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THE SUNNY SOUTH. ATLANTA. GA., SATURDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 17. 1887.
Every farmer and every far
mer’s son and daughter should
have a chance at the 2,000 valua
ble presents which this paper will
distribute free in January next.
See the list.
MUSH AND MILK.
05, thP fl «vor swet-t and rare,
Of the simple farmer fare—
Mush and milk the wholesome diet
O' the life so pure and quiet I
Clear the realm of table showl
list thee hence, Delmonlco!
Out, ye mod rn viands flat,
A la this and a la that.
Give me now a table bright
With Its bowls so cleat and white,
Glittering spoons In hands so manful,
Milk so luscious by the panfuL
Oh, the fialdsof golden maize!
Ob, the halcycn autumn days I
Mbblers pale In rostllng silk,
What know ye of mush and milk?
Once again In foreign lands,
O'er my bowl I clasp my bands—
Giving thanks that, as or yore.
Mush and milk I taste once more.
Ob, the rosy cheeks It gavel
Oh. the arms so strong and bravel
Mush and milk baa raised the latest
Ol the nations, ana the greatest.
—Brooklyn Standard-Union.
Stunting Pigs Before Birth.
The feed and management of a sow while she
is bearing her young have an important effect
on her progeny. She should be warmly shel
tered and fed with the kinds of food best fitted
to make young pigs grow—milk and wheat
bran or middlings. If fed exclusively on corn
the sow will fatten, while her pigs will starve,
but the sow may be brought to reasonably
good condition on other feed without any
danger whatever of making the pigs puny
The prejudice against too fat breeding sows is
due chitfiy to fattening them mainly on corn.
It is the worst feed possible for sows with pig,
ABOUT WOMEN.
What They are Doing for the
Good of the World.
Good Farmlne.
J. J. Kinchen, of l'ulaski county, Ga., the
present year cultivated a five-plow farm, and
here is the result: 1 000 bushels of oats, 100
bales of cotton, 1,000 bushels of corn, 400
bushels of field peas, 400 bushels of potatoes,
and 4,000 pounds of pork.
A Heavy Po-ker.
Mr, E. R. Burgess, of Williamston, S. C., has
slaughtered a pig, only eight and a half months
old, that weighed 304 pounds. This is, we be
lieve, the largest pig for its age we have ever
heard of. Mr. Burgess thinks if he had kept
it until it was twelve months old it would have
weighed nearly 600 pounds. The pig was of
mixed bleed, the Berkshire, Roland China and
Jersey Red being about equally represented
in it.
Farmers’ Alliance Organizer.
Mr. N. H. C. Elliott, National Lecturer and
State Organizer of the Farmers’ National Al
liance and Cooperative Union of America,
has recently been lecturing and organizing Al
liances in North Carolina, where the organiza
tion has been spreading ard strengthening for
some time past. The Raleigh Progressive
Farmer says that he would be glad to organize
an Alliance during the day and one at night,
if the meetings can be conveniently arranged,
not nearer than three miles of each other.
No portion of our people ftand more in need
of thorough organization and unity of action
than cultivators of the soil.
Enriching Milk by Feeding.
There is a great natural difference in cows
with regard to the richness of milk they give,
and this is only partially modified by feeding.
Jersey cows make yellow butter and a good
deal of it. according to the quantity of milk
even in Winter. If the feed be dry and poor
they will not give so much. A cow that natur
ally gives thin, poor milk, may be made to
give somewhat belter milk by giving her rich
food, as corn meal or oil meals. Probably if
this was continued while the cow is bearing a
calf, the progeny will inherit this tendency to
put more of the milk into the cream pot. In
this way our large milkers may in time be bred
as equally remarkable for butter production.
There is a hint in this fact also against neglect
ing the feed of cows whiie they are dry, and
near dropping their calf. It might make some
trouble with their bags to feed rich or succu
lent food at this time, but this is undoubtedly
the best way to develop good animals for the
dairy, either for milk or outter.
Curiosities In Fruits-
The Japanese persimmons now sold at all
of the fruit stores come from Florida. They
are mligenous to Japan, but were brought
into the Southern States and found to do well
there. The fruit has a rich handsome color,
and is delicious when fully matured. It differs
from the native persimmon, in that it ripens
« warm weather. Just before the native per
simmon is matured it is offered to unsuspect
ing Northern tourists as a tropical delicacy.
The comical results produced by its puckering
quality have given green persimmons a world
wide reputation.
A Fulton street dealer makes a specialty of
curious tropical fruits. He keeps mummy ap
ples or “mameyes,” as they are called in the
Caribbean Islands where they grow. They are
an oval shaped, three-cornered fruit, with a
double rind. Inside is a firm yellow sub
stance having a pleasant taste and a delightful
aroma. The fruit sometimes grows as large
as a child’s head, and the trees reach a height
of sixty feet. This fruit is made into marma
lade in large quantities.
