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/ THE SUKHY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GA„ SATURDAY HORNING. NOVEMBER 12, 1887. PUBLISHED EVERY 8ATURDAY BUSINESS OFFICE 21 MARIETTA ST SEALS. - - EDITOR Terms: Two dollars per Annnm. One dollar for Six Months^ Advertising i Ten cent* per Une. 8event>-nve cent* per Inch '~BP“8abscribere ihonld alwarB give the thepostoffice to which their papers are sent., Sen. delays and lnacnraciee are apt to N'Uciw a disre^arri ofthls rule. Among thousands of snhscntwrs ltiE difficult to find a particular name without a certain knowledge of thepostofficei address . ^ If yon wish your paper aiscontinned or ohangea this office and not to traveling •gents, and n»tne both office TO COWTBIBUTOBS. Write os plainly at possible on one tide of the taper, and use paper of medium weight. Do not roUyemr MSS. Fold them flatly, a rolled page it troublesome both to reader and printer. Letter tier paper is most preferred. 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We will esteem it a special fa vor if each of our subscribers will take a postal card and write on it, plainly, the names and post- offices of a few good people and mail it to us at once. W e will send them sample copies of the Sunny South with supplement and list of presents. Who will win the Pony? One little girl says she intends to get it for she has already writ ten to eleven of her aunts. The boys are waking up too and they should not let the girls beat them. Two little fellows in Memphis think they can get it. One in Au gusta, Ga., one in Jasper, Tenn., one in College Corner, Ohio, and another in Eastville, Va., are go ing to try for it. There ought tp : be" and will be, no doubt, one thousand boys and girls in the contest. Confederate Money Sold. Five thousand dollars iu Confederate money brought $1.50 at Macon a few weeks ago. It was fished up from forgotten depths by Col. Alexander Goode. National Exposition, Colored, 1888. A large meeting of colored citizens was held in Augusta on the night of Tuesday. October 25th, to hear an address on the subject by Philip Joseph, ihe Director General of the Na tional Exposition to be held in Atlanta, in November, 1888 It was unanimously decided that the colored people of Augusta shjuld make an exhibit. The object of the exposition is to show the progress of the race, bo’h intel lectually and mechanically in the past twenty- five years. They expect to raise $20,000 in shares of $5 each. It will be the biggest show ever gotton up by colored people of this country. International Aibitration. On the evening of October 31st, President Cleveland received a deputation from Great Britain, consisting of twelve distinguished gentlemen, representing among others consid erably over two hundred members of the Brit ish Parliament, who desire his co-operation in securing a treaty between that country and the United States, which shall provide for an amicable settlement of disputes by arbitration. ^SirjLyon Playfair addressed the President in behalf of the object of his mission, some what at length—to which the President replied, but in a sort of non-commital way. The mat ter will doubtless be placed before Congress. Money for Ireland. The following cablegram has been sent from Detroit: Detroit, November 1.—To Jas. Giliis Big ger, M. P., London: The league is getting into line. Ten thousand dollars more to test coercion. Half of this sum is from fearless Philadelphia. O’Brien in prison worth ten thousand a week. Ciias. O’Reily, Treasurer. That last sentence is undoubtedly true. Ed itor O’Brien certainly has a strong hold on the a£f< ctions of the people of Ireland. Be sides that, all Irish-Americans in this country, and manv United States citizens who have no Irish blood in their veins, will sympathize with the Irish cause, and contribute liberally to it. O’Brien’s three months imprisonment will not carry with it any degree of humilia tion—nor will it dampen either his ardor or that of his followers. On the contrary it will increase the ardor of both himself and them. We believe his imprisonment will hasten the downfall of the present Ministry—already foreshadowed. The Presbyterian Ecumenical Coun cil. The meeting of the Presbyterian ecumenical council, which is to be held in London next year, has been postponed from June 20 to July 3, at the request of American delegates. The Public Debt. During the month of October the public debt of the United States was reduced $10,- 823,005; and since June 30th, when the last fiscal year ended, it has been reduced $40,- 730,035, or a fraction over $10,000,000 a month. The Four Hundredth Anniversary. The Mexicans are preparing to properly cel ebrate the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America at the capital of that country. The Duke of Verrague, of Spain, is a legitimate descendant of Christopher Colum bus, and he heartily approves of the celebra tion. _ Assistant Secretary of State. A well authenticated report has gained cur rency and credence in Washington that Mr. E. Boyd Faulkner, of West Virginia, has been tendered the vacant first Assistant Secretary ship of State. Mr. Faulkner is a lawyer of high standing, and sou of C. J. Faulkner, who was minister to France in Buchanan’s time, and brother to the Senator-elect from West Virginia. He was effered the Consul General ship to Cairo, Egypt, but declined. The Nicaragua Canal. With unmixed, and much pleasure we see it stated that a syndicate composed of New York, Baltimore and Richmond capitalists, have de termined to undertake the construction of the Nicaraguan Canal, which it is estimated it will require $05,000,000 in money, and six years time to complete. The Chief Engineer