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THE SUNNY SOUTH. ATLANTA, GA„ SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10,18H7,
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Memphis, Tennesse.
I*i Commanding Position—Its Health
fulness — Commercial Facilities
and Educational Advantages.
Editor Sunnt Sodth: The Memphis ofTen-
aessee is as pleasing to many to bear from, as
to read of the ancient Memphis on the Nile;
and the readers of your ever-welcome Sunny
Socth being many here, I much desire to hare
yom know more of the city where they dwell.
Few locations are found more favored by na
ture for the plant of a city than this. As to
slimate, its winters are not so dry and invig
orating as other seasons—January, March and
September are the months most trying of the
entire year. But some disadvantages are met
with everywhere on this beautiful earth.
Energetic people from all points of the com
pass form the population, numbering, I be
lieve, about 76,000 Manufactories of quite a
scare of kinds, progress we 14 and give employ
ment to hundreds of industrious work-people.
Baca month, now, some new and solid com
pany is organized for developing what will be
profitable, and at the same time expands the
eity’a commercial belt.
Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee are
represented daily in a social way, for shopping
and in commerce, on the streets of Memphis.
One can reside in either State and yet be a
neighbor and friend, with this city as a center
for schools, churches, marketing and amuse
ments.
Custom—a change and rest from the ardu
ous routine of housekeeping, or trying monot
ony and confinement in a boarding-life, causes
the residents to seek other points during sum
mer, more than warm wea.her does. There is
at all times a breeze which tempers the heat,
and at all times one can, with moderate exer
cise a: d use of ice, be comfortable. Fir the
laborer, a breeze causes outside to be cooler
than insida the bouse, consequently sunstrokes
are very rare among that valuable class of peo
ple.
Drainage, paved streets and sanitary observ
ance, has made almost incredible progress for
eight years gone by, and still the essential
work goes on Each week’s mortuary report
is undisputed evidence of Memphis being
healthy. The number of deaths beiug remark
ably few, and this, too. while the hospitals
supply a dying place, often, for both white
people and negroes from the plantations of
adjoining States.
Schools prosper well here; two of these are
for girls and young ladies, and each closed
with between three and four hundred attend
ants in June. In all institutions of learning
the teachers are ob aiued from educational re
sorts celebrated in the old world, New York,
Bo (ton and Philadelphia. Besides, ladies and
men are thoroughly prepared for occupying
positions to instruot. in all branches in a man
ner to satisfy the most critical, exacting em
ployer. Friendships between North and South
are firm as any, here.
My husband and self have been subscribers
to your cheering, soothing, anl most interest
ing paper, ever since ten years or longer. We
do not wane in our desire to read it each week.
Hope always to be a subscriber to the pure
and bright Sunny Snuth. Truly,
San Antonio, Texas.
The Site of Heroic Historic Alamo
The Great "W ool-Harket of the
South-West- —Contemplated
“Addition” and Improve
ments, Etc., Etc.
Editor Sunny South: The communications
that appear from time to time in the columns
of the Sunny South, descriptive of cities and
different portions of Uncle Sam’s dominions,
prove interesting reading to your many sub
scribers and readers. A few there may be
among its readers, having a friend or relative
whose fortunes are cast in the Alamo City;
and to them a few lines devoted to a descrip
lion of that historic locality, may not be en
tirely devoid of interest
Located upon both banks of the Sin Anto
nio river, with railroads running to the four
points of the compass; having two great trunk
lines intersect each other at this point; located
upon the most desirable road from the com
mercial centres of the Union to San Francisco,
Californ a, and to all points in the Republic
of Mexico, with two outlets to the Gulf, dis
tant but a few hours run; situated in the cen
tre of one of the greatest wool-growing and
stock-raising districts in the United States, and
being the distribntive point for all towns in
South-WeBtern Texas—comprising a vast area
of country—San Antonio is to-day one of the
most important commercial cities in the Sjuth.
This city also enjoys the distinction of be
ing the larges horse-market, and one of the
largest wool markets, (from first bands), in
the world, over nine million pounds of wool
having been purchased here direct from the
grower during the season recently closed; and
abou- fifty thousand horses were shipped in
1886 to the Northern and Western markets
Notwithstanding an unusual drought pre
vailing for some time in this State, San An
tonio has sieadily forged ahead, and a marked
increase in business and population, over that
of las' gear is perceptible.
Building, involving 'he expenditure of near
ly a million dollars, are, or will be in the
coarse of construction witbin the next sixty
days
Aside from the advantages possessed as a
business location, San Antonio cannot be sur-
surpassed as a health resort; especially for
persons troubled with pulmonary affections.
