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THE SUNNY SOUTH. ATLANTA GA., SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 29,1890.
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H, MY COUNTRY! IT
makes me ead and tired
to get bo many letters
asking for help and ad
vice. Help that I cannot
render—advice that I can
not give. The letters are
always welcome, for it is
good for a man to know
of human trouble and to
lend his sympathy. It Is
better to go to the house
of mourning than the
house of feasting, but
still these letters make
me feel helpless. They make me to wish
that I was rich and wise so that I oould
respond to every call of misery. I wish
that some great millionaire would die
and leave his money to me—to me in
trust for misery. Sometimes when I look
aronnd upon my cheerful home It alarms
me for fear I have not had my share of
t ouble and it will come yet before I die.
and fall upon my children. They are not
strong yet, and trouble would go hard
with them. The child never gets strong
while the parents live. If the old folks
have nothing else to give they can give
comfort and sympathy and advioe, and
when they die a prop is gone.
But the girls—the sirls—what is to be
come of the girlsT That is the question
that is uppermost in the minds of thou
sands of parents. It did not use to be so
half a century ago, and what is the mat
ter now? Of oourse the old-time parents
felt anxiety about their daughters, espe
dally about seeing them happily mar
rled and settled down, but as a general
rule they did marry and the youogoou
pie went to work prudently and sensibly
end began to raise children and chick
ens, and with a little nelp were comfort
able and prosperous. There was no great
hurrah about how or where the girls
should be educated. The old Held school
was good enough if the teach- r was a
good one. Ricnard Maioolm Jonnston
taught c ne uf them for twenty years, and
a college didn’t turn out any batter schol
ars than be did.
But what is the matter with the girlsT
The New York World is chock full of let
ters about them— whole pages of letters
that tell how they snomd be educated
and what they should do for a living. It
seems that an ola gentleman wrote the
first letter and bitterly denounced the
prevailing methods and the modern
oolleges, and ne accusea woman of in vad
manly^feiiflfff^tfifs’ilft^tGat she Ixfca bet
ter stay at* home and raise the dhildren
and let science aid art and politic i and
temperance alone, ills letter was pan
gent and sarcastic and has aroused the
fair sex, and cow we are having it hot
and spted on both sides. Such notable
women as Ena Wheeler Wilcox and
Marlon Hariand and Mrs. Aus.in and
Mary E. Bryan and Mrs. Henry Ward
Beecher have entered the field and givea
their opinions in a vigorous and spicy
way. A eoore or two of other writers,
male and female, have responded, and
the cry is still they come, and nothing
is settled. It is hard to tell who is
ahead, for some of the women are on the
old gentleman s side, and some are half
and half, and some say he is a lunatic and
ought to be arrested. The old gentle
man has no patience with the shorts aired,
pushing, brainy aomen, but wants wo
man t> be lovabie and retiring rather
than cold, defiant and self supporting.
He wants them to stay a home an 1 make
it comfortable and inviting, and expresses
his disgust at tne wnoie tribe wno are
everlastingly writing novels and dieamy
analytical stories. Woman, he says, was
created to be a mother ana to nurse chil
dren, and that is her highest and best
vocation.
Some of the women go for him like
yellow jackets coming out of a hole in
theground, and tuey sting him rearrnily.
1 think that ne has taken to toe bashes
to get rid of them, for he has not yet pat
in a rejoinder. Tuey say tnat thousands
of their sex are not supported by the men
and they are compelled to go ont in the
busy world and support themselves.
They woald willingly marry if the right
sort of a man was to come along and ask
them, bat he don't come, and ont few of
the men are fitten to marry, and not
fitten to get fitten, ana those who are,
are getting scarcer and scarcer as tne
years roll on, and so tne girls prefer to
toil rather than oe pensioners upon the
bounty of ttelr kinfolks.
W ell, It dots look like the old man Is
right, and the women are right t m>. He
is looking backward at the good old
times, and they are contending with the
hsri fees of toe present. Half a century
ago who would tave thought of seeing a
nice yoang girl In a store or coanting
room, or a printing office, or a theater,
or singing In a churcn for pay. It would
not have been tolerated. They were
allowed to tetch the village school or
keep a milliner's shop, and that was
about all. Housework—domestic work—
was Uuir employment until they got
married, and men they had plenty to do
afterwards. Mrs. Arp did, I know. Her
good motner tan ht her to sew and to
knit and make cake and play upon the
piano and ride norseoack, and she can
now work a neater buttonhole than any
child she has got, and the little dresses
she made ana nemmed, and hemstltcned
and plaited, were marvels of beauty.
From sixteen to forty five no woman
ever made m >re little garments or knit
more stockings or was mo©, diligent In
household business. And yet she has
not buffered, nor felt oppressed, nor
lamented her lot Tae maternal pressure
was constantly up an uer, and she had no
time to lament—**o time tor dreams and
reveries or utopian desires. Waen she
was weary a ita work sue rested by read
ing—reading books tnat were fit to be
read, and she never forgets them Stic
is the standard of the household upon all
literature, from Milton to Mother Goose.
That's the kina of a woman she is, and
never went to college.
Mrs. Ella Wheeler WlJcox begins her
letter on toe old man s side of tne ques
tion, and s*ye: • H-s letter contains a
greater moral lesson for the young gene
ration than is preached in a thousand
pulpits in a thousand Sundays." She
blames the mothers and teaouers for en
couraging the girls to showy accom-
E lithmeuts and public displays. She
lames the young men for paying more
attention to showy and entertaining girls
than to practical ano industrious ones.
The young men want their sweethearts
to be showy and tnelr wives domestic,
and as the average girl cannot be both
she does not marry, or if she uoes a sepa
ration ora civorcrj s><<n follows.
Oar own seosiole Mrs. Bryan says the
old man Is both right and wrong. She
defends the healtu and mutcie of tue
women pf today, and says they under
stand the laws of Health better than did
their mothers or grand mo chers ”
t eir atays eut in a hnrry to give _
breath. But Mrs. Bryan doea lomant the
decay of what sue calls the maternal In
•tinct among the educated elssase. She
says that but few children are born to
them, and the number la constantly
growing less. The time was when it wi ■
a reflection upon a woman if she did not
bear children, bat not now. The society
woman of today doea not want them.
