The sunny South. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1875-1907, September 03, 1887, Image 8

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Newspaper Page Text8 THE 8UNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GA„ SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 3,1887 Do You Want 8100 in Gold ? Let all our correspondents and friends call attention to our extraordinary array of gold and other valuable presents to be distributed among the patrons of The Sunny South on the first of October next. See 4th page. OCEAN BATHING. What a Lady Saw and What She Thinks. Would the Unbecoming Familiarities there Indulged in be Tolerated Elsewhere. A well known newspaper correspondent writes as follows from Shelter Island Heights, New York: Fashion has decreed that ocean bathing is no longer “the thing” to do. Yet so healthy and invigorating a custom will be long in wholly dying out. Here, at Shelter Island, where two Ibundred cottagers and two large hotels people this little paradise with at least eight hundred souls dur ing the “season," the beach is well crowded with merry bathers every forenoon. Sitting in the pavilion and watching the bath ers sport in the briny wave, I could not help wondering why Mrs. Grundy, who is so par ticularly critical in some things, should have so long ignored the vulgarities of the ocean bath. Here men and women, young girls and youths, half nude and with the covered portions of their bodies plainly outlined by their clingiDg wet robes, mix and mingle and indnlge in familiarities which would not be tolerated on land. A pretty young lady swam from the beach out to the diving pavilion yesterday. Then she clambered up on the pavilion with ten or twelve others of both sexes. Here, in full sight of all the spectators on shore and all her companions, she lifted her short skirts a trifle and ajusted the elastic of her long stocking, which had become loosened with the effort of swimming. She did this with the utmost non chalance; yet just imagine the sensation it would cause if she should perform this same harmless little toilet act on the veranda in the presence of the same audience! She would be cut dead by every woman and quite likely ask ed to leave the hotel. Yet I doubt if any one beside myself noticed or commented on the lit tle performance—it is such an every day oc currence. I do not wish to seem hypercriti cal, and I believe I have never been called over particular or prudish, but I can’t help wonder ing why the same act is deemed proper in one place and vulgar in another. Only last week I heard a young girl declaring she would not dance with any man unless he were a relative or very dear fnend. "I don’t like and won’t tolerate any man in such close proximity to me," she said, “unless he is a rel ative.” Yesterday I saw her swim to the shore with a male escort who was not a relative, and it seemed to me the situation held a good deal —nwro ut uixpto«aaut fnuiblarttj blmu muy waltz ever contained. She sat down in the sand, and her escort leaned on his elbow close beside her. He wore a single very thin garment, which ex posed his brawny arms and bony neck and un lovely ankles and feet. The single garment clung close to his body and displayed his entire anatomy with unblushing distinctness. Her own pretty arms were bare to the shoulder, and as she sat curled up in the sand one could gain a very pleasing outline of her graceful limbs and rounded shape. But again I fell to making comparisons. “Suppose," I said mentally, “that young lady should meet that young gentleman in tbe halls of the hotel arrayed precisely as he is now. She would run screaming to her room, indignant and in much alarm. If he should approach her in that attire on the lawn and at tempt to sit down beside her, she would call a 'policeman to arrest him. Queer, is it not?” Some of the young ladies who have heard that bathing is not as fashionable as it used to die. unwilling to be independent, yet more un willing to abandon the delight of a daily swim, choose an afternoon hour when other people are napping, and paddle about in pretty cos tumes with no male spectators, or at least only an accidental one. These were the young la dies who declared that they would not be in troduced to or dance with any strangers at the hop given in honor of a yachting club one day recently. This led a happily married lady to discuss the proprieties with me. “I like to see girls prudent," she said, “but it seems to me young people do not have quite as good times as they used to at these resorts. No matter how well recommended a young man may be, some of these very particular