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THE SUNNY SOUTH. ATLANTA. GA., SATURDAY MORNING. AUGUST 27,1887.
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Narrative of the Sole Survivor of Sir John Franklin’s
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CHAPTER LXIV—July, 1864.
As a residence and liberal income are pro
vided for me by the Government, I have no
anxiety about the matter of a livelihood. The
King and bis counci! think the people are well
repaid for the outlay by the information and
instruction drawn from me.
I have appeared frequently this summer be
fore the public here in tbe character of a
speaker. My talks are always about the south
ern countries. The field can never be ex
hausted, for I am the only individual in all the
land who knows anything whatever on the
subject.
There is a pleasure in imparting knowledge
to the unlearned.
»»•*****
1 laid down my pen to receive a visitor. He
is a stranger from the city of Kamuna, and
bears an invitation addressed to me, and
signed by the governor of that city, ard other
prominent citizens. Translated into English,
it reads as follows:
To the Honorable and celebrated Wauhama:
We greet you and present tbe respects of the
city of Kamuna. We heard with amazement
of your mysterious advent into this Kingdom,
and have never ceased to watch your move
ments from a distance, and take a constant
and profound interest in you
Some of our people have journeyed all the
way to Iliawana to behold you and speak with
you. But our people r unplain that you do
not visit this part of the country. They are
becoming so clamorous on the subject as to
have held public meetings expressive of their
feelings. Therefore, in the name of our city
and its inhabitants, we urge and invite you to
come among os at your earliest convenience.
You will be a most welcome and honored
guest
To this invitation, after consulting Noona,
Wona and Yuems, I sent an affirmative an
swer. They are ail to accompany me, and we
will soon be ready to start on the journey. We
have had some debate as to the route to be
traveled, but have agreed to go by the Great
Cave river. It is about six hundred miles by
the windings of the stream to our destination.
It is nearer by the Grand Highway, but travel
is more laborious and unpleasant over-land
than it is by water.
• ••»••
The Queen, learning our purpose, has offered
us one of her own pleasure boats. I cannot too
much praise the kindness and thoughtfulness
of the royal lady. Though all the prejudices
jf my raising are in a contrary direction, I be
lieve Her Majesty is better gualified for the du
ties of her high station by being herself sprung
from tbe body of the people.
Her opportunities for observing the habits
and warns of the common people before her
marriage were infinitely better than if she had
been circumscribed by the pomp and exclu
siveness of royal nurture.
She realizes that kings and queens are, after
all, but men and women—a thing which the
representatives of ancient and powerful Euro
pean bouses are not able to do. In her sub
jects she sees a mass of strugglin' brethren
and sisters, and her heart is with them, and
her purse strings loose for the relief of their
distresses. I think no queen was so generally
or so much beloved.
»**»«•
Wc have embarked, and as I write these
lines I am sitting by a small table in the luxu
rious pagoda which surmounts the forward
deck of our handsome vessel, which from her
giaceful figure-head bears the name of “The
Swan.” She is forty feet in length and
manned by twenty oars, teu on each side.
She is rigged for sailing also, as in the curves
of the river we will sometimes be assisted by
the winds.
Our pagoda has two small sleeping apart
ments, and a sitting room which serves us also
for a dining hall. In front, overlookine the
bow, is a sort of verandah guarded by railings,
which extend on both sides backward to the
—STTnir—^rSc- -.-men, iu tiieir rcusu.rts and
white caps, present quite a pretty appearance
as they lean to their work as one man.
Noona and Yuema have brought their harps
along. They are both fine singers, and Wona
and myself nave also good voices; and as we
are all fond of music, we anticipate a large
fund cf enjoyment from this source.
We are now heading to the Eastward, and
off to the South I can see the park, and above
it the lofty cliff from which I first gazed upon
the great city of my new world. How vividly
my sensations return to me! In the first mo
ment of beholding the wonderful scene I half
believed AVona to be a magician, and that he
had called the metropolis into being instantly
by means of his occult art!
I have prevailed upon the queen to erect a
house on the top of the mountain, and when I
return to Iliawana I expect to visit the place
with Noona.
**»»«•
The country we are passing through is a se
ries of wheat fields and white fibre plant (or
cotton) fields, potato crops, etc., farm houses,
gardens, parks, towns and villages. The peo
ple seem prosperous.
Our voyage is a delightful one, but without
stirring event. The scenery is of the same
general character ail the way thus far.
Noona prohibits much writing, and I yield to
her capricious commands. Sweet girl! But
why spread golden love-talk upon the pages of
a stupid journal!
*»•*»»
We are approaching the place where onr
river terminates in the lake. 1 can see much
more distinctly now than heretofore the moun
tains that curve around to Westward in front
of us.
**»*»•
We have entered the blue waters of the lake
and are steering to the Northwest. The moun
tains loom np to the right and extend further
than the eye can reach to the West, but curv
ing gradually toward the South.
»***«»
We can see now the domes and minarets of
Kamuna. The city seems rising out of the
lake.
