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published a* heretofore lii the Snssr South,
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GEN. LUCIUS J. GARTRELL.
A Brilliant Masonic Oration
Forty-Eight Years Ago.
In looking over hi. old papers recently
General GartrelUof Atlanta, came across
a worn and yellow bat pretentions look
ing MSS. decked with bows and ribbons
GREEDY FOR GOLD.
Men Who Sweep All Scruples
from Their Path.
F the threatened boycott
did nootuergood, it certain-
! ly made up the nation.
Thousands of people who
knew nothing about the
Lodge bill and cared leas,
I waked up and inquired
what all this racket was
about. The news papers
ventilated It freely and
while the Northern press
denounced the boycott
most of them denounced the
Lodge bill too and so It Is
allright. When the devil
comes at us with a torch, we mast fight
him with lire, but when he pots down his
weapons we must put down ours. We are
not hunting for another fight, we are the
friendliest people on the face of the
earth but the North can’t make ns
trade with them by force nor by threats.
We wont even trade with ourown people
unless they are civil and polite and tote
fair. Everybody ciai ms the right to grat-
if. their preferences and their prejudices.
You can lead a hoiso to water, out yon
can’t make him drink. We are all more
or less clannish. Nine times out often
a Baptist will trade at a Baptist store and
so ol’ the other denominations. Thelaw-
yers stick together and so do the doctors
and have tiieir fee bills like a trust, and
if they sue you for professional services
the whole fraternity will swear to it. La
bor unions put a trust on their wages and
will strike and boycott to enforce them.
The farmers would put on a trust on their
cotton If they could and make the world
pay fifteen cents a pound for it. They
are running the political machine and
have boycotted all other trades and pro
fessions They wont play with ns any
more. They are playing with Z*ch Har
^rove the high arch republican of this
district, bat they wont play with me.
There are lots of republicans In the alli
ance and some of them were delegates to
the convention that nominated our mem
bers to the legislature, and they've got
things mixed up so that 1 don’t know
what 1 am or whom I belong to. I feel
like I’m just running about loose and no
bell on. Jf somebody don’t bell me, I’ll
get loose sure.
Z»ch is a friend of mine, and told me
the other day to keep quiet and raise no
rumpus and this thing would all work
out right- Zach has got the Rome post-
olfice and is running the Alliance; but
where am I? An old farmer told me in a
whisper that the Democracy had cap
tureif z »ch "done in the sly
gggSSjfK?■wSSneeriSa «“*
lm°a"f before long aodthe niggemtoo,
and Livingston told me it would all be
right if we outside Democrats would bo
have; but somehow X dou’tund 9 r a taud
the machinery V _1
but 1
serene.
says •‘be quiet;” and Livingston winks
2L .. in he left out in the cold. I
GEN. LUCIUS J. GABTBELL
which, npon examination, proved to be
the original copy of a Masonic address
which be deli vered with fine effect to an
immense gathering In Washington, Ga.,
on the 24th day of June, 1S42 It occurred
to him at ones to submit It to the Editor
of the Sunny South for publication
which was gladly accepted and it appears
in fall upon the second page of this
issue
At that time General Gartrell was
quite a youth, fresh from college and
overflowing with Sophomoric and De-
mosthenean eloquence, but a perusal of
the address wilt impress any one with
the genius and splendid abilities which
characterized him at that early age and
which in after life made him one of
Georgia’s most illustrious citizens. That
speech has served as a standard text
book, as It were, for the grand brother
hood of Masons down to the present
time, noarly fifty years since its delivery,
and Is today the guide and defence of
every member of the order. Every Mason
in America should read it and have his
old time love and enthusiasm for the
“mystic tie’’ retouched as with a live
coal from off the sacred altar. It was
published at the time in every Masonic
journal In Americt.
Since that day General Gartrell has
achieved great distinction and eminence
m various fields. As an orator upon the
hustings and in tne halls of Congress,
and as an advocate at the bar, he has
ranked for many years with the best and
most distinguished of Georgia’s sons,
and maintains that position at the pres
ent time. When Georgia seceded from
the Union he retired with Toombs and
Crawford and the whole Georgia delega
tion from Congress and in company with
Jefferson Davis, of Miss., his liie long
friend, returned home and took his stand
with his native Booth. He was soon
elected to the Confederate Congress, and
was appointed by Speaker Bocock as
chairman of the Judiciary Committee,
which was a most responsible position
and a great honor.
