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THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GA„ SATURDAY MORNING. JULY 23, D»7 01)1HfcRM Salisbury (N. C.) Society Notes. Salisbury has been unusually gay, and for several weeks the virtue of hospitality has been freely practised. Among the many enjoyable entertainments, one of the mosi unique was a Fete given by Miss Belle Boyden to her guests, Miss Steele and Miss Annie Cole Smith. The house was tilled with “fair maids and gallant men.” The approach to the mansion was an earnest of what was within—the front boing il luminated with .Japanese lanterns, two broad piazzas signaling welcome, and tbe upper one suggesting little nooks and corners where many a tete-a-tete might be sought, away from dancing hall and music room. The broad hall and ample parlor were decorated with taste and grace. In the latter a centre piece, direct ly under the chandelier, represented a lake, on the bosom of which floated, in sweet abandon, both duck and swan, undisturbed by a light canoe with a solitary oarsman, who seemed to have forgotten, in the dreamy surround i:igs, to disturb them even by the dip of oar. In the fens and ferns that bor dered the lake might be seen a startled deer and timid hart. But the crowning beauty of the scene await ed the astonished guests as they entered the sylvan bower, where refreshments were served. The walls, on three sides of an L-shaped hall, were decorated with mirrors and pictures, the space between being spread with a wealth of floral beauty, trailiLg greenery and feather}’ ferns. The whole scene—where "‘Mirrors of silver take up and renew In loug-lighted vistas the wildering view”— was elegant, extensive and enchanting. Above, across and around, the light from tinted lamps fell in softened sheen on petite tables (suggest ive again of pairing) laden with cho.ce refresh ments most daintily served; and flitting here and there (not more here than every where), the fair maiden sought and secured the pleas ure of all, gaining lor herself this remark: “What a lovely hostess! She has forgotten nothing and no one but herself.” Cai.. Marriage of a Well-Known Kailroad Man. f Times-Democrat. ] Paducah, July 7—I)r. E. I). Standiford, ex-president of the Louisville & Nashville, ex- Congressman, candidate for the United States Senate and one of the wealthiest citizens of Louisville, was married at 3 p. m. to-day to Miss Lorena Scott, daughter of Mr. George A. Scott, of this city. The event is one that will attract attention throughout the State. After •the ceremony the newly married pair took a special coach on the east-bound, C., O. & S. W. train for Louisville. The bride has long been a reigning belle at Paducah. She is not only a popular girl, but is foremost in every church and charitable work. She is a member of the Methodist church. She is not only beautiful in person, but is bright, talented and attractive. The doctor had never met her until a few weeks ago, when he saw her at a fan drill given at the church. The acquaintance then formed lias ripened into the denouement of to day. Miss Scott is a native of this city, her father having forme: lly done business in Portland Sue is I)r. Standiford’s thud wife. Dr. Siand- iford is now fifty-five years of age. * * * Mr. Webster B. Hunt, of this city, was mar- l.ed on the 23rd (ol June) at 7 o’clock to Miss Carnmie L. Cook, daughter of Titos. E. Cook, of Friendship, Guilford count}’, Rev. T. II. Pegraru officiating. The newly welded came down this morning at ll o'clock, and in their bridal tour programme will know no north, no south, no east, no west, but Greensboro first, last, and all the time, which is sensible. —Greensboro (N. C ) Workman. A new size in fashionable note paper and envelopes is perfectly square, of au unusually heavy quality, and tne note sheet does not re quire a fold. Amateur Dramatic Entertainment. Osyka, Miss , July 2.—On Wednesday even ing the Masonic Hali was crowded with au ap preciative audience, the occasion being an en tertainment given by the Osyka Dramatic Club for the benefit of the three orphan children of Mrs. J. E. Terry. The programme consisted of “Home,” a comedy ia three acts, by F. M. Robinson, the charac.era of which were inter preted by Misses Redmond, Dean, Varnado and Dolly Stokes, aud Messrs. Tate, Benjamin, Schilling, Wolf and Mixon. Tne frequent ap plause and rec ills showed that the efforts of our young amateurs were fuily appreciated. The comedy was followed by the recitation of “Barnado del Carpes,” delivered in a mas terly manner by Miss Rose Cahn, a this year’s graduate of Whitworth College, of Brookhaven, Miss., and an honor to that institution. Miss Cahn wore the gold medal fjr essay, won by her over all competitors. The whole concluded with songs by the < >sy- ka Minstrels, which were rendered by Messrs. Charles, George and Lewis Mixon, Harry Jones and Willie Varuado. Owing to the effjnsof the venerable Mrs. I). M Redmond, Treasurer