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THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING. AUGUST 20, 1887
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Two Cents Stamps—Change of Color.
The most noticeable change in the new series
of two-cenls postage stamps soon to be issued,
will be a change in color to green.
Etched on Plate Glass.
A formal invitation, to be etched on plate
glass, has been extended by the Chamber of
Commerce, of Wheeling, West Virginia, to
President Cleveland to visit that city on his
Western trip.
Where China Beats This Country.
China with a pcpulation of 450,000,000, is al
most devoid of thieves and vagabonds of every
description. Law there is spelled with a big
L and the police are not appointed in payment
for services during election.
William C. Preston.
We ii.vitc attention to the quite full and ex
ceedingly inteiesling sketch of Ifou. IVm. C.
l’reston, the distinguished orator and profound
statesman, the pride ami favorite, and so long
the trusted representative of South Carolina
in the National Councils. It will be intensely
interesting reading to the admirers of the great
and good.
Our Mineral Production.
The report of David T. Day, chief of the Di
vision of Mining Statistics in the Geological
Survey, shows that the total value of the miu-
eral products of the country increased from
$428,080,000 in 1885 to $4(15,000,000 in 1080,
the principal item of gain being in pig iron.
The total gold product was $35,000,000, an in
crease of $3,100,000 over 1885; that of silver
$54 000,000, a decrease of $1,000,000.
Salt Lake City.
Three of the most sacred of Moral m institu
tions are located on one square in Salt Lake
City. They are the Tabernacle, the Assembly
liall ai d the Temple—all gigantic structures
of uncommon strength and enduring material.
The Temple was di'JuR mtff9?u.-aotyet com
pleted, and up to the present time has involved
expenditure of nearly four million dollars.
Ast of tl e “squares” in Salt Lake City con-
£n ten acres of ground. It is confessedly a
beautiful place, whose strange history will not
"be among the least wondt rful attractions of its
future.
Anniston, Alabama.
Elsewhere in this issue of the Sunny South
our renders will find an inteiesting sketch of
the flourishing and rapidly growing young city
of Anniston, Alabama. Her origin, and the
general plan of management on the part of the
city’s founders, has promoted ail exceptionally
rapid growth and development, and attracted
capitalists from all sections, ltead the article.
The following is a partial list of prominent ar
rivals at l he famous “Anniston Inn,” within
the past few weeks,—men with capital, and
seeking safe and profitable investment:
Col. L. Anderson. Cincinnati, Ohio, Hon. F.
V. Howell, Rome, Ga., Hon. W. W. Screws,
Montgomery, Ala., 1’. 1). Barker, Mobile, Ala.,
W. If. Edmonds. Baltimore, Md., W. 1). Kel
ly Jr., I’hiladelphia, l’enn., W. Gauche and
family, New < Means, La., Hon. T. F. Bush,
Mobile, Ala., Wm B. Pettit, Cincinnati, Ohio.,
Chas Hewitt, TreDton, N. J., Col. C. C,
WrenBhall. St. Paul, Min., Maj. J. L Butman,
Saratoga, N. V. Cadet .lames Roberts, Marion,
Ala., Gen. Anbury Hull, Oshkosh, Wis., Capt.
Grey Huckabee, San Antonio. Texas, Simon
Katzeuslein, Washington, D. C.,
Is Crime on the Increase?
The Mobile Register in a late editorial, after
propounding the above question, and after ex
amining the statistics answers it affirmatively.
Haying done this, it casts about to ascertain
the cause, and then remarks: "The principal
cause of this state of affairs we think can be
found in the decline of family government.”
However mortifying or painful it may be, we
laal constrained to coincide with the Register.
We believe, from our observation and our ex
perience with children and youths, that one
would betray gross blindness and ignorance to
dauy it. Children now-a-days, especially boys,
exhibit anch a disregard for the common rights
c< their companions and older persona, and so
generally treat all whom they associate or
OTfne into contact with, with downright disre
spect, that the positive absence of proper home
training and discipline is too manifest to
adsut of doubt. With thoughtless in-
dtffererenee the loving and anxious mother is
alluded to when among outsiders as the “old
woman,” and the toiling, careworn, perhaps
gray-haired, father is almost contemptuously
spoken of “the boss” or "the guvner.” How
many hare heard—bow many know this?
Bat bow else can it be—what else could be
expected, when parents themselves disregard
the plainest precepts of the Bible—themselves
God’s laws, and do not “Remember the
g n hhath day to keep it holy;" and who toler
ate judges who allow dram-selling and base
ball playing on the Sabbath daj, because there
is no municipal or State law forbidding it-as
S ( ^,8 i a w of God were no law at all, and may
be defied with impunity. We ask careful con-
sideration of the following, and we hope every
mrent who may read it will feel his or her in-
vidual responsibility in the mailer. Says
writer in the Register:
up0 n the streets of any city, and tell me
°° KC .rcelT out of jackets, loafing on
cigarettes, banging about
■us. and betting uu anything that offers,
rbasssfiss ns
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lounds siren-like upon his ears, and
Uys snares for his soul.
