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4 THE SUNNY 80UTH, ATLANTA, GA.. SATURDAY MORNING. AUGUST 27, 1887 rVBUBBEV EVKBY SATURDAY. BUSINESS OFFICE 21 MARIETTA ST. lb. cwtob. Terms: Ananm. On, dollar for Si* Mootkl. Advertising i Mat. par Uu 8mnt*-Sn cell p« Inch. y VVV VVVVVt\V\AW""'VV' V ''VVWV v VVVWWt «l>ottkl alwmn gir* the ngn*** Urn portoffloe to which their papara ar* moI. Banoas Mm and iimoaxmcim are apt to follow m mMnmrc of Ilk rain. Amaes thooaand. of eobacnbara »t i» IMooIt to find t particular name without 0 oortoin I ■■ .loWr T l—*'•*'— ■*»"■ . . ofisr.’Sre tEnfinTsi s agnto. and nun* both oW<w. TO OOHTKIBUTOBS. ITHte <u ptakdv o, poaatM* on on, *«* <Y the fcmer.aarf «»« papercf medium might. Donat roll your MSS. Hold thorn flatly: a rolled pagaia trmsblosomc both to Trader and printer. Letter oiot paper it meet preferred. It it veil to write the name ^ the MSS. at the top Of each page; the pagee theeld be eartefoilv numbered according to their regular tegumce. The writer’s real name and roo- idosseo should be written on the MSS., oeletten ore oometlmeemiepioced. » a nom de plume it need, it Mould be written directly under the title. It mud ae dietinctly Hated whether pay it expected for MBS. tent In. We cannot return MSS., nor be responsible for them when tent In voluntarily, unlew specially re- gueeted to do to and In such cases stamps mutt be The writer should always keep a copy- Sqa. Our Grand Distribution of Presents. Read over the Extraordinary Announcement on this page, and get your name in the box at once. It is a rare opportunity. AddraM ,11 letters ooocernin* the |*I« end mate mU bill, liable to H _ BBA ut & CO., Atlanta. Wj. Thanks. We gratefully acknowledge our obligations to friends for sending us some pieces of poetry —‘‘Burial of Moses,' 1 “Rock Me to Sleep, Mother,” etc., and some other old publications. Such favors are highly appreciated by our readers and by ourselves. The Result in Kentucky. A dispatch from Frankfort dated the ltlth, informs us that complete returns from all the counties in the state have bten received at the office of the secretary of Btate, showing the fol lowing result: Buckner, 114,010; Bradley, 127,604, Fox, 8,400; Carden, 4,487. The ma jority of Buckner over Bradly is 17,015. Tort u gas Island. Commander Ullman, a retired Hungarian army officer, recently relieved the Ilaytian government in a monetary emergency, by ad- vauncing funds, for which he obtained a lien on the above island. He desires to transfer his claim to the United States government on terms of unusual liberality; and believes it necessary to our government on account of intermediary situation as regards the I’anama Canal, and our general interest the waters of the Gulf and all highways of intercourse be tween the two great oceans. It strikes us as a matter in which the United States has no little interest. An Indian Alliance. Dispatches of the 18th inst., state that the White river Ute Indians are said to have sent lunners to the Uncompabgre camp, Blackfeet, Sioux, Crow, and other tribes in Colorado, Wyoming and the mountains of Montana and Idaho for aid. Colorow has determined, it is said, to have other tribes brought into the pres ent difficulty, and while the outbreak has been local so far, he wants to make it a national one. A Denver dispatch to the New York Ilcrahl says that Colorow is in the mountains north of Meeker, where there are four hundred women and children, unprotected, awaiting the arrival of fifty or sever.ty-five bucks from the agency who are on the way to join him. Our Railway Enterprises. Chattanooga, Tenn., dispatches of the 17ih instar t give the gratifying intelligence that at 10 o’clcck that morning Mayor Sharp lifted the lirst shovel ful of dirt on the Chattanooga, Rome & Columbus railway, in the presence of one thousand interested and enthusiastic citi zens. God speed the good work, say we. The news from Columbus, Ga., dated the 18th, is, that the Georgia Midland will be fin ished in ten days, when Mr. G. Gunby .Iordan, who has been engaged on that line, will give his attention to the Columbus Southern, which he confidently believes can and will be built within twelve months—certainly in time for the cotton crop of 1888. Dispatches of the same date, from Augusta, Ga., state that an Augusta Construction Com- pany has been organised—of which Janies P. Verdeiy, Patrick Walsh, and Congressman George T. Barnes, of Augusta; A. I). Candler, of Gainesville, Ga.; and W. 15. Lowe and J. W. English, of Atlanta, are members—which, heartily co-operated with and substantially aided by Northern contractors, will at once undertake tte building of the Augusta a Chat tanooga railway. The almost unanimous vote at Knoxville, Tenn., a few days ago, settles the fact of a new, and possibly shorter rail way connection Via Murphy, N. C., with Atlanta, southward- ly, and with Cincinnati, northwardly; while the action had there a short time before settled the fact of a new and shorter and very impor- portant railway connection with Memphis, aouth-westwardly. Charleston, S. C., and Augusta arc pushing forward through the Carolinas for shorter lines with Cincinnati and Chicago, greatly to the advantage of the great mountain region to be penetrated and traversed. The result of these enterprises, and one or more from Norfolk, Va., in opening up, and developing Eastern Kentucky—a sparsely pop ulated and comparative^ unknown region, whose resources, judging from those of con tiguous territory in other States of similar geo logical stricture and topographical conforma tion must be varied and enormously valuable —it is impossible to estimate. Besides these, there are other lines even within territory covered by these, and fur ther South and West, of equal importance, which want of time and space preclude our speaking of now. Railway construction in the South is at pres ent more extended and active than at any pre vious period in its history. The prolitable re sults to capital, sure to follow, will stimulate additional investments, while the development of our resources, and the consequent enrich ment of this section, will impart wonderful power and push to the South, and make us e iger for the infiow. The