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Cardinal Gibbons has gone to Portland, Ore
gon, to confer the pallium on Archbishop
Gross, the former bishop of Georgia.
At Fort Scott, Kansas, Judge French has
made a decision which denies colored children
the right of entrance to white childrens’
schools.
Governor Hill, of New York, never drinks
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lic banquet where he was to be chief guest he
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’Tis said that the officers of the anti-poverty
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own impecuniosity. This was to be expected
—such associations usually result in enriching
a few and impoverishing a great many. ’Tis
the old story of the alliance between the giant
and the dwarf:—the former got the honor and
the latter the blows.
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bors will grow easier.
Unrestricted Reciprocity.
Hon. Mr. Thompson, Minister of Justice,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, says that be has of
ficially voiced the wish of the whole Canadian
people in saying that “unrestricted reciproci
ty’’ in criminals as well as in commerce is
what the Canadian people want.
Kansas City and Atlanta United.
On the 28th ul;., the last spike was driven
on the Kansas City, Memphis and Birming
ham railway, at Gain Station, 98 miles west of
Birmingham; and at G o’clock p. m., George
H. Neltleton, President, accompanied by offi
cers and friends, arrived in Birmingham on
the first through train over the new road.
Regular trains will b9 put on in a few days, as
the road-bed is well ballasted, and the road it
self one of the best equipped south of the
Ohio river.
Monument to Vice-President Hen
dricks.
A bust of the late Vice-President has been
presented to the committee by Bculptor Parks.
The committee was satisfied, but Mrs. Hen
dricks was not. Now it will have to take its
chances in competition with others. All de
signs are to be placed on exhibition at Indian
apolis by January 1st, 1888, without cost to the
committee. The monument and statue are to
cost not over £15,0C0. The statue is to be
twelve and a half feet high and the monument
eighteen or thirty feet high. The committee
has already £12,000 of the desired sum.
The “Volunteer” Victorious.
All good men must seriously lament it when
a good man brings a good cause in danger of
condemnation by an outburst of temper. In
temperate speech is always unwise; intempa-
iate writing ten-fold more so. That by sayiDg
too much one is likely to get the worst of the
argument is not the greatest danger. He may
bring the principles which he is advocating
into disrepute.
That paragraph in our dailies about four lit
tle hoys, the oldest not yet in his teens, locked
up in our city prison for fully concerted
schemes of robbery, fills the heart with pity
and alarm. Our inquiry goes out at once,
have these poor hoys mothers to be saddened
by these misdeeds? At the same time we
oannot help feeling apprehensive about a so-
oiety in which such boys are growing up.
“Narka,” the intensely interesting story of
Russian life which has been running through
1fce pages of Harper’s Magazine » now ap
proaching its end, but without any diminution
rt interest. One who reads this will be able
to appreciate the feelings of those of the .old
world who are plotting revolutions and to sym
pathize in part with their longings for freedom.
We await to learn the fate of the heroine with
painful curiosity.
The lawyer who has embarked iu the forloru
hope of proving the innocence of Tom Wool-
folk will win notoriety certainly—perhaps
fame—if he succeeds in showing that some
other person was the instigator and perpetra
tor of the horrid crime of whieh he stands ac
cused. But the wringing of a confession of
guilt from a half demented negro who is wil
ling to acknowledge himself the perpetrator of
any crime, is not a brilliant beginning.
We are in the habit of thinking of those who
are familiar with many tongues as being
learned. They may be or they may not. One
might be able to converse readily in a dozen
languages and yet know little of the literature
of any one of them. The learned man has his
mind filled not with words alone, but with
facts and truths. Being able to tell what a
certain thing is called by those who speak oth
er languages, will be of little worth unless it
increases the powers of thought.
The execution of the Chicago Anarchists
would be a vindication of the law which is
much needed in this country. It has come to
he too much a fashion with many to use the
liberty of speech, which is a heritage we can
not too highly prize, as a cloak of malicious
ness. Men who seek to create disturbances
in society that they may thereby derive some
advantage, ought to be taught better manners.
The hanging of a few bad men who are aiming
to brmg about anarchy may save the lives of
thousands of good people.
It is to be apprehended that the discussion
which has been going on about the treatment
of convicts will have a tendency to render the
maintenance of subordination more difficult.
It is easy enough for these men who have been
sent to the penitentiary for violations of the
law to get it into their heads that the governor
aDd the legislature is on their side, and when
this idea has taken possession of them discip
line can be maintained only by great severity.
It should be constantly borne iu miud that len
iency to offenders is cruelty to the law-abiding.
Can they who are seeking to make the world
better accomplish anything with all the power
of money arrayed against them? It seems an
unequal contest; yet it may not be regarded as
hopeless when we consider that all the reforms
that have ever been effected were in the face
of this opposition. Wealth should be on the
side of good morals; f or the better people are
the more secure will be its gathering up of the
rich. But moneyed men have not always
looked at it that way. In very many instances
all the influence of wealth has been employed
in upholding the wrong.
“The Holy Bose” is the the title of a little
Story in which Walter Besant presents in his
own strong earnest way a view of some side
scene of the French Revolution. That great
and terrible episode in human history has fur
nished material for many a romance, but we'
presume no imagination has ever been able to
depict incidents more terrible than those which
actually occurred. Many of the adherents of
the old system who were driven away frsm
their homes by the cruelty of the Republican
Mob, had experiences as painful as did the
family whose adventures are told in these pa
ges, but not many we fear found so happy a
termination of their sorrows.
The first of the series of yacht races for the
America’s cup and the championship was wit
nessed, it is estimated, by at least 50,000 peo
ple, who went down the bay on three hundred
steamers, river steamboats, steam yachts, sail
ing yachts, and all other kinds of craft that
were improvised for the occasion.
