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“Europeanized Tokyo.’’
Elsewhere on this page we present an
article of rare interest, under the above
title, and bespeak for it engrossing atten
tion. A letter received by us from Mat
suyama, Japan, enthusiastically com
mends it, as follows:
Editor Sunny South: Here is one of
the beet written art'cles on Court life in
Tokyo that 1 have found anywhere. Not
many bave had the priviltge of seeing
for themselves aa this lady hoe; there
fore her descriptions are said to be true
and accurate.
Tut re is no feature of this high life
more interesting than the position which
the Empress now occupies Previous to
the Declaration of the Constitution, Feb
ruary 11,1SS9, she was never permitted
to appear iu public with the Emperor.
Now nee where she stands. This means
that there is coming a better am a
brighter day for womanhool in Japan.
The enclosed article will be good read
ing matter for the readers of the Sunny
South. Will P. Turner.
Matsuyama, Japan.
Great Expectation*.
Were It not for the anticipation of
something better in the future, many of
the condition* in which men find them
selves would be Intolerable. But with
this to cheer, men and women have been
more than moderately happy under cir
cumstance* that seemed to preclude all
possibilities of happiness. Even when
every earthly prospect has been swept
away, individuals have indulged a feeling
of ecstatic joy in the contemplation of a
bliss beyond the grave. Bat while we
apeak of persons as being without hopes
and of hops being lost in fruition, we are
quite incapable of cbncelvlng the state
of things which theneworda Imply. Hope
Is a necessary part of all the human ex
lstenoe of which we can form an ides.Mi
There is, however, a vast diflerenoe in
the capacity for hoping among different
individuals. In some it exists so very
moderately that they may be said to pass
their lives in a state of despondency. In
ethers, there is a buoyancy of spirits
such os no train of untoward circum
stances can depress. Many persons have
no great expectations—never look for
ward to the attainment of any high ex
altation in honor and distinction. Per
haps largely because of this failnre to
expect great things they make no very
great exertions, and, os a matter of
coarse, do not accomplish any great deal.
Others begin life with a large measure of
hopefulness. They expect to be success
ful, and this expectation inspires the ex
ertlon to make it so. To the difference
in this particular more than in any other
is to be attribated the widely different
degrees of success which men achieve.
Tnere is an airy kind of hopefulness
which expends itself in castlebaildiag,
and rarely leads to anything substantial.
This is not at all to be confounded with
the well defined wish to risi higher that
prompts to vigorous exertion. It cannot
be claimed that individuals of this class
cherish seriously any decided expecta
tions. They would not Indeed be ear-
prised at any time should something
tarn ap. Their happiness does not arise
from any sack anticipations. They do,
Indeed, enjoy in a dreamy way the cun -
temptation of their fanciful structures
while the prooess of erection is going on.
Bat there is small hop9 of their ultimate
realization.
This is not a state of mental exercise
lixely to lead to anything very great or
very good. Whatever of energy it en
genders is more than apt to expend itself
in fitful efforts that producs no assured
results. The hopefulness which is part
of a determined ambition is of a less vt
various bat more abiding nature. It
stimulates to the accomplishment of
what it oeta before the imagination.
When it takes this style, it is not a bin
drance, bat a great advantage for one to
cherish greet expectations. •
Royal Regality of the Court
of Japan.
EMOPEMED WO. Hud-SMlI aid Kissini
Those Who Gannot be Men.
“Be a man, George,” ore words which
it is said the Princess Augusta of Wales
was wont to speak very often to her roy
al son when he first came to the throne,
and according to hla apprehension of the
Icon Basilisk, the dull, self-wil ed bat
honest young man strove to follow her
advice. Save however that his obstinate
folly entailed great woes upon the peo
pie of two continents, his efforts did not
win for him a distlngaished place in
history. He had in him, in truth, bat i
small share of the kingly, and all the ad
monitions of his stern, ambitions parent
could not stir him into any exhibition of
heroic qualities. Many a mother of
hnmbler rank has been quite os anxious
that her son should be a man, and bas
spent words of admonition qaite as vain
ly. There ore human beings of the male
sex of whom no coarse of training trill
make men. They have a lack of those
elements which give strength and digni
ty to the character. Their moral nature
seems all fiaDby and weak, with scarce
the vigor to assume and far too little to
retain an ere st posture. They may pos
sess a number of fine intellectual gifts
They may have wit and taste, and their
souls may thrill with the loftiest emo
tions of poetic sentiment. Their brains,
may conoeive and their tongues be able
to express sentences that glow with all
the sablime splendors of elcqaence. Bat
with all these admirable endowments,
there is often a deficiency of moral
strength which causes them to be of lit
tle worth. When occasions arise for as
suming positions of moment and for
maintaining them unswervingly, these
men will fail to master. They prove that
...... ... , „ _ - are expected to meet trying emergencies.
It is, therefore gratifying to find | Thelr flieEds olten laTnont tWs fallillg
ie South has made wonderful pr"g ! so 8hort of wbat ls exp£Cted of them) and
Prodaction of Pig Iron in the South.
