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Thanks—Thanks.
With many thanks we welcome the very ac
ceptable contributions by Mr. L. D. McNeil, of
Mobile, Ala., onr valued correspondent B. B.,
dow of Water Valley, Miss., in this number,
of old popular and meritorious pieces, and of
several other valued correspondents in this
and previous numbers.
We feel not a little proud of the first page of
this number, and acknowledge our obligations
to the kiudness of our rapidly enlarging circle
of warm-hearted friends.
American Pomological Society.
This Society has recently held its annual
session in Boston. It is gratifying to know
that the South occupies an honorable and com-
manding position in its councils. The South,,
particularly Arkansas, made a display there
which was a revelation to New England ama
teur and professional pomologists.
Mr. P. J. Berckmans, of Augusta, Ga., is
President of this Association, which evidences
the estimation in which they hold our Southern
representatives. It is a distinguished honor
that can be secured only by a person of good
private character and undoubted professional
attainment
The next session will be held in Florida, at
a place to be named.
Got. Gordon’s Convict Court.
Millions of people all over this country are
anxiously watching the investigation and await
ing the outcome of this momentous investiga
tion.
Georgia Hounding California.
The Macon Telegraph states that a Califor
nia detective has just purchased two Georgia
hounds lor tracking criminals. He paid $150
lor them, and $00 expressage.
An Interstate Commerce Hearing.
Judges Cooley, Morrison, Bragg, Walker
and Schoonmaker, of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, began a session in Chicago on
the 19lb, hearing complaints against local
roads.
Florida’s Prohibition Campaign.
On the 20th ult., three more counties in
Florida took position in the advancing Prohi
bition column. Marion, by a majority of
nearly 200; Clay, about 100; and Alachua, by
about 200. _
Odd Fellows in Denver.
The meeting of the Sovereign Grand Lodge
at the World, of the Independent Order of Odd
Fell.ws commensed in Denver, Colorado, on
th. lOih ult. It is estimated that more than
tea thousand members of the Order were pres-
’Who Will Send Itf
Aa Alsbama subscriber and friend asks ns
to pablish the old war aong, “We are Tenting
To night on the Old Camp Ground,’’ but we
have no copy. If any of onr readers can fur
nish us with a topy, it will afford us pleasure
to ropreduoo it.
“Baokel.”
•ver th. above nom a modest young lady of
Virginia is contributing a series of brief sketch-
os founded on Bible incidents. Their very
simplicity commend them to the reader, while
the conception end execution of the original
idea arc creditable to her head and heart.
Prohibition in Tennessee.
The Prohibition campaign in Tennessee is
assuming unprecedented intensity. While the
anti-prohibitionists are, as a general policy
conducting a still bunt, the prohibitionists are
making an active, aggressive campaign. The
press and political speakers are about equally
divided—the most of the speaking thus far
having been done by the prohibitionists. The
ministers, generally, have taken the stump in
favor of prohibition—speeches are made daily
in the larger places, while in the large cities
and towns the Womans’ Christian Temperance
Union, and other women, are making a house
to house canvass.
The vote will be on an amendment to pro
hibit the manufacture and sale of spirituous,
malt or vinous liquors, and the election will be
held on the 29th instant
Gold coin continues to come from Europe—
$1,384,000 having been landed by three steam
ers last week.
The Florida Fruit Exchange has been organ
ized in Jacksonville, and expect to handle
250,000 boxes of oranges this year.
A number ef Florida fruit growers have gone
to Nicaraugua to prospect in that country in
regard to raising bananas, oranges and other
fruits.
A cart load of dynamite, supposed to be in
tended for diabolical work in Havana, was dis
covered hidden in the woods near Key West,
Fla., one day last week.
Our Macon contemporaries, with great big-
heartedness, remind “all comers that there
will be no latch string on Macon doors during
the State Fair. The doors will all be off the
hinges.”
A prominent Montgomery merchant hearing
of the dangerous illness of his child at Char
lotte, N. C., paid a dollar a mile (176 miles)
for fast time so as to connect at Atlanta with
the first Air Line train. The engineer made
the trip in four hours.
The Augusta Fire Department.
On th. 28th ult the paid fire department of
Auguta had their Bret annual parada and in-
apectian. Aa might have been expected, it
waa worthy at Augusta, which never doea any
thing half-heartedly. The day having been
fixed, it will be abaarved on each aanmal re-
oarream.
The Work of the Boodiers.
A Chicago dispatch states that Connty Com-
miasioa.r Sanae haa prepared an exhibit of the
flnaaoea at Cook ooanty, showing that, as a re
sult of the caarse of the boodle board, the
ooanty ia to-day aaddled with liabilitiea aggre
gating $1.*71,002, while the resoureea feet up
only $121,M0.
Tallapoosa, Ga, on a Boom.
The developments at this new Georgia town
on the Georgia Pacific railway, and near the
Alabama line, are indeed extraordinary. A
few days ago a party of fourteen capitalists
from Northern and Eastern cities passed
through Atlanta to visit that locality with a
view to investment.
New Mexico.
Governor Edmund J. Ross, of New Mexico,
reports at increase of 14 000 in the population
in two years; rate of taxation less than two
per cent; estimated out put of gold and silver
in 1886 $3,850,000; and of coal 335,000 tons.
Of schools, the Catholics support fifteen, the
Congiegationalists four, the Presbyterians
three and the Methodists two.
Arkansas Surprises Boston.
The Arkansas railroads have surprised Bos
ton people by making, at the American Pomo
logical Society’s show, in that city, what the
Boston Ee r ald terms “one of the finest dis
plays of fruit ever seen ia this section of the
country.” Enterprises such as this—which
show, in a way which cannot be disputed, the
capabilities of the South—are worth more than
any amount of newspaper booming in securing
the kind of immigrants the section needs.