While Americans are wild with enthusiasm
over the victory of the Volunteer, which heat
the Thistle nineteen minutes in thirty-eight
miles, the friends of the Scotch cutter are
amazed and dumb-founded.
On the 30th ult. the second race was made,
resulting as follows, corrected time: Volun
teer, 5:42 56; Thistle, 5:54.45.
This keeps the America’s cup and the cham
pionship with our yachtmen
t The Unknown Coming Into View.
Eastern Kentucky is mountainous, thinly
settled, and comparatively unknown. Enough
is known, however—taken in connection with
what we know of similar and contiguous terri
tory in Virginia and Tennessee—to give a rea
sonable assurance of immense measures' of the
best soft coal and almost inexhaustible deposits
of superior iron ore. Of late years railways
have been built from all directions, nearly, to-
I ward3 this terra incognita, but without pene
trating it.
Now, however, we see it stated that no less
than eight railways have been projected, with
a reasonable prospect of early construction,
which will enter Kentucky at about its most
Eastern boundary—through, probably, Pike
county. The (apparently) only pass through
the mountains dividing Southwest Virginia
from Kentucky is Big Stone Gap. Just where
the Eikhorn has cut its way through the great
mountain range are twelve hundred acres of
land affording an eligible site for a prosperous
manufacturing town, surrounded by a country
rich in coal, iron and other minerals, forest
growth and water power. These eight roads
meet here and then pass through the gap and
then diverge again, radiating West, North and
Northeasterly through what is now the unde
veloped, comparatively unknown part of Ken
tucky. The influence these will have in revo
lutionizing and improving this wild region, and
placing it in the great progressive procession,
time alone can tell. May the outcome be in
proportion to its great possibilities.
A Literature that Hurts Not.
A case now and then presents itself which
seems to contradict the assertion that “Honesty
is the best policy,” and that the practice of
virtue will be sure of its reward. Men who
love not goodness, eagerly catch at these, and
parade them as disprovals of a maxim so old
that no oue can date its origin and the truth
fulness of which has been the more and moie
confirmed during all these years of its cur
rency. They point with (Je light to the wicked
clad in purple and to the good shiveriDg in
rags, and cry out in sneering mockerj: “This
is the reward of virtue.” ’Twere vain to deny
that the vicious sometimes triumph and that
the virtuous sometimes go down. The success
or failure of an individual or of a cause is not
an absolutely sure criterion of righteousness.
The inspired psalmist, while he set forth in
words of eloquent beauty, the blissful lot of
him whose delight is the Law of the Lord, con
cedes that the wicked now and then spreads
himself in great power and splendor. The
great apostle, while insisting that godliness is
profitable for this life as weli as that which is
to come, was himself an illustrious example of
the hardships to which piety would bring its
professors. They who parade the ease, lnxury
and pow er of this or that wicked mac, and pre
sent in contrast the humble, and it may be,
suffering state of some virtuous individual,
claim no more than teachers of morality are I
willing to admit. They ins'st that as a rule
the individual who is truthful, honest, just,
law-abiding, respectful of the rights of others,
and kindly observant of their wants, will be
esteemed and honored. If in addition to these
virtues, he is industrious and economical, his
life will be prosperous. This is the rule to
which exceptions are not frequent, and no
sceptic can prove what is sometimes asserted
that the worst men get the best places. The
literature for children which teaches that a
persistence in good conduct will result in the
confidence and love of all the best people is not
in the main false, and is certainly not harm
ful. One brought up in the firm faith that he
will secure good places by doing right, will
hardly become a bad man. Should he how
ever be instructed from his earliest years to
regard as hypocritical all professions of virtue,
we do not see how he can escape b6ing vicious.
* *
Getting to Get More.
An Old Address
The majority of mankind never rise above
the necessity of having to strive for their daily
or yearly wants. The question of making ends
meet is with them a constantly recurring prob
lem. Of course industry and economy are vir
tues which these must practice all the time if
they would not go to the bottom. 'When effort
is relaxed threatenings of starvation and freez
ing present themselves. But there are some
more fortunate. Now and then there is one
who might say : “Soul, thou hast much goods
laid up for many days: take thine ease.” Those
who say and act thus are exceedingly rare. As
a rule, they who have money are more eager to
get more than they who have little. He whose
accumulations have reached to millions is as
much concerned about increasing his pile as he
who is the possessor of only a few thousands.
He could give you no valid reason for this.
Were you to question him why he wishes to
make the million he is after, he would per
haps tell you that the getting of that would en
able him to gst two or three millions more.
Thus it is the world over. The treat end of
money-makers is to make.money. Enjoyment
of what they have is no part of their pro
gramme. They carnot take time for that. A
pause in their hurry might involve seme less,
and Avarice is ever crying out “Move on!’’
This refusal to enjoy what they get, from
the greed for more, does not seem sensible;
but it is essential to the world’s advancement
that it should be so. Did not men who have
accumulated lay out their money in hopes of
large profits, the great enterprises which bring
blessings to all would not be undertaken. The
wish to get more, on the part of him who has
gotten much, puts food in the mouths of the
poor and clothes the naked with raiment. It
is thus that God forces many to be benefactors
who have not one particle of benevolence in
their hearts. * *
Enjoying Life’s Labor.