• •»»»»
The city is now in full view, and the harbor
in front is crowded with shipping. We are
passing off the mouth of Mountain river,
which, as stated before, enters the lake just
North of Kamuna. The waters of this stream
have a whitish cast, and seem not to mix read
ily with those of the lake. * * * *
We are drawing near the piers, and a great
crowd of people are evidently was hing us and
awaiting our approach.
of fin North Pols boa that I occupied when
at Iliawana; and I have determined that I will
tetom-by the weetern roots, and thus when I
return I will be able to say that I have passed
entirely aronnd the Foie..
Whatever pleasure there, may be in' accom
plishing this feat must be confined to myself;
for the people here do not comprehend the
subject.
But besides this rather vain-gtorions wish, I
want to keep the promise made to myself hist
winter, that I would visit the lower plateau
and Bottomless Pit by sunlight
• • • • * •
We have arrived at the lower boundary of the
central plateau, and are resting on the hills
that separate it from the lower. There are
many evidences about us of the volcanic origin
of these hills, and remembering that there are
a number of still active volcanoes on the outer
rim of the polar basin, I am confirmed in the
opinion first announced that the entire region
is the crater of a volcano long extinct, or at
least not destructively active.
The history of this country gives accounts
of several occasions on which tbe great chasm
has emitted volumes of smoke that caused the
inhabitants considerable suffering and alarm
But these eruptions have been few and far be
tween.
Below us some five hundred feet is a barren
plain that slopes rapidly toward the pole. It
seeing to have no vegetation except a narrow
fringe at the outer side.
li is considered perilous, but I have resolved
to descend into the desert, and go as near the
bottomless chasm as possible. 1 cannot resist
tbe temptation to draw nearer to the pole.
Wona, in sprite of my entreaties to the con
trary, will go with me.
Our guide says there is path through which
we can get our horses down tbe heights.
He warns us not to attempt tbe trip, as men
have been smothered by the puffs of hot air
that sometimes unexpectedly envelope adven
turers who go down into the hot valley.
But the wind is favorable, and will blow the
beat away from us we hope.
• • • • • •
We have got back to the place where we left
the guide. (He refused to accompany us.)
We and our horses are exhausted with beat
and thirst. We have had a seven hours run
to the chasm and back, and I will never volun
tarily take such another ride.
As we approached the chasm it was like
breathing in a furnace. The vast pit has a
rocky rim some thirty feet high and some one
hundred feet wide.
We forced our horses np to this eminence,
and paused for a few seconds to look at the
awful place. Then we clapped spurs to the
jaded animals, and made for the upper region
again.
And what did we see?
Simply an enormous black gulf forty miles
across. To us it appeared without a limit, for
there was a quivering haze rising out of it that
obscured the country we might otherwise have
seen on the other side.
Only for a very few seconds we paused, for
we knew we were in deadly peril. If the wind
had suddenly changed we could never have
left the spot.
****»♦
We have at length arrived home again.
Since leaving Hiawana for the trip to Kamu-
ra, I have traveled entirely around the North
l’ole.
CHAPTER LXV1L— Jclt 1855.
I cannot withhold myself from opening my
long neglected diary to note the birta of a son.
My wife has named him William in honor of
ntyself. It is my English Christian name, and
she insists it should be preserved as a momento
of my former self. And now that I have taken
up the pen again, I record also that the Eng
lish language is often used in conversation be
tween my wife and myself.
It is painful enough to be-separated without
pperifioing completely «he tongue of one's in
fancy
1 am resolved that my son shall learn to be
as familiar with the English as with the l’olar-
ian tongue.
And he hammers with hia little knuckles,
and cries oat imperiously, “ ’ope door!” And
it matters not how much I am absorbed, I al
ways yield. >
Noons’a devotion to this child is beautiful
and touching above description. I soihetimM
forget him while interested in a book or some
composition. She never does for one moment.
This extreme of watchfulness I confess to he
somewhat irksome to me.
“Can yon expect to keep the boy forever in
tur.sighl
your .eight?” I ask with some impatience.
“V~ — — - •
ter five minutes of silence.
When is Billie?” she will suddenly ask af-
ini
“At play, of course,” I reply.
“I wish y<
you’d open the door and listen for
his voice," she persists. I comply as patiently
as I can, and report him sporting with his toys
nearby.
Tan minutes later the foolish woman will
interrupt me again.
“Billie is very still. Wonder what he ia do
ing.’’
“Playing of course,’’ I say. “Do let the
child alone. When he gives us a little quiet
you are never content ’til yon get him back in
the room with hia racket!”
In a short while the boy’s voice is heard out
of doors.
“Do run and fee what is tbe matter with
Billie,” nrgea Noona in a tone which is equal
to a command, and I go oat and look him up.
So it is from day to day, until I have about
determined that I must give up study or get a
room for that purpose away from home.
• •••••••
[to be continued.]
A Dozen Grains of Gold.
We are but curious impertinents in the care
of futurity.—Pvpe.
All is but hp wisdom which wants expert
ence.—Sir Philip Sidney.