Judge Bichard H. Clark.
This eminent and conscientiously laborious
jurist and highly esteemed Christian gentle
man, haa just closed an exacting and arduous
session at his court, at Jonesboro
(Claytok .onnty), of thirteen days. It is
conaidarad th. most laborious session ever
held in the county. In addition to the usual
routia., th. cases of thirteen prisoners in jail,
alleged to be guilty of misdemeanors and
crime, of all grades, were disposed of, and the
proprietor of the last of the illicit distilleries
convicted and fined, and the business stopped.
In view of such satisfactory discharge of on
erous duties, it is not strange that the Grand
Jury in their general presentments highly com
mended the administration of Judge Clark, and
requested their senator and representative to
ase their efforts for his re-election.
The Original Thirteen.
Something must happen very soon of an un
expectedly disastrous nature, else the unpre
cedented progress, and prospective unchal
lenged supremacy of this country, will forever
destroy the old superstition in regard to the
number “thirteen.’’
It is now proposed to erect a monument in
Independence Square, Philadelphia, in com
memoration of the adoption of the Constitu
tion. A meeting waa held in Governor Bea
ver’s headquarters, Philadelphia, on the 17th
at which the Governors present were Bodwell,
of Maine, Green of New Jersey, Buckner of
Kentucky, Richardson, of Sonth Carolina,
Wilson of West Virginia, Ames of Massachu
setts, Hughes of Arkansas, Larrabee of Iowa,
Thayer of Nebraska, Scales of North Carolina,
and Pennoyer of Oregon.
It waa decided to appoint an executive com
mittee consisting of seven Governors, seven
Philadelphia city officials and thirteen mem
bers of the citizens’ committee, who shall be
empowered to take any action in regard to the
contemplated monument, and report subse
quently to the general committee.
All the States will be represented, and not
alone the original thirteen, aa was at first pro
posed. Arrangements were also mads to form
a Governors’ club.
Summary of State News.
Ons or two (only) of onr thousands of sub
scribers have complained that items of news
from their States, were prejudicial to the in
terests of those States.
We esn only reply—W# are not responsible
for their existence. They are taken from the
papers of those States, and we can only give
them as we find them, though sometimes dis
tasteful to us to do so.
We remark—Our anxiety is to give such
items of State news as will "promote their in
terests, and as far as possible we collate and
present items, give accounts of resoutcesand
of enterprises, intended and calculated to de
velop them and improve the State and our
part of this great Union. We cull with this
object in view—and reject unsuitable items by
the thousand.
We venture, modestly, to suggest—that our
Southern contemporaries collect and print
every item giving information as to cur re
sources; note every interprise having 1n view
their development, and our educational, moral
and religious advancement. As the Sunny
South now has a wide-spread, influential con
stituency in all the Southern States, and as its
circulation is rapidly extending all over the
Union and Mexico, it is no incorsiderable
factor in the work, and proposes to be a wil
ling, ardent, and industrious co-worker.
The Bads Ship Bailway.
It is gratifying to know that this important
enterprise has not been lost sight of—to know
that it is still kept in mind by capitalists seek
ing investments, and by patriotic statesmen
who have in view the achievement of that com
mercial supremacy which our resources and
our commanding position on the earth’s sur
face entitles ns to.
A few days ago the Hon. A. G. Cochran, of
St. Lonis, was in Pittsburg, Pa., and the mat
ter of the Eads Ship Riilway being under dis- !
cussion, that gentleman remarked:
“We have fonnd an act of the New York
General Assembly that will exactly fit our
needs. This act allows of the organization of
companies to do business in foreign countries,
and gives just such privileges as we have con
templated asking from Congress in the shape
of a congressional charter. The end of this
decade, I think, will see the work pretty well
advanced.”
British merchants and manufacturers are
straining every nerve to demonstrate that
quicker and surer commurication between
England and China and Japan is possible
across the Pacific and over the Canadian Pa
cific railway than that afforded by the Red Sea
and the Suez canal, and thus be independent
both of that and the Panama canal, should it
ever be completed, and whereby the govern
ment would be relieved of political complica
tions.
But the intense cold and the freezes and snow
drifts of months duration must ever present
obstacles, in the winter time, to the uninter
rupted operation not only of the Canadian, hut
of our own Northern railway lines.
The reasonable doubt which hangs over the
earl/ (if not final) construction of the Panama
Canal, affords a powerful incentive to the con
struction of the N caraugnan Canal, or the
Eads Ship Railway, which will afford transit
over a route equally short, and in its entirety,
below the Snow line; and hence available ail
the year round without interruption for mails,
passengers and freight.
While thus necessary to the commerce of
the world, its value to the United States as an
auxiliary in extending our commerce, and dis-
siminating republ’can democratic principles
and augmenting our influence among the na
tions, it is impossible to overestimate. In
view of the strides made in the last year or
two by the South, in manufactures, and of
the yet greater strides foreshadowed by pass
ing events, this section has an interest in inter-
oceanic communication across Central Ameri
ca, overshadowing almost all others, and which
should stimulate Southern statesmen and the
Southern people to leave nothing honorable
undone that will accomplish the object.
An Old Address.
[continued.]
Local Sovereignty the Ideal
American Svstem.
md sixes IiTmFevestide.
BY REV. A. A. LIPSCOMB. D. D.
Critical Judgement.
People who are trying to do certain things
and who are painfully conscious of not suc
ceeding very admirably, often irk under the
strictures of those whose (fforts are in some
other line. The farmer finds that men who
could not hitch a horse to a plow nor plow a
furrow when it has been hitched, can expati
ate with much learning and length upon the
different modes of planting, cultivating and
reaping The merchant, should he overhear
his business discussed by a crowd of men of
other pursuits would soou be convinced that
he knew very little of the principles of trade
It has passed into an adage that the editor,
the minister, the doctor, the lawyer, may each
receive valuable lessiens in the way to follow
his calling from those whose knowledge of
these several businesses is purely theoretical.