Several years aeo the Bunny South
directed attention to the great quanti
ty s and richness of the deposits of iron
ore in the mountains and hills of Tennes
see and Alabama, lying in close contigu
ity to immense coal fields, and urged
teat the manu'actnre of tron in this sec- : .. . . . . ,
„ .. they cannot be counted among thrse who
tlon could not be otherwise than profit- . . . ... ,
^ I &ra AXnacted to meat-. twiner Amnr^nr Maa.
able.
that the south nas made wonderful pr^g
ress in the production of pig iron daring
the last decade. Superintendent Porter
of the Census Bureau of Washington bas
just issued a b liletio relative to the man-
u acture of pig iron in this country, from
Which it is learned that the increase in
the prodaction in the South has been
much greater than in any other section.
In 1ST0 the Southern States produced
only 1S4 540 tons; in 1SS0 the production
had risen to 3E0 436 tons; while in 1S90 the
output reached "he enormous amount of
1 760 900 tons. This has developed into
not only a large, but profitable industry.
So much for pluck and the proper appli
cation of capital.
Mixing Religion and Politics.
The Iowa African Methodist Episcopal
Conference at its recent session adopted
a report in which this declaration occur;:
“We are of the Republican party and in
that party constitute a compact acd
well defined class.” A delegate is re
ported to have “opposed the conference
indorsing the Republican party on the
ground that it was the higher party serv
ing the lower,” but the conference,
“with heartiness and by a nearly unani
mous vote, approved the report.” The
fathers who laid broad and deep the
foundations of this government, not only
of the general government bat of the
State governments, frowned npon every
effort to unite church and state as inlmi
cal to the perpetuity of republican gov
ernment; but in the “wild hunt for
office” in this age we have the spectacle
of a religions body, a conference repie
seating, as it claims, “a compact and
well-definid class,” virtually declaring
for a anion of church and a political
party. Let this be encouraged and the
next step will be a movement to obliter
ate those provisions of onr State const!
tatlons which forbid the establishment
of a State religion.
semetimeB blame them for their want of
strength. Haw far they are to be blamed
we cannot determine. He wbo is not
strong by nature, certainly cannot be
made strong by admonitions and re
proofs. Still, one may improve, elevate
and strengthen his moral nature. The
coward cannot exhibit the heroic forms
of bravery; bat he can avoid showing
himself utterly pusillanimous. The one
who is inherently false and treacherons
can never become truthful and honest;
bat he may rise above the rank of an in
veterate and wanton liar. All have not
the capacity to become saints; but no
capacity for villainy will excuse one for
being a villain. * •
Southern Female College at La-
Grange, Ga.
, It will be a long time before all that
the last census will tell will be learned
even by those who make it a subject of
study. One thing, however, hee been al
ready ascertained, and that la the greater
Increase of the population of the cities
compared with the country. While the
population of the whole ooantry has not
Increased more than fifteen or twenty
per oent. that of many of oar cities has
Increased forty or fifty and some two or
three hundred daring the past ten years.
Some regard this aa an unhealthy condi
tion of things; that there are two many
consumers for the number of producers.
Were this the case, it could not long
continue. We think it proves rather
t»»«t Improved modes of culture enable
fewer formers to support a larger number
engaged in other parsaits,
Decidedly the most nnlqne and beauti
ful publication of its kind which bos ap
peared is the superb “Sonvenlr” lssned
by Tbe Southern Female College of La-
Grange, Ga., a copy of which lies before
ns. The worn is copiously illustrated
and compendious in reading matter, con
taining information of the highest value
to tbose interested in the more advanced
education of women.
The Southern Female College was or
ganized in 1842, and has just closed its
forty seventh session under the most
gratifying anspioes, its register showing
86 local students, 140 boarders, and 176
private mnslc pupils. Toe faculty nan
btrs twenty-two and inclades represent
atives from eminent American and Eu
ropean schools. The college is an an
doubted credit to the very beet system of
education In the South and a boon to
ambitions women aiming for the highest
intellectual and physical training.
There are three graduate courses, all of
which are comprehensive and thorough.
Attention ie celled to Opinions npon Ex
amlnations, quoted In the Souvenir. The
music department ie thought to be un-
* quoted elsewhere in the Sooth. In this
branch, the past session, there were eight
teachers. Special advantages are offered
also in drawing and painting. Eioen
tlon Is taught so aa- to be of value in
after life.
The college was among the first to in
traduce various practical features com
bined with liberal studies. The normal
department prepares teachers for the
school-room, and the college bureau olds
them In securing positions.
LaGrange ls proverbial for healthful
neea of situation and the morality of its
people. The college has long been fa
vorably known for homelike and religious
inflaenoea, patient watchcare over its
inmates, and faithful devotion to their
every interest.
The expenses of tuition are compara
tively low. Physical culture, penman
ship, book-keeping, class drawing and
elocution, sight-ringing, are free of
charge. Mra. I. F. Cox is President and
Prof. Charles C. Cox, Principal.
▲ Progressive Potentate Who
Profits by the Modern Inno
vations of all Other
Countries.
VERY year Tokyo is
becoming more Euro
peanized. In many
way* it is less Japanese
than any other city of
Japan, more of foreign
bulldinga, foreign dress
and foreign customs
being seen there than
anywhere else, to the
regret of all bat the ad
vanoed and progressive
of tho Japanese. While
It has ceased to be
Japanese, it is by no
means a European city yet, and this
half way transition stage ls rather a
trial.
