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Lessons of the Elections
The elections of November 4—astound
ing ia the magnitude of results—were a
crushing repudiation of the Republicans
and their policies and a lasting rebuke
to riotous partisanship in the ecnduct of
the national government No such
sweeping triumph of the conservative
masses had been known in our political
history, and there never was need of so
pronou hced'ac uprising against those in
power The conclusion is unavoidable
that tins E publican managers either
-wholly misunderstood the drift of public
oplaioa, or that they choss to arrogantly
defy ft. But the result Is the same.
These man have been driven from power
by overwhelming odds.
Viewing the situation calmly, it is dif
ficult bo see how the Republicans honest
ly hoped for success. Their own acts
continually armed the opposition; so that
there vu little else to cio in the final con
test than for the peop'e to oppose that
party on Its baro record.
A weak and partisan administration,
the disucnest rational census, the Inde
-.Tsonlble unseating of fairly elected Rep
reseat stives to Increase an unscrupulous
majority in the House, the stealth of
Senatorabips from one of the new States^
the an paralleled indecencies of the late
Rep rakcan session of Congress, the ty-
ran' ;ai rulings of the Speaker, the revo
luttoaary increase of taxes under the Me
Kkawy bill, the attempt to control elec
tlaoji In the States through the Lodge, or
a force bill—these had piled before the
Republicans a pylon of barriers that only
too wild dream of entic-nched supremacy
could, have excused it for hoping to over-
coma.
The fruit of the contest Is permanent.
The people will not again entrust their
prosperity and domestic peace to an or
.-tag.-.at to a which transcended every
baaai to '.ts purpose to foment fraternal
diacuct and to disrupt the business rela
fctaua ]“ the whole country. At the end
of Mr Harrison’s term the Republican
party will have enjoyed an olympiad of
extraordinary jubiiee, but It will then go
5;a aha wall, to remain out of power.
Three all Important truths have come
cut of the Nazareth of this remarkable
cphaa7al of the masses, and they will en
riure through the contests which are to
coma.
The first is that the country is undoubt
ell) 1 Democratic, for the reason, if there
wars lot many others—that the senti
ment if the American people is opposed
So tie extreme o f parties, both as to poll
•tics aid in the efi'ect of the latter on the
Tortvate business of the people. Recent
legislationcf the Republicans was such
■ia to alarm the ccntrtB of trade and cause
stupendous undertakings to halt aEd
tremcle, while the Republican tariff bill
dealt dismay Into the home3 of the toil
tug aud humble. The people have been
mad it: recall that violent disturbances
•laofi as these have been unknown under
Democratic rule.
T i» -ieconffrevelation of the elections is
that -.ue Australian system of secret ballot
a it arar.t-.-e of fairness, ar.d hence that
:: : early advantageous to the Democ.
Tier This was proved by the resultB in
Sue .-»slTe States which for the first time
it; .yed the new method on November
i T . -e twelve States returned over-
wh;.intag majorities, as a rule, for the
party ..-? the people
Bat tee third truth, as gathered from
-.fie rrs.at contest, will perplex the polit-
a r:.osopbers and startle the world
it i chat hr negro is ou‘. of politics!
Taere are no sophistries which will ex
plati either that his vote was suppressed
or that it v.as not counted. He didn't
vote j.- i ho doesn't care to vote. Tne
3i> jr, S-- party attempted such a reha
bil.cat; a of Me negro ballot as it had
ur. m ?. :e in pears aud as it will never
rna.ii again in the South. In every Con-
grt- -fruai district candidates of that
j i w.re put out, and in many of the.'
nisur/ was vrsely supplied to induce the
nr- je* to the polis. At no point where
tiry -Tore in an overwhelming majority
did tin > retpnnd, and even where their
0-ixi , ,rs gave them a walk over, the per-
ceaCa ;i at oabots cast was 30 small as to
srj-s cueir entire reluctance to use it.
ind ;a:n Carolina, wcers there were two
Dsotocrl c b ate tickets, and where the
negro could either have wedged in his
own J-erty cat didate or have determined
Cita fate of whichever of the opposing
Democrats he might choose to defeat, he
deliberately refrained from voting,
taougii the Democracy of the whole
Urate was pledged to his protection, aDd
■ST3U made open inducements for his ex
arciie of sufirage. It was much the
Sima its Mississippi and throughout the
South. We doubt not that, if the facts
ware obtainable, it would be seen that
tiiis extraordinary repugnance to the
ballot prevailed with tne negroes also In
tie North, East and West.
Aa a factor, then, in Republican poll
tics the negro, always an uckuown
diaat ty. is now a nonentity. He is out
of politics.
A Fine Floral Ex Mbit.
flora! collection at the recent Pied-
Ex poeition from the nursery at
ivilla, Tenn., of Mr. J. J. Crusman,
id a striking and refreshing spec
aad was the admiration of
thousands of visitors. It is
tat to note that his rare pains
niture were rewarded by two sub-
al premiums and many testimonials
rit. For his exhibit of cut flowers
;hat of chrysanthemums he bore off
e each of fifty dollars, while blue
is fell promiscuously to the re*
ier of hie entries. Mr. James Mor-
tanager of this famous nurstiy, pre
over the excellent display, and
is polite attention to visitors and
tnt qualities generally, added mnch
i attractiveness of this department,
[r. Morton became a prime fkvorite
01 the ladies, many or whom were
1 under obligations for his thought-
m.
Sonny South remembers him
kindly for special attentions, and
of hie beautiful chrysanthemums
iw the wonder and admiration of
id visit our sanctum.
Ii Coffee u Iatoxlcut?