L’fe appears to me too short to be spent in
nursing animosity or registering wrong.—Char
lotte Bronte.
Injuries from friends fret and gall more, and
tbe memory of them is not so easily obliterated.
Arbuthnot.
The power of fortune is conferred only by
the miserable; the bappy impute all their suc
cess to prudence or merit.—Swift.
I never knew one who made it his business
to lash the faults of other writers that was not
guilty bf greater himself.—Adilison.
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all
false pretenses, like flowers, fall to tbe ground;
nor can any c •mnterfeit last long —Cicero.
There is selfishness even in gratitude when
it is too profuse; to be over-thankful for one
favor is in effect to lay out for another.—Cum
berland.
I would not have children much beaten for
their faults, because I would not have them
think bodily pain the greatest punishment.—
Locke.
Fame is an undertaker that pays but little
attention to the living, but bedizens the dead,
furnishes out their fnnerals, and follows them
to the grave.—Cotton.
A man should never be ashamed to own he
has been in the wrong, which is but saying in
other words that he is wiser to-day than he
was yesterday.—Pope.
The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like
one to a million; but genius without tyranny,
without pretension, that judges the weak with
equity, the superior with humanity and equals
with justice, is like one to ten millions.—Loo
nier.
MOUNTAIN SLOUGHING OFF.
A Queer Discovery Made Concerning
Toccoa Mountain
The recent rains have caused the mountains
to split to pieces and give their ponderous sides
to the plains below. Tcccoa mountain is the
worst of all. There are eleven slides on one
side of the mountain. It first commenced dur
ing the wet weather to block off in small
lumps; then, as (he mountain became soaked
with water, the flakes of dirt grew larger, until
it would start at the top of the mountain and
come roaring down into the valleys below, cov
ering up whole fields of corn. Large trees
were brought down with the slide, and in some
cases left standing hundreds of yards from
where it grew on the side of the mountain.
Some of the slides were at least fifty feet thick,
and as it came rushing down, carrying every
thing in its wake, it was the grandest sight ever
seen. There was no damage done, except to a
few fields of corn that were at the base of the
moun’ain. These are covered completely up,
and will never be resurrected.
CHAPTER LXVUL—February 1850.
Is not ‘ Billie” rather a coarse substitute for
stately and euphonious William?
“Noona,” said I, “for the sake of good taste,
I am sorry I have dubbed the baby ‘Billie.’
It is but a corruption of a most excellent and
dignified name. Suppose it attaches to him
until he grows up, will it not be an embarrass
ment to him?”
“Yes,” she replied, playing with the laugh
ing child
“Shoudn’t ’tail it Billie. Should ’tall it Wil
liam.”
And we have tried and tried to do it,but with
out success. “Billie” the baby is called, and
‘'Billie” it will be to the end. Our baby is
“Billie,” and “Billie is our baby.
Call him William and he will no longer seem
to be our baby, or our “Billie.”
If from the beginning we had said William,
it would now be as difficult to exchange “Bil
lie” for William, as it is to substitute William
for “Billie.”
And this is one of the most singular and in
teresting results of habit.
Names which to strange and fastidious ears
seem coarse or in ill, taste, take on an inex
pressible sweetness by asssociation with a be
loved object.
CHAPTER LXV.
We have enjoyed royal welcome and enter
tainment since our arrival. Tbe Governor has
given a great feast in my honor, at which I
have met the mobt prominent men and women
of the city.
The curiosity of the people about me and the
Southern regions of the world is so great and
insatiable that there is only one way to gratify
it, and that is by public speaking. It is impos
aible to meet and talk personally with all.
I have delivered addresses at five different
public balls in ltamuna since I came, and I
could talk from day to day until entirely ex
hausted without wearying the people.
I have given out that I am not physically
able to speak any more daring this visit, and
in tbe I’olarian tongue am preparing a sketch
of the lectures I have delivered here.
A great many copies of it will be made at
the public expense and distributed amt ng the
public libraries.
CHAPTER LXVI.
We are about to set out on onr return to
Hiawana.
We part for the present from Noona and
Yuema, who return by Great Fall river as we
came. , .
Wona and myself will take a more laborious
^Since my arrival in this part of the kingdom
my imagination is constantly excited by the
thought that I am actually on an oppjsite side
CAAl’TER LXIX.-January 1857.
There is no compensation for mothers in this
life. Any one with half an eye for what passes
about him from day to day sees the fact to be
incontrovertible.
(>u tbe average there is no compensation in
this world for the sacrifice that mothers make
in the rearing of children.
What do they give up?
Freedom, health, beauty, youth, culture,
vaiiety. What do they gain? Wrinkles and
decrepitude.
No, I do not forget the pleasures derived
fr'tn conjugal companionship, nor the thous
and and otte deiights associated with the rear
ing of children, nor the loneliness of unmarried
life.
Nor do I forget the gratification of witness
ing the success of children when they become
men and women. I view the whole field, and
draw my conclusion from tbe condition of tbe
vast majority.