“I shall retire from business at sixty, and
give whatever remaining time may be allowed
me to enjoying the competency which my in
dustry and economy have enabled me to accu
mulate.” Such was tue promise which we
some years since heard made by a man who,
for many years, had devoted himself with en
ergy and a reasonable measure of suocess to a
useful calling. He deserved the rest which he
purposed taking, and he talked about the mat
ter with a quiet determination, as if he really
meant what he was saying. But as his limit
drew nearer, his determination became less
strong, and now, when he has quite closed a
lustrum beyond the assigned period, he is still
actively at work. It is not that he has post
poned the season of rest, but has concluded
not to rest at all. He has concluded that the
glory of having it recorded of him that he died
in harness, is more to be coveted than a few
years of ease. Many reach this practical con
clusion without going through a train of rea
soning. Having, through a long train of dili
gent labor, looked forward to a time when
they would “knock off” and enjoy themselves,
they refuse rest when they could take it with
impunity. The habit of being employed be
comes so established that idleness becomes
with them a synonym for wretchedness. They
now do for pleasure the work which they once
did for pay. This is the explanation "of the
fact that so few people ever retire from busi
ness and spend their closing years in quiet
enjoyment of the competences which they have
accumulated. It would be better had they
some avocation in which they could take pleas
ure after the objects of their vocation have
been accomplished. Comparatively few per
sons in this countiy, however, acquire the art
of keeping busy after ceasing to work. They
know no middle ground between real toil and
aimless and miserable idleness. Emding this
latter the greater of the evils, they continue
on in their round of duties, leaving to the heirs
whom they have brought up without work, the
pleasure of enjoying what they have accumu
lated. And so the generations move. * *
Bace—Friction.
A correspondent *f the St. Louis Globe-
Democrat, writing from Atlanta recently, while
assailing the “Bourbons” of the South, who
ever they may be, because they do not take a
rose-colored view of the negro problem, such
as some Northern people do, who have had
little or no contact with “the brother in black,”
makes this admission:
“It is significant that one of the most earnest
efforts to bring whites and blacks together up
on terms of social relationship was made in
Atlanta and given up as a complete failure.
The brilliant Bishop Haven concluded shortly
after the war that there were but three ways
in which to deal with the race problem in the
South. They were: Colonization, extermina
tion or amalgamation. He established a church
and remained here some time trying to carry
out his idea of having whites and blacks come
together on a footing of equality in the Church.
The Northern Methodists who had settled here
tell into the scheme heroically, and the colored
people were gathered in and treated as “broth
ers” and “sisters.” But it wouldn’t work.
The eloquent Bishop saw his model church
dwindle to a devoted band of twenty or thirty.
Strange to say, the colored people were the
first to draw off. In spite of the Bishop and
the Northern white people they preferred their
own church and own preacher. Amalgama
tion—the word is used in its best sense—was a
total failure even under Bishop Haven, and so
it has been ever since.”
Only a few days after the letter containing
this extract was printed in the Globe-Democrat,
a dispatch from Cincinnati gave the following
information:
“The operation of the new law of last win
ter which repealed the statute authorizing the
establishment of separate schools for colored
pupils is producing friction in many places.
At Oxford, O., the colored pupils nearly all
deserted their own school and applied for ad
mission to the white school. A public meeting
was held and the School Board was asked to
order the negro pupils to their own school.
The board complied with the request and the
negro pupils propose to apply for a mandamus.
At Yellow Springs the School Board has or
dered the schools closed indefinitely, or until
the Legislature can meet and take some action.
At Ripley, O., a suit is mandamus has been
entered to compel admission of colored pupils.”
We are not troubled in the South by such
episodes as these, because the social equal
ity idiosyncracy has received no encour
agement from the first. Shortly after
their emancipation the negroes were encour
aged, by a few Northern people of less discre
tion than judgment, to demand equality in ho
tels and on railway cars, in schools, in places
of amusement and in the churches; but the
manner in which this demand was met satis
fied the few clamoring for this species of recog
nition—which was but the entering wedge to
social equality—that the Southern people would
concede nothing of the kind. Hence the negro
has accepted the inevitable, aud now we are
rarely troubled on that score. But the North
is not so fortunate. There the negro is a dis
turbing element, because he has been taught
by a class of meddlers that he has a right to go
wherever white people go, and to mingle with
them in their amusements and in their schools,
in their pleasure resorts and in all public con
veyances, and to be entertained at hotels.
Ohio is beginning to reap the harvest sown by
her law-makers in their efforts to elevate the
negro at the expense of the white race. Preju
dice will not “down” at the behest of even the
law. It will require something stronger than
that to make even the Northern people recog
nize the negro as their social equal.
There is less friction to-day between the
races in the South than in the North, solely be
cause each takes a common-sense view of the
situation and of the duties they owe each other
and to themselves. The people of the North,
or a good portion of them at least, have yet to
learn this lesson and be guided by its teaching.
Local Sovereignty the Ideal
American System.
MUSIXfiS OF MY EVEATIDE.
BY REV. A. A. LIPSCOMB. D. D.
FIFTY FIRST PAPER.
Things just now look otherwise. But no
matter; truths are older, grander, mightier,
than facts. Facts in politics, in social ar
rangements, in econominic schemes, are
vapory, unreal, transient, while truths are like
God, without variableness or shadow of turn
ing. On this account I rejoice in the long dis
cipline we had in our old civilization, since I
see clearly enough that new Georgia will be
old Georgia to the backbone in all the essen
tials of a pure and vigorous manhood. On
this account, I am not afraid of the future, for
I believe that you will part with all you have
and welcome another desolation, rather than
sell the proud birthright of your individuality.
Secondly, Imer-Nationality is one of the
prominent indications of the day. So far as
this change has progressed, it is obviously
due in large part to those laws of industry
which tend to draw men into close alliance.
Money is a civilizer. With ali its crimes and
sins, it does much more for Nations than for
individuals, and, as a bond of union around
the communities of the race, is a vital power.
Trade and commerce affiliate unlike races. But
for its tea, what would China be to England
and Amer.ca! But for its products, what
would South America he to the worldl This,
indeed is not an exalted view of human broth
erhood, but, nevertheless, it lays a basis for
higher relations.