of the club, and the graceful mai-ner m which Mrs. Leander Varnado and Mrs. Gertrude Harrell presided over the refreshment tables, the receipts of the evening swelled upo msiderably; and your cor respondent, who was manager of the entertain merit, is happy to state that it was an artistic as well as a financial success. Though we have been having very heavy rains e?erv day for the past week, cotton and corn look well aud the prospects for a large crop are good. * * A Cambridge (Ga ) amateur dramatic club, known as “The Twinkling Star,” gave a per formance at Fowlestown a few weeks ago, the proceeds of which were to be contributed to ward building a Methodist church. Two pieces were presented and rendered in excellent styl much to toe satisfaction of its members and the gratification of the large, appreciative au dience. The performance netted betweeu one And two hundred dollars. *% Washington City society news furnishes the following: Miss Daisy Garland, daughter of the Attor- zaey-General, has returued to this city from Annapolis, where she went to attend the grad uating exercises of the Naval academy. She was delighted with tbe visit, and wears two ■bracelets made of gold cord from some young cadet’s cap, and is having another pair made of small brass buttons. Sne will be one of the baodsomsst debutantes next winter. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. A French Mugwump on the American Minister, Philosopher and Econo mist—A Curious History. New York, June 24, 1887. Rummaging about among the curious books of the Astor Library to day, I stumbled across one having this rather extraordinary title: "llistoire d'un Pou francos, ou Cespion d'une nouvelleespece, tanet en Francequ'en Angleterre. Cimtenant les portraits de personages, interress- ans dans ces deux lloyaumes, etc.,[etc." JVIons Pou was a new name in literature to me, and, on turning to the preface, assurance was given that the book was the fitst, and therefore only one, ever written by the family of Poux. The preface went on to declare that the Parisian abode of this particular Mons. Pou was in the chevcux of a distinguished lady, and opportunity was thus given him of listen ing to many of the conversations in court cir cles. Interesting incidents were recorded with a microscopic pen, and the manuscript eventu ally fell into the hands of the anonymous edi tor, who copied and published them verbatim. Examination of a French bibliographical work revealed the fact that the anonymous editor was one Mr. Delauney, a prolific writer of that day, on his own account. This particular work was published in 1771, when Benjamin Franklin was Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of France and a resident in Paris. Mr. Delauney was evidently a mugwump capable of employing the most refined satire in his discussions. Several chapters of the book are devoted to Benjamin Franklin. In one of them his personal appearance is minutely de scribed. In another there is a detailed account of his efforts to enlist the assistance of Le Petit Ministre in the affairs of the United States. But the chapter that will be more interesting to readers of the present day contains a dia logue between 11. le Franc, who claims to have taken Benjamin Franklin as his model, and one of his neighbors, who is designated as le Voixin. Labor agitators will be specially inte rested. I translate it in full, llis practical economy, his knowledge of electricity and his elevation to fame are set forth. Le Voisin: It seems, Monsieur that econ omy causes you to be so reserved in regard to your attire. B. le Franc: I see that you would make sport of me, yet 1 assure you nothing is more true. .Monsieur (speaking of his landlord) kindly permits me to come here and make my toilet twice a week, ami it costs me only one sol (a sol was a half cent) each time. Le V.: It would seem that your revenues are not very considerable. B. leF.: I have 1101. 101. a year, which gives me exactly six sols a day. Le V.: And how can you keep alive on so little? B. leF.: Very well. You are not accus tomed to get on witli a little. As for myself, I am one-lbird more wealthy than was, during a long time, a man of the greatest merit, of su perior genius, and who is now Ambassador to the Court of France. Le V.: You surprise me. Be so kind as to give me his name. B le F.: It is the Minister Plenipotentiary of the American Congress. Le V.: Vhat, the famous Doctor Benjamin Franklin? B. le F.: That is the man. During a long time he was limited to four sols a day; and still he was happy! Le V. I have been under the impression that he is a physician. How does it happen that he has the title of Doctor? B. le F. It is quite possible to is conic a Doctor in all sorts of professions. All that is needed is success. Doctor simply means one who is learned, a teacher; and I aui greatly surprised that physicians have exclusively ar rogated this title, for among them are men of dense ignorance. Le V. After that remark I am not surprised that physicians have claimed the title, but what I do not understand is that people are simple enough to give it to them. But let us drop these gentlemen. You are familiar with the history of M. Franklin. 