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LUCIUS D. RICHARDS
Larina D Richards, Republican Nomi
nee for Governor of Nebraska, was born
In Vermont, in 1847. At the age of eleven
years he was thrown on his own resources
and worked for three years on a farm for
I his bread and elotbea. When fourteen
I he enlisted in the United States army*
I serainy as orderly to Colonel Proctor,
■ now Secretary of war. After the eloee
; of the war he went to Michigan, where
he obtained a business college education,
i and later to Iowa, where he worked as a
| pile driver on the Slonx City and Pacific
railroad. He was later made superlnten
dent of construction on this and anothei
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w ‘'Constitution, Bill Arp's letters will be
BblUhed ss heretofore in the Scrniv Bouth^
road. In 1872 he went to Costa Rica,
acting as the superintendent of the only
railroad there. He settled in Fremont,
Neb., in April, 1875where he still resides.
He seas elected chairman of the Republi
can Central committee in 1878, and avail
in 1887. He has been twice mayor of the
city, and tor three years state Surveyor
of Dodge county. He holds the highest
position among the Free Masons, and
i was a delegate at large from the Depart
I mentof Nebraska, Urand Army of the
( Republic, to the National Convention at
noston.
and will appser the same week in each paper.
I don’t want a lodge in some vast wil
derness, like the tired poet did, but it Is
good tor a man to get away from town
and society once in a while. Get away
from newspapers and politics and busi
ness and town talk—get away to some sc
eluded, attractive spot, and rest.
A man can read the newspapers until
be gets drawn in and absorbed in politics
and gets excited and becomes an offen
aive partisan and geta to abusing folks,
and, like Carlyle, excla'ms:
"England has a population of thirty
millions—mostly fools.”
He calls to mind the old time-honored
maxim, Vox populi, rox Dei, and mutters
bis disgust by changing it from Dei to
diaboli and lunaticy and other hard
words. When he gets to that state of
mind he had better quit the turbulent
haunts for a few days and commune with
nature and nature's God. The more
politics the less work. Look round the
town and see who are the principal fo-
mentors of political excitement. They
are the gentlemen of leisure—the gentle
men who have nothing else to do. Some
of them are the genteel vagabonds of
society who never ao a lick of work, but
ara supported by their kin. Of course we
have to nave some of these sort to make
up society, but I could never see why.
The man who works all day never has
any time nor inclination for politics.
The best farmers are the most lukewarm
alliancemen. When a man works hard
all day he is too tired to run about or
ride three or four miles at night to attend
a meeting. I know some farmers who
have quit their farms pretty much and
keep on the warpith hunting office, and
I do hope they will get it, for their dili
gence deserves auccesse. The trouble,
tnough, is that offices are scarce and
their wanters are many, and so that gets
up strife and contention. The disturb
ances agitate the body politic for a while,
but in due time they will subside and
everything be calm and serene. I was
ruminating about this while reclining
subtegmine fagi, whicn is about all the
Latin 1 rememoer.
Oar tent Is pitched right at the foot of
a mountain and in ten feet of a crystal
spring, and a grassy glade spreads out
below it and follows the little stream to
the river. Right in front of us looms up
a higher and darker and steeper moun
tain that shuts us in from sunlight for
half the morning. It is covered close
'with pines and llr trees, except where an
occasional cliff shows its barrsn walls
and invites you to the top of its dizzy
precipices. Tois mountain seems awful
pear, out between us and it flows the
Etowah, dashing and sparkling over the
shoals, moaning and complaining its
way witn unremitting murmuring and
seeming to sing the poet’s song:
‘ Men may come and men may go,
But 1 go on forever."
Does the water never get tiredT The
title stream that starts from Lake Itasca
has 4 000 miles to go before it reaches the
Gulf and it takes a year to make the
long joarncy— a year ny day and by night,
and then finds no rest, for its waters are
mingled with the restless sea whose wa
ters cast up mire and dirt and are ever
moaning to the shore. It is a peaceful
luxury to recline in a camp chair and sur
vey the majesty of nature and listen to
her song. Up the stream and down in
the coves that separate these lofty moun
tains are the ruins of a once happy and
prosperous settlement. The immense
iurnace stack breathes fire no more.
The long, high walls of machine shops
and foundries and flour mills are still
standing — standing in their atony
strength, without floors or roofs or tim
bers.
Pines and sycamores and hackberries
have grown up inside and outside and
wild vines have covered the walk, until
in many places the ruins show nothing
but the huge doors and long lines of open
windows. The shadows of evening bring
07er the scene a wild, weird look of deso
lation that calls to mind, Hood’s Haunted
House.
' The tempest with its spoils bad drifted in,
Till each unwholesome stoue was ilurkly
spotted, , , . ,,
As thickly as the leopard’s dappled skin
Withleaves that rankly rotted.”