Plantains are very similar to bananas in ap
pearance, but are nearly twice as large. They
come from Cuba, where large numbers of na
tives rely on them as a main article of food.
Alligator pears are brought from Havana more
as a curiosity than for their nutritive value.
They are nearly as large as melons, but are
the exact shape of pears. The yuca looks very
much like a sweet potato, and is used to make
cassava paste and marmalade, which are con
sidered great delicacies by Spanish speaking
people.
1 he malanga is the topical substitute for
our white turnip, and a few of them come here
on vessels that trade in the tropics. Rare
South American fruits are the caimitos or star
apple, the chirimoyas or custard apple, and the
guanabanas, a sour fruit.—Keiv York Paper.
Small Industries.
l)r. F. L. Yoakum, in a recent number of the
Tyler, Texas, Courier, publishes a very sug
gestive article, in which he tells our people
that from our clay could be manufactured
thousands of dollars’ worth of earthen ware
and fire-brick. Thousands of dollars’ worth
are noeded, and it requires but little capital.
The finest desserts for the table are grape,
blackberry and apple jellies, all easily made
and cheap. Why not supply our merchants
from the home market instead of from the
North ?
Pickles should be mace by the barrel and
sold by tte wholesale, and bottled neatly for
the retailer.
Cakes and cookies can be made by our in
genious peoole at home, and the stores stocked
with them instead of with those made and
cooked in St. Louis.
Delightful cordials could be made of our
grapes, berries and other frails.
Broom corn can be raised, handles manufac-
Syrup-Makingin North Carolina.
The Franklin (Marion county), Press says
that Mr. Wm. McKee this year made one hun
dred and eleven bushels of Irish potatoes off of
a half acre of ground, and two hundred and
fifteen gallons of syrup off of an acre and a
half of land.
In another county Mr. J. B. Hair planted
between eight and nine acres in sugar cane,
andtheyiell was nearly two thousand gal
lons, besides a considerable lot that was fed
to the hogs and was allowed to dry up, with
out being gathered. This makes the average
over 226 gallons per acre.
Twenty-Five Thousand to One.
We published some time since, says the
Lake City, Fla., Tobacco Plant, an interesting
illustration of the prolific nature of small
seeds, giving as an example the crop of rice
gathered by Rev. W. M. Davis from a single
seed.
It grew in the edge of a shallow pool of wa
ter on his tastefully arranged place on Lake
De Soto, and the first crop yielded 94 heads
and 10,800 grains. He has just gathered the
second crop, which yielded 122 heads and 8,-
000 grains—giving 216 heads and 25,700 grains
as the product of a single chance grain.
The grains counted are all perfect, the faulty
ones being floated off by washing.
The Habit of Wheat Growth.
A good judge of wheat or other grain can
tell much abjut its probable productiveness by
the way it starts to growing. A little check
at first is no detriment. It stops the upward
growth, while in most cases the root is gain
ing strength and preparing for still greater
efforts. Even the perils of Winter are not in
juries to wheat, the average yield of the Win
ter being greater than that of wheat that has
been bred to grow in the Spring. The reason
probably is that where wheat does not Winter-
kill the repression in Winter of its top causes
the root to tiller more in the Spring. All kinds
of Spring grain are better for early sowing,
not alone because they mature earlier, but be
cause they experience enough cold to induce
the plants to tiller more than they would if
allowed to grow unchecked from the first.
He Started.
A rag peddler who was driving up Gratiot
avenue, yesterday, had reached Hastings
street when his horse balked. The usual
number of smart Alecks were soon on hand
with their advice, and one suggestion after
another watried in vain. The horse could
neither be pulled nor pushed, and as he was
blockading traffic the crowd began to grow
very rapidly.
“What is it?” inquired a boy of twelve who
pushed his way into the circle.
“Balky horse,” answered someone.
“Where’s the owner? Here, you man, can’t
you start this horse?”
“No, he doan’ start oop.”
“Wait a minute.”
The lad run up the street half a block and
pulled a handful of hay out of a bale at a feed-
store, and when he returned he cleared a space
in front of the horse, stood off about five feet,
and extended his hand. The horse pricked
up his ears, his eyes glistened, and he at once
advanced and followed the boy around the
corner.
Its according to the hoss,” explained the
boy as the crowd cheered. “When a hay-fed
hoss balks he wants fire-crackers under him;
when a hoss who is fed on scrap-iron and
gravel-roof balks, a pinch of hay will lead him
all over town .'’—Detroit Free Press.
THE MOTHER-IN-LAW IN REAL LIFE.
We are heartily glad to find the following
touching and strong defense of that much
abused personage, “The Mother-in-Law,”
and not only cheerfully transfer it to, but give
it a conspicuous position in our columns.
Who was It, when I wed my wife,
Wished me a long and happy life,
From trouble tree, nnvrxed by strife?
My mother In law.
Who was It tangbt my wife to bake
A loaf or bread or fancy cake,
And appetizing dishes make?