The Emperor has come out from his
mysterious box in the inside of hie pal
ace. Ho wears a military uniform like
European sovereigns at ail his public ap
pearances, and he atte ads reviews, races,
naval launches and manoeuvres like any
other Emperor of his day. He rides in a
Paris mode landan, escorted by a com
pany of lancers, and yon can buy highly
colored lithograph portraits of him in all
tho streets. Yet tbe presence of the
sovereign and his Court ls not felt in the
life of tbe Capital at all, as compared to
the brilliant life, the movement and ex
citement that such a presence creates In
a European city. Tbe army is always
patent and visible in Tokyo, bnt the
Court rarely. Days and often weeks, and
in the summer season actual months,
pass without the Emperor leaving his
palace gates. All the Ministers of State
come to him at the palace, his occupa
tions and amnsementa are all there, and
the palace grounds are so extensive with
their gardens, lakes, riding courts, arch
ery ranges, and platform theatres for the
No dance, that he has little occasion to
leave them The old palace at Kyoto is
kept ready for his visits, and he has a
mountain palace on an island of Hakone
lake, near Fujiyama. There is a hunting
lodge in hi* great dear forest back of
Ntkko, bnt the Emperor has never visited
these two latter palaces, preferring his
accustomed home in Tokyo, even at
seasons when ail the nobles and officials
leave for cooler climates.
To direct, or even keep sight of and
pace with the great reforms and tbe com
plete upsetting of the old ways during
these twenty-two years succeeding his
restoration, has not allowed the Emperor
to live an idle life. Progressive minis
ters of a half dezen cliques have been
pushing tbeir ideas npon him, and as
many conservatives have been working
for their ways. ' He has had to sift, to
understand and decide for hlmaelf, and
there has been no Bismarck to ran things
uninterruptedly and absolutely for a
quarter of a century. Ministers and min
istries have gone down at the sovereign’s
will, and the stories of his being a mere
puppet in the hands of schemers have
not mnch proof He has everything that
appears in foreign journals relating to
Japan translated and read to him, SBd
he has studied just enough English and
German to keep the translators and in
terpreters on guard.
When he first moved his capital to
Tokyo, the Emperor occupied the Sho
gun’s old castle. It was Darned to the
ground, and then for many years he oc
cupied thegreat yashikl of the Tosuga wa
datmio of Kiushlu. A new paiaoe was be
gan on the rains of the burned castle,
and it was six years in building. Three
million yen was expanded on it, and the
Emperor moved into it a little over a
year ago. It is an Immense building or
collection of buildings, scores of separate
gabled roofs being stnng along and clus
tered together over three acres of ground.
Except for one wing of offices, bnilt af
ter after tbe model of a Fiench
chateau, all these bn'ldiogs are one
stoned, each greet apartment or
satte U apartments, being a building u)
itself. Tuere ls a carious combination of
foreign and J apanesn methods in tbe
bui.diig. Stesn teat and electric lights
are furnished througi,oat,and tbe sliding
screens that form the wails of Japanese
rooms are retained, plate glass taking
the place of paper In these screens. The
throne room is a splendid apartmett (iity
feet sqaare,> gilded arm chair on a dais
with a canopy of crimson plash being
the Empeiors seat of state. The
Empress stands on m separate dais a the
right and in front of the Emperor. There
is a drawing room with ceiling and walls
pandelled with a gold tapestry embroid
ered with fruits and flowers, a beautiful
white and gold ball room, suites of draw
ing rooms, waiting rooms wlthoat end,
and a b tnquet hall, whose carved oak ta
bles, chairs, and bnffeta all came from
Germany.
Tbe regular state entertainments at
the palace are the breakfast, on Novem
ber third, in celebration of the Em
peror's birthday; an official levee on New
Year's day, and another on the anniver
sary of tne declaration of the new Con
stltntlon, February eleventh. In the
spring there is a garden party for view
ing tne bherry blossoms at the Hama
Riaia, a splendid villa on the shore of
the bay, that was made a wonder of
landscape gardening by the Shoguns. In
the spring there is a garden party in the
palace grounds. Tue members of tbe
Diplomatic Corps and foreigners holding
high positions under the government are
bidden at all these entertainments, but
the garden parties are larger affairs.
Visitors of distinction temporarily in the
country can be invited to tue garden par
ties through their legations, and to at
tend one is equivalent to a presentation
at court in any other conntry. Court
etiquette is very precise and the dress
ls aiways prescribed on the cuds of in
vitation.
The Empress and her ladies gave np
the beautiful, picturesque old aress of
the court four years ago and they now
get their gowns from Paris and follow
closely the latest fashions. At every
indoc r ceremony at the palace tne Em
press wears full dress, decollete corsage,
long train, plumes and diamond tiara in
her hair, the sash of her order and many
jewels, and all ladies in attendance most
wear a gown of the same style. In going
to tte banquet room the Emperor gives
his arm to tee Empress, and they sit in
high gilded chairs with the rest of the
company seated according to the finest
hair line distinctions of rank and prece
dence. Japanese formality and etiquette
of every day life is something too minute
and elaborate for the occidental to ever
equal, and at court it ls multiplied many
times, and is aerions and almost painful.
The gayer entertainments In tne court
circle are the balls given by the Prinoes
of the Blood, who are the consins of the
Emperor, and by the Minister of State.
