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THE SUNNY SOUTH, AT
' to sapplemact It from a county tax Tho
crmntry will new bo oblo to oompoto
I «ish the towns nnttl the people have
! more retools and better ones. Btmj
year the country lease some of the beet
o'tf z nr. Just as soon as e fanner la able
to more to town be marts. There Is i
| wetsare upon him firm wife end dsugh-
I fm, they want social privileges end
j a oho©'a >nd oharohee. Twelve families
j here moves from the neighborhood where
I lived, dll ofxhem ere Using here In
t swn and their places ere supplied by
S ’ or folk send negroes. What Is the remc-
y for ttiiBill Asp.
1 P 8 Mrs. Arp read this letter and ta
mer >ed that 1 did not seem to be calm
and serene, and she thought I need*
some User mediates. B A.
iHEQUHTtfX
PHILOSOPHY
1 uopyrtfMed by Ms ewMor.J
iBv cpeeial arransement with the author and
.as “Coniiltatloiv* Bill Arp’s letters will be
published as haistofore In the Sunny South.
«nd will appear the same week In each ‘paper.]
I wag ruminating over those college
boys; 369 Yale College boy* on a lark in
New York painting the town red—boot
log, howling end yelUng in tie hotel and
saloons and streets Uke a lot of escaped
lunatics—running oyer the police and
the people and making everybody clear
the track. It must bare been an awfnl
time, according to the newspapers, and I
had a letter from e friend who Urea there
and he saya that nothing Uke it was ever
seen in Pandemonium. As a Dutchman
said to me: “It raa a wlot, a wo v, a
wampus” And it was all because they
had beaten the Princeton boys at a game
of football. Good gracious what a glori
ous victory, what a grand success, what
a magnificent and heroic deed Boat the
other fellows kicking a ball, and it took
369 drnass to complete the victory. Last
yeir there was a sbameful riot at Her
yard and a h nel burned up. What is tho
matter with tho Northern boys and too
Northern colleges? Wa don’t have any
suen ciroueetnent down South. I know
there are cone such in Georgia. Oar
colloee coys don't n*ve any time to rail
off 500 miles to kick a ball. Our Oxford
boys don’t dare go 40 utiles to Atlanta
except witu a special permit to have
their photographs taken as a class some
Saturday morning, and they go back on
the evening train. 1 would like to peruse
Dr. Boggs' countenance It tue Athens
boys were to ask fora week's recess to
go bomewhere to kick a ball. What k<nd
of edneation are these Yarn noys getting?
Maybe they have lust joined tuegymaas
tic department and no other. 1 wonld
11 ke to ask them a few questions in mathe
matics. 1 would Uke to know if 40 boys
can kick an eight inch ball200 yds. in 40
minutes oo a basis of 10 drinas to the boy,
how many drinks wi l it take to eoaole
50 ooys to kick a 10 inch ball 409 yards in
30 minutes. If ban kicking m to be their
business they ought to know how to do
that sum. Heaven help us when these
boy s are to take our plact s The whole
North seems to b j tainted witn this same
liberty of education—mis go as you
please, do as you please, study when you
please sort of business. If the old man
is likely to die and leave a hundred
thousand to the college tit boys must be
under no rules aud no restraint. These
colleges have already got tnbir millions
of endowment from legs iesandb quests,
but they want more. Maybe some of tue
boys are dolug well ana making good use
ot their time, out 1 wouldn’t rise a boy
of mine up tnere. I wouldn’t risk a b >y
W.fffM^WV^^^r^e'nt'rroma
wreck,and that oniy will be npon her be
fore the end of the century. Tue morality
and conservatism of tne S mtbern people
is rignt now the safe guard of the nation.
Tne oad men, tne profligate and tne law
less will soon ontnnmoer the good, hon
est, law abiding people o’ the North. 1
heard a good looking, finely dressed
young gentleman say to Mr. Hugnes on
the cars “1 don’t- like your town of At
lanta. A man has to walk two hundred
yards to getadriak. It is awtnl tire
some and inconvenient. IliveonTnlrd
Avenne in New York and therd are over
three hundred ssloons on that avenue.
When a gentleman wishes a drink there
Is a first class axiom witnin fifty feet of
him anywhere on the line.”