My motber-ln law.
Who gave ns counsel when we went
Housekeeping, money freely spent
On things for use and ornament?
My mother-in-law.
Who taught my wife to take dellgbt
In making all around her bright,
And meet me with a smile at night?
My mother-in law.
Who was It when my wife was 111
Bestowed upon her care and skill.
And saved to me a nurse’s bill?
My mother in-law.
who then my little ones prepared
Each morn for schoo', who for them cared,
And all their little sorrows shared?
My mother-in-law.
Who was It, when their prayers were said,
So snugly lucked them Into bed,
And till they slept, besides them staid?
My mother tn-law.
Who of my clothing then took care?
Who overlooked my underwear,
And kept each garment In repair?
My motherln-law.
Who comes the first to soothe my woes?
Who loves my friends and hates my foes?
Who buys my children lots of clothes?
My mother-in-law.
Who oft to me her aid has lent
To buy the coal and pay the rent?
Who’d gladW see me President?
My mother-ln law.
A loving grandmother is she;
A generous friend she’d be to me;
Forever honored let her be I
My mother-in-law.
Dinah Marlah Mulock-Cralk.
“A little while, and then we, too, shall soar
Like white-winged sea birds into the infinite deep.”
We knew her not, save as for ns she wrought
Models of excellence, wb( reby to raise
Life’s lilllputlan standards ol dispraise
Skyward, above tradition. In her thought
Men moved as god like souls, and tau'ht
By every common deed the regal ways
Of gentle manhood. Never does one gaze
Entranced Into these living seals for naught.
So, though we knew her not, she was our friend;
And, as our friind, her death we ao deplore—
Earth levelled Insomuch It claims no more
Her busy band and brain and laurelled brow;
Yet, as our friend, the heights seem nearer now
Tj which such reveri nt spirits do ascend.
Mary B. Dodge, in the December Lippincott.
Women Fencers.
Adventures of a Snpe.
“Me Land the Joke” and a War Whoop-
Mary Anderson and Salvini.
[ET DAVID WECHS4.ER. ]
Cuttings, Crafts and Buds.
J J. Lomax, of Long Cane, in Abbeville
county, S. C., this year made eighteen bales
of cotton to one mule, without using any fer
tilizer.
Dr. E. R. Anthony, of Griffin, Ga., has 700
Concord grapes planted, and the first year
that they bore fruit H. W. Hasselkus made
over 200 gallons of wine from them, which
readily brings -$1.50 per gallon.
The weighing of the milk, testing of the
cows, and knowing to a dollar what one is do
ing is a great help to the diary farmer. It en
ables him to get rid of poor milkers and re
place them with good ones; and the latter cost
no more to keep or handle than the former.
Clean up the gardens and fields, burn or put
in compost pile all that cannot be eaten by
something about the farm and allow no refuse
to accumulate.
Seed corn must be thoroughly dried to be of
use.
Winter only the beet stock. Dispose of all
others now.
Keep your cow warm. If she gets chilled
the milk wifi dry up.
Sunflower seeds are particularly relished by
fowls at this season.
Turnips are excellent food for sheep and
improve the taste of mutton.
A colt that has been early trained to a good,
brisk walk is very valuable.
All old worthless trees had better be cut out
of the orchard now and used for firewood.
The orchard will look better next spring and
it will pay.
Tne Man and the Soil.
After all is said, there is more in the man
than there is in the ground. Some ground be
comes worn and run down, and gets too poor
to set fl ix without turning it over often. When
it changes hands, and is cultivated different
ly, and manure and a little fertilizer applied
until red clover will take root, then fine crops
of grain will grow, and you will hear some
one say he did not think there was anything
in that old field, when really there is as much
in one field as another if the right man holds
it. There are old men, farmers for fifty or
sixty years, who don’t understand how to
cultivate corn to make it a success. I know
some farmers who will not plow corn when it
is dry weather, simply because it has no weeds
or grass in it. Their idea is when clean it
don’t need stirring. Bat as the dry weather
increases, the cultivator should go the more.
If your ground is well and deep plowed early,
and your ground well mellowed before p ant
ing, with the proper use of the cultivator there
can be fair crops made in the dryest seasons.
Never plow too deep after first plowing, for
lured and brooms made at home. i - , ,
EvaDorators can be put up and the surplus lha roots need compact earth to hold moist-
fruit crop dried instead of being allowed to 1 ure. Where there is no moisture there cer-
Canning establishments can be put in ope
ration and thousands of bushels of fruit saved
and sold in cans. These establishments would
stimulate trade and bring money into the
country at the dullest season of the year.
The waste and surplus from a family table
would laise four hogs, equal to four bales of
cotton.
All the vinegir used in this country should
be made here also. It is easy to make, eco
nomical and ( ure.
Ten rich acres would produce 810,000 worth
of sage, which could be sold to market men
and merchants generally.