Straightened circumstances—tenant life—un
wholesome surroundings—sickness without
means of proper treatment or change of scene
or air, anxiety, night watching, death of chil
dren by disease or accident.
Do you say the old live their youth over
attain iu the young lives of their grand-chil-
rtreu? Yes, and stoop under the burden of a
second and larger family at a time of life when
no longer able to bear it.
B it do you suggest that the sons and daught
ers, for whom all sacrifices was made in their
childhood and youth, are the prop, and com
fort of the aged parents?
I ans *er, on the average, no; but an added
burthen rather.
If not an actual load, still on the average, no
comfort or assistance. For, having contracted
family ties, aid burdens and duties of their
own, they have little time or means to devote
to the lonely old people.
The universe must have been made for good,
and so excellent an atom of it as woman sure
ly does not exist and suffer in vain.
But find, oh Philosopher, Priest, Godl—a
resting place for our mothers in a future life,
or admit with me that her pilgrimage in this
“vale of tears” is worse than failure I
CHAPTER LXX.—Atril 1858.
I think no one can derive greater enjoyment
from books than I do. At times my appetite
for reading is so keen I sit down to a congenial
volume with all the zeal of a famished man at
a feast. I love to read without interruption,
and in quiet. It is delicious to take in at leis
ure the Udb ideas of a good writer.
This train of thought is suggested to my
mind by the fact that I am no longer to enjoy
that complete immunity from interruption
which a student needs.
Billie is irrepressible. When I slip into my
study and close tbe door, I hear him going
lrom room to room asking, “ware ’e papa?”
Shah;' South Semin-.* ry.
i >ur city is fast taking the lead of Southern
towns in the noble cause of education. Tbe
appreciation shown by our people for a worthy
seminary of learning is remarkable.
The Sunny South Female Seminary, of only
one year’s growth, has increased to gigantic
proportions, and, with a faculty composed of
talent picked from the leading educators of the
South, it offers the very best advantages to be
found by students at any school in the land.
Its hitherto success, however, is but an intro
duction to what we predict for it now.—Atlanta
Evening Journal.
Away Out West.
There is something decidedly unique mafic
civilization of Idaho. In the classic tfmn
known as Beef Gap a gentleman commonly
called "Onion Bill” was recently electel Mar
shal, whereupon he betaine “Chief Birdell”.
On assuming the responsibilities of his position
he issued a circular from which we cull a few
choice items: —
On and after this date there will bo in this
town—
No more compelling people to drink when
they don’t feel like it.
No more shooting of plug hats.
No more drinking of whiskey out of bottles
when the bars are open.
No tit we noisy deviltry.
Any man riding or driving a horse into a
public bar will be shot.
Any. man raking down the pot at poker with
out the cards to hack it up with will be shot
dead.
It is the determination of the new adminis
tration to usher in an era of reform, and all
good citizeus will a-ray themselves oil the side
of the law. All othets will be turned over to
Corouer.
The comparative ethics which the chief in
sists upon are striking. The man who drives
a horse into a barroom will simply be shot; but
tbe wretch who rakes down the pot under un
fair circumstances will not only be shot, but
shot dead. Beef Gap has fouud a master at
last.
How Pale You Are!
is frequently the exclamation of one lady to
another. The fact is not a pleasant one to
have mention, but still the act may be a kindly
one, for it sets the one addressed to thiuking,
apprises her of the fact that she is not iu g >od
health, and leads her to seek a reason there lor.
Bailor is almost always attendant upon the
firs s'ages of consumption. The system is
enfeebled, and the blood is impoverished Dr.
Fierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery” will act
as a onic upon tbe system, will enrich the im
poverished blood, and restore rogeB to the
cheek. ^
The Influence of Liquor.
Lake Linden, Micii, August 18—James
Smith, while under the influence of Liquor,
four weeks ago, married a woman of the town.
As soon as he came to himself he septrated
from the woman. The act weighed heavily up
on him, however, and yesterday he blew out
bis brains. Smith was a prominent figure in
social circles and was accounted a prosperous
busi ness mau.
One Day Note.
Judge Fox has obtained an attachment
against the property of John Hey, of Philadel
phia, in a suit to recover $50,000. the amount
of a one day note made on the 0th inst.
Physician—“You do not need medicine at
all. Take plenty of exercise and a mild tonic
—say a bottle of claret everv day.” Patient
(in alarm)—“Oh, no, I can’t do that.” “H’m.
Temperance man?” “Oh, no! But the fact is,
I was in the wine business myself once, and I
know how it is made.”
CHAT.
Now, Free Lance, this is not a first day in
August experience, but another; and with
memory’s help I will tell how that day was
passed.
“Get out of this s uffy room, put on your
togs and let’s go and make a day of it!”
This rather masculine salutatory, uttered by
tbe daintiest of feminine lip-*, greeted me as
tbe speaker threw wide my room door, gazed
upon me in the sternest fasbicu and hurriedly
retreated, leaving me to follow.
Srwe departed tbe “castle’’ grounds with
the fixed purpose of making a day of it before
we returned.