The winters are mild and pleasant; and the
high, dry atmosphere exerts a far more bene
ficial effect on invalids, than the great accumu
lation of moisture found in the climates of
other localities sought by consumptives.
The many advantages possessed by this
city as a commercial centre, and also as a win
ter resort, has been resognized by a Cincinna
ti syndicate, who have recently invested a
quarter of a million dollars in a tract of land
in the northwestern part of the city; have se
cured a charter for a system of street car lines;
aDd contemplate the creation of a mammoth
hotel and sat atarium, in the near future. A
large body of men are at work improving and
b-auiifying this “addition,” which is destined
in a few years to be the fashionable suburban
residence portion of the city.
But I must refrain from taxing the patience
of your readers too long—suffice it to say that
w« possess a population of forty-five thousand
citizens, all firm in the belief that with the
advent of the new year a wave will sweep over
the historic “City of the Alamo,’’ leaving in its
wake a flood of prosperity in every depart
ment of business. Rambles.
August, 1887.
Plant City, Fla.
Marie Poindexter Safford.
Memphis, Teun., Aug 24, ’87.
Randolph County, N. C.
Origin, Advantages and Resources—
Its Wealth of Gold, and Greater
Wealth in Its Manufactures,
Schools, Colleges and
Churches.
Bditor Sunny South:
Randolph county, organized in 177U, and
named in honor of the great Randolph family
•f Virginia, lies just west of the center of the
State, in the heart of the Piedmont section. It
is twenty-eight miles square, having parallels
and meridians for its sides, and contains 784
square miles, of which about 620 are well-tim
bered forest lands. The surface is diversified
by “wide-extended” plains and a large area of
hilly districts; and, in the west and southwest,
by euormous hills that “approach the measure
and dignity of mountains ”
The most important of its physical features
are the two river basins that extend from
north to south across the county, in nearly
parallel depressions.
The Deep River basin comprises most of the
northern and all the eastern portion of the
•ounty—entering the county near the middle
of the northern boundary and running a toitu-
ous course to the southwest-corner of the
county. The Uwharrie basin occupies the
western side, running parallel to the western
boundary and only a few miles from it. Both
of the above named rivers have numerous and
large tributaries, fed by bold and constant
springs which afford an ample supply of water
during tbe longest drouths.
Agriculture is tbe leading industry of the
county. The bottom lauds along the water
courses and tbe adjacent coves and hills, are
naturally very productive and rank umong the
best farming lands on tbe Atlantic slope, wbile
the uplands possess # fair degree of fertility,
and return generous results under the im
proved methods of cultivation. The staple
products of the larm are wheat, corn, oats and
rye, while rice, peanuts, cotton, potatoes, the
grasses, 'ruits and fine tobacco can be success
fully grown.
Gold-washing, with a simple iron pan, has
long been successfully practiced in the county, ^ u
and by this process large quantities of the pre- beard from Seffner—where the grand tempere
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The Temperance Meeting at Seffner.
Editor Sunny South: To fulfill a promise
made in a priva.e letter a few weeks ago, we
will try to give you a few items from this
standpoint.
We are in the midst of a hot dry spell; but
when we see the mercurial standpoint of your
‘ city among the hills,” we will not complain.
For, away down almost on the Southern
boundary of tbe Peninsula, you hear but little
complaint of hot weather while in the shade,
and our nights are simply delightful.
We had the pleasure of attending a “Tem
perance Jubilee” on yesterday at Seffner, un
der the auspices of the W. C. T. U. It is sel
dom that we have seen as large and intelligent
an audience as was gathered on this occasion.
Senator J. B. Wall, of Tampa, was the orator
of the day, who delivered ns a telling speech
on the cons'-iiulionality of prohibition; while
Dr. H. R. Benjamin and Rev. J. C. Green,
gave us good, practical speeches on the nefa
rious trafic, and abominable use of spirituous
liquors. The occasion was rendered intense
ly interesting by the famous “Tampa Silver
Cornet Band,” and tbe ‘Tampa Quartette
Club,” who entertained the vast audience with
the glorious melody of a selection of the most
tender and inspiring temperance songs. The
noble, Christian-hearted temperance women
were out in fall force to adorn the occasion
with their moral graces and strength-impart
ing presence. Mr. Editor, these grand and
consecrated women are the light of the tem
perance temple—the glory and symbolical
Shekinah of the noble cause they and it repre
sent.