Taey are a trouble and are in the way cf
.her seifis nees, for m-ttherhood meats
self sacrifice. Mrs Bryan hints that
potslbly this Is intended to solve the
prtblem of overproduction and excessive
population in the future, and that
maybe if fewer ehlldren are born, they
woald b i belter ones. The mouse in the
fable taunted the lioness with having so
w offsprings and the lioness retorted,
‘ B it they in lions.” ....
Well, I don't believe In that. I don’t
believe in anything that is not according
to nature. I never saw a right healthy
mature woman who was not a mother.
1 a aver saw a good one who did not wish
t s no.
Mrs Austin writes most tenderly and
tiurhful.'y about that, and asserts tnat
maternity tilings back youth and keeps
It Iroeh sad buoyant. She says: “I was
bui n over seventy years ago, and now in
ruj s> rene old sga I look upon my
e il dren and grandchildren os a work
man loons upon a piece of work with
« htch he is satisfied. My children ore
hi i 1 my babies, and tnelr litttle ones
bring back my youth ”
That s bo I know it is so. My wife
has flourished on it. She has gone to
see a s.ck one now What woald we be
without them. Why, 1 wouldn’t enjoy
my last illness if there were no children
around to love me and weep when I was
gone.
Bit old Mrs. Beecher writes a cold,
hard letter, too hard, I think, and tells
how she had to do the woohing and iron
ing, and make cheese ane cook, and sew
and darn and plait straw, and was never
idle except when asleep and she thinks
the girls should be ratted tnat way. All
that is well enough If she was happy, and
she says she was, but she declares tnat If
she hod a dozen gins sue would make
them do the same thing, and would never
mention marriage to them, sod if they
did not marry she woald send them ont
to service—yes, hire them out to work in
somebody's kitchen. May the good Lord
foruio! That is what I oaii poverty—
h rd, pinching poverty, when an educatt d
S irl has to come to that. She say»: “Our
ttle girl hod a beautiful shock of golden
hair tnat carled in ringlets, and one day
a lady called and said to the child: ’What
beautiful hair yon cave got—yon are so
pretty I want a kiss.’ In the afternoon
1 saw my child standing on a chair look
ing at herseli In the mirror. Her father
saw her too and lifted her down and told
me to cat off those earls. I did so and
tne little lamb was sheared.”
If I had ever done the like of that to
my child I woulden’t own It now. Bices
God, I never did nor had any desire to.
That child’s maker gave her that beauti
ful hair as an ornament, and it was no
more barm to be proud of It than to be
proad of her beaatifel eyes. The mother
might, with as much reason, make her go
baiefoote 1 to crash her pride. The old
lac y doses her letter with "Cat off the
cans, close the piano and the fiddle box,
and give the girls plenty of worx to do.”
This pate me to thinking either Mrs.
Beeoheris shard woman or I am a very
soft man, for I shall not cat oil the carls
nor doss the piano or fiddle box. They
ora alia pleasure and a treasure at any
hoase.
Bat In all these letters there are good
thoughts and (bod for reflection. The
gist of the whole matter la that every
respectable family ought to do the very
best they can for the girls, and I reckon
they will. Good example and good pre
cepts and a happy ttrealdi ore the best
safeguards. If the gins do not have
these at home there Is no security abroad.
Bill Abf.
Of Legislative Giants.
KNOWN AS BRITAIN’S PARLIAMENT
AND THE AMERICAN CONGRESS.
CANT RIDE FREE.
Holders of Original or Present E.
T., V. & G. Stocks Must Pay.
A great many years ago, before the
war, the stockholders of the East Ten
nessee & Virginia Rtllroadj Company
(the road then extending from K iox vllle
to Bristol) passed a ievolution that a'l
stockdolders, with their families, might
ride free to and from their homes on the
day set apart for the annu il meeting of
stockholders. When the E <st Tennessee
& GaoW-vj *1 Ir-Avd was aoscrbsvl and be
came a paruWmenm reauessee <k vir-
« lnla. the c^mpm/a na ne was changed
rom EastVennesaee& Virginia RUlroad
Cimpauy to East Tennessee, Virginia &
Georgi i Raliraad Company, and this reso
lution permitting stockholders to ride
free to and f>om aunaal meetings re
mained still In fores. It was still the
Eist Tennessee & Virginia Railroad
C impany with its name changed to East
Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad
Company.
When the properly of the E ist Tennes •
see, Virginia & Georgia Railroad Com
pany was sold uuder mor gage, it passed
into the hands of a new and entirely <Uf-
ferent corporation, chartered In 18S6,
though its name was only very slightly
different from the former or old com
piny. The new corporation was called
tae East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia
Railway Company, bat It was and is just
os distinct as if it had been called the
Tennessee & Southwestern Riilroad
Company.
The new company issued its own stock,
and was in no manner bound for the
stock of the former company, nor for any
of its contracts, promises or resolutions.
The annual meeting of the new or
present company called for yesterday
(November 19;») led certain stockholders
in the old or former company ones own
ing the road, to enj >y (as they errone
ously supposed) tnelr privilege of a free
rid<-; bat as tney were not stockholders
in tne new or present company, and as
there was no such resolution by the
stockholders of the new company, even
had they been stockholders in tne new
compaoy, they, of coarse, had to pay
fare, and the r free ride, as they sup
posed, turned to ashes upon their lips
This unexpected tarn surprised, and
generally irritated them, bat the whole
matter was satisfactorily and amicably
adjusted, by refunding them their fares
after they reached Knoxville and giving
them their transportation back home
and telling them to “go, and sin no
more.”
Mora!: Don’t try to ride to a stock
holders’ meeting on a certificate of stock,
unless yon have the money in your
pocket to pay yoar fare. You will cer
tainly have it to do, and in the future It
won’t be returned — Kaox 'ills Journal.