First to the halls of Georgia’s solons, where
we listened to a speech of vituperation, sarcas
tic humor and cuttiDg satire heaped upon the
head of the “dew-drop from Sumter.”
It was a day of impassioned oratory. Par-
liamentary rules were forgotten, and the
speaker (Dr. Felton) swayed the vast throng
about him as he willed.
We afterward heard the reply of the member
attacked. Again excitement ran high, for
both these Legislators are masters in the art of
eloquent oratory. Public sentiment was about
equally divided, and when the Quitman mem
ber atose to propose pea<ja my companion and
I were confused in our ideas as to which
speaker was it tbe right.
This war of words arose from the debate of
the prison reform bill now pending in the Leg
islature, and for a while the real object of the
discussion was forgotten in this personal con
troversy. So we departed those historical
chambers and with the crowd joined in the
sentiment of tha member from Quitman, “Let
there be peace.”
Then to the public library we went. In the
coolest, most delightful rnnru imaginable, time
flew with magic swiftness while we drank at
the fountain of knowledge, dipped into the
thoughts of some grand poet, reviewed the
lives of great people long since passed into the
pages of history, or gleaned the latest and best
news from leading exchanges. Afterward we
took a turn through the portrait gallery of this
institution, and from massive frames the pic
tured forms of illustrious Georgians seemed
ready to step down to us.
From the library we wended our way to a
quaint little restaurant,' and sat down to a
lunch served in foreign fashion and by a for
eign maid. For a petite hit, so our trim
waitress informed us, we could have a room
where the noise and whirl of the outer world
could not intrude upon the mamselles, and
there we could smoke the cigarelts—very best
quality. This cordial invitation extended in a
naive way, we declined; instead of a quiet
room and cigarettes, we boarded a street-car
going to the l’iedfciort Exposition grounds.
we foiled working busily-
preparing the groumf/and erecting the main
buildings that seem to rise into view as by an
enchanted wand.
You have read of this Exposition to be given
in October, and of tne holiday attire that At
lanta will don while the Piedmont fair » being
held.
“How splendid it would be could the House
hold members have a re-union then; they
could meet in person, and do the Exposition,
get lot’s of good looks at the President, be
come thoi oughly acquainted with this metro
politan city, make small excursions, have real
Household meetings, and lastly—a grand re-
cep ion, all their own, to top it off.”
These pretty thoughts indulged in by my
companion—will they prove suggestive to the
members?.
Mother Hubbard.
| sweet compassion that bends to the face of
Paul, half hidden by tbe flowing beauty of her
hi ir, make a pathetic scene, and one that was
congenial to my mood on August 1st.
How many artists in the Sunny South
Household? I am anxius to know, as there is
always such an honest, earnest good-fellow-
sl in among members of that profession
I lay my devotion at t he feet of our beauti
ful, charming, bonny, Sunny Si Min contribu
tors, but shall never venture ag tiu to call any
one of them “my darlingl”
Shake bands. Mother Hubbard, with your
stalwart soil. Nbd Lee King.
Literary Curios No. 4.—Woman.
Each line is a quotation from separate stand
ard authors of England and America, and is
tbe result of diligent research among the ex
tensive and varied writings of thirty leading
poets, as will be seen Dy the author's note of
reference:
1 Woman! blest partner of our joys and woes!
2 Blessing and blest wherever she goes.
3 Eager to hope, but not less firm to bear;
4 O born to Boothe distress and lighten care
5 Profound as reason and as justice dear;
ti Yet suffering vice compels her tear.
7 Meekly to bear with wrong and cheer decay,
8 And wipe the mourner’s bitter tear away.
it li woman! woman! thou art form'd to bless!
10 For woman is all trutd aud steadfastness.
11 Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet.
12 Each softest, truest virtue there should
meet.
13 Women were made to give our eyes delight,
14 So fond and true, so beautiful and bright.
15 Ye watchful sprite that made e’en man
your care,
16 You are not free because you’re more than
fair.
17 Ob, man! how sublime,—from Heaven his
birth,
18 And you of man was made, man but of
earth.
10 Gay smiles to comfort; April showers to
move;
20 Tbe important business of your life is love;
21 Here woman reigns; tbe mother, daughter,
wife,—
22 The loved and cherished idol of my life.
23 There is something in their hearts which
passes speech,
24 There is a charm no vulgar mind can reach;
25 A rosebud set with a little wilful thorn,
20 Still shall your charms my fondest themes
adorn;
27 Sacred by birth and built by hands divine,
28 Pure aud unspotted as th’ ermine;
20 Her worth, her warmth, of heart let friend-
snip say,—
30 All my fortunes at thy feet I’ll lay.
1 Sand; 2 Cow per; 3. Byron; 4. Mrs.
Barbauld; 5. Savage; 0 Crabbe; 7. Mrs.
Heroans; 8. J. Grahatne; 0. J. Bird; 10. Chau
cer; 11. Milton; 12 Jonsoo; 13. IToung; 14.