He declined a re election to Congress
and returned to the army, and as Briga
dier General served to the end of the war.
In the Constitutional Convention of
Georgia in 1877 he was appointed by
Governor Jenkins as chairman of the Ex
ecutive Committee. Gov. Jenkins was
Wsr^w^hlfcartummeontof
“o ^U^e'my^oW darkle, who was a
Methodist and was given to
"race was overtaken by a fault in the
shale of a bottle of whisky, and he went
to sleep on the sidewalk and woke “P. 11 }
the calaboose. He sent for me and 1
askedhim what he had been doing, and
““Noting: nothing at all, Mas William,
,r “Welfj 1 eff!”’ t «« i ‘ i !’ “they can’t put
you iu hero for nothing. No, sir, tney
C He brilhlVnod up for a moment and
then looked round at the prison walls,
a “?B S u < t, < Mas William, Ise in here.
my nothing but
saidh • coufdo’t, for ho was in tne soup
himself. 1 writ to Everette and he said,
“be quiet.” I wrote to Stewart and be
said 1 “Pray without ceasing.’ George
Barnes telegraphed me 1115 pounds
sympathy, aud Urimes enclosed me a few
lines of poetry, beginning:
01.1 Grimes is dead, that good old man;
lie planned but God disposes,
Harris he kue« and Gorman, too,
But did not know one Mohes.
I asked a farmer where they found
Moses and he said, “In the bullrnshes.’’
But U don’t matter whore they found
him I’ll bet he is a good man, for they
savhe has been a scholteacher forten
liars, and bad the bigeest and best
school In the county Toat s a good
A mad who can manage and con-
children, is no sardine. Hurrah
^M^sl On the whole, I don’t feel
FORCING FORTUNE’S FAVORS.
One Adventurer Is Now Dying In a Peni
tentiary, Another Is in Custody, a Third
Is a Fugitive and a Fourth Ties Slain by
His Own Hand.
Stronger than the love of woman, fiercer
than the desire of the man-eating tiger,
mightier than the whirling fury of the
cyclone is the never satisfied thirst of that
rapacious portion of the human race whose
thirst is the thirst for gold. Long ages
have passed since King Midas had his wish,
and felt the yellow wine within the royal
beaker turn to molten metal at the touch
of his charmed and cursed lips. He had
attained his utmost desire; a willing god
had granted his request; riches beyond the
most tremendous dreams of avarice dis
played themselves beneath the magic of
his merest touch. Yet his life was anguish,
and his death fantastic in the terror of its
torments.
So much for the old legend, the sym
bolical myth of grasping cruelty which at
tains its object, grinds beneath the heel of
oppression or fraud
the victims of its in
satiate desire, and
stands triumphant
but dismayed upon
the awful jrinnacle of
M’CARTXEY,1S90.
a success that
has been reached
regardless of
others’ suffer
ing, and from
which the victor M’CARTNEY, 1876.
stretches out an appealing hand only to
learn too late that depths of misery attend
the achievement of success, and that the
golden prize within his grasp has crushed
like an apple of Sodom and disclosed an
interior made up only of the ashes of dis
appointment.
The tale is world old but ever new—this
tale of men who have struggled along de
vious and desperate pathways to secure the
vast power that wealth alone can give.
Some have sought the fields of speculation
and climbed to prosperity* with pitiless
glee over the wrecked fortunes of their less
lucky but equally culpable comrades.
Others have toiled and saved and hoarded,
starved their bodies, impoverished their
minds and viewed only, glimmering
through the darkness of their mental and
physical squalor, the glorious yet sullen
star whose name is gold. Still others have
trod the somber highway of crime, and
endeavored by brute force or cruel cun
ning to wrest from the honest, the credu
lous or the unguarded the treasure which
represents the accumulations of honest in
dustry. For all of these, the swindler, the
thief or the miser, there is but one end.
The unlawful thirst for gold means almost
without exception disappointment, dis
grace and death.
IIAKIIY S. MAXSFIELD.
