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THE SUNNY SOUTH. ATLANTA. GA., SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 17,1887,
THE(0lfNTFtY
Philosopher
tCopyrighted by the Author.]
ByBpwialBrrwKem.atwith the author and the Con-
KUution, Bill Arp b letterw will b« published as here
tofore in the Sunny South, and will appear the
■ame week in each paper.
Good Old Towns and Times in Middle
Georgia.
I had a call to Irwinton. I honored the call
and it honored me, for those are good peoplb
there. It is not so large a town as Chicago,
but it has no anarchy and everything looks
calm and serene. It is one of these old-fash
ioned towns that is off the railroad and they
don’t care if it is, so they have the courthouse
and the jail and can hear the sheriff call twice
a year. I like such places; I like their “otium
cum dig,” though'they don’t dig any to hurt.
I like the open welcome of their store piaza
where the lawyers and doctors and preachers
meet to discuss affairs public and private and
tell anecdotes and whittle on soft pine and
hold down the chairs that used to have split
bottoms, but now have rawhide with all the
hair worn off. I like the slow and measured
dignity with which these people come and go
and move about the town. There is nobody
tired when night comes, nobody stoop-shoul
dered, nobody’s shoes worn out at the toes.
When a merchant wants to go to dinner he
can - shut up and go and lose no trade by it.
The lawyer can go fishing aud the doctor at
tend to his farm. The jail door stands open
all the year round and the sheriff has a hungry
look foe lack of business. This must be the
place where the poee lived when he wrote,
‘‘Man wants but little here below.” There is
neither fashion nor folly here, but there is
good, honest, old-fashioned society and a good
school and lots of children all born in lawful
wedlock, and from whom may yet come
preachers and judges and senators, and may
be a governor or a president—who knows—
Georgia has never had a president and it will
be her time before long.
There is one thing about Irwinton that is
peculiar: A stranger can’t slip up on the town
in the night; I tried it. They wrote me to get
off at McEatyre’s, and so I got off about mid
night and looked around for light but there
was no light. I expected a hack or a mail
boy, or I expected to see an inviting hotel
with the lamp burning in the ball, but there
was nothing but darkness—utter darkness—
and that darkness was cold—very cold. I saw
a man moving off and hailed him. ‘‘Where is
the hotel?” my friend, «aid I. “There aint
none about here,” said he. “Where do folks
stop who get off here?” said I. “They don’t
git off the night train,” said he, “and if they
do they don’t stop, but take it afoot to Irwin
ton just like I’m gwine to do,” aud he started
off. "Hold on, my friend,” said I; “don’t
somebody live about here?” “Yes,” said he,
■“uie depot agent lives up yonder on the hill,
but he won’t take anybody in.” “Has le got
a biting dog?” said I “I think he has,” said
he. I saw the shadowy road and ihedimout-
line of a house, and seizing my grip-sack
I started up the steep ascent, but not
with alacrity, nor was I altogether calm
and serene, for I was thinking about a
dog—a big, yalier, stumped-tail djg—and
the nearer I got the more I thought about that
dog. I stopped and listened; then I creeped
cautiously up to the front gate and listened
again. There was a tree close by—a small tree
with limbs low down, and i stood by that tree,
for I felt like it was a friend. Soon I spied
another tree a little nearer, and I made for it
with alaerity and reconnoitered again. I have
not climbed a tree in ten years, but I felt like
I hadent lost the lick. I stood there waiting
for that dog and I wondered where he would
bite me first, but he dideut come, I kept my
kuife open as a last resort and my heart beat
up pretty lively. I cleared my throat as an
experiment, but still no dog. I was close to
the front-steps and they were high—high as a
star-case—for the ht use had a basement. All
of a sudden I said “hello,” not loud, but loud
enough for a dog to hear if there was one.
and go off and commit snicide shoost to get
one of dem on dere toombstone. Say, my
frent, shall I put your name down? It is only
von dollar.”
The next morning the hilarious gentleman
came down to breatfast with the usual reac
tion. His subdued appearance excited the
drummers’ profoundest sympathy. “Good
morning, my frent,” said he; “you does not
seem so veil dis morning as you vas last night.
It is de vet veather, I expect. Dis is a very
vet town, and de dampness does not agree vid
you. Ven you vake up dig mornin’ vas de
room going round and round?” The vi:tim
smiled a sickly smile and nodded assent.
“Vel, my frent,” said the drummer, “dat vas
all imagination; de room vas not going round
and round at all; dis house is solid, very solid.
I hav been vet myself and know shoost how it
iB, and so I tell you how it is. Vas you ever
so vet before?”
The kind, loving sympathy of the drummer
was irresistible. It was impossible to smoth
er our visibles but the poor victim couldn’t
stand it. He left the room for some fresh air
or some more wet and we lost him. This
same drummer managed somehow to offend
a fighting man about town who swore he was
going to whip him. But as he approached
with hostile demonstrations the drummer step
ped back and cautioned him in supplicating
terms and laying his hand upon his heart said:
“My frent you should not strike me—beware
how yon excite me. I have heart disease very
pad and am liable to drop dead at any moment.