The Local Option Article of the new Consti
tution will be voted upon by esunties and dis
tricts throughout the State within the next
month. We have been traveling quite exten
sively through tue S.ate for the last month,
oanvassing and lecturing in behalf of temper
ance, and we believe we can safely say that
an overwhelming majority of the counties will
adopt the “No License” policy. Never before
in the history of this country has there been
so great a temperanoe awakening as is now in
progress. Never before has there been such a
concert of action among the friends of tem
perance on the one grand issue—“The saloon
must go.” Public sentiment is assuming the
volume and force of a “tidal wave,” and the
old whiskey monarch of sin, death and shame is,
to-day, like bis ancient nrotoiype, Belshazzar,
shaking mightily in the knees. The Omni-
ous hand-writing on the wall of his pa ace is
becoming more visible day by day—“Mene,
Mene, Tekel, Upharsin." His dethronement
in your great and grand Christian city, and
the glorious results that have accrued to its
peace and prosperity, has given to all other
places and sections a mighty temperance im
petus, and a moral upheaval seldom felt in the
history of reforms.
Well our mind has so completely switched
off on the temperance issue that we must stop,
or our letter will result in an article on that
subject. Our country is growing in all the
departments that go towards making a grand
and prosperous country. In a short time the
trumpet blast of Prohibition will completely
demolish the walls of the saloon’s Jericho, the
rum power put down, aDd long-enslaved and
rum-cursed humanity shall be emancipated.
Wishing the Sunny South grand success, we
close, E. S. Tiner.
P. S. Since writing the above we have
Our Portrait Gallery.
PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHIES
OF DISTINGUISHED MEN
AND WOMEN.
Prof. S. F. Langley.
It is reported as probable that Professor S.
P. Langley will be offered tbe Smithsonian
Chair, vacated by reason of Professor Baird’i
death. Professor Langley has long been con-
nected with the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, having held several
offices in the conducting of its affairs. He suc
ceeded Professor Morse to the presidential
chair of the society and was in turn succeeded
by Professor Powell who was elected at the re
cent meeting held in New York in August of
1886. Professor S. P. Langley has passed
through rather an interesting career, his name
being not an unfamiliar one to the general pub
lic. It has been attached to many striking
magazine articles, and it has been prominently
associated with solar eclipses. He has of late
been acting as President of the Smithsonian
Institute, filling that office during the long and
PROF. S. P. LANGLEY.
continued illness of Prof. Spencer F. Baird,
whose decease was recorded on August 19.h,
1887. Prof Langley may be termed a Bosto
nian by birth, he having been born in Roxbury
(now Boston) on August 22nd, 1834, receiving
his education at the Boston Latin School. He
became deeply interested in astronomy and
civil engineering, from which latter science he
drifted into architecture. He traveled in Eu
rope studying there in the years of 1864 and
1865. On his return he taught astronomy at
Harvard, Annapolis (the Naval Academy) and
Pittsburg. Owing the prevailing smoke and
dirt of Pittsburg he was in a degree obliged to
limit his astronomical studies in that town to
the sun, which alone of the heavenly bodies is
powerful enough to penetrate with its rays the
density of any atmosphere whatever the
cause. These studies of Prof. Langley have
become famous. He has lectured before the
Royal Institution of London, and in 1882 he
was invited to address the British Association
at the Southampton meeting. Prof. Langley
is the present observer at the Alleghany, Pa.,
Observatory. His salary there is understood
to be very high, and there is some question as
to whether he will be willing to resign his po
sition even for the honor of being placed at the
head of the Smithsonian Institute permanent
ly, but at a reduced salary.
Mrs. Mayor Salter.
The conspicuousness which women are
achieving by filling political offices is exempli
fied more strongly in the Western than in the
Eastern States, although numbers of women
have been elected in the East to serve the pub
lic in positions on the school boards, as Postal
officials, etc., and 'he appointment of Miss
Minna R Pollock as Commissioner of Deeds in
New York City in 1886, has been the first lady
appointment of the kind on record in that city.
Chief Colorow.
It is becoming more and more evident that
the present war with the White river Utes is a
white man’s war; that the Indians are not foi c-
ing the fighting, nor are they desirous of con
tinuing the war; bat it is also evident that if
they are harrassed as they have been the affair
may assume the most direful proportions. The
facts of the case appear in this wise: In the
spring of 1887 a band of lawless, drnnken cow
boys shot one of Ch ef Colorow’s backs with
out any active protest on his part, and subse
quently his sister was shot Even this did not
arouse any efforts at retaliation. Seeing that
the wily old Ute was not to be entrapped into
warfare, a charge of horse stealing was trumped
up by Sheriff Kendall, and he forthwith at
tempted to arrest two of Coiorow’s backs, but
these were not to be found. The result was
that the Sheriff raised a Urge posse in order to
compel Colorow to give up the men; but when
the Sheriff’s men learned the true state of af
fairs many of them left him. In the meantime
Colorow gathered np his tribe, sent runners out
in ail directions, and it is not improbable that
a general uprising will result Colorow is the
Chief who participated in the Meeker massacre
of 1880, and no attempt U made to make him
out a saint He heads an insignificant band of
twenty te twenty-five decrepit old backs, and
he himself is far past the prime of life, is stout
and almost incapable of effective action. The
EDWARD BURGESS.