“Where have yon beeu, Jonefc? ’ slid I
to a fellow citizen.
“I have been,” sail he, “down to the
Technological institute to have some
work done for my mill, and 1 tell you
what is a fact, I got it done better and
quicker and cheaper than 1 could have
aone anywhere else. Mine was a very
peculiar and particular job, and required
skillful bands. Tuose boys did u and
they did it so well 1 had to praise them
and thank thorn. And besides, their
skill they are bo gentlemanly and
courteous In their depoitmeut; so ready
to answer questions and take heed to
suggestions that it has been a pleasure
to me to visit the institution. I wish
that 1 had a boy to send tnere.”
And then 1 thought about the girls’ in
dustrial school that we are bunding at
Aililedgevllto, and how quickly it will be
filled when it is finished, and how, be
fore many yearn, these working girls will
be mating with those working boys, and
what an Independent team it will make
In fighting the battle of life. What a
contrast to the ball kickers and high
flyers and dndes and butterflies that in
fest onr cities and do nothing but pay
calls and receive calls and read
novels in bed and get np to break
fast at 10 o’clock and change their
apparel three or four tlmee a day. I have
but little patlenoe with tbeee college
girls who skim through and read a com
position that somebody else wrote and
carry borne a painting that the teacher
painted and then begin to circulate and
visit their classmates, and when they are
not on the go their classmetee are on the
come, aid here they go and there they
go and it all coats money, and the old
folk* get no good and no help and no
comfort from either the coming or going,
and when it is too late they realize that
■ending the daughter away off to a fash
lonable college waa a mistake. It has
not made them tad or fastor strong
minded, bat they are no account, that s
all.
I say it deliberately that if a girl is sent
away from home to college and stays
there three or four years, nine oat of ten
will be no aooount when they oome home.
They may be good scholars and ever so
smart in chemistry and geometry and
astronomy, bnt her business in life la not
to use the blowpipe or to measure the
earth or the stars. When the oollego is
at home and the girl lives at home and
helps tar mother and docs some house
work every day, aooUege isagood thing,
bnt work most be mixed with study. Or
coarse she will come borne accomplished
and will know now to stand np and sit
down and walk around gracefully and
how to smile and sing and recline and
languish and all that, but she is not going
to cut and fit and make a dress for little
Bally nor help Bob with his sums at
night. Worse than all, some sentimental
society editor ofn newspaper will men
tion her as the charming and lovely Miss
Euphronia, and that will finish the Job.
ahowUlvisit Atlanta or Macon or Au
gusta and too society editors will .note
her distinguished arrival and uae adjeet-
like. sylphUk«H brUlKnt! exquisite, beau-
get up a new set of words just Ip vary the
or their gusn. They say,
though, that It helps the paper, that two
adjectives generally gets n subscriber,
■mi three makes It sure.
When a poor man looks ■tf^ght at the
results they need not envy the rich for
able to send their children to col
Ism; If bo can give bis own n good fair
at homo bo is surar of their
—eefnincas and their saoeees In life, and
be ought to bo content. Therefore we
^ontgoodeebools at home within our
„oen. Good schools U every town and
euugo and hamlet. And if the State can't
provide all the money the oonnttas oaght
REVERT.
i for tho Sunst South.
Icosbj ejes—the years, receding slowly,
Draw iu their train the Lethean mists away,
^ nd memory sweet, in pensive mood and holy,
Unveils toe roseate dawn of Ilfe’a young May.
o.i, b! itsful early days! not change nor distance
Can from the mind their imprest e’er efface—
< iooo ai.gefs, near this Eden or existence.
Meath oounding feet, fair, thornless roses
pli.ee.
‘ By tower-embroidered paths once more I’m
81 raying
Through each loved nook where truant fancy
leu—
My childhood’s numerous pets shout me play-
lot.
I LBppinij the hand that erst caressedor fed.
Dumb creatures all—yet oh, so mutely saying
I Through soullul eyes the thougits denied by
speech,
Their . raleful love, and winsome ways repay-
.ng
A thousand fold the care bestowed on each.
A dusky nurse my footsteps e’er attended,
Aud with what sedulous arts my Hours be
guiled!