Hero the foreign society and the Japan
ese official families enjoy delightful re
unions, and nowhere is dancing more
general and kept ap with greater spirit
than in Tokyo. Every one dances and
dances well, tne Japanese ladies and men
at court doing tbeir figures in lancers
and quadrilles with the exactness that la
so much a part of all their own old ac
complishments. A ball opens with the
stately old qaadrill d’honnenr, and the
ball-room scenes convey no idea of their
being in an Asiatic ooantry. The dress,
the uniforms, the dances, the decora
tions, and supper are as conventional aa
at any similar entertainments In London,
Paris, or Berlin.
The Court circle has many methods of
amusing Itself In the snceeerion of din
ners, garden parties and small dances
that are constantly happening, and the
members of the diplomatic corps are ee
mnch in social unison with the higher
Japanese circle as it la possible to be In
the society of any capital. Hospitality
la continuous, and the social life or Tokyo
ONCE A TIME WHEN A KISS WAS
NOT SPONTANEOUS.
Verbal Forms are Nearly All Re
ligions in Their Origin.
Curious Custom.
N ACCOUNT of habit
nothing stems more nat
ural than to shake hands
with one’s friend,nothing
more spontaneous than a
lover’s kiss.
Friendship and love
find physical manifesta
tion s In these voluntary
ceremonies. They are so
much a partot human in
tercourse that friendship
and love would be, to
many, barren idealities
without these convenient
modes of expressing emotion.
Words ore cold acd unfruitful of feeling
and there is more meaning in a caress-
ing gesture than in a whole dictionary
fall of caressing words. Two people who
are fond of eaeh other often talk them
selves oat. Indeed, if they are very fond
it umally happens that their vocabulary
is a very limited one, bnt they are not
troubled by the pancity of ideas.
They are so fall of good feeling that
they stand in no need of ideas, and the
good feeling can be exchanged by means
of the limited currency ot the emotional
language of gesture. This language is
like the Russian speech. A very little of
it goes a long way.
Bnt romantic and sublimated as they
are, tbe hand clasp and kiss had very an
romantic origins. They were bath prob
ably born of hostility and suspicion, and
in tbeir first uses were as far as possible
removed from any feeling of good will.
They have acquired their present place
of honor by tbe gradual refining away of
the taint of their savage origin. The
hand clasp and the kiss have come to be
specially expressive of affeotlon and good
Hence, they are indulged in by
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on cube nraning more tnan ordlno-
urtesty w% expressed by It. It
. pretty e’VT': tne same as tbe mod-
indshdkeMoes.
so gay and fascinating, that many trav
elers have been beguiled into stopping
her* in their journey for months and
years. Each legation hoe a largo bond
ing to itself, and the Nobles’ Club la the
seen* and centre of mnch of the gay life.
The weekly meetings of the dancing
class, to which everybody who is anybody
in Tokyo belongs, are hold there, and
charity fain and os zoars are given in tho
rooms for tho benefit of popular institu
tions.
Tho Empress takes no part in any so
cial affairs outside of the paiaoe, bat her
importance In the Gout functions end
her position as oonaort and equal of the
Emperor, show the extremest changes of
this quarter of a oentury. She ls hostess
[Concluded on Bighth Page.]
friends and lovers to signify their liking
and by enemies to conceal their hate.
The kiss makes Its first appearance
among tbe animals.
Pigeons bill and coo, many wild ani
male smell one another, and tbe same
habit is observed among dogs. It ls ex
plained as simply a desire to taste. An
cient men did tbe same, as ls shown
among the belated races of Polynesia and
Africa.
Tne robbing of noses common among
Esqalmos and some Booth Sea Islanders
ls a form of this greetiog which, so far
from being expressive of affection, is
simply significant of a desire to test tbe
quality of the person so sainted—to de
termine bis status and attitnde.
The savage smelled out friend or one
my; he sniffed the intentions of the
stranger and accepted or rejected him
according to the pleasure or displeasure
got oat of the odor. The kiss among
primitive people is thns the same experi
mental test that it is among the brutes,
and ls prooably the earliest form of salu
tation. A similar purpose is manifest
among the idolaters, who often smell and
kiss tne idols to acquire, perhaps, some
of the quality supposed to be possessed
by the god. From this is but a step to
the adoption of the ceremony as a sign
of reverence for a superior.
The heard of tbe patriarch was kissed
as a sign of filial devotion and respect.
Kissing the pope’s toe bad its origin in
arrogance and servility, but the whim
which ordained it probably arose qaite
naturally, for it certainly signified the
feeling of otter degradation in the pres
ence of overwhelming power. Naturally
also does the kiss npon the hand signify
galantiy and respectful courtesy Just as
the kiss upon tbe lipB betokens a reeling
ot equality, in ail tuese, however, there
is nothing yet to show tbe presence of
friendship or love.
Kissing was unknown for ages in Eng
land, and when it was introdneed was
held of little account. That is, it was so
common that nothing more than ordina
ry courtesy
meant preu;
ern handshake
A story is told of Alexander Dunlop, a
Scotch minister who became jealous of
one John Mitchell. Mitchell protested
that it was without good cause, for he
said be had not so much as kissed Mrs.
Denlop’s month in 11 years. This remark
implies that the practice was not uncom
mon, and was not thought at oil roman
tic.
