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*>ay morning, December e, lseo.
THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNIN
SSSSiUPnB
consumption cured.
). H. SEALS
Editor
SUSINSSS OFFICE, No. 0, W»ll Street,
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Six Months,
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Atlanta. 9a.
Money in Abundance
It goes without saying that half the
money crises that come to the business
world have their oiigin in financial
/right, the most timid of human fears
and that this is stimulated by stupid
reports.
Idle rumor often brings more real dam
age to finance that does actual clause
It is doubtful iT there has been a true
reason for ths twaddle about ‘’money
panics’’which has lately been so indus
triously engaged in. At any rate, there
is good reason for It to cease,
Tne Naw York Tribune quotes Mr Jay
Gould, as follows. Tr e country la pre
pared to accept his views fully on this
subject, at least:
“In regard to the money market and
the general financial situation, Mr. G mid
was confident that thomoBt s rlona trou
hies bad been passed He said:
“There will bo a plenty of money by
January 15:h. It will be a drug ty that
time. I do not think there has b.en any
difficulty at any time in grttiDg money
at six per cent, on first-rate collaterals.
At any rate, officers of some of the lar
gest financial institutions In the city
have told me so. The trouble has been
w lh needy borrowers with securities
about which there was some sort of doubt.
The most of those needy borrowers are
now out of the market and their loans
are in charge of the courts ”
Wonwn As Religious Workers.
We are not prepared to assert that wo
men are by nature more religious than
men. Th'-y are to ba found striking ex
amples of earnest aud of patient self sac
rifice in the history of the sexes. We do
not know that we can assign to oitter the
higher praise in this particular. In the
work of propagating the Christian faith,
men have perhaps performed the more
active services, but the women have not
fallen behind thsm in untiring zeal. The
missionary would have many a time
given np in despair bnt for ths encourag
ing words of his wife. In the very be
ginning, M ry was earliest at the tomb,
and to her were proclaimed the first
words of the risen Saviour. From that
day unto this have women taken an act
ive and useful part in every department
of churoh work. Forbidden to speak
from tfce pulpit, they have had to con
fine their efi'orts at spreading the gospel
to the more quiet method of personal ap
peal. They have had to exert their
powers of p rsuasion to small circles
and in private places. In the retiracy
of the domestic field they have sown the
seeds of truth which have sprung np and
brought forth sbund.*nt harvests in the
lives and labors of good men.
But women of this day do not propose
to restrict themselves to so narrow a
range. The increased facilities for edu
cation which for the last half century
they have been enjoying has given them
to know that they are not so in^uor to
men that they need leavo to them the
performance of all the outdoor work nee
e s’.ry to erangeiizs the world. They
have learned that their voices can be em
ployed as powerfully as those of men In
the work of persuasion. Tuey hav a
found out that by their songs and prayers
tli y can reach sinners too hardened to
be influenced by the ordinary services of
the eanctuary. Having btcoma conscious
of their powers, they are disposed to use
them. Hence not alone in Gilds of for
eign missionary enterprise, but here at
home,are Cn istia i women taking a most
activ. Dart in church work. Accepting
it as a fact that m n’s methods have been
iarg ly failures, they are trying to move
upon new lines. They are withal throw
ing ' ;:o it an enthusiasm and an energy
that is ono o the b.sc angaries of sue
css. We anticipate the very beet results
from their efforts. The work of pi opa-
gating the Christian religion is going to
be pushed forward with accelerated
speed
more is not accomplished within the
next decade than has b.en done in the
nine past decades of the century, and
women will hava very much t x do with
St. * *
The Gore of Goaanaptioa.
It waa stated • short time ago that Dr.
Charles W. Dalles, a prominent physi
cian of Philadelphia, holds to the opin
ion that there is hope for consumptives
and that medical science will soon be
able to control the disease. In a recent
paper on the subject he pointed oat that
while in England half a century ago
there were 55 000 deaths annually among
15 000,000 people, there are at present in
a population of 40 000,000 but 14 000 deaths
doe to phthisis. Another authority states
that consumption “kills 90 000 persons in
the United Slat a alone every year, and
worse still, it often renders men helpless
for years before death, impoverishing
their families and ic-flistlng suffering
worse than death.”
Upon the heels of Dr. Dulles’ asf ertion
that “medical science will soon be able
to control” consumption came the an
ncuncement that Prof. Koch had read a
communication before the late medica.
corgress at Berlin, in which he claimed
that he bad discovered a chemical which
rendered guinea pigs impervious to tu
bercu'osis. Rscent advices from Ger
many state that Prof. Koch’s discovery
is being applied in the treatment of con
sumptive patients in various portions of
that country with remarkable success,
Prof. Koch himself is reported to have
dismissed as completely cured soverel
patients whom he had been treating. It
is also stated that his lymph has been
applied to patients in England, with
favorable results.
Of what Prof. Koch’s lymph consists
and how it is prepared he has not di
vulged, but “the discovery has been as
expected and is not in itself improba
ble,” says a New York contemporary,
“It is in direct line with the hopes of
pathologists. Our own Prudden, who
has no superior anywhere in his depart
ment, has publicly declared, not as an
opinion but as the final verdict of
science, that tuberculosis is a g-irm dis
ease exclusively, communicable from
person to person, and not in any way
hereditary cr constitutional, in the ordi
nary acceptation of those te rms. Acting
upon this verdict of science,investigators
have b en busily at work for several
years in the search for means of doing
precisely what Dr. Koch claims that he
has found the means of doing—namely,
destroying tuberculous tissue and elim
iunting It from the system, or, to speak
popularly, disinfecting the body of a
patient infested with the microbes of
tubfrealosis.”
The discovery of a r rnedy for a malady
that kills mors people every year nthe
United States alone than the severest
pestilence destroys would by of incalcu
lable benefit to humanity, and the re
ports from Berlin inspire the hope that
an antidote for this dread disease
had been discovered. Tue consensus of
medical opinion at Berlin is that
K>ch’s treatment is pretty certainly
effective in incipient cases of consnmp
tion, bnt Prof. Scbnltz er, of Vienna, who
spent three days In B.rlin in the study
of Kobe's treatment, is or the opinion
that where consumption is advanced
there is danger in applying the remedy.