My physician tells me dat de slightest shock to
my system will make me to fall down dead,
and den you feel so pad about dat, eh?”
This plea and his agonizing looks so alarm
ed the man that he refrained and took it out
in language. Last year he was indicted far
having a pleasant little game of poker in bis
room at the hotel. He went home and wrote
the Solicitor one of the most touching and pa
thetic letters that ever was seen. He plead for
mercy and forgiveness on account of his dear
little darling wife, the trusting, confidingangel
who would be u> terly heart-broken were she
to hear of his misfortune. The Salicitor told
me that he never read a more affecting, peni
tent letter and so he wrote him back some kind
words and good advice and lots of sympathy
for the dear little angel wife and told him to
send ten dollars and the case should be nol
prossed. Of course he sent it and the case
was stricken from the docket.
“I learned afterwards,” said the Solicitor,
“that he had no wife at all and was an old
hand at the poker business. Ah, he is smart
and as clever as he is smart,” said he. “He is
the brightest boy on the road and everybody
likes him.”
Dublin is a very wet town but it is a good
town for business and is growing rapidly. It
is the terminus of the Wrightsvdle and Dublin
railroad—a new road that is doing wonders
for that region.
Bill Arp.
Our Portrait Gallery.
POBTBAITS ABB BIOGRAPHIES
OF DISTINGUISHED MEN
AND WOMEN.
Shelby, North Carolina.
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expected him to come bulging every moment—
bulging down those steps or bulging out from
under the house, and I kept fast hold of the
limb so as to pull myself up, but still there
was no s mnd, no dog, and so with faith and
desperation I made for the steps aud ascended
on tip toe, and as I neared the door I said
“hello” with great emphasis. I dont think I
ever felt more relieved than I did just then to
hear the welcome voice of a man saying.
“Wfc at do you want and who are you?” “I
am Bill Arp,” said I, “and I want to stay all
night.” I said it like I meant business, and I
did. I would have stayed if I had been or
dered off with a shot-gun. But I found a kind
welcome and a good bed and my feelings beat
thanksgiving day a long ways—fo- I dont like
any such dogon business of a dark night—
whether Lhe dog is gone or not. The morning
brought light aud a good breakfast and a
friend from Irwinton who was expecting me
down on the morning train; but I shall not
soon forget the anxiety and the hope forlorn
of that dark night I am thinking of it now.
Sandersville is a nice town—a lively, pros
perous town—an old town with a fresh boom
on. The people have beautiful homes aud the
front-yards abound with flowers and ever
greens The stores were filled with goods and
fair women go in and out aud spend their
money free. I never saw prettier women and
it made me awful homesick. It is a lovely
sight to see a lovely woman go into a lovely
dry-goods store with a well tilled purse, and
have a lovely young man to display the lovely
goods, but when she is buying ou her hus
band’s credit and he is living on a strain, it is
not quite so lovely—not quite. It is so easv to
run up a big bill and so hard to pay it. San
dersville has railroads now, and can go aDd
come when she pleases. I think she is a little
jealous of Tennille, but still they pass and re
pass on friendly terms. Sandersville boasts
of a good many noble men who have lived
there and died, and of some who still live
Your Evan Howell used to live there, and I
met members of bis Artillery company who
fonght and bled with him in West Virginia
and they confirmed the sufferings and perilous
adventures of that awful campaign that I have
so often heard Evan relate, and never fullv
believed until now. It must be so sad, I said
to myself. It must be so, for “out of the
mouths of many witnesses is the truth estab
lished.”
At Dublin I found court in session aud a ho
tel fall of drummers and other guests. I
never mingled with a livelier set. They told
yarns and swapped lies and exchanged wit
until near midnight. One of the guests was
artificially hilarious and very sarcastic, and
asked a Hebrew drummer what business he
was running. “My frent,” said he, “I am de
sheneral agent for de great North American
Epitaph and Burial Association. I am can
vassing for members. Ven a man shoins our
kompny his bones vill not pleach upon de hills
nor moulder in de valleys. Oar kompny per
ries all dere dead aud writes dere epitaphs.
We keeps epitaphs on hand shoost like we
keep coffins Ven you die we perry you low
in de ground vere de dogs cannot scratch you
up nor de doctors exhume you for a skeleton.
If A. T. Stewart had been a member of our
kompny it would have save his wtfo twenty-
five tousand dollars. No matter vere you die,
vedder on de Shimborazo mountains or in de
dark valley of Jehosaphat, ve perry you. And
den we writes such pootiful epitaphs dot make
you feel so goot after you be dead. I have
known men to look over our list of epitaphs
A Lovely Mountain Town—Factories
—Female College ana Military
Institute—Health-Giving
Springs.
Eoitok Sunny South.—With interest I
have been reading letters from various points
in th8 South, and now I propose to give your
many thousands of readers some items of in
terest relative to the town of Shelby, N. C.,-
the pleasant little place, in which for the
wh'le, I have taken up my abode.