1 have heard some people talk of him one way, others in another, and can form no positive opinion of him. B. le F. I will very willingly say what I know of him. M. Franklin was born in Bos ton, of parents who could only give him a poor education, for they were not rich; his first trade was that of priiu".:ig. Thai i,i»de him a man of letters-, for you must see, my good neigh bor, that a printer is, more than any other person, a man of le-tors, since without prin ters there would be no books at all. He earned per day nearly a shilling, ami educated himself tty reading books from the library of liisneigli- borhood; lie was foud, above all, of tbe lessons in physics of the Abbe Xollet and especially read his researches on electricity; here was his delight, and he gave nearly all of his spare time to that subject. At the end of a few years he resolved to go to Philadelphia, a city much larger than Boston, and in which he was likely to make a fortune sooner lhao elsewhere; he accordingly settled there. Being young he expended quickly the fruit of his savings and his economy in Boston. This compelled hint to take shelter under the roof of another prin ter in Philadelphia, where he remained about four years, lie found means of amassing during that interval nearly sixty guineas; then, tiring of bis trade, be made an important dis covery ill his study of the human system; the discovery was that a man can live, lodge and entertain himself on four sols a dag. “It is t'.us,” said he, “that with the money I have saved, I can go far through life, by contenting myself witli this reasonable expenditure per day.” He accordingly quit bis printing, lodged in his own room and lived during many years on four sols a day. Le V. How could that be done? It seems to me impossible. B. le F. Nothing, however, is more simple; all that is needed is a will that it be done. My m jdel, for I look upon him as such, bought potatoes for three sols, and these were alike meat and bread to biro; they were his ftod for a week; he purchased each day milk for a half sol; and, everything included, that made an expense of seven sois per week for his living. He lodged in a garret at one sol a day, be cause he wanted to be comfortable; he could have hired a cheaper apartment had it been necessary. He drank a little beer and water. The beer cost two sols a week and he put the rest of bis allowance one side for recreative etitt rtainment. As to his waski :g he had re course to no one; he darned his own stockings and patched his clithes. Let us now see how the account stands: Four sols a day would make for one week 2S S. His potatoes cost per week, including cooking and milk. - -- -- -- -7 s. His lodging - -- -- -- - 7 s. Ilis beer - - 2 s. reappointment to bis position, bat was not suc cessful; hence bis hostility and even animosity to his King, and then to the British Govern ment itself. Le V.: Bat bow did be then manage to get a living? B. C. F.: Having discovered that there is much fire in electricity, he resorted to it as a source from which to obtain again, the means for a fashionable living. To that end he elec trified the minds of the American people and caused them to believe that all their troubles came from the Palace of St. James in London; that in that Palace it bad been resolved to regard them as a peo pie in servitude, and arbitrarily to compel them to pay all tbe taxes and imports that caprice and selfishness could invent. This was all that was needed to excite tbe poor sufferers to a revolt; Benjamin Franklin was sent to London to make some propositions on the part of the American people, which seemed too im perious, even insuItiDg, to IliB Majesty of the Throne; they were rejected; the electrician was left without a doubt of that fact. On bis return to his country, he presented wrongs on the part of the British Government which did not, in fact, exist; he fired their minds and counselled them to throw off the imaginary yoke of the mother country; he promised them a liberty which would make them and their children happy. He became their Legislator; he established a form of Republican Govern ment, and placed it under the despotism of the Congress. Le V.: My friend, you are making a fine por trait of your hero! How happens it that you claim to be his imitator? B. C. F.: Certainly I shall not attempt to persuade the French people from discharging their duty and from adhering to their attach ment to the King. 1 shall follow my guide only in the first part of bis life; that is, I shall try to be content with little, as I now am, and to become skilled in some special art, one that will qualify me to hoi 1 an ofiicial position that pays a good salary. M. C. Franc was suddenly stopped here in his interview