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THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 29, 1890.
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OUR PREMIUM PAGE.
See onr grand Ust of premiums on tbe
Slh pa^e. Every’body can secure just
wbat tbi y want with very little money,
The ufl.rs there made art standing offers
and hold good all the time whether they,
appear regularly In the paper or not.
The Ocala Exposition.
•‘The Farmers’ Alliance Semi-Tropical
Epositlon” will open In Ocala, Fla., on
the 1st or December and continue tor 60
days. Taousands of visitors from all the
States will attend to witness the grand
display of curiosities and nataral re-
sources of this ‘ Lied of Flowers.
8pedal excursion rates have been so
cured on all the railroads and to all home
seekers extra redactions will be mid
from Ocala to any portion of the State.
Maddox, Rucker & Co.
This old reliable banking honse, of At
ianta, Gs , having outgrown its former
comfortable qnor ers has just settled
itself cum dignitate it to the handsomest
establishment in the city; and they will
pardon us for saying that there is not In
all the land a set of gentlemen who
would adorn such quarters with more
grace and sterling worth. Maddox,
Rucker, Feel, Willingham and the other
members of th firm and their employes
are recognised throughout this city as
among our best citizens and moet reliable
bankers and busineas men. Their new
quarters are at the corner of Alabama
and Forsyth streets.
Atlanta's Next Mayor.
Success in a Democratic primary
tantamount to election in a Democratic
city. The primary. In reality, is a Demo
cratic institution Intended for fair play
toward opposing candidates by securing
the freest expression of the public will,
Tnrongh tbe method of tbe primary Col,
W. A. Hemphill was designated ast week
as the choice of the citizens of Atlanta
for Mayor, and their preference will be
ratified at a regular election In D<cem
ber. Tbe other candidates, Messrs. Konfz
and Brown, were supported by a strong
vote and are worthy citizens In all re
spects. We doubt not C >1. Hemphill will
add an emphasis to the 1 st of Atlanta’s
distinguished Executives.
With the forthcomi g municipal elec
tion, the series of ballot contests that
come altogether too oftjn during the
year, will have ttrmlna'.ei fo> 1890.
Death of Bishop Beckwith.
On Sunday moreing last, at G o'clock,
R'ght Riv. John Watrans Beckwith, D.
D., of the Epitc'.pal D ocese of Georgia,
died at his home in Atlanta, after «n
llicess of several weeks. ’His first ail
ment was a malignant abtcees on the
face, from which, after repeated palnfui
operations, it was coi fidently hoped he
would rapidly recover. The prospect
Was very gratifying, and it was generally
annoui ctd that the Bishop’s perk d of
danger was passed. It is said, however,
that in (his view he himself did not
share; and certain it is that, with ra-e
and courageous forethought, he sum
moned to his s'de the committee on
Which would devolve his unfinished ec
cleslasticai du:ie=, and that he a so ex
pressed his discouraging presentiments
to relatives.
Ou the morning before his death he
was stricken with p-ralisls. Owing to
the enfeebled stale in which the second
efll c ion found him, the heartful coufi
Ani.cc of his close friends and of the
geu ral pub ic gradually gave way. Only
a brief day intervened between this at
tack and his decease. Notwithstanding
that the sad event was widely looked for,
Its announcement was a severe shock to
tie community and to those everywhere
Who warmly esteemed him as a man
While they revered him as a worthy ser
vant oft tie Cross.
Bishop B ckwith would have been six
ty years old had he lived till January
nexf, having been born cn the 9.h of
tnat mouth, In 1831, at Raleigh, N C. Hia
father was Dr John Beckwith, an emi
nent physician; bis mother, Margaret
Stanley, daughter of J hn Wr’ght Stan.
ley, of Newbern, N. C. Dr Beckwi. h waa
of Scotch descent and came to North
Carolina from Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
The diceased Bishop was a man of
eminent ercdition, extensive travel, and
abundant talents. As an orator, thinker,
and reasoner he was pos; eased of excep
tional powers. His personality was
warm and winning, full cf cheerfulness
goodness and confidence, and he was
beloved by all who ever met him. He
was consecrated to his arduous church
work, and it survives to vindicate his
fidelity and industry. In his death the
Episcopal church Josis a powerful aid
and exponent, Atlanta is deprived of a
revered citizen, and the world will miss
a most noble gentleman and gifted
Christian.
NEW STORIES.
little Isos the product of man’s aklll than
the town.
There also lisa hidden away In this
quotation the claim that the country la
TWO GREAT NEW STORIES THIS better than the tows; that they who Jive
where there is abundant epaoe,and where
WEEK.
We begin two splendid Serial Stories
this week, and Invite special attention to
them.
THE OTHER MAN’S WIFE.
“Toe 0;ner Mao's Wife” is a most fas
cinating tale of love, from the pen of J no.
Strange Winter, who is one of tbe mest
charming of E nglish writers.
HAWTHORN.
‘Hawthorn” was written for the
Sunny South by Mr. BUmath Miller, an
Americar j joruaiist of large experience
and brilliant a* tali, m jilts, and it will
hold the reader to tbe end. D_>n’t full to
begin both stories with the opening
chapters.
Our short stories, original as a general
thing, continue to attract favorable cr'tl
clem. The abundance of this character
of Hlerataie, Southern in origin and sub*
stantlal in merit (with the numerons
poems and entertaining miscellany ap
pearing for the first time in these pages
from week to week) attest the fertile tal
ents of onr s* ctlon and stamp the Sunny
South as the favorite medium of current
Southt rn literature.