Bow the Sessions of These Great Law
Making Itodics Are Opened—Some Not
abilities Who Will Be Seen No More nt
Washington.
Having seen the congress of the United
States open its session and enjoyed many
honrs in listening to its debates 1 naturally
wanted to “take a go” at the house of com
mons while in London before the recent
antnmn adjournment, but that thing
“cawn’t be done any day, don't you know.”
MR. BARNES, OF GEORGIA.
In fact more negotiation is required to get
a look at the commons in session than to
see President Harrison. The important
distinction between the capitol buildings
of the two nations is this: in Washington
the halls of congress and their galleries
make up most of the interior; at West
minster palace the hall is lint an insignifi
cant room in the great building, while the
gallery is no larger in proportion than
that set apart for negroes in old southern
churches.
Nor was it easy to find Americans who
knew much aliout the commons, for it is
a singular fact t hat of the many thousand
Yankees in London during “the season”
scarcely one in a hundred gets a peep at
the house. To the question, however, as
to what struck them most, as different
from the congressional proceedings, all
who had looked at parliament answered:
“The habit of cross-examining the cab
inet officials. There would have to be
quite a revolution at Washington before
our fellows would stand up and answer
any question any mem Ik-r of the opposition
party chose to ask.”
As a matter of fact, the ministers do not
answer all the questions; they are at liber
ty to “reserve a reply when important in
terests might be jeopardized by premature
publication.” And when they do answer
their words are often so ordered that an
American has to study them with the aid
of a world’s atlas, a political dictionary
and a set of the “blue books” to get. at the
exact meaning. It is amusing to note,
however, that human nature breaks out in
much the same way at Westminster and
Washington. The members in the minor
ity usually ask in such a way as to imply
that the whole concern is going to the
“demnition bowwows,” and the minister’s
answer contains a marked implication
that the British empire is now in the high
est state of prosperity, and would be in
much better case were it not for the pesky
opposition.
The practice of the monarch’s appearing
in person is gradually falling into disuse,
and so the approachiug session will doubt-
It Didn’t Comfort Him Any.
The line in whloh consolations ran is
sometimes nniqne enough, says the Bos
ton Courier, and the want or tact which
soma folks display Is as conspicuous as
is the ease and grace with watch some
glide out of an awaward situation.
A nice old lady recently related at
much length how completely heart-bro
ken an old man was at the death of his
only daughter. [
He is completely prostrated,” she!
said. *‘Hs can not bear to be separated
from her, and he stye that there was
never anybody so afficted before in the ,
world ”
But he is so old,” her hearer respond |
ed, “mat be can not p isslbiy live ling I
should think ne woald thiak how
soon he will go to her.
“Yts,” respond-d the other. “That is
just what 1 said to mm the day of the
funeral, and I thought he was offended.
At any rate It didn’t 8*em to comfort
him any.”
MR. CHEADLE, OF INDIANA,
less be opened as many preceding ones
have been, by the lords commissioners—
that is, by the lord chancellor and five other
members of tlie privy council. Exactly at
2 o’clock on the day set Lord Chancellor
HaLsbury takes his seat “on the woolsack,”
and the lords present also take seats and
remain silent for about one solemn min
ute. Then the lord chancellor walks into
a side room and soon reappears at the head
of the commission—all the six in gorgeous
scarlet and ermine robes. They range
themselves on a bench in front of the
throne, and the chancellor commands the
“gentleman usher of t he black rod” (Hon.
Sir James K. Drummond, G. C. B., at pres
ent) to announce to her majesty’s com
mons that the lords await. *
The commons meanwhile are having a
good deal of fun. The speaker simply calls
them to order, and then they fall to talk
ing and laughing, inquiring :is to each
other’s health during the recess and “chaf
fing” the late comers. The door toward
the lords opens, the cry of “Black Rod” is
raised and there is silence. He bows three
times and delivers his message, then fol
lows the speaker out, and all the members
inarch after to the hall of the lords. Of
late years there has been much relaxation,
and few of the commoners listen to the
proceedings. The royal commission is read
by the clerks, each of the six commission
ers rising and bowing as his name is men
tioned. Then Lord Halsbury reads the
queen’s speech, but no one hears it. The
members will soon have the papers con
taining it, and so they, especially the com
moners, put m tlie time socially. They ore
then dismissed, and go to their own hall
by “route step and arms at will,” some
times getting up a pretty good imitation
of a college “rush.”
Snch in brief is the account given by all
Americans who have witnessed the cere
mony of late years. Not only is there a
natural tendency to relax the old strict
ness, but many of the younger radicals
make it a point to be boisterous. The
United States parliament (which was
named congress only by a sort of accident)
never was very formal, and hence in Amer
ican histories one finds none of those florid
and studied descriptions of its beginnings
so common in English histories. With
but three exceptions party majorities have
always been so large that speakers were
chosen with no struggle in the house.
For the Sunny South.
BEKBITT, I WAIL.
A lonely reach
Of senrened sand,
Two lovers staudiug
11 snd in hand.
The hour is uigh
When tney must part.
A b is-iful p.in
Is in her ueart.
He turns to go
A dun, cold sound—
Tne maid lies deal
Upon tae ground!
Howard J. Hfnich.
EXCURSION TO A8HVILLE, N. C.
Southern Interstate Immigration Can.
vention.
Excursion tickets will be sold by all
agents of the East Tennessee, Virginia
& Georgia R til way system to Asheville,
X C , December 13,14.15 aid 16, at one
_ = Tnat fare for tae round trip, to paroles to at-
their rooms are better ventilated, and tend the Southern Interstate Immigra
they have quit lacing their waists and tion Convention, to be held December 17,
cramping tnelr limos and wearing IS and 19 Tickets good to return until
French heel slippers it was notuacorn - December 24 c a, 1893 E/ery Southern
mon In the old gentleman's time for a I citizen should be deeply Interested in
lady to faint in the ballroom and have | this Convention. I
come a man or great Importance,and once he
was a bigger man than the president. This
was in December, 1855, and John W. Forney
was the man. The house began balloting on
the 8d of December and kept it up till Feb.