Ten acres, in the highest state of culture,
will produce a stalk of pepper to every two
feet, from which may be gathered one pint of
berry pepp;r, at twenty-five cents a pint—
amounting to *25 000.
We recommend Dr. Yoakum's suggestions
to our intelligent and thoughtful readers.
“Taere's life ia the old land yet.”
taiuly can be no possible means of plant roots
getting a drink, for that is the way they live,
and if ilia one means of subsistence is cut eff,
how soon you see the effect in the parched
blades. It don’t matter how rich your soil is,
if the earth is not in condition to hold moist
ure your corn will not grow. I don’t mean
water when I say moisture, for this moisture
can be obtained to some extent without rain.
I am no scientist to explain how, but part is
done by the atmosphere coming in contact
with the ground often and not too long on the
same surface. I had as soon have rocks in my
corn-field as hard clods; they will absorb all
the available moisture at night, and the sun
will extract it in the day, so the plant is
robbed by degrees of the supply. Drilled corn
will stand cultivation in dry weather with bet
ter results. There is a strip of roots that is
not broken, and the moisture will meet from
either side to supply them. If yen think it
won’t, just try it.—J. -Arp, Jr., in Home and
Farm.
Somebody in New York is giving lessons to
women in the art of fencing, and they already
knew enough to enable them to handle their
foils and go through their drill of attack and
defense without a hitch. The “professor”
says women are much quicker than men, be
ing more flexible of body, their limbs more
supple and elastic, and their mental bright
ness enabling them to pick up the strategy of
the art quicker.
The Queen of Denmark.
The Queen of Denmark made the court of
Bernstoff a quiet, cheerfnl home of domestic
virtue, where the sons of foreign kings could
find charming wives. She educated beauti
ful and amiable daughters, who became dis
tinguished in the most powerful empires in
the world, amid scenes of unaccustomed splen
dor for their natural charms. She began her
career as the wife of a poor princely officer;
to-day she is the mother-in-law of half of Eu
rope and Asia.
State Education for Young Ladles.
A bill has been introduced into the South
Carolina House of Representatives which will
doubtless be a very popular measure and be
come a law. The substance of the bill is that
the State shall appropriate one hundred and
fifty dollars for every county in the State, for
the education of oue young lady from each
county at the Winthrop training school for
teachers in Colombia. The young lady tak
ing advantage oi this appropriation, to be se
lected by a competitive examination, and after
her graduation at the training school, to serve
her county as a teacher. One of the argu
ments in favor of the bill is that the young
men, white and colored, and the colored young
women are provided for in such a manner, but
that the young ladies of the State have up to
the present time no such advantage.
“The Smartest Ctrl Reporter.”
According to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat,
the smartest girl reporter in this country is
Miss Hopkins, of the Denver Republican. She
takes assignments like a man, and can attend
to the routine of the courts or any of the pub
lic docaments with as much ease as any gen
tleman on the staff of the paper. She goes
everywhere, and is afraid of nothing. Her per
fect manners and thorough lady-like qualities
compel respect, and whether she is writing up
a baseball match or a murder, she wreathes it
with a charm of rhythmic language that as
serts her to be an artiste. She writes society,
of course, but hesitates at nothing, and it is
believed that if she should be assigned to re
port at a priz3 fight she would simply ask
where it was to be and when, and train time
would find her at the depot with the crowd
that would be going to the mill. Miss Hop
kins has the newspaper instinct more fully
developed than any other woman in America.
Those who are capable judges are fond of say
ing that she is the best newspaper man in Col
orado.
W. C. T. U. in North Carolina.
The following is the conclusion of a letter
from Greensboro, N. C., which express the
determination of the women of the nation:
“But let’s come down to solid business,
which “The Sunny" also likes to indulge in.
Bishop Key recently remarked at Conference
in Danville, Va., that down in his state they
had gotten beyond temperance and reached pro
hibition. The friends to the cause hereabouts
spmpathize very much with your good people
in their recent defeat—but it will only teach
our people that local option will not answer,
we must and will have a national law for pro
hibition and the sooner we realize the fact and
lend our energies that way, the better it will
be—this much for the special delectation of a
certain eentleman at High Point in this State.
The Greensboro W. C. T. U.’s had an ex
cellent address this week from their State
President, Mrs. Woody, whom Miss Willard
calls a perfect gem of a little woman. She
keeps the “ball in motion,” and they are now
in fine “trim” for work. This American Gov
ernment was not founded for the uses or
abuses of the saloon power, nor will Ameri
can patri its long submit to seeing the homes
go under while the saloons float above. S j let
Atlanta take heart; “reforms never ga back
ward”—learn a lesson from the late defeat and
be stronger for the next conflict.
E A. L J. C.
Dec. 2. ’87.
[Special Correspondence of Sunny South.]