Curio as Election Results.
While the remarkable results of the
election of November 4 continue to be
magnified by later returns, they present
coincidences worthy of passing notice os
well as problems that must greatly tax
the existence of the defeated party.
Among the enrious results is the fact
that the Demo rrats carried every one of
the original thirteen States which com
bined to form tne government under
which we live, namely: New Hampshire,
Massacnusetts, Rhode Island, Connecti
cut, Now York, New Jersey, Delaware!
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
Of thirty five States which held elec
tions in November, Pennsylvania alone
returned a Republican majority of Con
greasmen to the Fifty second Congress.
E ghteen States have not a single Re
publican In their Congressional delega
tlona.
The N -rthern, Eastern and Western
States elected 118 more Democrats than
Republicans, which is precisely the nnm
ber of Demccrats in excess of Republl
cans elected in tbe S>nth.
To accommodate this totally um qaal
division of the great parlies in the Honse
of Representatives, it will be necessary
for at least 80 Democrats to occupy seals
on the Repuoilcan side of the chamber.
O.* course it is tbe merest folly to say
that the active influence of any one
speaker or number of speakers in the
Congressional d’s.rlcta contributed to
national results so clearly brought about
by the volition of the whole people; bnt
since it has been attempted to accredit
Governor D. B Hill s half a dozsn
speeches with the revolutionary over
turning of lately existing conditions, it
is worth while to note that tt e Govern
or’s influence filled to carry his own
county ( -itrklmer) in New Wa, which
should have gone Democratic.
This is the more noticeable because Mr
Grover Cleveland’s county (Erl. ) a filch is
usually a Republican stronghold,
turned s Democrat to Congress, aLd that
Democrat Daniel Lockwood, who four
times nominated Mr. Cleveland for sac
cessfulelection—as sheriff, mayor, gov
ernor and president.
The rival partisans of Hill and Cleve
land will not lose sight of this somewhat
significant incident.
The more important outcome of the
November election consists in the dliem
ma in which it has placed the protection
late themselvi s and the class of mann
factnreis who were most favored by the
McKi- ley tariff Ignoring that the R9.
publicans are now seriously divided on
the main question of the fatal bill, and
that a demai d for its immediate repeal
is being urged by an inilaential portion
of the party press, the situation is one in
which defeat looms before that organiza
tion on both fl inks. A great party was
never saved t y a change of front after
disaster. As with armies, that is the
nsnal preliminary of retreat. To repeal
the McKinley bill would be to confess to
a misunderstanding of vital questions of
finance and government each as a polit
ical party in power cannot afford to
make. On the other hand, if the tariff
bill remains, it stands condemned; and
public sentiment, jsalously unerring in
judgment, was never recorded as revers
ing its once expressed views So that
whether left as it is, or repealed, the
McKinley bill will serve as a two edged
swerd confronting the future ambition
of these who enacted it into a law.
One of the potent claims of its advo
cates was that protection wonld increase
the wages of labor—tbe higher the pro
teclion, the higher the wages. No such
result has come about and none such is
likely. Tne claim was, of course, Insin
cere. But the protective measure is
a statute, while labor is paradoxically on
strike in many places against a threat
en< d decrease of pay.
Here is a second and unavoidable di-
lemm*, since the remedy lay alone In
advancing the wages of labor, and the
tariff does not confer that honest re
course. The manufacturer will not en
large his expanses for a sentiment, nor
even to save a bill which was meant pri
marily to enhance his own profits.
Therefore, the new protective measure
nature exhibits herself in splendor,
are more hones*, generous and truthful
than where they are gathered in masses
and there is a sharp and constant strug
gle for supremacy. This idea prevails
very largely. They who dwell in the
country may not thluk that all
dwell there are pure and innocent, but
think thit the proportion of them
is far greater than of those who dwell
in cities. There are indeed country peo
pie who regard ail who live in towns with
suspicion and distrust. Instead of es
teeming them as worthy fellow citizens
who are honestly endeavoring to advance
a common civilization, they are disposed
to think of them as scheming all tbe ti ne
to get (he products of the farmer's labor
without a j licit return. Tula sort of a
feeling is widely prevalent at this time,
and Is doing a great deal of mite litf.
There are those who for the sake of their
own selfish schemes wcu’d intensify it,
and render it more widespread. Such
persons ere acting a very bad part. By
stimulating these unwarranted jealou
sies they are sowing the wind, and a few
years hence they may have to reap the
whirlwind.
Dean Swift.