Shelby is a bright and cheerful town, situ
ated just ten miles within the line dividing
North and South Carolina. It is not com
pact, bat -quite the reverse, as it is badly
scattered. But walking down its ioDg and
beautiful streets, and riding over its lovely
drives, one gets the idea that Shelby is meant
for a large city in the future there are so many
s.pices left that the future will fill, and the
suburbs are building rapidly. Taece are many
kandsome buildings in the place, but as the
slock law prevails, the broken fences, or lack
of them here and there gives a picturesque
effect notwithstanding the dilapidation.
Shelby is the second largest town west of
Charlotte, and its population is estimated to
ho near 2 WO. The town has an altitude of
SK»0 feet above the sea-level, and is a very
healthy place.
Cleveland Springs form an attractive feature
of Shelby’s points of interest. These springs
are situated two miles east of the city, aud
during the leisure season hundreds of visitors
flock to them from various points botih far and
near to drink of their health-giving waters.
Three springs aire found upon the grounds—
one ccntaining iron aud two containing
sulphur. At first one is not very pleasantly
impressed the first time one visits these
springs, as the odoi which greets the nostrils
is absolutely not the perfume of a thousand
flowers. Yet, upon acquaintance, we grow to
love these waters for tneir valuable remedial
properties. A large hotel has been erected,
and I understand that capitalists from the
eastern portion of the State have bought these
springs with the intention of making them a
perfect summer resort.
Patterson Springs lie south of the town, and
within the town are two springs impregnated
with iron, one of which is situated near the
Carolina railroad depot, and which, doubtless
will, in the future biing untold wealth to its
owner and add another attraction to what will
then be called the City of Springs.
The scenery surrounding Shelby is pictures
que and lovely; and it is a not ctble fact that
oue hardly can realize the change of State
from Georgia to North Carolina, so closely
does the scenery of the latter resemble that
of the former. From many points we get
splendid views of the mountains, rising in all
their grandeur and sublimity—the B ue Ridge
in the north-west, and in the south-east, ma
jestic historic King's Mountain. I expect to
stand goon upon the famous old battle ground
beside the grave of Ferguson.
Shelby boasts of two newspapers, which are
bright, newsy sheets, and their intelligent edi
tors seem quite popular with the people.
There are four churches in the city, in three
of which I have listened to some as fine pul
pit oratory as it has been my pleasure to hear
else-where. I understand ttiat the colored
churches also number four. An appreciative
public patronize liberally the three hotels
which are found in the place, since the land
lords have become so popular with the travel
ing world. The school interest is well repre
sented by two elegant institutions—the Fe
male College and the Military Institute; both
of which are presided over by capable iustruc-
tors. Many of the students now at the Insti
tute, are from quite a distance, so popular has
it become both far aud near. Tne square, in
whose center the great brick court bouse rises,
mieht be made into a lovely Central Park if
sufficient money and enterprise were used.
The park of the city is situated in the north
western suburbs, and possesses so many nat
ural advantages, besides being so picturesque
and attractive, even now, in chill Decern oer,
that one can well imagine how lovely it must
appear when nature puts ou her robes of sum
mer. It is a favorite resort for the youth and
maidens of Shelbv. South of the town lies the
vineyard of Col. Fromm, one of Shelby’s most
enterprisiug fruit growers. There is a wine
press and bouse upon the grounds, and the
owner I am told has sold several thousand
gallons of wine during the season.
Shelby is proud of her spinning factory,
which also lies south of the town, and which
I think carries 2.000 spindles. The effect of
electric lights upon the house aud grounds is
indeed beautifnl at night. Another cotton
factory is in process of erection just north of
the town. The Carolina Central and the
Charleston, Cincinnaiti & Chicago railroad
trains pass through Sbelby daily, and all day
the ear is greeted with the shrill whistle of Io-
c imotives and the thunderous iurnble of the
passing trains. In a few weeks the grading of
a new road will be began, leading from Sheiby
to the Cranberry mines. The “Sunni” has
many warm admirers here, and I am promised
a good clnh soon. E. C. Suggs
Shelby, N. C , Dec. 2, 1887.
Ella Wheeler Wiloox.
A successful aspirant to literary fame
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, whose name resounds
through the length and breadth of onr coun
try. Her early childhood was one of trial,
loneliness, poverty and disappointment, but
by the power of her own indomitable will and
courage, combined with rare genius, she has
struggled against and overcome every obsta
cle. Ella Wheeler Wilcox became famous
a year before Charles Egbert Craddock, Sarah
I. Jewell or Emily Thornton had become fa
miliar names. Her success was not sudden or
easily won, however. Born on a farm, near
Windsor, Wis., without fortune and without
other education than that afforded by a coun
try school and her own patient and persistant
self-culture, she began writing poetry and
short stories nearly twenty years ago, begin
ning by gratuitous contributions printed in
the Waverly Magazine, the Boston story paper
that the late Moses A. Dow built upon the un
paid efforts of unknown but ambitious aspir
ants for literary fame. The first poem she
ever wrote she sent to Mrs. Frank Leslie, who
saw enongh meiit in it to accept it. Sinbe
then she has written about 2,000 poems.