Patterson; 15 T. Brown; 10 Etherege; 17. Bul-
wer; 18. Randolph; 10 Parnell; 20. Littleton;
21. Montgomery; 22 Prentice; 23. Story; 24.
W. Allison; 25. Tennyson; 20 Hilihouse; 27.
loryden; 28. Davenant; 20. Scott; 30. Shaa-
speare. C. Wells Moulton.
Buffalo, N. Y., November, 1881.
Thoughts Upon Will-Power, the Phi
losophy of History, Etc.
Through the ages, one increasing purpose runs
And the thoughts of man are widened with the
p.'ocesa O* the suits.
and will be ready and obedient to do every
thing which must and shall be done sod have
no question or desire but to satisfy the Eternal
Will
Man will then recognize the utter “nothing
ness of eelf,” and the least thin£flM* not hap
pen except as Ged Wills itt Learns the powe*
of choosing between good and evil is all that
places him above the levehof beasts, learns
therefore his soul is immortal and that there is
no will but God’s will, and breathes his pray
er, “Thy will be done."
“Through every moment up the track of
time Hia parent hand guides us,” so that in
their stations all may persevere to climb the
ascent of being and approach forever the life
divine. Then is there any will on earth but
Gods will?
Cornflower I have never been guilty of a
flirtation in my life. Can’t I speak to Pansy
without it being said we are flirting? Should
vou both become better acquainted with me
(and I hope so) you Would never accuse me of
flirting.
Ma Belie Carmen, since Give Away has so
kindly introduced us, I hope that we also may
become friends.
With best wishes and much love (brotherly
of course) to Mother II, and her numerous
Household I’ll say good bye.
Hemlock.
Praises of Hilton, Continued.
Bear Mother Hubbard: As all seem to be
agitated over Milton and are giving their opin
ion. I cannot be silent. For who would uot
wax into eloquence over such a theme!
Whose pen would not trace words of highest
estee<- incerning him? I may truly say there
are f <*.
H i gr: characters, his noble theme, he did
ample ju fice, and by his soul-inspiring, awe
giving words he raises our minds to the sub
l'tne. His pictured scenes appear before us in
all thei'grandeur and came us to almost cry
out at their vividness. His character I never
admired; he was too strict, too stern with his
wife and family; but of course all of this is for
gotten when we are perusing the product of
his genius—a genius he undoubtedly was, it
gleams forth from every page, every line, nay,
every word, so aptly suited to his description.
Hia L’Allegro and II Penseraso, are simply
superb. No ope word could be altered without
spoiling the beauty.
Poor and blind, Milton toiled on, soared
aloft on eagle’s wings and left the lesser poets
far, far below. -Vo one can ever equal, much'
less excel tbe great bard. He had a kingdom
all bis own and ruled it right royally. He has
strewn gems of sparkling beauty and great
stars of living light, that will never cease to
shed their rays abroad as long as time shall
last.
The reading of his great writings must be
alternated with those ot lighter vein or else the
mind will tire of being so elevated.
His name is as "an imperishable leaf on the
evergreen tree of existence,” and will float
down the corridors of time, followed by the
love and admiration of thousands.
Ah! Ma Belle Carmen, I recognize you as
one of my dearest friends, though under a new
nom.
Will yo tr sorrows never cease? Look up;
press onward aud upward, and in the not far
distant future the sun will flash forth in all its
brightness, and to your darK clouds you’ll find
the silver lining.
Thanks, Veritas, Musa Dunn and Muda
Hetnur, for ynur sweet w irds of welcome.
They fell upon my eager heart like drops of
dew upon the thirsty flowers.
-Mother Hubbard, won’t yon welcome me?
The sun is slow y sinking to rest behind the
western hills, and with its last beam disap
pears Goldie Ashburn.
Rusk, Tex.
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My Experience on First of August—
Picture of Florence Dombey
and Little Paul.
Bear Mother Hubbard: This is my first visit
to the Household, tlijugh I have often wislud
to join tbe mem bets in iheir social intercourse.
1 present myself, and if you will introduce me
I shall feel highly honored indeed, and, like
Dickens’ uncommercial traveler, shall look
about me aud try to see all aud even score than
was meant for my eyes.
It is with pleasure that I comply with the
suggestion mado by Free Lance iu regard to
August 1st.
“Honest confessions are good for the soul;”
so I confess I am desperately in love wiih one
of the Sunny South contributors (ah! but I
shall not tell you which one), with whom I
have been corresponding for some time, al
though we have never met save in spirit How
fortunate I have been in that I found favi r in
her sight, for her letters are gl -riotis! God
bless our sunny, Southeru sweethearts! But
alas for the fatefui first of August! A letter
was due m« from her that day, and it came
Such a different letter to what I expected!
The sweet, poetic language, the easy flow of
graceful, earnest sentiments were chilled and
Irozen. She was angry, indignant with me. I
had overs epped the proprieties. I had called
her “daninK” (how coutd I help it when i loved
her so?), and she has cut my acquaintance.