“On the whole, therefore, there is good
hope that a great discovery has been
made which will immeasurably benefit
humanity; but until the discoverer shall
fully take nls scientific brethren into his
confidence and subject bis discovery to
thorough experimental criticism at their
hands it will be too early to rejoice with
out some misgivings.”
Legend el the Piscetawa;
Or, the Old Maid of the Min-
newawas.
Sdblim-ily Beautifal.
Goncril Bradley T. Johnson, of Mary
land, has just concluded in the Haiti
moraar, a most graphic and instructive
serial treating of General Lee’s first ad.
vance into Maryland, in 1862, rep'ete
with details of tho movements of the
contending armies and Interesting to the
last degree Having brought the story
to a brilliant close, General Johnson
drops into the following exq lisita lines,
full of pathos and beauty :
Tire causes of the civl : war are sinking
out or memory, the passions aroused by
itonbe'iisld a have died out, but the
record of the valor, the patriotism and
tbe endurance developed by it, will be
perpetuated for generations.
History and patriotism “will do full
justice to the courage, endurance and
solditrJy ability of tbe American citizen,
no ma’ter tvbat section of tbe country
be baikd from cr in what ranks he
fought.’’
We are now abie to recog -lz - Grant as
one of the great soldiers of hl. 'ory, as
we always did appreciate him as the
most generous.
We unit’ with the soldi' rs of the Grand
Array of t ae Potomac in paying our trlb
ute of jcspict to tbe memory of 51c
Oloilau tb Cnivalric, aud Hancock the
Superb
Bpt our hearts turn to thess so dear to
us, and with uplifted faces we, with ae
rtne confidence, await the verdict of too
coming generations.
A year ago I stood with y-u in that
scene created by tas z_-.il, the energy and
tbe devotion ol i ur women and embel
lished t>« their genius and their taste.
It was 24 years altar the surrender at
Appomattox, and yet the hearts of this
whole people went out. iu sympathy -or
these who bed suffered in that cause. As
We snail be greatly surprised if j ] iooKcd i t that brilliant scene it faded
before me
Tne dusky flig of Sumter fl ipping on
the wall, the battle fl g of L ■s, of J ohn
ston and of Beauregard, the golden spurs
of Stu-.rl-all became obscured by thick
erring shadows.
I heard the beat of distant drums and
the blare of coming bugles, and she air
was astir wlta the noiseless tread of ths
comic ghost. I thought I siw the last
march past in review of the Army of
Northern Virginia.
Hire on the right comc-s that swart
figure, blacSbeardod, bestriding his wbits
Arabian, with the grace ofBaladiu. It is
Ashby leaciug the Koights of ths Val
ley, sad and grave. He fell that June
evening at dusk close by th6 Maryland
colors.
Next rides the leader or the cavalries,
Jeb Stuart, with his flowing plume, his
gold n spuis, his costume, as if hs had
just stepped out of ihe canvass of Van
dyke. He fell at Y r now Tavern defend
ing the guns of the Baltimore Lght.
Next 1 see the iithe and active form of
the most graceful man in the army—Hill,
A. P., with his Light Division, as ho rode
forward that trying honr at Sbarpsburg,
coatiess, with a rapier like a riding
switch, the light oi b ittle on his race.
He died the morning the lines at Peters
burg broke.
The ghostly column moves on, and
BY MISS H B GARNETT
T WAS In the old, old days
before steamers brought
their whistles up the river
or bad roads and snake
fences scarred the woods;
the old, old time when no
factory smoke clouded the
sunrise and deer and falri< a
had not been frightened
away; tbe days when led
ans, unhunted and u n-
taeght, smoked tobacco and
ate oysters in the pleasant
Rappahannock. It was be
fore the silver bill and gold
coins were at a discount, but alas, the
love of Wampum filled the land many and
a strong young Brave, who bowed to the
Grsat Father of winds and waters, in
secret built a shrine for Wampum only.
Among these misguided devotees was
Gitcheughugh, whom N enetnoosha loved
All her guileless young heart she had
given him, and in return he wooed her
with a thought or two such as ho could
coax from Wampum, for that hungry
god held all his heartstrings and gnawed
on them at bis pleasure.
So Nanemoosha grew thin and palo,
and many tears fell over such absent
minded love making, and many prayers
the poor girl prayed to all the gods of her
tribe, but there was no help. Instead
of growing tender and giving over his
restless ways, her lover scowled on her
tearful eyes, grew sulky and more
sulky, till finally one bright morning a
bunch of feathers came to her Tar a keep
sake. Gitcheughugh had started off to
seek adventure and wampum In ths far
lands of the sunset. Then Nenemocsha’s
other lovers laughed; but just the same
she would have none of them. She pad
died her own canoe up and down the
Piscataw* and arrowed her own vtmisox
aud wore the keepsake feathers in her
black hair.
One day, when a hundred days were
gone, she S3t on ths. bank where last sits
had met her lover. C o ads hung over the
river and the waters of the creek mur
inured restlessly. The great osko qiiver
ed under the coming storm. “Surmy the
wind is iho greatest of the gods! ' cried
Ncaemossha as she lifted her face to his
cold breath and feit her heavy hair lash
her shoulders and the bracelets tremble
on her arms.
‘ Surely what ho will, he c in!”
Shekuolttnd reacted out her arms
Tee sudden rain coming beat on them
and dashed the tear i from her face. Still
sbn knelt and the storm grew.
P otently a little bird blown from its
shelter in a near oak struck, blinded aud
trembling, against her breast.
Could so weak and timid a thing give
courage?
Yes, it did. She clasped it close and
kissed its wet wings and whispered a
message. Then when the storm abated
she raise 1 it high toward heaven and set
it free. Straight for the sunset it flrw,
and Nenemoosha smiled and shook the
rain from her feather crown.
After days and days the little storm-
bird cime to Gitcheughugh. He was
sitting under a big tree munching chest
nuts for dinner, and there was a frown
on his dark brow and no tune of happy
luck in his heart.