It used to be, and doubtless still is, the cus
tom for Harvard undergraduates to visit the
theatres of Boston in the character of supers
when there is any particularly interesting show
on the boards. It was a decided novelty to
see great actors from the point of view thus
afforded, and the favor wasn’t all on one side
either, for the boys used to furnish an occa
sional novelty themselves which was equal to
any on the bills. I remember one night a
crowd ot men from the crew, the football
Eleven and the ball Nine went in as supers to
the Boston Theatre/ I was the smallest man
in the party and my weight was 170. We
were dressed as solfiers of the guard, and a
fiercer looking set of desperadoes I never saw
loose on a civilized community. The king of
the supers, whose name was Taylor, told ns to
wait outside till he, as Captain of the guard,
said: “Remove that man!” pointing to a cer
tain actor, and then we were to come in and
remove him. We did. We had been watch
ing him all through the play and had decided
that his removal was eminently necessary for
the honor and glory of the American stage.
When the cue was given we let out a war
whoop and swept down on “Me Lawd the
Juke” in a way that made his hair stand on
end. If ha had been a fourth-class postmaster
on a change of administration he could not
have been more thoroughly removed. He
landed somewhere in the wings with about
two thousand pounds of cultured American
beef on top of him. Taylor was in ecstasies;
and we also secured the generous applause of
a grateful audienca.
hand split the poor fellow’s costume complete
ly open in the back, showing a suit of very
modern underclothing. Just then the Captain
ef the guard came skating across the stage
with his battle axe and brought up astride of
Brown’s prostrate body, where he stood trem
ulously regarding Salvini with a drunken leer,
Brown, in the meantime recovered sufficient
ly to look out between the Captain’s legs with
SALVINI AND THE GUARDS.
the blue glasses still on his nose. The “tout
ensemble” was too much for the great trage
dian, and he went off; and died according to
programme. Then the curtain was rang down
and Salvini came out into the wings, with
vengeance in his eye. His Italian profanity
was the most finished and elaborate and ex
pressive that I ever heard. I pecked around
a piece of scenery and shuddered to hear the
sonorous and melodious “cussing.” The ac
tor’s face was an ideal picture of auger. The
Captain of the guard was absolutely sobered
by a look at him. Just then the curtain was
raised in response to the applause of the au
dience, and in an instant his entire manner
changed and he bowed his acknowledgments
with the gentlest grace. The transformation
was wonderful, and so was the other one when
he came out again and took up the thread of
malediction just where he had dropped it.
admired the man and longed to tell him so,
but the bump of caution had been greatly de
veloped by contact between my head and the
stage, and I stayed where I was.
OUR MART ’ STIRS VV THE BARBARIANS.
Mary Anderson was playing that night, and
of course we were all more desperately “gone”
on her than words can tell. At the close of
one of the acts she came out on the side of the
stage where we were, and either by accident
or design dropped a little round jewel of some
kind on the floor. It rolled against a piece of
scenery and stopped. Now the most notable
peculiarity of an at hlete in perfect training is
the celerity with which he can move, and it is
that which accounts for the fact that in exactly
the hundredth part of a second the entire
twenty of us landed on that piece of jewelry
in a heap. Probably “Our Mary" had never
seen such a promiscuous collection of hnman
ity before, but she recovered sufficiently to
smile upon ’Varsity pitcher, who rose with the
treasure in his hand and six men on his back.
I have never ceased to envy him.
Bat it frequently happened that our party
was not so well qualified to take care of itself
individually and collectively. I remember the
misfortunes of my bashful and near-sighted
friend who shall here be called Bob. We de
cided to support Mr. William Redmund in his
painful and laborious struggles with “Michael
Strogoff,” the idea being to see how a great
spectacular drama was engineered. It was the
first time that Bob had ever been near enough
to a ballet. He was right in the midBt of the
great festival scene,, being oue of the four
bearers of the Queen s palanquin. The Queen
cn this occasion ’Signed about 250 pounds,
and Bob had to hoafup his share of her for
fully twenty minutes. But he saw the ballet,
having surreptitiously put on his glasses just
bpfore his entrance. In the battle scene Bob
was one of the slaughtered soldiers, and he
lay as quietly as a lamb among the heaps of
the 3lain till somebody turned a bright green
light (used to give a ghastly glare to the
scene) full in his eyes. Then Bob sat up
among the dead and looked about him There
was a howl of laughter from the galleries, and
the voice of James Taylor was heard in the
wings, saying: “Tell that four-eyed thing to
lie down and die!”
Mrs. Hubbard, Attorney-Ganeral Garland’s
mother, will be a prominent figure at Wash
ington receptions this winter.
Mrs. Dinah Mulock-Craik left a personal es
tate valued at more than 885 000. It all goes
to her adopted daughter, Miss Dorothy Craik.
Mrs. Frank Seacoi, of Nevada, found a
chunk of gold iu the crop of one of her hens,
and she is now looking around for some one to
buy the claim.
Miss Biaddon (Mrs. Mix veil), the novelist,
is writing a new book and at the same time
enjoying a few weeks stay at the Riviera with
her uusband.