1,1856; then despairing of giving any can
didate a majority of all the votes cast, it
agreed to allow a plurality to elect, and
on Feb. 2 Nathaniel P. Banks became
speaker. It is an odd coufcidence that
after having been a general and governor
of Massachusetts he returned to congress
for a time and at the late election was de-
I feated by Sherman Hoar.
The senate being in theory a continuing
body, and having the vice president for its
presiding officer, meets very much as if
it had adjourned but the previous day.
Nevertheless the opening of a new con-
I gress excites general attention, and the
galleries are usually crowded, as they are
also at the opening of the second session.
At this the speaker usually says a few nice
things about his joy at meeting the mem
bers again, and it is presumed that nothing
has lately happened to cause Mr. Heed to
omit that cheerful courtesy this year.
At the opening of the next congn
however, there will lie fun. I here always
is some fun over the proceedings of the
new memliers, and the house of the I ifty-
second congress will certainly be ’new.
Entire state delegations will consist of new
men, ami there will ho nearly 100 members
who have never served in any parliament
ary boily, not even a state legislature. Of
those new to congress 120 will lie Demo
crats and 30 Republicans—as near as can
now be determined—with a somewhat un
certain quantity of Farmers’ Alliance men.
That nearly all the prominent Republicans
of preceding congresses were “left” is of
common knowledge, but it is a little sur
prising to observe that many prominent
Democrats are in the same fix.
Georgia, for instance, returns but four
old memliers, while Kentucky sends nine;
Indiana returns some old _IJ?niocrats, but
of Republicans not one, and so on “all
aronnd the board.” The hall of the house
will look queer to old visitors. Among
the most noted absentees will lie Messrs.
McKinley, Butterworth, Cannon. McAdoo,
Lawler, Grosvenor, Kennedy— But the list
is too long. Some who had not bad
time to acquire leadership will be greatly
missed, among them the gigantic Barnes,
of Georgia. He is big intellectually and
physically, hut was turned down in the
general overturn. He is the biggest man
in the present house and- amosg the very
best lawyers.
Mr. Cheadle, of Indiana, has been con
spicuous for several reasons, and stands as
a remarkable example of how much talent
lies concealed about the country till some
exigency calls it out. Ho ran the usual
course of tiie ambitious country boy, first
as teacher in a district school, then law
student and for sometime editor of a ram
shackle country newspaper, the financial
condition of which was matter for laugh
ter and tears. The coming of a circus
show, with its usual $30 bill fora “mam
moth ad," was a white day with him then.
I speak feelingly on this subject, for Mr.
Cheadle sold the concern to me. He went
to Frankfort, Clinton county, got a better
show, and at the end of a long party dis
sension was nominated as a compromise
candidate, thus becoming the member from
the Ninth Indiana district. He served his
constituency admirably, and, having been
a private for three years in the Seventy-
first Indiana, he naturally stood forth as a
“soldier champion.” According to north
ern Indiana custom (and not a very good
enstom) he was given but two terms.
Gen. Charles Henry Grosvenor, of the
Fifteenth Ohio district, is also a soldier’s
champion, and has had an extremely varied
experience as lawyer, soldier and speaker
of the Ohio house; nevertheless, at the end
of his third congress he goes out. Texas
dispenses in the near future with Hon.
William Harrison Martin, of the First dis
trict, and they do say that but for the
lucky accident of a bell boy with a sharp
nose the world would have dispensed ^ith
him, for Mr. Martin is the man who “blew
out the gas.” The facts are not fully
ODR QUIZ COLUMN
MR. MARTIN, OF TEXAS,
known, for Maj. Martin threatened death
to any man who told them, and actually
assaulted one reporter.
“Billy” Mason, of Chicago, will also be
missed, and “Little Giant” McCarthy,
“Sawmill” Rogers, of Arkansas, and Mc-
Clammy, of North Carolina; in fact, when
one looks over the list of the bright and
witty, the old familiar and the solid, the
comical and the slightly ridiculous ones
who will not come back, he is compelled to
wonder who the remarkable and eccentric
characters in the next congress will be.
J. H. Beadle.
A Station blaster and the Nobles.
An amusing incident occurred on a south
ern railroad in England in connection with
the Duke of Norfolk and the Marquis of
Bute. The duke and marquis were fellow
travelers, and when the train stopped at
station a companion joined them in
the person of „he station master himself,
who was going for a jaunt some twenty
miles further up the line. The duke and
the station master, wiio were both dimin
utive men, and therefore fond of talk, soon
got into conversation, while the marquis,
a tall, robust man, was inclined to be re
ticent, until he found his friend, the duke,
np to his ears in conversation, when he
himself joined, addressing most of his con
versation to the stranger.
At length the train arrived at B , and
the marquis bid a hearty farewell to the
dnjre, and, with a kindly adieu and a shake
of the hand from the stranger, t he marquis
quitted the carriage, while his dispatch box
and wraps were secured, to the surprise of
the station master, by a tall, powdered foot
man, and the train soon glided again out of
the station. Silence was not, however, long
maintained,the station master breaking out
with the question, “I wonder who that
swell was?” “That,” replied his compan
ion, “was the Marquis of Bute.” The an
swer seemed to dumfound the stationmas-
ter fc ■ a time, but presently he exclaimed:
“So that were a marquis, was he? Well,
now, I do think it kind of him to talk to
two such suobby little chaps as us, don’t
you?”
The duke nodded his assent and had a
good laugh. When the train drew up again
his grace affably bid his companion “Good-
by,” and, on alighting on the platform, was
received with the greatest deference by a
throng of Jesuit priests, this incident again
setting the station master the task of in
quiry, who inquisitively asked a brother offi
cial “Who that little bloke was.” “That,”
replied t he guard, “is the Duke of Norfolk.”
The station master, after this, declared he
would never travel first class again as long
as he lived.—London Society.