These verses have been copied into the poets’
corner of the local paper in nearly ever town and
village in the Union, and made the name of
Ella Wheeler Wilcox almost a household
word m communities where poets of really
great talent and scholarly cultivation are com
paratively uiknown. In 1883 her second vol
ume, “Poems of Passion,” was published in
Chicago and attraced more attention to Ella
Wheeler’s originality ard cleverness. At this
time she began to develop the surprising au
dacity in pushing her claims to social and lit-
particularly with political events and the cur
rents of political opinion v will be of great value
to him in the Cabinet, should he receive the
appointment. He is a gentleman of fine at
tainments and agreeable manners, and there
can be no doubt that he will perform the du
ties incumbent upon the holder of a Cabinet
position with the greatest of fidelity and effi
ciency.
m 0'
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
erary recognition that afterwards brought her
into notice in New York. Personally Ella
Wheeler Wilcox looks very unlike what one
might fancy a woman noted as the Swinburne
of America and the embodiment of intense
passion. Slightly below the medium height,
handsome, fair complexioned, stoutly built
but well proportioned and of easy, graceful
carriage, there is nothing to suggest the
“mountain of burning lava” she has described
herself, usless it be the vital illumina’ion of
her dark eyes and the magnetic nobility of
her expression when her emotions are aroused
in conversation. She is about thirty years of
age but appears ten years younger. Ella is in
every respect a most excellent daughter and
has bought her patents a home out of her
own earnings. In 1880 Mis. Ella Wheeler
Wilcox was offered the editorship of Literary
Life, but she dec ined the priff-red honor and
suggested Miss Ro<e Einbeth Cleveland, the
President’s si8T.tr, to me place. Her marriage
in 1884 to Mr. Robert M Wilcox, of the Mer
iden Britannia Company was the happy cul
mination of a rather romantic and iooeLse love
story, btgun in her engagement to Mr. Wilcox
within three weeks of the beginning of their
acquaintance at Chicago in i-888. Mr. Wilcox
is a man of wide reading, extensive travel and
artistic and literary tastes, so that in her mar
riage Mrs. Wilcox enjoysmost congenial com
panionship. £u 1880 she paid a flying trip ,o
‘Cuba in search of health aDd inspiration ard
has returned to her native heath with a liberal
supply of both and enlarged ideas where she
continues her werk under delightfully easy
and comfortable conditions.
Florence Nightingale.
The name of this lady has been rendered il
lustrious by her philanthropic effarts to alle
viate the sufferings of the wounded soldiers in
the Crimean campaign. In doing this Chris
tian work, she was seized by a fever, from the
effects of which she was never fully recovered.
Florence Nightingale is a younger daughter
and co-heiress of Mr. WilliamE. Nightingale of
Etnbley Park, Hampshire, and Lea Hursb,
Derbyshire, and was born at Florence on May
3rd, 1820. She enjoyed all the advantages
which fall to the lot of the children of the
affluent and refined, and attained remarkable
proficiency in some branches of female educa
tion. Not satisfied with investigation of the
actual working in English schools and hospi
tali, she conducted on the continent inquiries
on the same subjec'; and jn 1851 took up her
abode in an institution Kaiserswerthon the
Rhine. In 1853, when the Crimean war be
tween England, France and Turkey against
Russia broke out, Miss Nightingale undertook
the organization and conduct cf hospitals in
the Crimea. No eulogy can do just tee to the
talent, energy atd devotion she constantly
displayed in the self-imposed task. Suffice
it 11 stay that by insiitu ing order where con
fusion had before reigned, and by affording
care aud consolation, she alleviated the suffer
ings of all, saved the lives of many, and earn
ed the blessings of the sick and wounded, as
well as the iratitude of her country,
testiiroa a land amounting to $50,000, sub
scribed by the public in recognition of her
noble services, was at her specifl request
devoted to the formation and maintenance of
an institution for the training and employ
ment of nurses. Though debarred by impair-
DON M DICKINSON.
ed health from active participation in charita
ble enterprises, Miss Nightingale assists the
cause by her writings. “Notes on Hospitals,
a very valuable work, which had a large cir
culation. appeared in 1S59; “Notes on Nurs
ing” in 1860; aud “Observations od the SaL
tary State of the Army in India,” in 1863, and
many other remarkable works about nursing,
and training nurses. The lifelong unfligging
Christian spirit manifested by Miss Nightin
gale, and her self-sacrificing services to the
sick, has endeared her to the world, and con
ferred honor on the English name and nation.
The German Boy-Pianist.
Joseph Hofman, the boy pianist, wnon An
ton Rubinstein called “one of the marvels of
tbe age,” has arrived in New York. He is a
handsome, sturdy-looking little fellow, a thor
ough boy, with nothing of the ‘ infant prodi
gy” in his appearance. His features are leg-
u'ar, and his dark complexion has a ruddy
tinge. He speaks French fluently, and hag in
conversation a lively and unaffected manner.
In fact, in everything but his marvellous mub-
ical talent, he is a child, with a child’s love for
toys and games of all kinds. On the voyage a
conoert waJ given for tbe usual charities, at
which Hofman played. The sum realized was
over over $300 His father and mother ac
company him.