The custom seems to have retained this
unromantic character until that (time of
William and Mary, when the more refi aed
manners of the French gradually super
seded tbe grosser forms of the English,
and the kiss was consecrated to tne uses
of love
The kiss, as a salutation between men,
although it still prevails among some
civilized races, is certainly not liable to
find favor among people of refined sensl
bilittes. Between women it is common
enough everywhere, but probably does
not mean mnch. Women ore not so
much in love with one another that they
will put much heart into their Balutation.
Consequently their kiss is usually a cau
tious peck.
Shaking hands is in vogue in England
and America, where it is a national lnstl-
tuiion. Two explanations are given of
this salutation, neither of which perhaps
fully accounts for its origin, but boch
mavbe partially true.
Herbert Spencer thinks that it began
in tbe habit of kissing the hand by an
inferior. In process of time when the
spirit of courtesy got abroad among the
people—be speaks more particularly of
the Arabs and other Orientals—the ac
knowledgment of inferiority implied in
tbe act was gently waived by the supe
rior person, who deprecated any formal
servility.
Hence when bii hand was seized he
drew it away with more or less violence,
the effect being a handshake more or less
hearty. By and by this remnant of the
ceremony became the whole, and ha id-
shaking took its place among the inde
pendent forms of greeting. This explan
ation seems to be artificial and strained.
At any rate it is not much thought of.
The other is that the right hands were
clasped in time of savage war to prove
that each was unarmed and both were
men of peace. This view seems to find
confirmation in the custom of some Af
ricans who show the empty hand and
strip the body to tbe waist to display
their unarmed condition. Whatever the
origin may have b.en, it was long ago,
and the handshake is a reminiscence of
savagery, just like the kiss. But like tbe
kiss, It has -toughed off all savage signi
fleance, and is confined to the uses of
friendly intercourse. English and Amer
icans are mnch laughed at by other peo
pie for their devotion to the form, for it
is almost altogether abandoned on the
continent of Europe except os a symbol of
intimacy. And even with ns a readiness
to offer the hand to a stranger is coming
to be looked npon as a matter of conntry
breeding. The development of the hand
shake is following the lines followed by
the kiss. Having maeh the same origin
in the murky manner] of savagemen.it
has at lost been purified and refined for
the nses of the gentler intercourse of hu-
maner humanity.
Bnt it ls easier to trace the growth of
verbal salutations. If these are ana
lyzed they will be found abridged forma
of intercession or invocation. Few have
a different origin, and these few are the
cart greetings of over-harried humanity,
with no time for courtesy or good wishes.
People familiar with tho Bible will re -
member the frequency with which vlsi
tors bless and are blessed when coming
or going.
The *«w»n says, “God grant thee Hla
favor,” to which the answer comes, “May
God strengthen yonr morning.” Tho Ot
toman esye more pompously. “Be under
the guard of God.” Tne religions flavor
In greetings lasted a Jong time, and oame
with religion into the Weak The French
“Adienc” and English “Goodby” arc of
coarse bnt slightly abbreviated forma of
a blessing. Good mornii g is an abbrevi
ation and Inversion of “May yonr morn
ing be good.” “May yonr shadow never
grow less,” sometimes heard by would-
te hearty peoile, woe need byjthe Persians
aa a sincere intercession for health and
wealth. The rich man in that climate
■nally got fist, no that riches and adi-
Mealwaya went together.
When the Persian expressed the hope
that yonr shadow, might never decrease,
he meant that ho wished yon in health
and prosperity long to live. Bat Col.
Garrick MaUery, who knows a good deal
about inch things, sajs that this is not
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A FAMOUS RESORT.
Waukesha and its Sprirg; A Great
Health and Pleasure Resort;
Pure, Bracing Airj A
Beatiful Town.
Waukesha, Wls., August 29.1890 —It
was “the wild hunt” in search of health
not pleasure, that brought me to this
famous resort whose waters are regarded
the country over as possessing extraordi
nary medicinal virtues. Here people
congregate from every nook and corner
of the country to teat the healing proper
ties of these waters, and many marvelous
cares appear to have been wrought by
their nse. It is rather amusing, even to
an Invalid, to listen to the snggestlon of
visitors, and even residents, as to the
waters of which spring—and there are
abont a doz en of them—possess the great
est healing properties. One man is very
positive that a spring which he names ls
the very one for yonr ailment, while the
next man yon meet ie equally pronounced
in recommending another; the third man
has his favorite, and so on to tbe end.
“There is wisdom in tbe maltltade of
counselors,” bat their advice bothers
man greatly at times. It is not the non-
g rofesslonal only who thus disagree os
> the virtues of these waters, far medi
cal men are very little nearer together
in their opinions.
Waakesha Is a beautiful town and is
delightful place for the season, which
embraces the summer and fall months,
for pleasure seekers, and even inva ids
find comfort in the pare, bracing air.
This is nnquestionably a great adjunct to
these waters. The business of tne town
appears mainly to be caring for these
classes. Almost every fourth house is a
hotel, boarding house, or hoase where
famished rooms are for rent, while
“dress making” and “laandry” signs are
met with in almost every street. These
facts show the extensive preparation
made to entertain the great crowds that
flock here every year in search of health
or pleasure. This season is said to have
been one of tbe most successful Wau
kesba bos ever enjoyed. Ten days ago
the weather was qaite cool, and Southern
visitors found fire and overcoats and
warm wraps, when npon tbe streets,very
comfortable, but since then a change bas
taken place and the weather is now de
llghtfully pleasant.