MR. GROSVENOR. OF OHIO.
though there is generally a hot time in tha
party caucus. J
The clerk of the preceding house of
representatives makes up the list of tha
new house, calls the same to order at noon
On the first Monday in December, calls the
loll and presides till the house chooses a
speaker, and then retires without cere
mony to private life. Three times, how- (
ever, in American history the clerk has b»
Signor Crispi, the Italian prime minister,
is a man of 70, tall, thin and surprisingly
active for one of his years. He laughs in
cessantly. llis mouth is large, his eyes are
piercing and he is completely bald. He
wears jeweled rings on every finger and
bus Shirt studs are diamonds.
The banana plant lias been found to con
tain a greater quantity of pure fiber than
any of the other numerous vegetable prod
ucts used for paper rnakiug.
An alloy that expands in cooling and is
suitable for repairing cracks in cast iron is
mad- with nine p-*~'s of lead, two of anti
mony and one of bismuth.
One Saturday night a canvass of the
box offices of the New York theatres re
vealed the fact that New Yorkers spent for
amusement that sight over $31,000.
LABOR OMNIA VINCIT.
Litt’eGir’: Tell me what * Labor omnia
v’nelt” means and also what language it
It is Latin, and means labor oonqu era
everything.
TO CLEAN OLD BRASS.
Mary Wltherineton, Ala.: Tell me how
to clean old brass?
Poor strong ammonia on it and scrub
with a scrubbing brash. Then rinse In
clear water.
Sweet Vlole’: Please tell me where
one can obtain all kinds of w'gs and fu se
hail?
See the advertisement in the Sunny
South of John Medina, Boston. Hi is
the btstin the U. S.
CARE OF MATTING.
Williford: 1 find that a broom rains
my nice matting. Hew s ail I clean It?
A long handle bristle brash snch os la
used for oilcloths is the nicest and will
remove the dust beet. Sprinkle bran or
coar; e Indian meal over it, then with the
long handle mop rub tbe train well over
the matting—then leave It nntil dry and
brush the bran off. The nsool waj© to
clean matting Is to simply wipe it off
with a damp cloth wet in salt and water.
ANIMAL FITS.
John Wickham, Detroit. Tenn.: I have
a horse subject to fits. Can yon tell mo
what to do tor him?
Poor cola water over the head with a
steady stream; thiow a blanket over the
body, and if the animal straggles, protect
it with straw, litter or blankets from
Injury. Great care should be exercised
to avoid personal injury. The file ore
generally caused by internal Irritation
of the brain or nervioas system or of the
stomach, depressed with Indigestible
food.
CHEESE STRAWS.
Housekeeper, Madison, Fla.: I see a
great deal abant caeese straws being
served at dinings. Tell me how to make
them.
Roll a rich crast very thin. Sprinkle
one half of it with dry grated oheese, a
little salt and cayenne pepper. Fold the
other half on this. Pat and roll thin
again. Pat on more cheese and season,
fold, and after rolling oat cat in strips
four inches long and three quarters wide.
Bake till light brown, pile ap cob fashion
on a napln and serve with lettuce.
TO PRODUCE SALT.
John Williams, Kansas: Tell me how
■alt Is produced?
Salt Is at present produced by means of
open vats or pans, varying in aize ac
cording to circumstances and tbe quality
of the salt to be produced. Its manu
facture necessarily requires a large area
and an enormous consumption of fuel to
maintain the salt at the boiling point In
order to secure the precipitation of the
salt more or less rapidly, ac wording to
the quality required.
TO RID THE HE ID OF DANDRUFF.
Mollie Seay, L3banon, Tenn.: Tell me
how to rid my head of dandruff?
Pat half an ounce of flowers of sulphur
into ten ounces of distilled water for at
least fifteen hoars, shaking constantly,
and at the end of that time p lur off the
water, straining until quite dear. Add
to this five ounces of elder-flower water,
and two drachms of a good toilet vine
gar, shaking all the time, and bottle for
use. App’y it to the skin of the head
three or four times weekly with a piece
of sponge or flannel.
v PINEAPPLE FABRIC.
Wilson Dealing, N. Y.: Is the fabric of
the pineapple used for any good purpose,
like jute?
Yes—The pineapple has long been cul
tivated for its fiber in India, while it Is
manufactured Into a cloth in the Philip
pines and woven into linen In Chin*.
But more recent investigations show that
when subjected to the prooess of bleach
ing the fiber becomes pliant enough to
be spun like fl »x and by the same ma
chinery. The fiber can be sublivided
into threads of such delicacy os to be
barely perceptible and yet sufficiently
strong for any purpose.
Foa the Sueur Pouts.
TO HIM O. K.
I pray of thro, sweet bright-eyed maid,
Forgivet eea for my c nataot eyeing;
If culprit's due was to be paid.
I’d change it, tho’ it might be dying.
I’ve alnost died for one like thee—
Yes. you're an image of her. quite,
Who captured and enraptured me.
And crashed my honest heart outright.
I live to love again, thank God
And have the taste a id judgment, too,
As when the city streets 11 rod
With fairy creature just like you!
'Tie strange, indeed but very true,
Your style and hers are juit the same
(That style possessed by very few)
Both have a preity schoe'girl name.
Your hair, your mouth, your 'ovely eyes,
They ail brii g hack bright sunny days:
In fact, you * re her exact size—
I fancy you possess her ways.
This is no mean compliment, miss:
I fain would speslr I- on my oatn.
If you will writj ‘ O. K.” on this
I’ll lore but one and ’wait your growth.
Na . tf. Dun.
EXCURSION TO THE DAYTON,
TENN., LAND SALE.
For the grand sale of lots and lands at
Dayton. Tenn., D-< ember 3, 4 and 5,
sg -nts E. T., V. & G. Ry. system will sell
tick- ts to D*yto i and return at low ex
cursion rat- s g >od ten days from date of
sale. Dayton is now a cltv o’ 5 000 situ
ated on the Qu-en & Crescent R ,ute. In
the beautiful Tennessee Valley, snr-
ronnded by an Inexhaustible supply of
coal, iron and timber Two ’arnoces are
now in fall blast, and behind in orders.
