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I H. SEALS BUSINESS OFFICE, Mo.«, WiU Street ■ Tear' (Mouths. aVAdilr^M all letters concerning the paper, and 31 eke all bills payable to _ J. 5. iHAIA A 00.. Atlanta. 9a. 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. • •