payment of rnatu 1 ,g bonds,.and the prepayment of interest by the government, will enable the North, already financially plethoric, to prevent threatened fatal monetary congestion, by diverting the current of circulation southward through our coal and gold vein openings. Putting together the general activity in rail way building (especially in the South), the present and prospective plentifulness of money, and the almost unprecedentedly favorable re porli in regard to the growing crops, we can not but. regard the outlook for the whole coun try as uncommonly good—for the South phe- nominaliy so. More Such Judges Wanted. When Judge Barrett, of New York, was about to pass sentence on the great boodler, Jacob Sharp, he was appealed to to be as lenient as possible, on account of the criminal’s age. In passing sentence Judge Barrett said: “What is there to excite pity or mercy except the age and ill health of the prisoner and the mourning condition of his family. With over $1,000,000 in his pocket he clamors for mercy without offering to pay back a penny of the money stolen, so that should he die in prison his family has a vast fortune to fall back upon.” Inter-State Farmer’s Convention. This Important assemblage convened in De- Give’s Opera House, Atlanta, on Tuesday, the Kith, at ten o'clock, a. m. The attendance was full, and ten States were represented. The Convention was called to order by Hon. J. T. Henderson, Commissioner of Agriculture for Georgia, when addresses of welcome were made by Gov. Gordon, II. W. Grady and Mayor Cooper, and a committee on organization ap pointed. At the afternoon session the Committee re ported recommending the following: For President, J. S. Newman, Alabama; for Vice-President, D. E. Barker, of Aikansas, at large; B. F. Kolb, Alabama; L. T. heathers ton, Arkansas; G. R. Fairbanks, Florida; W. J. Northen, Georgia; G. G. Zener, Louisiana; Alex. Mclver, North Carolina; D. M. Bussell, Mississippi; Walter Gregory, Tennessee; E. R. Mclver, South Carolina; B. J. Kendrick, Texas. Secretary, W. S. D. Wolf; assistant Secretary, S. W. Postell. • President J. S. Newman delivered a line ad dress on taking the chair. At night L. L. Polk, delegate, and editor of the Raleigh (N. C.) Progressive Farmer, deliv ered an excellent address at the Opera House. On Wednesday additional delegates arrived, also representatives from the Georgia State Ag ricultural Society. A committee on Demands and Resolutions was appointed, consisting of one from each State. Thursday was mostly cccupied in reading essays. The Committee on Rules reported in favor of a permanent organization. Raleigh, N. C., was chosen for the next meeting place In the afternoon the Convention visited the Piedmont Exposition grounds, and at night Gov. Gordon held an informal reception. The Volunteer and the Thistle. The two great competitors in the coming contest for the possession of what is known as “America’s Cup”—for the championship of the world as to sailing speed on the ocean— aid, incidentally, to illustrate and demonstrate superiority in nautical architecture—are now in port, ready for the race. The Scotch-built “Thistle,” designed by Mr. G. C. Watson, and built under his immediate supervision, which comes as the chosen repre sentative of British skill in nautical qrchitec ture and navigation, arrived in New York on the Kith instant, in excellent trim. Trials of speed inspire her backers and owner with the hope of winning, and carrying the envied his torical “Cup” back to England. The American-built “Volunteer,” designed by Mr. Burgess ami built under his supervis* ion, will represent American constructive skill and navigation. She has beaten all comers in all contests, including the last winning boat, and American yachtmen feel confident of re taining the “Cup.” Undoubtedly the two vessels are a credit to designer? and builders, who have reason to be proud of what has been achieved. They are competitors worthy of each other; it will be a race in which even the loser will have no occa sion for regret. The race will be looked for ward to with unusual interest; and when it comes oil will be more intensely absorbing than even a Presidential race. A Woman’s Institution. That a woman’s wit is better than a man’s wisdom has been often asserted; but the apoth egm was never more pleasantly illustrated than by Mrs. <lliphant in her story, Lucy Crof- ton. A young lady of this name left destitute Ly the (it at.h of her father, is rccieved into the home of a childless uncle and aunt. They find her beautiful, intelligent, accomplished, with a quiet dignity that forbids a display of timidity or of passion. She is in fact a model of pro priety, always doing and saying the right thing. The uncle takes her for excactly what she seuns and is charmed with her deportment, and begins to plan for her to become the wife of his heir. To her aunt, however, she is not so entirely acceptable. At the very lirst meeting the air of seif-repression which the young gill exhibits awakens the suspicion in the mind of tkeoider wotan that there is something which she is determined to conceal. This suspicion becomes strengthened almost daily by some little circumstance which wholly escapes the uncle’s eye. lie goes on believing his niece a paragon while his wife becomes more and more convinced that she is plaj ing a part. Af ter a time, her suspicions are full}- confirmed, Miss Lucy is caught in a clandestine corres pondence with a lover, in whose company she shortly after disappears. And the regret of the aunt is not nearly so great as her pleas ure in being able to say, “Ah! 1 told you so.” This young man who has been inamored by this quit tly artful girl does not betray her, and the curtain drops upon her a happy wife with the near prospect of the full control of her fa ther-in-law. It is a fine study as well as a fine story and is told in Mib Olipbants best style. No volume of the Handy Scries issue deserves to be more warmly received. * * Vr hence Came Life Into the World ? Some years ago a paper was read before body of scientific men in which the writer gravely advanced the theory that the germs of vegetable and animal life had been brought to our planet by the meteoric fragments