Child Marriages ia India.
A recent decision of the Court of Appeals of
Bombay has elicited considerable comment in
England, where the custom it upholds is re
garded as an outrage that should not be toler
ated. It appears that a boy and girl of tender
age had been betrothed in marriage by their
parents according to tbe prevailing Hindoo
custom. The parents of both were very poor.
The young man not only remains poor, but is
ignorant and degraded, while the girl was
adopted by a gentleman of wealth and refine
ment, who gave her a good education, includ
ing a knowledge of several European languages,
and introduced her into the best society. She
refused to live with her betrothed when re
quested to do so, and continued to reside with
her benefactor. The fellow claiming to be her
husband appealed to court for the enforcement
of his conjugal rights, but the petition was re
fused. The case was then taken to the Court
of Appeals, which tribunal reversed the de
cision of the lower court, holding that child
marriages among the Hindoos were legal, cus
tom having made them so. Child marriages
as arranged by parents has been the rule in
India for more than three thousand years, and
the highest judicial tribunal of the government
would not interfere with the custom. Coder
this decision the young woman is compelled to
live with the man claiming her as his wife or
go to jail for six months. Of course she could
not hesitate as to tbe choice she would mske.
Earl Duff* rin, since he has been governor of
India, has sought to produce a change in pub
lic sentiment in regard to child marriages, but
after consulting with intelligent persons of
different races and religions, he came to the
conclusion that no immediate change can be
effected, but that it will require long and dili
gent labor to bring about such a change. This
seems strange since the English have held
sway in India for so long a time. It would
naturally be supposud that English ideas in
regard to marriages as well as other matters
would have produced some change in public
sentiment, and that at least English law would
have taken the place of Hindoo custom. Other
persons who have long lived in India concur
in the opinion of Karl Duffcrin, while some
think that child marriages will be abolished
only when the Hindoos are converted to Chris
tianity. Some even speak in favor of the cus
tom, among whom is a judge who, dur.ng half
liis life-time, held court in Iudia, aud is well
informed in regard to its peculiar civilization
and its influence for good or evil upon the
people. In a commit lication to the London
Times, he says:
"The real difficulty is that Hindoo laws are
no divine revelation, hut the tecord of the cus
toms which have been found most suited to the
necessities of the race. For a ft w cases where
the rule works terrible wrong there are a thou
sand cases where it provides the girl with the
home required. In an eastern climato girls
are precocious, and unless early settled in her
future home the giri is almost certain to dis
grace her family, and tiie result of such an
event is either her murder or such loss of honor
to the family that they will never he aide to
hold up their heads again. It is this feeling
which makes the Italian opinion so decided
against any change, and until this is got over
1 fear we must elect to maintain their customs,
however much they are opposed to ours. Af
ter all, in Italy and Spain, and even in F'raucc
to a certain extent, the parental power is
nearly as great. We shall not be acting justly
to India if we loo roughly set aside customs
and rules which the experience of several
thousand years has shown to be best for the
general comfort.”
Elsewhere in bis communication he drops
the idea that the marriages made in childhood
in India appear to be attended by as much
happiness as those made in Great Britain by
persons of mature age. That may be literally
true, but the custom is repugnant to En
glish civilization. In such cases as that
which has given rise to this discussion—and
how great the number is no one knows—it'is a
gross outrage to compel an intelligent and re
fined woman to five witli an ignorant and de
graded wretch whom she did not choosa for a
husband, nor was even consulted in regard to
the matter. The Hindoo custom ought to be
broken down aud the people of India educated
up to a higher plane of civilization and mor
als, so that a plea in j ustitication of child mar
riages as practiced in that country, could not
be made such as that set up by the “learned
judge” in the Loudon Times.
An Old Saw Ke-set.
That “There is room enough at tbe top’’ may
in some semie be true. If it is told to youth,
with a view to encourage them iD a thorough
preparation for the duties of their chosen call
ing, it is not amiss. It is not likely that one
who is qualified to do well what he offers to do
will seek employment in vain. But if it means
to teach that competition becomes less as one
rises, then it is wholly misleading. The room
becomes leBS at every advance upward. Down
in the humble range of manual labor there is a
demand for many, and one possessing will and
skill will hardly lie out of a job. There is
room enough, and to spare, for ail who demand
employ rnent of their muscles in wielding the
axe, the spade or the hoe. But when oue rises
above this be begius to find competitiou. If
he be a mechanic be must win success by a
continuous pushing to get work whici others
are anxious to do. Should be devote himself
to mercantile pursuits he can build up a for
tune only by inducing the public to believe that
he can offer better bargains than bis half score
or score of competitors. In case he aspires to
one of tbe learned professions be will find him
self confronted by rivals on every side, and he
will have to contend for every inch of progress
that he makes. Only as an exceptionally for
tunate man will he obtain business which many
others are not anxious to have. Even in the
ministry, where the theory is that the harvest
is great and the laborers few, a paying pulpit
can be won only by superior merit or exceling
tact. Of the scramble for political positions it
is needless to speak. ’Tie well known that
there is no room there—that if one gets stand
ing ground hr must fight for it. Should one’s
ambition tower so high as to set his hopes on
the chief magistracy of the .nation, be will find
that here at the very top there is not room
enough. Scores are aa eager for the place ae
be, and several have about as good chance of
getting it. His success depends upon his abil
ity to manipulate the influences by which the
popular will can be controlled. There—at the
highest point which a citizen of our country
can aspire to reach—he finds himself very much
crowded.