has stated that the enterprise is to be begun at once, and that engineering parties will leave Greytown on Dec. 1st to make preliminary sur veys. We really hope that the above statement is true, and that this truly great and important enterprise will not only not be lost sight of, but that it will be vigorously pushed forward to completion by Americans with American money, and by the authority and under the auspices and protection of the United States government, backed by. the entire people. We maintain that this canal, and if needs be the Eads’ Ship railway, should be built by citizens of this country, and be kept under their con trol, if for no other reason than to shorten and facilitate water transportation and communi cation between our Gulf and Pacific States. No part of the country is more directly inter ested in either or both of these great and im portant enterprises than the South Atlantic and Gulf States. The payment of the public debt at the rate of $10,000,000 monthly releases that much money from confinement, and adds it to the active capital of the country; and as the South presents the most profitable field for its employment in railway construction and manufacturing industries, she will soon he, if not now, directly interested in having ihe shortest possible routes to the markets on the Pacific Coast of both continents and Japan and China, who are anxious for closer commercial relations with this country and for a largely Augmented interchance of the pr'-dr.ctions and manufactures of each. The South is in terested, and should neither s ! eep over the matter, nor be a laggard in pushing it. No Hope for the Anarchists. After all the effort, the expenditure of much money, the getting up of numerously signed petitions, and the exhaustive arguments of eminent counsel, the Supreme Court of the United States has annunced its (unanimously given) opinion adversely to the Anarchists of Chicago. The laws of Illinois are sustained, and it would seem that the culprits will expi ate their atrocious crime on the scaffold. The decision of the court was read by Chief Justice Waite ketween twelve and one o’clock on Wednesday, the 2nd inst., and concludes as follows: “As to the suggestion by counsel for peti tioning Spies and Fielden, that Spies having been born in Germany, and Fielden in Great Britain, they have been denied by the decis ion of the court below the rights guaranteed to them by treaties between the United States and their respective countries, it is sufficient to say that no such questions were made and decided in either of the courts below, and they cannot be raised in this court for the first time. We have not been referred to any treaty, neither are we aware of any under which such a question could be raised. Being of the opinion, therefore, that the Federal questions presented by counsel for the petitioners, and which they say they de sire to argue, are not in facts involved in the determieation of the case a. it appears on the face of the record, we deny the writ.” Fond of Fun. “He is not a bad boy, but fond of fun”—is a criticism which we sometimes hear parents make upon their sons. We happen to know one of these fun-loving boys, and have heard no: a little of the exploits into which he is be trayed by this amiable weakness. In the out set we may remark that his craving for fun is strongest at night, and that he is most strongly moved to do things to laugh at when few can see what he is doing. When darkness has wrapped the earth and the sinking stars per suade to slumber, he finds it funny beyond all expression to steal forth in company with some kindred spirits and remove gates from their hinges and hide them; or to tear up the bridges over street crossings. He finds a keen enjoy ment in turning the saddles of men who come to night service on horse back, or in hiding the cushions of those who come in buggies. Sometimes he increases the fun by carrying the buggy off and hiding it. Again he will go to church. But here his fondness for fun will so far get the better of him that he will prove a source of vexation to those who go thither with the honest purpose of worship. Either he will laugh and talk with some companions who have gone thither with him, or he will seat himself near some girl who is silly enough to be flattered by his attentions, or irreverent enough to take pleasure in his mockery, and by their inattention and noise disturb the ser vice. For fun’s sake he will sometimes sit np near the pulpit, seeming to give close atten tionto the sermon, and will with weeping eyes present himself as a penitent, all of which he greatly ei joys laughing at when he gets off among his fellow fun-lovers. His too fond pa rents can attribute al! this to his fondness for practical joking, and still insist that he is a good boy at heart; and it may he that a few others will be disposed to pardon his misdeeds on account of his youth. Most of those, how ever, whose goad opinion he should crave, and whose esteem it would benefit him to have, will set him down as a boy of bad disposition. A New Telegraph Promised. A Baltimore special to the Chicago Inter- Ocean, November 2d, says that Jay Gould is menaced by a new rival in the telegraph busi ness. Baltimore capitalists are to furn : sh the bulk of the money necessary to build and equip a more complete rival telegraph system than any yet organized. It really does seem as if the capitalists of this country could, if they would, break down this gigantic monopoly. Everybody knows that the present stock of the Western Union has been repeatedly watered—the same as rail way and most all other stock—so that the as sumed capital represents a capitalization many times greater than