Two fl <ar mills, pump works, planing
mill, briok works, and other Industries.
Ample accommodation at the hotels tor
all who come. Full particulars on appli
cation to agents E T., V. & G. By. Sys
tem.
“WOMAN, HER DISEASES AND
TREATMENT ’ A valuable illustrated book
of seventy-two pages sent free, on receipt of 10
cents to cove- cost of mailing, etc. Address
Prof. R H. Kline. M. D., 031 Arch street,
Philadelphia, Pa 741 lyr
Iteh on human and horses and all anl
mala cured in 30 minutes by Woolford’s
Sanitary Lotion. This never fails. ..Sold
by all druggists.
FITS.—All Kits stopped tree uf Dr. Kllns’s
Great Nerve Reetorer. No Fite after first day's
use Marvellous cures. Treatise and $2.00 trial
bottle free to Fit cases. Send to Dr. Kline, 911
Arch St., Philadelphia. Pa 741-ly
@@ILMBg.!£rt2S
No advertisement will be accepted for less than
25 cents. In every ease, tht cash or sampe
must accompany the advertisement.
.SPECIAL NOTICE I!
Advertisers in this returnn MUST NOT km*
their mail sent care Sonny South. It requires
too much laborious work on our part to look after
your correspondence Hare all replies to your
advertisements sent to you lilKKi'T’
M
R8. VAN LYONS, generm purchasing agent,
orders for dresses. millinery, etc., filled
promptly. Special attentioi- to wedding outfits.
Prices reasonsble. Sample* and estimates fur
nished. Write forcircnlar. l-onisville, Ky., 629
Fourth avenue. 746 3m
G ENTLEMEN between the ages of 25 and 30;
write to t rep young Indus Object fun.
Heat of reference jg i veil and r»-qu red Address
Delia L Ware, Murfreesboro, Tenn. 780 It
% OUNG man of twen y four well, connected
and educated would ike to correspond
with a young lady, t.rm.et'e order preferred*
. between 17 and 21, elucated not very tall. i)a-
i t ils first letter. Aulrtis Box 657 Han Antonio,
Texas. 780 It
English Spavin Liniment removes 'all
hard, soft or calloused lamps and blem
ishes from horses. Warranted the most
wonder fnl blemish care ever known. Sold
by all druggists.
If Not Already Familiar to!Yoa,
All we ask is try a bottle of Maguire’s'Cundur-
mngo when suffering from
Headache Constipation Fever,
Disordered Liver Indigestion
and other kindred affections.
Bermuda Bottled.
“You must go to Bermuda. If
you do not I will not be responsi
ble lor tbe eonsequenees.” “ But,
doctor, I can afford neither the
time nor the money.”
that Is Impossible, try
’Well, If
SCOTT’S
Fmulsioh
OF PURE NORWEGIAN
COD LIVER OIL.
I sometimes call it Bermuda Bot
tled, and many cases of
CONSUMPTION,
Bronchitis, Cough j
or Severe Cold \
I have CURED- with It; and the {
advantage Is that the most sens!-
tin stomach ran take It. Another
thing which commends It Is the I
stimulating properties of the Hy- :
poplutsphitcs whieli It contains. J
You will Hud It for sale at your j
Druggist’s but see yon get the ,
original SCOTT’S EMULSION.” |
REMEDIES FOR LIGHTNING STROKE
Willard, St. Clair, Minn.: Can’t yon
give me a remedy lor lightning stroke?
The most effective treatment of lame
ness and other ailments doe to lightning
Is the app’.icatio a alternately to the head,
trank and limbs of a large horseshoe
magnet. In cose of a quite recent stroke
the clothing should be unfastened, the
patient laid with the head high, and
quietness and fresh air should be secured.
If consciousness does not retarn, the
head should be exposed to a stream of
cold water.
DR. M. I. SALTER.
Reform Dispen&fy, Atlanta, Georgia.
Dr. Salter enjoys special advantages in tha
treatment of general chronie complaints, and
special diseases. Rheumatism, Cancer, Con
sumption, Bronchitis, Catarrhal Diseases of
the Head, Throat, Stomach, Bowels and
Bladder rapidly cured. All Blood Diseases and
Blood Poisoning cured in a short time Nerv-
. ous Diseases, Epilepsy, or St. Vitus Dance,
I Nervous Debility, Hysteria and Hypochondria
quickly relieved and npidly cured Diseases
of Kidneys so common to both sexes cured in
the shortest time possible Diseases of Females,
Falling of Womb, Leucorrhoea, Inflammation of
Womb, Menstrual Irregularities quijkly re
lieved ana permanently cured.
Consul tattoo Fv ee Charge* very moderate,
including all necesary medicines A personal
interview seldom ne ’es^ary. Hundreds have
been curel by Dr. Salter by correspondence
with medicines shipped by express Give a
plain history of your case in your own language.
Dr. Salter will return a correct diagnosis, If
he cannot cure he will so state ano if emp’oyed
will greatlv benefit or completely restore you to
health. The most timid need not fear, as he
holds all letters ana consultations with the
strictest confidence. Address
M. T. S\LTER, M. D,
777 90 Broad Street, Atlauta. Ga.
THE PRkYEK WHEEL OFINDIA,
J.T. B , Bruns wick, Ga.: Tellmesome-
thing about the “prayer wheel of India.”
The prayer wheel consists of a metal
box about as big around as one which-
holds boot blacking, and about twice as
deep. Through it a wire is stack, and is
fastened into a handle a foot long. In
side the box there is a roll of prayers
written in Taibetan characters, and the
worshiper rattlee off prayers at the rate
of 10J a minute by giving the handle a
twist and setting the box to rolling.
Each roll records a prayer. E very prayer
doea away with one or more sins and pnta
a brick in the the pavement which leads
toward heaven.
THE AN TIQUITY OF GLOVES.
X. Y. V : Tell me when gloves were
first usea?