There is no one type of Nationali; y. The
idea of civilization, iike Christianity, canuot
be compressed into any single form. “Hu
manity is too vast a conception to be shut up
either in Latin or Teutonic civilization, and
hence the race advances piece-meal. Like
workmen engaged on a complicated machine,
one perfecting this part, another that part, the
whole brought together when completed, hu
man society is distributed into divisions more
or less conformable to Physical Geography,
each portion doing its work for an eventual
unity. Whether this harmony shall be accel
erated or retarded, is a question of Inter Na
tionality. Certainly, however, industry is
aiding with remarkable activity in promoting
this grand object.
For new Georgia, for the South, I see much
hope iu this fact. If the issues impending, the
perplexities due to the dread! ul mistakes of
Federal Statesmanship, and the consequent
ill-working of our affairs, were merely ques
tions of this continent, 1 should be overwhelm
ed by the prospect before us. But when I see
the operations of Inter-Nationality, how one
nation checks another, how industry and trade
blend interests in despite of oceans and hemis
pheres; and when I mark that year by year
this influence is growing and that the necessi
ties of exchange are dictating the laws of legis
lation, I am strengthened in my hope for Geor
gia.
Sectionality and Inter-Nationality are com
plementary facts. This is forcibly true of our
industry. In the ratio we develop our re
sources, we make good our geographical posi
tion, adhere to a wise sectionality, execute the
will of Providence, and thereby secure the
world as a party to our welfare. Twenty-five
years hence, intimate connectons by means of
commercial changes, wiil be established be
tween Europe and Georgia. Sectionality
and inter-nationality will co-operate more and
more for mutuality of benefit ; and. if states
manship has sagacity, it will watch with eager
solicitude this inevitable drift of the mighty
current. Far more than we see, circumstances
aud events are conspiring in our favor; and if
we will but realize that this is a task of self
development and as such accept it as a trust
from Providence, I know not the scale by
which the results cau be measured.
I say, self-development. I mean, develop
ment of ourselves and through ourselves. I
mean, that we call forth our own mind, our
muscle, our hidden wealth; these slumbering
brains and these buried resources. Sum up
the losses; they are indeed prodigious; and yet
I dare believe atssMtvow that they are as noth
ing compared with what is left. A far greater
Georgia is in our hills, in our mines and quar
ries, in our forests and fields, in our wasted
water-power, than the Georgia which has per
ished; and it is that new Georgia, so long
locked up, so long kept for present and future
deeds; that new Georgia which now offers all
the means and materials of vast prosperity, to
which I would have you look. Almighty God,
in his tenderness, has saved it for you and
your children. The hand of the spoiler has
not touched its riches and you may now make
them a magnificent possession. Sometimes I
used to wonder, that this transcendent power
lay idle aud these immense materials wero un
employed. I understand it now. Another
Georgia has been held in reserve and this is the
Georgia that shall go from the nineteenth cen
tury into the twentieth. Yes; held imeserve!
A patrimony, a hundred-fold grander than the
one lostl Heaven covered it with silence and
solitude, but, at last, it lies broadly op6n to
every eye aud hand.
I repeat it; Self-Development. Our people
must build up their own fortunes. Foreign
labor is not what we want Foreign capital is
not what we want. Foreign labor and capital
are not self-development. Education is the
paramount necessity. First and last, to edu
cate the mind of Georgia, then to educate it to
its beneficent work, performing the double task
of awakening its faculties and showing them
how to master physical nature, this now and
this for time to come, is what we should most
earnestly covet. For it is not capital or labor
that is now in itself transforming the world,
but science behind each, governing each, and
ennobling each. Science is sovereignty. And
while I hold the ancestral doctrines of the
South on the subject of State Sovereignty, and
would desire to see them guarded with intense
decision and unabated vigilance, yet, I cannot
disguise from you the conviction, that State-
Sovereignty may be more damaged at home
than even at Washington. At this hour its
worst enemy is our dormant intellect, our
shameful ignorance among the masses, the ab
sence of scientific culture, the inability to take
advantage of our opportunities, and our drowsy
insensibility to those inspirations which
ought to thrill us to impassioned work
aud would thrill us, if we were an
educated people in every Jorm of scientific
industry. Hear me when I tell you that the
grandest State sovereignty consists in the de
veloped mind and muscle of a people, in the
varied activities of labor, in the energy of
multiplied trades, in mechanical and manufac
turing productiveness, in skill of eye and
hand, in the refined and elaborate wisdom of
the professions, in schools for handicraft and
art, in libraries and museums, in ail the di
versified apprenticeships to nature, in liberated
leisure—in all the co-ordinated forces of a com
plex civilization. Hear me, in the name of
new Georgia and in the spirit of the new fu
ture, when I tell your hearts that this is the
sublimest sovereignty possible to your aims
and aspirations. It is the earliest of sover
eignty. It goes back to the creation of man.
It was announced and authenticated by God
himself when he said “SubdH9 the earth!”
And out of this divine magna charta all rule
and authority have sprung; and to it all other
sovereignties are inferior and subordinate.
I see in God’s biassed Son the high vindica
tion and the final enforcement of the same su
preme law. To Him the heavens gave their
secrets and the earth yielded her mysteries.
Did He multiply the loaves and fishes? Every
invention, every discovery, every applied sci
ence that increases food is an imitation of this
example and a repetition of this omnipotence.
Did He cure the lunatic and the leper and heal
the sick? Every physician has a portion of
the same gracious spirit, aud honors the same
restoring love. Did he walk the waters of the
Galileean sea? Every ship that sails the ocean
follows in the shining wake of those victorious
footsteps. On His own “footstool” He submit
ted to the conditions of toil and service, work
ing with His own hands, ennobling common
life, honoring the supremacy of physical laws
as their subject as He afterwards honored
Himself, their iaw-giver and Lord, by miracles
and serving the world as its benefactor and
friend before He was its Redeemer. Yet men
speak lightly of civilization, forgetting that it
fills a providential sphere. Rest assured, Geor
gians, these laws are divine. Disobedience to
them is lolly and wretchedness. They are
moral no less than material; and, next to
Christianity, I know of nothing so vitally
bound up with the well-being of the race as the
principles of a wise and just political economy.