Perching on a branch, birdie cried
sweetly: “Nonemool Noncmoo!’
Poor little fellow, he could not pro
nounce the ‘ aha,” but well he knew that
three syllables of his lady’s name is
enough to rouse any lover whose heart is
not of whitleather. Gitcheughugh s heart
must have been flint stone. He scowled,
and snatching up his bow sent an arrow
tnrough the little messenger’s throat,
and then coolly roasted him with the
chestnuts for dinner. Than the Great
Wlud cursed Gitcaeughugh and blew
against him all his days. Still he never
repented. When the r collections of his
sweetheart’s reproachful f-ce came he
only gave an ugly grunt, shrugged his
gaunt Ehouldeis and traveled further
So the wind whistled in Nenef.noosha’^
ear the folly of loving a lover so lalse and
so far away; hut she turned aside aud
listening always tor her truant brave’s
voice, paddled her lonely cv.too up and
down the P.scatawa, and at last was
buried on its bank, . he one old maid of
the Minnewaw a i.rioe-
And tae legend t -lis that whenever a
false lover enauces near that stream
where she sleeps, however calm the duy,
on a sudden, the great wind conies
rnshing and howling in his ears, and on
Wilcfees-night whoever ventures" there
may hear, above the moaning of the
wind and the rattle of froz-n rushes, the
stroke of a paddle and Njnemoosha’s
low sweet voice calling, GitctieugUughl
Gitcheughugh! Gitcheughugh!
An old physician, retired from pi
had placed In hia hands bp an Ei
V missionary tlxo formula of
BBBmgitabls remedy for the speedy
mjinent euro of Consumption,
Dallas the Redoubtable! i
J In a sbej *ii Nervous Complaints. Hav-
M Her In Situb, Oak OUT Ik SJ.’StagSTSSSSJTliMrS
TEXAS.
Editor Sonny Sooth: Y jar thou
sacd^of weekly readers wfcolook at Texas
on the map may perhaps idly think of
what a big Slate it is^- but they don”
know half its magnitude nor what
great Stale it really is unloss they were,
ss your correspondent is, an atom drift
ing about over the State, about 900 miles
away from old Georgia Speaking of
drifting, these Texas winds will drift
anything t at is driftobtih
It ij interesting to note the points of
difl’ rence between this end the older
States. Especially so to ope who is de
cidedly cosmopolitan and willing to love
any land or people whoMKtve any lovable
features. And this is a lovable land.
T.iere is a peculiar deep blue belong
ing to Texas skies, and added briliianc-y
to the stars. '
Texas skies have anot her peculiarity
too, and that is they don’t always rain
when they threaten to do so, S on( times
for days they lower and look giu-.n, ana
have a stranger who is unaccustomed to
their ways to almost wyir bis umbrella
aod gum coat out. camming them in an
cicipation of a momentary deluge.
Then probably another time when those
same skies aie as smiling and good to
look at as fcls “fce.test girl,” he starts
out in the morniDg unib-cliales3, and in
the afternoon tramps home to dinner
through the rain anti mud But then he
can st jp by at “old John’*'’ the “hot to
male” man, and get warmed up with half
a d: zen of the deloctsb e Mexican dain
ties.
Th -,t “tamalo’Xpronounc3d“tomarlie”)
sounds mildly musical or musically mild,
but it isn't; not a bit oU-l Beef cooked
and groin.u fine and hotcened witn red
pepper (enough to bring the tears to
one's eyes) Is enveljptd in a layer of
thick mush and tbe whole of it placed iu
a corn shuck which has been boiled.
Then comes “chile con carne” (“chiii-
coc-cirne” pronounced) and that, too,
belies ils name. It is anything in the
world but chilly; being hotter, if any
thing, ihan ta asles It is composed of
Mexican beans, besf cut fine and pepper.
The latter ingredient snouid have beeD
written first as it is most important.
Chili without pepper wSUld be something
like a soulless body.
T xans area noticeably polite people
to strangers, especially to ladies. In tne
old Stales it is but too often the case
that crowds on tbe side-walks fail to
move out of the way to allow a lady to
pass. That rarely if ever happens here.
And they move so quickly, so cheerfully,
that one feels as if there was more real
polisn among even the roughest looking,
most weather beat n cowboys, than
amid the broad cloth models of the old
cities.
Even the cows are polite out here. One
doesn’t have to look about desperate y
for a rock to “chunk” them off the walks
in the smaller towi s They de.iberately
step down into the road without any
invitation when they see any one com •
Taere is another “new wrinkle” I have
discovered, and it is right between the
eyes of most people who are out in ths
sun much. Tne glare L3.30 greit from be
low aqei above that on.Tr its unconscious
'y inEo the (r --- Akfcl 1
Texas is rejoicing■vior her artesian
wells, and well sii. ■) ,iy. Each well
seems to have a diff.lfct arineral taste
Being old fashioned. I Utter plain, taste
less water, having, dovBp^ed an amiable
weakness for it ojK-Iy ijjife
One misses the grafi old trees of the
older States. Somettmljs l think 1 should
grow hysterical at sight of a pine tree,
or a grove of the dear things, theit
feathery, dark needles outlined against
these brilliant sunset skies
But after all there is a certain charm
about the miles of open country, where
not a tree is to be seen as far as the eye
c »n reach.
There Is a sense of freedom, a p’enty-
of fresh-air to breathe kind of lealiog
that seems especially lasciaaiiag to the
men who come here from the Eastern
Slates,
Georgia and Alabama can score one
Betrayed Confidences.
Faith Is a mo t important factor In the point against Texas in the matter of
world’s transitions. Did m n not repose | courteous railroad aod street car of
. , , , . , - !t ms. Here the ladies keep themselves,
a gr . at deal of confidence in each o.ner . and whateV er baggage hey may have in
moat of tae business operations which j baud, off' and on trains, dummies and
Pobt'numous Fame.
