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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.
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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!
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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.)
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