Statistics show that the consumption of sugar
in the last fifty years has gone up from about
15 to 70 pounds per head, of tobacco from .86
to 1 04 pounds per head.
Arthur O’Connor.
Arthur O'Connor and Sir 7uomas*Henry
•Gractan Esmonde, who have visited this
country for the purpose of inaog.ura ing an
active and practical effort for financial assis
tance to the Irish cause, are tried and true
patriots in the fight for Ireland’s independ
ence. Arthur lOConnor may be regarded as
Mr. Parnell’s special envoy to the United
States; be is the intensely practical man cf
the Irish league. Born in 1844. in London,
England, whi'e his parents, Kerry people,
were temporarily residing there; he is famil
iar wifh both islands, and an earnest worker
for home-rule. He is unusually well informed
in matters of public administration, having
spent, sixteen years as a clerk in tbe War of
fice There he gained a thorough knowledge
of the workings of the various departments of
government that has served him so well in his
The New French President.
Marie Francois Sadi Carnot was born
Limoges, in 1836, of a famous family. His
grandfather was Minister of War for the Re
public from 1?33 to 1797, and from his extra
ordinary vigor in that office was known as the
“organizer of victory.” Probably no War
Minister ever had greater genius than Lazare
Nicolas Carnot, and the success of the Repub
lie in defending its frontiers against foreign
invasion was due largely to his indomitable
will and inexhaustible resources of character.
He was one of the gr tat figures in the National
'Convention, bstdisaitfr Jtrud from view unde:
the Empire and was prescribed after the Bour
bon restoration. His son, Lazare Hippolyte
'Carnot, inheriting Republicanism of the stout
est fibre, became interested in his youth in
the philosophy of the St. Simonists, but like
M. Brisson, recoiled from this social school
when Enfantin’s repulsive views of marriage
were disclosed. Me published in 1830 a trea
tise on the doctrines of tbe St. Simonians
which was very widely read. From 1839 to
££48 he was a Liberal Deputy in tbe Chamber
and voted wiih tbe Extreme Left, and after
the Revolution was Minister of Education
He was one of three Republican Deputies
elected after the coup d’etat, but was com
pelted to retire from political life nntil 1863
when he was again elected Deputy. After the
downfall of the Empire he acted with the Ex
treme Left until 1875, when he was elected
Senator for life.
M. Sadi-Carnot’s professional staff, in his
recent Ministerial position, included seventy
two chief engineers, 240 • ordinary engineers.
Only a very strong administration coaid have
handled such a department as this, and such
an executive head M. Carnot proved himself
ARTHUR O'CONNOR.
parliamentary carreer. He was elected for
Queen’s county in 1880, and in 1885 for the
Ossony division of the same county as well as
for East D megal. In 1886 he was re-elected
for this constituency, receiving a majority of
1,100 votes. He is acknowledged to be one
of the best parliamentary tacticians of the
Irish party. Few men on the Parnellice
benches are more feaied by ministers than
Mr. O’Connor, who i< one of the best inform
ed men in tbe House Hs is of medium height,
spare in person and remarkably fair, his mai -
ner is grave, his address calm, and his tuicess
in parliament is due, not to oratory, but to
perfect mastery (f the subject and power to
put keen, incisive questions. No man was
better qualified to present to Americans ex
act informations and to enlighten public opin
ion on Irish matters.
Don M. Dickinson.
Don M Dickinson cf Michigan, vrbose por
trait is presented to our readers to-day, has
come into special prominence at this time
from the fact of his being selected for a cabi
net position upon the elevation of Secretary
Lamar to the Supreme Court Mr. M. Dick
inson came first into nat onal prominence npon
the accession cf Mr. C eveland to the presi
dency, though he has long enjoyed a wide
celebrity a- d fine income, the latter being re
puted at $30,000 per annum. Mr. Dickinson
is very popular in the northwestern part of
the Union as well as in his own State; he is
credited with having had much to do wih
Michigan appointments daring the present ad
ministration, and if he his never held promi
nent office it has been only because be has
never before been a candidate, and till lately
it has been supposed that he had little ambi-
bition for a political position himself. What
ever inclinat ons he may have entertained
were presumed to be toward the Senate or the
United States Supreme Court. Mr. Dickin
son is distinctively a working politician, and
is distinguished by his eloquence, his readi
ness and soundness in debate, and by his
mastery of the tcience of parliamentary pro
cedure. His knowledge of public men, and
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE.
Special for the Sunnt South.
Fashions for Boys.
Single-breasted cutaway suits with vests are
worn by youths from ten to fifteen years of
age. Those of dark-blue tricot, ranging in
price, from *9 to $15 are especially liked in
this style for blonde boys, as are the fine
dark-blue worsteds; while fhe black and blue
corkscrews, fancy-check worsteds and fancy
mixed and checked suitiDgs come in for a
splendid share of favor.
Single-breasted plaited jacket suits without
vests are chosen for school service. They are
made of fancy suitings, striped and checked,
dark mixed cassimeres, fancy mixed wor
steds, and daik-blue tricot. The double-
breasted jacket suits, are likewise popular,
and come in corduroy—brown afld drab—as
well as in materials similar to those compos
ing the single-breasted suits.