girls declare they will not dance with any one save an intimate friend. “It is commendable, no doubt; and yet," she added, with an arch laugh, “why I shouldn’t have been John’s wife to-day if I had been so careful. I danced with him the first night I met him, and we found we kept step so nicely we concluded to glide through life to gether. I am sure young folks had a better time in those years than they do now, and I really don’t think any more misfortunes befell them than in these conventional days.” Last evening the children were dancing, and I overheard an amusing conversation between a trio at the parlor door. A tiny young gal lant in long stockings was begging two smaller belles—not over 10 years of age—to let him introduce a friend of his—a 9 year old boy, who had arrived that day with his parents. “Oh, but we couldn’t think of dancing with him," said the two haughty young misses. “We don’t—we don’t know him at all, you seel” “Oh, pshaw now—I say, come—let’s make us a set and have a good time,” pleaded the boy. “He’s a good dancer, and wants to get acquainted, you know. Let me introduce you." “Well—but really we cannot dance with such a stranger,” the girls insisted, and I went to my room to ponder over the wonderful pru- denoe and decorum of the growing generation. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. A Quiet Girl’s Dress. [Harper’s Bazar.] The quiet girl never wean high-colon on the street; you do not see her flaunting in brilliant plaids when they happen to be the style; when high bats are “in” she does not pile hen so high that it sweeps the cobwebs from the sky; she does not wear an exagger ated bang when the bang is in vogue, nor the biggest bustle in town, nor the longest train to her tea-gown, nor the greatest number of ban gles when reign. But because she .does not chatter, and giggle, and make herself ' conspicuous in hone can or matinees, .does not announce her convictions on all occasions and all subjects, and profess her admiration at every hand’s turn, it must not be supposed that she has no ideas, or convictions, or en thusiasm; that she moves along like a star in the heavens, which obeys the laws of gravita tion without selecting its course or objecting to its orbit She is quiet because she has no power to make herself heard, to change her conditions, or because she is maturing that power. In the meanwhile it is the quiet girl who marries earliest, who makes the best match, who fills the niches which her more brilliant sisters leave vacant, who manages the servants, runs the sewing-machine, remembers the birthdays, listen* to tbe reminiscences of the old, atd often keeps the wolf from the door. Baton Rouge Notes. Editor Sunny South: Mrs. S. D. McEnery and children are spending the summer in Vir ginia. Gov. McEnery is in Shreveport; he is going to deliver an address to the Educational Convention. c Mian Mattie McGrath, and Misses May and Lee Hebert have returned home from a visit down the coast. Miss Edith Rambo is visiting the Blisses Beale on Third street. Mrs. Gustabel, and her charming daughtA, Miss Jennie, and Miss Kommeyer, have re turned from a delightful trip through the West. Miss L’zzie Alexander has returned from a visit to Avery’s Island. Miss Edna Roberts returned to her home in New Orleans on Sunday, much to the regret of her friends. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Goodale and little Bes sie returned from the Prohibition Convention in Alexandria, La., on Friday. Mr. and Mm. Goodale are both very popular speakers. Mrs. J. N. Ogden and her four interesting children are in Virginia. Miss Mattie Frayn is visiting her cousin, Miss Mary Frayn on Convention street. Misses Minnie and Katie Castello were thrown from their buggy on Sunday, and Miss Winnie was so unfortunote as to have her arm broken. Mr. Ed. Levi, of New Orleans, is visiting Baton Rouge, with a view of regaining his health. His friends are glad to observe his im provement. Several young ladies have been writing poe try as a summer amusement. One or two have had t heir verses published in the “ Truth," and they are very pretty—and sentimental, of course. The Pansy Circle were invited by the Nicholl’s Committee to attend a political bar becue at Zachary on Thursday Aug. 51. Al most all the young ladies are “solid for Mc Enery,” but that doesn’t keep them from hav ing a good time at a Nicholl’s barbecue. Girls “poor things” never get old enough to vote any way, even if they cared to vote. Miss Blanche Blcuin returned home to-day, her friends are delghted to see her bright face again. Business is brightening up and the merchants are busy getting ready