Of the names that are enrolled among
the classics of English the; e are none that
< xcite a more lively or more painful
anxiety than that of Jonathan Swift,
During the years that have elapstd since
his death much of research into his his
tory has been conducted, and many vol
amts have been written about him. But
there are still mysteries connected with
bis life which thess who have studied its
details most closely have not been able to
explain. More truly of film than per
haps of any other man who ever lived
may it be asserted that the views we get
of him under different clrcu nitarces do
not harmonize. Ac one time he appears
gentle, kind, gentr. us, faithful; at
another he seems as unmistakably coarse,
crnel, treacherous, brutal. They who
suppose him governed by the same sen
timents that control ordinary men in
their treatment of the other sex, wili
pronounce his conduct towards the two
women with whom his name is connected
cold and heaitless. At times too he
seemed merciless in hia grasping aftar
power and money. Though he induced
some of his contemporaries to rely upon
him as one of the truest of friends, he
spared none In bis momen* s of rage. Upon
tne one point, all critics are agreed
There is no question about the extent or
force of his genius. Though compara
tively little of bis writings have come
down to ns, all of that iittls is excellent
of its kind. It may be doubted whether
any man ever pooaeaaed a more thorough
knowledge of human nature, and it is
certain that no one ever had the power
of tellirg what he knew in more strong,
earnest, belief-compelling language
Condemn as we must the half atheistical
and wholly cynical style of his ‘ Tale of
a Tab,” we must still allow it a merit
that will entitle it to a place in our
literature as loeg as that literature shall
survive. Many of the keenest thrusts in
bis Gulliver are now little understood;
but the story will be enjoyed by young
»na old for ages to come. We suspect
that Swift did not aim at doing good in
mnch that he wrote. To sting and to
wound, was his most manifest purpose.
But despite a malevolent disposition he
contributed to the sum of human enjoy
ment. • •
Dylan Word*.
There Is an idea In the mlnde of many
people thet a p. collar solemnity attends
one’s latest utterances, and that an tndl
vidnal wi I speak the truth when dying
tbongh 1 e has not been in the habit of
dei jg so while living. It would s>tm
that this ought to be so. One when
about to bid adieu to earth and ail Its
interests, and believing that fce is going
to be ushered iaio the presencs of his
Maker and Judge, ought to be most sol
emnly impressed. It would seem that
nothing but the most daring obduracy
would cause one at such a tiaio t» pin-ist
iu the assertion of a falsehood. We will
no: say that this idea is altogether erro
neons. Sstne hardened criminals do yield
at the lest moment and c mfess to deeds
that they have all along denied. But we
may not tiwr. from conc’ude that all to
so. Thsre are mar.y u fineness that may
impel the guilty to crntiaue the assir-
tion of ionoceace iu the face of death.
First and fore mot t of these is an ohsti
nate determination not to admit what
bss once bjeu denied. This is a power
ful influence with mist of the class who
are guilty of violations of law. The
pride that inducts one to stand to what
he has onee said Impels many bad men
to persist in the asstrtloncf innocence,
even when there is nothing to be gained
by d *ing so. Vindictive natures, too,
realize a grim satisfaction iu the beilef
that they are bequeathing to the living
something of remorse for patting to
death an Innocent- ma i. When we take
all these things into consideration, we
will be forced to the conclusion that the
last expressions of A-ctrademned man are
not entitled to implicit faith. If he has
been given to lying a'l of bis life, the
chances are mnch in favor of his lying ss
ho dies. * *
Georgia’s New Senator.
Following upon the excitements of the
recent general elections in tne States, the
animated and somewhat acrimonious
Senstorshtp contest in Georgia afforded
the principal in teres*. This was lat ly set
tied by the choice of Qon.Jibn B. Gordon
as United States Senator for the term of
s 'xyearsbeginningon March 4 1891 Hs
election was secured, on the first ballot
and against a fi aid of five other cancl
dates.
In the long and heated canvass pre
ceding the legislative session which was
to decide the issue, and even before that
body ere the date of the balloting, the
claims of the aspirants kept the ca t paign
at a continual boil, while the confident
partisanship of each l«ft- the public mind
very much in doubt up to the last day.
A strong opposition was crystall’z d at
one time against General Gordon, and his
defeat seemed foregone. The result
showed the faith and devotion of his
friends and the influence of popular sent!
ment.
His election gives eminent sitisfaction
to tbe people of the whole Stats; In fact,
such general popular demonstrations as
everywhere were made over his victory
have been seldom witnessed in Georgia
It is pleasant to fl id that all the bitter
ness ot the contest has been swept from
existetes, and that the new Senator is
certain to take his exalte d seat with the
greatheartof the Empire Commonwealth
solidly at his back. Tne opportunity be
fore General Gordon Is fall of promise for
himself, his State and his country.
For the Sunn y Sooth.
TWO TEA*S
Two tears lie nestling in an autumn rose
That bloomed where flower girt paths In fra
grance start,
Kefleetiog each the ros-j’s passion tints,
And telling each the story of a heart.
‘ I came ” said one “from out my hazel home
Because a oeauteous maiden weeps, forsooth,
That her false lover from her side doth roam
To wed another, who believes him Truth. ’
• * * v * v v
“No maiden’s eye cast me ” the other spake;
“I eaic from out the depths of wifenood's
eye,
Who weeps because thro’ life she needs must
take
Her wsy beside not mia, bnt living Lie!”
’Twas thus two women’s lives were a l undone;
One wept be ause her lover, in some whim,
Had left iier lone; the tear that other one
Let fall that she, alas! had wedded bin !
Heii.f.m vn Wilson.
Means, for bis gallant and patriotic ser
vices in oo operating with Governor
Hampton, In 1876, In freeing the State
, from the pillage of carpet baggers, and
establishing borne rule,
j Ass memorial ef the patriotic service
; of G ivernor Gordon, the South Carolina
' legislature procured a li'e slzs portrait
of nim. and keeps the same hung in the
H»i] of the House of Representatives.