Who pities me? My heart throbbed with pain
and grief and I felt miserable; aud the day was
one of my few holidays, too, tor the dreadfu'
hot season. I have so few to love me that I
bad built fair castles about my charming au
thoress, but they toppled and fell into r lins
beneath the wilting bul of the August day
What is learning, accomplishment, riches,
when the heart is empty? Noth ng to a 1 iving
nature hut dead sea fruit—veritable “apples of
Sodom.”
Sad and discouraged, I rushed off to the
pretty home of my good aunt ('he only mother
I ever knew), and locked myself into the quaint
li tie studio she has fitted up for me. I looked
despairingly around at the pic ures I had
painted as if they were sentient beings who
could give me tbe sympathy I craved Well,
I au thoroughly disgusted with the word
“darling ” Tne rest of the world of femaie
women may be content, I shall not use it
again. No. I am resolved that no wiles, or
smiles, witcheries of pen or person shall be
guile me into the use of that awful word. I
am young yet, but I am learning Oh! br.rthers
of the Household, if yon know what will please
a woman tell me, I pray.
Well, I spent the day in hard work on an
ideal picture I am making of Florence Dom
bey and little Paul. I h» ve choaen for my
picture, the night when Paul refused to he car
ried to bed by Wickam, and would have Flor
ence to come for him. The following para
graph I am straggling to give life on my esn-
V *“ After they had left the room Dombey
thought he heard a soft voice singing, and re
membering that Paul had said his sister sung
to him, Dombey had the curiosity to open the
door and listen, and look after them. She was
toiling np the great, wide, vacant staircase, with
Paul in her arms; his head was lying on her
shoulder, one of his arms was thrown negligently
round her neck.” . . . ,
The dim light and sombre shadows; the slen
der, graceful, weary girlish figure, the tender
heavenly face of dear Florence, fu’.l of love’s
A Sunday morning, hnshetl and still, but for
the pealing of the church bells, calling to wor
ship all souls devout and true. The sun seems
to shine softer, the bird notes seem more sub
dued. The very cows, standing beneath the
shade in a tiny trickling stream, winding in
and out, among t ills and trees, past farms and
“thorps” singing its “Men may come and
men may go.” A tiny boat floating lazily by
the shore, its fair occupant unconscious of the
persistent “nibbles,” her gaze far away, into
dreamland perhaps, in delicious seclusion sits
Mother II , fishing on Sunday! A delightful
picture, but oh! what a wicked one! And she
asks, if I ever studied the philosophy oi his
tory, etc. I have not, ai.d have never thought
upon l he subject till now, aud I find the con
clusions mix themselves
Looking down tbe trsck of time and viewing
a few epochs of history, I would say: History
is but the record of na ions, which, in turn, is
ihe record of the great men of those nations,
their ambitions schemes, accomplishments,
fai ures, their destiny.
Through the ages from Alexander’s trium
phal conquest of the Asiatic and African coun
tries bordering the Medterrauean, or Ciesar’s
coi.qu»K of the Gauls, bringing the wild brr
barism of Western Europe, beneath the sub
jection of the Roman Government, or “Colum
bus’ Voyage of Discovery,” the hasty meteor
like flash of Bonaparte breaking up the old
system of S ates in Europe, the Declara ion of
Independence, and the young colonies throw
ing off the yoke of the British Government, all
forming ‘ acts in one grand Providential drama,
one thread of progress, binding nation to na
tion.” Through all this I see “one increasing
purpose,’’ that of freedom, or of self govern
ment which is but the struggling of self-will
(in individual man), for the mastery.
“I would contend for liberty, f ir it signifies
that power in man to do as he wills."
You no donbs would have me say, that
there’s a difference iu men and that difference
is willpower, and all one has to do is but to
concentrate one’s energies to the accomplish
ment of one’s ends, then victory or death till
it is accomplished. If, then, by mere use of
will-power men attain their ends, then why is
not the w irld full of great men, for have not
all m-n ambition?
Then why are not all men Alexanders, Na
poleons, Washingtons, Goulds, Henry Clay’s,
etc., when mere exercise of will power will
make them such?
I believe that circumstances have a great
deal to do in formation of will and that cir
cumstances make the man, provided of course,
he is willing to make the most of them as iu
i he parable of the ten talents And that God
creates these circumstances for certain men
whom he designs as special instruments, for
he working of bis own E.ernal Will.
“We are but puppets,man in his pride,beauty
fair in her flower.
“Do we more oureelves, or, are moved by a
band unseen in a came.
“That pushes off from the board and others
ever succeed?”
“for tho drift of the Maker is dark, and Isis
hid bv tbe veil.
“Who knows the ways of the wor.i how
God will bring them about?”
Another says upon the same subject:
“Do not forget, that what we call circum
stances, fate, relations in life is, in reality,
only the work of Providence. To resist this,
is to resist Ged himself. Men wander upon
earth as the stars in heaven, Gnd has indicated
tie paths upon which they must meet, and if
they are to separate, they must Resistance
were useless, otherwise it would destroy the
whole system of the world.”