for the big fall trade that they hope to have. Planters and farmers say that the prospects for good crops are most promising. Some at them are already busy harvesting rice, and several bales of new cotton have been shipped by our merchants. August 23d. Kittige Lyle. •** Mrs. Floyd of Boston has invented a water proof bonnet, which is handsome and dressy enough for almost any occasion, and is abso lutely impervious to water. **• A Unique Trinket. Among the trinkets of ex-Queen Isabella of Spain, is a watch of ancient make which has a movable tableau upon it. Cupid is sharpen ing his arrow at the forge of Vulcan, while Venus and other mythological celebrities look on. When the watch is wound the god at the bellows begins to pump, Vulcan at the anvil strikes it, a tiny chain that looks like running water, runs over a wheel to imitate a cascade, while Venus waves her arm and Cupid brand ishes a bow. The workmanship is extremely fine and the little watch is very valuable. Among the articles formerly belonging to Isabella is a collection of different colored diamonds. There are black-and-tan diamonds, amber colored, pink, sanguinary red ones, almost like rubies, gray ones, and the famous violet phir. *% At Greenesboro, N. C., on the 18th the W. C. T. U., held a festival at the Court-house which was not only a very pleasant affair in every particular, but was a financial success as well,the whole amount of supplies of every sort being disposed of. The attendance was good, and there was a general intermingling of old and young. The adornments in the way of Chinese lanterns could not have appeared to better advantage, and no one thought how beau tiful were the elms on tbe west side of the courthouse until they were seen under the en chantment thrown over them by the lights kindled for the occasion. We heard some of the ladies speak of their gratification at hav- ing the courteous services of the Greenesboro Cornet Band, who made charming music for the occasion. Saddajs at Sugar Hill. NOGTES MEMORABILES. •BY B. B. r Dramatis Persona. Ths Doctor—a bachelor, age 60. The Judge—a bachelor, age 46. The Professor—a bachelor, (suspect) age 30. The Madam—a widow, (landlady) age un certain. The Imp—landlady’s hopeful, age irrelevant. Time—Night. Scene—Bachelor’s Apartments in a Down- street Boarding House [Copyrighted by Author. AU right* reserved.] Sly. Inter-State Farmers’ Convention. rne imponam convention, after a Harmoni ous and profitable session of nearly a week, adjourned on Thursday the 18th instant, to meet in Raleigh, North Carolina, on the third Tuesday in August, 1888. The election held on the afternoon of the 18th resulted as follows: Hon. L. L. Polk, of North Carolina, was un animously elected president; CoL W. M. Fish- back, of Arkansas, was elected vice-president at large; Mr. D. F. Hester, of North Carolina, was elected secretary. The following were selected as vice-presi- dents: North Carolina—E. M. McCoy. Sou h Carolina—E. R. Mclver. Florida—G. R. Fairbanks. Georgia—A. T. McIntyre. Alabama—R. F. Kolb. Mississippi—M. N. Burke. Louisiana—John Dymond. Arkansas—L. T. Featherston. Texas—J. A. Rumsy. An election was held for nine members of tbe executive committee, with the following re sult: North Carolina—R. Reid Parker. South Carolina—O. P. Mills. Florida—W. R. Seabring. Georgia—R. F. Crittenden. Alabama—A. W. S. Anderson. Mississippi—C. H. Robinson. Louisiana—J. B. Beazly. Arkansas—R. D. Williams. Texas—T. G. Cansler. The committee on resolutions next submitted their report, recommending the following reso lutions, which were adopted: That it is expedient that the National Bank ing act be so amended as to repeal the tax now existing in the issue of state bank circula tion: That our senators and representatives be re quested to use their efforts for the advance ment of the agricultural department at Wash ington: That this convention indorse the inter-state commerce act as a wise and patriotic measure: That it shall be the duty of the vice presi dents from each state here represented, to ap point from his state as many delegates as there are representatives in congress, who shall meet with the farmers’ congress at their next regular meeting, and confer with that body as to the best means of influencing proper legisla tion in the interest of the farmers of the south ern states: That each member of this convention, on his return home, use his best efforts to induce farmers to organize, and let our watchwords be: “Our farms shall be self-sustaining; that our cotton crop should be surplus; we believe that unless we do this, a state of abject slavery lies before our sons and daughters; That