With quickened pulse and eyes full wide dis
tended
Oft have 1 listened to her stories wild;
Quite marvelous these—and to toe nurseling
charming
As were, in after years, romance and song;
Some were of evil spirits—their rites perform
ing—
Such as O’Shanter ne'er went twice "among!
My favorite haunt was mother’s garden, teem
ing
With fragrant blooms that lured the plunder
ing bee,
His sombre coat with powdered gold a-gleam-
ing
As nectar draughts contentedly drew he;
Grand butterflies, on fragile wings careering.
Here lived their little day of brief delight—
The law of compensation thus appearing:
Joys shortest lived the more intensely bright
Shy humming-birds, coquetting with the flow
ers.
Their opalescent tints scarce lent to view
Ere vanishing—Uk* dreams of youthful hours.
As beaut ful and ah! as fleet! og, too!
A trcliised vine a cool retreat afforded
For weariea feet and contemplative thought,
White twittering birds sweet mvlody accorded
Unto the clustered fruit they loudly sought.
As eve approached, through hazy twilight roam
ing—
That interlude when day is merged with
nlgbt—
1 found diversion in the mellow gloaming
That marked the whirling bat aud beetle’s
flight.
When night's pale queen her lambent sceptre
wielded 4
And moved through s tarry hosts in mood se
rene,
Onto all things was fascination yielded
White beauty fairergrew beneath her sheen.
A sheet of water, willow-fringed and sparkling,
Hemmed in by sloping hills thick spread in
green,
Mcthouglit was fathomless—through shadows
darkling
Half fancied there would rise the fair Undinel
No nymph, disporting ’mid the wavelets shin-
lug.
Her charms revealed to eyes that doubtful
grew—
Instead, aquatic fowl, Intent on dining
Piscatorial y, leapt in view!
My loved ancestral home, by hills surrounded—
Embosomed here, witn sunbeams quivering
through.
Within thy balls, where heart to heart re
sponded.
The flower of happiness luxuriant grew!
Brothers and sisters. joined in sports diverting,
From Kindly Ups the merry jest let fall-
while I, the youngest born, and self-asserting—
A tiuv household despot—ruled them all!
Within my 'sther s arms I loved to nestle.
Soothing with dimpled bauds his snowy hair;
My childhood had no care with which to wres
tle,
Exceot to strive with castles in the air!
My future h-ld (so ran his story sweetly).
No sbip-wrecke l dreams on treacherous bil
lows rent—
O'er silvery seas should glide my barque com
pletely
Happy in the winds which Ileaven sent.
When pained or vexed, who soothed my peev
ish wailing—
>AA*^.wta.^»tawuLitafltraymo/ 1 ffj tfutf mru tilCU!
O, mother mine! thou gavest thy devotion.
Compared with whi :h all other loves de
cline;
Though but a weak return tie first em ition
This heart e’er knew was lavished at thy
shrine!
My thoughts rectiled, I nrise upon the present,
Ill-starred and sad, contrasted with tho past;
With upturned glauce, I meet the faces pleas
ant
Of those with whom my early lot was cast!
’Tis but a remnant joy that greets me ever:
But one remains whose presence is most
dear—
Parents brothers, ’yand the swift, dark river.
In su-mier homes some others mate bright
cheer.
My cherished home! the soul of mirth, de
parted,
Revisits not it* once familiar haunt,
Nor song, nor shout of children, merry-hearted,
Thine echoes wake, as erstwhile was their
wont.
Dear (though drear) as when thy well-tilled
meadows,
A. cornucopia teemed with copious store —
Thy lands partitioned lie in shrouds or shad
ows—
And memory weeps for days that are no
more!
Elmer Dermot.
Vaughan, Miss.
How 3Iosos Picked Up a Bear
Trap.
I bad Just eaten dinner with a Missis
sippi planter, and ere sat on the veranda
smoking when a colored man came up,
pulled off bis hat, and said:
“Majah, Ize dun hoard somebody shout
in' ober by de lower oo’n crib."
“Sound like game?’'
“He do, sab. Reckon it dun hurts his
feeltn’s.”
“Very well, William; I’U go down there
pretty soon.”
I didn’t ask what it was, and the Major
didn’t explain for some time. By and
by, after we had thrown our cigars away,
he said:
“The niggers have been stealing my
oo’n, and last night I aet a boar trap.
William thinks we’ve got soma game,
and wo might walk down that way."