the actual capital invested, and that the rates charged are such as to pay dividends on this fictitious capital. If this be so—and nobody doubts or disputes it—certainly a company whose capital should represent the actual cost of construction, ope rated on business principles, would pay good dividends with rates one-half, or even less, those now paid. Such is the power and the aggressive audac ity of this monopoly that as soon as an oppo sition line charging lower rates gets into good, practical, paying operation the Western Union either kills it off by temporarily reducing rates or arouses the cupidity of the owners by pay ing them two or three times its actual cost. This, again, is equivalent to watering that stock, the apparent capital (first cost) is three times the real, and the public are again per sistently and mercilessly victimized and fleeced. There is a remedy, and the people—who are the government—should apply it. Tearing Down. To point out deft eta in the works of others— to pronounce them worthless and undeserving of existence, is very easy. It requires nor taste nor judgment to be a fault-finder, though to be a discreet fault-finder requires both. We can conceive of one gifted in large measure with the critical faculty, with no ability what ever to produce the works which their keen perceptions decide are perfect or faulty. But we have not set out to speak of those who make it their business to estimate the merits of works of art. These are needful and if they blunder, they may claim that they are striving to promote a higher style of perform ance. We aim to speak rather of those who are ever ready to tear down what is, without offering anything better. These are to be found everywhere—often where they have the power to do much mischief. It is needless to speak of those who have striven and are still striving to tear down the Christian religion. These would remove what is to all the greatest, to some the sole solace of human life, without offering anything in its stead. But in regard to mere temporal affairs, there are those who urge rejection by the hundred, without pre senting a single suggestion of something better. It would stem that our Georgia Legislature is peculiarly fertile in geniuses of this kind. Many of its members delighted to air their elo quence in denunciations of the convict system; but we have searched vainly through their speeches for some proposal of a better. Bar barous, cruel, disgraceful, are some of the ad jectives which they heap upon the manage ment of the camps where murderers, burglars and thieves are sent to expiate their offenses. But they who are so profuse in pouring out abusive epithets do not tell how the law-abid ing are to be protected from the evil-designing if this which they condemn shall be swept away. Their powei exhausts itself in efforts to tear down; none is left for building np. The Threatened Anarchy—Will it Come? In the estimation of all soundly rational men, Herr Most and his disciples are fanatics, whose craze is so wicked and dangerous as to call for its extinction by their death. Society has the right to protect itself by wiping sueh foes to its safety out of existence. But we were too hasty, did we pronounce all who promulgated anarchic theories either wicked or foolish? There are men most benevolent of thought and purpose, who honestly believe that people might live, and live more happily than they do, without the costly machinery called gov ernment. These insist that the larger part of our laws are framed to protect the strong in wrong doing; and that, could each one have the full reward of his own toil, there would be less need of statutes to protect property and life. While not at all prepared to subscribe to such views, we cannot pronounce them utterly absurd. It is generally admitted that the peo ple who are least governed are best governed; and that laws are most efficient when most slightly felt by their subjects. We fear, too, that it must be conceded that the enactments of Legislatures and the de cisions of courts, intended to render more binding the obligation of contracts, have a contrary tendency. In traffic—the most im portant concern of life—the loss of credit, which a failure to comply with a promise in volves, is a punishment more to be dreaded than any which a legal tribunal can impose. As a matter of fact, millions are bora, live and die, without knowing anything of government save the burdens which it imposes. These propositions, and others like them, the advo cates of no-government advance and maintain. Should their theories, however, he submitted td a practical test, they would be found want ing. Admitting, as we do, that there are mauy people who would do right were there no law, it is beyond dispute that there are almost as many who will not behave themselves properly with law. The sincere advocates of this no government doctrine rate human nature as much too highly as the advocates of absolutism rate it too low. Looking at the enormous sums which it costs men to be ruled, they fail to estimate how much more enormous, in the present state of the world’s morals, would be the cost of not being ruled. Unquestionably we should like to see the dream of these spec- ulatists a reality. Gladly would we welcome the day when both law-makers and law-execu tors would be unnecessary, and when jails and gibbets would be unknown. Inspired prophecy tells of such a period, and we may make its speedy coming an item of our progress. But we fear that for some centuries yet auarchy will be a synonym of confusion and dishonor. Hon. William Archer Cccke. This much esteemed Christian gentleman and eminent jurist, one of our warmest and most most valued friends, and