and it was never resumed. Is it not plain that mugwumpisui is no new thing except in Jriaine. M. Dellany, in his opposi tion to the court of the French Government in giving aid to America, resorted to a most in genious method of getting his side of the ques tion before his countrymen. It iB seen that Franklin’s mission to France was not alto gether rosy in its hue. But how happens it that this book of M. Delaney has never been translated? Addison. New York, June 24, 1887. As Deserving as Modest. Of all the Southern States there is not one -which has kept more modestly in the back ground than has the State of Arkansas. Yet it has been a noticeable fact that whenever the States of this Union have met on a common field in open competition, with favor shown to none, each relying upon the merits of its pro ducts, the modest, unassuming Siate of Arkan sas has, in every instance, carried off the prize. Other States have come forward with the ut most confidence and have gone away empty- handed, while the exhibits of Arkansas have been returned to her proud people decorated with ribbons aud covered with medals. So short bas been the time since Arkansas was unknown, except as a name for all that was bad and undesirable, that there is little wonder that the world would be surprised to see her former obscurity, heralded by tbe plaudits of the nation and bedecked with graces and at tractions most bountifully bestowed by na ture.”—A T eto Orleans Cotton World. Total itis. Balance - - - ------- 1 So you see that of his 20 sols he had 12 left with which to take care of the boy. Le V. Your calculation is quite clear; in fact, it cannot be disputed; but as for myself who earn a halt crown a day, I have a good deal of trouble in meeting my expenses; how does that happen’ B. C F.: For the reason that you are not a Doctor like him. Le V : But how could a gentleman on four sols a day reach the position he has acquired? B C. F.: That is. also, quite easily account ed for. My beau ideal has become very pro found in a knowledge of electricity; he compels lightning to come down from the clouds at his command; he orders it to go to a respectable distance and it goes. He does some astonish- iug things; he electrifies a dog on the other side of the river, and causes the animal to howl, like a martyr; and the poor dog has no suspi cion from whence hissufferingseome. In con sequence of these rare and marvelous qua'ifi- cations he was named as the Collector or Re ceiver of tbe Customs-duties of the King of England at l’hiladelphia, a position worth 500 pounds sterling (about 12,000 livres of France) a year. Le V.: Ah, it is all clear now. IIs could readily afford to spend four sols a day. But how could he manage to dispose of so many extra sols? B. C. F.: It was the simplest thing imagi nable; he had a wife, some children, some good wine in his cellar, some Jamaica rum, some brandy, and a very sumptuous table; he was then a zealous royalist, for his interest lay in that direction. He procured for his son a position in the army; and be himself, strong in his duty and attachment to His Britanic Maj esty was appointed Governor for the King, of New Jersey. As for his private affairs he took good care of them, perhaps too good care, if one can be allowed to judge from what after wards came to pass; for, at the. end of no great length of time he was thanked vary politely and his position given to another man. Le V.: He then went ba:k to his four sols a day? was not that very disagreeable? B. C. F.: He did what he could to secure a NOGTES MEfflORABILES. 1 BY B. B.* Dramatis Personae. The Doctor—a bachelor, age 50. The Judge—a bachelor, age 45. The Professor—a bachelor,(suspect) age 30. The Madam—a widow, (landlady) age un- oertain. The Imp—landlady’s hopeful, age irrelevant. Time—Night. Scene—Bachelor’s Apartments in a Down- street Boarding House. [Copyrighted by Author. AU rights reserved.] The Prof.: As can be easily shown, the truest source of human happiness is the never- failing delight a workman takes in his handi work. The more original, active thought is called into requisition in the performance of any work, the more the result is directly depend ent upon the laborer himself—the more pleas ing, elevating and refining is the labor, the more satisfying the work. The delight in doing anything is always proportionate to the care and skill required to do it. The more thought ono puts into labor, the more interest he takes in the work, the more pride in the re sult. The contrary follows as a matter of course. The distinction between work and drudgery lies in tbe amount of free and active thought that the occupation requires or permits on the part of the laborer. All routine work is drudgery. Next after idleness, routine work is the chief source of discontent and unhappi ness. Both are unnatural. Men love to be busy. Men love to think. There is a delicious sense of power, of freedom in planning and doing, where the hand performs what