The crib was half a mile from the house.
As we got near it wo heard a shout, and
a little later caught sight of a colored
m.w sitting cm the ground at the door.
His right leg was fast in the bear Map.
“Good evening,” saluted the Major as
we came up.
“Good evenin’, Major Bush.”
“Floe weather for cotton.”
“Mighty fine, Majah. Has yo’ dun got
freu ploughin’ out?”
“Not quite. How’a crops on tho other
side of tne bayou.” . , ,,
“Only tolable, Majah—oniy tolable.
Bln moss’ too wet wlo us ober dsxl”
“Any talk about election?”
“Jasso tootle bit, Majah, but not nuff
to hurt anybody.” . . .
“You came over to see me about work,
I inppoief”
“Yaa, ash, I did. Some of do hands waa
a-aajjta’ you oould put on a man or
t '“8oIcan. What’s that on your leg,
Moaea?”
“Oh my leg? On whleh leg, Majah?”
“On tne right.”
“Oh, yea, I’d don forgot ail about it. I
stopped In lit down in de woods, an’ waa
bringing it np to da house.”
“That to vary kind. Wa will taka it off.”
It took both of us to spring the Jaws,
and the man’s tog seemed to have bean
eat to tho bone. Ho scrambled up, how
ever, picked np n stick for n cane, and
*^‘Mooh oUscged, Majah. Whan shall I
earn?”
“About Monday next, Moasa.”
whistle and aeam at earn.
“Will ha ooms?” I asked of the Major.
“Not next Monday. Ho waa in taat
trap twelve hours, and ha won’t do a
stroksof work Iso three long months.”
A new stenographic machine in use by
the Italian parliament is capable of record
ing 250 words a minnte,.and can be readily
manipulated by a blind person.
It is said by an eminent physician that
no child under twelve should be permitted
to study outside the school room, even one
h.if hour out of the twenty-four.
Still a Hale Old Mao.
DESPITE CONTRARY REPORTS BAR-
NUM RETAINS HIS VIGOR.
V
RDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 13, 1890.
He Waa 111 for a While, hot Is How En
gaged in Transacting Business and Has
Hew Will—His Advertising
Some time ago the report went out
from Bridgeport that the veteran show
man, Phineas T. Baraum, was on his
deathbed. This waa soon followed by a
second statement that he had partially re
covered, was on the high road to health,
had made a new will and considered
the feasibility of several fresh business
enterprises. Then his affectionate and
relieved constituency—the entire United
States—queried and remarked, “Another
PHINEAS T. BARNUM.
advertising dodge, hey?” Probably not,
but the incident compels attention, nev
ertheless, to the old gentleman’s abilities
in that line.
“Be careful to advertise in some shape
or other,” said Baraum not long ago,
“because it is evident that if a man has
ever so good an article for sale and no
body knows it, it will bring him no re
turn. The whole philosophy of life is,
first sow, then reap. This principle ap
plies to all kinds of business, and to
nothing more eminently than to adver
tising. If a man has a really good
article there is no way in which he can
reap more advantageously than by
‘sowing’ to the public in this way.”
Baraum possesses a genius for ad
vertising, not only in the newspapers
and by posters, but in many other ways
calculated to attract attention
Another element of success which he
has, and whicli goes hand in hand with
his faculty for advertising, has been his
assurance. He has humbugged the pub
lic and then written a book recounting
his methods with remarkable frankness.
These methods of his more active life he
did not seem to regard as anything to be
ashamed of. They were to him brilliant
strokes. “Preserve your integrity,” he
said; “it is more precious than diamonds
or rubies. The most difficult thing in
life is to make money dishonestly. Onr
prisons are full of men who attempted
to follow this course. No man can be
dishonest without soon being found out.
and when his lack of principle is dis
covered nearly every avenue to success
is closed against him forever Strict
honesty not only lies at the foundation
of all success in life financially, but in
every other resjiect.”
One who is familiar with Barn urn’s
exhibition of the negress Juice Hetli, the
alleged nurse of Washington, 101 years
old, his woolly horse, his Peejee mer
maid, and other manufactured or par
tially manufactured curiosities, may be
surprised at this explicit statement of the
^In^aft'^fe^&TmKlenp
curiosities on the public he would have
scorned to do anything beyond what he
regarded mere shrewdness.