which have from time to time impinged upon its sur face. Of course this is the wildest of specu lation and as such is entitled to no attention. It serves to show, however, what absurd no tions men who are learned and wish to be thought wise, will adopt rather than accept the plain Biblical fact that God created the earth and all the living things that exist upon it. To believe this is not half so great a tax upon the faith as to believe that germs of plants and animals were brought hither by the fiery rains of collidiag spheres. To admit this latter is to give to the barely possible the rank of the probable. But even were this known to have been the order of procedure, it would not in the least account for the origin of life. It would still be left to explain how there came to be organized matter upon those planets which are rather boldly supposed to have broken up and sent some of thiir debris hitherward. Just ss easy is it to suppose that our earth is the first abode of life. We know there are organisms here;—we can only con jecture their existence elsewhere. That there are sentient beings otherwhere than on our globe is far from being a well established fact. It is fairly well proved that many millions of years were required to prepare our planet for the abode of man. May it not be that not an other one in the whole universe has yet reach ed the life-bearing Btage? Surely this is as probable as that someone while teeming with life should have been knocked to pieces and its fragments scattered in diverge directions, each leaving the germs from which were to come the fauna and flor^ of other worlds. We remember bearing when a child an eld negro chant some verses in which it was related how all the gourds in the world had sprung from one single seed. This seed when planted, germinated, grew into a vine which produced one gourd. When this was severed from the stem by a boy, it chased him a long distance, and finally striking against a rock, bursted and scattered its seed all over the face of the earth. Assuredly this story is in no wise more fanciful than this theory which a learned sci entist advanced in regard to the origin of life upon our globe. Of course God could have done the thing just as this speculatist has sup posed—and it may be He did. But it is easier to believe that He did it some other way. Colonial Ballads, Sonnets, and Other Verse. MUM OP MY EVENTIDE. BY REV. A. A. LIPSCOMB. D. O. FORTY.flFTH PAPER. I. It Pays to be a Gentleman. We of the Twin-Stars listened lately to a talk from a distinguished orator to some school boys and girls and some of his remarks were so pertinent that we cannot forbear quoting them. To the boys he said: “Let me impress upon you boys, every one of you, that it pays to be a gentleman. I do not mean a gentle man in the conventional sense. To be that,you have only to do no work, wear fine clothes, keep dainty fingers that are neversuljected to any severer task than twirling a feeble mus tache, and affect an utter ignorance of whatev er is practical. I hardly think it pays to be a gentleman after this style. The creature evolved by the above named arts, is the very opposite of a gentleman; for he is a mere bun dle of selfishness, and the first clement of the true gentleman is an efficement of self, in re gard for others. Remember, boys, if you cul tivate your heart into a tender care for other people’s rights and feelings, you will have no need of a Turveydrop to teach you deportment. The observance of the rule, “do unto others as you would that they should do unto you,” will make you gentlemen in the true accepta tion of that leirn—and nothing else will. And let me urge you to bear it in mind that you must be gentlemen if you hope for a career rightly anccesKful 1 need not tpj] you tbal- a great many men win money, and some occupy large places in the world, who li re for self, and care little whom they trample down in their schemes for gain. If to be rich and powerful fills the conception of success, these arc suc cessful. But tube selfishly great, is lo be both badly great and greatly bad, and assuredly you would not set before your ambition no such an end. The acquirement of wealth at the ex pense of cut! ing yourself c IT from human sym pathy and love is a fearfully hard bargain. It is iq fact a selling of the soul for worldly gain which the great Teacher characterizes as the sum of folly. But when you are lifted to wealth, position and power because of your exhibition of true gentlemanly graces, the ele vation bespeaks your advancement in the no bility of manhood. * * This new volume by Mrs. Margaret I. Png- ton comes to the reading public without pre hoe or introduc ion, and modestly leaves the loven of fine literature to ascertain ita rare merita for themselves without any anticipa- pative help from author or publishers. A few foot-notes are interpersed through the work > just enough for explanation, and these are mainly in connection with the Colonial Ballads and historical poems, in which, local and nat ional allusions are necessary to understand the bodily framework of the incidents so graphi cally narrated. The pleasure of a charming book is enhanced when thus left to make itself known to your unhelped appreciation and one feels a joy akin to that of an artistic tourist, who suddenly and unawares discovers a hid den solitude of beauty, a nook or dell, a bit of most inviting landscape not registered in his expectations. Without these agreeable sur prises, life would be a bum-drum affair; and I doubt not that the books which make upon us the best impression, like the angels visiting the patriarchs, are unheralded. In this in stance, Mrs. l’reston needed no introduction to an American or English public as her repu tation has been established by the publication of “Silverwood,” “Cartoons,” “For Love’s Sake,” and otlu r volumes. And yet, while adhering to her general method of thought, which so happily combines philosophy and poetry in the most avoidable forms of the ab stract and concrete, she has made an advance upon herself in the diversified range of topics and the picturesqueness of their treatment. So far as the sonnets and minor poems of this volume are couccrnt d, she is