Take, for example, the case of Mo-
Cartney, who is Rasping out the last .lays
of his life in the Ohio penitentiary. I rob-
ably no man in the United States has had
a better general education or lias made a
more thorough study of the principles
engraving, lie is a skillful chemist, an
expert manufacturer of the finest of art
ists’ tools, and possesses a remarkable
knowledge of the manner in which paper
used for" bond or monetary purposes is
made Yet for forty years this singularly
gifted man has devoted all his energies,
K • ■ —eclal skill to the uttering
•rency. His illicit enter-
prises, undertaken with a desire to accu
mulate a fortune at the expense of others
have brought him, on the whole, nothing
but merited disaster, aud now old, penni
less and forsaken, the famous king of
American counterfeiters lies ilj in
the frowning walls of a prison
for Moses! On
V Tie'Fkrmers’ Alliance at Louisiana
has choked oil the Littery, a “ < ** b 5‘ 8 u a
'^hankers ald^mTo'lesMyllhe
patera would’u^ d do b it. Hurrah for the
wither Haynie says they are not
going t° hu'tme. He hv^on the roa^
bl8 ! a trough outside so you could
ho . h d Jlhnrsm and his apple orchard
water your horse, dn , t lt if you
didn’t'stop a’nddrink and eat, and water
your horse. Hava if I had stuck to
Father M l wou td have elevated me
the farm, they w y x rec kon they
about t ^? y “ 1 ide me overseer of the
gSfSssiriSTMJ!
THE LATE CARDINAL NEWMAN.
President or the Convention. This wa
a distinguished honor to General Gar
trail, for many of the most prominent
men in the Stale were on this Com*
As a criminal and constitutional
yer General Gartrell has for many years
b a en recognizid as the ablest in tbe
State and his great abilities have been in
great demand in all portions of the _
smith He is still vigorous, eloquent education and spe
and youthful in mind and body and of counterfeit currency.^
stands at the head oT the bsr. His ereat
abilities should be called into the s » r J^ 8
of tbs State either as governor or °®“ a ‘
tor and in either position ho would be a
tower of strength.
TBE Lair, uakUINAL NEWMAN.
John Henry, Cardinal Newman, was
born in London in 1801 and educated at
Filing School and Trinity College, Ox
ford where he took classical honors.
Educated in the Established Church of
England, he was at fire }i bi *£ Br *J h op ^ f 8 t e ,r
to the Roman Catholic Church- Aft ur
a series or events, in 1845 he seceded from
the Established Church and was or
dained a priest in the Roman Catholic
Church. His conversion was conceded
to be the greatest moral torlamph_wliic.ti
the Roman Catholic Church had acWeved
in that country for a long time, “is ac
tion was the cause of many following
h Dr. Newman’s Influence has been great
npon the comparatively few ” b °, h ,! 1
had the privilege of P« rB °“ al
tercours3 with him, but lt hen
equally great upon the many thousands
wno have read his writings He has
written much aud he has almost always
written well. His style possesses »
charming clearness and simplicity, ana
then moreover the reader Inst 1 actively
feels himself in company with one who
not only believes the statements ho
makes, but is striving himself to act up
to that belief. - _ __
Cardinal Newman was 90 years of age
■Ion on North Third street. He flwen
alone In a miserable ’hovel. Outside of
business hours he shunned his fellow man
and he was regarded by his neighbors
poor unfortunate whose scanty income
from trade brought him the bare necessi
ties of life. But the out&me shows that
he like the others was a victim of the aw
ful and relentless thirst for gold. He had
toiled and saved, and spared himself in no
direction that he might add to his store of
shining metal. At the ago of 70, alone,
friendless, unattended, he first saw the
hollowness of his life’s ambition, and lock
ing up his little shop sought the filthy
back room in which he had spent so many
solitary nights and ended his dreary life
with a shot from a revolver.
So meager was his patronage that days
passed before tiie poor wretch’s tragic end
was known. When found he sat dead in a
chair. A frightful hole marked the mid
dle of his forehead. He was naked above
the waist. Ilis false teeth, says The Kan
sas City Times, protruded several inches
from the mouth. The nose had rotted and
sunk into the skull, leaving only a deep
Indentation, and maggots were worming
themselves in and out of the apertures in
his face. lie was thought to be a pauper,
but in the cellar was found a bag of gold
PETER LEFLER.
pieces. In a drawer lay a bank book show
ing a large sum to his credit, and notes
given by responsible parties for hundreds
of dollars. The till also contained a hand
some sum of money.