the'brain directs. Now the introduction of so called labor-sav ing macliineiy has decreased the demand for skilled workmen; has substituted routino for i free handiwork; bus made a drudge of tb/la- j borer and an operaticc of the artisan, and) sc doing strikes a deadly blow at tbe vitals oi so ciety in diminishing the number of laborers and in depriving the laborer of his greatest and often only source of enjoyment—the free exer cise of intelligent, active thought in the per formance of his work. The blacksmith of the olden time, who took a shapeless mass of iron and at tbe forge and anvil wrought it with bis own hands into a horse-shoe, was an artisan. More than that, he was a freeman, and felt in every swing of his stalwart arm that delicious sense of power and freedom that gave to life a zest that made it glorious. lie was poor. Aye, but he had that treasure that wealth cannot purchase—a happy, contented mind. He was jolly, good- natured and glad, and lie couldn’t keep it. His labor was sweet, but his rest was sweeter, and his sleep the sweetest of all. Did you ever watch him as—clad in his coarse homespun, wiih his huge leather apron about his waist and his brawny arms bare to the shoulders—he laid the fiercely-glowing iron upon the ringing anvil and watched it take form and shape under the skillful strokes of bis heavy hammer? Thought was busy there, and careful judgment weighed and directed every stroke, l’ride was there—the honest pride of the workman in his handiwork, and it lighted up the honest, contented face till its glow out shone the ruddy iron itself. I’ve watched him many a time, and envied him, too—envied him his strong, sinewy arm, his jolly, beaming face, his happy, busy, contented life. But that was years ago. Tne smithies are fast disappearing from the shady roadside, and the traveler listens in vain for the ringing of anvils, the creaking and flapping of the bellows, and tbe roar of the sparkling liaise up the narrow chimney-throat of the rough, stone-built forges that were wont, in times gone by, to welcome him hero and there with their merry music and send him on his way \gaiu witli a bosom full of pleasant thoughts; looks in vain for the sooty smiling face of tlie smith as leaning upon tbe bellow’s lever, or betiding above the red-hot iron he paused to nod good- humoredly to the passers-by. Up in the great, dark, smokey crowded city the giant arms of machinery are doing bis work for him now, doing it a thousand times faster than ever be did it. And where is he? Where is tbe fiappy contented honest smith? A tramp perhaps, begging work or bread. And there’s a legion of him. Turn where you will every occupa tion has the same story to tell. The dignity of labor is gone; and who dares say tbe world is not tbe worst for it’ Men love to be busy when tbe brain must guide the hand, and both are free. AU other labor is mere routine, is unnatural, anil there fore unsatisfactory and distasteful. Proof of this is seen in the universal antipathy to drudgery, and—since the degradation of physi ■ cal labor—in the general desire, of the educa ted especially, to forsake physical pursuits al together, and engage in some occupation that gives opportune.y for the exercise of the facul ties of invention and judgement. It is not from a false pride, or from an aver sion to physical labor, that our educated young men are rushing by the thousands into the al ready over-crowded professions. Oa the con trary it is but the natural result growing out of the degradation of physicial labor, together with the desire of minds awakened to a knowl edge of their powers to exercise and try them. Other things being equal one kind of labor is just about as physically tiresome as another. Brain work is as physically exhausting os hand work. Indeed there is no such thing as mental exhaustion, mental weariuess. A moment's thought will make this apparent I don’t know how the idea ever became cur rent. ' t current it is, and very false and very harmful too. For your false ideas, like that species of insect that never lights except to deposit its egg, no sooner finds a lodgement in the minds of men than it begins to hatch out a prodigious brood of errors, every one of which seems endowed with the wonderful fecundity of its parent and puts its reproductive powers to such use that truth is soon crowded out al together. The whole theory of modern edu cation is built upon a lie, of material hewn by ignorance out of the quarry of falsehood. The tired student pauses, not because the mind, but because the poor instrument it uses, is dulled and wearied. All labor is drudgery or not just in propor tion as it does or does not afford opportunity for the free exercise of active thought aud cie- ative energy. Any form of labor may become dradgery if allowed to become routine or mechanical. Any work may become a source of real and unfailing pleasure and genuine culture—any work I mean that leaves tbe workman free to exercise his