tenacious of her inode as regards not only clearness but poetic vividness of concepttw;, with just that degree aud quality of elaboration which meets the de mand of artisti; finish. In the “Unsearchable Name,” “The Sybil’s Doubt,” “Nature’s Com- fortings,” we see her ^ spirituality refusing to attenuate itself in any form of a mysticism. With a definite realistic purpose ever in near view, she is not unmindful of those deeper in stincts brooding in our intuitions, and not in frequently reminds you of a latent power, which, if evoked, would affiliate her with Wordsworth, Mrs. Browning, and Jones Very, in their subtliest moods. Doubtless, this sub stratum has its uses in the poetry of the age. But Mrs. l’reston, while classically educated aud not unfamiliar with metaphysics, is firmly true in genius as in life to the robust anglo-sax- onism of hereditary blood. The views of con servative culture, wrought into her early being, has taken wholesome effect in these days of “New Departures” and secured a beautiful continuity of development, so that the ortho doxy of the woman in the supreme creed, of religious womanhood has kept her soul intact, amid the fascinating speculations of this illu sory age. Hard enough is it for a man to be a skeptic, but it passes comprehension how a woman can be natural and yet utterly ignore the supernatural. Most woinauly is that po etic woman who can sing from her heart: “Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.” II. cause of the ethereal glow in such lines as these: . “And the best of it is—he makes you feel, Unless you have a heart as hard as steel, There’s nothing for you to do but kneel! They say that before his lip could frame A syllable’s sound, one day there came From his baby mouth—our Lord’s dear name, And all of his early childish plays Had something to do with churahly ways, And his Bongs, if he sang, were songs of praise. ” Note.—Colonial Ballads, Sonnets, and other verse. By Margaret L l’reston. Bbston and New York. Houghton, Mifilin & Co., 1887. Wee Willie Cottage, Ga. EXTRAORDINARY! Over $500.00 to bo Given Away to “Sunny South” Patrons. GRAND DISTRIBOTjoToCTOBER 1st, 1887. Georgians and Georgia. Glowing Tribute by a Georgia-born Resident of Another State to the Grand Old State of His Birth. wi!o"bZ mhi/n^restare tiii 7e Here is Your Chancel Best Array of Presents EverOffered by any Enterprise to Its Patrons. MtF. Crawford, the Paris correspondtnt, is said ti> earn .810 ODD a year by her pen—the l ii’g jst sum made by any woman out of jour nalism. The betrothal is announced of the sreond daughter of the Count aud Countess of Paris, Princess Helen, to young Dorn Pedro of Brazil. This prince, only twenty-one years of age, is the eldest sou of Prince August of Kaxe-Gotha, admiral and commander in-cbief of the Brazil ian Army. He is, through his deceased moth er, Princess Leopoldiue, grandson of the reign ing emperor. As for the Princess Helen, wlm has just attained her seventeenth year, she is au accomplished young lady, and London so ciety, which had an opportunity of seeing a little of her during the last season, is sorry that some plans entertained in high quarters could not be real zed on account of religion. In going to Brazil she will find there a family- circle. Her luture father-in-law is her uncle. How Strange. If a tallow candle be placed in a shot gun, and sho. at a door it wiil go through without sut tain ing injury, and if a musket ball be fired into water, it will not only rebound, but be Battened as if fired against a substance. A musket ball may be fired through a pain of glass making a bole the size of the bad, with out cracking the glass; if the glass be suspend ed by a thread, it will make no difference and the thread will not even vibrate. In the Arc tic regions, when the thermometer is below zero, people can converse more than a mile distant. Dr. Jamison asserts that he heard every word of a sermon at thedistance of two miles. A mother has been distinctly heard talking to her child, on a still day, across a water a mile wide. Statistics of Oil Wells. Statistics show that 5(5,000 wells have been drilled in Pennsylvania aud New York since the discovery of petroleum, at a cost of $200,- 000,000. These wells have produced 310,000,- 000 barrels of oil, which were sold at the wells for',00,000,000. This represented a profit to tie producer of $:!00,000.000. The amount of 01 exported is placed at 0,231,102,02(5 gallons. In the pool in Washington county alone $(!,- 200,000, has been expended in machinery and drilling. This does not include the many mil • lions that are represented there in the natural gas industry. Independent of tbe oil business there is about $50,000,000 invested in natural gas plants in Pennsylvania. Tuese are majes tic figures, and serve to show the magnitude of tbe oil and gas business.—Oil City Herrick. The Toledo Made tells an Ohio girl that "personal familiarity founded upon no relation that makes its sacred, is always unsafe.” There is wisdom in the sentence; and wisdom also in the closing lines of its article: “It is impossible for you or any other woman to all iw yourself to be caressed by your young men acquainta- ces without losing somewhat of that purity aud modesty that you should wear al ways as a queen her robes of royalty.” The Change of Vesuvius. As regards accuracy of detail, “Ben llur” stands in the front rank of historical novels. A curious s ip, however, occurs at the b>gin ning of book where the author speaks of the traveler in the year 24 being able to sre the “smoking cone” of Vesuvius. It was not til! 78 A. D. that Vesuvius again became Active. Since that period Vesuvius has undergone areat changes. It is probably higher now than ever before. Indeed from 1845 to 185(544 it is said to have increased in height over 300 feet.