The finer plaited jacket suits without vests
impart an elegance all their own to the boys
of today, and may be had, in the fancy suit
ings, black corkscrew, b'ue and dark-brown
tricot, brown and fine dark-bine worsted and
fancy mixed cheviots from $7,50 to $13 00
Corduroy is the material of all others for
real service. The Norfolk plaited jacket suits
of drab and brown are a desideratum to those
ladies who are painfully conscious of the ne
cessities for constant repairing devolving
upon them when they take on the epaulettes
of motherhood; for the small boy is a te(a)rror,
and no mistake.
Just here I would remark that all the suits
sold at Hachett, Caihart & Co’s S'ronghold of
Masculine styles N. E corner cf Broadway
and Canal street, New York, have a generous
piece of the material put in one c f the pockets,
in view of possible patching in the near or re
mote future. (All mothers of miniature men
wil'. appreciate this fact.) This firm have so
simplified the matter of outfitting distant pat
rons by means of their illustrated catalogue
of styles, samples of goods and system of
measurement sent free upon application as to
enable all the young hopt fuls in Christendom
to blossom out in full Broadway style at mod
erate outlay; and the ladies who are responsi
ble for these little lords of creation are now-a-
dajB spared so much toil in the line of formn-
lating suitable raiment for them, as to have
mucu time to devote to their physical, mental
and moral culture; and thus we have every
thing to hope from a future generation of men
who are the boys of today.
Overcoats show the variety of material ac
corded to those worn by men. The brown
mixed diagonals, mixed cbeviotp, plain brown
Kerseys, brown mixed Kerseys, blue and
brown plain beaver and diagonals, gray and
brown mixed fur beavers, blue Chinchillas
and dark gray and brown coating all appear
in single breasted style. Cape overcoats are
chosen for boys from four to ten years old.
They come in light and dark brown diagonal,
cassimeres and cheviots checked and plaided,
blue and brown beaver and dark, blue chinchil
las, fur beavers and brown and gray mixed
fnr beaver, and are comfortable and elegant
Boys’ hats show a variety of shapes and
stuffs. Black and brown Darbys, cloth hats
and those in fine tri cot and corkscrew, black,
brown and blue, all silk and stitched, polo,
navy and bicycle caps, are all stylish and de
sirable for the completion of the jaunty boyish
costumes in vogue.
Sensible mothers who have an eye to the
sanitary side of youthful dressing are buyirg
Warner’s health underwear which is a verita
ble safeguard against the rigors of winter en
countered while skating, snowballing, sled
ding or bobbing, or other boyish sports. It
is made of natural wool or natural camel’s
hair, or a happy mixture of the two, and does
not produce the itching sensation to wh’ch
boys so strenuously object, chatacteristic cf
sundry “medicated” specimens on the market.
Shirt-waists, from the plain calico varieties
at 25 cts. each to the most elaborately plaited
specimens in fine white muslin or fancy per
cale, are worn; and there are many tennis
blouses of gray blue and brown which are
sice to wear to school under the jacket in lieu
of the calico or cambric waists, and they save
washing, which is a desideratum during the
long months of atmospheric uncertainties.
Squibs of Style.
Jackets in hussar styley are largely worn.
They are usually made of (lark, smooth cloths,
black and bottle-greaD being the chosen colors.
Most new materials are profusely checked
and striped. Fancy stuffs preponderate over
plain ones as a rule; though there are so many
varieties of both that all tastes may be suited.
Very large buttons adorn both outdoor gar
ments and gowns, and constitute one of the
season’s uovelties. They may be of passem
enterie to match the wrap or costume, or they
may be of carved and colored ivory, both
round and square, the latter being the popular
shape.
The white brands are ideally lovely for even
ing wear; and the specimens in current colors
and all the fashionable shades thereof, suggest
innumerable pretty suits for street or visi
ting wear, and picturesque tea gowns innumer
able.
The basque has almost disappeared, and in
its stead are worn plaited bodices ent pointed
at tbe waist, or in many instances they are
round, with a waist-band or girdle. They are
made of the most pliable materials—either tbe
softer varieties of silk, surah or the lovely
Priestly fabrics in white, black or color. These
goods come valiantly to the front rank of fash
ion, and so robly subserve a'l purposes of style
as to be well worthy of ih ir prestige. Fjr
dress or mourning purposes the fine, s lk-warp
black varieties leave nothing in the way of ele
gance and adaptability to be desired.