In addition to these was found a will by
tbe provisions of which small fortunes were
left to five persons living in Baden, Ger
many, and two other people resident in
Kansas City. The old man directed that
after the payment of these bequests and a
magnificent disbursement for his funeral
the residue of his estate should be turned
over to the Young Men’s Christian associa
tion of Kansas City, with the exception of
his stock of goods, which he bequeathed to
an old cripple named William Taylor.
Viewed in all its aspects can it be said
that there is one redeeming feature to
brighten the somber history of the world
old inordinate greed for gold?
Fred. C. Dayton.
THE GREAT MODERN ART CRITIC.
The Unhappy Life of John Rusk in. Who
Recently Attempted Suicide.
The recent announcement that in a fit
of insanity the celebrated art critic, John
Ruskin, attempted to commit suicide can-
r within
He is Hut oue, iiunutvi, - , .
have defied the law aud found that the law
is more powerful than criminal "W-nuity.
One of his younger brothers in the com
radeship of crime flic other day began his
experience of the thorny road along which
McCartney so long has trod. His name is
Harry S. Mansfield, aud until recently he
was the trusted agent at Topeka, Kan., of
cent
and be
everyiaiuR r.' r , n have peace ana ds
about be % iqing to sleep two
friends.! wTth a RepubUcan, if he was
in a bed with a «ep aU BO rts
friendly to us. The^writem i beUeve
of letters from vp dJ j got three to •
they are a N° v/Yorx Democrat,
day; one from & t mistake In
wbosays we made a g ^ u h asde-
threatening »>e b J u with its bayonet
foated the Lodge gave let them
,!nd i^would have killed the Re
publican^part*so dead it wouldn’t even
have a ghost. Indiana man,
Another letter is iro His pill .
Who says: Go ‘ but Is sound. The
losophy la cuttt g^ ou s outrage andwe
force bill •» an 1 threatened boy
d0 t " t ’ t ? a a m a y NortSero man and a Uspub-
lican/but I ^ay: “God bless you. Hit
them again-” from B negro, a
The tuird ^writes i mt like white
colored maD, and e w Markham, Va.,
folks. He « r ‘^ S ak flr myself and my
and says. I w hite friends at the
peopla, we desire waa t no Forc9
South to kno *' it will prove our
B1U thrust upon us. it v
[Concluded on EigMH Paje.j
SEYMOUR KISCn.
the Kansas aud Texas Coal company.
Large sums of money passed through his
hands, an opportunity presented itself and
the greed for gold swept away the barrier
of principle as a sudden summer torrent
bears down before its resistless fury the
frail obstruction of the flimsy dam. He
put in nispocKet s*»,uuuoi tne company's
money, lied to Canada and with the stolen
cash started a business enterprise in Lon
don, which had just begun to. prosper when
detectives swooped down frpon him and
carried t*e amateur in crime back to Kan
sas to answer for his sins.
Like McCartney and Mansfield, Seymour
Kisch might have prospered along the or
dinary lines of honest enterprise. He was
well known and liked in the business and
social circles of Chicago, and bad achieved
a respectable reputation, both as a lawyer
and a journalist. Clients willingly intrust
ed him with their causes, and the news
papers received his contributions with
favor. A few years of steady work and in
telligent application would have made
him a rich man, but he preferred to reach
affluence by the short cut of fraud. As an
attorney lie swindled widows a#d orphans;
as a newspaper man he abused the confi
dence of his associates, and as an acquaint
ance he imposed upon the credulity of
those who trusted him. Now, with his
pockets full of ill gotten wealth, he is a
fugitive from justice.
The cases cited above are sorrowful to
contemplate, but probably none of the
three can equal in horror of detail that of
the Kansas City miser, Peter Leller. This
miserable old man had lived out the allot-
has come ft „£h OP Q f ted tale of threescore and ten years. His
very prominent maniier. aa the early history is obscure, but for the last
the infamous Federal Election Law, com | ouarter of a century he "had kept a small
JOHN r,r.s
not fail to revive in the mindsof his friends
and admirers recollections of his unhappy
private life. Many years ago he married a
beautiful woman, but his domestic felicity
was of brief duration, for Mrs. Ruskin soon
secured a divorce, and not long afterward
became tbe wife of Millais, the painter.