Dr. Mendel, of Berlin, haa some to the
conclusion alter patient study and invea
tigation that an Insidious enemy lurks In
a cup of coffee, and that Instead of its
being the cup to cheer, as has been gen-
0f[j suppoeed, it is a enp that inebriates.
Ha describes “coffee inebriety” as a form
of intoxication which frequently leads to
the more alarming, bnt not actually more
dangerous, form produced by alcohol. It
Is stated that the studies upon which Dr.
Mendel founds his conclusions were made
in all parts of Germany, but more par
ticularly upon the women of the working
population in and abont the great gun
factories about Essen, where they are
better able to indulge in their favorite
stimulant. The quantities they consume
he reports as enormous. Large numbers
of women use on an average one pound
per week, and some of the men drink con
siderably more, besides supplementing
it at odd times with beer and wine. The
results Is a widespread form of neurosis,
to which Dr. Mendel has ventured to ap
ply the name of “inebriety.” It is a true
form of it, approaching in both kind and
degree to delirium tremens, for the whole
nervous system is deranged, if not utterly
ruined. To the gayety produced by
indulgence a profound depression of
spirits succeeds, coupled with frequent
headaches and a sleeplessness which in
time assnmes the character of an almost
incurable insomnia, a distressing com
plaint in itself, and naturally the advance
guard of a host of othex evils.
These bad results of the exoesslve use
of cofibe are relieved, the doctor says, by
a dose of strong coffee, but as soon as the
eflects of this die away the symptoms
return with increased vehemence. The
musoles become weak and trembling, and
the hands shake when at rest, in a man
ner resembling the semi-paralysis of a
confirmed drunkard whose nervous sys
tem has been shattered to Its center.
The Heart’s action becomes rapid and
irregular, and palpitation, with a heavy
feeling in the pericardial regiou makes
Its appearance. Last of all comes dys
pepsia of the most persistent character
and of an extreme nervous type, render
ing the lire of the coffee tippler a burden
to himself and to all around him. In
many cases acute rosacea is common
showing that the skin and the entire
system of which it forms so important a
part have been poisoned, and as in the
case of alcoholism, are incapable of per
forming the functions proper to them.
A bit of experience by Brillat Savarin,
the celebrated French gastronome, is
mentioned in support of Dr. Mendel’s
theory. It appears that the Frenchman
had a severe task before him and he
drank more coflee than usnal to prepare
himself for it; bat not being required to
perform the work he anticipated, paid
for his temerity by not shotting his eyes
for forty honrs, his brain all the time
acting “like a mill with the wheels in
motion and nothing to grind,” as he ex
pressed it. He is reported to have de
clared on another occasion that a person
of good constitution can drink two bot
ties of wine a day throughout a long
lifetime while with the same indulgence
in coffee he wonld become an idiot or die
of consnmptlon. This seems too sweep
ing a conclusion. It is not improbable,
however, that a too free indulgence in
strong coffee would prove injurious, as
would a too free Indulgence in many
other things regarded as harmless.
A Century of Invention.
Tae United States Patent Office has
been in existence one hundred years, the
first patent having been issued July 31,
17!W,.to Samuel Hopkias for “making pot
and pearl ashes.” Only three patents
were issued that year, while at present
the average weekly issue is said to be
abont four hundred and fifty. Tne total
number of patents issued during the one
hundred years of the existence of tho of-
lie 3 is 433 432. it is claimed, and jus’ly,
too, that the advance of arts and sci ences
in the United Statea is nowhere better il
lustrated than in the records of the Pat
ent Office, and is well indicated by the
office work of 1790 as compared with that
of 1S90 A great many of the patents Is
sued during the century were valuable,
but by far the larger portion were the
product of cranks and utterly worthless.
“In looking through the Patent Office,’*
says a Washington correspondent, “you
are surprised at the wisdom and the fool
ishness of man’s intellect Tne on j is as
great as the other, and from the foolish
point of view it would seem that when an
,dea of a patent creeps into an Inventor s
house common sense flies out of his win
dow.”
This correspondent has devoted somo
time to hunting out and describing curl
i.us toys and other articles that have
been patented, which illustrate the rattle
brain ideas of many of our people that
have taken shape in one form or another.
A few from his list, in which the comical
predominates, will amuse the readers of
the Sunny South.
One of the toys, of which there are
about two thousand, intended perhaps
to instruct little-girl housekeepers in one
of the duties of a farmer’s wife, is a cow,
which can be milked. The cow is made
of wood or metal, and it has a tank inside
of it. Tae inventor states that the ac
tion of milking is exactly the same as
in that of the real cow, and he has in ad
dition an.iron wire which connects with
the jaws of the cow and runs back to this
tank, so that Dolly chews her cud while
being milked.
The illuminated cat was granted a
patent In 1SS4. and it is a cat of paste
board or tin for the purpose of frighten
ing rats or mice. This cat is to be made
In a sitting posture, and it is painted
over with phosphorus so that it shines In
the dark like a cat of fire
Another cat, equally funny, is the pat
ent sheet-iron cat, which is worked by
c'ockwork and which has a bellows in
side of it which swells up its tall to the
size of the maddest of felines. II proper
ty set it will emit a noise equal to the
wildest of living midnight Thomases,
and it haa in addition steel claws and
teeth. You wind it up and place it on
your roof and act it bowling. All the
cats in the neighborhood jump for it and
its poisoned daws kill every one it
strikes.
A luminous harness has been patented
so that a hone being driven at night
looks like a sheet of chain lightening.
There are lnminons match boxes and
luminous ghosts to scare away grave
robbers.
The inventions for smokers are so
many that a division of the Patent Office
has to be given np to them. There are
umbrellas which can be tnrned into pipes
and pipes which can be tnrned into
canes, and there are perhaps a hundred
inventions for the cutting off the ends of
cigars, some of which are probably valu
able.