• O’er all there hung a shadow and a fear,
A sense of mystery the spirit daunted,
And said as plain as whisper in the ear,
This place is haunted."
In the caves and dells and along th£
slopes and foot-hills, the humble work
ing people lived in wooden tenements
with massive chimneys, built of stone.
The fire brand of war destroyed these
humble homes, but the chimneys are
there, secreted among the trees and vines
as if ashamed of the work that man had
done and were hiding from the light. I
bad visited these ruins often, but find
some sentinels I never found before. One
I found that must have been near thirty
feet high and was literally embowered
with muscadine vines, whose fruit had
attracted us to its hiding place.
Memory goes back thirty years, when
the busy hum of machinery was heard
all along this narrow neck that lies be
tween the river and the foot-hills, when
hundreds of strong arms and cunning
hands were earning honest money by
honest toil, when old Mark Anthony
Cooper lived near them, and like a patri
arch cared for them and directed and
governed them and was proud and happy
and kingly in his work. Ho was the
pioneer of the iron business in Georgia,
and. had there been no war, would have
g monument more durable than
"hdw^ grandly did the old man submit
to the inevitable. How serenely did he
bow to the course of events. 1 look upon
the stained marble that he erected in
honor of the Mends who had gr l ▼« nfaim
aid and encouragement. What » ooj® -
mentary upon life. There are thlrty-
SghtnoUbie names on the marble,.and
they are aH dead. The great enterprises
ihat their money built np and nourished
«Tall in ruins. The workmen are dead
and their children scattered, but the
everlasting hills are there with their
SSSeSSl treasures, and thei smne Ibeantt-
fhl river still murmurs as it flows:
••Men may come and men may go,
But X go on forever.”
Whan a man sits in a camp chair and
Jtvis mad’* ambition tor power and
KSrWTsfefox
y eliow'taaf of*oWagef forgrtton
if not forffiyODI ADd • MW Will
**J*r'&%f. £Mar*
^SaSSSXaS to cling to
aieetpleasureo of his home
VrMiide’ look after the children and
J&ffi&nTworkand OgL**"**
*St and food and s eep. Seek but lew
‘ yvt-M ure them when found.
fcI Worfc^wbltotbe day lasts, for the night
oometh, when no man can wort ^
THOMAS G. JONES.
Thomas G. Jones, who was elected
Governor of Alabama on August 1st, is
native Alabamian, about forty-four years
of age. He has taken strong ground
against the Farmers’ Alliance, notwith
standing that it nearly captured the con-
LUCIU8 D. RICHARDS.
ventlon at which he was nominated, and
seemed to have gained much power in
the State. He braved the displeasure of
this element in his party and opposed
the proposed Bub-Treasnry law provid
ing for government loans on agricultural
securities. He is a lawyer by profession.
Two years ago he was Speaker of the
State-House of Representatives, but de
clined a renomination to the legislature.
He entered the Confederate army when
sixteen years of age, and was a member
of the staff of General Gordon. A year
after the close of the war he gave utter
ance to sentiments so magnanimous that
a Northern lady who was present left
him a legacy of five hundred dollars as a
mark of her appreciation. He is a man
of greatjforee and ability.
RULERS OF GERMAN STATES.
Baden—Grand Duke Friedrich L
Reuss-Greiz—Prince Heinrich XXII.
Schwnrzlmrg-Rndolstadt—Prince Georg.
Saxe-Weimar—Grand Duke Karl Alex
ander.
Schwarzburg - Sondershausen — Prince
KarlH.
Mecklenbnrc-Schwerin — Grand Duke
Friedrich Franz IIL
Mecklenburg - Strelitz — Grand Duke
Friedrich William L
Prussia—King Wilhelm n, Bavaria—
King'Otto, and Wurtemberg—King Karl L
Saxony—King Albert I, Saxe-Meiningen
—Duke Georg II, and Aubalt—Duke Fried
rich.
Lippe—Prince Waldemar, ReussSchleits
—Prince Heinrich XIV, and Scbaumburg-
Lippe—Prince Adolf.
Saxe-Cobn rg-Gotha — Duke Ernst n,
Saxe-AItenhurg—Duke Ernest, and Wal-
deck—Prince George Victor.
Hesse—Grand Duke Ludwig IV, Olden
burg-Grand Dnke Peter I, and Bruns
wick—Regent, Prinoe Albrecht.—Chicago
Inter-Ocean.
THE TURF.
Senator Ilearst’s Gorgo is doing so well
that she will soon sport silk.
The time of the Delaware handicap, 2:07,
was very fast, even for the straight course.
King Crab has shown himself about the
most reliable horse at Saratoga this season.