our of our ablest and prized correspondents, departei this life, at his nome in Sanford, Florida, on the 17th instant. Although he was known to be indisposed, his death was quite unexpected to those nearest to, and most intimate with him. Although personally acquainted with the distinguished deceased, and deeply impressed with the lofty aspirations of soul, and the no ble and ennobling traits of his character, we were not acquainted with his early history. HeDce our impulse and desire to give an ex tended notice oL him could not be gratified, and not untilWpw have we seen any account of his general fife. We hasten, gladly, to lay before our readers, the following brief tribute which we find ih the Sanford, Fla., Argus, re gretting that we could not sooner, and more at length, speak of one so deserving the highest and warmest tribute: Judge Cocke had been indisposed for several days but no one thought that his illness was critical until a short time before his death, which was quite sodden. William Archer Cocke was born in Powhat tan county, Va., in 1822, and was (55 years of age at the time of hi3 death. He was educated at William and Mary College, and after gradu atiug in law was admitted to the bar of Rich mond, where he prac iced for a number of years. In 1852 he was married to Miss Catha rine Parkhill, who, after having been his lov ing and devoted comoanion for thirty-fine years, survives him. During the war between the States Judge Cocke was in the treasury department of the Confederate States under Mr. Memminger and was stationed at Rich mond. In 1865 he moved to Monticello, Fla, where for several years he practiced law and and edited the Family Friend a Democratic newspaper. In 1858 he was appointed, by Governor Reed, Judge of the 1st Judicial Cir cuit, which position he filled for four years; he was then, in 1872, appointed Attorney General by Governor Ilart. It was while holding this position (1870) that he rendered his celebrated minority report, as a member of the Florida returning hoard, in which he gave the vote of Florida to Tilden. In 1870 he was appointed Judge of the 7th Judicial District by Governor Drew, which position he filled for eight years. For the last thre8 years he has practiced law in this city. As a writer Judge Cocke was deep rather than profuse. For a number of years, he has been a regular contributor to several law magagiiiesg'and his articles will bear the keenest criticis|n and are always cited as au thority. Some of his legal works have at tained more than a national reputation and are used in the courts of England. Of late years his work has taken a religious turn, and he has just completed a work of that character, which is as yet unpublished. As a friend and neighbor Judge Cocke was beloved by all who knew him. He was kind and generous to a fault, giving freeiy when he could ill afford to do so, for as a business man measured by the usual standard of dollars and cents, he was a failure, because he did not know the value of money, exoept by the pleasure he couid afford a friend or a relative with it. He did not derive any pleasure from simple possession, with him it was a means and not an end, consequently he lived, since the loss of his property by the war, and died a comparatively poor man, and never made more than h ; s salary out of his office. In all the relations of life he was kind and true, and was a sincere believer in the Divine law, and many of his last days were devoted to its reading and study. It was our pi iviiege to know him intimately and to call him our friend, and we can, and do, truly sympathize with his noble and gifted, but bereaved wife in her sad afflic tion. Governor Gordon’s Kiss. The Augusta Chronicle says, Governor Gor don is reported to have kissed a man in Ohio, and to have kissed him right upon his mouth. In some parts of Europe, in Germany, if we are not mistaken, and notably in Russia, the kissing of man by man is not infrequent, but to the Anglo-Saxon mind, such a performance is somewhat strange. However, as it further appears that the man kissed was a politician and Governor Gordon has been canvassing Ohio in the interests of Democracy, the kiss may only have been a truly Democratic kiss after all. So long as our galiant Governor con fines his extraneous osculations within these well-guarded limits, we do not know that any 4 objection will be heard from the only quarter authorized to make objection, and in the ab sence of any demurrer from that quarter, no body else has any right to object at all. Possibly, too, the kiss was not only politi cal but somewhat religious. It may have been, and we think beyond question was, a kiss of peace. At certain set ceremonials of the Ro man Catholic Church, the chief ecclesiastical dignitary, at one portion of the ritual, gives unto the lesser clergy what is known as “the kiss of peace”—that is, a kiss symbolical of the harmony and good will intended by the Divine One to obtain among men. The individual to whom the gubernatorial salute was given, is stated to have been a Gen, Morgan. From the tenor of his remarks, just before the kiss of peace was imparted him, we infer he was a General on the other side and a Republican, if so, Gov. Gordon may have been only trying to convert him to a realizing sense of the error of his ways political. He may have been seeking to bring him into the true fold, and acted on the old rhyme in doing so, “Oh! open the ring and let him in— And kiss him when you get him in.” Jewish Orphans Home. The board to control the Jewish Orphans’ Home, I. O. B. B., met a short time ago and decided upon the arrangements necessary to ward the erection of the orphan asylum in At lanta. At the meeting there