One of the first and tiaest wreaths received
at Malvern for the bier of Jenny Lind came,
with expressions of deepest sympathy, from
Mme. Patti Nicolini.
Miss M. A. Dodge, known to fame as Giil
Hamilton, has not decided whether she will
jjia the Blaine family in Europe or spend the
winter in Florida.
The Trollope family of England have writ
ten 275 books, as follows: Mrs. Trollope, Sr.,
115; Anthony Trollope, 100; Adolphus Trol
lope, 50; Mrs. Theodore Trollope, 10.
Senator How'and, of New Bedford, will be
the firs; Massachusetts Senator who ever owed
his nomination to a woman. He was first
nominated in a Pronibi .ory Convention by a
woman.
The to fan t daughter of Priucess Beatrice and
Prince Henry, of Bittenburg, was christened
with water from the Jordan river, a bottle hav
ing been secured for that purpose by the Rev.
C. M. Owen, of Birmingham.
THE FALL OF BOB.
Later Bob and I made a tour of exploration
around the back of the stage, but Bob strayed
away from me and climbed up a flight of rick
ety stairs leading to a ballet dressing room.
He didn’t know it, of course, and opened the
door as calmly as possible, just as a muscular
3 oung danseuss was emerging. Without say
ing a word she grabbed Bob around the waist
and threw him over the bannister. In his
flight he struck a dozen guns which had been
loaded for the soldiers to use at the burning
of the city, and about half of them went off.
The explosion ignited a lot of green fire, and
when I arrived upon the scene Bob was sur
rounded by a blaze of glory. In the confusion
he escaped the wrath of Taylor, which was
more explosive and daugerous than the fire
works
I remember a very melancholy occasion
when my chum and I were the sole cases in a
desert of “divinity pills”—irreverently so
called. James Taylor shuddered when he saw
their wasted frames clad in the togas of an
cient Rome. We were to “support” Salvini
in “The Gladiator," and our first appearance
was as the populace in the amphitheater scene.
We sat on some benches sandwiched in with
a lot of ex ballet girls. 1 shall never forget
the mild-eyed misery of a theolog., commonly
called Parson Brown, as he listened to the
conversation of the two mildewed coryphees
beside him and grzad out npoa the arena
through his large blue spectacles. But fate
had worse things than that in store for Brown.
It will be remertbered that the final scene of
this play presents the death of the gladiator
in prison at the'hands of the soldiers. During
the progress ofthe piece I gazed at Salvini’s
massive chest aad bulging mmoles, and won
dered how such a consumptive crowd of sol
diers could ever appear to get the best of him.
A tall, raw-boned man was to lead us, but
I noticed with dismay that he was much the
worse for liquor At the entrance for the am
phitheatre scene he had sh rcked me by ex
claiming: “Now, (hie) boys; ev’ man a
il-im’n ci ’ z’d,” which the audience probably
thought was Latin for “Down with the Chris
tians ” Later, as ha prepared to burst into
the prison, I distrusted him, and with cause,
for instead of pressing forward upon the glad
iator he reeled half way across the stage, wav
ing his battle axe ia the most absurd way.
Brown and I had entered right behind him,
and it so happened that the first thing which
Salvini saw was Brown’s blue goggles. The
result was a fearful slaughter, among the sol
diers. I “went to grais” quicker than light
ning, and when I struck the s;age it didn’t seem
as if the boards would stop me Brown liter
ally stood on his head, and Salvini’s iron
The Sunny South Seminary.
This popular Institution is already pro
nounced "The Coming School," for young
ladies of the South. Familiar with the inter
nal workings of most of the successful
schools, from a long and intimate acquaint
ance with the educational work of the South,
we are prepared to say, after a close scrutiny
of this school and a satisfactory inspection of
its various departments—Literary, Scientific,
Mathematical, Musical and Art, that it has
no superior in the South.
The students who, by the way, represent
ten or a dozen different States of the Union,
we observe are perfectly enthused with their
own success in the practical, but too often
neglected, courses in Mathematics and Eng
lish Literature; these branches being made so
interesting by the teachers that, instead of be
coming a drag and a dread, as is usnal to pu
pils in female colleges, they are a source of
recreation and real enjoyment.
The Music and Art Departments are in the
hands of most eminent and experienced Mas
ters; and the pupils of these schools are far
more rapidly advancing than we are accus
tomed to see, acquiring a most enviable profi
ciency in these delightful and ennobling, as
well as important branches.
Another grand attraction the Seminary pre
sents, is the attention given to both Ancient
and Modern Languages, for the benefit of
those who may not be willing to stop short of
a profound and finished education. Latin,
Greek, French and German, receive special
attention, and in a way to make the pupils
love the classics.
The standard of scholarship is fully equal to
that of the best male colleges of the country;
and pupils are advanced by easy and rapid
gradation through the Analytic and original
methods of the Faculty to the highest degree
of scholarship.