It is reported that the Duke of Portland
will have his horse Donovan, that was re
cently retired to the stud, put into training
again.
It is now said that James McLonghlin
will train for Mike Dwyer next year. The
latter and McLonghlin always got along
together better than did the ex-jockey and
the other brother.
Ormonde, the champion horse of the
century, once the property of the Duke of
Westminster, and winner of the Derby,
the St. I>'ger ,and the Two Thousand
Guineas in l.SSfi, exported to Buenos Ayres
last year, has been purchased by Baron
Hirsch for $70,000, and will immediately
return to England.
Jockey Goodale has come in for a good
deal of criticism since his nnlncky fall
with English Lady at the Branch. The
Scoggnns are very unfortunate in their at-
temps to win an eastern stake. Their Ally,
English Lady, was running strong in her
late race and might not have fallen had a
Jockey who was wide awake been upon her.
CHEAP EXCURSIONS TO FLORIDA.
Elsewhere will be found announce
ment of a new scheme of cheap excur
sions and * reduced immigrant schedule,
both via the Florida Central and Penin
sular system, to the most delightful and
A Gray Grip Carrier.
THE PIONEER COMMERCIAL TRAVEL
ER STILL HUSTUNG FOR TRADE.
Traveled by Ox Cart Oeee, but No
He Patronises the Palaee Can—How
do Molhattan Gained His Notoriety.
Unfounded Viewy of "Drummers.”
An accnrate estimate recently made
•bows that nearly 900,000 people in the
United States are commercial travelers—
that is, they sell goods by sample on the
road, and represent, with more or leas abil
ity, the interests of innumerable manufac
turers and wholesale dealers. Yet 1<
CTI ARLES P. LINDLEY.
than two generations ago this army had
no existence. It is true that peddlers, on
foot or fn wagons, disposed of their wares
by personal visitation, but what they sold
they sold outright, and not on orders for
future delivery. Indeed the commercial
traveler, as be exists today, is a product of
extremely modern conditions and the exi
gencies of the time. He is an outgrowth
of rapid transportation and rapid com
munication—of the railway and the tele
graph. So recent ts the origin of the
traveling middlemen as a class that their
pioneer still lives, and still “goes out” in
the Interest of the “best firms, b’gosh, that
ever offered samples.”
This old gentleman, to whom. It is under
stood, a testimonial will be given soon by
his fellow “knights of the road,” is named
Charles P. Lindley. He is 72 years of age,
and his present headquarters are at St.
Lonis. Mr. Lindley is a native of Saratoga
Springs, N. Y., and began his lifelong ca
reer as a commercial traveler at the age of
18. He then represented a factory at Meri
den, Conn., and journeyed about with
hone and wagon. His samples were pack
ed under the seat, and he “put up” wher-
nlght overtook him—sometimes find
ing shelter at a farm house and again at a
village inn. In those days banking
change and money orders were yet to be
evolved from the brains of financiers, and
Mr. Lindley paid his current expenses by
selling “Yankee notions.” In 1837 he took
a trip south, relying for transportation on
stage, rail and steamer. Sometimes he i
compelled to go on horseback and on other
occasions he walked. It took him 226 days
to cover the territory between Montgom
ery, Ala., and Columbus, Miss. Here Is
JOSEPH MULHATTAN.
an extract from his expense account while
returning from his southern trip:
From Wetumka, N. 0, to Rome, Go., 175
miles by stage $10 00
From Rome to Greeosborough, 150 miles by
stage 90 00
FTom Greensborough to Augusta, 84 miles
by railroad BOO
From Augusta, Go., to Charleston, 8. C., 136
miles by railroad It 00
From Charleston to Wilmington, N. C., 113
miles by steamboat 1100
From Welhon to Petersburg, Va., 00 miles
by railroad TOO
From Petersburg to Richmond, 30 miles by
railroad. 1 W
Troat Fredericksburg to Washington, D. O.,
00 miles by steamboat BOO
FTom Washington to Baltimore, 40 miles by
railroad BOO
FTom Baltimore to Philadelphia, 100 miles
by railroad 6 00
From Philadelphia to New York, 100 miles
by railroad B 00
FTom New York to Albany, ISO miles by
steamboat 0 BO
Sum total $88 00
Leaving Meriden Mr. Lindley entered
the service of a Waterbury firm, and In
their interest traveled in 1850 from St. Joe
to Denver in an ox cart. Speaking of his
experiences the other day the old gentle
man said: “Now I go about in vestibule
care and put up at palatial hotels instead
of tentiug out or staying in a log hut.
ascend the rivers in magnificent steamers,
whereas I used to be glad to get keel boat
transportation. I send a telegram and get
answer in an hoar. Formerly I had to
wait two months for answers to my
letters I used to write with quill pens
and seal with wax wafers. Since I have
been on the road I have seen the invention
or perfection of the railroad, the telegraph,
the screw propeller, the submarine cable,
the telephone and the electric light.”