taste and judgement in the per formance of it. Tbe world’s happiness must be sought in the world’s work ; and men are making a great mistake in banding it over to machinery. We are already reaping the fruits of it in tbe misery and discontent that reveals itself in strikes, knights of labor organizations aDd Hay |market bombs. I repeat it, the world’s happiness is to be sought in the world’s work, or nowhere. If Dickens—than whom no man has ever penetrated farther into the very heart; of hu man nature, nor laid bare with kindlier sym pathy its secret springs of action, its hidden sources of good and evil—bad written with the sole purpose of impressing this lesson upon humanity, be could not have expressed it more fully and forcibly than he has done. Why, even the batcher in “Martin Chuzzlewit,” who cuts the piece of steak for dear little Ruth Pinch—God bless her !—on that mem orable morning she first went out marketing as Tom’s dignified little housekeeper, performs the operation with a degree of artistic pride and self-satisfaction that is perfectly charming to think about. He couldn’t even bear to see Tom put it clumsily into bis pocket. No, sir! A beef-steak is to be bandied delicately and scientifically as becomes such a work of art, and not thrust into great-coat pockets in that careless unappreciative way! You never bear of that butcher again; but you never forget him. You feel that he was a wonderful man in his way, and had found the true secret of being happy in this world. The moment a man begins to think out his work, that moment it becomes a source of pleasure to him; but tbe moment he stops thinking it out, to think about it, it becomes wearisome, distasteful, and a source of discon tent. Happiness is contentment. Contentment means right-work. Right-work means love-work. I to ve-work means thought-work. One might say—and with a show of plausi bility, too—that this is but a negative kind of happiness after all; and due simply to the fact that such labor as calls for constant active thought leaves the mind no time to consider cares, or brood over disappointments. Even if this were true, it would not lessen the weight of the fact that such labor is the great panacea for discontent and unhappiness. But it (p not true—at most, it contains but a half- truth. A large part of human misery is imag inary—that is, comes of the imagination, self- inflicted, but not the less real and keen for that—and while anything that serves to occu py the mind, draws it nt * from brooding over the past and laying up disappointments for the future does thus become a source of negative happiness, yet above and beyond that there is in the active energy of creative thought the highest, purest and most exquisite of positive pleasures. The Judge, (holdings paper ill his hand): What’s this, Will’ Some of your works? The Professor: The work of a friend. It’s a translation of one of Goethe’s finest little poems. A very fair translation, by the way, preserving the exact rhythm of the original and yet almost literal in its fidelity. Read it, Judge. The Judge: I suspect that “friend” of yours, Will, is a relation of the celebrated ‘Mrs. Harris.” (Reads.) Sons; of the Spirits Above the Waters. . (From Goethe.) The soul of man Is Like to water: From Hsav’n It cometb. To Ilt-av’n atcenoeth. Then downward bending To earth returnetb, Changing ever. Pu-sts from the lofty Cliftt eternal Tne crystal stream. Then drlftetb gently. In clondy billows, To level rocks; And sweetly welcomed Rolls enveloped, Softly singing To deeps far under. .Tatting rock-walls Uprise to meet it, Koamlog with anger, 8t> p by step, It Seeks th’ abyss. O’er level bed It Glides to tbe meadow-vale on. And In tbe glassy sea All tbe bright alar host Feed their sweet faces. Wind Is of waves the Bold daring lover; lie brings from tbe deeps up White foaming billows. - 3 i.rit or ufor-STS, U 1 How like ud.'.i siaterl 1 Fortune of mortals, How like onto wind! (Lays the paper down.) I don’t sec much in that, Will. (continued next week.] Baton Rouge, Louisiana. State University—Commencement Exercises and Hop—Society and Crop Notes. Editor Sunny South: July 4th was cele brated in the usual manner—by the closing exoraises of the Louisiana State University. There were the usual number of visitors in town to attend the hop—among them quite a number of ex-cadets. The hop was given in the Agricultural Hall at the L. S. U., and was one of the mo9t delightful affairs that has yet been given in honor to the University. The gentlemen were attired in the regulation even ing dress-suits; the ladies were elegantly and charmingly attired. Among the many, only a few can be noted as it takes a more experi enced eye than “your humble servant” to de scribe them. Mrs. Gov. McEnery, handsome white silk mull; Mrs. Leon Jastremski, black silk and lace; Mrs. Belle Burt, pale blue even ing toilette, lace trimming; Mrs. Angelo Burt, blue silk, white lace over dress; Miss Lily! handsomo white