Most persons who think of the matter
at all would like to be sure that they wifi
be remembered after death. There is
something very pleasing to one’s love of
Belf in the idea of posthumous fame. On
the other band, there is something leer,
pressibly sad in the words “dead and for
gotten.” No one likes to believe that
such will be his or her fate. Though
most of us are convinced that we will
achieve no fine that will extend far or
last long, we love to think that some few
parsons will keep the memory of us alive
in their hearts. We cannot divest our.
selves of the idea that we shall know
something of what the living are think
log of ua and will in some way realize a
pleasure therefrom. Tuis is a fact of the
immortality for which we plno. _
We may be sure that the kind and ' ccmi J iS a corps with quick step ana
, ,,, . „ . . light tread as if going to a tlance. At, its
good will bo fond.y remembered by some t, ead rIdtB Elz y, the gonerous aad open
after they have gone from earth. But • hearted. Alter him c lines Ridgely
Wo may not feel certain that the most; Brown, tender and true. Then William
virtuous people will have the largest | mlrf0r 0f £entle caurle ^'
share of pcs humous fame. They who There Is’ the foot cavalry,
have reed .red themselves sptcialiy noted Look at that swing that carried them
by the gr^af ness of their wickedness cc *n lrd t iu tho valley, round
J e : McClellan’s flank on the peninsula, to
What i pipe’s rear at Becobd ManassasI
At first, most of the houses seem
strangely bald without, blinds, but one
doesn’t wonder, when rt-rnemb -ring that
this is no lumber country, and muc i
economy is u-ed in building. Another
basis upon which the ! thiug that one soon grows accustomed to
-Otriss rests Were there • ia thinness of the walls. No plaster
, ® Tests. vterej,htjd at all, save in exceptional cases. 1 fait
. i-.iu ii u i-- ~ lifee giving an affectionate pat of treat
ing to a genuine wali, uupapered, that
1 happened upon unexpectedly.
If people have secrets in this part of
the country they should never git into
the bad habit of talking iu their sleop,
as every word can be heard if any one is
iu the room adjoining.
Pats P. Freeman.
or spoken word of the man in auother
city or state, ths merchandise which is
at one place a id is want-d at the other
is made to exchange places. Business
honesty is the
traffic of all couutri
no such thing as faith there could be no
such thing as trade.
All this is true, notwithstanding the
constantly repeated assertion that men
are greatly given to cheating, swindling
and deceiving each other in various ways.
Beyond denial, men are greatly given to
lying But while the aggregate of un
truths is very large that of truth is larger
still. For every failure to come up to a
promise there are a score of instances ia
which the obligations are met fnlly and
promptly. Now and then we hear of
merchants going down in business be
cause these whom they had trusted did
not pay. But though little talked about,
the cases are much more common where
commercial houses do a vast credit busi
ness and realize handsome profits.
Yet there are many who deplore the
credit system, and some very sensible
people pronounce it an evil. It is som >•
times made so. Some give their coufi-
dence unwisely and thereby incar great
losses, and some are lured by the credit
Miraculous.
A Texas City which, Li^ Texas I self,
Will Brook no Limits.
4
Editor Sunny Sctth: While Oak Cliff
is supplying the people of Dallas with
new homes quietly and unostentatiously,
Mr. A N. Mann is also supplying ail who
need a New Home (machine)
Not on'y Dallas, but the whole State of
Texas, big and grand as it is, is supplied
from the capacious stoieroom in rear of
the New Home Company's large and
a 1 .tractive office on Main slrtet.
There i > something magical about the
name oi the machine that seems to win
it a foremost place in tbe ranks of first
class machines.
Mr Mann’s sales for O -tobsr at whole
sale amounted to over 500, and at retail
sixty. He has a number of men working
in the city of Dallas, and many sub
agents all over the S ate.
Many people wonder how it is possible
for so many machines to exis:, and keep
on selling, whun it seems that the de
mand would have been exhausted long
ago That this is a fallacy, any one may
prove who sees the amount of shipping
going on from the Now Home office In
Dallas, aud the steady, plodding work It
requires to keep track of tbe large nun
her of sales reported to tots office; this
b -iug headquarters for all suboffices in
Texas. These subagencies remind one
of a great system of railroads.
At every point desirable for other bust
ae3s interests, the New Ho eg puts in its
claim wit t a modest “me, too,” and who
is it who could refuse a New Home?
Tue people of T-. xas do not, evidently,
by the number of machines sold ia tneir
8Date.
It is hard to say too mnch in favor of a
good nnchina. Its mission is one that
only a woman can appreciate. To her It
is hardly an inanimate pieca of rnachiu
try, out represent so many hours of labor
-iavsd, so much moniy arued; in fact,
one of her dearest friends, always ready
to help her earn an honest dollar.
At some one time or another we chance
to disagre > with even our best friends,
and so It is even with the best machines.
1’hey, too, get cranky a’ times, the ladies
say; but it seems to be the universal
opinion that the New Home is, as it
were, more even-tsmpeied than the rest.
At least, one would judge so by the fact
tuat the offices have few complaints
made to them, tbe ladles nearly always
being abie to ric.ncile any differences
existing between them and the New
Homo. t
Dallas Is made up of sut-cessful enter
prises, ,nd none more so than this.
L >ng may the good work go on—and
that is practically 1 mitless—lor here in
t s grand State of unlimited resource:,
aud wuere so many hun treds are yearly
night; oveiStar
nawori
seeking new homes, the other New Home
is sure to be in demand; and Mr Mann
seems, with his unfai.lng c >artesy, pa
clence and energy, j «t “the mann” of
alt others to keep it at the head of the
list of first class machines.
About seven yearn ago a young mm
left Georgia for Texas—on a visit, not
even bringing a trunk with him, so short
was to be the visit.
Four years afterwards he went back
for the trunk and to tell his friend j how
ne had fallen in love with Dallas and ex
ptcDsd to make it his home.
That young man was Mr. M. W.
Vaughn, who has by energy, persever
cnce and a never .ay die pi c , estab
fished a growing and thriving business in
musical instruments.
Mr. Vaughn’s first experience was a
quser one. His first sale of an organ was
to an old minister who was bitterly op
posed to organs in churches, but who
was so thoroughly converted in favor of
the instiument by Air. V.'a dexterous
manipulation of tue keys and nls slug
ing, that he insisted upon buying that
very organ and no other.