Indians form a very insignificant part of the
population of the State of Colorado (which, as
t will be remembered, is as large as the States
of New York Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
Delaware combined), but their methods of war
fare make them formidable antagonists. Their
reservation is situated about 400 miles from the
city of Denver by the nearest available route,
and about 250 miles in a bee line. The action
of the desperadoes is the more to be deprecated
in that it conveys the impression to tbe general
public that the Indians are still a great factor
in the affairs of Colorado, whereas an Indian is
almost as scarce as a buffalo; and of the latter
species o’ animals there are scarcely a dozen in
the entire State, and these few are seldom seen.
New York stock brokers firm; gradually de
veloping an extraordinary ability for business,
he soon became known for his daring business
ventures as the “young Napoleon of finance.”
His ambition, apparently, was to become one
of the great railroad magnates, and lor this
purpose he had no distinct or definite ideas, as
it is said that he would purchase anything, no
matter what the price, which he conld obtain
on time, or on which he could borrow ready
money with which to cancel such current ex
penses as must necessarily be met. His dar
ing and recklessness soon reached its final ex
tent and the climax was reached in August of
1887, by the total collapse and suspension of
the firm whose liabilities in the conrse of six
years aggregated to the vast amount of over
twelve million dollars. Tbe suspension of
the Columbia Bank, which also occurred in
tbe month of Angnst of the same year, is sup
posed to have been indirectly affected by the
refusal of drafts drawn upon the firm of Hen
ry S. Ives & Co.
Charles B Baldwin.
Charles B. Baldwin, professionally known
as, and generally spoken to and of as ‘ Lady "
Baldwin, the erst-while great “south paw'
pitcher of the Detroit League Club, has been
suspended by Manager Watkins, without re
ceiving any payment. Baldwin is one of the
unfortunates whose efficiency has been entirely
impaired by the new rules, and, unlike C ark-
son, of the Chicagos, who was similarly handi
capped, does not seem to have ambition enough
to master the new order of things. His friends
assert that it is his intention to confin e him
self to practice daring his suspension and that
he will yet come out on top. Baldwin, before
his engagement by tbe Detroit, played with
the Indianapolis team, and when that club
was bought by the Detroit, went to the “City
of the Straits” with them. During the season
of 1885 his delivery was a puzzle to all the
batsmen of the League, and he kept up his
great work in 1886. Baldwin is particularly
me itioned as he great strategist of the year, in
which the pitcher played a more important
part in the national game than he bad ever
done before or probably ever will do again.
He stood third in the pitchers average, being
exceeded only by Ferguson, of the Phillies,
and Clarkson of the Chicagos, and his collapse
was therefore ail the more a surprise to those
who thought they knew all about the various
players. His great work was usually, to first,
tbe runner, if he dared even to leave his base,
was almost invariable caught. It is in this re
spect that the great “south paw” had the ad
vantage over bis fellows Up to July 1st,
1887, Baldwin ranked number fourteen amoDg
the twirlera of tbe league. His last salary
was signed for the sum of $3,200.
MRS. MAYOR SALTER.
cions metal have seen recovered from the sand
and gravel of the streams. Gold-washing by
means of troughs or rockers, has also been
practiced with great profit The wide distri
bution of gold in the debris, the presence of
bold streams of water, together with an abun
dance of timber and cheap labor, may eventu
ally make this a noted gold-washing region.
At present, however, the chief attention is
given to the discovery of gold miDes, or veins
in the crystalline rocks. The search so far has
brought to light twenty-seven well recognized
gold mines, some of which are very rich.
Some few are being successfully worked by
English companies. Most of these mines are
lymg dormant, not being sufficiently developed
to attract the heavy capital necessary to work
them profitably.
There are eleven cotton factories now in op
eration, situated on Deep River; and another
large one being built, which will go into oper
ation soon. These tfiord remunerative em
ployment to a large number of hands, and a
market for the farmers’ surplus produce, and
tom out a vast quantity of plaids, white goods,
warps and seamless bags.
The public school system is operated in this
section to the full extent of the funds provided,
affording all children the advantage of free
school training. There are also a number of
private schools.