Would that Governor Hampton may
a. ain meet with the same success, and
re returned by the present legislature to
iiJs seat in tbe Senate Chamber, and sit
«ii.h Gordon of Georgia, and Voter
of North Carolina. It would be
; ingra i’ude or the highest degree
■ o n the part of Sooth Carolina
to refuse to re elect Hampton. And
it is to be hoped that, there will be pa
tr'otism and gratitude enough in the
N utii Carolina legislature at its coming
cession to send Governor Vance back to
♦ he Senate. Gordon, Hampton and
V nee will be fit compeers in the United
States S mate, and they will add greater
re .own at this time to their respective
States than any other three men that
could be chosen.
I was favorad with an invitation from
my friend and schoolmate, Miss Kathleen
Gray Smith, of Atlanta to witness her
maniage at St. Luke’s Cathedral, on the
3i ;oi Dece a. bar. May her espouse 1
prove worthy of her heart and head, and
may the happy couple enjoy a long and
prosperous life, Mamie C. Allison.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
To Right or Left?
Death
of Ex Chi
ancelior Lipscomb
Another pre eminent Georgian has
dropped from the ranks of men. On last
Saturday midnight, at Athens, Ga., An
crew Adgate Lipscomb, ex Chancellor of
the University of Georgia, died after a
short iliness, aged seventy four, having
been born in 1816, at Georgetown, Md.
He was the son of a di .tinguished Meth
odist divine, and spent h’s youth iu Vir
ginia, where he was educated. At an
early age he was ordained a minister of
the Methodist Protestant church, and
filled the pulpit for several years al Alex
andria, Baltimore and Montgomery, re
spectively. Thirty years ago he was
called to the State University, where as
Chancellor he served with distinction
for fouriet n years, retiring in 1874, but
retaining his residence in Athens. He
was a learned man, profound thinker
and gifted magrzioisi. Hi bore the de
gree of LL. D , and was Eminent Pro-
fessor of Vandeibilt Udiversity. He was
twice married—at Baltimore to Miss
Margaret He irietta Blanche Richardson,
and, some years after her death, to Miss
Susan Dowell, of Alabama. Two off
spring followed each union, and one
child of each survives him, Mrs. Ella F.
Green and Andrew D. Lipscomb In his
death a great light has gone out.
Tbe Elections Are Over.
must endure, to become more and more
By a series of high-handed measures— unpopular, and incalculably mors de-
wnich now that they have failed will be ' strueiive of its founders. Yet the men
notsd as blunders—the Republicans have j who framed and coasted it can not- re-
brought upon tue.nseives a great defeat 1 peal it!
iu the late national elections. The vie
tors in this contest will if wise enjoy
their triumph in great moderation. The
parties in our conntry are so evenly bal
anced that it takes but a small mistake
for the one in to be thrown out. This is
as it should ba. While e&ch is contin
uously striving for a firm grasp of power,
it Is best for the country that the hold
be slippery and uncertain. It would not
be well for tbe party of tbe best princi
ples to have a tenure of the govern
ment of which it did not fear the loss.
An active and vigilant opposition does
as mnch towards securing good rule as a
wise administration.
Town and Conntry.
•‘God made the country and man made
the town,” is an expression that has ac
quired something ot authority from * gs.
Like many other favorite quotations, it
carries in it something of falsehood as
weU as something of truth. It implies
in the first place that life in tbe country
is a more primitive form of existence
than life in town. Tne history of man
kind does not sustain this proposition.
In the infancy of the race men had to
congregate for protection, and they con
st quently began to build cities at a very
early day. The farm house, where a fam-
The meddler is a character whom ily spends days and weeks without see-
nobody likes. Whi e there are others of ing any other human being, became a
whom some good may be predicted as possibility only with an advanced civili-
well as much of evil, he is one of whom zation. Long before men had become
nobody has a word or good to say Even ! countrymen in the sense that we now
they who may at some time employ his use that term, the lands had been brought
service- have nothing to say in his praise under cultivation and the country had
and little in his defence. N ext to the . lest most of its wild aspects. The fields,
slanderer be is the vilest or God’s cre» whether covered with growing crops or
tuM ' i spread oat in pasturage for cattle, are
Elections are necessary in a popular
government. By many however, they
are felt to be necessary evils. There are
temperaments that delight in this kind
of excitement, but to others it is exceed
ingly unpleasant. There are those who
realize a delicious form of intoxication
from having one report after another
brought to the ear, and the whole air
Ailed with rumors of accessions and de
fections,of the dirty tricks of party lead
ers, and of convincing speeches of great
speakers. But the people on the whole
are much more happy when the poUtlcal
atmosphere is serene. These great stir
rings up mayinduoe a livelier interest on
the part of the people in their govern
ment. The effects of the throes through
which the body politic passes every four
years may be healthful to the whole
country. We shonld certainly deprecate
a dead calm in which every one wonld be
content to remain aB he is without any
effort to try to improve. But we also de
piore the demoralizing effects of an ex
citing campaign. The amount of false
hood, duplicity and corruption practiced
in carrying an election, is frightful to
contemplate. A great many young men
have impressions for evil made upon
them during these excitements which
remain with them for the remainder of
their lives. When youth hear men of
age, ability and high official position pro
claim that politics Is a matter quite
apart from the Decalogue or the Sermon
on the Mount, they cannot fail to have
their moral perceptions dolled. It has
become common for men who are not
ordinarily rated as scoundrels in the zeal
of partisanship to ntter words and per
form acts altogether inconsistent with
sound morality. This Is no argument
against Democratic government, nor
even against tne frequency of elections.