It was only a sample organ, and in the
rale Mr. V. actually lost money; but the
pleasure of conquering the old gentle
man's prejudice was wori,n something, if
not in hard cash.
Mr. Vaughn has the latest departure in
pianos, something not yet br.mgntSoath
by any ono ,aise, and that is ths ‘ R gal”
pifcuo mads'ly S nlfch’w A nencaulPiano
f r.f R v-tnr
_ p»>- yJ J fyiU Mfid
railway ancTworff-an the m --- tsi. M
will commence In * few days, whlcir
light the city and famish power
A beautifal ho#, large and commodl
ons, and costing f100,000, has been in
operation since last J ane. It Is so con
structed as to be easily heated in winter
and well ventilated in summer.
Tne hotel is, in the way of appoint
ments and furnishings, unsurpassed by
any in tbe Sauthwest, and the manage
ment is certainly excellent. Tne hotel
is four stories high. „ . .
A distinguished feature of Oak Cliff is
the unanimity of purpose characterizing
its people. Though cosmopolitan in
cuaracter—containing scholarly gradu
ates of every university of note in the
S ates—the well beiugof their city stems
to be the leadiag thought of all. Aud
among those disposed t>» be liberal, there
are none to equal in lib ral’-ty the orig
Inal founders of Oak Cliff—C jtonel T, L
Marsalis aud Mr. J T. Elliott.
Oak Cliff has the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe, on one side and Texas and Fa
eifij Railroad on the other, also Cedar
Creak as south bouncary furnishing
sites for all kinds of mai. ufactur.bg.
its park has about 150 acres of cataral
beaui y, vai led here ana there by culti-
vat d shrubs aadfijvvets. Its hills and
dales, Us c amps of rugged old Irees and
its well kept drives, maze it what the
s >ft Indian tongue called an “Alabama—
here we rest.”
N Jt the least charm of Cak Cliff, is its
suuset vi.w from the park.
And wuat can be more peaceful than
an hour of a summer evening spent in
drifting about in a comfortable boat on
the placid surface of the lake, watching
tue sunlight on the water, fanned by che
coolest of breez.-s—bruez s all innocent
of mot q ill toe?!
If anything could add to one's felicity
under sue: circumstances it would be
ehe thoaght of the dwellers in the swel
tering glare and heat of the great cities
making valiant fight against armies of
mosquitoes; and with the Pharisee, one
is forced to devout thankfulness that
• we are not as tney.”
O ik C ff is to Dallas what Brooklyn is
to New York, it is not intended for a
great basiuesa center, bnt a place where
parents have all the advantages to be
derived from good senoois for their
children, and a pleasant desirable place
of residence.
In pciut of population and schools, it
will soeii bo a city second only to Dallas
In the State of Texas.
Its natural attractions are hard to
compote on paper. There is a charm in
me Deautilul, level country surrounding
it. Nature lias sent out her invitation to
the world at large it seems, to come and
build a city there. There are no ob
stacles to overcome, no stubborn forest
to hew down —just a vast level plane
with beautiful dwellings clustering closer
here acd there, becoming more and more
friendly as the weeks go by, for it is
Co. of Boston
Tue “R gal” Is clothed in a garb of
richest silk flush, iu wnatever cj or one
deiir.s. Fancy what a thiug of beauty
it !p, sp. entire piano c ivered in el.-ft old
oli plush, that takes up every ;(oint of
ight, and is the fitting dresi for .ho soul
of mu’ic within!
Mr. V.rugbn has the general agency for
the Smith Americ m piano over the
State of Texas, and he has established
sub agencies In all desirable points.
it is difficult to compu’e the numi-er
of homes in ths lone star State in which
this eiegant piano has been placed.
Its beauty and bc-1 -like clearness of
tone, and the general finish of tnis piano
make It a univereat 'avorice.
Ac the Fair Mr Vaughn’s exhibit at
tracted much attention.
Bssid s the beauty and novelty of ths
R >gil” tnoro were many others in his
stand deserving ofspecial notice.
The Sohmer andBshr Br s pianos in
particular were mue l ad uirrd for their
high finish and sweet tons.
Mr. V.inghn handles several other
■iuos and a number of re'i&blo makes of
Hardly possibly to keep up with the
gro wth of the place.
Work is commenced and pushed so
rapidly that wuere one has once noted
an unfriendly space between dwellings,
• little later cau scarcely recognize tue
sain ; neighboraoc.de, for lol like magic,
uave the distances been bridged with
handsome hou es.
Oak Cliff is not only a piac j of resort
in summer; winter and summer alike it
has its attractions even to the visitor.
It is lovelier now than in springtime,
even a very Arcadia seen ia the light
of this perfect October sunshine.
No day shows less tuan 1.500 tic ets to
Oak Cliff’ sold, and on Su ada d s there is a
groat increase.
Naturally the people of Dillas, bust
ness peooie, with brain, heart and hands
strung all the week, cravd a place where
it is possible to find a breathing spell
one day out of the seven.
It is res ful even to make the trip on
the dummy ail the way around, pleasant
to take in deep breaths of the frtsn pure
sir, to see a limitless expanse of sky ( not
tautabz’ g glimpses over the tops of
massive buildings )
Your correspondent has ssan, nowhere
in Texas, G orgia or Alabama, so far. a
place of so many possibilities as beauti
ful Oak Cliff, and possibilities that are
to become prosperoui certainties iu the
near future.
The newly elected mayor of Oak Cliff,
M.j H F. E ving, belongs Y to the old
schoo of courtesy and-g ace, .
It is l-efrts -ing to be ao reminded tha'
there are yet extant living illustrations
of the good old explanation of that much
abused word—gentleman— 1 gentle as a
woman, and manly as a man.”
Majcr E ving s charming family under
stand ti'orougaly the art of hospitality,
which is after ali not very high art, but
heart.
Foremost in ever/ plan for the advance •
meat and bright future of O ik Cliff ap
pear the able ideas and substaniiai aid of
Messrs T L Marsalis and J T. Elliott.