This is often spoken in the way of sarcasm.
Bnt it is a real and reasonable truth. The
best judges of a business are not those who
are engaged in it. Poets are not the. safest
critics in regard to the merits of poetry nor
would it be wise to select pictures by the taste
of painters. Critical judgement is in truth a
gift quite distinct from executing sense, and
not often found combined with it. The man
who can most readily point out the merits and
defects of a literary production is most fre
quently incapable of prodnciDg anything
which in his office of critic, he would feel
called on to admire. That the merchant who
tells how farming should be done would fail
should he leave his ledger and attempt making
com and cotton, peas and potatoes does not
prove that his notions about farming are erro
neous. It would be well we think, if men of
every business would listen with less impa
tience to the criticisms of those who have not
a practical knowledge of that business. All
the views of theorists are not speculative and
worthless. Some are highly gifted with abiiity
to teach who have little or no ability to prac
tice. If it be wise to learn from an enemy, it
Is certainly wise to learn from those who can
speak of our efforts without prejudice.
A Famous Pedestrian.
Talbotton boasts of not only the most cele
brated author and traveler in Georgia, but one
of the most famous pedestrians in the world.
John B. Gorman has walked a distance (if
measured) that would reach around the globe,
since the war. He has made several pedestri
an tours to Florida, and on one occasion
walked to Savannah and back—nearly six hun
dred miles—in less than thirty days; he made
a mile in five minutes once, by the watch, and
at another time, walked from Culpepper Court
House, Va., to Madison, in one afternoon, a
distance of nearly thirty miles. He walked
five hundred miles, through the picture galler
ies, parks and gardens of Europe, crossing the
Alps partly on foot. He has ascended the
highest minarets, steeples, and monuments in
the world. He walked a Dutchman down in
Holland, and distanced an Arab guide in Pal
estine. His walks around'Kandy Ceylon, are
graphically described in his book. His great
est feat, possibly, was performed with his com
panion, a young Scotch nobleman, in the
North of Japan. He made the ascent of a
mountain five thousand feet high, at the foot
of a volcano, one hundred miles from the sea
coast. Crossing the broad Paciflc, he climbed
the Sierra Nevadas, above the Yosemite Val
ley, 8,000 feet high, amidst the eternal snows.
He is so fond of walking, he often forgets his
mule. Sometimes, even now, he walks down
to his saw mill in an adjoining county. The
Colonel is a walker.
Do We Assimilate as Fast as We
Beceive?
The number of those who leave the countries
of Europe to seek homes in ours has continued
to increase until the figures have now reached
almost half a million a year. That we have
been able to offer them homes and to throw
around them the protection of our free insti
tutions, has been a leading element of our pride
in our vast territory and liberal system of gov
ernment. It has been a boast that we were
converting into free Americans all who came
to us, whatever may have been their previous
prejudices or pedigrees. For some years, how
ever, there has been an apprehension that we
are not in fact assimilating so fast as we re
ceive, and that many are admitted to citizen
ship under our government with but a faint
conception of its spirit and purpose. Many
seek our shores from a desire to better their
fortunes without having laid aside their prefer
ences for all that appertains to the countries
of their birth. They have no desire to acquire
our language cr to adopt the manners and cus
toms of our people. It is rather their hope and
purpose to buiid a new Troy under other
skies. This is but natural; yet it is no; favor
able to the perpetuation of our institutions
just as established by our fathers. Of course
there are many who are not of this way of
thinking—who have left the old world thor
oughly disgusted with its creeds and traditions.
Some of these readilv apprehended the princi
ples of our government and are prepared to
yield them an allegiance in no wise less sincere
than that rendered by those native to our soil.
A number of our best ci izens first saw light in
other lands, and perhaps reached our shores
after they became men. But as we have said,
there are many others who do not understand,
and of course do not love cur institutions. On
the contrary, with somewhat the feeling of ex
iles, they think of what they have left with a
sentiment of regret, and are disposed to think
that wherein we differ from those of their
fatherlands, we differ for the worse. When
thry did not come in such numbers, nor settle
in districts to themselves, no danger was to be
apprehended from these sentiments. We have
a native population larg. enough to edneate all
new comers to American ways of thinking,
could they be equally distributed over our ter
ritory. But when the vast influx of foreigners
go to particular localities, there is danger that
we shall have not only communities hud cities,
but even whole States in which an American
idea does not prevail. , ,
Fo falsehood can endure touch of celestial
temper, but returns of force to its own Lkeness.
—Milton.
The iron chain and the silken cord, both
equal ,y are bonds.—Schiller.
FIFTIETH FAFEK,
Another fact bears on the point under notice.
Within the Iasi few years political science, as
the science of government, has been yielding
more and more to political economy as the sci
ence dealing with the creation and distribution
of wealth. Capital and industry are fast be
coming legislators and sovereigns. Without
Southern industry the broad basis now laying
for the closer connexion between political and
economic interests could not have been so soon
and so surprisingly accomplished. Adam Smith
never had such an exponent as our civilization,
and, so far as our influence could avail, it was
on the side of his great doctrines. Nor can I
doubt that the -problems which Bismarck in
Prussia, Theirs in France, and Gladstone in
England have had to consider would have been
widely different had our Southern life for this
century been other than it has been. Deny it
who may, this civilization has worked side by
side wiib the reforming and progressive agen
cies of the old world and the new—part and
parcel of the victorious energy of the age. Like
everything providential, this civilization trans
cended all sectional bounds. Its line went out
through all the earth, and its words of cheer to
the end of the world. Like the heart of the
sea, its pulse throbbed around the globe. But
it has gone.