There is one branch of the Patent
Office known aa that of cow-tail holders.
There are patents for horses’ tails as well
as cows’ tails. The most curious among
them, however, is the patent of a Yan
kee who haa Invented an adjustable false
tall for horses.
Then then is a chicken hobbler, con
sisting of a spring attached to a hen’s
leg, which, if the hen attempts to scratch,
will move her onward and will in fact
walk her right oat of the garden.
The patente to make women beautiful
are numerous. Then an face powders
by the hundreds and bust improvers by
the soon. The nose improver Is one of
the moat cartons of these crazy patents.
It has made, it is seld, a fortune for its
inventor ana it consists of a metal ehell
formed of two parts, which an connected
by a hinge. The shape of lte inside is
that of a perfect nose, aquiline, Roman
It dose ail
its work at night Toe potent states
that the naee should be first well bathed
In warm water end then greased with
olive oil nndl it is thoroughly softened
After this the improver is to be attached
and the parson using it ts to go to bed
end sleep until morning. At first it is
sold the operation is . somewhat painful,
bat this wears < ff in a few nights and the
soft cartilage of tae noae soon begins to
sesame the form of the beautiful shape
or the impnver. At the end of eight
weeks you have a brand new nose, which
remains with yon until yon get tired of
It, when yon bay a different style of im
prover and come out in a new noee quite
different from yonr last one, bat still
beantlfhl.
A Pleasant Editorial.
Anent the sweeping Democratic vie
stories the New York Tribune of Sunday
last contained an editorial which we re
produce entire, as fallows:
“One of the closest and most Interested
observers of the election, its accompani
ments and consequences, has doubtless
been the accomplished Englishman who
baa mastered the intricacies of American
politics more thoroughly than any other
foreigner of his generation. Pro’essor
Bryce has had the good fortune to wit
ness at close range one of the most com
plete transformations ever accomplished
upon a public stsge in a time of profound
peace. He has seen the party in power
defeated by an overwhelming majority
ol voters, and he has seen this unparallel
ed reversal accomplished without excite-
ment and accepted without bitterness.
So far as we have observed, not the small
est explosion of wrath has been recorded.
In fact, millions of the disappointed have
found that there is not a little humor in
the situation. The Democratic majority
is so large as to be grotesque, and Re
publicans meeting for the first time since
last Tuesday are pretty sore to laugh be
fore they speak.
“This sort of good nature, which ac
cepts an accomplished fact in politics
and government cheerfully, and even
contrives to extract a sunbeam from the
cucumber, will impress Professor Bryce
as a most admirable quality, we maybe
sure. This striking ex-mplification of
the National temperament will not com
pel him to revise any opinion which he
has already formed and expressed, but it
can scarcely fail to deepen his apprecia
tlon of American candor and common-
sense. Popular Government is per'ectly
safe in tbe hands of a people who pay-
such loyal devotion to the fundamental
principle of their own institutions.
“This good nature, which accepts tbe
verdict of the polls without repining, and
which Is altogether praiseworthy, is a
very different thing from the neellgence
which leaves millions unrepresented or
only negatively represented in that ver
diet, and which is in every respect wor
tby of condemnation; and the two onght
never to be confounded. In many dls
tricts of the country the great Demo
cratic maj ority of votes cast last Tuesday
signifies a change of pnbllc sentiment
only indirectly, since it does cot include
a majority of tbe votes that might have
been cast. Tne tens of thousands of Re
publicans who chose to express their dis
content or their indifference by staying
at home would have been deserving of
more respect If they had gone to the
polls and helped to vote their party into
retirement.
“On the other hand, this commendable
acquiescence in tbe popular judgment
legally rendered does not imply an aban
donment of individual convictions or a
sense of release from tbe obligation to
sustain and propagate the cause that has
lost. It was never more emphatically
than now the du’y of those who are faith
ful to Republican principles to uphold
and defend thtm with courage and zeal.
A frank acceptance of the conditions
which exist Is perfectly consistent with
a determination that those co ditic.,i
shall cease to exist as soon as possible.”
^^eptOPLE
Changing With the Ages.
Many of those who wished to do right
and who thought that they were doing
right were guilty of conduct which now
seems very wrong. Somo who deeply
wronged their fellow men and entailed
upon them a great deal of crnel suflering,
were persons of virtuous intentions. The
religious zealots who committed to pris
on, torture and death those who di tiered
from them in articles of faith, were In
many instances men who earnestly
sought to do their duty. Tne trouble lay
in the misapprehension of what was
their duty. Starting out with the prom
ise that it was imposed upon them to
bring everybody to acceptance of what
they believed to be truth, they failed to
see that any course of procedure which
would bring about that result could be
wrong. No; all who have done badly
were not intentionally bad people. Tbe
most flagrant outrages upon human
rights have been committed with the
very best intentions.
Nor are we to suppose ourselves indi
vldnaliy better than the men and women
who perpetrated these wrongs. The age
is better. People have adopted better
ways of thinking. Public sentiment so
far from requiring the infliction of crnel
punishments, does not permit them.
But men are just as depraved as they
were in those days of long ago. The
masses of them are just as little disposed
to rise above the maxims of their day.
There are, perhaps, now as few as then
who are willing to shape their lives in
every particular by the precepts of the
New Testament.
The whole difficulty lies in getting men
and women to test their notions of right
and wrong by this standard. H id they
always been guided by the plain letter of
the Divine law, one set of individuals
would never have esteemed it their duty
to inflict suffering upon others. They
have been led to do this by looking at
the word of Truth through their own
prejudices and passions. We do not an
ticipate a time when men will cease to
do this to somo extent, when they will
be governed by the Bible rale in forming
their judgments. But future genera
tions will think better than we do on
some points. * *
Tbe report of the committee on levees
of the Constitutional Convention of Mis-
stssipi has been adopted by that body.