Tbe principal educational institution of the
county is Trinity College—the property of the
North Carolina Conference of tbe Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, and is co-ordinate
in its curriculum, facilities and usefulness, with
the best of the great family of American coi-
The county is well supplied with churches,
consequently the people are well supplied with
mental, moral and religious training, the < ffect
of which is seen in the orderly and peaceful
habits and high moral tone that prevails every
where. Henri.
ance rally was held—that about the time thd
temperance work of the occasion closed, acs
its friends were retiring to their quiet homer
peaceful and happy, with no “bruises, o-
wounds wi’.hout cause,” the old whiskey de
mon began his jubilee, and devilish carnival;
and we learn that those who participated re
tuned home with woe, sorrow, contentions,
babblings, “wounds without cause,” “redness
of eyes,” and redness of shirts (it seems Solo
mon overlooked that) “Whom the gods
would destroy, they first make mad.” ‘They
that dance, must pay the fiddler.” They that
bow to the shrine of the whiskey demon, are
intimately connected with every scarlet sin,
and appalling crime,—gambling, rioting, steal
ing, violence, and murder. We do not know
how serious the whiskey demon wounded his
subjects referred to. E. S. T.
GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA.
The Prohibition Canvass-Crop Pros
pects.
Editor Sunnt South: The temperance
contest waxes warm in Alachua county Both
sides are well armed and equipped—both san
guine and disputing every inch of ground. The
result is hard to foresee—the colored element
beiug predominant, but your correspondent
hopes for a prohibition triumph.
The orange crop will be mnch larger than
was expected a while ago. The corn crop bids
fair to be the largest ever known hereabouts.
Cotton looks well—so that with a big potato
crop the prospect is that we shall have plenty
to eat ai d to spare. W. M.
Gainesville, Fla.
A contemporary remarks: “Dr. McGlynn
professes to be opposed to poverty and yet is
deliberately going into the newspaper busi
ness.”
The recent platform which elected Mrs. Su
sanna Medora Salter to the position of Mayor
of Argonia, Sumner county, Kansas, creates
an impression that it has been at variance with
the nsual political elements of the town. Mrs.
Salter is the wife of a prominent lawyer and
land dealer of Argonia (Mr. L. A. Salter), and
has a youthful family of four small children
growing up around her, who make sopious de
mands on her time. Mrs Salter was bom in
Lamira, Belmont county, Ohio. Emigrating
with her parents to Kansas, she spent three
years at the Kansas State Agricultural College,
and soon after married, her husband also be
ing a graduate of the same college. Mrs. Sal
ter is described by Kansas women as a model
wife, mother and housekeeper. Every Argo
nia woman who voted cast her vote for her,
with the exception of a very few, and she was
elected by more than double the votes cast for
her male competitor. Mrs. Salter had taken
no pains to win the election, but after simply
saying, she would try to give an efficient satis
factory service if elected, spent the day in per
forming her household duties. On being asked
if she did not fear the cumbersome duties en
tailed in holding the office to which she would
succeed, calmly replied, “Not in the least.”
On her election and after a few weeks’ experi
ence, she says she does not find the incumbent
duties at all burdensome, as she still finds
plenty of time to do her own household super
intending, as she keeps but one girl to assist
her in her work. She takes a deep and sincere
in' erest in promoting good morals, but has so
far acted with such moderation that she has
not caused a single arrest to be made. The
first thing she insisted upon in her administra
tion was that the city’s debt be paid iff, and
this was done before she would give her con
sent to any considerable expenditure for cur
rent purposes as long as the city was in debt.
Edward Burgess.
Edward Burgess, the designer of the Puri
tan, the Mayflower and the Volunteer is a Bos
tonian. The Burgess family was a very
wealthy one and the son Edward spent much
of his time in sailing crack yachts on Boston
Bay, and studying naval architecture and
when the time came, when it was necessary
for him to do for himself, he was not wanting.
Before he built the Puritan, his first great suc
cess, he had designed some small cab boats,
but when the Priscilla, which the New York
Yacht Club intended to compete with the Gen-
esta for the America’s Cup, was built, Mr.
Forbes commissioned Burgess to design the
Puritan. The new boat was built by the Law-
leys of Boston. So successful was the Puritan
that when the Genesta challenged the cup
Gen. Paine, (than whom there is no more en
thusiastic, patriotic yachtman in the country)
gave thp young designer a commission to build
the Mayflower. Her .success is so well known
as not to need any repetition here, but when
the This le was built in Scotland and on our
model too, and when the reports of her success
HENRY S. IVES.
reached us, Gen. Paine was not content to allow
the fate of the cap to depend upon the May
flower, and Bargees was again summoned to
tbe ref cue. This time he built of steel and on
the banks of the Delaware. The Volunteer, is
only a few inches longer than the Mayflower.