were present Hon. Simon Wolf, President Board of Control of the Orphan Asylum fund I. O. B. B.; Hon. J. Mack, Wilmington, N. C.; Nathan Lemen, Charleston, S C.; Henry Adler, Washington, D. C ; Max Cohen, Washington, D. C.; E A. Weil, Savannah; Joseph Hirsch, Atlanta. The board appointed several committees. The building committee, composed of Isaac May, Ellias Hairm&n, Simon Benjamin, Atlanta, and E. A. Weil, S. Herman, Savannah; Joseph Dunneberg, Macon; the Auditing Committee, composed of David Kaufman, Isaac Liebman, Jr., A. Rosenfeld, was also appointed. Jacob Haas was made Treasurer. The board ap proved the purchase of the Washington and Love street property and the price paid, $9,200, by the local commission, and instructed the Building Committee to secure plans and esti mates. Norman & Eichberg were appointed the architects to prepare the plans. The cor ner stone of the asylum will be laid with ap propriate ceremonies on December 14. It. will require $50,000 to raise the building; $47,500 has been raised. and the local committee has pledged the balance. The State Fair. Notwithstanding the unfavorable weather, it is a pleasure to .know that everything passed off smoothly—the programme was carried on time, and in full, and the Fair proved to be a splendid success. The people of Macon—in fact of the State, as it is a State institution, are to be congratulated, on account of the superb display and the sat isfactory results. May it ever be so. A New Masonic Law. The grand lodge of Masons of Missouri, has just passed a law prohibiting saloon keepers from joining that order and also expelling all Masons who are at the present time selling intoxicating drinks. This is a radical move on the part on the Masonic fraternity—one that we shall watch with no little concern. The Chicago Tribune of the loch inst. has this to say on the subject: “The Missouri grand lodge of Masons, which has been can vassing the question for some time whether liquor dealers shall be members of the order, has at last definitely announced that they can not be admitted, and has also declared that those who are now members must either quit the business of liquor selling or sever their connection|with the order. This important di - cision will doubtless attract attention through out the entire fraternity in this country and may also effect other organizations of a similar character. The Missouri grand lodge having taken this position, it will be difficult to pre vent others from doing the same, as uniformity of rule is necessary to the harmony and admin istration of the order. If the oldest of all the secret societies discountenances fellowship with saloon keepers it may also become dif ficult for them to acquire membership in the order of Odd Fellows or Knights sf Pythias, or at least among those orders which are not distinctively foreign in character.” Humbert the Mighty Hunter. [American Register.] After the manceuvers are over in the neigh borhood of Verona, the King’s real vacation begins, for he hies him to the lofty valleys and mountain slopes i>f the Pennine Alps (the Mont Blanc range) whose southern sides rise from Italy. There, in the cool, woody gorges, and np higher, just beneath the melting snows which make such tender herbage, are the pre serves of the beautiful mountain gazelles, the chamois, and of that fierce, long curved-horn ed fellow, the ibex, sometimes misnamed the mountain goat. To hunt these rare animals, the party must he on the alert and on the way before daybreak. Last week the King was far away from “the haunts of men” and the cares of State, as one might imagine, for he was at Courmayeur. Moving for nine hours higher up into the mountains, he succeeded in bringing down in his various hunts a num her of these swift, shy animals, which, leaping from crag to crag, are among the most diffi cult game to take in the world. A correspond ent writes from Courmayeur concerning one day’s excursion of this kind, which shows that King Humbert must have an iron consti tution to undergo even the sports of his true vacation. The correspondent writes; “The King, with his attendants (gentlemen of bis suite, gamekeepers, and mountaineers) left here yesterday for Valsavaranche, a splendid mountain noeition eight or nine hours journey from here.” After describing the good-humored jollitv of the party, the correspondent says, the King never forgets the poor and the cretins and goi tres who are to be found in these lofty region s. A few arabineers and local police precede the King, to see that no professional beggars, who are very enterprising, cornu up from the pop ulous districts on the plain below whenever they are not nndar the eye of the keepers of peace. But for the deserving poor of the locality, the correspondent says: “An impleeato (em ployee) of the court, at the King’s command, rides near his majesty, aDd has a pair of leath er saddle-bags filled with silver money, which is distributed aioiig the whole route to whomso ever extends his hand.” The chase is then described, where's hundred batteurs in the forest and on the crags stir up the difficult and much desired game, and then we are told that “Humbert is a most accura'.e and steady shot, as the splendid record of game that day shows.” The new Congressional Library building, will be the largest building in Washington, ex cept the Capitol. It will cover 14,U00 feet more room thin the library of the British Museum. It is well to have it oig, for its an nual accessions must be enormous. Copies of every American book that is copyrighted are seen there, aDd sets of all the public docu ments are preserved there. Imagine what amount of storage wou'd be required to shel ter the increase of a century from