The discipline, while rigid and rigidly en
forced, is not at all unpleasant to any good,
brainy, sensible girl.
An advertisement of this school appears
elsewhere in these columns, and we invite our
many readers, who may have daughters to ed
ucate, to carefully consider its claims before
entering their children elsewhere.
2,000 HANDSOME PRESENTS!
TO BE PUBLICLY DISTBIBDTED AMONG SONNY SOOTH PATRONS.
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Women Wage-Workers.
[New York World.]
The old fact and the more modern fiction
that men are the “natural protectors” of wo
men seem like grim irony in view of the state
of things revealed by the working-girls who
are organizing to protect themselves.
The merciless competition of modern trade,
and the passion ot women themselves to get
“bargains” when they shop, serve to explain
the starvation wages paid in many branches
of manufacture. If people will have “cheap”
things, cheap things must be furnished. And
cheap articles mean low wages.
Bnt this does not excuse the wretched ac
commodations, the petty ex ortions in the
way of fines and “docking," the contaminat
ing associations and other hard conditions
forced upon working-girls by heartless employ
ers.
What neither the chivalry nor justice of men
nor the force of public opinion will do for
these women they purpose to try and do for
themselves. “In union there is strength.”
We wish the working-girls all success in or
ganizing for mutual protection.
A sensation was created in Wilkesbarre.Fa.,
by an application from William Kibler and
wife, and others interested, fora mandamus to
compel the Susquehauna Coal Company to
produce the bodies of twenty-six miners who
were buried in a slope of that company on the
18th of December, 1885, and whose bodies are
entombed in the pit. It would cost 8250,000 to
dig them out.
The packing of hogs in the West during the
past week shows a total of 344,000 hogs,
against 228,000 for the corresponding time
last year. The ten largest markets in the
West have packed a total from Nov. 1 to Nov.
21 of 681,000 hogs, against 501,000 a year ago,
and about 800,000 two years ago.
Don’t call a large, strong, sinewy man a
prevaricator. If you are sure he is a prevari
cator, hire another man to break the news to
him.
The Alaskan Indian is pre-eminently the
dale of his race. He is always clad in hand
some furs or blankets, and carries a walking-
stick which is often a beautiful specimen ot
elaborate carving.
The Congressmen from the far Western
States will make neat little suns of pin money
out of their mileage allowance, which is 20a. a
mile to and from WashiLgton. The Oregon
members will each receive 81,340 and the
Arizona Delegate 81,000. Congressman Lee,
of Virginia, who lives within eight miles of the
capital, gets only 83 20.
The natural level of things is righteousness,
and not iniquity. The millennium will come
when all things get adj isted to their level. The
evils we mourn over—are they not agitations
of the moral elements, the commotion prepara
tory to the settling down in perfectness and
peace?
Catarrh Cured.
A clergyman, after years of suffering from
that loatbsone disease, Catarrh, and vainly
trying every known remedy, at last found a
prescription which completely cured and sav
ed him from death. Auy sufferer from this
dreadful disease sending a seif addressed
stamped envelope to Prof. J. A. Lawrence,
212 East9chSt., New York, will reocive the
recipe free of charge. (0Sl-15teow
Gold and Silver Honey, Watches,
Silks, Furniture, Ms, Etc., Free.
SECOND GRAND DISTRIBUTION JAN. 14, 1888.
Our first distribution of presents, which took place on the 1st of
October, last, was so popular and satisfactory to everyone that we
yield to a general wish for another chance and will have one more
distribution on Jan. 14, next, and on a much larger scale. Every
body enjoys the fun and excitement of a public contest whether he
wins or not. But, regretting that so few out of the great number of
contestants received presents in the October distribution, we have
added over nineteen hmidied valuable presents to the fir.<t splendid list, making
in all two thousand and aggregating over three thousand dollars in
value.
The Following Extraordinary List will be Distributed in Pub
lic Among SUNNY SOUTH Patrons on January 14,1888:
One Present of one hundred dollars in gold
One Present of fifty dollars in gold
One Present of twenty-five dollars in gold
One Present of twenty dollars in silver
Five Presents of ten dollars, each, in gold
Five Presents of five dollars, each, in gold
One Present of a fine gent’s or lady’s gold watch
One Present of a handsome set of furniture
One Present of a high arm sewing machine
One Present of a low arm sewing machine
One Present of a handsome silk dress pattern
One Present of a China tea set, 58 pieces
One Present of a double barrel breech loader
Five Presents, each, a Waterbury watch
Twenty-five Presents, each, a fine gold finger ring
Twenty-five Presents, each, a set gold ear drops
Fifty Presents, each, a nice pocket knife
Ten Presents, each, a nice photograph album
One Present of a set plated tea spoons
One Present of a set plated table spoons
One Present of a set plated forks ...
One Present of a set plated knives ...