Her first race was sailed in the contest of the
Goelet cup, Aug. 5th, 1887, at Newport, Rhode
Island. In this race the Volunteer heat the
Mayflower by nine minutes and twenty-nine
seconds actual time, but she had also to allow
the Mayflower forty-seven seconds. The Vol
unteer won the Boston Herald trophy and the
Brenton Reef cup. Besides the boats above
mentioned Mr. Burgess has designed the Sa-
ohem, undoubtedly the best American schoon
er afloat. His steam yacht Hanniel and tbe
entter Rondina are also justly celebrated
crafts. Mr. Burgess is a Harvard graduate
and is a prominent member of the Eastern
Yacht Clnb, being at one time secretary and
treasurer of the association. ‘
CHIEF COLOROW.
Mrs. Salter is an officer of the W. C. T. U. In
a recent letter to Mr. Hamilton Wilcox, she
flatly denies having said that official duties
were too burdensome for a woman, and says
determinately, “A woman can fill the office as
efficiently as a man, if she has received a good
education and keeps posted on the current
events of every day life.” Mrs. Salter has
never before held public office, therefore has
no political record to show, and has never been
an office-seeker. As Mayor she presides over
the public sessions of the City Council and
officiates in all public affairs in general.
Henry S. Ives. •
Henry S. Ives, the young senior partner of
the firm of Henry S. Ives & Co., of New York
City, whose collapse created so mnch conster
nation in business and financial circles, is a
young man who has had a somewhat checkered
career and has been known in Wall street for
many years as a clerk and ontside broker, be
fore he established the firm since made so fa
mous by his chimerical enterprise. His record
shortly afterward was so unsavory, that, when
a young son of Professor Doremus joined the
firm a few weeks after he was admitted to the
Stock Exchange, the Governing Comm ttee
was obliged to take refuge behind an old law
about detrimental partnerships. Henry Ives
has held many different positions, among these
For the Sunnt South.
A Swarm of B’s.
Editor Sunny South: I venture to send
you for publication the following counsel ad
dressed to my daughter, at school—if you think
it worthy the space it will occupy.
Respectfully, ^ “C.”
B Attentive to yonr duties as a student, my child,
B Ambitious to succeed; B amiable, B mild,
B Aspirin* lor a place ou tne record ol lame,
B Ashamed ol ail mat would tarnish your name.
B Beneficent, in charitable works ever abound,
B B-nevulent studying tbe welfare ol othersB f >und,
B B-nlgnanl to all ahum you may meet in d.stress,
B Bouyant In spirit, B nay In your dress.
B C ireful In your deportment before all men,
B Com iderate as to bow you speak, and wben,
B Cautious, select your friends from only tbe best,
B Courteous In your treatment of all me rest.
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B Determined to corqier In life’s great battle,
B D sirous not to B like dumo di Wen cattle,
B Dnlgent in all your business tbiongb lire,
B Determined never to be a lazy man’s wife.
B Energetic In whatever yon may undertake,
B E rnest in whatever pn fesslun you make,
B Eager for success lu whatever you may engage;
B Even temperei— never get Into a rage.
B F lthful tn the friends you may select,
B Fearless to admonish wben wrong you detect,
B F rm lu your puip ise, B false to none;
B Found flirting wun no man’s son,
B Generous at heart even though It B to a foe,
B Gracious to every one bowed with a but den of woe,
B Grateful to an lor me kindness they may show,
B Graceful, Bgooc.aud still better may you grow.
B Hopeful,though life should bring many a dark day,
B Holy, and tne Lord will lead you In His way,
B Hospltab e B numane, B bumble as you should,
B Hearty In your endorsement of all mat la good.
B In baed with the spirit of yon Master on high,
B Intent on securing a borne above me sky,
B Inspired wita courage your wnoie duty io do,
B Indefeasible; to yonr honest convictions B true.
B Jealous of no one’s good fortune or fame,
B Just In striving to build up s good name,
B J iyons wben others In prospirity yon see,
B Jualcious, B jubilant, BJjvlal, B Jolly, B free.
B Kind to me feeble you may meet In yonr way,
B Kindled Into anger by nothing mat people may
say,
B Keen In the pursuit of knowledge, for knowledge
Is power,
B Known as steadfast In temptation’s dark hour.
B Lively n every feature of your ch* racter my child
B Lid by none who are naughty and wild,
B Lawful In your drslres, B liberal In your views,
B Lively, never lnoulge In a fit ol me Bines.
B Merry my cbild; Mirth Is better than physic for
tbee;
B Mournful, though, when a bereaved mourner you
see,
B Magnanimous, O. B magulfic tn mind,
B Mindful ot Mother’s an vie ,&ndtrut joy you’ll find
B Nobie If true pleasure In life you would see,
B Numbered among mono who are servlug me Lord,
B Notable for your respect and love ot His Word.
B Obedient to those who have me right to command,
B Orthodox B firm In me faith wherein you stand.
B Ouw ard! your motto, and still higher may you rise;
is Only what 1 would have you B—O, B wise.
