, Tex.: Can you tell me who is the author of the parody on the “Beau tiful Snow,” called, I believe the “Beautiful Beau," and where can I get it. Do not know. Will our readers please an swer. Sound and Color. E F. M., Sycamore, Gadsden Co., Florida: I wish to explain the questions that I asked you, viz: 1st, Is there sound where there is no ear to hear? Here is my meaning: for in stance, suppose that a tree should fall away off in the forast where there was nothing to hear—not even a bird or bug, etc., would it make any noise? Would it be any more than a mere jar? 2nd.: Can white exist in total darkness? I mean this: supposing again that a white cup were put on a table in total dark ness— would it still be white? I think so, but leave it to you. Ceriainly it would, just as a thunder clap at sea would be thunder, though a thousand miles from land, and no ear to hear. A deaf man cannot hear a whisper or common talk, but there is sound nevertheless. In darkness the cup may be white, the color is there re gardless of its surroundings. Patent Medicine Interest for Sale. For sale, a thirty y*? a rs established, thoroughly advertised and popular ilue of proprietary medi cines. Present proprietor bos realized a fortune and on account of advanced age wishes to retire from the care incident to «o :»rge a business. One firm sells from $25,000 to $75,000 worth of these rem edies annually, others In proportion. This Is a first t capital. 5 A. O. UAllOllAI, P. O. Box 98. Atlanta. (4a. Old Pictures Copied and Enlarged Agents wanted in every town and county Id the South. Send for terms and circulars. If you can not take r.n agency get our retail prices and send pictures dirt etto us, they will be douo promptly and In best style. Address SOUTHERN COPYING CO., No. 9 Marietta sfreet. Atlanta. Ga. 232-tf QFiDM know you an cured. Dr. M. C. BEN- HABIT CUBED.—I ask do pay till you kuow you aro cured, r HAM. Richmond. Ind. R liBBKK 8TAMPB—Agents warned. Stamp lor IHustrated catalogue. Wright Demos ft O. a 05 North street. Halrlmore. Md. A Mission of Heroic Charity. Miss Grace Howard, a daughter of Mr. Jos eph Howard, Jr., a well-known journalist, lelt New York yesterday on a mission of heroic charity. Two years ago while an invalid at Hampton, Va , she became so interested in the school fot Indian boys and girls that she deter mined to visit the Indian tribes in order to see what could be done for tho intellectual and spiritual improvement of their children. She consulted Itev. Henry Ward Beecher, and by his aid visited the agencies in Dakota. She located one hundred and sixty acres of land near the Crow Creek Agency and commenced the erection of a school-house for the instruc tion of Indian girls, who are to be teachers. Aided by numerous friends of her father in New York, and by Secretary Lamar, Miss Howard has brought her charitable project to a condition that calls for her presence at the agency to manage the school. M. G., San Marcos, Tex : I)o you know of any person, or persons, who make it their business to compose orations, i. e., someone who would write an oration for pay? Jf M. G., will drop us a line, and give usher or his name in full, we can assist in the matter. There are a number who will write what is wanted. Never write an editor without giving him your name. Hereafter we will pay no at tention to initials. The name we must have for our own satisfaction and to write to if we so desire. See the point? SOKE THROAT. CROUP AND HOARSE NESS CURED BY USING I Holmes'* MoiitluWaslil and DENTIFRICE. i’KKSI >\' S Woarinj! Artificial Teeth should use HOLMES’ MOUTH WASH and DENTIFRICE. It will keep the gums heal thy and free from soreness; keeps the plate from getting loose and being offensive. A Pure Breath. Clean Teeth and Heal thy Gums by using Holmes’ Mouth Wash and Dentifrice. Try it. A Persistent Keeling of Cleanllnene re mains for hours after using Holmes’ Mouth \Vash and Dentifrice. Remove Pimples, etc. Editor Query Column : Say to Bessie, Enterprise, S. C., or to any one else troubled with pimples, ilesh worms or black heads, that if they will send twenty-five cents in postage to Mrs. M. A. E. S., box No. 68.'!, Jefferson, Ga., they will receive a prescription that will remove them in a short time, and no restric tion of diet need be observed. It costs nothing to have the prescription filled, as all that is needed is found in every home. My own face was terribly disfigured with pimples and desh worms, and they are now all gone, and I have only been using the prescription two weeks, and I write this for tbe benefit of others who may be similarly afflicted and wish a speedy remedy. The lady who discovered the remedy charges nothing for the prescription, and the twenty-five cents is only to pay ber for her time and return postage. Queen Mail From John H. Coyle, D. D. S., Profes sor Operative Dentistry and Den tal Materia Medica, Balti more Dental College. Having been shown the formula for Holmes’ Sure Cure Mouth Wash and Dentifrice. I will say tbat from my knowledge of tbe therapeu tic action of each of these substances entering into its composition ou descascd mucus mem branes of tiie mouth and gums, I believe it to be a specific in a large number of the ordinary descased conditions for which it is recommend ed. I say this on theoretic grounds and am satisfied that a practical test of this mouth wash in my own practice has more than justi fied my expectations. I therefore reccommend it for general use and would be glad to know that every man and woman in the country would try it for themselves, believing that it will result in great good to those who use it M directed. Athens, Ga.—I have had occasion recently to test the virtues of your Sure Cure Mouth ’ Wash in an aggrevated case of inflamed and ulcerated gums, with most gratifying re sults. I find that I can accomplish more in a short time with Sure Cure Mouth Wash th«n any other one of the many similar prepara tions I have everused in my practice of many years. I wish that every one, old and yoone would use your preparation according tothe printed directions, and then, I think, the den tist would be able to accomplish more good for their patients, and do it with more satisfaction to all concerned. H. A. LOWRANCE. D. D. S.