Baraum has never done things by de
grees. He has uttered some good words
about economy, but economy and par
tience usually go together. Whether
Barnnm has possessed these faculties or
not he has certainly declined to wait for
avenues, by which to reach the public,
to open up to him. Ho has opened them
himself.
In tho days when Barnurn was en
deavoring to establish the American
museum, and later when in the circus
business, ho used to do a great deal of
advertising in the then prominent New
York papers, The Courier and Enquirer,
The Times and Messenger and The Her
ald. “Night after night,” he said, “at
the midnight hour and later, I crawled |
np these several newspaper staircases to
put in these journals some fresh and .
startling announcement about my busi
ness. I even did this after the editor !
had gone home, but the foreman in the 1
composing room had some authority
then, and would often put the matter I
offered in type or make an announce
ment for me.”
Barnnm still looks back with pleasure
to his friendly dealing with editors.
blooming
The golde^dn Is tfcinjng
Over the nstaly earth,
G Aether 5k *re*ntrees;
And the leaves are whMpCTlRMQ* a r»
Answering the Whelm oreess.
The pleasant low of cattle
(An be heard Jro
As they grass ttaj
’ruths 1—
The sir is fall t
Gentle Feme L _
Ho shadow of sorriw seem* to rest
On our beautllul world today.
INFANT HEIRS TO MILLIONS.
Charlotte Bermin*toe,.and Everett L
Crawford Very YlA Children.
[Special Corraapoodence.l
New York, Dec, 2.-Since the Davidson
sisters and the Goods!* sisters cams for
ward as the youngeetpoets there have
been many ambitious But l"*s gifted chil
dren who have tried their dimpled hands
at writing, but few of them have the tal
ent, not to say genius, of Miss Charlotte
Remington, who is now nearly 14 years
CHARLOTTE REMINGTON,
old. She is the only daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. Remington, ami lives in Brook
lyn in a magnificent l!sme, for her parents
are very wealthy.
Lottie, as she is called, has a lovely
room, all pink sntirumd white lace, with
windows and deep seats all itcross one side,
and here she sits and writes, preferring to
“scribble,” as she calls it. to any form of
amusement, though she is a healthy, happy
girl. She has a whole pile of books filled
■with her writings, which consist of plays,
stories, fairy tales and verses, nearly all of
them marked by a delicate grace and
sweetness peculiarly Jier own. Her most
ambitions fairy tale- ran through seven
numbers of a monthly publication as a
serial, and this, with several unpublished
fairy tales, will soon be published in a
handsome volume.
Everett Lake Crawford, the handsome
boy whose portrait I also give, was born
with a very big golden spoon, in addition
to having first seen the light in the old
home of the late Commodore Vanderbilt,
who was his uncle.
Everett is the youngest child of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert L. Crawford and a grandson
of Mrs. M. E. Crawford, who was the
mother of the late Mrs. “Commodore”
Vanderbilt, llis grandmother was an Ev
erett and his mother a Lake, which gave
the combination of his full name. He was
born at No. 10 Washington place, New
York, June 12, 1S80, is consequently
but 10 years old, butBc is unusually large
for his age, very healjfcy and with a refined
beauty unusual in l>4Js. He is dark com-
targe dark eyes
WHAT HE PROPOSES AND SOME OF
THE DIFFICULTIES IN THE WAY.
Thera la Wealth Enough In England and
Land Enough In the Colonies to Give
Homes and Comfort to All, bnt Can It
Be Done Without Great Daager T
[Special Correspondence. ]
. New York, Dec. 2.—“In Darkest Eng
land: And the Way Out,” the book by
Gen. William Booth, head of the Solvation
Army, now exciting so much attention, to
a truly sensational work. Beginning with
the oft published facts on vice, crime and
poverty in London, and estimating there
from what those factors are in the whole
nation, with little more than the usual ex
aggeration of social reformers, he presents
an appalling picture. The vicious, the
criminal, the hopelessly intemperate and
the honest who are in actual want, he
thinks, amount to some 3,000,000, or near
ly one-tenth of England’s population.