Although he did not mention it, Mr.
Lindley also has witnessed the progreat
toward national notoriety of a brother
nal round of pleasure.” TVs "drummer”
la supposed to be on a continuous lark,
selling goods by day and dissipating by
night, and this supposition Is responsible
Cor many jokes in the following vein:
little Boy—How fanny the town will
look to-morrow.
Mother—Why, my son?
Little Boy—I heard papa toll some drum
mers to meet him at the store after dinner
and they would paint the town red.
Naturally the commercial traveler has
to bo all things to all men—that is if the
c= ~
ON THE ROAD IN 1890.
men are customers—but he cannot "
life” persistently and rise in his profession
or even retain his place. Said an old timer
recently: “There is no calling in which
personal character tells so strongly on suo-
as in ours. Not only does a reputa-
tatlon for wildness destroy the confidence
of buyer and employer alike, but the phys
ical exactions of the business absolutely
preclude the dissipation of vitality by ex-
of any kind. No young man can sit
up all night and be in a condition to talk
business in the morning to a dealer who is
as smart as he is, and a good deal more ex
perienced.”
L3fe on the road today is exciting and
exacting because of the immense competi
tion, and although the facilities forgetting
from place to place are far superior to
what they were half a century ago, It la
doubtful if, in his old age, “Uncle Charlie”
Lindley has an easier time than in the days
when be was the “sample” pioneer, and
had no rival to cut his prices or beat him
out of his customers.
Diminutive bnt Pretty..
Two attractive little women of Parle,
Mo., are Nellie and Dulcie Branham, aged
respectively 22 and 20 years. Although
they are but three feet in height and weigh
only fifty pounds each, they are perfectly
formed and might be termed beauties in
miniature. They are well educated, 1
A GREAT SCHOOL
MORELAND PARK MILI
TARY ACADEMY.
HUHHIM J0KKHM.
Its Growth ana Proapoeta-A Tew Points
About It by Onset Georgia’)
Boot Critics
Continued from fourth Pago.
the true explanation. He thinks It ia
meant to express a hope that yon will
not be obliged to go oat in the noon time
when the ran in hottest and easts the
least shadow. Either explanation will
do, bat the first probably accounts for its
origin if not its oontined nee.
Social and political conditions have
much to do witn the forma of salutation.
Not a groat while sinoe the Borne Trib
une referred editorially to Professor
Charles M. Neel, the superintendent of The superstitious Neapolitan says: "In-
this fl inrUMno u.ntntin- .. creese in holiness:” the trading Genoan
tbla flourishing institution, aa “on* of n<#d to say: "Health and gain,” while
the few really groat teachers that this
among other Italians, with whom opproe
generation had produced ” The oompll- slon had extinguished all pride, the afflr
it was well bestowed, and coming I m * tion WI your slave* jwae thepre
from the scholarly John Temple Graves
himself, In former years a distinguished
educator, ia entitled to at least respectful
consideration
A few days, ago we visited this millta
ry academy destined to become hlstorl
eel, and were courteously shown through
the grounds and buildi ass. Indeed every
facility was afforded us to make anils
ble estimate of its present status and Ita
future possibilities.
Professor Neel has certainly exhibited
both taste ana tact in the choice of a site
and the highest judgment in the various
architectural arrangements and lesser
sppllancee that go to make np this edu-
i yor
scribed form or greeting. Of course this
never was to be taken literally, no more
than" st your a-rvioe” among ourselves,
but the servile form wee chosen uncon
sciously aa befitting a servile race.
In the same way "God be with yon”
has been shortened by a habit of eoono-
my to "goodby,” and even this takas too
long for the man who wants to eatch a
cable train, and is often supplanted by
along or ta-ta, the moaning and the ori
gin of which are beyond the ken and the
Ingenuity of the antiquarian. If there
ever was anything of n religious nature
in them it has been expelled by the more
Important if not more sacred considera
tions of business.
There is a curious salutation often
heard, the meaning of which is attenn-
cational plant. He ia building not for a
day or a decade, but. ia striving to build 3*
of the widest significanc s in the mouths
of those who will consider it. "How goes
itT” Pure slang, apparently, and as used
it probably is, but consider what it can
bs made to men. How goes whatT—It.
It is a very little word, but much can
be got out of It. The word as originally
need in this salutation probably stood
for the whole world. How does the world
treat youT and no doubt the original
meaning of the phrase is not pure slang.