we demand a law making it a high crime for any corporation existing under the federal government to issue fraudulent securi ties upon fictitious values and offer same to the markets of this country; denouncing as gambling the speculation commercially termed “dealing in futures." Several resolutions were introduced during the convention on the subject of tariff. All were smothered by the committee on resolu tions. Colonel Barker, of Arkansas, offered a reso lution advocating a revision of the tariff, which was tabled. Several resolutions were introduced tender ing thanks to the citizens of Atlanta, hotels, railroads and the retiring officers. The committee on peimanent organization submitted a report urging universal organiza tion among the farmers in every section of the south. Colonel Polk delivered a short and eloquent address, after which the convention adjourned. Mrs. Mary A. Moore, 65 years of age, a widow of Woodland, Cal., is about to wed James Black, the 30 year-old superintendent of her extensive property. The value of Airs. Moore’s estate is placed at $400,000. De Projigal Son. ' Bre’r Gota Houston, delegate from M’cln- tosh county, passed through Sugar Hill last Saturday on his way to the State Association at Macon, and being invited by the brethren to preach, gave them the following discourse, his own native, low-country dialect: “Brudderen an’ Sisteren; de disco’sement dis ebenin’ is lucinatqd fum de tex’ in de Book which seh: ‘A sartin man hab two sons.’ Now, de nyoungest son war a bery contentionable nyoung man dat was in no way respose do de will ob ’e fader. De Bible seh datjlis nyoung man call to ’e fader an’ seh: ‘Fader, gin me my share ob de substum, an’ I will tek it an’ go into a fur country, an’ you shall not see my face no mo’.’ An’ darfo’ ’e was call de Projigal Son, becaze ’e went into fur off Ian’s a projeckin’, an’ de las’ sta’e ob dat man wis wuss’n de fust state. "Now, I reckon de ole man war tired ob bod- derin wid dis projigal, an’ ’e war willin’ fur ’e to hoe ’e own row, fur we read in de book dat de nyoung man did tek ’e share ob de sub stum, an’ gone into a fur country, an’ dar ‘ spend ’e substum in riotous extrabaginces,bigb libin’, an’ sin! An’ atter ’e money war all trow way, ’e war rejuced to a great necessitate; so great war de necessitate 'e war rejuced to, dat ’e hab to hire 'ese’f out to one rich man to mine hog! Now de Bible doan seh, but it am s’posed dat dat was a bery mean w’ite man, ’cause we read in de book dat de projigal war fain to full ’e belly on de husks w’at ’e feed de hog wid An’ w’en 'e war come to ’ese’f ’e seh: ‘De bery sarvint in my fader’s house hab bread fur to eat an’ I ain’ hab none. I’m gwine back to de ole man an’ ax ’im to tek me as a hired sar vint.' An’ ’e tek de pearl ring off’n ’e finger an’ trow 'im to de hog, an’ de hog run at um an’ fight um, ’cause you read in de book, you cas’ pearl befo’ swine ’e will turn roun’ an’ ren’ you.’ “Now, w’en de young man war yet a far away off, de ole man see um an’ run out to meet um, an’ ’e ketch um an’ trow ’e han roun’ ’e neck an’ kiss um, an’ put a new ring on ’e han’, an’ gi’e nm one w’ite shirt wid gole stud button in de bussom, an’ ’e tell de hired sarvint to kill de fat calf an’ mek a great feas’ An’ ’cordin’ to de way ’e seh, so it war done. An' w’en de feas’ war ready ’e sen’ to all de rich neighbor an’ ’vite um all to de sup per. An’ dey all wid one consent begin to mek excuse. One man seh ’e jiss buy a yoke of oxen, an’ 'e hab to go look atter 'e pu’cbess. Anuver man seh ’e am tekin’ in a new piece ob groun’, an’ ’e can’ come. Anuver man seh 'e jiss married to nice nyoung wife an’—an *e can’t come! Well, w’ea de ole man see how eberybody discount um, ’e get bery mad, an’ 'e seh to de hired man; “Go out into de highway an’ by way an’ gedder all ye kin fine, for de loss is foun’, de bline kin see, de deef kin year, an’ my son dat was dead am alibe agin!” wSode hired man went out, an’ ’e gedder de ouneTttr lie lame an' ae Halt an’ de deef, an' all de po’ people in dat lan’, an’ ’e fetch um an’ set um down, an’ dey did mek a great feas’! An' atter dey done all eat, de fragment w’at dera gadder up full seben basket full, an r five small fishes ober. I doan call no name to-day, no name to-day but I kin see de word ob God hab struck de heart ob one relentless sinner in dis congerga- tion, an’ 'e am gwine home to meditation by e’se’f. Dis my belubbed brederen an sisteren, will show you de power ob faith. An’ now, we’ll conclude de sarvice by sing- in’ dat good ole hymn, beginniu’, f week up In de mawnln’, I beerd a mighty moanin’ I knowed It was aangai, lknowed