B Patient in bearing me Ills of this life
B Peaceable, never meddle with contention and
strife,
B Penitent for me wrong yon may do. B contrite,
B Positive, B practical, B popular, B polite.
B Quarantined against me fonl contagion of sin,
B Q ilckened by God’s grace, a new life to begin,
B q reenly tn yonr bearing, B quiet as a dove,
B Qualified In this life lor a purer one above.
B Reasonable In the demands of others y< u make,
B B 'D.ble, B R gular In h b.ts for health's sake,
BRt ed, B R gbteous, B without blemish or spot,
B Rj.dy, fur uteBou of Man comem when you think
nob
B Sure yon are right, my daughter, men go ahead.
B Blow to anger, it resieth in me bosom of fools, ’tis
said;
B Sweet, B Social, B Solid, B Spirited, too;
B Soft when Goa’s holy spirit doth woo.
B Temperate in all things, and B healthy thro’ Ute,
B Tnnmpbant overall Id mis world’s vain strife,
B Tender. B Trns'y. B Truthful as long as yon live,
B Turned not sway from me counsel I give.
B Uiefni, exalted was me design of yonr creation,
B U ilizlng me time In yonr soul’s salvation,
B V gent, lor your time may speedly come,
B Upright, and secure at last a heavenly home.
B V'ctory inscribed upon yonr banner of hope,
B Y rtuous In i's widest extended scope,
B Vigilant, B Valiant In me warfare against sin,
B Visited by no man who Is s lover ol gin.
B wide awake In every transaction of life,
B Warned once more against contention and strife,
B Wary, B Wa'chful, life’s path with danger Is rife,
B Womanly. B Wormy to B me noblest man’s wife.
Planes.
Music Teacher. Hnntsville, Ala.: “Can yon
tell me who was the first manufacturer of
pianos in the United States?”
If onr memory is not at fault, we have read
somewhere that about 1800 a piano was made
by Benj. Crehore, of Milton, Mass. He was a
repairer of all kinds of musical instruments,
and a piano was brought to him to repair, and
the idea of making one suggested itself to his
mind, and he made one, and the business
grew.
Point of Politeness.
A. L. P , Jackson, Miss : Is it wholly proper
for a gentleman to offer a lady money for the
contribution basket at church? It id an open
question with several gentlemen.
We would say that it is not exactly the
proper thing to do, unless you are very inti
mate with the lady. She is supposed to have
her own money for such purposes on Sunday
or any other day, if she knows a collection will
be taken up. Should she ask for a loan, hand
her yonr purse and turn your head away, unless
she asks for 26 or 60 cents or $1 00.
Three Thursdays In one Week.
Jack B , Petersburg, Va.: I read once of
three Thursdays in one week, can such a thing
be to sailors?
We read once of such an instance. It hap
pened thus: A vessel sails around the world
and enters port on Thursday, according to her
reckoning. The next day let the crew go
ashore and it will be Thursday there. Let
them then board a ship the following day that
has sailed round the world in the opposite di
rection, and it will be Thursday on board, ac
cording to their reckoning. You see the point?
Each vessel keeps its own reckoning, sailing
from and towards the sun, east and west.
Barefooted Children.
Mother, Atlanta, Ga.: What do you think
about ch Idren going barefooted? D j you think
it hurts them in point of health?
No, wa do not. It is more a question of taste
and looks in a city than anything else. We
have seen it stated, on good medical authority
that children who are allowed to go barefooted
enjoy almost perfect immunity from the danger
of cold by accidental chilling of the feet, and
they are healthier, if not happier, than those
who have their feet in shoes and stockings.
Let the little ones run barefooted, and have a
tub of water in the room when they go to bed,
unless you are indifferent to clean bed clothes.
Don’t pity the poor barefooted child, unless it
be in winter and the parents are unable to buy
shoes.
"Damn Literary Fellers.”
Scholar, University of Virginia: “Who used
that expression in Congress, Senators Cam
eron or Logan?”
Senator Simon Cameron, of Pennsylvania,
was the author of that “classical expression.”
If we remember correctly, some.appointment
was made by the President of a literary gentle
man to official position, as minister or gov
ernor. Senator Cameron, who did not think
much of literary men, and thought their ideas
were hounded by a library room, and wanting
impractical common sense, asked who the man
was and his business. When told he was an
author of some note, he said: “Ah! yes, one
of those damn literary fellers.” Had he
been a political wire-puller or some shrewd
financier, or stretchy conscience legislator, no
doubt Mr. Cameron would have thought him
“the right man in the right place.”
B X— ah 1 what more now to you can I say—
Tula B has stung me and 11 jwd far away—
B Yielding to the counsel to yon I have given,
B Zealous In the work to secure a home In Heaven.