"It” ia one of the most highly abstract
words in the language—or rather it can
It appears bom Us foregoing that mL
**"£.. ^ ***??*? had their ov£
gin in the natural stats of man and mow
np with him from the earliest Ume.Tha
handshake and the kies are not the only
raeh, bat probably most of them hero
the same, or similar origin.
Verbal salutations, on the contrary,
are traceable directly to a religious ori
gin, and an but verv little changed from
the original form. But it is curious that
words and phrases arising from the re
ligious spirit, in their modern form, are
cold and lifeless, while the grosser greet
ings or savagery have come to be quiok
with the finest emotional life. It is only
a speculation and a thought, but it la per
haps worth a few moments’ consldera-
tion.—SL Louis Post Dispatch.
A Drink New York Ladles Adorn
The Now York correspondent is noth
ing if not sensational. The last effort at
one of tribe la to show that the woman
of the “upper crust" of the great metrop
olis are little better than n lot or topers.
"The moat thing, thing’ of the season,”
writes thin follow, "is a new drink which
first made ita appearance in New York
about n year ago. It ia simply a mint
cordial, but as you value your social
standing don’t eall it suoh. Call it
erfitne de months, pronouncing the first
word ’creme’ (rhyming with frame) and
the last ‘mant’ (rhyming with the Eng
lishman’s cant).” Then he goes on to
declare .that the ladles adore this new
drink, and that creme de menthe parties
very popular. The ladels taka
seats at a table on the veranda, and the
dellclona odor of the mint fills the air as
the drinkers discuss fashions, foibles,
and falblessee.
OCTOBER
25—
KELLIE AND DtJLCIK BRANHAM,
in literature and music; dress stylishly,
are good conversationalists and are popu
lar in local society. Miss Nellie has devel
oped considerable talent as an elocutionist
and amateur actress.
The Production of Q^’clciillver.
A report from the United States census
department contains interesting informa
tion regarding the quicksilver mines i
reduction works of California, the only
State in the Union where the industry la
prosecuted with any success. During IBM
20,404 flasks of quicksilver were produced,
at an average cost of <33.31 per flask. The
average sale price was <45, leaving a profit
Of <11.69, or a total profit of <309,099. “No
establishment,” says the report, “made a
profit commensurate with the risks at
tending the mining of cinnabar, its mai
facta re into quicksilver, and finding for it
market in competition with rich and lm-
]>ortant establishments carried on kg
foreign governments ”
NOTED AS A REVIVALIST.
THOMAS Q. JONES.
desirable parts of Florida, either for loca
tion or for pleasure. The excursionrata
Ie one faro from all points North, Boat
and West, tickets being on sale on Sep
tember 9/23, and October 14, limited to
thirty days to go and return. Thelmml-
irsnt rate ia one and n half cents per
Sine, the sale of tickets taking place on
September 9,23. 30. November 11 and 25,
andDecember 2 Wo invito attention to
the advertisement in another plane, and
would suggest that the Florida Contra!
and Peninsular system la one of the
safest and beat, while It travels tho most
pietnroaqno section of Florida.
ON THE ROAD FORTY YEARS AGO.
traveler, one who has outdone all his fel
lows as a romancer, and in whose perfer-
vid brain have been hatched some of tha
most gigantic hoaxes of the century. In
the list of members of a Presbyterian
church at Louisville, Ky., the name of Jo
seph Mulhattan occupies a prominent
place, but the world knows him less aa a
church member ora “drummer” than it
does ss the concocter of colossal yarns. In
1878 he “discovered” a mammoth cave In
Kentucky four times as large os the orig
inal, and by his report induced many sd-
entists to visit the Bluegrass state. Then
ha located a cave In which the James and
Younger brothers had stored a vast collec
tion of spoils. He also set afloat the story
of a well where some unseen force at regu
lar intervals raised the bucket filled with
water; and the yarn regarding five skele
tons found sitting upright In a carriage
under a lightning blasted tree on a long
abandoned road is his.
In 1882 he interested newspaper readers
with the taleof a gentleman who became ac
quainted with a little girl at the seaside and
bought her a bundle of toy balloons. She
wrapped the string around her waist and
was carried skyward by a sadden gust of
wind. An old hunter shot at the balloons,
3 1oded one or two and the maiden earns
Log easily to the ground, delighted with
bar aerial trip. But Mulhattan’s greatest
exploit In this line Included the gulling not
only of a big New York newspaper, bnt
also of the country generally, with the har
rowing account of the devastation wrought
by a meteor in Texas, which buried a whole
village and imbedded iteelf.red hot and
steaming, a distance of <00 feet in the
earth, while a mass of fiery metal, seventy
feet high, projected above the surface.
Many people think the life of the com
mercial traveler—and those of the actor and
Something About Mrs. Maggie Tan CeM
and Her Work.