After this painful episode Mr. Ruskin
devoted himself solely to literature and
art He was but 24 years old when he
threw down the gantlet to all the critics
in England, and virtnalytold them that
they did not know their profession. They
howled back at him, the' abused him, they
scorned him, they laughd at him. But he
stood his ground, ad pulled lustily
against the mighty cun-lit that set in
against him. The torrut ran fast, but it
didn’t run long. Ruskiltried their criti
cism by appealing to naire :is a model for
art while they depicteMature in accord
ance with a certain sc*ol of painting.
Ruskin soon began to jit.her advocates,
and it was not long bef« lie had effected
revolution
The tide that set in* tide that he had
turned—was one of oxime realism. He
went so far as to d.Ounce Raphael’s
Charge to Peter,” on ^ground that the
apostles are not dress) as men of that
time and place would Jja been when go
ing out fishing. Ile^J to an almost
brutal realism in everyiig, and preached
his doctrine whether i* would hear or
whether they would fork* He soon ral
lied a little coterie of mas about him and
formed a school stylefiie pre-Raphael-
ltes. The principal fo4cr of the school
■was Dante Gabriel Rifftti, since better
known as a poet than afftist. Ho held his
little court in London ilnany years, and
a great number of youmensatathisfeet.
His chief supporters afst were Holman
Hunt and Millais, thcltcr of whom be
came the husband offs. Ruskin after
her divorce, which wa-Tocured in Scot
land These latter so left Rossetti far
behind in execution, tRossetti was the
soul of the movemenlle had received
inspiration directly froiuskin.
Among the movcmciiliat sprang from
that inaugurated by Wn; was the es
thetic craze of OscjWildo and the
{esthetes of London, -‘there were some
advantages derived evjrom these sun
flower carriers. I .
Ruskin made a t*broad, during
which his attention w;*Ued to a differ
ent brand 1 of art, a* followed the
“Modern Painters” inf time with his
“Seven Lamps of ArAturc” and his
“Stones of Veni.-e.” f were master
pieces of eloquent deseffn and rhetoric.
Wo such vivid writing been seen for
many a day, and no s.aal and earnest
ness Tho wealth offeous imagery
was dazzling; the deckibn imparted to
it the eloquence of an day, and the
lofty thought aud morjpose were pe
culiarly the author’s o The books ex
erted a remarkable ** ce - He ha3
written much since, he has never
reached the height horned in these
earlier books.
HENRY CABOT LODGE.
church at the time of his death.
HENRY CABOT LODGE,
xt r> Tadse was born in Boston, March
19 tsail^s graduated from Harvard in
8n%*5Se Law School in 1874, and
. «po given the degree of Ph. D. for
Mb’theslson the land law of the Saxons.
He was university lecturer on American
H 6 "*. q He has served two terms
N , ftt \°ed a i l n l^lnd reVectedhi 1888. He
SK~K»i2i2ftsrSS£,S
A Strange Anon* Letter.
Claude Rosaire livedi French Can
adian family in soutbfceh.gan until
he was 23 years old arnfed himself a
“on. In a moment ofc three years
ago his supposed falfcclared that
Claude was an illegiti on. This so
hurt the young man t ran away to
Chicago. He has no the family
since The other day *ved an an
onymous letter static his .grand
mother was the Due e Saint Al-
laize, of Normandie, wftrom a cruel
husband to America i r only child.
This child eventually i » Confed
erate soldier, Claude t rn to them a
r or two afterwan her woman
(the writer of the le !d tb0 b “?"
band, and in her an; > the child.
The father, in despaii a pss, com
mitted suicide; the m “ dl “ pp f a to
ed. Inclosed in the t us letter to
Claude was the certi
and mother’s marriag
Some business men
dertaken the erection
buildings in the woi
850 feet in size and six
construction will cost *>,000.
monly knowri *s the Force Bill.
his father’s
go have un-
the largest
to be 190 by
tall. Its
People I Hue Not let.