Of course this is an overestimate, bnt the
reality is bad enough. Unlike most writers
>n the subject he has a remedy to propose;
le sets it forth with singular clearness, and
nany whose opinion is entitled to respect
tay it is quite practicable. He starts with
these axioms:
There is wealth enough and far more
than enough iu England to make every per
son in tho United Kingdom comfortable.
There is vacant land enough in the world
to furnish a good homo and lavish abun
dance of food to every human being and
their natural increase for thousands of
years to dome. Let the benevolent well
to do combine and raise a cash fund—
61,000,000, let us say—let the directors
be men of approved judgment in hon
esty in dealing with poor, and let them es
tablish three colonies of refuge: The city
colony, the farm colony and the over-sea
colony. The first is to be a preparatory
school for the second, and both for the
third.
The missionaries already at work among
the wretched are to open registers for the
unemployed; these go to the city colony
and work simply for food and lodging till
they obtain permanent places or are fitted
for the farm colony; in that they learn all
the details of farm labor, the women learn
ing their appropriate duties, and then they
go to tlie new country where land can be
Imd for the taking, and are overseen aud
assisted till self supporting.
He has converted many. The Earl of
Derby starts the fund with a gift of £1,000.
Tlie Marquis of Queensberrv subscribes
£100 a year. Clubs are being formed of
one hundred men to give £100 each. The
clergy of all denominations have welcomed
the scheme warmly, and many have an
nounced their intention to retrench from
their ordinary method of living in order to
aid the fund. It is also gratifying to note
that tlie more radical reformers generally
plexioned, with beat
lows. He is the uni
his disposition is
has never attended
tion at home, whei
French and Germai
branches. Tlie old
■j, v, v. active body.
!,<it affectionate. He
mol, having instrue-
he studies music,
,as well as English
onderbiit mansion
where he was born is(iow being torn down,
and his family have bought a house fur
ther uptown, but when he lived there he
made a general play house of the old star
ble where the old commodore used to keep
his fine horses, and which is as handsome
as an ordinary house. Here Everett had
every plaything fond parents with plenty
of money could find, and the little heir to
millions invited his young friends to play
here witli him, always offering the choicest
to his visitors.
His two elder brothers used to print a
bright little paper called The Diamond,
and Everett was the Regulation “devil” at
a salary of one penny a week, but lie final
ly struck for five, as he declared he could
not possibly provide for the needs of his
particular foreign mission on so little. He
got the raise without the intervention of
Mr. Powderly.
Everett-, for one so young and knowing
GEN. BOOTH.
welcome the scheme. Dr. McGlynn, for
instance, in his address to tlie Anti-Poverty
society in Cooper Institute, gives it his
warmest indorsement.
Gen. Booth is indeed a remarkable man,
and probably no other man of this age is so
well qualified by experience to speak on the
problem of pauperism. He is 60 years
oMstewfl Int COi w»wfmlj“*.,n!r-ms
wife, a woman of considerable talents,
aided him in preaching.! In 1865, however,
they desired to introduce more radical
methods, and so their denomination re
fused them a license.
They went to London, and for three
years preached in the streets and in such
halls as are frequented by the poor. This
led to the organization of the Salvation
Army, which, after being for a dozen years
a theme for satire, has compelled recogni
tion by all the churches as a powerful
evangelizing organization. Gen. Booth is
tall, long haired and a trifle sallow—the
appearance popularly attributed to relig
ious enthusiasts; yet no man is less a fa
natic in speech and writing.
Many doubts and difficulties will, how
ever, suggest themselves to the student of
society who realizes the tendency toward
dependence. Suppose the three colonies
well established and the work begun. The
first effect will lie to withdraw some por
tion from the, say, 300,000 in London who
live by beggary, viee and scavengering—let
us say a tenth. That operates at once to
make the situation easier for the nine-
so little of the miseries of the poor, has a • ^ ^ The competition in their peculiar
tender little heart, and he wants to .. .
KNOWN TO TELEGRAPHERS.
TOM FINNEGAN.
Death of a Famous Old Western Union
“Watch Doe-”
The operators at the great central
room of the Western Union Telegraph
in New York city mourn the death of
“Old Tom” Finnegan, as he was famil
iarly and affectionately called, who had
been doorkeeper
there for twenty
years. Heentered
the service of the
company over
forty years ago,
and for many
years was the
“grinder” — that
is, he turned the
crank for the old
House printing
instrument until the electric motor was
invented.