But it is a strong argument against the
intemperance into which many suffer
their interest to hurry them. It cannot
be denied that we have too large a class
who make a business of politics—too
many who are trusting to office getting
mainly as a means of subsistence. There
would be a healthier tone in our public
men were they generally engaged in
pursuits which they leave with re
luctance to give attention to afiaira cf
the State. • •
•‘Whichever course we decide to take,
we will wish we had taken the other” is
fj rt fi ction which o4bi;jLasses through
Vui Mi’iuu H nc Nuuio-j
tiott. There are many uVftags of ways
in life where the whole subsequent
career is to bs determined, and yet it is
not easy to make a choice. Iu a great
many instaccas the decision is the result
of caprice rather than of judgment. We
sometimes discusi a number of measuies
long and anxiously without being able to
reach any decision. Waen at last some
thing has to be done we act es impulsive
ly as if we had just thought of tbe matler
for the first time.
It is said sometimes that this is the
way of weak people and that the strong
are not troubled with any of this hesita
tion. Perhaps this Is so. We may not
know always, however, by how much of
deliberation tbe most decided actions
may be preceded. The general who in
tones that indicate nothing of indecision
orders a forward movement may long
have debated whether he should advance
or retreat. The young in m who ac>
nounc s his determination to engage in
the work of preaching the gospel may
have bad a bard struggle to overcome his
ambition to be a great politician or his
desire to become a famous actor. The
young lady who with a candid smite of
love plights her troth to an earnest suitor
may have been nndecided for many days
whether this one or another had the
larger share of her affections.
The weakness, we think, lies in a vain
repining over a step that has been taken.
This often leads one to attempt a course
b .-tween t wo ways which has the evils of
both and the advantages of neither. It
were better for every reason that he coaid
decide that one of the ways is the right
one. But tbs next beat thing is to believe
it so, and to waste no time in thinking of
wnat might have resulted had he actsd
differently, tt is very unfortunate for a
man or women to come to the conclusion
that they are just as liable to go wrong
as right, tt causes one to be distrustful
of self, and, producing the beilef in the
mind that he Is going to blander, may
really make him doso. * *
(From our Regular Correspondent.)
Washington, D. C. Nov. 19,1890.
For some time it has been known in
select circle that Count (I will not use
bis name, but should you hear iu the
near future of a foreign diplomat being
recalled at the request of enr Stale de
partment you may know that it a the
man) bad become engaged to the grea'
heir-es, Miss (I shrink from being
tne first one to expose her, sol will not
use her nsme), and although no forma
announcement had been made, congratu
lations were complacently received by
both parties. About a month or six
weeks ago t he mother of tbe heiress, who
is considerably ahead of her daughter in
the possession of a lot of good hard
horse s*nse, accidently discovered that
the Count was very mnch entangled with
a handsome and thapely billet dancer.
She informed her daughter, and she in
turn informed the Count, who indignant
ly deuied the impeach ment and blustered
it out so well that he convinced his bride,
that was to be, of his innocence.
The old lady, however, was so far from
being convinced that she employed
private deb ctive to secure toe proofs,
which she was certain existed, of the
Coant's pe 1 tidy. The detective, not hav
lng to work from a clue of his own do
vising, had not the slightest difficulty in
running down tne facts It was well
known among the associates of the bat
let girl that her ‘ dear Count,” as she
called bi n, had Informed her of his ap
proachi'ig mar.iaue to an American for
tune, with an encumbrance in the shape
of a rather plain woman, somewhere in
the high thirties; and it is also well
known that the Const had made an en
gigement to meet the ballet girl in dear,
de'ightful, wicked, “Paree,” whither he
was to so on his bridal tour, and that the
ballet Venus was figuring upon countless
diamonds, seal-skin Barques, etc., as soou
as tbe Count came into possession o' the
fortune. Affidavits, tnlngs always troub
lasome to somebody, were procured by
tha detective setting forth ail these
things, and when presented to the heiress
by ber mother, the Count was no longer
”ln it," to use a^slang expression, dine
double dealing were placed before him.
The marriage is off, and the family and
friends of the heiress are bringing all the
social and political influence they can
command to bear upon Mr. B aiue in
ord r to get him to ask the government
which the Count represents here, to re
call him.
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To inventors in the Southern S lates dur
ing the past week. Reported for this
paper by C. A. Snow & Co., Patent At
toineys aid Agents for procuring Pat
ents, Opp. U. S. Patent Office, Washing
ton, D. C:
A. A. Anderson, Somerville, Tenn., car
coupling; G. K. Anderson, Memphis,
Tenn„ type writer; J. O deiknap, Mobile,
Ala., car signal; J. C. Cease, New Or
leans, street car brake; J Clear, Abder-
son vine, Tenn., churn; S. T Ejkew, Su
gar Valley, Ga., harrow; H. T, Farns
worth, Manchester, Va , reversing me
chauism for steam engines; B B. Farri°,
Rocay Ford, Gi, boiler flue header; H G
Hall, Shelby, N. C , manufacturing bands
for splnmg machines; W. J. Henuersoa
Sycamore, Ga., leversiug gear for saw
mi l carriages; J. H. House, W.itOD, N C.,
mechanism (ur operating c urns; J. A.
Lee, Jr., Cnattanooga, Tenn., spring mo
tor; R J. Lemmon, Jr., Mt Airy, Va.,
> suing jack; S. T M. McPherson, R-d
Huff, Va., car coupling; G W. Morris,
R chmond, Vs., boat rtflctlcg dev’ce; P.