Nor are those who were born at the top
greatly more fortunate. Heads that wear
crowns have their insignia of authority to set
very insecurely because of the efforts of those
who would like to push them aside. The Czar
of tbe Kussias has room enough in the gloomy
abser ce of society which his position involves.
But as regards his immunity from the peril of
being supplanted, he is very much crowded.
Many a man, when seeking vainly for leave
to toil in some line of industry that he has
chosen, has come to think the world too full of
people. Some portions of it certainly are.
We are hearing continually of how the conti
nent of Europe is peopled beyond the means of
subsistence, and of how the tide of emigration,
though it swells larger and larger every year,
fails to keep the population within reasonable
limits. There are even portions of our vast
country where tbe number of people .to be fed
are quite up to tbe means for tbeir feeding.
But here in our Southland it is the reverse.
Not that we have a superabundance of food.
Indeed it is a constant source of grief (and
Bhould be of shame) that so much of our food
supplies are brought from abroad. But this
grows out of the lack of people and of diversity
of occupation. • *
The TehuaDtepee Ship Railway.
This enterprise, which should be national, is
still receiving tbe attention it is justly entitled
to, from our most sagacious business men and
statesmen. A meeting, preliminary in its
character, was beld in l’ittsburg last week, in
which Col. James Andrews, Wm. Shaw, Vice-
President Pennsylvania Company; ex-Secreta
ry of the Treasury Windom. Charles J. Clark
and others took part. It was determined to
reorgan ze at once in Jersey City, and merge
in the new company all the rights and privile
ges of the Eads Concessions. They will or
ganize a ship railway company and put its
bonds and stock upon the American market
first, with the hope that the enterprise may be
made distinctively American. The projectors
are in earnest and very confident of success.
Putting on Paint Needlessly.
We do not insist that newspaper writers
shall always tell the truth about people. It is
often tbe case that to say what is true would
only offend, and do no good. Tbe proper
course in such instances is not to say that a
thing is which is not, but to say nothing.
There is no need of making a personal item
false and ridiculous by piling up compliment
ary adjectives when it might be made at once
truthful and decent by dispensing with adjec
tives altogether. Tbe local editor of the Grunt-
burg Gralulittor can announce that Miss Jeru-
sha Jenkins—who as a matter of fact is old
and plain—is paying a visit to her aunt with
out adding that she is one of Snook*vilie’s
most charming young ladies. The Crafton
Gazette would discharge its duty as a dissemi
nator of news by simply announcing that
Tumbledown Titmouse, Esq , bad visited tbe
place on professional business, without any
euphemism about bis being a brilliant member
of tbe Spreadville bar. Tbe public’s greed for
news would perhaps be appeased by the infor
mation that the coumry-bred youth, Jack
Gorntop had been airing his manners and bis
first suit of clothes iu town, without being
startled by tbe intelligence that he is one of
the most progressive and successful farmers of
bis county. All these complimentary addi
tions to the plain staement of facts are un
necessary and unwise. By bting showered
promiscuously on everybi dy they lose their
value. It really counts for almost nothing
that one is named with praise in the papers,
and a person of assured merit feels half in
sulted when be is spoken of in the same terms
of laudation that is bestowed upon the worth
less. We have said that this putting on
paint promiscuously is needless. It is
also harmful. It lets the young know that it
is not necessary to deserve praise in order to
have it, while it tends to lesson the aidor of
those who are disposed to strive for virtuous
fame. Our newspaper writers doubtless do
not think of the bad and good alike; but they
often speak so well of the former as to leave
nothing to say if the latter. * *
Some Free-Soil Points.
Editor Sunny Soura: This is a day of re
forms—of desired reforms—of attempted re
forms—peculiarly so. Abuses, public and pri
vate, of the rights and privileges of ownership,
and of speculation, have grown into enormous
and oppressive wrongs—aud still promise to
grow until some opposing poWer moves to the
front and gains control.