Velvet, sealskin, plush and all imaginable
materials destined for the formulation of wraps,
and shown in a bewildering variety of recher
che outer garments at Lord & Taylor’s, from
the dainty white conjection in cashmere or
any other preferred fabric for the wee baby in
arms, to the traditional “mantle of grey” for
the aged lady. The shapes are as varied as
the materials; and for the aid of those patrons
living at a distance the prerogative of exercis
ing individual fancy in selection thereof is
vouchsafed through the medium ship of the
mails. The latest departure in favor of remote
customers is an envelope filled with beautiful
fashion plates illustrating the very latest styles
of wraps, hat*, costumes, etc. On the back of
eath are printed the pr ce, material and de
scription of the garment or bonnet. This en
velope is sent to any address upon application
to the firm, Broadway and 20th. Street, New
York, and aside from their usefulness as a
guide, these pictures are themselves pretty
souvenirs for the home.
to be. As Minister of Finance he has twice
been in office, first in 1882 and again in 1886
under M. de Freycinet. While holding this
cffi:ehe was unable to induce the Budget
Committee to azree to his gem nl recommen
dations; but that was not surprising, since to
recent Finance Minister has bad better luck in
this respect, the Deputies not being willing to
deal with tae serit us financial questions now
before FraLce M. Can ot made, however,
one recommendation which, ait.ough not
acted npon favorably, has not been forgotten
by large classes of investors now threatened
with imminent iu n. He formally proposed
the authorization of the 1’aDama Company’s
lottery bonds. M. R uss* au presented a mas
terly repoit from the Budget Commiitee in op
position to the recommet dat on and the
project el through. The Chambers had fre-
quen 1- legalized lottery bond schemes, where
the pi zes were intended to make op for an
extremely low rate of interest on thoroughly
guaranteed capital; but \ t was held in this in
stance that the security (was not beyond bus
picion, and that the enterprise being purely
speculative, legislative san t on of it would be
equivalent to the legalizeijof lottery gambling.
The election of M. Cat not to the Presidency
seems to secure for M. de Lessep’s latest and
most desperate scheme for keep ng the Pa
nama shares afloat, a protector and defender
in the Eiysee. Ruin stares hundreds of thou-
ands of small investors in the face. Govern
ment lot ery bonds based on the revised plans
for a locking canal may avert disaster tempo
rarily. The crash must inevitably come at
last.
The polonaise should never be chosen ex
cept foi rich fabrics. The cutting should be the
cream of clever accuracy and the making thor
oughly well done. In these matters S T. Tay
lor’s modistes are simyly perfect; while the
Taylor patterns, obtainable at the salon 930
Broadway, are valuable to the home dress
maker.
A new kind of iron chimney has been in
vented by a German, who claims that in time
of war it can be suddenly changed into can
non.
First Discoverer.
R. A. B., Huntsviile,: Had a dispute as to
who first discovered America. Some say Col
umbus, some say Amerigo Vespucius. I say
an Icelander, whose name I have forgotten.
What say you?
From some old erchives in Iceland, it is now
believed that America was first discovered by
Icelanders. Biron was the discoverer, but he
was hunting Greenland whither his father bad
gone. Contrary winds drove him to what is
now Known as America, but he made no set
tlement. That was about the year987. About
the year 1000, Leif, a Norseman, son of Eric
the Red, touched at some point that is now
Massachusetts or Rhode Island. Lief return
ed to Iceland and reported his discovery.
Then came Thorwald, who made other discov
eries at a place now Massachusetts. He had a
fight with the Indians called Sraellings, being
a name for Eskimos. In 1006 a more impor
tant expedition was fitted out under Thortirm,
with three ships and 140 maD. A settlement
was made and trade with tbe Indians begun.
Gadrida wife of Thortirm gave birth to a son,
and he was the first child born in America,
his name w as Snorre. In the year 1011, an
other voyage was made, and after that a great
gap of about 100 years, before we find another
expedition mentioned. Then in 1121 another
voyage. The last voyage we have any account
of is one from Greenland to Woodland in 1347,
now Massachusetts. Such is the condensed
account of the contents of the Icelandic man
uscript. Why the Icelanders did not make
permanent settlements cannot be accounted
for. The Norsemen being more pirates than
any thing else saw nothing in the new world
worth stealing and hence made no settlement.
John Howard Payne.
R. P. B , Richmond, Va.: Where and when
did John Howard Payne, the author of “Home
Sweet Home,” die?
Payne died in Africa on the 9th of April,
1852, while acting as Consul of the United
States at Tunis, and was bdried there. But
W. W. Corcoran, of Washington City, had
his body brought to the United States March
231, 1883, and interred in Oak Hill cemetery.
He never married, and did not know much
abcut a home with a wife and half a dozen
children about him. His home was his coun
try-
Ocean.
Tybee, Savannah, Ga : Can you tell me the
amount of curvature in one mile of ocean sur
face? As I look out on old ocean and see ves
sels and steamers in the distance, I like to
know how far I can see.
Well, when you look a mile out, the curva
ture will be 2 4-100 inches. Say for every mile
two inches, and you can then make some sort
of a calculation how far off a vessel is. First
find out the height of a vessel or steamer and
then figure.
Europe—Population. t
R. P. B., Shreveport, La.: Can yon tell me
the area and population of Europe. Tbe
largest and the smallest kingdoms?
We have seen it stated that the area of Eu
rope is 0,233,060 square miles; of which 3,-
423,165 square miles belong to Russia, 196.615
belong to Great Britain and Ireland. Switzer
land has 25,875; Holland, 20,625; Belgium
18,430. The other nations have from 391
down to 30,375 to Servia, Greece calling for
40,435.