With their aid and taat of good schools,
good society, pare wafer and ali tne ad
vantages of a city, O k Cliff' In a few
years may i 0J k forward to a population
f 50.000. M. P. H.
Mr. Speaker Reed is eminently correct
in using the expression plain people
rather than common people. People of
plain good sense are by no means com -
moo, and many very common people are
anything but plain. Apart from this
distinction there is something offensive
in the use of the word com moa when sp
oiled to people, which does not attain to
the word plaln^
Culture, not knowledge, is claimed by
same latter day prophets as the true end
of education. But how, pray, can one be
trained by books without studying them,
and how can he study them without
learning what they contain? There must
be something poured Into the mind be
fore its powers can be brought out. It is
idle to talk of a man or woman’B being
highly cultivated who has not a large
stock of information.
That it is more blessed to give than to
receive is one of the maxim t of th8 New-
Testament which people assent to readily
in theory but are tardy, about accepting
in practice. That they who give cheer
fully derive a pleasure from so doing, is
proven by the testimony o’ all who have
ever tried the experiment.. But their
words have never yet induced the larger
number of people to test the pleasure
giving power of the practice.
Whether he favored or opposed General
Gordon in his late canvass, no true Geor
gian can fall to feel proud of the illustri
ous hero who has j »st been elected to the
National Senate. Most signally has he
adorned the history of our State in field,
in council ard In the Magistracy. H s
name will stand pre eminent among the
citizens of our State who have won a
world-wide reputation. There were good
men who honestly opposed his late elec
tion; but these cannot deny his many
claims to glory.
It has been announced several-times
that a cotton picking machine had been
invented. Now, more confidently per
haps than ever before, it is said that a
contrivance has been produced which
will do the work of flff-y men. We doubt
the truth of the statement; and if wedid
not donbt we would hesitate about re
joicing over it. We cannot help having
a pity for the forty-nine who wool i lose
their chances of earning a little money
did this creation of sinewless arms and
iron claws come into general use.
SAVANNAH COTTON EXCHANGE,
Savannah, Ga., Nov 28,1890
At a general meeting of the Savannah
Cotton Exchange, held this day, the fol
organs, but- no organ does he find that Mowing preamble and resolutions were
will take the place of the ‘ Carpenter ” unanimously adopted:
In many a home are its sweet Btreins Whereis, A bili has passed the House
hoard, and did the demand is for more. 0 r Representatives of tne State of Geor-
Ti>a three years of Mr. Vaughn’s Dual gia, known as the “Twitty Bill,” which
ness ye ture in the music line havele n substantially declares illegal, emtraers
singularly successful ones. A id his sue. J made between parties for ths pay neat of
cess has Seen d ro to his enterprise in : attorneys’ fees, i p >n notes and other
carrying a varied and elegant Block, a contracts, to ba recovered against the
large and complete stock of sheet music— debtor, in case of suit, in addition to
el so his never failing courtesy and kindly
treatment otall those with whom he h«3
been brought iu contact. H - is a Georgia
coy, and we cannot wish him too mnch
success.
oak cliff.
Step on the dummy with me at Dallas,
NATCHITOCHES, LA.
Editor Sunny South: The Thlr-
t on club, an organization composed
principally of society young gentlemen
' . , r ‘ , . less, breathless nights at Oak Cliff even
of Natchitoches, was given It: ex.stance in the heated term. For hn dfeds oi miles
last January and has made rapid pro
gress. No institution of thi i kind has
ever existed here, aud as well as a novelty
it contributes largely to the social and
literary desire of both young and old.
While of no religious construction its
code of by-Jaws and regulations Is of
such a nature that naught but innocent
amusements can be indulged in within
its walls. Unlike many establishments
of its kind, which tolerate and escou.age
gambling, in this all kinds of betting is
prohibited, and the ni.bfality of this c ub i childish beliefinmigic.whenoneremem-
Which thev find themselves r-niovine- into : acts as an iilumlnator to beckon it on- b„ rs t uat its first house was completed
wn cn they hna themselves enjoying into ward , or ever ln tlle p V (h of prosperity, twenty-seven months ago. It has now a
reckless extravagance. But tnese are * I-, gave its initial grand ball Thursday, as population of about seven thousand
abuses which do not prove the thing I a modeof celebia'ingTaanksgiving. Tue \ largely composed of the best psop'e from
abused bad. When the merchant credits hal , la '•'ere decorated regardless of.cost, ! thedifferent towns of Texas and all parts
principal aud interest of the debt;
And Whereas, Tne passage of such a
bid tends to disarrange credits among
the people at large, and to retard the
prosperity of the S:ate of Georgia, and it
is proper that the commercial bodies In
, this State should express themselves
and ten minutes of exhilarating rush upon this measure, so that the General
t hrr.no u nna -nil. nf innoin Aes jmb y may have all possible informa
tion, in passing intelligently upon this
question;
Tuerefore it is Resolved, by the Savan
nah C.’tton Exchange in meeting as
sembl-;d for this purpose:
First. Tuat the merchants of Savan
nah, represente 1 in this Exchange, here
by protest against the passage of said
bill, as an unwise pieca of legislation,
which would benefi; neither the lender
nor the borrower, but would stop the flow
of money into the State of Georgia from
without, ana from the money centers of
the S ate to the Interior, and from the
country merchants and local banks to
the planters,
Tue passage of snch a bill would not be
a blow at lawyers, who would get their
tees out of the amount collected, in any
event, but would directly injure the bor-
ro-ving class, because they could not
make their credirors secure in the col
lection of principal and interest, fehich
would result in higher rates of interest,
through one mile of lovely, open country
will bring ua to O.ik Cliff.
Why Oak Cild?
B .cause its cliffs are tipped with ever
green oaks, and no ether name would fit
it. Oik Cliff is about one hundred feet
above and to the southward and west
ward of the city of Dallas—overlooking
the city. There Is nosuch thing as sleep
less, breathless niirhta ll.B illifTnv.r
to the south and southwest stretches
a level prairie over which sweeps bree z.-s
from ihe Gulf, free from infection, from
any insalunrions c3ndition.