Certain measures offered as reforms are not
without elements of questionable soundness
and oppressiveness. Such a measure seems
that fiee-soil progeny of Henry George. It is
a bold stroke ot aggressive project It is a
fancy-tinted theory. It rears a proud head—
presents a bellicose front—commands a large
and growing following.
Tbe free-soil idea is not entirely new in this
country, but is new as a political factor. It is
a proposition to overthrow tbe right of indi
vidual property in lands, and to retire them to
the status (or something like it) which- they
occupy among uncivilized tribes. Tbe propo
sition has two inUr-opposing aspects, whereof
one is comely and worthy, white the other is
fanatical and dubious. There is something
pleasing, fair and seeming y righteous in the
aoctriiie of free homes for all the people to
take aud hold aud use and let loose at will —
but not to trade. It is based on claims of
justice—iustigaied by a sense of benevolence
and aimed against a too common source of
speculative and monopolistic oppression.
Landlordism is a dangerous power. It has
ruined Ireland. It is detrimental to agricultu
ral interests. It clogs the poor and lavors the
rich—discriminates against the masses, and
tends to augment aud extend poverty.
Numerous men each hold their thousands
and ten thousand acres as idle capital, as the
hay which the dog in the manger could not
eat nor permit the ox ’.o eat. Railroad com
panies get possession of immense bodies of
territory which then are within the power and
demands of those companies, giving advantages
of proprietorship to which the moral aud
equitable right is not clear. Holding lands in
large bodies under legal title and subject to
personal option is tbe very cause of so many
homeless sons and daughters of earth. Traf
fic iu the earth lias too strong a tendency to
destroy the peculiarly American doctrine of
“equal and exact justice to all, exclusive priv
ileges to none.” This doctrine opposes use
less and exclusive holding and owning of the
domain by land-sharks or monopol sts, by any
person or compauy. Ground enough for a
home and tbe production ot abundant necessa
ries of a livelihood is, I believe, a right
which ought, iu equity, to be guaranteed as
God-given, natural and inalienable to ail the
people. Government, whether national or
State, ou'ht to so control that it may secure
and furnish a share of land to its every citizen
needing and seeking such share. Government
ought to stand between the people and what
may be defined exorbitant land-holding.
The strongest claim by which I think a share
of land ought to be bound is that of peaceable
possession.
Mechanical structures on land may be, in
any case, rightfully beld, controlled and traded
as private and personal property apart from
connection with the territory occupied and
surrounding.
Under our North American civilization, a
free-soil system would tend to the decay of our
social and political institutions and regulations;
to regress on in internal improvements by pri
vate enterprise; to frequent ruptures touching
claims; to clashing in rightful interests. Men
would not have inducement to improve and
prepare permanent homes nor build costly
structures ou land not to be used in trade as
property.
The method by which the George and Mc-
Glynn party would destroy land-owning, by
making it burdensome and unprofitable
through taxation, ia too ultra, too radical to
agree with equity—propoeee unfair exemp
tions, and ia too reaching into tbe realm of
imagination. The plan is not known to be
practicable. It is crudely reckoned in tbe re
lations of cause and effect.
The free land doctrine is well worth investi
gation and cultivation. Yet its leaders ooDfine
it t» an unpromising narrowness, whilst the
details require a liberalized consideration.
When Dr McGlynn compared himself in his
excommunication by the l’ope, to Galileo under
inquisitorial persecution, he rather over-esti
mated his pos.tion in the role of martyrdom.
Galileo, as a convert to the Copernican theory,
became a benefactor in science by discoveries
and inventions which continue eminently use
ful in scientific investigation; while Dr. Mc
Glynn as an advocate and leader of a shadow,
merely, of something that ought to be and is
likely to be, has not contributed thereby to the
knowledge nor exaltation of his race, nor fur
nished a triumph of genius.
If my views on this land question are not
full, clear, exact nor entirely sound, they are
at least about as respectable aud worthy (as a
basis) as the noted plan which attracts the na
tional attention. Ideas beget ideas, and if other
ideas have led to mine, to yet others mine may
lead. Even ignorance exposed by showing
error, may induce a broader, aud a sensible
view.
It is a reasonable belief that Messrs. George
and McGlynn would confer a needed benefit
on the political interests of this Government
by retiring their hobby and uniting with the
abler united labor party or under the Pow-
derly policy and regime. Honor to Powderlyl
Success crown bis movement—the worthiest in
tbe political field! G. G. Wootten.
Annona, Texas.
Historical Goliad—A Pleasant
Excursion.
Editor Sunny South: Goliad is the county
feat of Goliad county, in Southern Texas, and
is a beautiful little town of about sixteen hun
dred inhabitants.
Tbe name is an anagram from Hidalgo.
Fair Goliad sits gracefully upon the stately
shores of the San Antonio, whose peaceful wa
ters glide ou peacefully to the sea.