The arrivals abont equal the departures
of guest*, and tbe hotels are still full.
Tbe season prbmises to continue fully a
month or non later In the fall than
usual. September and October are pro
nonneed by residents of the town at
more pleasant than the summer months:
so this will tempt visitors to linger here.
An air of neatness pervadesa the resi
dence portions of the town, while many
of the non*es are elegant and convey in
their surroundings an impression of
wealth and refinement. One feature of
the town strikes the visitor from the
South, and that is the neatness with
which the grounds attached to the real
dences are kept. Flowers and shrubbery
adorn the grass-covered, well kept yards,
in more or less prolusion, while fences,
even on the street fronts are almost un
known. Even the springs and surround
ings are fixed np in sneu dainty style as
to make them delightful resorts for
drinking the Hie giving waters, pare and
clear as crystal, and lounging in the
shady parks, while mnslc from bonds
helps the pleosnre-seeker to enjoy himself
and the invalid to forget for a time at
least his troubles.
Tne impulse of the man who starts
bithtr in search of health Is to ‘throw
physic to the dogs,” but tbe men of
physic are here in force, and appearances
indicate that they find "pastures green”
even where the all healing waters abcund
in such profusion, if not variety; for there
is great sameness in the taste of them at
least.
Occasionally one meets np with a fel
low here, as in all other communities,
who regards it as his right to pluck his
game when he can catch it, and thus
-put money in his parse, ’ whether in a
questionable way or not. For instance,
tnere are omnibus lines which carry one
to any part of the town for five cents.
The county fair is held this week, aud
the ’buses charge ten cents to carry a
visitor theTe, which ls just outside tbe
limits of the town, and have also ad
vanced the fare to ten cents in the town
oaring the week. This is a little thing,
bat it is in little things that some men
display their “human nature.”
The fair, which is the thirty-ninth an
nual exhibit of the scciety, is really a
creditable affair and is largely attended
by both citizens and visitors. Some re
markably fine stock is exhibited, show
ing that farmers and stock raisers give
attention to the raising of the best vari
eties, and they point out their animals
with a great deal of pride while dilating
upon their fine points and performances.
Special features, incinding trotting races
and balloon ascensions from which the
balloonist descends in a parachute after
attaining an aUitnde of several hundred
feet, provide entertainment for tbe large
crowds that attend tbe fair daily.
This is a region of lakes, fifteen being
within easy access either by carriage to
the nearest or by rail to those bat little
further away. They Tarnish fine sailing
and fishing, and pleasure seekers who
enjoy sport of that kind cannot fall to
be gratified. It is a section in which one
from the Booth might spend a vacation
in the hot summer months not only
pleasantly bnt to the advantage of his
exhausted system.
We have met with many exceedingly
genial, clever people np here, and do not
wonder that the place possesses a food -
nation for visitors who, having ones vis
ited Waukesha, are anxious to oome
•ghin- Hmnry Warren.
Arid. The Confederates camped upon
the battle ground.
The next morning, August 11th, tbe
Confederate forces, advanced to Spring-
field and found that - the Federate hod
again taken their flight toward Rolls.
At the request of Mrs. John S. Phelps,
the body ot Gen. Lyon was delivered to
her for barial. Gen. Pi ioe then marched
to the Missouri river and captnred the
city of Lexington, occupied by Federal
troops under Col Mulligan, who with
his garrison became prlsoneis.
The battle of Wilson’s creek was one
of ■ he hardest fought battles of the war,
and resalted in a complete victory for
the Confederate arms.
Most respectfully,
Mrs. T. E. Owen.
THE BATTLE OF WILSON'S CREEK.
Folsom, New Mexico, Aug. 26.
Editor Bunny South: Penult me to
call yonr attention to on error in the
chronology column of yonr iasoe of Au
gust 16 th, which moot have been copied
from some Northern history, os It reads,
“Battle of Wilson’s Creek, Springfield,
Mo.—Confederates defeated.” If yea
will investigate yon will find this to be a
On the morning of August 10,1861, the
Federal forces, under Generals Lyon and
Bigel, succeeded In surrounding the Qoo-
federates at Wilson’s creek, sight miles
from Springfield. About daylight they
opened fire on Rains’ dMsion.the Ml/
aonrl State Gauds. TU* dWsSonl
though composed of raw volunteer*’
umed with nothing better ttumoM!
fashioned shotguns and squirrel rifles
cheeked the advance of tne Federal*.
Boon after 10 o’clock a. m. Gen. Lvon
wu killed, and before 12 o’ctook Gen
ftjjf wtrenttowudBprtaJ.
field; In the afternoon the remainder of
the Federal foroes withdrew to Spring-
NhW YORK CiTY.
Editor Sunny South: Among the
many interesting ploots of note in this
city is one situated on the earner of 67th
St, and Lexington Avenue, which is said
to be the finest structure of the kind not
only in this city bat perhaps in the world.
I allude to the Institution for the Im
proved Instruction of Deaf Mutes. It has
in attendance at this time one hundred
and forty-eight pupils, male and female.
This structure is a model of neatness
from basement to attic Many of the
pupils board and lodge in tbe Institution.