He knew every one of the 900 and more
employes, knew a good deal about most
of them, and had a faculty for recogniz
ing and excluding any one who might
“dun” or otherwise annoy any of them,
which amounted to a sixth sense. It was
part of his business to conduct visitors
through the building and explain differ
ent parts of it, and he did that for Dom
Pedro, President Diaz, the Pan-American
visitors and many other distinguished
persons. If a visitor knew enough about
electricity to ask troublesome questions
“Old Tom’s” Irish wit was always equal
to the occasion, and the boys hare a rich
fund of anecdotes about his repartees.
He died of typhoid fever at the age of 69.
A San Francisco undertaker has fitted
npa large and handsome funeral parlor
where funerals may be held. It is intend
ed to meet the needs of families who live
in hotels.
A burglar was neatly captured in Houns
low, England. He became fixed in the
panel of a door, through which he had en
deavored to make his way, and in this posi
tion was secured.
To preserve iron work from rust mix
some copal varnish with as much olive oil
as will make it greasy, to which add nearly
aa much spirits of turpentine, and apply.
The winning candidate for clerk in a
Kentucky county died just before the polls
closed on election day. His competitor
now claims the office.
very I
do something for those who need, and feel
that he does it himself, so he keeps all the
papers, rags and bottles, and sells them
himself and gives the proceeds to such
charities as he prefers—a rum not incon
siderable in a year—and he watches over
his clothes with a jealons eye and always
has a hoy waiting for them as soon as he
la allowed to give them away. His dress
is always plain and comfortable, but never
showy. His beautiful young sister, Mire
Frank Vanderbilt Crawford, was recently
married to Mr. Frederick Talcott in the
old Church of the Strangers by the Rev. Dr.
Deems, and Everett qaa page, carrying a
bouqnet of lilies of the valley almost as
large as himself with A quiet dignity and
Everett l. crawfobd.
grace that wonld have done credit to a
«—B man. He wore on this occaMona
ntoadid black velvet costume, with real
lace collar and cuffs and white silk sash.
He fa an ideal little Lord Faantlevoyto
looks. manners and sweetoteo.
Where he lives now is near Central Psrfc,
my afternoon he wsy he seen with I
whole crowd of children around him riding
on his “safety” or playing some active
under the watchful eye of his tutor.
Aar W ESTER V ELT.
Cheapest and beet-Dr. Bull s Cough
^•SowefltoHnge are to awwtato riven
much of earth and none of heaven.” as
for example, headache. n*mralgi»and tho
llko. OeohOi^ofSaJjrattoaOII—-*-
Ohl totneta joyteL
lines is 10 per cent. less. All w ho linger
on the edge of this morass and struggle to
avoid it because of its miseries will see
those miseries perceptibly lessened and
their motives for struggling somewhat
lessened. The pressure will continue to
be downward; the resistance being less
will not many now on the margin he
drawn in?
The work of redemption increasing, as
they promise, may next go so far as to
withdraw one-fifth of the miserable. Life
is then made very much easier for all the
rest. Eighty newsboys, or flower girls or
street pickers have the field once occupied
by a hundred; four “girls” receive the
patronage that went to five; there is more
room in the tenement house and probably
at less cost as the demand is lessened, and
so on through all ranks. The general con
dition will now be quite ns good as that of
the respectable very poor. Will not many
of the latter pass over the line and into the
easier life of the dependent?
We may assume that the work will go on
till one half of the “sunken tenth” are re
moved. As the available resources now
maintain all, though in misery, will they
not sustain the half in actual comfort?
Will not a current set in from all the ad
jacent social sections to take advantage of
this? As the next higher section is de
pleted by this drift, will not the next above
recruit that section, and so on throngh
many successive grades up to those who
are determinedly independent in feeling,
where, we may assume, the tendency will
stop? In short, will not Gen. Booth finally
have to reform and transport all the En
glish people below the line of proud and
self respecting laborers?
J. H. Beadle.
A Pretty Christmas Gift.