De Loon visited Goliad in 1087, and in 1715
a mission was projected here, Darned La Bahia
(the bay) mission. In 1812-T3 the place was
occupied by tbe Republican army, and some
severe battles were fought in this neighbor
hood. In 1817 Col. Perry and his party were
killed near this place by Mexican soldiers. It
was eventually taken by Texans and evacuated
by Fannin, March 17, 1838. The brave Geor
gian and his soldiers were captured, however,
and confiued within the walls of the La Babia
Mission church buildine, and on Palm Sunday
_27th March 1838—he and his men were bru
tally massacred.
La Bahia, or old town, is on the southern
shore of tbe San Antonio river, and the Bay
Mission c .urch still stands a weird monument
ot the bistoric past of Goliad. The walls of
the fort around it are broken and crumbling
ruins, bristling here and there with cactus and
Spanish daggers. The church itself is in a
belter condition, however, and is still used as
a place of worship by the Catholics.
Goliad proper, is on the northern shore of
tbe river, aud is a lovely modern village, nest
led among clustering vines, and gay oleanders
whose graceful blossoms swing to the wooing
breeze like tbe 'blessed rosy sign of hope.’
The green trees, tbe tall church spires, the
merry "go round” of the busy wind-mills
make up a picture that is fair to look upon.
Goliad College, a grand, gray stone building,
stands on the northern confines of the town.
The time of which I write was early summer.
The wind hot and odotless swept through the
spacious college rooms. A spirit of lassitude
pervaded the classes and hung heavily on the
tired teachers. Many weary eyea fazed
through the wide casements, out across tne
broad spreading Texas prairie that rolled in
billowy inductions, like the sea, far away
to the distant horiz jn.
The ha f hour bell bad just ruug and my
class rose and tiled decorously to the siudy
ball, leaving me alone. It was Friday after
noon, and presently tbe ringing of the signal
bell, tbe gay clat er of springy young feet, and
the ring of joyous laughter, announced that
school was out.
Several gentlemen, members rf our faculty,
and a number of bright, happy girls came hur
rying into my class room.
“Oh! madam, we have planned a trip to La
Bahia. Of course gnu are going,’’ said cue.
“And lake that precious sketch book,” saul
another, “can’t somebody sleal it? We have
so mucL more fun when madam has no sketch
ing to do.”
We were soon ready, forgetful of the day’s
fatigue, and went gaily off in our comfortable
conveyances, drawn oy the swift native ponies,
through the pretty town, over the bridge across
the w.uding liver, up the adobe hills of La
Bahia.
Our sketches were taken. The plentiful
luncheon, thought of by the girls, was spread
on one of the broken walls of ikr- fert, and with
sweet subdued mirth we gavo ourstlvcs up to
the pleasure of the hour.
After, we went into the old church and read
hundreds of names of distinguished people
who have visited it, and left their autographs
on the historic walls
The priest, a Mexican, with dark heeling
brows, whose restltsi black eyes looked fur-
i vely from under his slouched sombrero, con
ducted us around with more than native cour
tesy.
‘ Did madam hear of the lady who died on
the hillside some years ago?” lie asked me,
pointing through an open window to the bar
ren, seamed and arid waste outside.
“Yes. Did yon ever learn anything of her?’
I inquired, divining that be bad s imething to
tell.
"I found a paper under the altar yesterday.
You may have it, madam, read when you git
home.”
I thanked him and placed the yellow, time
worn package which he gave me, carefully iu
my sk'-tch book
Twilight was deepening, and as we started for
Goliad, the old vesper bell up in tbe steeple
began ringing, its Intonations falling solemnly
ou the ear lihe a vf ice from till* part
We saw the swarthy Mexicans leave their
thatched adobe buts, and wend their way to
the old ruin, looking like pictured brigands,
in high top boot, gay sashes, murderous
kuiv-s, and slouched soubreros.
The manuscript given me, I found fuli of in
terest, and being short, I transcribe it:
A Rose to Others, A Lily to Me.
A fair landscape indetd! The soft undula
tions of hill and dale, the tail spires and state
ly housetops wrapt in a spotless garment of
white.
It was the first snow I had ever seen in our
fair southland, and I was up by dawn of day.
Tbe air was delightful, and the soft white
crispy crapy snow was to me like a vision of
Heaven.
I mounted tbe steep staircase to the top of
the house, and coming into tbe pretty cupola
looked out upon the white shining steeples,
towers aud grand mansions of the city of A—.
My heart quivered with joy, and, giving full
utterance to my emotions, I stood looking to
ward the east, and fiung the richest tones of
the sweet voice nature had given me out on the
pure air that floated away as softly as if sweep
ing o’er a bed of violets.
1 was young and fair; my brown curls
clung and waved to the passing breeze,
and the rose colored morning robe, and soft
white wrap 1 wore, did not out-via the lilies
and roses of my rounded cheeks.