these sources alone! NYE AND SHAKESPEARE. The Former Believe i The Latter Wrote His Own Flays. Facts That Are of Interest to Thinkine People. Trusting that it will not in any way impair the sale of Mr. Donnelly’s book, I desire to offer here a few words in favor of the theory that William Shakespeare wrote his own works and thought his own thinks. The time has fully arrived when we humorists ought to to stand by each other. I do not undertaxe to stand up for the per sonal character of Shakespeare, but I say that he wrote good pieces and I don’t care who knows it. It is doubtless true that at the age of eighteen he married a woman eight years his senior, and that children began to cluster about their hearthstone in a wav that would have made a man in a New York flat commit suicide. Three little children within fourteen months, including twins, came to the humble home of the great bard and he began to go out and climb upon the haymow to do his writing. Sometimes he would stay away from home for two or three weeks at a time, fearing that when he entered the house someone would tell him that he was again a parent. Let me now once more refer to the matter of the signature. Much has been said of Mr. Shakespeare’s coarse, irregular and vulgar pen manship, which, it is claimed, shows the igno rance of its owner, and hence bis inability to write the immortal plays. Let us compare the signature of Shakespeare with that of Mr. Greely and we notice a wonderful similarity. If we judge Shakespeare by his signature not one of us will be sate. Death will wipe out our fame with a wet sponge. John Hancock 100 years from now will be regarded as the author of the declaration of independence, and Compendium Gaskell as the author of the New , *York Tribune. 1 I have every reason to believe that while Wm. Shakespeare was going about the streets of Londou, poor but brainy, erratic but smart, bald-headed but filled with a nameless yearn ing to write a play with real water and a top ical song in it, Francis Bacon was practicing on his signature, getting used to the full-arm movement, spoiling sheet after sheet of paper trying to make a violet swan on a red-woven wire mattress of shaded loops without taking his pen off the paper and running the rebus column of a business college paper. During this time Francis Bacon was in pub lic life. He and Shakspeare had nothing in common. Both were great men, but Bacon’s sphere was different from Shakspeare’s. While Bacon was in the senate, living high and courting investigation. Shakspeare had to stuff three large pillows into his pantaloons and play Falstaff at a one-night stand. It is likely that Bacon, breathing the perfumed air of the capitol and chucking the treasury girls under the chin ever and anon, huDgered for the false joys of the underpaid and underscor ed dramatist? Scarcely! That is one reason why I prefer to take the side of Shakspeare rather than the side of Bacon. I know that Shakspeare has been severely criticised by the press for leaving his family at Stratford while he himself lived in London, only visiting home occasionally, but lam con vinced he found they could live cheaper in that way. Help in the house was very high at that time in Londou, and the intelligence tfliees were doing a very large business without giv ing very much intelligence. Friends of his told him that it was not only impossible to get enough help in the homes of London, but that there was hardly enough servants to prevent a panic in the employment bureaus. Several offices were in fact compelled to shut down for half a day at a time, one using the limited stock in the forenoon and the other in the after noon. I do not say that Shakspeare was the author of his own works, and it wou'd not look well in me to set up my opinion in opposition to that of scholars, experts and savants who have had more advantages than I have, for I would never take advantage of anyone; hut I say that somehow the impression has crept into the papers that he was a pretty good little play- writer. It will be noticed by the alert and keen- scented literateur that I have carefully avoided treading on the tail of Mr. Donnelly’s cipher. Being rather a poor mathematician any way, I will not introduce the cipher at this time, hut I will say that although the whole thing hap pened about 300 years ago, and has now nearly passed out of my mind, to the best of my recollection Shakspeare, though he was the son of a buckwheater, and though he married his wife with a poetic license, and though he left his family at Stratford rather than take them to live in a London flat, wrote the most of his plays with the assistance of an expurga- tor who was out of the city most all *f the time. I cannot show Shakspeare’s ready wit better at this time than by telling of his first appear ance on the stage as I remember it. He came quietly before the footlights with a roll of car pet under one arm and a tack-hammer under the other. In those days it was customary to nail down stage carpets, and while deing so Shake,” as we called him then, knocked the nail off his left thumb, whereupon he received an ovation from the audience. Some men would have been rattled and would have called up” as we say, but Shakspeare was always ready to please his friends or respond to an encore; so putting his right thumb up against a large painted rock in a mountain scene, he obliged them by knocking off the other thumb nail. Shakspeare wrote the poem called “Venus and Adonis” during the absence of his expur- gator and sent it to the editor of the Stratford Appeal, who deadheaded the paper to him for a year aud told him that he wished he would write up any other gossip that might come to his knowledge in that part of the country, especially if it promised to be spicy. Shakspeare was one of the few Englishmen who never visited this country for two weeks for the purpose of writing an eight-pound book on his impressions of America.