There is a principal, Prof. David Green
berger, who is supported by a goodly
number of female assistants. I am in
clined to think that a good deal of the
saeoess of teaching ls due to the confi
dence existing between the teachers and
pupils. Especially does this seem to
bold good with the principal, as the pa
pile seem to almost adore him.
It is unnecessary to give a detailed ac
count of tbe mode of teaching, bnt an
important feature in instructing them to
talk is first to pronounce tbe vowels then
to teach them to pronounce monosylla
bles, and so on.
They are also taught lip reading; that
is, to understand what is said to them by
tbe movements of the lips. As giving aa
idea to tbose wbo bave not seen this, a
pupil may be set off at one end of the
room and tbe teacher at the other, while
the latter will whisper the conversation
and the former will reply in an audible
voice to tbe queries. Also by placing the
fingers of the pupil against the larynx of
the teacher, through the movements and
vibrations Imparted to his fingers be ls
taught to make the same movements
with his throat, and gradually learns to
pronounce simple words and sentences,
and finally to talk aloud and distinctly.
Demonstrating the fact that speech is
not only communicated through the ear,
the medium of toe auditory nerve, bat is
also perceived through sight and tbe
sense of tonch.
It is astonishing to see how anxioas
they aU are to learn to talk and what
proficiency they make as the principal
and teachers carefully impart this knowl
edge in its mlnatestdetails. This system
demonstrates one thing clearly—tnat tbe
deaf mate may learn to talk by the sense
of tonch or through feeling and vision.
I attended a public exnibition of the
pupils of this institution held at dick
ering Hall, which was crowded to excess,
and it was tbe most interesting exercise
I ever witnessed. The entire audience
seemed to be, for the time, spell bound
and astonished to hear the dumb speak
and find the deaf to apparently hear.
Borne were taught not only to speak the
English, but also tbe German language;
others were well advanced in mathe
matics and the hgher English branches.
One of the young ladies rehearsed a
short poem of Longfellow’s; another re
posted beautifully “Sweet Home,” and a
young man read a valedictory. As he
adverted to the fact that his tongue had
been loosened and he had been taught
to pronounce the endearing sweet names
—papa and mama—many in that vast
audience could not repress, their tears.
We live in truly a progressive age.
J. H. L., M. D.
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NORWOOD, GA.
Editor Sunny South: Q ilte a storm
of wind and rain visited oar town lost
night, accompanied by heavy thunder
and lightning which flashed and rever
berated like distant cannonading.
Hon. T. E. Massengale and J. O. Evans,
who have been in New York for two
weeks pant, buying their fall and winter
goo Is, are now on their return trip home.
Tue new Methodist church will be
dedicated in September. It is bnilt on a
beautiful knoll that overlooks the town
and when completed will be fitted ap
handsomely.
Fountain camp meeting series began
Friday night. The grounds are noted for
a copious supply or good water which
gushes through a rock.
Miss Marie Evans is the guest of Mrs.
Emma Evans.
Mies Annie Rush ls visiting Mrs. B. E.
Massengale.
Miss Marie Beall, who has been spend
ing some time with her aunt, Mrs. Lowe,
will soon return to her home in Augusta.
Norwood, Aag. 19. Leona.
Robert Toombs.
I never met “Bob” Toombs bnt once
after tbe war. He was a carious combi
nation of tbe genial and severe—a sort
of icebnrg in tbe tropics. He criticised
the late Jefferson Davis severely, and de
clared that the election of the latter
sealed tbe fate of the Confederacy at the
start. He told me that Davis was a mar
tinet, and that he ridiculed the idea
of any Southerner or Yankee succeeding
in anything who wasn’t educated and
spurred at West Point; that he was too
much of an aristocrat when all South
erners should have been equal; that he
thought tbe North could not recover
from Fredericksburg and Chickamauga,
and that the late “ex president” believed
himself a god of war; that if the Confed
eracy had won it wonid have gone to
pieces in a year or thrown the Misssissip-
pian out; that he was jealous, envious,
narrow-minded, overbearing and lacking
in military knowledge and real states
manship.
“He would have been a good civil en
gineer or newspaper man if he had been
properly educated. He did bate me well,”
Toombs added, and then he laughed
without changing his features; he gnash
ed his teeth without making a sound,
and glared savagely but childlike. If, at
the gates of Heaven, St. Peter asked
Toombs where he came from he un
doubtedly answered:
“Nowhere.”
“Had you no conntryT”
“No, sir.”
“Where were yon bornT”
“Washington, Wilkes county, Georgia,
named after tbe greatest and nest rebel
that ever lived.”
“What are yonr qualifications?”
‘ That I am honest in my convictions;
that my fatner was a revolutionary sol
dier and*my mother a beautiful woman
of Pennsylvania; that I have lived fifty
odd yearB with a model wife, with whom
only a short time ago I celebrated onr
golden wedding; that I hate Joe Brown
as cordially os the devil ls supposed to
hate holy water; that I have never read
Jeff Davis’s ‘Rise and Fall of the Con
federate Government,’ and am forever
and ever an unreconstructed rebeL”
Toombs believed that, if the Sonth bad
made the abolition of slavery s part of
its policy, it wonid have had England
and France on its side, and that the Con
federacy would have succeeded. It was
his boast that his latchkeys were so con
spicuously out that no hotel could exist
In the town of Washington. He and his
wife were both renowned for their hospi -
tallty, and claimed that any man who
had money enough to put up at a hotel
had character enough to presume npon
their hospitality. H* told me that it was
on tho Confederate reoorda, if Davis
hadn’t destroyed or the Yankee* hadn’t
stolen them, that ee secretary or at ate of
the Confederate government he had pro
posed to do whet Abraham Linooln did
; rears later—emancipate the slaves or the
i loath by a stroke or the pen. “Then we
would have sucoeedsd,” he went on.