Let us take two children in their infancy,
give one no attention whatever, let him learn
from within himself, (as among the children of
extreme poverty) the use of bis powers. He
develop* very slowly, is ignorant, prejudiced,
hia will governed by that most dangerous of
all mentors, the feelings, which are generally
low desires, base appetites frenzied passions,
etc. Should a friend undertake to arrest his
downward career, he refuses to listen to any
reason and insists in destroying his own hap
piness. For snch men laws are made and
government necessary. Take another, guard
him carefully through infancy, educate him in
the use of all his faculties, shield him as he ad
vances iu years from evil associates, educate him
to the highest point, yon thereby raise him
higher and higher above vice and crime and
place him at that point nearest the divine at
tainable on earth. For he will reci gnize all
his powers, know between right and wrong
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I fim a wood carver by trade and ft is
out of my line to write letters; but my
wife thought it was no more tlmn right
that I should let you know what your
remedy has done for me, and I think
SO too.
I live in East 1.57th street, west of
Third avenue, and have Jived therefor
about twenty-three years, where I own
real estate. Up to the time I am about
to mention I had been a strong, well
mau. There was always more or less
maiaria iu tin* neighborhood, hut I had
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in 1880 I had my first attack. It came
on as such attacks commonly do, with
headaches, loss of appetite and ambi
tion, chilly sensations with slight fever
atierwards, a disposition to yawn and
stretch, and so forth. I was employed
at that time at Killians & Brothers,
furniture manufacturers, in West 32d
street. I imped the attack would wear
off, hut as it didn’t I consulted a well-
known and able physioian in Morris-
ania, who gave me q inineand told me
what to do. I ean siimupthe first four
and a half or five years of my experi
ence in few words. Occasionally I
d up for a day or two, but on
>!«• I stuck to my work. 1 kept
tpiinmc, in larger doses from
year, and kept on get ting weak-
•vorse, slowly but surely, all the
time. M\ trouble was now well de
fined and its symptoms were steady and
regular. I had dumb ague in its worst
form, and it was grinding me down in
spite of ail that I could do or the doc
tors could do. It held me in a grip like
fire in a burning eonl mine. The poison
had gone all through aud over me and
nothing was able to touch it. I was
fast losing flesh and strength, and about
March, l.WS j, / knocked off work entire
ly and went home to be down sick, am!
to die for all I could tell. I ran down so
rapidly that I soon became unable to
walk any distance. Later 1 went from
room to room in my own house only by
friends Imldiiignie up by each arm. The
doses of ipiiiiiue were increased until /
often too/.- thirty grains at a dose. The
effects of this tremendous stimulation
was to make me nearly wild. It broke
my sleep all up, and I often walked tbe
floor, or staggered about it, all night
long, scarcely able to bear any noises
or even human speech. My temper
was extremely irritable. As to food,
one (if my little children would eat
more in a meal than I could in a day.
1 would order food and then turn from
it in disgust. I lived on quinine and
other stimulants and on myself, like a
bear in winter. The quinine set my
head in a whirl, and the liquor—given
as a medicine -made my stomach so
si**k I could not tolerate it.
From 175 pounds (my proper weight)
I ran down to ‘J7 pounds—the weight
of a light girl—and was scarcely better
than a skeleton.
If anybody had taken a hatchet and
knorkea no thorn and killed me I should
hare hnn be'terof.
During the latter part of this period,
early in 1886, my physician said:
“ Miller, there's no use in my taking
any more money of you, I can't do you
m!iv good. I might pour pounds of qui-
nini’ down your throat and it wouldn't
help you.”
()n the strength of this I gave up the
use of quinine altogether, and made up
my mind to do nothing more and take
my chances.
Three weeks afterwards—about the
last of May—my wife <aw an advertise
ment of Ivaskine in a New York paper.
Mic told me of it 1 said: “Stuff and
nonsense! it can't do me any good.”
But she went to a druggist’s, neverthe
less, to get it. The druggist advised
her against Kaskine: he said it was
nothing but sugar; that she ought not
to throw away her money on it., &c.
He said he didn't keep it, hut could get
it if she insisted on having it. Turn
ing away in disgust my wife spoke to
our neighbor, Mr. A. (7. Hcgewald,
who got her a bottle at a drug store in
Sixth avenue.
Almost against my will, and without
the least faith, I began taking it. In
one week I was better. I began to
sleep. I stopped “ seeing ghosts.” I
began to have an appetite and to gain
strength. This was now the first of
June. 1886. and by the end of that
month I was back at my bench at C. P.
Smith's scroll sawing factory in 116th
street, where I work now.
Since then 1 have never lost a day
from sickness. Taking Kaskine only,
abe.it forty pellets in four equal doses
a day, I continued to gain. The ma
laria appeared to he killed in my sys
tem, and now I've got back my old
weight -175 pounds—and my old
strength to labor. I am an astonish
ment to m\-eif and to my friends, and
i! K iskiiie did not do this L don't know
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:r< k A. Miller.
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