satin en train; Miss Baldwin, Mikado yellow, silver pendants; Miss Elfie McCabe, black lace, gold pendants; Miss Alice McCabe, white satiD; Miss Mitchell, blue surah; Miss Rosa Jastreius-ri, white silk; Miss Walsh! pink satin, blue lace; Miss Julia McGrath, white nunsvciUng, silver trimming; Miss Bur den Black, illusion, red ribbons; Miss January, heliotrope satin; Miss Knowlton, white surah- Miss Clark, white illusion; Miss Bates, pink satin; Miss Randolph, pink satir; MissGracey, white surah; Miss Lefevre, pink silk; Misses Laura and Lelia Matta, muii; Miss Shields, white surah.: Misses Gracey, Hurst, Devall’ I’ope, Levy, Reinburg, Mayer, Robertson, and a great mar:/ others, were tastefully attired iu evening dresses. Since the “glorious fourth” we have all set tled down to rest and quiet. The rain has helped us to rest, for, for more than two weeks it hits rained continually. The Pansy Cirele admitted two new mem bers a’, the meeting on Saturday afternoon Misses Inez Knowlton and Alice McCabe. The Pansies went on a moonlight excursion as guests of the E. J. Gay, one of our finest coast packets. About fifteen cadets and a few gentlemen from town accompanied th«m and they all had a gay time. “The Pansies are al ways havii g a gocil time,” some one said. They are certainly a very interesting set of young ladies, and are usually helping others to have a good time, tor. The mairiage of Mr. La Place, of St. James, and Miss Gesselly, of this place, will be cele brated in St. Joseph’s church, Monday, July 18. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Garig and Miss Lessie Tracey are spending the summer at Biloxi Miss. Prof. J. W. Nicholson and family will spend the summer with relatives in North La. Sirs. Sallie Harris (nee Booth) is visiting her parents. Miss Chamberlin is visiting friends in Mon treal, Canada. The Chalmelte Society, of New Orleans gave an excursion to Baton Rouge on Sunday About 1,500 people came up and spent the day —in the rain. 1 The Mississippi Valley railroad give excur sions from New Orleans to Baton Rouge every Sunday, and they are usually well patronized. The cane, rice and other crops are all very promising. J More anon. Kettige Lysle July 12, 1887. The Largest Circulation. What volume printed in the English language has had the largest circulation next to the Bi ble? Give it up? Well, it is Webster’s spelling book. Something over 50,000,000 copies of this work have been published since it was first brought out in Hartford, and the royalties which old Npah Webster received on it were sufficient to support his family handsomely while he was compiling his big dictionary. It is an instructive volume, and we advise every body to peruse it, although, as somebody said of the dictionary, the storji is somewhat discon nected.—Boston Herald. Saddajs at Sugar Hill. Uncle Edom on Home Buie. “What all dis heer talk ’bout home ntle fur de I’ish?” said Uncle Edom as he tilted his chair against the lamp post at aunt Beady’s corner, where the Sugar Hill philosophers were holding their weekly symposium. “As I come ’long by de Buncombe House jes’ now I heern a passel er white gemmen settin’ befo’ de do’ talkin’ ’bout Misser Parnell an’ de I’ish, an’ sell dey mas’ have home rule, jes’ lack some uf ’em didn’t have it a’ready mo’n dey wants 1 F’ail I kin see, ’pears to me dar’s too much home rule in de lan’ now fur de good er mar- ’ied men, whedder dey’s while or black or Pish; an’ Misser Parnell an’ dem better he tryin’ to put it down an’ give busban’s some peace, stidder wukin’ to import still mo’ uf it on dem po’ I’ishmen, wkich’n t’look to me lack dey is de moest heme ruled er ary on us. Why, only jes’ day befo’ yistiddy, as I was a pMsin’ by Misser J’at Mulligin’s house, I seed him Bcootiu’ out de back do’ wid de coffee pot a (lyin’ at his head, au’ ole Mis Mulligin a stan- nin’ in de do’ jawin’ uf him fur as she could see him down de street, tell you couldn’t heer yo’ own yeers fur her, an’ ef dat ain’t home rule enough fur a Fishman, or anybody else, I dunno what sorter stuff dey’s made outer. “Ef Misser Parnell’s so keen fur to git un’er home rule, jin’ let him go an’ marry hisso’f to a young gal wid a mi livin’, an’ den seel He’d mighty soon lam to keep his mouf shet ’bout home rule den, I'll be boun’, an’ in iess’u six niont’s he’d be gwine aroun’ lookin’ as llop- jawed as Reubin Meadders. Dat nigger was as line an’ peart a lookin’ boy as ever I seed when lie mar’ied Martby Ann Sparks, little better’n a yeer ago, an’ now he’s so lean tell when he have de back-ache dey dunno whe’r to put on a p'aster or gin 'ini paregoric! Dat wlial home rule done fur him. “An’ de wusses’ er it all is dat it’s jes’ on- possible fur a man to keep hisse’f free now, ’dout Misser Parnell goin’ an’ iuekin’ any mo’ laws agin him. Ga's is got to be so forrard dese days, an’ wimmin is all s > sot on gittin’ husbuns, tell it look lack dey’s afeerd dar woan be men enough to go rouu’, an’ dey woan let a