It by de groanin' A CARD. To all who ore suffering from the errors and Indiscretions of youth, nervous weakness, early decay, loss of manhood, tec., I will send a recipe that will cure you, FREE OF CHARGE. This fteat remedy was discovered by a missionary in South America. Send a self-addressed envelope to the axv. JOSEIH T. INMAN. Station D. -Vi— York Cite. A Worm that Eats up Steel Bails. The existence has just been discovered of a detestable microbe which feeds upon iron with as mnch gluttony as the phyloxera upon the vine. Sometime ago the greatest consternation existed among the engineers at Hagen by the accidents occuring always at the same place, proving that some terrible defect must exist either in he material or the construction of the rails. The German Government directed an inquiry to be made and a commission of but veillance to be formed for the purpose of main taining constant watch at the spot where the accidents—one of them attended with loss of life—had occurred. It was not, however, until after six months had expired that the surface of the rails appeared to be corroded as if, by acid to the extent of one hundred yards. The rail was taken up and broken, and it was per ceived that it was literally hollowed out by a thin gray woim, to which the classification of raiiiverous” was assigned, and by which name it is to bs classed m natural history. The worm is said to be two centimetres in length and of the size of the prong of a silver fork in tircum- ference. It is of a light gray color, and on the head carries two iittle glands filled with a cor rosive secretion, which is ejected every ten minutes upon the iron. This liquid renders the iron soft and spongy of the color of rust, and it is then greedily devoured by the iDsect “There is no exaggeration,” says the official report of the commission,“inthe assertion that this creature for its size, is one of the most voracious kind, for it has devoured thirty-six kiiogrames of rail in a fortnight.”—Cologne Gazette. Move the World. “Stand where you are,” says Goethe, “and move the world.” This is well said by the great German. It is a nice sentiment. Indeed, it meets our approval; or, as a politician would say, “It shall have my vote.” But he who stands where he is and tries to move tbe world will probably find it a very hard old thing to move. This moving the world is a very se rious sort of business. Archimedes only asked for a place to fix his fulcrum, and he would move the world; but the world went right on without any help from the mathematician of Syracuse. In our youth, with the bright visions of hope in all their golden colors before us, we imagined we were quite up to the work of moving the world. One proposes to do it in the law. He will master his profession—he will go the sources of juris prudence—he will astound the world by his learning, or he will move the world by his elo quence. Well, he begins and chews the bitter cud of experience awhile. It results in find ing that the world is hard to move and that many who were as intent as he, and who had long before made the same resolution, had given up in despair. The high ideal had to be subordinated to tread mill work. Now and then comes a man whose nature is so royal, and whose urns are so bigb, and whose power of endurance is so grand, that he is able to move the world of living hearts which come under his influence, and men bless him for his work. But these are rare exceptions. Tbe true thing for us to do, is to learn what we can do best, and bend oar en ergies to that end and nothing more. Thus, if we do not move tbe world, we shall do some good in it and leave it with a consciousness that it is no worse for our having lived. There may be many other sources of satisfaction, but few greater than this—of having lived if not a brilliant life, a useful one. The final test of all things is use. Even that beauty which has no use, can hardly be called beautiful.—Magnolia (Miss.) Gazette. EPILOGUE. Tie a very excellent piece of work mad am lady. ’ Would ’twere done! _ —Taming of The Shrew. That quick, sharp step on the pavement tells me that a young man bent on accomplishing something in this world, is passing by—I would lift my hat if I had it on! He will ac complish it, too. There is nerve and energy, health and good conscience there. Enough self-confidence, too, from the way those heel taps ring! Lookout for the fellow who puts his toes down first. He’s a hypocrite, a cringing knave —a "creeping thing.” Beware of him! There goes one now. How stealthily, like a cat, he walks. As if he was offering apologies to the pavement for walking on it. I’ll venture