Macon, Ga., August, 1887.
Natlon-'Covernment.
American, Charleston, S. C.: “Suppose
was in Europe, and asked the question of what
nation I was, what should I say?’’
From our idea of our Federal government,
we must say, “that we were a citizen of the
United States.” As we are not subjects to any
king, queen or emperor, we would call onr
country a Government, and not a Nation, and
we would speak of ourselves as a citizen,
There is no American government known; but
the United States government is. So of the
Mexican government, etc. Not being a king
dom, we are a government, a government of
United States with a Federal constitution. To
say you were an American, the question could
with propriety be asked: “A North or South
American;” fur the United States are but
part of America. United States is definite and
conclusive; for when a Mexican says he is a
Mexican, we know just where to locate him;
for the Central American States are as much
Spanish as Mexico, and known as Central
America, but they would call themselves by
the name of their particular State, as Yucatan,
Guatemalan, Honduran, etc. Were they uni
ted under one government, then they would
call themselves Central Americans. With our
State sovereignty we are citizens of the United
States out of the country; for we would not
say citizens the United States nation, for we
are not a nation, but a government At home,
we are Georgians, Alabamians, Floridians, etc.
A Voice from Colorado.
CHARLES B. BALDWIN.
he made himself especially active at one time
as the Vice-President of the Cincinnati!, Ham
ilton and Dayton Railroad. The second part
ner of the firm, George H. Straynor, whose
name is associated with somewhat less of no
toriety, succeeded Henry Ives to the position,
and he also made himself proficient in an, what
proved to be, abortive attempt to form a syn
dicate to control this railroad and other rail
road properties nominally owned by Ives &
Co. Henry S. Ives is about twenty-seven
years of age. His first start in business was
in the capacity of errand-boy for a well known
He Finds a “Sunny South” there
and Rejoices—A Wonderful City
in a Wonderful Country.
Editor Sunny South: It would be impos
sible for yon to appreciate the delight I ex
perienced this morning, in accidently running
across a copy of the Sunny South. In look
ing over this busy city I entered the real estate
office of Holmes & Sharp, and while receiving
instructions from Mr. P. F. Sharp, my eyes
canght the very familiar and beautiful heading;
and in a moment I was commnning with home-
folks jnst as mnch as though I was in Atlanta.
I found out later that you had a number of
subscribers here, and that the paper is very
popular. The old “Empire State of the South”
is at present receiving considerable attention
from the general pnblic on tbe labor and school
quest ®ns. The Globe Democrat of St. Louis
is paying especial attention to this question;
bnt that Georgia will come oat ail right in the
end, there can be no doubt.
This is a wonderful city, surrounded by a
still more wonderful country; and it is upon
the eve of a great “boom” just at present.
Pueblo is to Colorado what Pittsburg is to
Pennsylvania. It contains the largest smelt
ing works in the world, and the second largest
rolling mills. It is the manufacturing and
trade center for an immense territory, and its
inhabitants feel sore that the city will doable
in population during the next two years. I be
lieve all this myself, but will not presume
further on the valuable space of the Sunnt
South which I was so glad to find this morn
ing. Tom.
Pueblo, Colorado, Aug. 29th, 1887.
Harmony of Colors.
Mabel King, Little Rock, Ark.: Please, if
you can, tell me something about the harmony
of colors. Some girls do dress horridly, and
seem to know nothing about colors.
We have seen just such, and take pleasure
in giving yon a few points. By harmony of
colors, we understand colors placed side by
side in such a manner that they do not injure
the effect of each other; rather on the contrary,
complete each other, that is, they gain in in
tensity.
The attention of the ladies is particularly
called to the importance of harmony in colors
for most of them in the selection of their col
ored dresses, bonnets aad trimmings, prodace
the greatest discord in the composition of the
colors. Harmony in color does not depend on
the will or caprice or personal taste of an in
dividual, but it is based on the unchangeable
laws of nature, which we shall immediately
discuss.
Red and Green.—A red body reflects green
rays, while, on the other hand, a green body
reflects red rays. Therefore green is the color
which completes red, and similarly red is the
color which completes green. Both colors,
therefore, gain in intensity.
Blue and Orange.—A bine body often reflects
orange rays, and inversely an orange body will
frequently reflect the bine rays. Orange is,
therefore, the complementary color of bine,
and vice versa, therefore each color intensifies
the other.
Violet and Greenish Ytlloio —A violet body
reflects greenish yellow, and inversely a green
ish yellow body reflects violet. Both colors,
therefore, complete each other, and intensify
each other.
Indigo and Yellow.—Indigo reflects yellow,
and jellow indigo rays, hence they are com
plementary and intensify each other.
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