Among the most important sections is
one granting fall power to the levee au
thorities to appropriate private property
whenever and wherever needed Tor their
work, all damage) to the owners to be
settled by a board of assessment. An
other directs the legislature, in addition
to all former taxes, to levy one not less
than two nor more than five cents an
acre per annnm upon whatever land may
be comprised within the two districts,
and this tax, until paid, shall be a lien in
favor of the State taking priority of all
others. For the immediate procurement
of money for the work the board of levee
commissioners is authorized to issue
bonds to the amonnt of $500,0 0, bearing
snch rate of interest as mey be deemed
advlsab’e.
WYTHEViLLE, VA.
Editor Sunny South: Wytbeville,
the county seat of Withe county, Va.. is
beautifully situated in a cradle-like de
pression on the summit of tbe Allegha
ales. It has a population of over 4 000
souls, and no city in the New Yorld can
boast Inhabitants of greater culture, re
finement and true hospitality. Her edu
cational advantages are unsurpassed—
comprising a Presbyterian Female Col
lege, an Episcopal Female College, a Lu
theran Female College, the best public
school in Virginia, a Roman Catholic
preparatory school, a Male Academy,
with the military feature, and a public
school for colored children.
This booming town also boasts a num
ber of manufacturing establishments,
ten churches, one of the most unique j >b
printing establishments in the Uniied
States, two banks, one insurance com
pany, five land improvement companies,
with large capital; a magnificent electric
light and water system, wide streets and
natural drainage. There are also many
good hotels, and designs have beer, per
(ected for the Immediate erection of two
other magnificent hotel buildings, at a
coHt of $50,000 each.
The great gypsum field of Rich Valley
is thought to be ue richest in the world,
while tne deposits of Iron, lead, copper,
zinc and bewsemer brown ores around
Wytbeville are declared to be the most
extensive in the country
Noted Northern capitalists paid Wythe
ville a visit a short time since, and the
eager reception tendered them by the
citizens ol this enterprising borough
proved how welcome capital will be at
this industrial epoch.
At the Vi.-glnia Exposition at Rich
mond in 1S83 the $500 premium was award
ed Wytbeville for the finest display of
minerals and woods, and since that iim3
many other important mines have been
opened in the most enterprising portion
of this city. Sites are donated freely for
manufacturing purposes or industrial
movements, and ^negotiations are today
favorably progressing for the establish
ment of car, rubber a cods, nail, brick,
wool, furniture, tannery and other im
portant factories.
The people of Wytbeville have changed
with the times. They are Inviting the
world to take part in the development of
the wealth around them. To the tourist
the scenery is grand; to the capitalist
there are inexh instible beds of mineral
and to the invalid pare air and even
climate. Nature has Indeed lavishly
touched this one spot, filling bright veins
with precious ore and peopling this little
town with inhabitants of culture, genial
hospitality and wealth The cry today
is “Young man, to the South!” the recog
nized vantageg round of the New World,
whose development far exceeds that of
the West in its palmiest days. Yes, in
deed, the man of sagacity and energy
will unquestionably find in onr South
land a nighway to success “To the
South, then, young man—to the South!'
VERACITY IM PUBLIC WRITERS
Editor Sunny South: It is oft m said
that we shou’d not believe all we hear.
It may with equal truth and discretion
be said we should not believe all W6 read
In print. Thes'etbougbts have bjen sug
gested by an artie'ein the Sunny’South,
No 776. bended “The World’s End,” and
signed by F-ancls Livingston, as corie
spondent Y.?ur correspondent after giv
ing an account of John D Ciufman, Wll
Ham Miller and others, says: “Andrew
Jackson Davis was the American prophet
who raost y resembles the sage E uanue'
Swedenborg in his methods.”
Emanuel Swedenborg perhaps wrote
with a pen, and on paper, and so did
Davis, or got some one to write for him.
But i' the resemblance in their methods
goes any further, those who have read
both authors have utterly failed t’-see it.
The fact is, this writer, Francis Living
ston, has eituer never read Swedenborg,
or intentionally falsifies him.
He furthersays: “Davis and Sweden
boig both denied the special authority of
the Bible.” Now, as applicable to Swe
denborg. a greater falsi y could not have
been perpetrated Swed.nborg not only
never did deny tbe special authority o'f
the Bible, but above all other writers ex
aited It, and held and taught It to he the
sacred, divine word or God, saying that
the “very words of it were dictated by
God in tae ears of the Prophets, of Moses,
the Psalmists, and Mathew, Mark, Luke
and John, and the writer o? 11 relations.”
It were superfluous to refer the reader
to any one passage in Swedenborg in
proof of this: because it is iterated and
reiterated more than a thousand times in
his works. But I will refer the reader to
aDy of the following works of Sweden
borg: “TheDDije Providence,” ‘ Tae
True Christian Religion,” “The Divine
Love and Divine Wisdom,” and “Heaven
and HeP,” «h re, by rending t -ree pares,
can be discove-ed the falsities of this cor
respondent.. The evil of setting forth
snch falsities as this is, that it deters
others from reading some of the finest
and best writings ever given to the
world.
Swedenborg was not only a most emi
nent scientist, scholar and philosopher,
but the most rational writer on religion
that ever lived—raising religion from
fantasy and superstition, where sects and
sectarians had dragged it, and placing it
in harmony with the Bible and with
science; and religion and tbe Bible as
interpreted by S wedenborg are truly cal
culated to elevate mankind to the highest
state of dignity, parity and happiness in
this world and to angelhood in the next.
I can iedaed recommend the reading
of Swedenborg to the reader as the most
profitable, desirable and nsefal occupa
tion in which he or she can engage.