—Bill Nye, iu New York World. PERSONAL MENTION, What the People Are Doin/ and Saying. “Songs of the Cumberland.” One of the latest additions to the poetry of the South, is a dainty little volume entitled, Songs of the Cumberland,” from the genial pen of a characteristic young poet of Tennes see—Robert Payne Hudson. The pleasant verses of this delightful iittle volume are full of strong feeling, child-like simplicity, and strong and graceful artistic beauty; and the poet wanders with equal ease and dignity from the lightest pleasantry in ‘Say, do you, Darling,” to the most powerful imagery and passionate fire in “Lost in Flori da,” and “Go love, to the world.” The lines which relate to the Mountain re gions of Tennessee and Georgia, are crisp and vigorous—fresh with the fragrant breath of spring wood, abounding in picturesque bits of landscape and musical throughout with the rumbliDg of mountain-brooks and the splash and roar of water-falls. Those songs of the semi-tropical Netherlands of Florida are marked by many weird pictures of that mystical region; but teem with the odor of lusty plant-life and fruits and flowers, are bright with the dancing sunbeams, and jubilant with the songs and twittering of birds. Here is found, very boldly defined, that dreamy love for the South—that vague longing to get back into the lost Eden, hid away, somewhere amid the dim and shady depths of the fragrant, and fruity groves of the “laDd of the sun,” where flowers always bloom, birds sing, brooks al ways hum a sensuous melody, and winter never comes. Mr. Hudson was bom November 11th, 1857, on the banks of Caney-Fork River, White county, Tenn During the war he lived at Manchester, Tenn., but afterwards returned to his native county, where he resided and en gaged in school-teaching till 1884; but some j ears previously visited and spent considera ble time in Florida. In 1881 he published a volume of poems under the title of “RoviDg Footsteps.” His present, home is Summitville, Coffee county, Tenn. Jno. U. Harkins. Calhoun, Ga. For the Sunny South. CHANCEABLENESS. BY JAS. R TAYLOR. Day fades, and eometh night— Darkness dietb, slam by day; Bitter and sweet, linked aright, Thus rolls our lime away. We know not. when making a vow, Whether It be real or pla\; Sad and sorrowful we are now— Anon we may be gay. We harp our weak, earthly song As tbongnt com“s and goes; ’M'd rest aod unrest we drift along, Kver tending towards the close. Vineland, N C. Kirchoff, inventor of the spectroscope, is dead. Of the peers of Japan, the irrome of Prince Shimazu is the largest, being $200,000 per an num. $50,000 have just been given by John A.lBost- wick, of New York to the Richmond (Va.) college. Rooert G. Ingersoll wrote in a liquor deal er’s autograph album: “Wine is the fireside, whiskey the conflagration.” Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, editor of the Christ tian Union, is to supply the Plymouth pulpi- uutil Beecher’s successor is chosen. Gen. Albert Pike is very fond of birds, and has in his study dozens of tbpm in cages; mockiDg birds, canaries, robins, blue birds and others. The general assembly of the Knights of La bor, just closed at Minneapolis, Mum., Dis closes the fact that Powderly is as strong as ever in the order. The late Herr Krupp’s income for the pres ent year was about $1,250,000. The late Baron Charles Rothschilds’ was $700,000, and his brother’s $050,000. Sig. Crispi, the Italian premter, is an inde fatigable worker. A Roman writer said of him : “He is a laborer with his miud, pulse, brain and backbone.” Lord Herschell, who is visiting Washington for a few days, is seeking information relative to the laws of the country and the manner in which they are executed. Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales are the only ones in the iuture to be given special steamers between England and the continent a: the expense of the English taxpayers. Paris is always getting out new toys, and the latest has a significance. It is a figure of Geu. Boulanger, which every time it is knocked over comes up on its feet again immediately. Lord Herschell, the distinguished English lawyer who was lord chancellor of England during Gladstone’s last premiership, is in New Haven, the guest of Prof. Daniel C. Eaton, of Yale college. Mr. J. Q. A. Ward has received the commis sion for the statue of Henry Ward Beecher to be erected in Brooklyn. The contract is for a life-size figure in bronze, the consideration being $25,000. John B. Stetson, the Philadelphia hat maker, employs 800 men, women and children, and has a Sunday-school of 1,000 scholars in con nection with his factory. The chapel where the school meets cost $40,000. Legacies have been received by the direc tors of the society of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. $500 from Dorothea L. Dix, the philanthropist, and $1,000 from Mrs. J. R. Vincent, of the Boston Museum. “J. S. of Dale,” is Fred Stinson, a New York lawyer, who, as Bacon is said to have done, disguised his literary work because he feared his standing as attorney would be prejudiced if it were known that he wrote fiction. Irvine Browne, editor of the Albany Law Journal, objects to Senator Ingalls’ assertion that a gentleman should shave himself. Law yer Browne contends that the conversation of a barber is worth the price of a shave. John I. Blair, the richest man in New Jer sey, owns three railroads in Kansas, two in Missouri and one in Iowa. Although seven ty-four y ears old and worth a dozen millions, he is still planning new money-getting pro jects. Lew Wallace’s “Ben Hur” was originally dedicated “To the wife of my youth.” He has been so bored by letters of condolence, from people who imagined that his wife was dead, that he has added the line, “W T ho still abides with me.” Nelson Morris, the Hebrew pork king of Chicago, began life as an errand boy. He is worth several millions, is renowned for his charity and kindness to his employes, and is one of the most simple and domestic men in his tastes. John T. Dismukes, Treasurer of the Citi zens’ Relief Fund of St. Augustine, sent the Mayor of Tampa $43.60, being a balance unex pended from the Charleston relief fund of last year. The relief committee is at work, and have raised $100 additional. Col. 