“And so sepulchred in such pomp dost lie,
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.”
Let us not think, however, that because this
civilization was once providential it was de
signed to be always providential. As to the
mode and manner of its extinction—as to
whether it was premature and reckless or not,
I say Dotbing, since these are matters of opin
ion; and to-nigh; I am dealing with facts, not
opinions. So far as I can form an idea oi
Providence, it seems to suppose a series of con
ditions—a transition, slew or qu ck, from cir
cumstances of one sort to those of another, and
a discipline by means of ordained agencies to
prepare the way for growth. If '.his be true,
Providence is in this aspect a law of change.
On the one hand.’Ahen, we mist not conclude
that a system on<S providential must necessa
rily continue priyjlential. On the other ha id,
we must not jf^ugine that when a system
passes away it Bfcjter se the condemnation of
Providence. Ia the one we imprison Provi
dence in its own laws and subject it to its owd
decrees. In the other we impeach its consist
ency and arraign its integrity. Although it as
sume different and even dissimilar forms, yet
it is always the same Providence—breaking up
the pure, white light and throwing the yel
low here and the blue there, the red on to
day and the orange on to-morrow. Job,
the greates; man in all the Emt, wealthy, pow
erful, honored, and Job on the ash-heap, be
reft and forsaken, are to his three erring
friends two Jibs, very unlike each other; but
to the heart of the Infinite Love, he was the
same grand man. Aye, moie, a svstem may
expire in violence and bloodshed; Providence
may so will; but that proves nothing against its
original and intrins ; c excellence Judaism was
Jehovah’s religion for fifteen centuries and it
was destroyed. But did that invalidate the
divine legation of Moses, rob the heroisms of
Jept hah and Gideon of their lustre, or silence
the Psalms of David? Nay; are not these sub-
limber and diviner since the foot of the spoiler
trod on Zion? The setting sun points his level
beams toward the east where he rose; and so
too every great institution, every civilization
which has protected, guided, and ennobled the
race; every benificent scheme of Providence;
in the hour of decay, in the pathos of dissolu
tion, has cast back its glory, like a grateful re
miniscence, on the wisdom and goodness, from
which it came and to which it returned.
Institn'ions designed to meet present wants
and to discipline men in tbeir connexions with
Nature and Society, educate their pupils be
yond themselves, plhe better they are and the
more obedient their subjects, the sooner is the
end reached. This—so it seems to me—is the
moral of our old civilization. It was provis
ional, not permanent; preliminary, not final.
Men forget that this is a new continent, that
our race here is under a new probation, ai d
that, at best, we are only in an American
childhood. I dare not speak dogmatically,
but, nevertheless, it appears to me, that our
old civilization could only be initial, and there
fore introductory to an ampler and completer
civilization. If thia be true, then, the best of
our former system will be found in the general
training aDd specific preparation, which it gave
us for a new and broader future.
Setting aside the incidental effects of the old
system and estimating only its generic results,
I proceed to Bay that the discipline it afforded
was prec aely th. t discipline which will emi
nently fit us to receive, enjoy and perfect the
opportunities and means cl progress now open
ing in this epoch of the world’s advancement.
Admit that the system had its evils; the system
itself was not an evil. It formed a striking in
dividuality of character. If it weakened the
more common elements of society, it strength
ened those occult and personal forces which
build up the private man. It did not change
everybody into somebody, but where it did
find a man of inner soul and substance, it
offered him a chance for the utmost growth.
Public opinion as such had little strength.
When men agreed, it was because each one on
his own ground thought like his neighbor, and
hence, public sentiment was merely private
sentiment organized. Truth, integrity, honor,
frankness, cordiality, generous impulse, were
the catechisms of childhood and the Evangels
of manhood. Hospitality of heart abounded.
The relations of capital and labor were
peculiar, and the administrative qual
ities thus called forth, united vigor of
authority with kindly regard Land was
power. Estates were nurseries, gen
eration by generation, of chivalry and man
liness The spirit of modern intellect, partly
Teutonic, partly Gothic, which rudely ex
pressed itself in Feudalism and afterwards in
art and music; which builded the cathedral on
the model of ancient forests and threw their
retreating vistas into its shaded aisles; which
perfected its genius for Literature and Shaks-
peare, Milton and Scott; its eenius for Law
in Blackstone, its genius for Ecclesiastici-m in
Hooker; and its genius for Statesmanship in
Pitt and Burke; and consummated its visible
grandeur in Nelson on the sea and Wellington
on the land; this spirit had here its answering
sympathies, and, from the I’o'omac to tae
Gulf, renewed the feelings of its splendid re
nown. Jurists, orators, divines, we had;
statesmen, too; and explorers, warriors, he
roes; and if we produced few poems and fic
tions, 1 beg to suggest that a people who had
the real beauty aud joy of such a woman! Old
as ours, did not need Richardson's Clarissa
nor Scott’s Rebecca.
On the better side of our civilization, it may
be affirmed that these are our characteris.ies.
They took deep root; they were fed and nour
ished by the subsoil of the land. Give these
qualities fair play; unbind their power; and
they will be as eminent in the future as in the
past. For one, I shall never consent to be
lieve that any economic institution or insti
tutions can create such a manhood. Men are
not products of civilization; civilization is the
product of men. And while I rejoice to be
lieve that our modes of life in the South did
develop and discipline these attributes of char
acter, I can never think, that any local and
conventional peculiarities were tneir produ
cing cause. No; when I believe that slavery
or any other institution made, this high and
heroic manhood, I will believe that the Garden
of Eden grew Adam and Eve!
It was a disc plinary probation; no more.