“Oh. happiness, our being’s end anil aim.”
Fools may scoff, but wisdom remains thesamc.”
3-ffner, Fla.
James M. Rogers.
A mill at Sallsb ary, N. C„ manufaetur
ing fine “onting cloth,” has been una
ble, we believe, for a year or two to keep
up with its orders. Many Southern
mills are making fine goods that the pub
lic generally knows very little about, end .
New England people are going to build a
large mill in Alabama to spin finer yarns
than anything ever before tried in the
Sooth, and they are confident that there
la notning to prevent their success. The
Smith, having developed its manufac
ture of coarse cotton goods, will undoubt
edly take a leading part in the produc
tion of fine goods.
GOLD BEACH, OREGON.
Editor Sunny South: Gold Beach is
situated on the Pacific Coast at the mouth
of Rogue River, and is the county seat of
curry, one of the most extreme western
conntiee in the United Btates outside of
Alaska. Up to within two months ago
we could not boast of even a wagon road,
depending on pack horse* and ocean
schooners. We now have a wagon road
from Bosbnry, on the California & Ore
gon R. £., to Crescent City California,
via Bandon, Myrtle Point, Port Orford,
Gold Beach, Smith River and Chetco.
Gold Beach consists of one hotel, two
stores one cannery (jalmon). one saloon,
blacksmith shop, court house, school
honse, Masonic lodge, post office, and
about 12 dwelling houses, with about 150
population, alio one weekly paper, The
Gold Beach Gazette, owned and edited
by Mr. Walter Button. Wo have no
church. The cannery, owned by Mr. K.
D. Home, gives employment to about 100
men nine months in tho yoor, and tho
catch is near 500.000 fish. There is a great
deal of vacant land here, and many good
homes could bo made, settlement thereon
being all It costs. The climate is fine,
being oven the year round. The only ob
jection ia tho rainy season, which lasts
abont three months, December, January
and February, bnt it is neveroold.
Stock raising, sheep, Lumber end min
ing are the principal industries. Thoe.
s!h. Frank A Co., of San Francisoo, have
opened a market,hero for tan bark which
give* employment to many, and makes
the vast oak forests of tho county val
° Any information In regard to the coun
try will bo cheerfully given to any of
yonr ruder, who may Farley.
The Pin Handle of Texas
Graphic Letter from a Rapidly Grow
ing Section.
Editor Sunny South: Great ia the
Pan Handle of Tex at! Any one that
doubts the assertion should board
the Ft. W. A D V train at F>rt Worth
some fine morning and try to find a seat
in any one of the five or seven coaches
that leave Fort Worth every day at 9 A.
M. Dinner at Wichita Falls and the
passengers are afraid te vacate tbelr
seats to get dinner lest they should have
to stand up the balance of the day. Sap
per at Childress, the train 220 miles
from Fort Worth, and not quite halfway
to Texline, where the road.ieaves Texas
soil.
More than sixty thousand people came
into the Pan Handle last year, to stay, be
sides tne great du Tiber of prospectors
that came to “spy out the land,” to invest
in real estate, then went home to tell
their neighbors that they h -d found a
•‘goodly land.” to sell their possessions
in other Slates, and to come again anoth
er year.
What is the attraction? There is not
one, bnt many, among which are cheap
lands, rich soil, a periect climate, good
health, and every opportunity to become
prosperous citizens of a white man’s
country, if not to grow rich simply by
holding on to the land that Texas hvs be
stowed with snoh prodigality upon bona
fide settlers.
There are millions of acres of public
lands in the Pan Handle of Tvxas—some
subject to pre-emption by actual settlers
In tracts of 80 acres to each single man
over 18 years of age and 160 acres to each
head of a family; other lands that may
be bought from the State, in tracts not
exceeding 640 seres, at $2 oer acre, paya
ble 1 40 in,cash,balance in 40 years. A great
deal of this vacant land has been taken
up, especially along the line of the Fort
Worth & Denver Ry ; but there are still
homes for a million people on the vacant
lands of the interior counties of the Pan
Handle.
The country is settling np so fast) and
so great has been the development of the
agricultural, commercial and educational
inter sts of this section since the “Pan
Handle Route” was opened up, it ts esti
mated tbat the land increases in value
each year about ft 000 bonus; two years.
$2,030 an 1 so on. Some land sells for
much mo’a, owi-jg to proximity to the
leading railroad towns.
Is this land, which may bo obtained so
cheap and on such easy terms, good land?
Look out of the car windows as you pass
through Ciay, Wilbarger, Hardeman,
Childress and other counties, and noiicn
tbe many beauti’ul farms and the fi fids
of grain aud other products of the- farm
ers’ toil. Agriculture is no longer an ex
periment in the Pan Handle, as the fine
exhibits at the Dallas Fair abundantly
testify. The toil i3 especially adapted
to the production of wheat ana other
small grain, though all the cereals do
well. The finest kind of garden vegeta
bles, fruits, watermelons, grasses, etc.
grow In groat prolusion Tne soil Is of
such a character tbat little rain Is neces
sary to produce a crop, though there has
been no lack of seasonable rains in the
Pan Handle.
With the development of the country
many beautUnl towns are springing up
along the line of the Fort Wortn and
Denver.
Great town booms have been experl
enced at Henrietta, Wichita Falls, V -r
non and Q lanah, and now Cuildress, the
county seat of Childress county, is claim
Ing its share of attention
Cuildress c junty is the gateway to the
Pan Handle proper, and.Cuildress is the
Gate City. Deep water on the Tens
coast means more railroads through the
Pan Handle.