Tae antiquity of gloves is very great.
They doubtless antedate history, for the
earliest literature alludes to them. They
have been known and worn from the re*
mote ages of the World Homer, in the
Odyssey, describes Laertes, the farmer-
King, the father of Ulysses, in his retire
ment: “Waiie gloves secured his hands
to shield them from the thorns.” Xeno
phon jeers at the Persians lor wearing
gloves os a protection from the cold.
“Not only did they have umbrellas borne
over them in the summer,” he says, -‘bat
in winter it is not sufficient for tnem to
clothe their heads and their bodies and
their feet, bat they have coverings made
of hair for their hands and their fingers.”
The Romans scorned such effeminacy at
that time, bat we are told that at about
the time of Christ the amanuensis of
Pliny, the historian, wore gloves to keep
his fingers nimble in cold weather.
A NEW WAY TO MAKE MONEY.
Mr. Editor: Mrs. Rsed’s success in silk
culture created so much interest that I am
ttmpted to give my experience with
soap. I sent Bain & Co.; Zanesville,
Ouio, $5 for which I receive a 500 pound
box ot • Pure Soap,” wblch I sold in two
days for f20, with a profl of f 15. Tne
next week I Invested flO. soid oat in
toree days for flO, with $30 profit. The
third week I Invested $20,sold out daring
tne week; profit $60. i am now clearing
$60 every week. Soap Is used by every-
b >dy, and tbe “Pure Soap” being so
cheap and of snen superior quality, it
requires neither labor nor ability to sell
it Tae above company will send you
circulars giving details, and I think any
lady or gentleman can succeed os well as
I have. CLARA WILMOT.
ESTABLISHED - - 1873.
B R U C E' S
Law and Inquiry Office,
ROBERT BRUCE, SopL,
. No. 1GG Randolph St.,
Chicago, - - 111., U. S. A.
Civil andOriminal caves attended to. Searches
Institute ! for Missing Friends and Next to Kin.
Copies of Wills Marrugos, Births, Divorce De
crees Deatns and other Oertificates Procured
without delay from all parts of the World In
quiries conducted with secrecy and dispatch.
Confldential Correspondents throughout the
United States Canada, Eugland, Ireland, Scot
land, France an 1 the Australian Colonies
NOTARY PUBlIC,
Legal Papers drawn up and Authenticated. All
Business Strictly Confldential. German and
Preich Interpreters. Cous iltation Free. Cor
respondence Solicited. Inclose stamp for reoly’
780-ly
FACS BLEACH.
FRECKLE AID MOTH DESTROYER.
No matter how black or numerous the freckles
may be; no matter how many tines you have
failed in the attempt to remove them l guaran
tee to remove them all, an 1 leave the «kia in a
beautiful conlition. I have removed them
from my own face, and kuow whereof i speak.
It also removes moca pinp es and liver
spots and all other discolorations of the skin.
Gentlemen caa us* the bleach with just as fine
results as ladies Where the skin is j list begin
ning to wrin cie, the use of the bleach will cor
rect the tendency, an l smooth them out nicely-
Send $2 and you will receive by return mail
the Face Bleacn. Address,
Miss Lillian Howell,
Care Sunny S)uth, . Atlauta Ga.
^£p*rhis lady is O. K. Ed. Sunny South.
$230
A MONTH. Agents iVantcd. bust sen
inK articles In the world. 1 sample Fret
Address N. A. MAliSU. Detroit, Micti
tROPrORE I
A written guarantee to Absolutely Cure. No
detention from business. Endorsed by the
leading uhysicians of the United States. Write
for circulars. OSice Traders Bank, Rooms 21 and
22, Atlanta, Ga.
DR. McCANDLESS & CO.
-3mos. Take Elevator.
Everlasting Wick HXZ
wick is 44 Mineral Wool," which
cannot bam, and no black
smoke or soot to discolor the
chimney, Ac. Gives a white, clear,
brilliant lfcht. Agents can make
fortunes with it. Retail price, 10c.
each. We will send3 sample wicks
for 10c. .Small wicks, 20c. a doz-, $2.25 a gross. Medium
25c. per doz.,$2.75 a gross. Large. 30y.a doz., $3.25 a
gross. 1 Gross, assorted sizes, $2.75- All postpaid.
Address, F. O. WEUOSKEY. rrovldence. K. L
jm PER MONTH made by our
(H fl aecnts collecting small Pic
■ ■ ■ ■ ■ tnres for finiargemi nt We
■ ■■■■will cony and frame your
■l) I ■■■■ own Pi<- >tnr e “at agent’s
flv | prices.” to be used as a
■ sample to show our work.
Send for circulars. Address
South kbn Copying Co., 9% Marietta St* Atlanta,
Georgia
Mention Sunny South when yon write.
A DRUGGIST of 3 y^ars exoerience, with
good morals wishes a p -sition hr prescrip-
tionist, saltsmaii or msmifacturer. Api-ly to
Druggist, 10fh street or to T D Reed 38‘h
avenue Meridian, Miss Rt-fer to Rev. W. B.
nines or O. H. Smith, M ri i*u, M bh 780 It
T "?E SUWANNEE RIVER.—Some of the best
Lands and Finest L lions on the majes
tic Suwannee are offer* d for sale. Andress Jas.
O. Andrews, Cedar tCey Fla 78i4t
O H GIRLS! it’s sad about ns three young
gentlemen without correspondents. All
‘ Phuuny Phellow8.’’t«>o. Giris from 17 to 23,
won’t you write and keep us from mischief.
Honorable answers assured. Addr«ss P. O. box
79, Jeanerette La. 779 3t
W IDOWER of wealth desires a lady of culti
vation to care for hia home and three
children. Rare opportunity. Address P. O.
box 208 Birmingham, Ala. 779 2t
W ANTE't—To sell cr exchange 80acresgood
farming Und for a lot near a city. Ad
dress A. B. White, Clayton, Ala. 778 tf
for a coin of 1848. $10forafk>nfeder-
ate bill $8.00 for a Confederate
stamp enormous prices paid for Confederate
money and stumps, and money coined before
1889. Collector s Guide 10c ti ver fortune for
somebody. T. D. Walker, Greers Dept t. 8. C.