Although for twenty years Mrs. Maggie
Van Cott lias been a successful revivallal
she has never sought ordination nor any re
cognition whatever, save such as came Be
her naturally as the result of her work. The
beginning of her labors was in 18G7, when a
aeries of meetings was being h Id at the
Duane Street Methodist church in New
York city.
Mrs. Van Cott was invited to this meet
ing to sing. Site had never, np to that
time, heard a woman speak in public, save
on the stage of a theatre, and believed thaO
no woman of refinement would do so.
However, inspired as she believes by tbs
divine spirit, she spoke at this meeting In
a most impassioned manner.
Mrs. Van Cott says of this beginning of
her work: “It certainly was the inspiration
of the holy spirit, for I had no gift of utter
once, was fnll of timidity and fear, and
had not been fitted in any way for such
effort.”
For nearly two years after this she earn-
ducted nightly meetings while devoting
her days to the requirements of the bum
ness which her husband’s death had im
posed upon her. Two years later the acci
dent of insufficient light caused her to am
ter a pulpit for the first time. From that
an ideal school that will at no distant
day rival Eaton and Westminster and
Rugby and other famous ochoola of the
mother country.
it is known to most people who take
an interest in the educational progress
of the South that Professor Nee], a grad
uate of distinction from tho University
of South Carolina, has devoted more than
twenty years of his freshest manhood to
tho work of education. Everywhere be
was wrought sucoeesfolly, and his pupils
by the hundred are now occupying tho
beet positions in business and profession
al circles throughout Georgia and some
of the adjoining Staten.
The chief excellences of Profesor Neel
as an educator consist in hie thorough
scholarship Hr is not in any technical
sense a specialist. He rides no hobby and
haa no pet theories or methods. While
ho can do sufficient work in any depart
ment, he Is emphatically an all-round
instructor and is thus well eqolpoed for
hla position of superintendent. But per
hope bis important qualification as tne
founder and head of this great
aa the founder and heard of this groat
educational enterprise ia bis ability aa a
disciplinarian. He Is mild, but inflexi
bly firm In bis school management. No
idle or vicious student if he proves in cor
rigtble will be suffered to remain in tha
barracks or in tho recitation room. Tbe
lavs of the instttu'ioo are enforced with'
out fear or favor or regard for tbe finan
cial or social standing of the puplL
Professor Neel doee not propose that
tbe academy shall be a finishing school,
except in a qualified sense. The curric
2u^verei e t 8 y g ~^ Pr ^‘th B thtavtawhe I OUR TENTH GRAND FREE DISTRIBUTION will take place On the
ffi“ip.tarnot^rim^y'^mrae “i d | 25* of October next, and, as will be seen below, our list of
die™, but to train hie pupils in habits of I presents is far ahead of any that has ever been given away by
order, punotualitr, obedience and re-1 * - ' 1
A BUILDING LOT IN ATLANTA, GA., FREEI
$1000.00 to be Distributed Free Among Sunny Suutb
Patrons on the 25th ot October Next.
OUR TENTH GRAND FREE DISTRIBUTION.
I) pUUUkUHUbT, UUOU1GUUU HUU HJ* I * £
t for authority and, Incidentally, for I any One Drill.
- nhvriftal ftnltnn.. ThA ulnnlft. I L A .1 »•
their physical culture. The advanta
ges of tois method are so patient that it
Read the list below, also the list of special premiums for
commends itseTf to every thoughtful pat' | C ] U ]) S| and send in your subscriptions and clubs without de-
At present the accomodation in the I lay. Every subscriber stands one hundred and fifty chances
pISSSS/Nerifto*maTSataSmLriSS I of securing a valuable present besides getting THK BBS? FAULT
PAPES H AIERICL S ee w ^ at everybody and the press says
about it
This is no lo’tery, 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-
organize the academy as a GeorgiiTMiJ^ I per for 12 moiths and it is worth ten times the amount paid.
— 1 See the plan of distributing these presents and also the re-
We should receive a club of five or ten
The North
and West are sending in clubs.
patronage, will proceed at an early day
to enlarge and otherwise improve the
building so he can provide for twice that
number.
The catalogue for the present year
shows an enrollment In all departments
of 182, a gratifying increase over the pre
vious yea*.
Qaite recently it has been proposed to
■ganize the academy as a Georgia Mili
tary Institute, modeled after the pattern
of that whleh was so popular in ante
bellum times. This proposition has been I r1nh ratf»S
favorably discussed by the State press, dUCM C1UO rates, . . _ .
and the Alumni of the g. m. i. are in without delay from every locality m the South.
full sympathy with the suggestion. In I 1 •• • » . 7
due time the scheme is expected to ma
terialize In that event the institution
will be conducted under the auspices of
the State government. Without asking
for a legislative appropriation. its friends
will place it under the fostering care of
the Military Advisory Board, lately estab
lished by the Legislature. This board
will have the right of annual visitation
and inspection, and will make a report
to the Governor to be laid before Aha
General Assembly at its next session.