The great West must have an outlet to
the sea Before many years this entire
section will be a per'ect network of rati
roads. Somewhere between Forth Worth
and the Texas line, on the Fort Worth
and Denver Railroad, a great city must
some day be built. Child'■ass is 220 miles
from F».rt Worth and 230 miles from
T.xline—on the middle ground between
the upper and lower plains, just where a
great city ought to be built.
The ste.tiotics o’ the past season prove
tbat Childress count vis the banner wheat
county of the Pun Handle, and besides
the fact that Childress is the county seat
of a rich agricultural cuunty, rapidly set
lling up with a tine class of farmers,
there is more outlying territory tributary
to this point than to any other on the
Forth Worth and Denver Road north of
Forth Worth This Is the nearest ship
Ding and trading point for about eighteen
Pan Handle counties, including F.oyd,
Hale, Briscoe and Collingsworth, all of
avhich are just now attracting hundreds
of settlers.
Every foot of lumber that goes Into
house in those countries, every shingle
and eyery nail, every barrel of H mr and
sack of coffee, is hauled from Childress
in wagons, fifty and one hundred miles
away. Wagons from the Indian Tern
oory bring in butter, rg;s f chickens and
garder products to sel : and Cbildross has
a considerab e trade from eastern New
Mexico. This is the shipping and supply
point for eighteen immense ctttle
ranches. The trade of the Matador
ranche alone amounts !o $2,(X 0 per month
All tnls c>mes to Cbilureas. Childress
gets a giod portion of the trade of Green
county. When the dispute betwesn the
Uuite r States and Texas for the posses
sion of Green county is settled, as it will
be soon, there will be an enormous influx
into tbat county. That will mean more
trads for Childress as well as fo- Quanah
and Verusu Under these cocditions, it
Is not surprising tbat Cuildress is stead
ily increasing in population. The tem
porary frame buildings erected to meet
the exigencies of trade when the town
was new, are giving place to substantial
stone buildings, tho material for which
is quarried near here. Among the stone
bandings now in course of erection area
f'.O.OOO courthouse to be the pride of
the county and an ornament to the town
a $30,000 hotel, a bank and filler build
lugs. Three stone build ngs have baen
finished and stocks moved into them
during the past two weeks. One ‘s oc
caplea by M. L. Swift & Co., with hard
ware, one by W. P. Jones & Son, with
dry goods, and the third by D?at>u,
Knox & Co., wholesale and retail grocers.
Tue last named firm is composed of some
men of means and line business cipacity
who have lately come to this section
from Panola county, Mississippi. Mr.
Georgs Dsaton, the senior member of
the fir n , accompanied by his family
and Messrs. Cbartie Deaton and Virgil
Kaox, two nephews in his employ, ar
rived among us two weeks ago. They
all express themselves as greatly pltaicd
with this new and promising section, and
a number of their relatives and fr.ends
will follow the m in the near future. Mr.
John Isbell, also of Mississippi came
oat with the Deatons. He has returned
to Mississippi to wind np his bisi-
ness and bring his family to the
P.»n Handle. Car after car oi house
hold goods iB unloaded at this station,
and mover's wagons pass through
every day going to locations in Childress
and outlyiug counties
Although so much of the public domain
haa been taken up, there are still some
vacant sections in this county. Many
sections that have been taken np may be
bought out at from $250 to $4 000 bonus
per section, owing to location, improve
ments, and character of soil. Even at tbe
maximum cost, one acre is only $6 25
bonus, which would make the total cost
of an acre, after paying the State, only
$8 25 The estimate ooat of sowing, leap
ing, garnering and marketing an acre of
wneat, including hired labor, is $7.C0
One acre of land will produce from 20 to
40 bushels of wheat, and it will sell for
from 80 cents to $110 per bnshei, or say
$20 worth to the acre. Then one acre In
wheat will net $4.75 over the cost of the
land, and producing and marketing the
wheat.
The latest improved farming imple
ments are used, and the soil is of such a
chaise ter that one man can easily culti
vate 100 acres. Hence one man M|> clear
$475 in a year above all expense of pnr-
cnastng land, planting ana gathering the
crop. At the end of tne year he will find
his land doubled in value.
But only a few sections are held so
high. Good lend can be bought at from
50 cents to $2 00 per sere bonus. Tan
years from now all this land will be
worth from $25 to $50 per acre.
Town property in Childress has not
been put ap to boom prlees yet. A men
of slender means ean get a home on easy
terms. Now is certainly the beat timVtd
get a foothold in this new country, be
fore land values get beyond reach.
A great many Sunny South readers
have written to F. R. Pogn A Co, real
estate agents of Childress, all of whom
have been cheerfully answered.
The Sunny South has panned a most
generous policy In permitting all sec
tions a hearing Uuoogh the “Letten
from the People?’ in the Correspondence
Department. It ta thea aad in many
other ways, contribut ng much towards
the development of our beloved Booth
“More snon” about Childress and the
beautiful Pan Handle- „
Mrs Fannie Rbesh Pcoh.
Childress, Texas.
MANSFIELD, LA,
I am very much pleased with your paper.
There Is so much valuable information
contained in its columns, I can’t see how
the good people of ManefieJd end ^sur
rounding country can do without it In
their homes. Mansfield -is a delightful
little town, situated near the center of
D;Soto Parish and upon a beauti uleie-
vated plain, where shj enjoys the rresn
breeze from the Gulf.
The new bank building whic, uin#w
near completion, is a m *g? iflce ? 1 L , £5» c '
tuiw.and »i 1 undoubtly add gre 'tly to t.e
good and upbuilding of our little towjq.
The Tap R R Co., is also in receiptor
floe p’ueh s ated coach, which I 9 mmm
more comfortable in the transportation
of passengers than before. , . „ .
Mausfleid is a great cotton market, ana
crops are very gooa in this section 01 tne
country, though heavy rains are injuring
the cotton in the field. . „ .