— Chicago Herald. Nine hundred and fifty women in Iowa own and manage farms. Six more have slock farms aud twenty dairy farms. Thoreau was a botanist and a firm believer in tbe theory that whatever disease or accident occur the remedy will be near at band iu the form of some growing plant. The fame of Block Island as a seaside resort is rapidly spreading through the West. St. Louis has been well represented at this spot for the past two or three years. But when the reader comes to the ballads and longer poems, be will find Mrs. Preston gathering up all the con3titu'ive elements of her mental strength and combining them in exceptional vigor. Nothiug she has done in her best moods of poetic inspiration strikes me as so admirable in nervous strength, sus tained tension of fire, delicate sweetness, he roic force of thought, and exquisite pAthos of impassioned feeling, as tbe ballad of “Sir Walter's Honor,’’ founded on an incident in Raltigb’s life, A. D. 1018. For easy quick ness of movement, breadth of action, precision of touch, and a keen, dramatic sense of the England vf the se.wvj< vlli century and the marry ingTpn-c -sstjTiifSfVinni r^Cplt (“n&d ■ ft all tbe races”), as Ditoc wraiiifull called them, 1 think this ballad worthy.oi a foremost place in tbe liteiature of an Island whose brains outweigh those of any continent. Nor tail I omit to call special attention to the sec tion of the book containing the “Childhood of tee old Masters.” Here you have the author in a-wo>d of sympathy with an art and its ar lists,(which, so far as technique and manual skill are iuvolved, are widely alien from her own cherished pursuit. But you have also a woman “nobly planned,” who, by virtue of the identity of ail art and the ordained enfran chisement. of all gifted sou's in the kingdom of Beauty and Power; you have this woman as a thorough expert in discerning and unfolding id Leonardo, Giotto. Era Angelico, Guido, Van Dyck, aud their brotherhood of immortals in line art, the grand qualities that have edu cated the world to its sublimest and profouud- est sei ing. Say what we will, Providence has speedily glorified the eye and hand of the ar tist in that realm of the beautiful which infin itely tramcends the boundaries of the useful. If any one wonder at this profusion of beaut}-, in which, God as our Father rather than God as our Creator, has repealed His munificence, let him know that in this overflow Of loveli ness that daily bathes the univorsc as in an Eden childhood, the good Lord is looking to our divincst growth; and if any ask, “Why was this waste of the ointment made?” teil such an one, that it was the traitor Judas who first asked this question and that the .Lord Jesus answered the carping “ Whyonce for ever. These poems on the "childhood of the old masters” are so unique as to conception and executive skill as to merit special mention. One can’t fail to notice here how the poet has supplemented her endowments by art studies abroad; and, though but an amateur, bow ser viceable it has been to her genius to comniuue with these apostles of art in the active atmos phere of their grace and beauty. Nor is it dif ficult to understand her quickened inspiration in Leouard’s Angel, Giotto’s First Picture, and Little Titian’s Palette. And furthermore, if one would learn how broadly aud lavishly tbe Heavenly gifts of appreciation are sown in the soil of our nature and h w closely they stand related to creaiiveness. let him pause and re flect that this woman—by birth a Virginian and by faith a devout Presbyterian—finds a precious nutriment for her spirit and its noble faculties among the traces of Latin civiliza tion. A very cultivated lady tells me that she has been a student reader of Mrs. Preston’s poems for some years, and that she prefers this volume—particularly the poriion given to the “Old Masters”—to any of her previous works. I honor my friend's taste; and as it is always pleasant to have a sensible woman endorse your opinions, 1 may confess that I heartilv en joyed her criticism of “Leonardo’s Angel” aud “The Boy VanDyck.” years of maturity, then moved away, there comes a longing and a yearning for the scenes of his childhood. No matter how far West he may roam, his heart is ever turning to the East. Many of her sons have gone beyond her gates, found pleasure and profit in going towards the setting sun, but ha e always re membered with pltasure where they first saw it rise. If any of them ever traveled along the journey of life alone and unmated, he was ever humming, “The girl I left behind me;” but whether mated or umuated, yonng or old, he is ever dreaming of “auld laug syne” aud the “old folks at home.” It matters not how loyal he may be to tbe State of his adoption, n< r how devoted be may be to all of his surround ings in another land, yet, when he stands again on Georgia soil, there comes into his heart that admiration for the land of his nativity, that makes him feel like the wanderer returned and can say “home again.” With the sons of other States, we come to meet and greet all who are interested in the development and betterineut of our glorious country. There were great warriors before Alexander, there have been good farmers in generations- past and gone, and Georg a bas furnished a number that have been exemplars for the whole South Farmers die, but farming goes on; every suc ceeding generation should be an improvement on tbe preceding; it bas the benefit of all pre vious experience iu d< feat and success, can profit by tbe wisdom learned and avoid the mistakes of its predecessor, be taught by the increasing developments that science, practice, experiment and study accumulates. Georgians of the old South planted the seed of new ideas that the ne^ South bas cultivated and reaped the harvest. Dr. Terrel and l)r. Lee taught how to save and improve the soil, diversity crops, and that it was no sin to let grass grow in the right place; one Dickson showed that two bales of cotton, with improved seed, could grow where one grew before; an other Dickson demonstrated that it was not necessary to move to Texas to make money planting cotton; 1’endleton proved that phos phoric acid was a great element of fruitfulness; Furman illustrated the soil brought back to the farm, and less money could be Bpent for fertil izers, while Jones condenses the wisdom of the ages and dispenses it in weekly installments. As we go east we find enlightenment that age and information can give on the subject of Southern crops. Hammond, Hampton, Aiken and others, of South Carolina, were on the front of Southern improvement. Virginia had her Ruffin, Jefferson and