It was a noble culture; no more. It was an
economic dispensation of Providence; that, I
humbly think, and that only. On this basis,
I can look hopefully to the anxious future,
strong in the conviction, stronger still in the
cheering faith that our comparative isolation,
our enforced withdrawal from cominerc.al
struggles, our self-trust learned not by the
ruder contacts with men but in the presence
and fellowship of Nature, will fit us much
more than we imagine tor a future that shall
re-write on a wider page and with a profound
er meaning, the courage, the indomitable will,
the undaunted nerve, the heroism, the genius,
which the past symbolized.
To the future of Georgia, to a new Georgia,
let ns now turn.
Few things are so uncertain as the course of
Civilization. Its direction cannot be accur
ately calculated; and still less can its details,
its myriad adj us’meets, be formulated in
the closets of Statesmen. Sometimes, it
seems to me, that the greatest mys
tery on earth is not Christianity bnt
civilization. Yet it has its instincts, and,
despite of statesmen, the world manages to
make progress. Taken as a class, statesmen
have been the calamity oi the race, and, if civ
ilization were their work, I should despair of
human fortunes. Alto ving for the anomalies
oi legislation and the eccentric movements of
civilization, and taking into account that the
most powerful constituents of the age are now
actively organized, we may forecast the direc
tion of these times and shape iu part the con
tour of the near future.
First, then, sectionality is a greater fact than
at any previous period. By sectionaiity, I
mean, local civilization, local industry, iocal
usages, the entire resultant of a people’s forces.
Blood and temperament, traditions and habits,
intermixed physical and moral agencies,—
these are the final instrumentalities, by which,
communities execute their specific work in the
economy of the world. Sectionality is God’s
law; sectionalism is man’s perversion of that
law. One is the basis of brotherhood; the oth
er of strife. One is strength; the other, weak
ness. Providence guards this law with jealous
vigilance. Even language, a bond of close un
ion, is broken up among the same people into
dialects; and yet more tbeir religion—such a
religion as Christianity—is held as to its doc
trines, institutions, usages, with different de
grees of intensity, so that one church expends
its emphasis on this great truth and another
church o ■ that great truth, all meanwhile rev
erent, loving, obedient England is not Scot
land; Scotland is not Ireland. Yorkshire in
England is not Devonshire, nor is Cornwall,
Northumberland. Massachusetts is not Geor
gia; and to day, they are wider apart than ever
before.
I want to see sectionalism die; I want to see
sectionality live, flourish, grow firmer and
tougher, assert itself with stern pertinacity
and stand by the dynasty of its ancestors.
Centralization may have its triumpi for a day,
but it is the creed of folly and the statesman
ship of falsehood. Sectionality will rule till
we get near the millenium; omnipotence is at
its back.
(1
Non Resistance of Evil."
Editor Sunny South : A “twin star” edi
torial in your issue of Sept. 3d arrested my at
tention.
Is it trne that non resistance of evil is a lead
ing feature in the New Testament platform?
Admitting that Christ taught his disciples that
when smitten on one cheek to tura ihe other,
and “Blessed are ye when men shall revile you
and say all manner of evil against you,” we
might say if this discourse of our blessed Lord
bad merely laid down these duties without any
qualification, it is wrong for Christians to resist
evil. But, be it observed, the reason given for
this blessedness and the condition necessary to
make such behavior blessed is the evil sayings
and acts shall be false, and “for my sake,” or
“for righteousness sake;’’ and to this all Chris
tians can say ‘ amen.’’ But how is it when
slander and personal abuse shall be heaped up
on a Christian not for Christ’s sake or for
righteousness sake, but to gratify revenge or
personal hate for the devil’s sake, what then?
“You cannot convert jour enemy into a friend
by knocking him down.” True; but you can
stop his insults. He will respt ct you more and
love you not a whit less tor your resistance of
his evil designs; and other evil-minded persons
will profit by the example.
There is a common sense rule for scripture
interpretation that ought never to be forgotten
when we attempt to apply divine teaching to
the affairs of every-day life in nur day of grace,
viz.: Who was the teacher? Who was taught?
What was the occasion and circumstances at
tending the teaching, and what is the lesson the
teacher meant to inculcate?
Applying this rule, we learn that Christ was
teaching His disciples—“the salt of the earth,”
“the light of the world,” “the city that was set
upon a hill.” His kingdom was not of this
world; and yet he came to teach men hew and
when to organize the kingdom of Heaven upon
the earth. John the Baptist said “Make the
paths of the Lord straight." Christ sent out
disciples to say “The kingdom of Heaven is at
hand,” “The kingdom of God has come nigh
unto you”—not here yet, but shortly to open
after the crucifixion, ascension, and endowing
of the apostles “with power from on high.”
As this kingdom or church of Christ was not
to be founded “by the wisdom of men," but
“in demonstration of the spirit and of power,”
it behooved Christ to teach the founders of His
church “non resistance.” He intended that
His church should be established by ignorant
men and by the foolishness of preaching, and
to show, for all time, that man’s power, might
and wisdom had nothing to do with the found
ing and auccess of Hit kingdom on earth. He
disarmed them of all resentment against unbe
lievers. Now then, Christ’s church is estab
lished—has overthrown principalities and pow
ers; has reached manhood; prophesy togs have
failed; tongnes have ceased; knowledge (mirac
ulous) has vanished away, and true Christiana
are left—the freest and bravest of people—to
suffer evil that can be avoided only when it is
lor Christ’s or righteousness’ sake. W.
Allendale, S. C., Sept. 6, 1S87.
The Age to be Wedded.
Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox Fa
vors Late Marriages.
The Idea Erroneous that Early Youth
is the Principal Season of Emo*
tions—American vs. For
eign Girls.
[Copyrighted, 1887.]
[Special Correspondence of Sunnt South.]