there’s a sickly, insinuating, self-depreciatory smile upon his face, if we could just see it. Look out, all you people down the street there, if you have money or reputation to lose! Give him room! That stately, measured, easy step is that of some well-todo business man going down to his office. I am sure he has a kind, benevo lent face, the step is so easy and yet so firm. I wish you a good day’s business, my friend. May ycur wealth bring you much happiness, for I am sure you came by it honestly. There comes the light, quick, unsteady, nervous tread of a restless, ambitious youDg professional man. Be careful, my good fel low. Don’t turn the light up too high, else it may burn out before the work is done. Take more sleep—and, perhaps, less brandy and tobacco—and disabuse your mind of the idea that the world would go to wreck if you was not happily on it. It will have to get along without you sometime, so take it easy. Good time-pieces ran down slow and steadily. But there; wbat is that? Three feet! Ah! the riddle of the Spbynx solves itself every hour. An old man tottering by, and God help him! the sound of tbe staff is heavier than the footfalls. Pass on, my venerable friend, your work is done. The world has no farther use for you. A cruel heartless world; but you made a part of it once, and was cruel and heartless, too. All things come round. We reap as we have sown. That heavy, lounging, slipshod tramp is “darkey" enjoying the sunny side of the street this morning. Poor ignoble sons of ignoble and exiled sires, I wonder what is to. become of you. Your lot is a hard one, and I see no better days ahead. Tbe meanness and duplic ity, the dependence and shiftlessness of three hundred years of brutish slavery run in yoor veins. God made you; He will have to pro vide for you—you can’t do it yourself. Now, here they come, a crowd of children on their way to school. How musically their voices ring, and the little feet how they patter! Good Angels, keep them in after years from strange and forbidden paths! But now they come so fast I cannot distinguish them, wag ons and horses and cattle and feet all mingling together. But my broad-faced friend at the forge over yonder, it would require many wagons and feet to drown the cheery ring of his anvil as the blows from bis brawny arm send the fiery scin tillations in glittering showers about the little smithy. Cheerily! merrily! my fine fellow. You are making an honest dollar and getting such an appetite for dinner as many a rich, idle man in this city would give half his fortune to possess. A building is in process of erection near by, and the sharp, rapid strokes of the mechanic’s hammer, the keen raspings of tbe band-saws and the sibbilant sound of the plane make a pleasant- accompaniment to the merry “anvil chorus” of my jolly neighbor, the black smith. The upper windows in tbe house on the oppo site side of the street are all thrown wide open, by way of a general invitation to the fine, fresh, delicious air this morning, I suppose, and not for the purpose of presenting me that pleasing picture cf a young lady in a loose, bright-col ored morning ^|K>per^9tber Hubbard?) mov ing here ana there about the room intent on some household duties, dusting probably, can’t bear her, but I know she is singing. AU real good girls sing when they work—or if not, they ought to. If I wanted to make a picture of Parity I would -paint her as a young girl singing about her household work—if I could paint her singing. If I was called upon to give advice to a young man just starting out in the world, I would say to him: “Young man, marry—marry early; and be sure yon marry a girl that can laugh in company and sings when alone. But other objects claim our attention. Fur ther on the red house-tops are aglow with warmth and brightness, contrasting prettily with the shady trails that look toward me, each with its delicious bit of shadow at the base. How cool and inviting those shadows are yon der on that little grass plot! One hardly knows whether, after all, it wouldn't be pleas anter to lie down in them than to ait even in such sunshine as this. Tbe hiU yonder across those red house-tops, that had looked so dull and dreary and desolate aU the winter—except occasionally when cover ed with snow or sleeping in the moonlight—is al ready brightly green; and here and there sleek cattle are browsing leisurely and contentedly along the sunny slope. I have been watching it for weeks, ever since the morning my eyes caught the first faint tinge of green creeping cautiously and timidly ont here and there In darker patches on the dull, gray surface. How eagerly from day to