Washington, who could farm as well as lead armies and rule States. But it was reserved for North Caro lina to furnish the king of cotton bales in the person of Richardson, whose plantations, stretching up and down the Mississippi valley, produced more cotton than is raised in the whole of some counties, demonstrating that tb way to raise the largest crops was to plant ti j seed in the ware-house. W. C. Torresce. Tuskegee, Ala. For the Sunny South. I WAIT. BY JAMES REED PILLS. I wait, sometimes, when tbe even Is dropping tbe dusky burs; I linger, till over tbe heaven Come kindling out tbe stars; Ai d a senso of utter longlog , Foras-'ul of sympathy. To lean from tbe world Id answer, Comes,—oh, how oft to mel 1 lorn to the years lone perished, With vatu regret for one Akin to me. who cherished The S »ng-Lyre’s lolly tone— Ah I only the harps of Heaven Can tin 111 to ner fingers how ! And only the air immortal Hor lips’ swoet music blow! I watt in tbedork and silence,— And the songs of the poets old, Iu struius of uudyfne glory, In my memory areroiied; Aud 1 think hew- a world ungrateful lenored those singers here. While I—oh, haa I communion With such souli l —1 had found my cheer But I walk the earth, like an exile, 'a Aiieu—.niMindeisinoi — w Wrapt iu » glamour of g o.lous dreams. Mm True lo a purpose good. O, port-sptrtr I nave sought In vain! W hoe’er, where'er you he. By Poesy’s light and her It iwers. enwreathed, Fiom the vast world come to nte! On the first day of October next the Smnrr South will distribute among its patrons over $500 in gold and valuable premiums, and oven one will stand a chance of getting $100 in gold. The Plan of Distribution. Every one who subscribes or renews or sends in a new snbscriber for one year, between Au gust 1st, aud the last day of September next, will have his or her name and post-office written on a small, thick card or tag, which will be dropped into a sealed box. If you send in only your own subscription, your name goes in the box once. If you send your own and another sub scription, your name goes in twice and the new subscriber’s name once. If you send in five names, your name goes in five times on sepa rate cards and each of the five names go in once. If yon send ten names, your name goes in on ten tags, and so on to any number. This privilege is extended to every one except tho regular traveling canvassers. All local agents will have their names put in once for every subscriber they send, and will be allowed their regular commissions besides. And every name sent in by the regular traveling agents will also go in the box. On the first day of October a disinterested committee of three will shake up this sealed box thoroughly, when an opening will be made and a little boy or girl will put his or her hand in and take out one card, or tag, and tbe per son whose name is on it will receive $100 in gold. Another card will be drawn out, and that person will receive $50 in gold. The next five names drawn out will receive $10 each in gold. The next ten names will receive each $5 in gold, and so on till the following splendid list of premiums shall have been exhausted, and in the order here named: 1 Premium of $100 in gold ...... $100 00 I Premium of $50 m gold - 6 Premiums of $10 each in gold .... 10 Premiums of $5 each in gold ... 1 Premium of a high arm sewing machine -------------- 1 Premium of a low arm sew’g mach’e 1 Premium of a double barrel Breech loading shot-gun - .. 10 Premiums of Waterburv watches 1 Premium of a Wtbster’s Unabridged Dictionary ............. 1 Grand Premium of 27 handsomely bound volumes of the household poets, Byron, Burns, Bryant, Eliz- beth Browning, Robt BrowDing, Dante, Goethe, Longfellow, Mer edith, Milton, M tore, Poe, Sbafc- speare. Pope, Swinburne, Tenny son, etc. (these ail constitute one premium) - - ----------- 1 set of Chambers’ Encyclopedia, six volumes bound in cloth ..... 1 set Carlyle's works, 11 vols. in cloth, gilt 1 set Washington Irving’s works, 15 vols., gilt cloth- - -- ....... 1 set Dickens’ works, 15 vols., cloth 1 set Geo. Eliot’s works, 8 vols., gilt, cloth .... .. 1 set of Scott’s works, 24 vols., cloth 1 set of Goethe’s works, five volumes 1 set Macaulay's History of England, 6 vols., gilt - -- -- -- -- -- - 1 set Macaulay’s Essays and Poems 1 set Rollin’s Ancient History, 4 vols. 1 set 1‘lutarchs’ Lives, 3 vols. - — - - 5 yearly subscriptions to the Sunny Soliu - -- - S3 Premiums - 50 00 60 00 50 00 22 00 moo 15 00 35 00 This la no lottery, bat a free and voluntary distribution of presents among our friends and patrons in return for their Liberal patron age of this paper. Every one, of coarse, will not get a premi um, but every one whose name ia In the box will stand not one chance simply, but 53 good chances. There are 53 valuable presents, and 63 names will be drawn oat, and every time the hand goes in for a name you stand a chance. Why, then, may not you, as well as any one else, get a present? The person who sends in only one name or simply his own subscription may get the $100 in gold. But if you get no preminm at ail yon lose nothing, because you risk nothing. You do rot pay anything for those 63 chances. You pay for The Sunny South which you will get for one year, and it is richly worth ten times the amount you pay. It is a paper which you ought to patronize freely and liberally, and in doing so now, you secure a chance to make $100 in gold or some other valuable premium. Every citizen of the South should patronize The Sunny South, for it is our great repre sentative home paper, and is the first and only successful attempt, among many thousands be fore and since the war, to establish a hightoned literary family paper in the South. It is not a cheap, trashy story paper, nor is it a cheap weekly made up of the crimes and wickedness of the times from the daily papers. But to every household it carries volumes of the best, purest and richest matter, and in an unending variety. It is pronounced the handsomest pa per in the world, and is one of the best and largest. From Maryland to Mexico, and from Florida to California it is a household favorite and is regarded as an honor to our section. Every one should now take this golden oppor