“AU the great governments of tho world
would have been on onr side and aided
ns in many ways. The niggers, who
never did like a Yankee anyway, would
have gone into oar army and swelled its
numbers by from a quarter to half a mil
lion. Wo could have got all tha money
and arms and snips wo wonted, for cot
ton was king, especially whan It was
worth half a dollar a pound.” It was
Toombs, however, who once declared in
the Senate that he would live to aeo tho
gross grow in the streets of Boston, and
nave the roll call of his slaves made noon
Banker Hill, or words to that effect —
Ben. C. Truman, in New York Tlmee/'
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It is very often asserted that ignorance
is the parent of immorality, and that the
greater the amount of illiteracy the larg
er that of crime. Figaros can be adduced
to substantiate these propositions. But
statistics are, alasl not absolutely relia
ble. Should one propound tbe contrary,
we fear he wonid be able to adduce a
long catalogue of dark deeds perpetn tied
by highly cnltnred men.
There are squarely constructed people
in the world and there are square holes
for which they ore fitted, and there are
round people and ronnd holes to fit
them. But it seems much a matter of
chance whether the square people will
not seek to get in the round holes and
the ronnd people in the square holes, or
otherwise. A few people, com p uratively,
have the good sense or the good lack to
get in the kind of places for which they
ore fitted.
It has come to be regarded as rather
the rale that men of first rate ability and
distinction shall not be followed, either
by a son at all or by such as rise little
above mediocrity. The family of Glad
stone furnished a striking exception to
this. Of a number of sons and daugh
ters, all have attained positions such as
oonld not have been reached without the
possession of strong and well caltivated
intellect. They may be correctly pro
nounced s remarkable family.
Imagination and sentiment are im
portant factors in the working out of hu
man history; both more potent than
logic. Bnt we do not know that man
kind are the more nnhappy on that
account. Did men and women always
refuse to move until they coaid base
their actions npon well established syl
logisms, there would doubtless be fewer
blunders, bat there would also be fewer
deeds ot impulsive bravery and kindness.
The best parts of many persons are their
inconsistencies.
When yon will not be convinced, and
cannot reply, yonr opponent in an argn-
ment becomes a very disagreeable fellow.
It ls marvellous with how little of in
formation or of dialectical skill one can
reach the point where, even though
beaten, he can argue still. James II. of
England and hla daughter Anne, are
said to have sustained themselves in any
position they assumed, by repeating
what hod been repeated in precisely the
same words. They have very many imi
tators in this respect at the present day.
Everybody wonid like to sell high and
buy cheaply; at least, this strikes most
people at the first blnsh as a desirable
state of things. It is not a normal one,
however, and could not be expected to
continne for any great length of time.
There is of necessity a correlation of the
articles of traffic so that a high price for
one induces a high price for another.
The producer of cotton may not reasona
bly expect to realize such figures for
that staple while purchasing the com
modities that he desires at low rates.
There is as much need of preaching to
weak men as of preaching to wicked
ones, but in the former case it can be
done with less of hope. One may be ad.
dieted to bad ways despite positive traits
of character, and there is a chance for him
to be converted from these and to become
a good man. But he who is weak, vacil
lating, uncertain—who yields to every
influence, with no fixed opinion of his
own—holds out no such prospect, though
he seemed to be reclaimed that the re
formation wonid last until to morrow.
It is said that there are still over a hun
dred survivors of the Grand Army of Na
poleon on the pension roU of the French
army. All of these must be over ninety,
and we presume some of them mnst be a
hundred. We denbt not that tbe profu
sion or our government in bestowing
pensions will have the effect of produc
ing some wonderful examples of longev
ity. When the half of the coming cen
tury shall have elapsed, we suspect there
will still be a respectable number report
ing themselves as survivors or the “war
for the Union.”
In the Utopias which men work from
their Imaginations, selfishness has no
place. Yet the part which selfishness
has played in the real world has not been
entirely a bad part. It has been produc
tive of much good os well asot much bod.
If under its influence men have per
formed deeds of hellish craelty, it has
also stirred them to efforts that In their
results have brought untold blessings on
the world. Coaid the dreaming* of some
Idealists become a practical reality and
selfishness be effaoed by the abolition of
individual ownership, the world would
come to * atop In the matter of material
progress. ^
“I do not wish to survive my nsefn 1
often hear, said by persona
sometimes by persons of whom It Is »*
question whether or not they have ever
been useful. For a busy life ls not neoea-
surlly e useful Ilf*. Not. few of those
who have been fall of activity and ener
gy have dona little for which the world
should hold itself obligated. Some of
tosss, too, who have devoted themselves
assiduously to what they thought good
works, may have been Ml their lives un
der a delusion In regard to this matter.
We eunot do the summing np. We
know that some men who wanted to do
<Hd a great deal or mischief,
•nd others with whom the doing of good
»*• no special consideration were great
otthtU ™- God alone can
drew the line.