778 3t
P HOTOS —Seventeen beauties, latrst out
only 10c.; 56 for 25c. Thurber & Co., Bay
Shore NY. 772 tf
W ANTED—Ladies to send their old dresses
and soiled garments to ns, we dye and
clean the most delicate shades and colors, wa
pay expressage both ways, on large bundles,
write for price list. McEwen Steam Dye Works,
Nashville, Tenn, 766 6m
W HAT! Do thev trust any and everybodyf
Yes, The Havana Cigar Co., asr* nts. Wins
ton, N. C., to introduce their great “Nickle**
Cigars, will send to any person (whether mer
chant or consumer) C. O. D. by express (with
privilege of examination) a sample lot of 150
cigars for $5.25 (retail value $7 0). They also
send in the same package a gold filled, stem
winding watch, accompanied by the manufac
turer's guarantee to wear 20 years. Under no
circumstances will this package be sent twico
to one party. Orders will nave attention after
ward at $15.00 per 1000 cash (or C O D.), with
out watch. Jan 190
ANTED—You to keep your money in tho
South, send your old faded suit t» McEweno
Steam Dye Works aud Cleaning Establishment,
they will make it brand new for you, they
clean, dye and repair. They pay tne freight,
write for catalogue. McEwens Steam Dyo
Works, Nashville. Tenn. 766 6m
W
W ANTED—You to know that McEwens
Steam Dye Works by doing artistic work,
have now many cu-tomers in every state in tho
Union * They pay freight both ways, so it placeo
it in your reach as well as if in your own town,
correspond with them and patronise a worthy
Southern enterprise. McEwen Dye Works ana
Cleaning Establishment, Nashville, Tenn. 765 6m
W ANTED—Ladies to know that we make a
specialty of dyeing mourning goods wo
take the fanciest colors and make a beautiful
black, we pay all expressage, write for particu-
ars. McEwens Dye Works, Nashville, Tenn.
766 6m
ANTED—You to send us that old over coat,
we will dye ita beautiful color, put on new
buttons, re line and thus save you buyiug a new
one. we guarantee it not to smut, wo pay all
expre-wage, write for price list- McEwen Steam
Dje Works aud Cleauiug Establishment, Nash
ville, Tenn. 766 6m
A RE YOU Married? % if not, send youraddreat
to The American Corresponding Club, P.
O. Box 643, Clarksburg, W. Va. 756 12m
H A I R—Superfluous hair permanently-*no*
moved from the face from moles, or from
any part of the body, without injury or discol
oration of the most delicare skin. Simple, easy
ofapp ication and positive in its effects. En
close stamp for particulars. Address Horn#
Manufacturing Company, Box 220, Atlanta G«.
758 6m.
W ANTED—Ladles and gentlemen to know
that we dye vour goods and guarantee them
not to smut, save money we will make £our old
clothes new, we pa 'express both ways, write
for catalogue. Agents wanted. McEwen Dye
Works. Nashville. Tenn. 766 6m
F OR SALE—150 extra flue Silver-Laced W’yan-
dottes bred from my prize birds. Circular*
free. J. A.’Cullum Ridge Spring, S. O
768-4 mos
PARIS PRIZE PANSIES.
Hffor lln 0 The gigantic size of these flowers ami
U11 Cl llUi di ami wonderful growth of the plants
profusion of bloom are simply astonishing. Wonts are
inadequate to deseiibe tlieir gay and beautiful colors*
and markings, ranging from the most delicate tints to
the darkest shades imaginable, including over 100 differ
ent shades. To introduce our NORTHERN CROWN HKEDS
we will send one package of this grand novelty ami our
beautifully ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE on receipt of lOcto
any address. You can not afford to be without our cata
logue for 1*91; finest ever published; contains over 500
illustrations ami COLORED PLATE OF DIADEM ROSE*. It
is a complete manual of everything for the garden, farm
and tiehi.aml those who want a Cl'IDE that isthoroughly
reliable will find this book invaluable. t?TE\'ery person
sending Silver and mentioning this paper will receive
extra a package of the famous Sweet Pea * ‘BUTTERFLY.*•
MENTION NUMBER OF OFFER. L. L. MAY A CO.«
Seedsmen and Florists* 8t. Paul, Minn.
Ladies, lie Beantll.
OF INTEREST TO ALL WOMEN.
9Vme. A. Yar‘s Skin Flench is positively
superior to all others; is the latest anti bestevei
offered for sale; not a cosmetic; does uot show
on the face; is a perfect skiu tonic ; guaranteed t»;
remove the worst eases of Freekles. Liver Spots.
Tan, Pimples, etc. (if used with my soap according
to directions), or money refunded. $1 per bottle;
3 bottles, $2.75. Pure and harmless to the skin.
fine. M«r*s Hair Klesch is perfectly
harmless to the hair or person usine it. Can be
taken in the mouth, it ih so pure. One hntf||
sufficient, to golden a dark suit of hair. Price, $|
per bottle.
Mnperflnonw ITairw removed in n few min
utes without pain or injury to the most delicate
skin. Anyone can use It. $1 per bottle.
Hairy moles removed. AI1 Unds of Sears or
Birthmarks removed or reduced; and Blemishes of
every kind upon the face treated with some success.
Fine hair preparations, fiue soaps and superb
face powder,
N. K. The discoverer and manufacturer of
the Skin Bleach has been Innwn to us for many
years. She is a lady of the highest respectability,
and her statements are entirely trustworthy.
A. A. WII.LITS,
Pastor Warren Memorial Pres. Chureli,
E. L. POWELL.
W H. BARTHOLOMEW.
Principal Female High School.
Address, MADAME A. MAR,
407 Fourth Avenue. Louisville, Ky.
Send stamp for circulars. Orders promptly
filled. Mention this paper.
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itahed reliable persons (either sex) who will promise to
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