“How beautiful!” I heard him say, aud
turning swiftly, with a throb of pain at my
heart, I bebtld the man who loved me, pale
with emotion, standing with folded arms, gaz
ing at me with eyes in which the fire of a great
love shone.
I knew he loved me too well—I thought I
knew he loved me too well! We had known
each other for years but there was some sad
mystery about bis life, and my heart (ah! who
knows one’s own heart?) chilled into ice at his
approach.
I looked upon him coldly, and my sweet
song died away in a sad refrain in the rosy
light of morning.
“My presence has frozen you already, I see.
You are a rose to others, but a lily to me,” he
said sadly, putting out his hand to take mine.
“I love you! Oh! Vera, I love you too dear
ly! Have you no pity for me? See I kneel
to thee my darling! We must part, alas! ’tis
true, but will you not give me one kiaa as a to
ken of loving forgiveness?”
I felt my heart turn to ice, so heavy and cold
it grew, and looking at hia bowed form, with
out a compassionate thought, I turned away.
“One kiu! Vera,” he pleaded, “only one!”
but I did not deign even to turn my eyes from
the flashed clouds ot purple and gold that
spanned the eastern sky, .where the red disk of
the rising sun shone above the horizon.
“Farewell, my darling! some day yon will
find that you love me, and then yon will sor
rowfully remember, that you were ever a rose
to others, but a lily to me!”
He was gone, with the weight of love and
sorrow crushing his warm heart.
Years have flown, and I have waited long for
my Bernal’s return. They tell me he was shot
at Goliad—at La Bahia, but I have failed to
find his grave. For weary days I have walked
alone across the hot and pitileae prairie, at
night cooling my blistered feet in the dew
washed tangled grass, hoping at dawn to meet
my Bernal.
I have cared not how rosy the sun and winds
of heaven kissed my fair faoe, for I am a lily
no longer, bat a rose—Bernal’s red, red roee
whose heart is rich with tbe glowing passion
of love, whose soft red lips are longing, oh! so
fondly, to be kissed.
Shall I give you one kiss as a token of loving
forgiveness! Ah! no, not one, but as many as
you will, my darling! You were all that was
pure and noble, my own, and the barriers are
removed, or will be, ’ere the yellow moon rises
in the far east.
I have written our simple story, as I sat
amid the broken walls and crumbling rains of
La Bahia, and shall lay it on the altar steps—
then my Bernal, as the search has been too
weary, and too long, I shall go out on the
sloping hillside, and lie down beneath the gen
tle stars to rest—a rose? Yes, a red, red rose,
torn from its parent tree, and thrown here to
wither and die!
Nettie Loveless Rierulff.
Salem, Ala.
The constitution of Costa Rica is quite a
domestic affair. It prescribes hospitality as a
sacred duty, and declares citizenship to be for
feited by ingratitude to parents.
The Plodding Boy,
And the Promise of a Bright
Future for Him.
MUS1\«S OF MY EVENTIDE.
BY REV. A. A. LIPSCOMB. D. D.
FORTY-THIRD I-AI’ER.
I.
Looking back over years ot experience as a
teacher, I recall nothiog so inspiriting to my
recollections as tbe images of pupils, who,
without any special gifts or natural delight in
learning, were devoted to their school work,
and, in due time, by tbe private almanac,
which nature keeps for each soul, irrespective
of the solar system, have won a most honora
ble success in the walks of daily existence.
Tbe average boy has a feeble sense of coming
responsibilities. And it is a rare thing to find
in him a well defined idea of its duties or of its
perils, and what ideals he has, are utterly in
dependent of ideas. “The vast unbounded
prospect lies before us,” and while “bidding
the lovely scenes of distance hail,” what teach
ing has example or experience for this creature
of the present hour whose gay illusions out
weigh all realitiesl Yet, there are exceptions,
and tbe exception filling just now my field of
vision is the plodding boy. One of my earliest
lessons in the art of teaching was that of pa
tience and I took myself as the first pupil. I
never had a more self-willed, intractable sub
ject; quick blood, sensitive nerves, and physi
cal intolerance of suspense and slowness, bt
ing in my way. But, about this time, I read
Arnold’s Life by Stanley, a work that affected
me most deeply, and eventually became one of
the forces of my being. I remember to this
day, his account of a dull boy, the rebuke he
gave him, the boy’s pathetic look and remon
strance as lie said: “Doctor Arnold, I am lin
ing the best I can,” the Dr’s, instant feeling
of the wrong he had done the pupil and his
manly regret for the wound he had inflicted on
a boy of dull parts but truthful and laborious
in alt his tasks. Arnold’s case helped me and
I slowly learned bow by patience to “win my
soul” as tbe Revised version of the N. T.
so happily expresses it. After acquiring pa
tience with myself, I found it a pleasure, if not
a luxuiy, iai teach those whose slowness had
worrii a me. To invent methods to aid them
in preparing lessons and to practice kindliness
of manner in conducting recitations, was the
best schooling [ ever got; ami I have
often wondered whether in those initial
days, I was as good a teacher of my
school as I was a learner. I recollect
an incident that brought a plodder very vividly
before me in bis candidacy for an important
chair in a certain university of another State
One of the trustees who had voted for him said
to me: “ The reason I voted for him was that
he knew little, if anything, of the subject be
was elected to leach’.’* So much was 1 sur
prised at his anomalous remedy that he ex
plained the ground of his action. “I knew him
to be a thoroughly trained scholar in other de
parluieuls of science, a master in the. art of
communication, genial, and withal very ambi
tious to do the be.sL work. And furthermore.