man live in peace ’Jout he’s mar ried, no mo’n dey woan let 'ini live in peace atter he’s mar’el, an’ so dey’s jes’ got us atween de upper an’ de nudder mile stones, as de Scriptur sell. Dar’s bre’r Chrisinus now, waited free whole inont’s atter sis Abby died to’ he mar’ied agin, an’ hed mo’n tweiuy ap plications in dat time. (Here bre’r Chris uus groatd a dismal as sent) “I knows sumpen ’bout home rule myse'f, I does, sence I got mir’ied to Dilsj, an’ I aint hankerin’ atter no mo’ uf it at my house, sho’! Ef a man wamer tine out ali about it, jes’ let him go an’ marry uf a youug gal wid a ma a livin’! De young gals is wusser’n de ole ones, ’caze you doan keer ef de ole ones does quit, an’when dey jaws at you, you kin jaw back agin, an’ ef dey throws de saucepan at yo' head, you kin atwwtr wid a stick er wood, but when you axes a young gal to do sumpen she (loan want to, an’ she begin to cry an’ sell she gwine tell her ma, an’ seh Pete, an’ Iteub, an’ Sam, an’ ail dem young fellers what come a cotiu’ uf her fo’ she got mar’ied wouldn’t none uf ’em a done her so, an’ seh dis what come er Hingin' herse’f away on a ole mnmbler fitleu to he her gran’pa, an’ she gwine back to her parrents ef you ain’ got no mo’ heart ’n to treat her lack a dog, an’ all secli—what you gwineter do? An’ den, when her ma come an’ shek her head, an’ ’low you’se lookin’ mighty po’ly to day, an' tell her she nius’ have patieuce, ’caze hit caint las’ long, an’ den lieub Johnson, or some udder young feller what you know is got his eye on her, woan treat her so mean, an’ den she begin to cry agin, an’ seh she wush she nuver hadder mar’ied nobody, an’ she nuver woulder, nuther, ef she’d a knowed men was sech brutuses—what kin you do but jes’ let dat gal have her own way? Yes, yes, I knows all about home rule, I does, an’ I ain’t a hankerin' alter no mo’ uf it in dis country. Misser Parnell is welcome to my sheer uf it, an’ ef he wanter git it strong, jes’ let him go an’ marry uf a young gal wid a ma I The British Empire. [Chicago Herald.] At the time of its greatest power, which Gibbon places as in the second century of the Christian era, the Roman Empire compre hended a population estimated at 120,000,000. It embraced all Italy, the north of Africa, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Phceuicia, Asia, Minor, Greece, the B ilkan States and the countries now included Austria, southern Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, aud Britain. It was the greatest empire that the world had yet seen, and, owing to a pardonable ignorance on the part of its rulers, it was somewhat inac curately regarded as constituting the entire earth. The British Empire, whose great capi tal is located in one of the least important of the Roman provinces, embraces the British Isles, it.numerable islands of the seas, the northern half of North America, the continent of Australia the greater part of India, with several adjacent states, large territories in Af rica, and an Egygtian protectorate which may at any convenient time be changed into abso lute ownership Before Burmah was annexed and Egypt “protected” the popula’ion of the British Empire was placed at 300,000,001). With these included, as the one now must and as the other probably soon will be, the power reoresented in the British Crown will extend to 400,000,000 of the inhabitants of the earth. To say nothing of the parent States and the multitude of smaller possessors, this sover eignty is now recognized in British North America, Ceylon, Cape Colony, Mauritius, Natal, Burinali, Hong Kong, India, New South Wales, New Zealand, Queensland, South Aus tralia, Tasmania, Vic.oria, West Australia, Newfoundland aud Jamaica. On every con tinent save that of Europe, the empire is ex tensively intrenched, and in Australasia it is practically supreme. An imperial celebration consequently calls forth a greater variety of demonstrations by a greater variety of peoples than anything of its description wbicli the world bas yet seen. Harsh as British rule is in many portions of the earth it has always found it possible to array native races in seenung cheerfulness in im perial pageants, and if it were possible to see at a glance the world-wide demonstrations of the Queen’s subjects on the occasion of her jubilee the spectacle would be one which could not fail to interest and amaze The parades of the native Indian army, the “joy dance” of the South African Kaffirs, the illuminations in Canada, the festivities in Ceylon, in Australia, in Fiji, in New Zealand, aud in ail the isles, as well as on board ships in every sea, and at military and naval stations in every clime, would outrival any perfunctory celebration, no matter how gorgeous, at the seat of the Gov ernment. One may well marvel at the extent of this dominion, and wonder when and nnder what circumstances it will be shattered, as so many of its predecessors have been. I CURE FITS! 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