tunity to do something for it, and at the same time take advantage of the chances to bent fit himself. Don’t wait nor hesitate. Send right along and get your name in the box. Club Rates: 40.60 18.00 16 50 15 00 18.75 12 00 3(1.00 7.60 6.75 3.75 8.00 4.50 10.00 $543.26 1 subscription 1 year 5 subscriptions 1 year, each 10 - “ “ 20 “ “ “ 82.00 1.75 1.60 1.50 AU the names and the money must be sent in at the same time. Every name whether single or in clubs will go in the box. Send money by post-office order, postal note, registered letter, check or by express. KjT’Send for sample copies, receipts, subscription blanks, eto. Address the “Sunny South,” or J. H. SEALS & CO., Atlanta, Ga. Cline speak to mo! near me leaning By your song’9 yraee bebU Hay life has ;i sweet*-r meaning Than $»ealfh’rt or fash^oi’s pride; Siy tha? Nature’s revelation In youi breast ba*dealer place,— Tnen, spMt of L *ve, look • p knd amile! Let me adore your lace! The Past, with its cares and sorrows, Aon toi s should be buyot; An't you, brmiii oue, sboula borrow No shadow f.>r your lot; Untouched by any frosi or storm, O-* fate, in any guise. The children song united, Wander in Paradise! Be Wise, 0 Sunny South It is not generally known that in Ethiopia a people numbering sh.tut 200,000 have the Old Testament in Etbiopic version ami still adhere rigidly to the Mosaic ceremonies and laws. They are the children of Hebrew iininigraiils who, in the time oi the great dispersion, settled iu Abyssinia and married wives of that nation. Mrs. Henn’s yatching costume was much admired at liar Harbor when she went ashore. The material was oi white duck, with a very loose, blouse-like waist, and a broad, rolling collar of dark blue, open at the throat, such as is worn by her Majesty’s men-of-war men. The arms of the Royal Yacht Club were heav ily embroidered on the sleeveq and a regular navy cap completed the costume. A large advertiser in closing up a contract of over fifty thousand dollars with Geo. P. Rowell & Co.’s Newspaper Advertising Bureau,’ ’wrou: ‘ In all the transactions we have had with your house, we believe there has never been a tn s- t nderstauding of any kind. Certainly we have never had the slightest reason to think t"at our interest have not always been respected.’’ III. I found from my friend’s conversation that— while she was an en'liusiaslic admirer of Mrs. P.’s art as to its les'hetical properties, with the freedom from mysticism on the one hand and rationalism on ihe other—she clearly recog nized the high moral and spiritual purpose un derlying tho most artistic of these effusions. < Utpuurings of her womanly heart, how were it possible for the writer to forego her nature and tamper with that suicidal temptation to sacrifice the woman to the author as George Eliot cid? According to the extreme realists, allegiance to a moral purpose has no place iu an, atid, beyond skill in technique and crafts manship, they conclude that genius in fine art ha“ no room for exhibition. Assuredly this is a fragmentary and dis oried view of our per sonal nature and its truthful expression pre cisely in those forms where sympathy is most reflex and reactive on "the vision and the fac ulty divine.” But this dogma of a low secularism of “art for art's sake," is unquestionably losing what hold it has acquired in this age of materialism; ami cneering signs are not wanting among nov elists, poets, and painters, that far more than the sense-intellect, with its meagre limitations, has to be recognized if any kind of Ar , is to flourish in permanent vigor. The works of Dickens, Warren, Charles Reade, Wilkie Col lins, Walter Besant, Dore, Mnnkassy, likeliest to live and educate coming generations, are works that have a true moral soul as well as a brilliant imagination. Nor could 1 have any high opinion of a critic’s insight into “the heart of things,who would think the less of our author’s’ ‘‘Fra Angelico’s Boyhood’’ be- Editor Sunny South: Again we say, be wise! for little you know the hidden enimity that is daily working ycur ruin. You ask from whence? and sa> our Northern brothers have long since sheathed tbe sword and are now extending the hand of friendship, and brotherly love across the bloody chasm. Yes, we answer, as daob extended the hand of friendship to Arnasa. In their periodicals and weeklies they cry peace, friendship and broth erly love—while in their most influential dailies they are stabbing you with tbe vile weapons ol calumny, envy, malice and hatred. These, they never expect to go beyond the limits of their Northern cities, and with them they seek to prejudice to embitter and mislead the mind of the ordinary Northern man and woman; making it a special business to keep the old war-sore inflamed by daily mention of the many clutches, empty sleeves and helpless widows, caused by Southern bullets; and at the same time holding the South up as still be ing a laud of seaii-Barbarians—uncivilized, uncouth, aud uncultured. These facts we know to be even so, from actual observation and daily contact—having spent all that has passed of the present summer, iu a Northern city. Yet from this dispicsble land of barbarism an 4 ignorance they are aniassiug great for tunes; gathering it in dollar by dollar with their impure literature. Ten ceuts here, twtn Lj-live there, ant a dollar there, from almost every home in the South,is swelling to a mighty financial tide, that is flowing from South to North, leaving in exchange for it paralyzed, in jured and oltm Limes debased minds. How many of our youths of both sexes have been led to infamy and to ruin by readit g cheap novels, all of which have emanated from the North, and been scattered upon every high way in ail this sunn, laud; and yet how litlie do wc see iu our periodicals, our weeklies, or our dailies to counteract the vicious influence. If our journalists and newspaper men, had the interest of the South as much at heart as those Northern papers seear to have her disrepute, there would not be a wielder of the pen or a setter of type who won d not be makiug daily onslaughts on them, ’till no Southern man or woman would read a woik that was not wholly Southern. Atvake, defenders of the South, it is high time this injurious