day have I watched them broaden and deepen, and meet and clasp hands, and go on widening and getting greener and darker and fresher as the sun came up higher and higher, and hia smile grew wanner and his kiss more vivifying. Was it Goethe that waked his sleeping sweet-heart once with a kiss? I forget. But the Sun. O how I envy him! for thousands of years with every return ing spring has waked with bis kisses his count less sweethearts from the sleep of death. The warm south-wind laden with the grate ful odor of fresh ploughed fields, tbe delicious fragrance of opening buds and growing grass es, and the delicate perfume of early dew- dipped flowers, has been all this while flitting about my room jseeking by various artifices to attract my attention—with the idea probably of getting a free “puff”—whispering mysteri ously about my ears, coyly and coquettishly fanning my cheek, toying caressingly with my hair and fluttering banteriDgly among the leaves of paper lying beside me on the table. There, now! Eniaged at my indifference and inattention, in a fit of jealousy and desperation it has snatched up a newly finished page from the pile of manuscript before me, and tossed it spitefully upon the floor—the fresh undried inky side down, of course—only to whisk it up aeaiu, and there! Out at the window with Now that is an ugly trick. But I must get up to see what becomes of my property. I can’t afford to be robbed in that fashion; not even by tbe south wind. There it goes! wonder if it is never going to alight. Pleasant sight this and very comforting and encouraging, for one to watch his heaviest thoughts disportmg themselves in that light, airy, fantastic, frantic, feathery fashion, and defying the very laws of gravitation with a recklessness and confidence that is painfully suggestive of grave doubts as to their heavi ness, after all! But, there it goes! flattering up and down; now whisked this way, and now that; now wrinkling and curling, and whirling over and over; now pausing an instant, flattened out; now slowly sailing horizontally a yard or two; now side first, now edge first; now fast, now slow; now descending and brushing the top of some flowering shrubbery, frightening a bevy of sober butterflies dreaming there, quite ont of their wits—if they ever had any; now rising up again to the great surprise and consterna tion of a staid old sparrow, who suddenly and unexpectedly encountered it in his serial path way; and at last, over the street fence, a sud den plunge and it settles down upon the top of an armful of books carried by a little maiden of fifteen summers on her way to school—and rested there quite contentedly. A start—a surprised lifting-up of a superb pair of dark eyes—a smile—a nod of recognition—a feint of mischievously running away with it—a feigned curiosity to read it—a word of insincere ex postulation, and then of explanation, on my part—and I have gone down, secured the fugi tive leaf, and told you all about it; whether you believe it or not, is no concern of mine. You w- heard 1 that was a naughty wind, but it was a wonder fully knowing one, nevertheless, and deposited its poor offering most appropriately. And now, dear readers, I torn from sur rounding scenes of brightness and joy and glad ness, to you for a sober, serious word or two at parting. Before I bid adieu to you, and dismiss forever these creatures of my imagination, per mit me to say in behalf of them and myself, that they were not summoned from the realms of fancy without a purpose. They may have illy perlormed their allotted mission, but they were charged with oue to perform, tu this life of ours the best performances, alas! must ever fall far short of "eat intentions; and the desire to do must often give to the deed the merit it could not claim for itself. It was' for no idle selfish purpose I took up my pen. Re luctantly but not regretfully do I lay it down. Yet if I only knew that-in all these days I have said one word that any ef you will be the bet ter, happier, or stranger for remembering—one word that has carried hope and courage to a sad and doubting heart, or awakened sober, serious thoughts in. a careless one, if I only knew this, I say, I would close this page with a fighter heart than that which dictates these words. “It is a terribie thing to be alive in this world," says Carlyle, but it is a more terrible thing to do something in this world. But the most terrible of all, perhaps, is not to do. A word or two more, as the last, and best thing I can say to you. My heart is toll of one thought to-day: Wbat a lovely, what a beautiful world this is, and what a happy dwelling place it would