Tne Oak Cliff elevated railway forms a
belt of nine miles, encircling Oak Cliff,
but is at no place more than three miles
from the business portion of D Bias.
Cars run every 15 minutes day and night,
fare five cents.
L mking at the beautiful little town,
one is inclined to lean toward the old
cupy the largest space in history,
names occur so often to the minds of the
great mass of eiviiiz d men as thoae of
Alexander, Cic=ar and Napoleon? No
At their front comes the silent figure
with the weather-stained cap palled
down over his eyes, with the worn and
faced c ,at, with the sun burnt beard,
raier whose impulses were benevolent with tho close pressed lips, with tee
and whose aims were for the benefit of
the race achieved a more lasting notorie
ty thanLmis XL, and no Zealot, all aglow
with a generous love of humanity, has
secured a more permanent place in histo
ry than Philip II. Many of the most
famous people have won a fame that was
neither good nor desirable.
Not a few, too, have won imperishable
fame from passing through scenes of
peril or suffering which we must consider
fearful prices to psy for a renown which
they never enjoyed. Those who have
acted parts in painful tragedies have not
doubtless found lessening of their agonies
from the reflection that their stories
would go down to the latest generations.
The beautiful and high-sonled Mary
Stuart did not find her prison Jess tolera
ble because persuaded that in the c.ntu
riee to come men and women would weep
nt the recital of her wrongs. Many, very
many, found no joy in making the histo
ries which wlli continue to be talked
sttrn and fixed lace. He bears the look
ho woro at Cold Harbor, when, with bis
right hand raised to heaven, he prayed
to tbe God ol Baltics for that aid which
he believed would surely come to the
pure in heart. He passed over the river
at ChaucallorsviUe.
Closing the column rides the Com
mander of tae Army of Northern Vir
ginia.
That grand figure, solemn, grave, bear
ing great responsibilities, has no peer
save tnat of Ptter Palme In fortitude,
in courage, in geuius, in fl Jelity, in pa
triotism, be fills as high a place as any
hero of whom record has been made.
He and his army, his achievements and
his motives,have passed in review before
the Judge of nations and of hearts, of
success and of aefeat
The Army of Northern Virglni i has
passed into history. “Its splendor
remains, and splendor like this is
something more than toe mere outward
adornment which graces the life of a
nation. It is strength, strength other
than that of mere riches and other than
that of gross numbers—strength carried
cautiously and pru.lently, he often in
creases his profits; and by making a good
use of credit many men have arisvn from
poverty to aiiiusace.
Thera i3 however a great deal of dis
honesty in the world, and ihe too coam
ing are apt to find their confidence be
am! no one thing was Jaoiing to win the j of the United Stares.
success of t ie entertainment ___ I Tney are an energetic and prcgrisslvo
I people. O tC iff uas ja3t ba.n iucoroor- !
An ambition to enjoy the dignify of
motherhood is not a leading motive with
the young women of our day who are
enjoying the advantages for higher cul
ture. They d j not covet the refl ;x glory
of shaping the characters of son3 who
shall become Illustrious. They rather
cultivate the desire to be something
great themselves. It may be that tho
higher cultivation of womin will lead to
a practical adoption of the creed of Dr.
Malthus, and solve the problem of the
loo speedy over-peopling of our planet.
Tney who employ all the powers of
inventive brains in perfecting labor,
saving contrivances are doubtless st.im
ulated in their efforts by the hops cf
making Ufa easier for their fellowmen.
We can hardly pronounce tuat, it has had
t (istff jct. We have niny conveniences
that our ancestors knew not of; and ln
many callings one can now do wnat once
employed the labor of half a score. But
it is just as hard to live now as it was of
old. It- may take less muscle, but it
requires more b:aln, and the wear and
tear is even greater.
The adage that men value little what
costs them nothing fiuda a verification in
the present attitude of our people in re
gard to education. Since the day when
the S:ate began to assume any share in
the Echocliug of Its boys ami girls the
willingness of tho parents to make a y
saciincesfor that end has steadily de
creased. It would 3aem from statistics
that the amount of illiteracy becomes
steadily greater as more and more money
is appropriated to common schools. Par
ents did better when they ane w that they
had to pay for tuition.
Among the ladies present were Misses
The Lamp-Lighter, The Wide, Wide
World, and Uncle Tom’s Cabin are men
tioned as three novels written by Amer
ica® women which have survived for a
third of a century and still enjoy an
undiminished popularity. Toe first two
owe this long continuance of life solely
to their literary merit; the latter—while
it might have bien kept alive by its
worth—doubtless owes mnch to its sub
ject. We believe no novel written by
any man of this country has had so many
readers as these. Those of Cooper, Haw
thorne and Simms come next to them
iu popularity.
Some one who has bean figuring up on
the subject, says that before the year
2100 our world will be as full as it can
hold. Almost simultaneous with this
announcement comes the news that a
great German physician has found a way
to baffls the greatest destroyer of human
life. With consumption conquered, the
time for the earth's filling up would be
hastened, and it may bo that ln the year
in order to piovide for tho contingency! I 2000, instead of snch a state of happiness
lng C ex e D e O ns d e 0 s r ofci°Llimr ent ’ ° f | as Mr.Edward Beliamey depicts,there will
Sec >nd. Resolved further, That we a strQ Sg 0 for existence exceeding in
protest against the passagj of this bill ' fierceness anything that has ever been
for the additional reason that Georgia I known,
is fast bee uning a manu’acturing and i ’
B rtua Hill, Adelame liill, Ainolle Lich-, aied, and one of the first moves or the ! railroad building S ate, and the passage i T „ rtnmi. i.,n ,
tenBtein, Maud Pierson, E'la G itrica, l city government will be the building or ! of tbts bill would tend to check such de- 6 °‘ Canada, which is
Jaffa Cosposi, Maggie Cage, Caffie Jones, ■ several large aud commodious irlck and 1 velopraent. so material to tho prosper!; y J nominally aportimfsf Q:
Willie Pogen, May Pierson, May Bro | Slone pablicschool buildings.and provide ' of ths people at large and the enhance
zeale, — Rhodes, Millie Hughes, Trine j a large fre: school fund. ’ I ment of tha values of land a 1 over tha
. F’-asher, Maud Bates, Lulls Draugent, Oaa Cliff' is firsd with a noble ambition. State, for it gosa without saying, that
trayed. While the false are connaratlvelv ' Dfuhilenx, — King, Emmie McMlnda She proposes to be tho Yate of herosva ' the rapid completion of the lines now
iess uumerous^than the taue tta 1 ^ ri0 & F ^ ny W v ’, Mr A B \ w - an1 ^? 11 - State and the Tame of her schools shall j project d will not only increase land
less numerous tuan tue true, tae number i, pgi Mrs. Tom D. B yd, Mrs. Ling, Mrs. go out into other states. values and the fortunes of tae agricul
of the treacherous is absolutely pretty Guuorx
large. One who lends his ducats upon r > A i? 0, . l{ ’ gentleman present were
,, . ,, , , ,7 , I B. E Lichtenstein. Dr. Joseph b aie
the most well-drawn bond, cannot feel phens, U P Brozealn- P- A. Sowpoyvac,
positively -sure of getting them again, j Valerie Drabiiux, It ' S Caepatr S. H.