I have frequently been asked for my views
on the advisability of early marriages. At best,
a woman can only give her personal impres
sion upon this question, and she is quite liable
to be prejudiced in her opinions. It would be
difficult for the woman who had been happily
mated in her “teens” to declare against early
marriages, and it would be impossible for the
woman who found her heart’s ideal by waiting
until she was thirty to believe there could have
been wisdom in an earlier selection. Almost
as many views might be taken of ihis subject
as there are dispositions and situations in life.
No arbitrary rule can be laid down for all wo
men to follow in such a matter. We see daily
girls of seventeen who seem as mature in mind
and body as others who are many years older.
Human beings are as varied in their types as
plants and vegetables, and require as much
vairiety of treatment in their care.
But in looking over the list of exceptionally
happy and unhappy women whom I have known
in my somewhat extensive acquaintance, I
must confess the weight oi arguments is not in
favor of early unions. Added to my personal
friends 1 am in constant receipt of letters from
strangers who acquaint me with their sorrows
and ask me for sympathy and advice. Within
a short period of time three women have writ
ten to me upon this identical subject—deplor
ing early and indiscreet marriages as the root
of all their sorrows.
are far more attractive at that age than at eigh
teen. Happy is the man who wins the heart
of such a woman, with her ripened beauty, her
developed emotions and her wise appreciation
of the really worthy tbiDgs of life.
“Don’t publish this article, please,” says a
queenly woman friend who has just read what
1 have written, “until you add my experience
to the list. I married at eighteen, and during
the fifteen years my husband was spared to
me life was an earthly Paradise.”
And so. after all, the question remains a pro
blem which each woman must solve for herself.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
New York.
THE PRESENTS.
A Wonderful Rush of Sub
scriptions and Clubs.
Next Saturday Decides the Matter
and the Next Issue Will Contain
a Full Beport of the Distribu
tion and the Names and
Besidences of the
Lucky Ones.
for the Sunny South
REaURCITUR.
I thought that L jve was dead.
I folded bla p .le bunas. I doled hi. eyes,
I drew the pall about bis form with crl.s
Heart-wrung but sl’ent. Gold, cold, be lies,
I moaned. He’, dead. H«’a dead!
But yet, I lad to day
Beside th. .epuiahre, with graeiou. mien,
A winged one In lobe, of daztllDg sheen,
WM.ie matter touch, reslstleaa but uuitOR,
Haa rolled th. Mon. away.
Tour word., tow aud leader.
Tour step, thrill all my puliei with delight,
Tour pre«eb.e turns the darkness into light,
What t'er you do, to m. teems wholly right—
How sweat 1. this surrender I
Beloved, how calm your vol.et
But la he tone, my watting spirit hear.
A wblipar that torougb alt the coming years
1 stand your crown’d qu.en. Begone, ye fears,
And you, my heart, rejoice I
H. B. Shxflut.
The Physiology of Pleasure.
Pleasures may be auminarily divided into
three groups—of the senses, of sentiment aud
of intelligence—and it is easier to analyze and
classify than to discuss the functional, that is,
tbe physiological aspect. The question has
often been asked as to what constitutes the
greatest pleasure and who is the happiest man,
but it is obviously one that does not admit of
solution. Tiie intensity of the pleasurable sen
sation is a matter of temperament and sur
roundings, but, cseteiis paribus, the happiest
man is he who possesses the greatest sensibili
ty, the most powerful imagination, the strong
est will and the least number of prejudices.
The men are rare who can, by an effort of the
will, arrest the oscillations of sorrow and al
low only the chords of pleasure to vibrate.
Pleasure is tbe mode of sensation, never tbe
seusation itself, and it is not a paradox, but an
incontestable physiological truth, to say that
no pleasure exists which is essentially or nec
essarily a pleasure. The ideal of perfection in
humanity would be to efface pain from ihe list
of sensations and to give all men the maximum
number of pleasures. All the rest, as the phi
losopher said, is but dream and vapor.—Medi
cal Press.
An Anecdote of Gladstone.
[Philadelphia Times ]
Perhaps it is in private life that Mr. Glad
stones vitality and versatility are most re
markable. It is a great eight to watch him at
dinner with a few frieuds. He never talks for
the sake of talking, but listens attentively to
every one else, and is eager to draw out from
his company all they can tell him. But they
feel the influence of a master mind in the
smallest details. Mr. Gladstone asks a dozen
searching questions in a few moments, aDd
presents the subject in an entirely new light
by some exposition that the listeners never
dreamed of. He is full of reminiscences, and
seems to imagine that everybody’s memory
ought to be as ten»cious as his own. One
night when he was Prime Minister he sat on
the Treasury bench with only one colleague
beside him. He was apparently aaieep, and
the other man thought he might indu.ge iu a
doxe. But presently a Tory speaxer ventured
upon some historical statement. Mr. Glad
stone was on the alert at once. Turning to his
companion he said: “That is entirely wrong.
This fellow is mixing up his facts and tits
dates. Don’t you remember?” Theu he pro
ceeded to explain some obscure passage oi po
litical history of which his unfortunate col
league was obliged to confess entire ignorance.
Mr Gladstone looked at him for a moment in
pitying wonder, and as soon a3 he dared the
hapless man slunk away. Meeting a friend ne
said: “I’m going home; 1 can’t stand that
fiendishnld man any more. Why, he actuiiiy
cross-examined me about something that hap
pened before I was born.”
American vs. Foreign Customs.
In foreign countries, where single women are
restricted in their privileges and carefully
guarded from contact with the world, marriage
is a necessity; it is only as a wife that a woman
obtains any liberty or freedom of action.
My arguments therefore, are only ap
plicable to our American girls, who are, withal,
of more account in the progress of civilization
and the advance of thought than all the prin
cesses of all the kingdoms in the world. Every
American girl is reared to consider herself a
young princess; but, utlike her foreign sisters,
she is not taught to bow to any superior.