'Jerome Bonaparte, of Washington, is a thorough horseman and a good rtinsman, and when he has charge of a spirited* team many persons fancy the expression on his face is very suggestive of that which some of the pictures of his great uncle Napoleon have. John F. Potter, familiarly known as “Old Bowie-knife,” because of his famous affair with Gen. Roger A. Pryor in 1800, still lives on his larm in Walworth county, Wis. He is in very comfortable circumstances, and is as genial an old gentleman as one often meets. Herr Friedrich Grillo, the rich manufacturer of Essen, Germany, has given that town $125, 000 for a theatre, aDd has offered in addition to build a church at Koenigsborn, near Esser, at his own expense, besides defraying the sal ary of a priest and the expenses of the service. Mr. and Mrs. Prevost and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond recently celebrated their golden wed dings. they having been married on the same day fifty years ago. Their eighteen children, with their descendants and friends, attended the double re-union which was held at High Ridge, Ct. Marshal John Jolly, of Butte City, Mont., rejoices in the possession of the most expensive policeman’s star in the United States. It is of solid gold, with five points, the ends of each being ornamented with a diamond. In the centre is a monogram in gems. The star is valued at $800. George Smith, better known on race tracks as “Pi isburg Phil,” the Pittsburg plunger, ad mits baviDg won $125,000 in bets on the turf during the last four years. Most of this sum was won on Eolian, Richmond, Gray Cloud, Linden aud King Fish. The chances are that he is worth $250,000. The death of Alexander James Beresford Hope, member of Parliament for Cambridge University, and proprietor of the Saturday Re view, recalls the circumstance of his great friendship for the South during the late civil war. It was he who gave to Virginia a fine statue of Stonewall Jackson some years ago. Mr. Barnum’s only partner in the “show business,” as Artemus Ward called it, is J. A. Baily, who retired from the firm on account of illness some years ago, and now re enters it in restored health. Mr. Hutchinson, one of the retiring members, has made upward of $1,000,- 000 which he now proposes to enjoy. S D. Smolianoff, inventor of the nitro-glyc- erine shell, has left San Francisco for Wash ington, en route to Europe. The shell has at tracted considerable attention in England and France, and Gen. Boulanger has invited the inventor to Paris with the object of testing its worth. Smolianoff is a Russian of middle age. He came to America a dozen years ago. Princess Irene of Hesse, who is about to marry her first cousin, Prince Henry, of Prus sia, is prettier than most of Queen Victoria’s grand daughters. She has a spirited face, beautiful hair and a very graceful figure. The young couple will receive from the pro vincial Diet of Schleswig a magnificent wed ding gift—seven painted windows for their palace at Kiel. Rear Admiral Worden, hero of the Monitor and Merrimac fight, is living in Washington. He is 70 years of age, but looks younger. He has a full blonde beard and his hair is Dot as white as his age would warrant. The wound he received at the Monitor and Merrimac bat tle not only impaired his sight, but has left him always subject to severe headache. He was retired from the aavy in 1880 on full pay, and is thus in receipt of $6,000 a year. David Hostetter, of Pittsburg, who has made a vast fortune in the manufacture of bitters, is a man about 70 years of age. He is not much over five feet in height and of slender build. His eldest son, who was threatened with con- sumptiou, is now in California, and is in much better health than when he left P.ttsburg. Mr. Hostetter’s wealth is estimated at between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000. There was a time when he peddled his medicines on foot. Gov. Bob Taylor, of Tennessee, says that he is careful of champagne and apple-jack, and this is why of the apple-jack: “When I was a boy one cold, frosty night we were out on a lark in the Tennessee mountains, and drank an abundance of apple-jack. The cold preveuted its taking effect, but when I came into mother’s warm room it floored me. I had sense enough not to talk and groaned how sick I was, and knowing she would smell the brandy I said I had stopped by aunt’s and got some brandy, but it had not helped my stomach ache a bit. She then put me to bed and spread a great big mustard plaster on me, and I could not walk for three weeks. I have the marks of it on me yet. Extraordinary Club List. The Sunny South and Any Other Paper or Magazine at About the Price of One. Clubbed with Dailies at Less than the Price of One. By special arrangement with the leading publishers w'e are able to offer the most liberal clubbing rates that have ever been presented to the public. 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