traffic and hiduon enmity be exposed and crushed out. Magnolia, Arkansas. M. C. B. Our array of gold and other valuable pres ents for our patrot,s is unprecedented. Read over tbe announcement on this page, and get your name iu tbe box as often as possible. There are those who will attempt to eipla n the late fearful tragedy in Bibb county by as serting that ihe alleged perpetrator of the hor rid deed was erv/.ed. Doubtless he was—in The Augusta hveninq Neuts says: 'ihe At- lauta Constitution is still progressing and pro gressive. Yesterday it picked up an oid cut of Bruffy and labelled it “.John S. Davidson, President of tbe Senate.” Another picture of Cal Wagner is called “William A. Harris, Sec retary of the Sentte,” and still another of Frank Bang, the well knowi tragedian is dubbed, “Col. J. Troup Taylor, journal clerk of the Senate.” We admire this spirit of en terprise and shall keep a lookout ior future photographs. Count StoDtoi’s theory that the better way tp deal with tjranny, is not to resist it with arms, but to quietly refuse to sustain it, is a good theory, but unfortunately, not very prac ticable. We-re all the subjects to refuse sup port to au oppressive government, it would | have to come to an end. But all or a very | iarge proportion of the people have never done j this and we fear never will. A few may, 1 ke I John IJampden, suffer them selves imprisoned i rather than pay their taxes; but tbe masses will continue obedieut to tyranny until tbe op- certain lines. Few men are rational all around. ! K ress ' on becomes unendurable, and then the But perhaps even fewer are crazed beyond the point of distinguishing between right and wrong, and uni,1 it has reached that point, it should not he offered as a plea for their had deeds. A few wet ks ago our fanners looked forth upon their fields with the hope of Ailing their barns this fall as they had not been tilled in many a day. Now as they look upon the same Holds blighted by the flood, the scene is u:terly hopeless. Many who have expected to have bread enough and to spare, will now have to look to other fields than their own for their food. Such complete destruction cf a corn crop has never been in Georgia within the mem ory of men now living. The year 1888—the year of three eights— promises to be a stirring one polit cally. It would be so, were there to be nothing more than the struggle for ascendancy between the two old parties. But there are many questions stirring tbe minds of men which cannot be forced into the creed of either of these. They who are insisting that these shall be leading issues, must do so in separate organizations. There may be half a dozen candidates for the Presidency in the field. Tuis convict question with which ourLtgis- lators are wrestling is not a matter with which the speculative theorist or the fanatical human itarian can deal successfully. It ia a problem upou the proper solution of which the peace aud prosperity of our State will very largely depend. It calls for tie soundest wisdom of our most clear headed men. These who are inclined lo lose sight of the interests of tue law- abiding iu sentimental regard for offenders should not be suffered to coutrol where the preservation of society is at slake. resistance will become sudden and violent, Naska” a serial which has been for some months running through the pages of Harper's Monthly, gathers new interest with each suc ceeding number. The lover of the heroine— who, we fear, is going to prove an unworthy one—is deep in the councils of the Nihilists, and is gifted with a ready flow of that style of oratory which, with much grandeur of sound, has a woful lack of prac ical sense. (hie who reads this story will perceive that profossiDg the doctrines of altruism does not always make the professor lovely. Fanaticism almost al ways carries things beyond what a 3ecent re gard for the rights of others wo;. 11 require, and becomes itself bad, though the purpose pro posed were never so good. A writer iu Temple Bar propounds quite a itew theory in regard to that much discussed question in literature, the real significance of Hamlet. The position is taken, and urged with considerable plausibility, that the poet, in this production, designed not a grand tragedy, but a philosophical burlesque through which he sought to ridicule the weaknesses and struggles of ideal creatures. Such a conception of the finest pircd of dramatic composition in our lan guage we regard as altogether false. Though the Prince of Denmark is so nearly the whole of Hamlet that, were he left out, there would be nothing left, he was not designed to be pre sented as a great hero. 4Vhat was in the poet’s mind can never be known; but this great drama will always show how genius can invest with interest one destitute uf every element of hero ism. IUKA Ex-Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, has started on ,ns two-years tour of the world. He wiii go firs', to Vancouver, thence by steamer to Ja pan, China, India, E jypt, the Holy Land, Con stantinople, and winu up with a visit to alf the princ.pal countries and cities of Europd. We are not entirely ture that the time and money spent in discussing and passing the bid forbidding teachers to teach mixed schools were misspent. The threat to our civilization from this source is not purely imaginary. But we are very sure that the fuming fury ventila ted by a portion of the Noithern Press over the matter is wholly unbecoming. The fana tics of the North seem to think it a crowning sin that we cannot think and feel on the negro question—and indeed all other questions—just as they would have us do. What ttey would do without the South to abuse, we do not know. We are sometimes inclined to think that this was the sale reason why they wished us back iu the Union with them. (BOTH SEXES.) A ?* ,ent iUtnd Beiencaa, Natural Science*, English Lan- *5* Uter * nir * Theory an* Pract ice H^Teachtng. Must* and Art. Theory and rrmcticB of Busintaa. ,n prirat# families, $10; ,7: . wltfa *h* Principal, $10. Next •••aioH. lint Monday lo September. Addara* h. A. ukAn. i.r^ Ml.. LADIES CURE YOURSELVES. Send ior tree .ample Dr. Kilmer Home Treatment der^intu'tt/a' p;a!W9 ’ Addr ‘“.Mrs. * ary Liu-