It is a sad commentary od American society
and American manners that so many bright
and otherwise charming young girls are allow
ed to tyrannize over their fathers and mothers
and that tbe parents seem to feel a sort of ser
vile pride in beiDg eclipsed by their own off
spring. I know an almost innumerable num
ber of girls still under twenty who monopolize
the conversation, reprove their parents publicly
for any careless or old-fashioned form of speech,
and whose opinions are law and gospel in the
household; while the parents stand humbly in
the background, gazing, half in awe and half in
wondering admiration, upon the brilliancy of
their own progeny. This Thoroughly American
system of educating young girls does not conduce
to their early wisdom or discretion. It permits
them to gain a sort of premature chaotic idea
of the surface things of life far beyond their
years, and gives them an exaggeratf d impres
sion of their own importance. It requires time
and experience to enable them to rightly esti
mate their own worth or understand their own
needs.
Emotional Development.
American girls as a rule develop early, in
consequence of this lack of careful training, an
intensity of crude emotion aDd a precocious in
tellect, which grasps knowledge quickly, but
of necessity digests it slowly. There is a time
in tbe life of almost every girl when the “Duch
ess” novels satisfy her mental craving, and
when the curl of a mustache or the mellow
tones of a tenor voice constitute her ideal of
manhood. Time matures her taste in litera
ture and experience ripens her judgment of
humaaity. She outgrows the “Duchess” and
appreciates George Eliot; and she laughs at the
silly effigy whom she had invested with a ro
mantic halo, and admires in its place men of
brain, principle and heart. Tbe girl who mar
ries during this transition period is almost sure
of ultimate unhappiness.
Lying on my desk to-day is a letter from a
wreicbed woman who finds relief in telling me
her story. “I married at sixteen," she writes,
“and at twenty-one I awoke to find myself a
woman united to a man who had not one taste
or sympathy in common with me. We were
as utterly unliko as two nations. We live to
gether under the same roof and we are too well
bred to quarrel, but oh! the ghastly loneliness
of it all! Tell me what I can do—ho r I can
employ my time to stop thinking.”
Is This Amerlan?
Not very loDg ago I was in the presence of
a charming couple, now past thirty. They had
married when the wife was but sixteen. The
husband adored her, and I had always looked
upon them as an illustration of tbe happiness pos
aible to a perfectly matched youth and maid who
had journeyed towards the noon of life togeth
er. The wife was that type of American wo
man so frequently met with who develops from
a pretty girl into a superbly handsome woman,
a thousand times more attractive at thirty-three
than the was at eighteen. America, and Amer
ica only, is proligic in the production of such
women. Each year but lends an added charm
and time but softens and perfects the crude
tint, and outlines of youth. Exulting in her
beauty and proud of her attractions, this wor
shipped wife was indiscreet in speech and ac
tion during a moment of exuberant enjoyment.
Her husband gently reproved her. She turned
upon him with the fury of a young lioness.
“It does very well for you to talk prudence;”
she cried. “But I will enjoy myself—I will be
admired! I never had any youth. My girl
hood was passed in the nursery with crying
children, and I was old when I should have
been young. Every dog has his day, and every
woman is entitled to hers Mine has come
and I mean to make the most of it.”
I have in mina another wife—a woman of
wonderful tact, patience and courage—who has
made an Eden cut of what her friends believed
would prove a most disastrous marriage. Sae
became a wife at twenty eight, yet until sever
al years past her teens she was the despair of
parents, teachers aud friends, so erratic and
unreliable seemed her character.
A Cood Example.
A happy woman, whose husband considers
her a model being, related to me an incident
conne .ted with herearly married life which has
some bearing on this subject. She had married
at thirty a man about her own age, with whom
she was romantically and passionatriy in love.
“ The first evening after we settled down from
our honeymoon trip,” she said,“when my hus
band told me he was going down to the ciub
for an hour or two among his old/riends I
thought I could never restrain the storm of jeal
ous feeling which took possesiion of me. 1 had
been accustomed to a great deal of social ex
citement and to the constant devotion of ad
mirers, and the thought of passing an evening
without either waa unbearable. Yet I controll
ed my exhibition of this feeiing and reasoned
that were I to return to my old circle 1 should
accept an invitation to a ladies tea-party with
pleasure, and never imagine I was neglecting
my husband. Had I been eighteen I could not
have used so much judgment, and should doubt
less have brokon into a storm of tears and com
pelled him to remain at home with me. And
compulsory uevotion never endears any wife to
her husband.
An Erroneous Idea.
It is an erroneous idea of romantic minds
that early youth is the season of deep and pas
sionate emotion. Physicians and the wise
men of the Catholic Church, however, know
that the emotions of women in our American
olimate are most fully developed between the
ages of twenty-five and thirty-five. The Church
guards during that time witb especial care all
those destined to a life of celibacy, knowing
full well that they are more susceptible to temp
tation than at an earlier and more undeveloped
age.
It would seem, then, from a purely scientific
standpoint, that an attachment formtd alter
twenty-five would be far more intense and
more enduring than one formed in the unripe
period of immature youth.
Physically our American women do not fully
develop until the age of twenty five. Given a
healthful mode of life, employment for the
mind and sufficient out-door exercise, and they
For many weeks there has been a regular
stream of subscriptions pouring into the box,
but during the last two weeks it has been a
regular flood. From Quebec in Canada to the
Indian Nation, and from St. Augustine to Cal
ifornia, the subscriptions have come with a
rush; and the best of good nature has mani
fested itself in all the thousands of letters
which have been received. We give a few
specimens below.
As we have already said, our only regret is
that every subscriber cannot get the $100.00
in gold. Only one out of the thousands can
get that present, and who he or she will be no
human being on this earth can form the least
idea. If there is anything which the Omnipo
tent Deity does not know, this is that thing.
But it will be decided next Saturday, and
everybody will be satisfied that it was decided
honestly, fairly and squarely.