Some one wrote, in Cromwell’s age, of the
“courages that are the best beams of the Al
mighty.” Courage is what we need. It will
restore our consciousness and fortify our
strength. Courage to utter the truth though,
like the thunder in the upper air, it may have
no echo; courage of heart calmly patient, like
Promt theus if chained to a rock, yet reck
bound to rock; and above all, courage of faith,
which, like the old Hebrew valor, “out of weak
ness” was made mighty. Courage, too, that we
may abandon this vain trust in political
statesmanship and rely on self-development
guided by education, by disciplined instincts,
in hearty concurrence with a beuign Provi
dence, as the tutelary power oE Georgia. I
prefer Solomon in the Book of Proverbs to Sol
omon the monarch on his throne. I prefer
Peter the Great iu bis workshops to Peter the
Great in his imperial splendors. And this day,
I would rather have William Von Humboldt as
he was in 1800, when he organized the Royal
University of Prussia; I would rather see a
DeWitt Clinton at his project of the Erie ca
nal; 1 would rather have such men as Vanban,
Smeaton, Stephenson, Farraday, Johnston and
Leibig, and such women as Hannah More,
Florence Nightingale and Agnes Jones; I would
rather see these spring from the soil of Georgia
and plant the standard of our civilization on
heights unreached before, than to have even the
magnificent gifts and commanding endowments
of William Pitt and Edmund Burke.
H one follow the River Rhone from the Med
iterranean to Lyons, from Lyons along the val
ley and thence through the district of the Jura
to the rocky gorge of the mountain chain
where it forces it s passage, still on to the
junction of the Arve aud farther yet as it rush
es iu proud swiftness through the Lake of Ge
neva and then on to the western side of Mount
St Gothard, among the Swiss Alps, he reaches
at last the valley cf the Rhone. There, the
glaciers lift their cold grandeurs to the skies,
and even on those summits where winter chills
the heavens, huge masses of snow are piled
up, beauty adorning beauty, sublimity crown
ing sublimity. Yet beneath that compacted
winter and below that base of the glaciers, the
River Rhone steals from the solitude of its
birth-place and takes even from frost and ice
the impuise of its mighty waters. Not unlike
the Rhone is, in many instances, the course of
human events. From dreary mountains aud
frozen fastnesses, Goths and Vandals pour
down on warm and tropic plains, their terrible
floods. Like that river, civilization has often
its rise in desolate places and flows long and
far before its waters bless the world.
Thanks to th9 tender and infinite love which
has watched over Georgia, no such chilling
tide of civilization can ever roll through our
midst. If, indeed, the winter of our discontent
has not yet been made glorious summer, yet
the winter has ended and spring has come.
And this—please God—shall be our hope and
this our humble prayer, that the stream of a
New Georgia’s civilization now gushing from a
rock which a greater hand than that of Moses
has struck, may flow through the dear old land
like the river which St. John saw in the vision
of Patmos; clear as crystal, proceeding out of
the throne of God and of the Lamb.”
Wee Willie Collage, Ga.
For the Sunny South
A SONG--BY THE SANGAMON.
BY ANGELO.
Many times I have seen th’ horizon Reaming,
Lise a jeweled crown on the Evening’s crow;
Ofren In sadness, oltfcn In dreaming,
But O, Love! Never, never as now I
Alone—alone—
By the Sangamon,
Gould I be nappy ? Never as now!
The evening bells o’er the grasslands ringing
Rang to the fold; From the hoary Dough
The vildhlrds wakened their good night singing;
But O, Loyel Never, never as now!
Alone—alone—
By the Sangamon.
Could I be happy? Never as nowl
The foldlDg touches or dusk, descending.
Some lancif s lond did the bre.-st allow;
Tno choir of the grass chirped on. uneudiug;
But O, Love! Never, never as now!
Alone—alone—
By the Sangamon,
Could I be nappy ? Never as now 1
The stars shone out, end the moon’s gold crescent
A nimbus seemed, o’er an Angel’s brow;
And lot In 1 he waves tbelr lights were present;
But O, Love! Never, never as nowl
Alone—alone—
By the Sangamon,
Could I be happy ? Never as now!
I have stood by the old oaks, night around me,
Wide heaven afar, and a world below;
Toe Giver’s power to worship bound me;
But O, Love [ Never, never as now!
Alone—alone—
By the Sangamon.
Could I be happy ? Never as now I
I stand, to-night, on the bridge moon-lltten;
With joy unknown before, I bow—
Clasping tbe faith of a vow, sweet-written;
But O, Love! Never, never as now!
Alone—alone—
By the Sangamon,
Could I be happy ? Never as now!
The Election in Tennessee—The Pro
hibition Amendment Defeated.
An election was held in Tennessee on the
29th ult. on an amendment to the Constitution
prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alco
holic liquors. The amendment was defeated,
but by what majority is not known at this
writing, but estimated to be between 10,000
and 20,000 votes.
The result is due to the most populous cit
ies— Memphis, Nashville and Chattanooga.
Knoxville went for the amendment by a very
large majority; in fact the majority for the
amendment in East Tennessee is estimated to
have been 20,000.
The election passed off quietly. Ladies at
tended the polls, where they plead and sang
and prayed, and are credited with having
been—by their presence and pleading—large
ly instrumental in reducing the majority.