H. Ntfflon, Keyser, W. Va., wa ch-hand
remover; G Pettar, Jr., Paducah, Ky,
drum; M. A. Stewart, Crystal Springs,
Miss., leveling instrumeni; M. H. TU-
ghman, Norfolk, Va., baske>; F. A. Um
bach, Athens, Ga., harrow; G. P. Webster,
Lipscomb, Tenn., seed potato cutter; M.
Wneless, N .shville, Tenu.,electric switch;
P. F. White, Western Port, Md., exhaust
mechanism; J. A. Wilson, ChurcuvUle,
Va., stove snelf.
NORWOOD, G».
Editor Sunny South: Our new and
beamirul M. E. church, with its tall
gray spire, which can be seen at a dis
tance, will bi dedicated the fi th Sunday
in this month.
A wide and spacious street has been
recently opened, leading directly by ex
Senator Msssenga e s handsome new
r< sidenca and on which many private
residences are rapidly nearlug comple
tion under contractor Norton.
Tile members of the Y. M C. A. ten
dered a social tea to their lady friends on
Monday evening, which was an eojoya
o e affair. Tue hall was abuzu with the
suit light shed from mauy chandeliers.
The lame was tastefully decorated with
autumn fliwers audtueviacds were de
ilcious.
Tue health of our to vnspeople is very
good; no sickness wltn the exception of
our pastor’s son, Chaney, who is very
low with fever.
Our farmers bo st of an abundance of
sweet potatoes, but they are not keeping
well.
A chicken disease seems to be pre
v. i ing throughout the country. Tuelr
ceads swell, and are covered with sores,
which soon lorm a dry scab. We offer
recipe to your readers which proved very
effective with several that we tried it on:
Equai parts of sweet oil and spirits tar
peulint-; anoii.t their heads, and it will
cure them.
We heard of a man once whose friends
had tried every way imaginable to
creak him from drinking, and failed.
He wonld have his dram; finally, they
took him, duri; g one of his sprees, ann,
while he was stupid from the effects of
wnisky, burled him, leaving his head
out Stationing a friend near by, when
ne became conscious of his surroundings
be looked about ai d a9ked, “WUere am
IT” • You are d-.ad ’ nls friend replied.
“And wUo are yonT”
•‘1 am dead, too,” his friend said.
“Well,” said the man in the grave, “ac
you are better acquainted around here
than I am, I wlsu yon would get me
drink!” Leona.
WHITE SPRINGS, FLA-
Mr. J. E Reynolds and Mits E.
Avriett were married at the residence of
the bride's father November 18, at 7.30 a.
m., Rav. Dr. Hinton officiating.
Tbe happy coup e were attended by Mr.
W. E. McGill and Miss Estelle Avrictt,
Mr. Wm D.caty and Mlsa Emma Har
dee, Mr. I. W. Martin and Miss Mollle
Cone, Mr. K P. Wright and M ss Ra
ineile Nicholson, Mr. W. M. McIntosh
and Mis- JuliaS.uita. Dr. L. W. Acderson
and Miss Lizzie Thomas.
The ceremony was under a hene-shoe
of white roves. Tne ioveiy decorations
and exquisite music were evidences of
the skin of Miss Gisbon and Miss Poole,
while the perfect accord of the large
party waa due to the fivneas ot Messis
Nat Ada ns and J. W. Bracken for (lie
places of ushers. . f
widely 8catteK , 5?ffenifi r v^SS‘?netSff this
occasion bore witness to tbe high esi.ee-a
in which tbis couple are held.
Mr. Reynolds is the popular agent of
the Southern Express Company at Too-
masviile; hil bride is a lady wbo is sin
gularly endowed with the qualities that
form ‘ a perfect woman nooiy planned.”
Owing to the early hoar of the marriage
an inlormal rtception was held on tbe
evening of the 17th, and an elegant sap
per was served.
Mr. and Mrs. Aviiett are left only one
thing to regret—that they have not four
or five more giris, and we that we would
be fortunate enough to bs at each recep
tion.
The fntnra will fled Mr. and Mrs. Rey
nolds at Thomasviiie, and the city is to be
congratulated.
May their brightest anticipations ba
realized. May the sea of matrimony con
tain no rougn waves, and so let|ihem
glide beyond the “golden wedding” Into
tbe port of che Blessed. amicus.
‘‘Almost Persuaded”
This is the title or a new novel which
the Minerva Publishing Company of New
York announces, written by Will N. Har-
ben, the young Southerner who wrote
White Marie,” a book that was highly
spoken of by the press last winter. The
new work is entirely unlike White Marie.
LANCASTER, S. C.
Editor Sunny South: I availed nry
self of the opportunity of visiting Colum.
bia, for the purpose of attending onr
State Fair, which cams off on the 10th
Inst., and continued for five days. The
attendance this year was larger than it
had ever been, and on Thursday the
number of people is said to have exceed
ed fifteen thousand, the attraction that
day being the parade and drill of the
cadets of the South Carolina Military
Academy, under the superintendency of
Colonel Asbury Coward.
The poultry exhibition was the best
that I have ever seen, and the display of
The author handles one of the great . _ . _. - . .
questions of the day in a most original | “Oiwe wu indeed floe. The racing was
and unique manner. It is a deep pay- quita interesting.
GOOD-BYE.
It came again tonight, that same sad feeling
Tnat long ago I thought had passed away;
Tha: one old wound thatstiilrvsi.-tsall healing;
That pain not even time can quite allay.