Fifty Presents, each, twenty pieces of popular music -
Forty Presents, each, a copy of “Law Without Lawyers,”—
see contents of this work on fourth page
Forty Presents, each, a copy ‘What Everyone Should Know’
One hundred Presents, each, a copy of “Knitting and Cro_
chet,” by Jenny June—see contents on fourth page
Two hundred Presents, each, a copy of “Usages of the Best
Society”
One Grand Present of twenty-seven handsomely bound vol
umes of the household poets: Byron, Burns, Bryant,
Elizabeth Browning, Robt. Browning, Dante^ Goethe,
Longfellow, Meredith, Milton, Moore, Poe, Shake
speare, Pope, Swinburne, Tennyson, etc., (these all con
stitute one present) 45-5®
One set of Chambers’ Encyclopedia, six vols., bound in cloth 18.00
One set of Carlye’s works, eleven volumes, in cloth, gilt - 16.50
One set of Washington Irving’s works, 10 vols., gilt cloth 15.00
One set of Dicken’s works, fifteen volumes, cloth - - 18.75
One set of George Eliot’s works, eight volumes, gilt, cloth 12.00
One set of Scott’s works, twenty-four volumes, cloth - 30.00
One set of Goethe’s works, five volumes .... 7.50
One set of Macaulay’s History of EnglancLfive volumes, gilt 6.75
One set of Macaulay’s Essays and Poems .... 3.75
One set of Plutarch’s Lives, three volumes - - - 4.50
Two hundred presents, each, a large and beautiful painting
of the famous Saratoga Springs—size, 15x21 - - 200.00
Two hundred presents, each, a spledid picture of the
great “Central Park” in New York City—size, 15x21 200.00
Two hundred presents, each, a copy of “Life’s Dream,” a
handsome painting, illustrating the dream of life—
size, 15x22 - - - 200.00
Two hundred presents, each, a picture of “Sunny Hours,”
striking and beautiful—size, 14x17 - - - -200.00
Two hundred presents, each, a painting illustrating “Con
tentment—size, 13x16 - 200.00
Four hundred presents, each, an exquisite oleograph.
These are the largest and handsomest pictures ever
offered for premiums and far superior in style and
execution to those which now adorn most of our homes 400.00
SPECIALPEEMIUMS!
To the lady or gentleman who will send in the largest number
of subscriptions by the 14th of January, next, we will give a special
premium in gold of $50. To the lady sending in the next highest
number we will present a handsome lady’s gold watch, worth $40.
jgfiF-Our regular traveling agents are not included in these
propositions.
A PONY FOB THE BOYS AND GIB=»i,
To the boy or girl who will send in the largest number of sub
scribers by the 14th of January, next, we will present a handsome
pony, saddle and bridle, worth $60.
To the girl who will send in the next highest, we will give a
handsome silk dress, worth $30.
° CLUB EATES.
We would like to have a good
club from eveiy locality and have
fixed an exceedingly low rate as
follows:
One subscription 1 year $2.00
Five subscrip’s 1 year, each 1.75
Ten “ “ “ 1.60
Twenty “ “ “ 1.50
All the names and the money
must be sent in at the same time,
but after a club has been sent in,
any number of names may be
added to it at the same price.
For a club of 6 new subscrib
ers at $2 each an extra copy will
be sent free for one year to the
one sending the club.
B4g“See the suggestion in sup
plement for sewing machine clubs
which will make it easy for every
one to secure a splendid sewing
machine.
Every name whether single or
in clubs will go in the box.
Send money by post-office or
der, postal note, registered letter,
check or by express.
BSP’No commission will be al
lowed on club rates.
B@“Send for sample copies, re
ceipts, subscription blanks, etc.
Address the Sunny South, or
J. H. SEALS & CO.,
Atlanta, Ga.
The Plan of Distribution.
How the 2,000 Presents will be Dis
tributed Among the Subscribers.
Every one who subscribes or renews or sends
in a new subscriber lor one year, before the
14th day of January next, will have his or her
name and post-office written on a small, thick
card or tag, which will he dropped Into a sealed
box. If you seed in only your own subscrip
tion, your name will go in the box once. If
you send your own and another subscription,
your name will go in twice and the new sub
scriber’s name once. If you send in five names,
your name goes in five times on separate cards
and each of the five names go in once. If you
send ten names, your name goes in on ten
tags, and so on to any number.
This privilege is extended to every one ex
cept the regular traveling canvassers. But every
name which they send in, for one year, will go
in. All local agents will have their names put
in once for every subscriber they send, and
will be allowed their regular commissions be
sides. But no commissions are allowed on dub
rates.
On the 14th day of January a disinterested
committee of three will shake np this sealed
box thoroughly, when an opening will be made
and a little boy or girl will put his or her hand
in and take out one card, or tag, and the per
son whose name is on it will receive $100 in
gold. Another card will be drawn out, and
that person will receive $50 in gold. The next
five names drawn out will receive $10 each in
gold. The next five names will receive each
15 in gold, and so on till the splendid list of
presents on the preceding page shall have been
exhausted, and in the order named.