About The sunny South. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1875-1907 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1887)
/ 4 THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING. AUGUST 20, 1887 PUBUBHKU EVERY SATURDAY. BUSINESS OFFICE 21 MARIETTA 8T. ZtCmM - • - • - - EPITOR Term*: . ^ TwodolUra dot Annum One doll» r fon S'l Mont'j. “ ^ Advertising« Tan omu per lane. 8eyent,-li» «mtt I*r Jnch. '■r^b^nbeii.honld el were *« the , "! . eeruin r tC office end nut to tr.T3.ng mmmnt*. and *»m* hotn »fwn«« TO CONTRIBUTORS. Write a-vainly CU pomibU on one side # the J^and n~ paper* medium wMghR Donat Zealot* MSS. fold them flatly, a rolled pageic troulletome both toreador and printer, latter Mm p eferred. It Is veil to urite the name ^ Uu, MSS at the top 0T each pate; the pat" Zmtdibeearmfuttv numbered according to their regular mguence. The renter’, realname andree- tdence thould be written on the MSS., at lettert are umtetimee mbtplaeed. 0 a nom de plume ie used, M mould be uri ten directly under the title. It mnet mm distinctly elated whether pay U expected tor MttS. firm ty*. ire cannot return MSS., nor he reeponeible for them when eent in voluntarily, unices specially re- gtMeted fa do so and in such cases stamps must be tiHlatirf The waiter should always keep a copy. Address nil Lotter* ooncemin* the paper and make •“ * lta BW “ We *• J. H. SEALS A CO.. Atlanta. «*. 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 >«£ StTtK 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. Tbe latest advices from the northern ports verify the statements heretofore made that the salmon catch will this year be light. 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Report reaches us that the wife of a druggist in a neighboring town is suing for a divorce, and it is believed she will get it with plenty of alum—money. A friend accosted us on the street the other day with “I say, look a’ hero—talking about tbe ‘hum of industry,’ we have it every Dight; but the skeetuts hum and we perform tbe in dustry.” —. - T tg A fasbionab e Montreal lady lias been called to account by the health department, because they found two hundred cats in her house. They gave her to understand, categorically, that unless she got rid of them her category would be made up of gory cats. A Portland, Mich., mail who employed a number of small boys as berry-pickers, was much afraid they would be devoured by mos quitoes, and induced them to wear netting over their mugs, a contrivance which they adopted with gratitude in their hearts until they dis covered that there were not ODly no mosqui toes to be seen, but that the confounded net ting also proscribed berry eating. Then the infants made a concentrated kick for freedom and got there. John B. Carson, the well-known railroad magnate, was showing an English friend the beauties of St. Louis a little while ago. “Who lives there?” asked the Englishman, 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.