As this arrangement involves no expen
diture or the State’s money, it will doubt
less meet with universal acceptance.
Aside, however, from this future enlarge
ment, the Moreland Park Military Acad
emy is already a grand suooess. Its
present patronage is from not less than
a dozen States, representing the North,
South and West. Ita nearness to Atlanta
is attracting to its halls a large number
of students from tho best families of that I One present of ten dollars in gold
city. With the rapid growth of Atlanta one present of ten dollars in gold
ana increased railway facilities this pat-1 One present often dollars in gold
ronage will be speedily duplicated. I one present or ten dollars In gold
To meet this expected increase, Pro- One bresent of ten dollars In gold
feasor Neel has lately strengthened the One present of ten dollars in gold
faculty, concerning whioh it is proper to I One present often dollars in gold
1 One present of five dollars in gold
Tbe Folloviog Eitraordiniry List of Presents Till be Distributed in Pnbiic Among
SUNN? SOUTHJPatrons on Saturday, Oct. 25tb, 1890.
present of a building lot in Atlanta, Georgia. -
This lot is high and level and in a rapidly growing portion of the city, and
is worth now $500 and will be worth $1000. The proprietor of the Sunny
South owns twelve lota adjoining.
One present of one hundred dollars in Gold -
One present of twenty-five dollars in gold • •
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 -
i present of five <
i present of five <
vauO present of five 4.—-.
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, eaoh two dollars in gold
say something additional. _
The superintendent has been fortunate One present of five dollars in gold
in securing the services of Captain J. R. one present of five dollars in gold
Doles as professor of mathematics and I One present of five dollars in gold
commandant of cadets. Professor Doles One present of five dollars in gold
is a graduate of the Virginia Military 1 ~ ‘ ' ”— —* u
Academy, where he was likewise assist
ant professor of mathematics for seven
years. Another new member of the fac
ulty is J. H. Morris, professor of Latin
and modern languages. He is the
rifted son of Professor Morris, of the r ,
Jnlversity of Georgia. This statement 93 presents, each one dollar in gold
and the additional fact that he is highly
endorsed by Randolph Macon College,
Virginia, constitutes a sufficient guaran
tee of his capacity. Dr. J. G. Armstrong
retains his position as professor of elo
cution and English literature. In these
branches Dr. Armstrong is easily first,
and there is no institution of learning of
any grade that can famish the student
with better facilities in this important
department.
Rev. J T. Daves, a first-honor grad
uate of Emory College, has charge of tho
$100.00
|25M
25 00
20 00
15 00
10 00
10 00
10 00
10 00
1011
10 00
10 00
10 00
10 00
1000
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
30 00
40 00
05 00
THE PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION.
How the Presents will be Distributed
Among the Subscribers.
Every one wno subscribes or renews
or sends in a new subscriber for one year
before the day of the distribution, will
S2teJ“3S“ br ^ C ^“ d „^ViUave his or her name and post office
tbe Greek classes, He is a son of the
Pelican State and is a young gentleman
of rare promise. Professor of chemistry
is Professor Louis H. Jones, M. D., At
lanta Medical college, well and favorably
known as a medical scientist. He is also
professor of physiology and surgeon to
the academy. It is required of thisofli
written on a small, thick card which will
be dropped into a strong covered box.
If you send in only your own subsertp.
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
cial that he should matte a daily inapec- J you send in five names, your name goes
MBS. MAQGIX TAN COTT.
time on, more than twenty-two years ago,
she has held an average of 782 meetings
year. During this time over 68,000
men, women and children have proforasd
religion as a result of her preaching.
Mrs. Van Cott wps bom in New York
city in 1830, and ia of Scotch and English
extraction. Her maiden name was New
ton, and she is descended from the HngHaK
of thut name.
Antoinette Van Hoesxn.
Rapid Transit In Cities.
The cities of'the United States, having
over 100 miles of rapid transit lines—horse,
eleotric, cable and steam (elevated and rar-
face)—areas follows: Baltimore, 105; Bos
ton, 200; Broooklyn, 184; Chicago, 184; Now
Orleans, 104; New York, 177; Philadelphia,
288; SL Louis, 118. But two of these have
elevated roads, Brooklyn and New York.
There is, however, a short elevated line in
operation at ITsnoss City.
tion of the barracks to see that ita sani
tation is perfect. Without his sick cer
tificate, the cadet who might be disposed
to lounge will not be excused from dally
drill or recitation.