Tae mists cose in, but faintly through them
stealing
I catch au echo which will never die.
For ail tne memories of the past unsealing
Come those two tearful word of hers,
“Good bye!”
A touch of hands, few hasty words in parting—
I see and hear it all again t night;
A host of recollections now upstarting
Bring the whole scene again before my sight’
Good-bye!” the low sweet voice that spoke it
faltered;
The eyes were dimmed that shone so bright
and shy.
The memory of those words has never altered—
Those two sad w his pert d words of hers
“Good-bye!”
On the 31 of December onr popular and
handsome young friend, Le7i Nelson,
Superintendent of Fulton County Elec
tric Line, will appropriate auto himself
one of the brightest and loveliest of At
lanta's daughters, Miss Kathleen Smith.
The ceremony will ba perf >rmad at St.
Luke’s Cathedral and we congratulate
the happy coup e in advance aud wish
them all the good luck that ever falls to
mortals.
Dudley Warner locates the Italy of
America far away on the Pacific coast, in
the lower part of California. There with
a climate whose warmth is tempered by
overflowing breezes, there is a land ex
empt from most of the diseases to which
other countries are subject, tt is also
bleared with a fertile soil, which from
gentle stirring yields in great abundance
the most needful crops. This remote
corner of our national domain wonld
seem from his description to be a most
desirable spot of earth.
For a cantury or more, a great deal of
interest has attached to African travel
lers. What Mungo Park and Bruce had
to tell sounded like chapters from sime
exciting romance. Tha tales of Living
ston and Du Chailln were as thrilling as
any that novelists have woven about
knights and warriors. But Stanley sur
passes th ;m all iu his appeal to the hero-
worshipping Instincts of tbe Engl’sh
speaking races. No scion of royalty has
ever received such admiring attention as
he will receive on our continent.
That the thousands of a city may
spend the hours of night in unbroken
slumber it is necessary that some ban,
dreJs should exercise sleepless vigilance,
These quiet sleepers think little of how
much they owe to the patient watchman-
The same remark may be made in regard
to hundreds of other relations. Hs who
is served enjoys the service of a skilful,
diligent, punctual servant. Bnt he per
haps rarely thinks of the sacrifice of ease
and comfort it rc-q lires to be such a ser
vant.
One accustomed to living amid the
world’s but It r scenes, la apt to think of
the homes that are hidden far away as
spots where it were a severe punishment
to be forced to dwell. But the dwellers
in those homes do not realize that they
are banished from earth's highest joys.
Since it is unavoidable, in the nature of
things, that some must live in remote
spots, a kind law of compensation has
rendered it pleasant to them to do so.
The madding crowd is as repugnant to
some temperaments as is unbroken quiet
to others.
There is no great pleading for mercy,
but the cry for j ustlce grows clamorous.
Class is bringing against class the charge
of in iquitous dealing. Aud those of one
vocation are clamoring against the un
kind deallage of another. Loud com
plaints are being ottered against those
-» - — w. - (1 innosed to
wield tbe power which it gives oppres
sively. Beyond question, tbe world is
full of injustice. Never perhaps in all
history was tnere a time when people so
much needed to be impressed with the
importance of this v.rtue.
Between six and seven thousand books
were published in England last}ear, and
it is said that fully a half of them are
already forgotten. From the vast amount
of fiction a leading Review selected only
nine novels it pronounces valuable
c tntributions to permanent literature.
All this sounds gloomy enough to the
great army of scribblers. It msy be how
ever that many of those who have fallen
short of lasting fame, won the means of
subsistence by what they wrote. One
who considers the matter philosophically
knows that while many may make
money, few can And fame.
What mUht have been! God only knows; we
never
Can draw the curtains from the dim unknown;
And yet aud yet, bffore me rises ever—
But fainter since the shadows deeper grown
Have fallen on my heart and brought it sadness—
A vision of her face the one strong tie
That carries with it somewhat of the gladness
I knew before those words of hers,
“Good-bye!”
Tbe music in my soul can never brighten,-
Tbe miuor chords are all that sound today;
And mournful strains, which nothing seems to
lighten
My life, my soul, my very being sway.
The harmony is incomplete; her lingers
Could touch the chords aud swell the music
high;
Now, in the notes a painful discord lingers,
The sweetest strings were broken thus—
■ Good bye!” * *
chological study worked out with ten
derness and lnstgbt that charm the
reader from tbe beginning of tbe book to
the end. A famous American novelist,
who was "naked to give bis opinion on the
manuscript before aocrptancs, wrote:
“It impresses me more strongly than
anything 1 have read since reading The
Story of an African Farm. In fact 1 can
not keep it out of my thoughts. With
out assuming to be an ‘eminent critic’ I
know there has to be a great deal in a
novel to brand itself on my mind as this
does, for I have read so much fiction.”
The Minerva Publishing Company will
also publish eany in Novemb-r -The De
cline and Fall of the British Empire,” a
book calculated to be much talked about,
tt will b9 published anonymously, but it
is said to be from the pen of a man who
for years has occupied the foremost place
among the public men of England.
For the Sonny South.
IMPERFECTION.
No gem but that a bleu? ish small doth mar;
Mr. Walter Moore, of Yorkville, the
President of the Carolina Buggy Com
8 any, took the first premium lor the
nest and best made vehicles.