White porch, one of onr favorite fish,
are plentiful In Clear Like. A skillful
fisherman can catch enough for his own
use in a lew hours. , *
The Henry W. Grady Debating and
Liter ,ry Society of Mansfield is progress
ing. nicely, and the boys are acquitting
themselves with much skill, and Pr° ve
to be young orators. J- “• l* 1,
Oct 15, 90
REFORMED.
For the Sunny South.
Go, leave me, good friend: I have st ffered too
To ioi*n°u the revels of vour maddened throng:
I dread it I fear it, I’ve felt it, ala-1— , ,
The sorrow that lurks in each bright, brimming
glass.
Jeer, scoff, if you choose; I can hear all your
Some definitions are remarkable tor
point without being at all eIe ** n *’
have all heard of the man who defined
heterodoxy as meaning ‘•everybody* be
lief bnt mine.” Quite aa pointed woe he
who described the egotist ea “one who is
not concerned about me.”
One’s persuasion that he is always on
the right side is not any help to his being
there. It may, however, and frequently
does, enable him te force his convictions
on others with greater determination.
The man who speaks and acta aa though
those who differ with him have no right
to an opinion, possesses a large share of
power.
Yon do not always make a proposition
credible when you prove it to be logical.
You may construct a syllogism, every
term of which shall be a universal affirm -
atlve, and yet bring out a conclusion to
which many refuse assent. The lessons
of experience often require the refusal of
propositions which have every seeming
of sound logic.
— ------ Those members of deliberate bodies
?rhe"«ri"ck r rcLwernd 0 K« g.TeHd D to 10 k’- j who assume the role of general objectors,
prove. I perhaps are of use. It may bo that they
Go call up that poor, God forsaken old sot. I sometimes arrest measures which are not
Whose being on Life’s written page formsablot: ' lge> a nd the adoption of which would
‘ prove hurtful. But they are troublesome.
Raising their protests as they do against
everything that is proposed, they are just
as apt to check the good as the bad. Tbe
! great trouble about them is that, not tak
ing their positions because led thereto
by reasot), they are rarely amenable to
reason.
Comparatively few people ever think
of bow things seem to thosa on the other
side. We are wont to speak of the horri
ble cruelty of the Red Man as he has
now and then turned in his sullen march
to the West and dealt a vengeful blow
upon the advancing whites. Bnt we
rarely allow ourselves to reflect that the
latter were the more unjust of the two.
It is but the faintest of possibilities that
the Indian would ever have crossed the
waters to attack the European In his
Eastern home.
desolation and
..uuouiitiu ^ i blot;
Whose footsteps* are~ staggering^aowu to the
Whose bleared eyes are blind to the depth of
his doom!
But let me reform—turn short aud retrace
The path I nave trod in this desperate race :
Let regret and remorse and repentance all come
Ere me soft voice oi mercy forever grows dumb’
I know the temptation—how generous the spell,
Wnen soft waves of music voluptuous swell:
When *ow breathing sirens take up the refrain
And sorrows are drowned in tne sparkling
champagne!
I know all the sweets of that jolly good cheer,
When stories are told o’er the loam-crested
beer;
And I know, too the deep
shame .
Of one yvhose excesses becloud his fair name
In ri.c shimmering depths of that wine cup
there dwell
The blackest of all the dark demons of hell:
Beneath the white foam of that beer, uure-
vealed
The spirits of red-handed death lie concealed!
Go, leave me, dear friend, and pray tempt me
no more—
I’ve served in the ranks of tbe tyrant before:
And now that I’ve broken my shackles, to be
A man among men again let me be free!
I*oor vagabond drunkard! Oh pitiful thought!
The ruin, damnation, despair that is wrought'
Vile, sin-defiled, whisky-soaked wreck of a
man—
Look on him one moment, and drink—if you
can!
M. M. F.
Stopped tlie Press.
I was sitting in the office of a Kentucky
weekly paper,and the editor had just fur
nished proof of the fact that he was edi
tor, printer, compositor, pressman, and
mail boy, when a shock-headed lad came
in to say:
“Mr. Laggers, he’un’s waitin’ down
Lhar’ for you!’’
“Who's a-waltint”
Kernel Brill.”
* Wnat’s he’un want? ’
“Ter shute, I reckon.”
“Go’n tell he’un to wait till next week;
I’m too busy.”
When the boy had gone the editor turn
ed to me with: “You kin«ee fur your
nelf what’s a holdin’ me down. That
Kurnel Brill is no gentleman, or he
wouldn't putin when ne knows I’m rush
ed.”
Tbe boy came back a moment later to
say:
••riVun can’t wait.”
Why?”
“Says he cum in ter shute, an’ has got
to shute, an he will shute.”
‘ Dot rot sech a man! I reckon I’ll hev
to go down. Didn’t like my leader last
week, and wants ter shute. He’un’s no
gentleman, no gentleman. I’ll be back
in a few mi nits, stranger ”
I sat there in the offi e and heard the
reports of pistols, and I looked out of the
window and saw a crowd, and ten min
utes later the editor came with his right
ear split by a bullet, and somewhat petu
lantly remarked:
“Aad now thar’ll he a Corner’s inquest,
and J’il hev to lose at least half a day! If
the Kurnel want?d to pop at me why
couldn’t he’un hev waited till some
tramp printer cum along to ease me off a
bit? He was .no gentleman no gentle
man.”
For the Sunny South:
AT TRYST.
The sun is set; the crimson
And gold of the afterglow
I have watched evanish softly
As Iris’ lading bow;
The twilight time for true love,
Veileth the land and sea:
So I dream—and I long for you, love,
Wherever you may be-
There’s a something in this hour
Magnetical and still.