They were everywhere treated with the utmost
respeet. While disappointed, the prohibition
ists are only the more determined, as they
have developed an unexpected strength. The
“irrepressible conflict” has begun, and can
only end with the eradication of the evil.
The “Sunny South” Seminary.
This institution, though only abont a year
old, has already attained a popularity and a
reputation for judicious training and thorough
ness of teaching, attained by but few, many
years older. Coming forth to the city a daugh
ter of necessity—(a “thing of beauty and a
joy forever”)—it has at once taken its position
in the lead of the educative work of the coun
try. The scores of bright, intelligent young
ladies in attendance from ali over our sunny
South, bespeaks the fact that the Sunny South
Seminary is indeed a necessity. The liberal
patronage bestowed by the best citizenship of
our city proclaims the existing need of an in
stitution where young ladies may receive a
thorough comprehensive, liberal education in
all the branches taught in oar best male col
leges.
Would the people like to see the work?
Come and examine it. Witness the skill dis
played by the faculty in their several depart
ments—the readiness with which pupils seize
upon the vivid explanations given in the meth
ods of teaching, aud you will be convinced
that this school wiil do more for a pupil in one
year than the elegant ease of the indolent
methods of the day, can do in four.
As a disciplinarian, its founder and Presi
dent, W. B. Seals, has few equals—no supe
riors, while his long experience as a practi
cal and successful educator, his erudite schol
arship, and his peculiarly happy tact in win
ning the esteem and confidence of his pupils,
gives him pre-eminence as an instructor. The
devotion of hitnself and those associated with
him to the interests of those entrusted to his
cate, supplies the reason for the success al
ready attained, as well as a guarantee for the
future.
At Acosta a Roman metal pen has been
found. It is a bronze pen slit in exactly the
same fashion as the present steel pen. The
Dutch invented a metal pen in 1717, but it was
not until many years later that the hand-screw
press, which made the first cheap sttel pen,
c :tne into use.
The Inter-State Commission will resume its
sessions in Washington City Oct. 12th.
A horse in Buenos Ayres, including harness,
is worth only two tons of coal; hence horses
will be nsed on a railroad line 200 miles long.
A Philadelphia company has the contract for a
portion of the equipments.
Sentimental vs. Practical.
Miss Rose Cleveland’s Ideas
of Practical Living.
The Best Preparation for Practical
Life—The Influence of Pre
occupation.
[Copyrighted, 1887.]
[Special Correspondence of Sunny South.]
It is nowdays generally conceded that the
practical affairs of life are the things, which it
is wholly worth one’s while to study and to
achieve; that these things are pre-eminently
the business of a life which is not wasted and
that to addict one’s self diligently to this pur
suit of practical affairs is for a man and for a
woman, for the young and for the old, an object
wholly worthy of all tenergy and application.
It is, moreover, the duty of all from whom ad
vice can property come to exhort and stimulate
attentian in this direction.
There is no one of us who desires for oursel
ves or for those in whom we are interested to
merit a classification among unpractical people.
Perhaps the least popular thing that can be
said about a man is said when he!8 described as
“always having his head in the clouds.” In
this situation he is not available to himself or
to any one else for the practical affairs of life.
The shortest route to a clear conception of
some things is by the way of a clear concep
tion of their exact opposites; we arrive at what
they are by means of our grasp on what they
are not. To follow, then, this method of nega
tive definition, we may be sure of popular as
sent if we say that the practical affairs of life
are exactly the opposite of the sentimental
affairs of life. The affair that is sentimental is
always by the popular verdict the thing that is
not practical.
Popular Verdict not Correct.
I am convinced that the popular verdict is iu
this case not the correct oue. and if these lines
have an object, that object lies in the direction
of a contribution towards an effort to show
that the truly sentimental man or woman has
the best preparation towards the practical
affairs of life.
As usual, philolouv is at fault. The word
sentimental has suffered as much defltetion
from its simple, real meaning as has the word
practical. The latter has come to stand for
things real, the former for things unreal; or it
more liberal minds deny the strict truth of
this designation they will scarcely attempt to
reject a modification of it by which it is claim
ed that to follow the practical affairs of life is
to follow the things which are certainly and
surely the remunerative things of life, the
things about which we actually know, and
whose value is real because it is in things seen
and proven. While to follow things sentimen
tal is to pursue a shadow, or at least a thing
which, if attaiued, does not respond to the
demands of a busy and effective human career.
Nothing could be further from the logic of
human experience. Every achievement has its
beginning in the mind. The Bhuddists were
right. Ail reality is in thought. Here is the
root of the deed. It is the man of true senti
ment only who has behind him aud before him
au effective human career,
These misconceptions about the relation to
each other of the practical and the sentimental
are constantly and mischievously in for:e.
The other evening a friend of mine present was
commenting! on a friend of mine absent. Both
are extremely well known to me, although not
well kuown to each other. It was my pieasure
to make my friend present aware of a perfor
mance on the part of my friend absent, wnich
was nothing more and nothing less than a vast
expenditure of affection in the mobt consequen
tial manner—consequential in the widest sense
to its object, to herself, to her family and to a
wide circle of friends. I was pleased to observe
that my friend present listened with absorbed
interest, and I was not amazed when I had fin
ished to hear the comment: It is refreshing in
these days to come across a piece of pure sen
timent.”
Now my absent friend’s performance had its
root, it is true, in pure sentiment, but that sen
timent took a most promptly aud effectively
practical turn. She felt, and then she did.
Feeling comes always before doing. Love that
is love is intensely practical. The loye that is
not practical is not love.
Some one wondered at Goethe’s last acheive ■
ment. He said in comment and reply: “It is
very easy, it is but to perceive and then to per
form.” No one will deny that Goethe was au
embodiment of his maxim. The perceiver par
excellence, he was also the great performer.