As to popnlation, Russia has 93,000,000:
German empire, 47,200,000, Austria—Hun
gary, 39,900,000; France, 38,300,000; Great
Britain and Ireland, 37,200,000: Holland and
Portugal, 4,000,000 each; Denmark, 2,190,000;
Norway, 1,969,000. Belgium has 400 to the
square mile; Great Britain and Ireland, 250
Denmark, 32, and Norway only 12.
Special Report for the Sterner Sex.
Scarf-pins are limited to dressy afternoon
suits.
Walking 6hoes are of ca'f skin; buttoned or
laced in ‘runt.
Seal skin turbans with high, square-topped
Hungarian crown and wide, closely-rolled band
are worn for walking purposes.
English Covert coats shown at Hackett, Car-
hart & Co’s stronghold of gentlemens’ styles
N. E. corner Broadway & Canal Street, are
light-brown in color, with strapped seams and
three patch pockets with flips in and out.
EDglish-check smoking jackets, and those
of striped cloths come in dark brown, blue
and dull red shades, cut, without lining into
skeleton sucks.
At day weddings the groom, “best man”
and ushers may properly wear scarfs of light
Ottoman silk with a jewelled scarf pin, and
pearl-colored, stlf-stitched gloves.
Linen night shirts have the bosoms em
broidered with sprays of flowers, also the Mon
ogram of the wearer in colored letters, if de
sired.
More elaborate night shirts are of China
silk; or silk snrah in pearl, salmon or light-
blue tints, embroidered on the coliar, cuffs and
bosom.
For the extreme cold weather Warner’s
Health Underwear of purest wool or finest cam
el’s hair in natural shades, is a boon to both
sexes, large and small. It is accurate in fit
and so free from harsh or uneven hairs as to
cause no irritation to the most sensitive skin.
Ulsters are very IoDg, and have deep capes.
For driving purposes and for sleighing there
are coats lined with durable fur.
Gentlemen of means in mourning wear black
pearl sealf pins which are costly but beanti
lul enongh to repay one for the outlay.
The styles of Masculine garments illustra
ted in Hackett, Carhart & Co’s catalogue sent
free upon application, are particularly elegant
this season, and thousands of “lords” all over
the land may benefit by the universal system
of supply vouchsafed by this sterling time-
honored boose.
Sallje J. Bailey.
Electric Railroad.
A. W. B , Louisville, Ky.: Cm you tell me
when the first electric street railro .d was put
into practical use in the United States?
We think it was in Baltimore, Maryland, in
1885; it runs two miles, operates five cars, and
last year earned 200,000 passengers. There
are now about a dozen others in operation,
and many more under contract in this conn
try. In time our railroads will be run by
electricity. Steam is doomed, and the boys
of to day will, in 1900, and by 1920, know but
little of steam as a motive power. The next
thing will bs air navigation, and that within
the next twenty years.
Cood Looks.
R S. S., Austin, Texas: I want to find out
the best thing or wash or colion for tightening
the wrinkled skin on hands and face? Tell
me if you can.
Want to look young do you? Want tocourt
some young girl do you, and want to show
fall face? Naughty man. Well, take of oil
of almonds 4 ounces avoirdupois, hog’s lard 3
ounces, spermaceti 1 ounce; melt, add of ex
pressed juice of horseleck 3 imperial fluid
ounces, aud stir till the mix'ure solidifies by
cooling. A few drops of lavender or cologne
are added to scent the mixture.
Moon.
G. H. A , Jamestown, N. C : Will you
please answer the following question through
your quiz column: “Is the moon always full
to some portion of the earth? I mean when
it is new to us, is there any portion of the
earth to which it is full? F.ease explain how
this is.”
It is the same all over the world so far as is
known. How it may look at the North or
Sonth Pole, we cannot say.
“Beautiful Snow,” Wadesboro, X. C : This
song has been published over and over again,
and is too well and widely known to be re
publish! d.
Editor Sunny South : In last week’s issue
of your yaper a subscriber questioned you
through Quiz Column concerning emblems of
the different stones. Below you will find a
list some of the most important ones, with
their respective legendary meaning: Pearl—
purity; opal—hope; tnpas—fidelity and friend
ship; turquoise—prosperity in love; diamond—
faith, innocerc-; bloodstone—wisdom atd
firmness in affection; garnet—constancy and
fidelity in every engagement; agate—insures
longlife, health and prosperity; amethyst—
preventive against violent passions; catseyr —
possesses the virtue of enriching the wearer.
B ackshear, Ga. L F.
“Anti Fat” Etbert County.
Editor Sunny South: Iq accordance with
your request that some reader of the Sunny
South suggest somethirg that will reduce
flesh, is answer to “L. O. Y.,” cf Elbert coun
ty, will sav that I have seen it stated as a pos
itive fact that a enp of hot water tak^n after
each meal will rapidly reduce flesh.
Eat any thing you like, but drink nothing
at meals and in a few minutes after rising
from the table drink a cap of water as hot at
you can bear it. G. Q.
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