While it is exceedingly annoying to the Scruggs, Ambrose Hntzr7, Ban Draa-
creditor to be deceived, it is perhaps j ffw.' HiW Simotf’A^ltmon?!:
well for the world that such betrayals ; atrauss, Albert Smith, Dr McClung, D.
The free schools will be supported by tnral class, but by the rapid enhance-
these oai fund of Texas, an; an addt- meat of the values cf property will de-
tion thereto by local tax. Four ward ! crease taxation. Tne railroads being
schools and one high school building are ! constructed, and to be constructed, are
sometimes occur. Too many men get
very rich with all their drawbacks. Did
the lender always get back his own with
usury, the money might soon get to be
all ln the hands of a few. Rascals per
haps do some good without at all design
ing it. • *
It has been often said that Ell Whitney
gave a longer life to African slavery by
his invention of the cotton gin. We do
not know. ’Tis hard to say what wou'd
have been had something not been which
was. Tae opinion above quoted was that
of those who supposed that slavery was
simply a matter of dollars. This was not
the case. Tne institution had its bust
C. Scarborough and many other*.
Speaker Reed’s Methods.
Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, in a
resent article on the United States Sen
ate, says: “Experience has shown that
however calm and dignified and wise in
dividual men may be, they become easily
subject to passion and excitement when
assembled in large bodies. Janies Madi
son said that ‘had every Athenian citizen
been a Socrates, every Athenian assem
bly would have still cein a mob.’” Mr.
Hoar was too polite to say so, bnt his
characters vtion applies with stinging
force to tne House of Representatives
under the rule of autocra t Reed If there
never was in this country an assembly
in contemplation.
A complete university course can be
taken at the high school, and pupils may
graduate with as high honors as at any
university in the la: d and this is not
ali. In course ot time, in the not far off
future, perhaps, a school of law ana
medicine will be located in Oak Cliff.
No Intoxicating liquors are tolerated
within tbe borders or the beantlfnl little
city; no evils of any sort are allowed to
canker her heart. In the local option
vote, 20 only voted liquor.
Oak Cliff has from 1 500 to 2 000 resi
dences, costing from $1500 to $50 000
compelled to issue bonds, which are
largely taken by capitalists North and
E tat, and if no provision can be put in
the trnst mortgage, protecting the col
lection of these bonds ln case of default,
with all expenses of court and attorneys’
fees, then tbe bonds cannot be sold.
Third, Resolved farther, That copies of
these resolutions be immediately trans
mitted by the Secretary of this Exchange
to the Governor of Georgia, the Presi
dent of t e Senate, the Speaker of the
House, the Senator from the First Dis
trict, the Representatives of Chatham
county, and to ail of the commercial
have ] bodies ’of this State, requesting these
been let and the population will show
a wonderful increase in the next twelve
months. Along the line of the railway
and easily accessible to the people are
distributed stores where one can nad all
artioles required for family use.
Another great desideratum of an ideal
dwelling place is’ water—pare, tasteless
water, and that Oak Cliff possesses in an
that coaid jastly be stigmatized as a mob ' limited supply. She has a successful
it cannot be said that a thing does system of water works, famishing clear
ries wu.cu by proud descent from oae generation to ness side; It hal also its sentimental. We , --
about and written about until the end of I anotner—strength awaiting the trials do not know which influenced people the not now exist. So much for Reed and i spring water.
time. • * I that are to come.” | more, I his methods. I She has thirty miles of paved streets
latter to take action upon these matters
immediately, and transmit tue same to
their local Senators and Representatives,
and that the Savannah Morning News
and the Savannah Daily Times bs
requested to publish these resolutions,
aud tne press of the State generally is
respectfully requested to give the same
publication, tne importance of this mat
ter not being confined to any section, as
most be manifest to all thinking people.
J. P. Mbbrihrw,
Secretary and Superintendent.
ieea Victoria’s
Empire, hangs on by so slendor a thread
that it may be called essentially an inde
pendent power. "When it snail assume a
place formally among the nations, it will
not be a weakling. In population and
every other element of strength It will
ba fully equal to what Great Britain was
when George I. ascended her throne.
Stretching from ocean to ocean and pos
sessing a fertile soil, abundant facilities
for transportation by water, and an enter
prising people, there is nothing to pre
vent her from' becoming one of the great
powers.
In the issue of the dally papers last
week came the announcement of the
death of two of the moet distinguished
of Georgia's adopted sons. One, the
learned and eloquent Beckwith, had been
for nearly a quarter of a century the
highest dignitary of his denomination,
bnt had not rea -bed hn age that forbade
the hope of many years of usefulness.
Dr. Lipscomb, on the contrary, had at
tained to a period when there was faint
prospect of farther service or enjoyment,
and when his best friends could hardly
desire his longer stay. Tney were m«n
whose names will always be mentioned
with respect and will be pointed to by
our people with venerating pride.