His maxim is the expression of life’s logic—
first the perception, then the performane.
An Unpractical Girl
A good mother was lamenting to me the
other day that her daughter, a charming girl of
sixteen, was so unpractical. As an illustra
tion of this quality she repeated to me the ques
tion which her daughter had put to her in all
good faith and sincerity: “How does a person
know when a room has been swept?” This
young woman needed to apply Goethe’s maxim.
She needed perception. For the production of
“Faust,”or the sweeping a room,tha same sort
of practicality is required. I do not know what
is going to be done with her. Her mother de
sires that she shall become occupied with the
practical affairs of life, but I am not sure that
her mother’s ideas of the practical are sharp
enough to strike at the root of the matter. To
become truly and effectively piacticai one
must see straight and feel right. It is a matter
of pure perception and proper sentiment.
When this right action of head and heart are
obtained, the doing will follow, and whether a
book is to be written or a room to be swept,
the thing in hand will be properly classed
among the practical affairs of life.
The Influence of Preoccupation.
After this it is all a matter of preoccupation.
If the preoccupation be an affair, as in the case
of my absent friend, of pure sentiment, f. e.,
an affaires du cueur,it will,as in her case,deserve
classification among the practical affairs of life;
her vast expenditure of “pure sentiment” was
acompanied by a vast expenditure of pure per
ception, and prompt energy and good money
to the infinite betterment of all concerned.
Had her preoccupation been the same, but
without the rightness of sentiment and purity
of perception, this affection of hers would have
resulted in a mere waste of feeling and time,
aud would deserve classification among those
wretched so-called affaires du cacur, which can
never arrive at the dignity of the practical
affairs of life.
The mother of the unpractical young girl
says, and not without a degree of satisfaction,
that her daughter (who cannot understand how
a person can know when a room has been
swept) is “all for bookB.” Very well. That
is her perception. Now, if to this preoccupa
tion she brings right sentiment and pare per
ception, her preoccupation with books will re
sult practically. U she has these, she will
know the difference between cleau and unclean
in the carpet of a room, or the character of a
book. But I greatly fear that healthy senti
ment and clear perception are not at present
backed by any sense of personal responsibility
in this young girl’s miud; and if so, she has a
great deal to learn before the things which con
cern her can be said tojbelong to the practical
affairs of life.
The root of all this which grows into a busy
and effective human career lies in the sense of
duty wihch develops perception and sentiment
into action; which determines preoccupation,
and which biings out of all a performance
which cau be truly classed as among the prac
tical affairs of life. Let this be the possession
of the young girl and she will becoxe a practi
cal woman; let it be the possession of the man
of affairs and he will be a practical statesman;
let it be the possession of a literary man and
he will become a practical author. Froebel was
a thinker, aud in his day few men called him
practical, but his perception was pure, his sen
timent right, and what iu this day is more
practical among the affairs of life, when we
take a broad view of the needs of human so
ciety, lhan the idea embodied in the kinder
garten?
Michelet was a writer whom most would call
sentimental. Yet his perception was so pure,
his sentiment so right, that his teachings on
love and marriage are to-day conceded to be
by good people the most practical of teachings
on the most difficult and delicate subjtcls in
the world.
The great thing is to be good. Goodness is
the most practical affair of life. I am a little
suspicious of the exhortation, “Be good and
you will be happy;” but I am not at all suspi
cious or the exhortation “Be good and you will
be practical.” When Sir Walter Scott lay dy
ing he said to Lockhart: “Be good, my dear!”
He could hav8 given him no more practical
advice. With goodness comes clear perception
and righ sentiment, and out of these come all
those things which, whether the making of a
people’s laws or the sweeping of a room “as
by God’s laws,” are the really and truly prac
tical affairs of life.
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland.
The Distribution.
A List of the Lucky Ones and
Their Presents.
OVER 4,000 TICKETS IN THE BOX.
On Saturday the 1st inst, the grand distri
bution of Sunny South presents took place in
our business office at 21 Marietta street, in the
presence of a nice little audience of ladies,
gentlemen and reporters, a number of whom
were pecuniarily interested in the drawing.
The lucky subscribers are now happy and we
hope the unlucky ones are not unhappy, for
they will receive for twelve months to come
the best paper in America. And had Vander
bilt left us half of his money, which he might,
could or should have done, we would have
sent one hundred dollars in gold to every sub
scriber whose name was in the box.
The occasion was an interesting one and
passed off most pleasantly. The premiums
elicited loud praise from every one, and all
whose names were not in the box regretted it.
Little Bessie Redwine, one of the brightest
and sweetest little girls in Atlanta, took her
position beside the box, with sleeves pinned
above her elbows ready to draw out the tick
ets. Around the table upon which the box
rested, were seated Major Sidney Root, Col.
R. J. Redding and Mr. W. A. Osborne, who
had been selected on account of their high
standing and well-known characters to su
perintend the distribution. Major Root
is our City Park Commissioner, into whose
hands the city entrusts annually thousands of
dollars to be expended on our beautiful city
park, known as Grant Park, and a year or
more since our City Council unanimously voted
to him a personal donation of £1,000 for the
faithful and untiriug discharge of his duty as
Commissioner. No man in Atlanta is better
known or more highly appreciated. Col. R. J.
Redding is well known and most highly es
teemed not only in Atlanta, but all over the
South, for his culture and great efficiency as
chief assistant to Col. Henderson in our ably
conducted Agricultural Department of the
State, and for bis able contributions to tbe ag
ricultural periodicals of the day. Mr. W. A.
Osborne is one of Atlanta’s most worthy and
reliable real estate agents, and one of the most
prominent leaders and best beloved members
of the first Methodist church of this city. We
give below the certificate of these distinguished
gentlemen in regard to tbe distribution. Dr.