I knew that in the three months vacation his
plodding power—ill the absence of any particu
lar fituess forthis professorship—would qualify
him, on the basis ot his old habits of a studious
intellect, for the new sphere. He would come
to the chair frtsh and unworn, and so escape
some of the weaknesses of the specialist whose
blood gels slusgisli under opiates of skill and
success” “Well,” said I, “I doubt not the
l'rofessor vindica.ed the wisdom of your vote.”
"Indeed he did, for ho made about the best and
most popular teacher in that university, as well
as a model effleer in respect to influence and
disciplinary tact.”
II.
Now, at this juncture, I may take occasion
to state that my friend, the trustee, had been a
plodding man himself and had at’ained some
distinction as a lawyer, a profession in which
the higher success is invariably a proof of
merit. The love of thought as thought and the
stress on reasou as the very ictus of the soul’s
potency are absolute requisites of a lawyer’s
make-up. My own experience in teaching is
that in the oversight of great schools lawyers
are generally very prudent and intelligent trus
tees My friend had risen slowly to a com
manding position in the law, and I round that
he had a most sensible admiration for plodders.
Thinking of him this morning, when chalking
out this essay, I concluded that if all of us
would put more emphasis on the virtue of plod
ding, education would gain much from it in
thoroughness and breadth.’ Too many s u-
denis over-value their quickness, and the com
monest outcome of their vanity is the exultant
vaporousness with which they apply the dialect
of the turf, as nspects race-horse speed, to their
lesson preparations. In most cases this way of
studying is as damaging to the cells and nerves
of the brain as to the mental faculties. A in ire
foolish method of learning is hardly conceiv-
able. Study it is not. It is a burlesque
ou the name and ou the thing. Why are
dreams, often intellectual and useful to the
imagination, so fleeting and incapable of re-in-
stateincut in the memory, but because of thu
fact tiat tbeir rapidity of movement allows no
time for them to assume any connexions with
the fundamental forces of the associating and
suggestive organs? In the basic quality of our
mental growth, time is practically of great im
portance. New ideas must be allowed time
enough to become links in the chain of old
ideas, waich can only occur when association
and suggestion havo leisure to operate. Bux
ton once asked Sir Edward Sugden (afterwards
Lord St. Leonards) what was the secret of bis
success, and his answer was: “I resolved,
when beginning to read Law, to make every
thing I acquired perfectly my own, and never
to go to a second thing till I had entirely ac
complished the first. Many of my competi
tors read as much in a day as I read in a week,
but at tbe end of twelve months, my knowl
edge was as fresh as on the day it was ac
quired, whilst theirs had glided away from
their recollection.” I call this a typical exam
ple of the plodding memory in a man of great
powers Indeed, I should designate it as a
“splendid” illustration, but for tbe humiliating
fact that this word splendid has been so de
moralized on the pens and tongues of slang-
writers and talkers as to have lost caste among
well-bred thinkers. Alas, tbe brightest of ad
jectives has fsdedt
IIL
Sir Edward’s case leads me to say, tbe plod
der is not necessarily a dull man, a torpid man
or an inferior man. As a generalization, it is
perfectly absurd. Frequently it is tbe latency
of extraordinary talent or even genius, strag
gling to get oommand of itself, but obstructed
and delayed by some delicate nerve-fibre or
ganglia not yet naturalized and domesticated
in the household of the animal system. To
plod on is to educate the strings of the harp to
the fingers. Or, varying the figure, I think of
the boring of an artesian well, and tbe steady
persistency of the borer as he plies bis ma
chinery in search of the water, waiting far
down in the encrusting earth to answer the
call as soon as heard. Plodders are very slow
and I generally find them contented and com
placent; and sometimes I wonder if the old
blood of Methuaaleb, in tbe aenae of time
enough, has not stolen unawares into tbe quiet
pulainge of tbeir hearts. The oaks grow slowly
to the majesty of centuries, and what
a plodder the little acorn is that pushes its
way through the hard crust of the spring soil,
and on, season by season, till he waves tbe
green banners of his thousand years over the
ashes of Metbusaleh forgotten beneath his lux
uriant branches! ’Tis but little we know of
the long gestation of aonl which ends in birth.