be if all of us were only as good and pare and loving and useful as we ought to be! Out of selfishness in some form springs all sin, and out of sin in some way or other comes all sor row. The central idea of Christianity is an nounced by the great Teacher himself in that memorable conversation with the Saducee lawyer, that drew forth the tender parable of the good Samaritan—is unselfishness, love. Christianity thus would rid the world of sin and sorrow at once by striking at their com mon root, the love of self that lies deep bed ded in the human heart. Of all systems of philosophy and religion known to men. it is the only one that fathoms the mysteries of this this life and carries promises over into a life that lies beyond. So perfectly indeed does it fit into our nature, supplement our deficien cies, anticipate oar wants and satisfy the in expressible yearnings of the human soul, that its claims to divine origin are, to him who will examine it in the light of what he knows of himself, beyond dispute and self-evidential. Christianity fits human nature as the key the works of tbe lock it was made for. The Bible must be read in the light of self-knowledge; and so read is its own commentary and needs no other. Let men’s theories and opinions and explanations go. They will only confuse you. Study yourself, and the Bible will ex plain itself. Don’t look at it through the smoked glass of a creed. You might get a clearer idea of its form, but it would be at the sacrifice on your part of its warmth and bright- nes. And now, good-bye! 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M., Chair of Mathematics and Astronomy. Mrs. C. D. CRAWLEY, M. A, Chair of English Literature. Mllr. VICTORIA KONTZ, Chair of Ancient and Modern Languages. Mrs. L. H. SEALS, Principal of Preparatory Department, Prof. W. F. SEALS, Director of Music. Voice Culture. Madam VON DER HOYA SCHULTZE, Piano and Organ. Prof. W. F. CLARK, Violin and Cornet. Prof. Wm. LYCETTE, Art Department Prof. A. C. BRISCOE, Stenography. J Miss JENNIE RUSHING, Telegraphy. FOREMAN OF “SUNNY SOUTH” OFFICE, Teacher of Type Setting. Miss LILY MAY DANFORTH, Calligraphy. Mrs. W. F. SEALS, Supt Boarding Department Mrs. GEO. C. LOONEY, Matron* TBS TALL TERM Wil l, BEGIN ON 1st MONDAY HI SEPTEMBER 1887. The departments are weU nigh toll, and an early application is Important to secure a goo place lot the next term. Our object Is to meet, as far as practicable, along Mt want In tbe South, viz: a thorough literary and practical business education for females. Every member of our faculty Is an experieneeded ucator. AU are acknowledged to stand abreast wlti tbe best teachers of tbe State, In their respeettvc departments, while some enjoy even a national rep atatiou. Anyone baying girls to educate Is respectfully re ferred to tbe State at large for character, scholar ship and management. NEW TEA TURBO. With a view to maki K our coarm of study emi- Htly practical. Telegraphy, Calligraphy, Phoi ogrn- iv. Book-keeping and lye-setting, or Jonrraliam _iu be introduced as specie departments. A grad ate of this school takes along with her a profession adapted to her eex, and which fits her to enter at oboe upon an entire business life. In no other school in the South will she find these advantages. ATLANTA AS A LOCATION. Of aU points in the South, not one ooxnbtxes BO many of the essentials for e school of the character proposed, ae Atlanta. It is 1160 feet above see level. It is blest with pure water and good air. It la healthy. It has never bean visited by an epidemic of any kind. 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An experienced hot se- ceeper will lake charge of the boarding department and a skillful physician will look after the health of ^The daily sessions wiU be six hours, beginnirg in the morning at eight o’clock, and dismissing at 4:30 in the afternoon, with two hoars’ intermieeioE at noon and two reoeeaes. We do not like the one ses sion plan, aa now taught in our popular school*. The government of the sohool win be homer e, but UNIFORM. In order to prevent eztravagauoe, a uniform to be worn by the pupils to church or on the street has been adopted, which will be made known to any one on application. Send for a catalogue to W. B HEALS, Preside t We warrant this high arm machine to be as we represent or it may be returned at our expense and the money will be refunded. Havit g arranged with the manufactu rers to furnish us these machines in large quantities for cash at nearly cost, we can save our subscribers from $30 to $50 on each machine. It is a high-arm machine. 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