Like a maid who glides to startle.
With the lip and hand tha: thrill.
And the falling locks’ dark hue. love,
And a fancied shape, to me
Float out—for I dream of you, love,
Wherever you may be.
The stars shine like reflections
Of stars upon the sea,
While the mooou—a mystic shallop —
Sails white, and silently:
Would I were sailing too love,
Tonight, as far and free,
Alone on the waves with you, love,
Wherever you may be.
But instead of the sounds of oceau.
Tonight I only hear
The whirring cry of the locust.
And the crickets, thrilling drear.
While out in the dusk aud the dew, love,
I linger lonesomely—
Linger, longing for you, love,
Wnerever you may be.
There! Is’t the honey perfuni '
Blown from my lattice vines?
Hist! was’t their whisper, on y?—
A leaf, that beckons and shines?
What spell« on the charmed air strew, love,
From your hidden haunt, to me?
While I breathless peer for you, love,
Wherever you may be.
Float on the dusk sweet spirit!
Though wierd and long the way.
The disembodied phantom
Nor time nor tide can stay.
Keep spirit tryst, my true-love, *
These shadowy hours, with me!
I’ll list and know ’tis you. love,
Wherever you may be!
James Read Dills.
“I could have done as well as he has
done had I had the chance tnat he has
had,” we often hear said by men who
have not maae an eminent success of
life. They doubtless believe what they
say, and are ready to complain of provi
dence or of their fellow men for their
tack of opportunity. It never occurs to
them that chances rarely present them
selves to men; tbat men often really
achieve the circumstances that, seem to
be In their favor. The old maxim, “Each
one is the maker of his own fortune,” i3
not generally accepted.
We do not know that men of this dav
owe to the Arabians any of their money
making ability; but they should certain
ly thank them for the easy method of no
tation which enables them to count great
fortunes. Wnat huge ledgers would be
necessary did the bankers and merchants
of our large cities have to represent the
vast sums in which they deal by the Ro
man method of enumeration! The time
and space now required to enter miliious
upon a journal would hardly suffice for
indicating a few thousands by the slow
process of capital letters.
If any one ever doubted that an inso
lent and vindictive majority in a Repub
lican government can prove the veriest
oi tyrants, he need entertain that doubt
no longer after reading the history of the
last Congress. That party, having con
trol of that body, showed an utter con
tempt for the rights of the minority, and
in their eagerness for the promotion 01
partisan schemes, lost sight, to a large
extent, of the public welfare. It may
have successors that will cause it to ap
pear a patriotic body; but at present It
has no rival in our history in its c.aims
to public condemnation.
We very often speak of the perishable
nature of human wealth; but it Is only
now and then that we appreciate the full
truthfulness of the adjective when so up -
plied. When a great conflagration or a
cyclone or a flood destroys in a few hours
the results of many years of toP, we real,
ize the slenderness of the structures upon
which men rest their fondest hopes. But
we seldom reflect that constantly operat
ing causes are all along destroying the
fruits of human labor almost as fast as
they can be produced, even though one
labor in granite or iron. Time’s silent
hand will surely come with destroying
touch.
Justice James F. Miller, of the Supreme
Court of the United States, who recently
died at the age of 74 had spent more
than a third of his life in that exalted
position. He was a native of Kentucky,
but went North in his early manhood be
cause of his strongly adverse position on
the question of slavery. While a mem
ber of this court many questions came
before it upon which the people were ex
citingly divided, and all are not yet pre •
pared to join in the Incomnia that shall
be pronounced upon him. He had ex
perienced but a slight failure either of
body or intellect until within a few days
of his death.
No proposition can be more self evident
than that one must be young before he
_ c,n °fo* Yet a great many people
Itis with pleasure that we note the sub- yo«ng men almost as
stantlal enterprise and success of George * * *nlt, and comnarativniv f«w
Allen, Esq., late of New Berne, N. C , in
the great industrial section of Virginia.
Coining to Salem in December, 1889, he
became interested in the progressive
movement which had began there, end
was quick to comprehend its import.
Hu long experience at New Berne, and
his persistent end intelligent efforts for
the country of which It is the center, had
fitted him to grasp the material prob
lems or this new field. He saw an open
ing tor development, and understood its
requirements. This perception led him
to devise and adopt practical means.
Decisive in action, he is at this early stage
able to show abundant results, in which
all who have joined him have shared. As
he gained tne approbation of those
amongst whom he passed so many years
in North Carolina for integrity and com
mercial honor, so has he won the favor
of all who have had relations with him
in this field. W» express the sentiment
of thousands who esteem him for his
genius and honorable qualities in wish
mg him continued and large prosperity
in his worthy undertaking.—Exchange.
On a tombstone in Philadelphia is the
record of a young wife with the line added
“Our first in heaven.” It is touching; hot
it suggests the question what has b—M
of (be others?
i fault, and comparatively few
are so fortunate as not to have some op
position based on this to overcome when
they make their start. Many persons
koitato abont giving young men business
simply because they are young and leek
experience. The young physielan, the
young lawyer, the yonng preacher have
ell to encounter this distrust of their
abilities. In this there is not only un-
klndnesa and injustice, but something of
nnwisdom. In a great many inetanoes,
the beet service ia rendered in early man
hood. The rale that “practice makes
perfect” does not hold good in every
instance. Many old teachers will admit
that they did their beet work when they
first began, when their ardent enthusiasm
quite supplemented their want of experi
ence. Pew persons keep np the same in
terest in their work with which they be
gin. After a time the continuous repeti
tion of the same things becomes monot
onons, and one is apt to go through hie
regular tasks in a perftinctlonary way.
’Tie true that a great deal of green fruit
is brought to market; bnt sometimee the
earliest fruit is the best. • •