The Insolent Conductor, Arro
gant Southerner and No
ble Bed Man.
Atlanta, Ga. and Austin, Texas
the Most Sabbath observ
ing of AU Cities.
Since I was 14 years old I have made
frequent tours among many different sorts
of people, and now have to confess that I
have failed to find most of the characters
TIIE POLICEMAN HE MET.
presented on tbe stage and in current
fiction. They exist of course, for a mul
titude of witnesses so testify, but the
problem now troubling my mind is—how
did I miss them?
I have been in every large city in tbe
United States and Canada, and have never
seen the “brutal policeman” at work in
any of them, though I have seen him (in
very few instances) in smaller places.
During seven years’ life and travel in the
Rocky Mountains, including the last year
of Pacific railway construction and many
tours through the mines, I saw but one
man shot down; in much travel in Canada
I did not once meet the “overbearing En
glishman,” and in seven extended tours of
the Gulf states I utterly failed to see the
“arrogant southerner.” The lazy and lux
uriant southerner I found rather too easily,
and if I had plenty of money and nothing
at all to do there is no man whose society
would suit me letter. Where the other
kind keep themselves I cannot imagine;
they certainly secreted themselves when I
was around. They probably heard that I
was coming.
“The man who does not know what fear
is” I have often read of, and always with
enthusiastic admiration, but I have never
seen him, though I have served in the
army, militia and civil posse and scouted
among the Indians. I have shot and been
shot at (a little), and if one mail’s testi
mony goes for anything I am .perfectly
free to say that when the first shell bursted
above my head I should have run like a
scared dog had I not been more afraid of
ridicule and disgrace than of being shot.
ms SOUTHERN FRIEND,
quaintance 1 have yet to muTte: ’ nt
numerous of course, for ail the books men
tion him, but he has so far escaped an in
troduction to me.
I have seen Indian tribes from Winni
peg to Chihuahua and from Newfound
land to Florida, and once traveled many
hundred miles with a band, not seeing
a white face for weeks, but the “noble
red man” was absent on business—travel
ing with a circus, perhaps, or a delegate at
Washington—at any rate I did not see him.
Being myself a fanatical believer in the
Aryan and not a candidate, I am free to
give my view of the al»origine.s—viz., that
after the missionaries and post traders
have worked on them for another century
they will be so far developed as to be fit
for extermination, unless, indeed, they are
absorbed into tho American race of the
future.
I was born and mostly reared within
cannon shot of the Wabash river, yet
Eggleston’s “Hoosiers” are as much a nov
elty to me as to any Bostonian; though
many New Englanders are my friends I
have not seen the “typical Yankee,” and
in the south and southwest I was still more
unfortunate. In Texas I found the law
against concealed weapons enforced with
a vigor unknown in the northwest; the
most generous people I ever lived with
were from Vermont, and if I were asked to
name the two states in which the Sabbath
is most strictly observed I should select
Georgia and Texas. In fact, Atlanta and
Austin were during my travels the only
A SCENE IN AUSTIN,
considerable cities in which whisky on
Sunday could not bo obtained by love,
money or stratagem. In the latter state
Galveston is an exception, being more like
a French or other foreign city as to Sun
day; while in other sections I suspect the
Texans feel toward whisky and concealed
weapons much as the old woman of the
story did about dancing—they have “seen
the folly of it.”
In the course of about 100,000 miles rail
road travel I have not run against the in
sulting braxeman or conductor, witnout
exception those gentlemen have acted in
my presence as gentlemen indeed, and even
the sleeping car porter has usually kept
within bounds. Beginning as the son and
assistant of a stock farmer, and continu
ing as student, explorer and health seeker
and finally as journalist, I have traveled
at least 5,000 miles in lengthy trips on horse
back, as much on foot and by stage coach,
and much more by water, in every state
west and south of the Hudson and in
Canada and Mexico, and the rode or
Insulting people I have met have not been
as one in five hundred. All these things
make me think that we Americans, of all
sorts, are a pretty fair set of folks, and if <
we knew each other better we should love
each other more.
We have a natural vice, however, and
it is not intemperance, as so many think.
Nor is it avarice especially—we want mo
ney chiefly for the fun of spending it—nor
vanity, nor yet licentiousness. Our na
tional vice is, to put it bluntly—lying.