The paper after this will contain a full report
of the entire proceedings atd give the names
and residences of all who draw premiums. Be
of good cheer. If you get a premium kill the
fatted calf and invite your neighbors in. But
if you get no premium, let the fat calf live and
you enjoy your Sunny South all the more, for
it is the best paper published.
Mrs. W. B. S , of Allendale, S. C., sends
three subscriptions and says: “You must
know we all have a hankering for that $100 in
gold, but if we fail to get any of the prizes so
generously offered, we will anyhow have a
weekly prize, a new crisp copy of the Sunnt
South, to soothe our disappointment.
J. F M., of Houston, Tex., says: “Don’t
know how to get along without the Sunnt
South nohow; and a chance or two at that
hundred dollars is to y good to be lost."
A. S. G., Paris, Texas, says: “Find $11.
This list of subscribers is the work of my wife.
The Sunny South is now recognized in my
family as a staple.”
Miss M. O. Y., Athens, Ga., says: “If I get
the $100 in gold I promise to give it to the sub
scriber who has been taking the Sonnt South
longer than I.”
W. M. C., Holly Retreat, Miss., says, “Pat
my name in your box for one of the presents.
Was much struck with what you said in your
card that “moiiey is plentiful.” I guess you
are right. There is plenty in the U. S. Treas
ury but not being a member of the G. P. A. I
cannot raid the Treasury.”
P. S. T., Harrisonburg, Va., says: “Drop
my name in the box and whether I draw a
prize or not, I shill be fully satisfied with the
prompt appearance of the paper each weak.
The influence it sheds is more valuable than
gold. May its elevating influences be felt all
over our broad and beautiful land.
P. L. B., Bennettsville, S. C., says: “I ex
pect to draw the hundred dollar prize. Yon
will please forward it immediately after the
drawing. I am a lucky one. Sure to get it.”
Mrs. E. M. H., of Eatouton, Ga., says: “I
send $7 80. We are all fond of our dear eld
Sunnt South, and real it with great pleasure,
and we hope to eDjoy the $100 in gold.”
Z. I. E., Eatonton, pays $7 past dues and
renewal, and says: “Put my name in box, or
I will compromise for $50 cash in advance.”
R. B. E., Kansas City, says: “Put my name
in the pot for the big dinner on Oct. 1st. 1
will just remark that I did my fightirg at Bull
Run and on through the war with Georgia boys
until the close, and I want to sec yomr paper
have a large circulation North as well aa
South.’’
J. B. R., Georgetown, Texas, says: “Drop
my name in the missionary box for a fffty,
more or less, and continue my subscription to
the Sunnt South. I look for its coming as
for the coming of a faithful friend.”
Another says, “send along the $l$t. We
have already planned to use it in paying ear
expenses to the Exposition in Atlanta ”
Another says: “Send along the $100 and
one half the State of Georgia.”
Another says, “1 am sure to draw the hun
dred dollars and that other fellow who thinks
he will get it will be teiribly mistaktn.”
Clubs Since Our Last Issue.
The following is a list of clubs sent in sinee
our last issue up to Saturday the 24tb, and
shows how many tickets each gets in the box:
M'ss Kate Hairston, Honey Grove, Tex. - 11
Mrs A. S. Gintt, Paris, Ttx. ------- - 6
Miss Nora Riley, Brewtcn. Ala. ... (,
George Elliott. Navasota, Tex. 3
P E. Davis, Como, Miss. 5
Win. M. Gentry, S dalia, Mo. ... - 3
S. Moore, Quebec, Canada 5
Miss Henri I. Burke, Baiubridge, Ga
Miss Saliie Roach, Garners Siation, Miss. - 4
Mrs. W. B Saebrook, Allendale. S. C. - - 3
George S. Baker, LouisDurg. N. C. - — - - 9
Mrs. I. L Hart, Post Oak, Va. - - 3
Mrs. R. B Henry, Henderson, Tex. - - - - 4
Miss Coddie C. Fietclier, Micanopy, Fla. - - 6
J. H. Sioudenmire, Greenville, S. C. - - - 4
W. Easley, Muddy Creek, Tenn. ----- 3
Mrs. S E. Oliver, Memphis, Tenn. ----- 7
Mrs. E. H Travis, Tullahoma, Tenn. - - - 4
Mrs. Isabella Gordon, Clarksville, Tex. - - 4
J. B. AlcKuight, Palestine, Tex. 3
D B. Leigh. Bamboo, Fla. 4
Dr. L. H. Peacock, Baiubridge, Ga. - - - 6
Mrs. J. W. Sanderford, Midviile, Ga. - - - 10
W. F. Taylor, Raleigb, N. C. 6
W. B Allison, Yorkville, S. C. - -- -- - 3
J. R. Culpepper, Macon, Ga. 11
Mrs. W. T. Wilson, Allendale, S. C. - - - 6
S P. Ligon, Kerrville, Tenn. 6
Mrs D M. Smith, Jefferson, Tex. ----- 3
J. J. Spears, Brunswick Ga. - J 4
S. B. Thompson, Lake City, Fla. 3
Miss Ida Hawkins, Lewifeburgh, Tenn. - - 3
A. A. Knox, Paragou.d, Ark. 0
Mrs. S. D. Buchfield, Dennison, Tex. - - - 11
Eugene L Found Dead.
The Macon Daily Xews of the 19th, reached
us in mourning dress.
The remorseless reaper came and claimed
one out of its not over-iull ranks. He claimed
for his owa the youtgest of the few—the one
who, in the ordinary course ol life, would have
been the last to be called.
But, thanks to pious parents, he was found
ready, and when the summons came, he re
sponded as only the true believer can.
We condole with our contemporary, and
tender our heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved
brother and sister for their irreparable loss.