Tne display of chrysanthemums was
beautiful and the music flue. The lltu
minatlons at night, on Main street, ex
cited the ad alratlon of au. '
• te pleasure of meeting the Rsv. prosp' ctor oreilvn Under, and I took him
A. W. Moore, of the Centenary, and bis i n to the Inneroffic’, where he quietly sat
l a “ i l y ra’ra^ e ^ re * L r l ? a * *8** j down and began:
here tnat tne Centenary is worthy of tne j *‘i am no hand to beat aronnd the bash,
1 think ail woo : but believe in coming straight to the
do not taae this valuable paper would do tmini»»
well to suDccrlbe for it lmmeolatelv
Os.dCi AAsis a ur kv V.WW.J,
A Golden Chance.
We had got through to Silver City by
stage without adventure, says a New
York Sun man, and perhaps I had more
reason than any other passenger to fell
citato myself on the fact, as I was carry
ing $8 000 in greenbacks for a friend who
was going into business. Toe day a't sr
arriving a strange man came to the office
and asked if he c mid have a te w minutes’
private conversation
Some scientists, or those wbo pass for
such, have propounded tha theory that
onr planet is growing smaller, by reason
of the gradual shrinkage of its parts.
This may be true, or it may not. But it
is unquestionable that our globe grows
smaller year by year to many of its In
habitants. Steam and electricity have
so much lessened time and space that
they who were once widely removed are
now near together, tt has not been so
long since an occnrrenoe in Calcutta
was fresh news in London three months
later. Now, should a mutiny break out
in India, it would be known all over
Europe in less than an hoar.
We wonld all like to recline in palace
cars and be drawn along over smooth
roads without even the exertion of will
ing. We would like to have knowledge
imparted to us without our making the
effort to take it in, and we wonld enjoy
having euteiiigence and culture without
paying tne price exacted for these attain
ments. Not many people are living who
would not at times gladly escape the re
sponsibilities of life. In selfishness we
seek to Impose upon others the burden
of onr existence so far as we are able. We
believe strong ;y that others should be
altruists for ns; we are slow to admit our
duty to be altruists lor them.
Send $1 00 to Mrs. A. W. Moore, Florence,
S. C , and profit by the reading of tnls
excellent paper.
I was also glad to meet the Rgy. A H.
Lester, one ot the finest scholars in the
i 000 with you
point. :
•WellT”
“WeU, you brought in
yesterday.”
Suppose I did?”
“I knew you were coming, and for
three days I was posted to intercept you.
IS SS* "•IV
House, whlon Is considered tbe finest iu
Au enormously improved morality Is
named by some one as a probable feature
of the future. Morality will have to im
prove at a wonderfully rapid pace in
order to render possible the state of
kTioVteTuxe a ! wMch Mr. Edward Bellamy has
Piloted for the year two thousand. We
are by no means sanguine about this
accelerated improvement. The purest re
ligion that the world has ever xnown,
sanctioned by the highest authority and
exemplified by an Illustrious exemplary,
has in the nineteen centuries of its his'
tory fallen much short of making all men
good. What now factor oan ba brought
in that will do more in one century than
Christianity has done In nineteei,?
Toat’s woat I’m coming to. My infer-
tho Month huin.! —:—*“ nal burro stumbled with meats bad
iiMtam liihta ind ?he comp eted, and p u oe and pitched me off, and for a whole
i mar; electric lignts ana tne strte- gars add s»i hariiv moved a rod T m an
The queenliest rose win prick you with its ( J to i? 1 ® **£»"*£ B * n «!'convenLpca and lame now that I can scarcely ^et
thorns;
The gentlest strain that greets the ear afar
Some faint discord its sweet perfection scorns!
The warmest heart one faithless spot conceals;
The firmest friendships by a word are riven;
The purest nature some SI<1 flaw reveals—
There is no perfect thing tnis side of heaven.
Olive Kobateau.
aoout’
WellT”
of tne city. Tne Penitentiary, the Lu
natic Asylum, and the Agricultural hail
all Stein to Oe in good condition. The 1 “Tn- kernel n'f.his thimrie insi hm
Methodist Female College, , under the You ^ my meat fafr* squ2S:
patronage! «°J!e Stow The “ e ' g “ thou ’ a 3 9 ^
University Is eucoaraglng.
if you desire a couvt ment and a deeira
hie boarding Diace, for a length of time
stop with Mrs. Wlntmop Williams, ou
Plain street, one squuro irom Mam
my own pocket. O ting to circnmstan-
cts beyond my control yoa pulled
through. It was a stroke or luck. I lost
my animal and both my revolvers, and
am hurt besides. Are you honorable
enough to give me a per cent, on that
money to go into business again? ‘
A wife was complaining bitterly of her
crnel husband. A friend advised her
re “AhJ Uiat will not do, fer I have tried ' arfd^ome^ianxeta* with°*t and went^sff ^
«d B5MS£5» w * ter °“ ““ h “ d j SSftSSm tne esteemwf SoutatW I though •mMOrjimMod by intelligence end
Individuals from every intellectual
grade contribute to the liat of suicides
The strongest minded and cleanest
headed man has in himself the possibility
of self-destruction, while the imbecile
frequently hnrries upon this doom. It Is
believed by many that e tendency in this
direction runs in families; but we do not
know that this belief is well baaed. Sta
tistics wonld establish this theory and as
dearly prove the opposite. But the son
of one who has committed suicide must
not suppose tt a decree of fate that he
shall go in the same way. Though there