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THE SUNNY SOUTH. ATLANTA GA., SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 29,1890. VNL(§\fHTt$ I uopyrtgMsd by tea awMor.j Mr iPMlal imnnmmt with th« author ai I ha "donatltetkm/’ BUI Arp’a latteia will 1 ynhllahod aa heretofore In tha bomht Soot ■ and 1 fed SOUTF, *■* will appear tha aaa waak In aaoh ?papar. ] 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. $1 per bottle. Hairy moles removed. AI1 Unds of Sears or Birthmarks removed or reduced; and Blemishes of every kind upon the face treated with some success. Fine hair preparations, fiue soaps and superb face powder, N. K. The discoverer and manufacturer of the Skin Bleach has been Innwn to us for many years. She is a lady of the highest respectability, and her statements are entirely trustworthy. A. A. WII.LITS, Pastor Warren Memorial Pres. Chureli, E. L. POWELL. W H. BARTHOLOMEW. Principal Female High School. Address, MADAME A. MAR, 407 Fourth Avenue. Louisville, Ky. Send stamp for circulars. Orders promptly filled. Mention this paper. 780 4t A CTMM A DR - TAFT’S ASTHMALENB -FA-piinCn r fails: sendusyoui THIM TAFT MOS. M. CO. .ROCHESTER,N I.FREE 774 6t eow. i© introduce them, one tn every uoumyor tuwn iur itahed reliable persons (either sex) who will promise to how it. Excelster Music llox Co., Box 2126. N. Y. City. Cards elcJ E-lga, Craw L«if» Card* Ac., HUM* and YOUTH. CmiiM, Ot* 77617$