This is all the more remarkable as our
English cousins are the most inveterate
truth tellers in the world. We Americans
exaggerate or depreciate everything; not
one article or incident in a hundred is jost
as it is represented. If the reader thinks
this a rash statement let him consider the
question: How many eminent men are
there whose statements on any politjoql
ft****** would be accepted In full, as of
course? Even in aiming to tell the truth
they illuminate it fearfully; they illustrate
It with cuts—very liberal cuts. Our hu
mor is chiefly broad exaggeration. And,
this habit is probably the real reason why
the people in each section know so little of
those of other sections, why they expect
when traveling to meet the people I have
mentioned—most of which people I hav#
not met. J. H. Beadle.
A ehild.ls born somewhere In the world
every time the clock ticks, and still tho
fond father with his first baby thinks
that the busy universe Is going to stop
and look at him. —Somerville Josrnal
Wheat, oats and corn are completely
rained in South Dakota. In some por
tions of Mis soar i the tetlare is also com-
E lite. It is possible that the Sooth will
ave to famish bread to the West next
year.
OCTOBER
25— ,
A BUILDING LOT IN ATLANTA, GA., FREE!
$1000.00 to be Distributed Free Among Sunny South
Patrons on the 25th of October Next.
OUR TENTH GRAND REE DISTRIBUTION.
Our tenth grand free distribution will take place on the
25th of October next, and, as will be seen below, our list of
presents is far ahead of any tha’t has ever been given away by
any one firm.
Read the list bslow, also the list of special premiums for
clubs, and send in yoar subscriptions and clubs without de
lay. Every subscriber stands one hundred and fifty chances
of securing a valuable present besides getting TUB BEST FAH1LY
PAPER IH AIERIC1. S ee wliat everybody and the press says
about it
This is no lottery, but a free and voluntary gift of presents
to our patrons for which they pay nothing, risk nothing and
lose nothing. They get what they pay for, which is the pa
per for 12 months and it is worth ten times the amount paid.
See the plan of distributingthese presents and also the re
duced club rates. We should receive a club of five or ten
without delay from every locality in the South. The North
and West are sending in clubs.
The Folloviog ExtraorJiniry^ist of Presents vill be Distribute! in Pabllc Among
SUNNY SOUTH Patrons on Saturday, Oct. 25tb, 1890.
One present of a building lot in Atlanta, Georgia. - - $500.00
This lot is high and level and in a rapidly growing; portion of the city, and
1b worth now |500 and will be worth flOOO. The proprietor of the Sunny
South owns twelve lots adjoining.
One present of one hundred dollars in Gold
One present of twenty-live dollars in sold
One present of twenty-five dollars In gold
One present of twenty dollars In gold
One present of fifteen dollars In gold
One present of ten dollars In gold
One present of ten dollars in gold
One present of ten dollars in gold
One present of ten dollars in gold
One present of ten dollars In gold
One present of ten dollars in gold
One present of ten dollars in gold
One bresent of ten dollars in gold
One present of ten dollars in gold
One present of ten dollars in gold
One present of five dollars in gold
One present of five dollars in gold
One present of five dollars In gold
One present of five dollars in gold
One present of five dollars in gold
One present of five dollars in gold
One present of five dollars in gold
One present of five dollars in gold
One present of five dollars in gold
One present of five dollars in gold
Ten presents, each three dollars in gold
Twenty presents, each two dollars in gold -
95 presents, each one dollar in gold
THE PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION.
$100.00
|25 00
25 00
20 00
15 00
10 00
10 00
10 00
10 00
1000
10 00
10 00
10 00
10 00
10 00
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
5 09
30 00
40 00
95 00
Hmiu thn Presents will be Distributed
Every one wno subscribes or renews
or sends in a new subscriber for one year
before the day of the distribution, will
have his or her name and post office
written on a small, thick card which will
bo dropped into a strong covered box.
If you send in only your own subscrip
tion, your name will go in the box once.
If you send your own and another sub
scription, your name will go in twice
and the new subscriber’s name once. If
yon 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 names goeB in on
ten cards and so on to any number.
This privilege is extended to every one
except 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 besides. Bat
no commissions are allowed on the dollar
and a half club rates.