And then, the vocation, to which we were pre
ordained; how the Ever-Blessed Father veils
His decree under hieroglyphics whose import
we toilingly spell oat, itself an education I
Ferguson, the astronomer and mechanical phi
losopher. told Dugald Stewart, that he had
more than once attempted to study the “Ele
ments of Euclid,” but found himself incapable
of entering into that spec es of reasoning. All
of us know what a plodder in bis early youth
and manhood Franklin was, and, by what te
dious steps, Watt, Arkwright and Whitney
reached the great inventions, which have made
the globe a new planet for modern civilization.
Say what you will, ’tis not to genius but to
plodding, the world is most indebted.
Wee Willie Cottage, Ga.
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last year, 200,000 less than in 1885.
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A fasbionab e Montreal lady lias been called
to account by the health department, because
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John B. Carson, the well-known railroad
magnate, was showing an English friend the
beauties of St. Louis a little while ago.
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pointing to a magnificent marble palace.
"Mr. Brown, the great pork-packer.”
“And there?” said the Englishman, point
ing to another magnificent dwelling.
“Mr. Jones, the famous pork-packer.”
“And there?” pointing to a neat little frame
house.
“Oh, that’s General Sherman’s house,” Baid
Mr. Carson.
“Ah!” remarked the Englishman, "another
evidence that the ‘pen’ is mightier than the
sword.”
How many people’s experience agrees with
that of Governor Vance’s (of North Carolina),
who said that all he knew about finance was
that it took two names better than his own to
get money from tbe bank.
News of an important arrest reaches us from
New York; they say that the horrid torrid
wave has been arrested. But, then, wbat’s the
use? Some fool of a judge will grant a stay of
proceedinga and let it out on bail!
A yonng physician who had recently bung
out bis sign, esme home one day in high apirita.
“Do yon know, my dear,” he said to bis wife,
‘Tm really becoming quite well known here.
The undertakers bow to me already.”
Whew, what would a man like the follow
ing, at the “bat” be worth to a base ball nine!
A gentleman near Oxford, N. C , went out
ahoobng a few evenings sgo, and bagged two
hundred and two bats, and caught a fox—on
the fly.
Speaking of “booms” reminds us of reading,
a few days ago, about a man, who had not beer,
in a certain Dakota town for something over a
year, recently talking with a man who lives
there, and happened to refer to the stream the
place is situated on aa a “creek.”
“That’s no creek,” said tbe native.
“ They called it Buffalo Wallow Creek when
I was there before.”
“Oh! well, that’s all right, but it’a Big Buf
falo River now.”
“I don’t see what could make the difference.”
“I can. That waa before the boom. It was
a creek then, but yon bet it’s a big, flowing
river With cat-fish and a sea serpent in it now!
Just read the local paper and learn about tbe
‘immense water power* it furnishes, and how it
is ‘an important factor in settling the vexed
Inter-State commerce law complications.’ I
tell you there’s nothing like a boom to bring
out the good points of things.”
The lalea of the Pacific.
Court oflicer (to Queen Victoria)—“There’s
a Hamerican gent houtside as what wants to
see your Majestv.”
The Queen—“It’s Mr. Phelps, I suppose.
Tell him I've gone over to the Tower to see if
the Kohinoor is all right.”
Court Oflicer—"It’s not Mr. Phelps; it’s
Buffalo Bill.”
The Queen—“Oh, show him in at once.”
Old vKsop, the eminent ancient fabulist, must
have passed through Lee county, in Georgia
lately, as witness:
Two Lee county boys went fishing. After
fishing a long lime without success they found
that all the bait they had was one worm. The
one who had growu tired of fishing agreed to
let the other have the bait if he would give
him half he caught; but when a large catfish
was brought to laud, No. 2 refused to divide
and a leniffic fight ensued. While they were
yet in the throes cf mortal combat, a hungry
hog came up, and seizing the disputed prop
erty, made off with it.
It would seem that the time is at hand,
if, indeed, it has not alresdy arrived,
when onr relations with the Islands i»
the Pacific Ocean, midway between our
coast and China and Japan, should be def
initely settled. Our policy is “peace”—but
sometimes nations most peacefully inclined
are unexpectedly drawn into war; we cannot
expect to be an exception. Therefore the
final, definite settlement of a matter so impor
tant to this Nation should not he longer de
layed. Negotiations have been in progress
sometime between Secretary Bayard and the
resident Ministers of Great Britain and Ger
many about the rights of the United States in
tha islands of the Pacific Ocean as related to
those of Great Bii.ain and Germany. Tbe ob
ject of the conferences was understood to be to
secure the private interests of Americans iu
i hese island, and at the same time opportuni
ties for establishing nava coal stations whete
they may be needed by this government. Ik
would seem that the sooner the matter is set
tled the better for ail.