G. W. De’bridge, one of our most prominent
and highly esteemed druggists, recorded each
ticket, with the name and post-office, in a book
provided for the occasion. Such an arrage-
rnent and such men, with the following certifi
cate, will be a satisfactory guaranteed to the
most incredulous, of the honesty and fairness
of the distribution.
Certificate from the Superintendents.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 1st, 1887.
The undersigned, by request of the Sunn t
South Proprietors, superintended their distri
bution of presents, which took place this day
in public at their business office in this city,
between the hours of 10 and 12 o’clock a. k.
Before any ticket was drawn out, each of us
gave the box a strong and thorough shaking,
turning it over and over, when a little girl,
with bare arm, inserted her hand and drew out
one ticket aud on that we found the name of
J. C. Brouin, of Americus, Ga., which entitled
bim to the £100.60 in gold. His name aatl
office were recorded in our presence, by Dr.
G. W. Delbridge, a well known citizen and
popular druggist of this city. Another titket
was then drawn out by the little girl and oh
that was tbe name of J. M. Agee at Camden
Ark., which entitled him to the £50.00 in gold,
aud w> on through the entire list of valuable
presents. Ana we do hereby testify that the
eDtire transaction was strictly honest, fair and
square, in every particular.
Sidney Root,
Wm. A. Osborn,
K. J. Redding.
We give below a full list of the lucky ones
and the present,') which they received. The
presents have been forwarded by express, and
we will publish acknowledgements from the
recipients as they come in.
1 J. C. Brown, Americus, Ga. - - Gold £100
2 J. M. Agee, Camden, Ark. ------ 50
3 A. J. Sewell, McGregor, Tex. ----- 10
4 Geo. W. Huggins, Wilmington, N. C. 10
5 B. L Crowell, Monroe, N. C. - - - - 10
6 N. C. McMilian, Milton, Fia. - - - - 10
7 Mrs. Mary Deadwyler, Maysviile, Ga. 10
8 J. W. Marshall, Lynchburg, Va. 5
9 W. S. Pack, Manning, S. C. - - - - - 5
10 C. I). Monroe, Argjrle, Fla. 5
11 E. C. Duncan, Americus, Ga. 5
12 W. W. Cater, Baltimore, Md. 5
13 Miss Bettis Keeler, Pine Bluff, Ark. - 5
14 Miss Vickie Baird, Shop Springs,Tenn. 5
15 B. C. Zuber, Raymond, Miss. - - - - 5
16 Philip Miles, Paris, Tex. 6
17 D. T. Green, Moscow, Tex. ------ 5
18 Sallie W. Morgan, Joplin, Mo., High Arm
Sewing Machine.
19 U. C. Coolgrove, Columbus, Tex., Low
Arm Sewing Machine.
20 E. E. Stickley, Woodstock, Va., Double
Barrel llreech-loadiDg Shot Gun.
21 Mrs. G. W. Deaton, Courtland, Miss , Wa-
terbury Walch.
22 Ed. O’Brien, Wichita, Kan., Waterbury
Watch.
23 Mrs. Tom Maguire, Baltimore, Md , Wa
terbury Watch.
24 Miss ErnmaF. Evans, Norwood, Ga., Wa
terbury Watch.
25 Maud Hughes, Marshal!, Tex., Waterbury
Watch.
26 Mrs. M. R. Grigsby, Nashville, Tenn., Wa
terbury Watch.
27 Mrs. Belle Peacock, Rusk, Tex., Waterbu
ry Watch.
28 Hon. J. J, McDonald, Cuthbert, Ga., Wa
terbury Watch.
29 “Little Maggie” Tindall, Macon, Ga., Wa
terbury Watch.
30 Capt. Jno. S. Henderson, Salisbury, N. C.
Waterbury Watch.
31 T. P. Turner, Memphis, Tenn , Webster’s
Unabridged Dictionary.
32 E. S. Neck, Palatka, l'la., 27 vols. Stan
dard Poets.
33 B. A. Reeves, Hot Springs, Ark., Cham
bers Encyclopedia, 6 volsT
34 Mrs. Jno. P. White, Nashville, Tenn , Car
lyle’s Works, 11 vols.
35 R. A. Evans, Crystal Springs, Miss , Ir
ving’s Works, 15 vols.
36 J. J. Sykes, Courtland, Ala., Dickens’
Works, 15 vols.
37 Mrs. P. W. Phinizy, Hillsboro, Ala., Geo.
E iott’s Works, 8 vols.
38 Mrs. J. T. Short, Nashville, Ark., Scott’s
Works, 24 vols.
39 W. B. I’attey, Macon, Miss., Goethe’s
Works, 5 vols.
40 Capt. W. A. Powell, Atlanta, Ga., Macau-
ley’s History of England, 5 vols.
41 Mary E. Maher, Blacksville, S. C., Ma
caulay’s Essays and Poems, 3 vols.
42 G. P. Newnan, Brainerd, Kan., Rollins’ An
cient History, 4 vols.
43 Giles Cook, Front Royal, Va., Plutarch’s
Lives, 3 vols.
The following received a year’s subscription,
each, to the Sunny South, and they wiil please
notify us at once how or to whom they wish
the paper sent: Mrs. D. McFarland, Or
lando, Fla ; Mrs. C. J. Triay, Jacksonville,
Fla.; J. W. McGill, Corsicana, Texas; Mrs. A.
C. Woolley, Selma, Ala.; Mrs. S. J. Johnson,
Bowden, Ga.; W. G. Paschall, Tullahoma,
Tenn ; F. J. Winston, Durham, N. C.; J. C.
Sanders, Honey Grove, Texas; B. F. Ross,
Fort Valley, Ga.; Mrs. Geo. S. Murphey, Au
gusta, Ga.