With such a staff of instruction, the su-
C rintendent can readily make the More-
id Park Military Academy a valuable
adjunct to our principal universities.
As in Germany, the gymnasium is now
the stepping stone to Lsipslc, Berlin,
Goettingen and other world-famed uni
versities. So this and other institutions
of like sort and grade will be preparatory
to those higher educational centers,
such as Johns Hopkins, Harvard. Van
derbilt and Princaton. W. J. Scott.
Atlanta, Ga.
SCIENTIFIC SQUIBS.
The new downward draft locomotive
puts the smoke, cinders and fames under
the cars instead of over and Into them.
Tbe electric spark has been photographed
by means of a special camera, in whioh the
sensitive plate rotated 2,500times a mlnnta.
Charts have been prepared showing that
the eye has 729 distinct expressions, con
veying as many different shades of mean
Ing.
The microbe expert. Dr. Koch, is said ts
have discovered a means of trilling the
microbe which he claims to bs the canoe ot
consumption.
CoL Zilimboff, of tbs Russian army, now
stationed in Siberia, claims to have discov
ered in ordinary eggs an oil by which ha
can greatly increase the force of explosives.
An English medical writer asserts that
aancer is not hereditary in the vast me
jority of cases, no less than 89 per cent,
bring caused by external influences upon
the sufferers.
It has been found that In the long ran
no powder is satisfactory for quick firing
guns that is not absolutely safe from ex
plosion by detonation, and that the only
sntiifnrtnri- and safe system of quick firing
ia by electricity. a
It Is stated In the report of the thunder
Storm committee of tbe Royal Meteorolog
ical society that there is not the slightest
evidence in the photographs taken of light
ning flashes of tbe angular, rigzag or forb
ad forms commonly seqi in pictures.
in five times on separate cards and each
of the five names go in once. If yon
send ten names, yonr names goes 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
suDscriber they send, and will be allowed
their regular commissions besides. But
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 ana 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 b9 entitled to the
handsome building lot in Atlanta, Ga. An
other card will be drawn out, and that per
son will receive flOO.OO in gold; and so on
till the entire list of presents shall have
been exhausted, and fa tne order a* n id.
$1.50 CLUB RATES.
We would like to have a good club
from every locality and have fixed an ex
ceedingly low rate as follows:
One subscription one year |2.00.
Five subscriptions one year, each 1 50,
All the names and the money must be
sent in at the same time, bnt after a clnb
has been sent in, any number of names
may be added to it at the same price
For a club of six new subscribersat <3
each, an extra copy will be sent free for
one year to the one sending the dab.
Every name whether single or In clnba
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 clnb rates.
3#*Send for sample oopies, receipts,
subscription blanks, eto.
Address, J. H. Seals & Co.,
Atlanta, Ga.
Qet your name in the box
early. S ome of the best prizes
were drawn by names which
went in among tha firs*. The
tickets were shaken up from
the bettom, Some names and
clubs came too late for the last
distribution but they have gone
in for the nest See an
nouncement Address
J. H. Seals & Co.,
Atlanta, Ga,
GOLD PREMIUMS FOR EVERY CLUR.
That no one may work for na for nothing we announoa liberal cash premiums lbr
every club. This secures you a prize, beyond question, and secures yon e ticket in
the general drawing for every aubcriptlon yon may send in, thus giving yon
£?hto£& °nnmb£ •» «*« which ia offered below for
■jrajraarain at subscriptions that may ha sent in by any one person
biters October 25th. The gold prerain mi fbrolubs ran as follows:
For every club of 100 subscribers at <2 00 each - - - _ nn m
For every club of 75 subscribers at 1200 each ...
For every clnb of 50 rabseribsra at 3 00 aaeh --3-
For svery club of 40 subscribers at 200 each - _ _
•very dub of <0 subscribers at $2 00 each
•veryolubf” * —
of 25 subscribers at 2 00 aaeh
For every club of 20 subscribers at 200 aaeh
For every otsb of 15 subscribers at 2 00 each
For every club of 10 subscribers at 2 00 aaeh
For every dab of 5 subscribers at <2 00 enoh
88 0<
26 00
90 00
15 00
12 00
10 00
800
500
8 08
$95.00 ill Gold Eftra for tie Laixst Inter it Seturiten.
Aa a further stimulant to workers wo offisr in addition to tha above premium
• special prise or |C0 IN GOLD to the ons who shall sand in the largest nambor ot
subscribers by tha 25th of October. To the one sanding tha next Mgi«tt ms
to tbe next highest <20. This la open to every one ezoept regular traveling agents
“ifdz&truxirxK: srf&s
sfas?
ot or flOO.OOln the free dirtrtbutton ln October! V trt the building