On the day of the distribution at 5
o’clock, P. M., the box will be closed and
sealed and a disinterested committee of
three will shake it up thoroughly. Then
an opening will be made and a little boy
or girl' will put his or her hand in and
take out one card, and the person whose
name is on it will b 3 entitled to the
handsome building lot in Atlanta, Ga. An
other card will be drawn out, and that par
son will receive {100.00 in gold; and so on
till the entire list of presents shall have
been exhausted, and ia Due order at n <1.
$1.50 CLUB RATES.
We would like to have a good club
ham every locality and have fixed an ex-
Five subscriptions one'year, ea rn i.ou.
All the names and the money mast be
sent in at the same time, bat after a clnb
has been sent in, any number of name*
may be added to it at the same price
For a club of six new snbscribersat {2
each, an extra copy will be sent free for
one year to the one sending the club.
Every name whether single or in club*
will go in the box.
Send money by post-office order, pos
tal note, registered letter, express, or
checks on New York.
^•“No commission will be allowed on
these club rates.
^•Send for sample ooplee, receipts,
subscription blanks, etc.
Address, J. H. Sells & Co.,
Atlanta, Ga.
Get your name in the box
early. Some of the best prizes
were drawn by names which
went in among the first. The
tickets were shaken up from
the bottom, Some names and
clubs came too late for the last
distribution but they have gone
in for the nett. S ee an *
nouncement. Address
J. H. Seals & Co.,
Atlanta, Ga,
GOLD PREMIUMS FOR EVERY CLUB.
That no one may work for ns for nothing we annonnoe liberal cash premiums for
every club. This secures you * prize, beyond question, and secures you a ticket In
ths general drawing for eveiy snbcriptlon yon may send In, thus giving yon
that many chances at the prizeaand at the {50 extra which is offered below for
the highest number of subecrlpMons that may be sent in by any one person
before October 25th. The gold premiums for clubs ran as follows:
For every clnb of 100 subscribers at {2 00 each - - - - |50 00
For every clnb of 75 subscribers at |2 00 each - - - - 38 00
For every clnb of 50 subscribers at {2 00 each - - 3 - 25 00
For every clnb of 40 snbscriben at {2 00 each - - - - 20 00
For every clnb of 30 subscribers at |2 00 each - - - - 15 00
For every club of 25 subscribers at {2 00 each - - - 12 00
For every clnb of 20 subscribers at {2 00 each - - - - 10 00
For every club of 15 subscribers at $2 00 each - - - - S 00
For every club of 10 subscribers at {2 00 each - - - - 5 00
For every club of 5 subscribers at {2 00 each - - - 3 00
$95.00 in Gold Extra for tbe Largest Number ot Subscribers.
As a farther stimulant to workers we offer in addition to the above premiums
a special prize of $50 IN GOLD to the one who shall send In the largest number ol
subscribers by the 25ih of October, To the one sending the next highest $25. And
to the next highest $20. This is open to every one except regular traveling agents
Bee the chances yon have. If you send In one hundred subscribers at $2.00 each
yon will receive Fifty Dollars in Gold, and if that should prove to be the highest
number sent In by any one person yon will receive this $50.00 extra, making f 100 00;
and besides yon will have 100 tickets in the oox and may get the building
let or $100 00 in the free distribution in October.
IsADIKS
Needing a tonic, or children that want building
up, should take
BROWN’S IRON BITTERS.
It is pleasant to take, cures Malaria, Indiges
tion, and Biliousness. All dealers keep it.
Lawshe’s Gough Lozenges
FOB THK BELIEF AND CUBE OF
Bronchitis, Coughs, Sore Throat, Asthma
AND ALL
Affections of the Vocal Organs,
S7\
TBADE - ^ MARK.
1 ER LAWSHE, Proprietor,
ATLANTA, GA.
Public Speakers and Singers will find these
Lozenges far superior to anything of the kind
~ ifore. They contain
no uriATE nor otner injurious substance,
and can be used as freely and as often as neces
sity requires. One or two Lozenges taken in
the mouth at bedtime, will relieve and quiet
the most annoying coughs.
PRICE, 25 CENTS PER BOX.
PATENTS
THOMAS P. SIMPSON
fee until
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