An exquisite bureau or buffet scarf can
be made of plain hemstitched handker
chiefs and linen lace. The handkerchiefs
may be arranged in a straight row, with
strips of insertion sewed between, and lacs
overhanded around it all, in which esse
four or five handkerchiefs will suffice. Or
they may be sewed cornerwise, as in the
figure, the spaces between where the cor
ners meet being filled with three cornered
pieces made by catting handkerchiefs
diagonally in halves. In this arrangement
more handkerchiefs and lace will be need
ed. The end squares will form points to
8«ng over the edges of the furniture on
which the scarf is placed, and may be dee-
orated with outline work in wash silk. If
desired the scarf can be lined with colored
muslin, a square satin pincushion to match
bring covered with a small linen doily
edged with lace. Such scarfs are rather
expensive at first, bnt think how well
they will wear. A. L W.
TO THE SUMMER SEA.
For the Sunny South.
Oh! Sea, thou’st a heaving breast,
and under thy whi e, white crest
B jnes of the dead lie at rest
And still in that dreary nest.
Oh! Sea I’ve a bosom deep,]
And all in a deso ate heap
My deed hopes lie and sleep;
And oh! ’tis a grewsome keep!
Perhaps from thy darkest cell—
How deep never man can tell—
On the breast of a pnrple swell
Thon haat sent me s rare white shell.
Oh! the waves quiver and dart!
’Tis a dainty thing thou art.
Oh! rare white shell; in thy heart
A precious pearl lies apart.
Oh! heaving,
Of the Past! What havs I of thee?
On a pnrple wave of memory
Thon hast brought my dead love hack to
- Mf>!
May Tobin,
CHARLES STEWART PARNELL.
Something About tho Irish Leader and
His Personality.
[Special - Correspondence.]
New York, Dec. 2.—I met Charles
Stewart Parnell when he was last in this
country, pnt in some time in his company
and observed him very closely—studied
him, in fact. I have since followed his
career, noted carefully what the cor
respondents said of his personal appearance
and kept up a sort of distant familiarity,
so to speak, with him.
Of ail the public men I ever saw, English
or Irish, American or European, Mr. Par
nell is the very last one of whom I should
have expected a social escapade. I cannot
set before the reader’s mind the reasons
for this feeling as they are in my mind, for
there is no analysis of form and features
which will convey the complete impres
sion; but I can give a few separated facts.
Mr. Parnell is, or was when I saw him, a
man who answered completely to the old
rhetorical description of Pitt beginning:
“The secretary stood alone. * * * The
features of his character had the hardihood
of antiquity. * * * No amiable or do
mestic weakness disturbed him; he seemed
a being of another sphere who came occa
sionally among us to counsel and decide.”
He appeared to me a little above the
medium height, and though broad shoul
dered there was an air of physical delicacy
about him; his hair and beard were dark
CHARLES STEWART PARNELL,
brown, and his eye, though not at all
piercing, was singularly clear and calm,
meeting bis fellow’s eye with an impassive
look iu whicli there was not one trace of
passion or even of ardor. Indeed, if there
is any one trait pervading the whole man
it is impassivity. No man looks less like
the typical Irishman. As to poetry, humor,
the ardent expression of warm emotion, I
should as soon have expected it from the
bronze statue of Franklin, in short, Mr.
Parneil presented himself to me as merely
a cold, pure and relentlessly logical intellect,
using a body only because it is the neces
sary vehicle of mind, severely just in all
his doings, and therefore wholly devoted
to the cause of Ireland.
I am moved to write these reminiscences
by the recent disc unions as to Mr. Parnell
bers; Mr. Gladstone’s letter practically re
questing Purnell’s retirement, and subse
quent developments History is full of in
stances of great men thus “deludered”
who lost no part of their political influence
thereby. There was Lord Nelson and the
lady whom while dying ho “commended
to the gratitude of his countrymen.”
There was the great duke of Wellington,
and tlie great Somers of the time of Will
iam of Orange, and Henry of Navarre and
scores of other French and English heroes
and statesmen. And in our country it is
not recorded that Alexander Hamilton
lost political prestige by bis remarkable
confession, while two of the great senators
who supported President Grant might
equally be cited. So it must be admitted
that the Irish patriots have good prece
dents for rallying around Mr. Parnell,
and they certainly have stood to him with
unity and enthusiasm.
If Not Already Familiar to Yon,
All we ask ta try a bottle of Msfttlrs’s Candor-
onto when sustain*.
Headashe ...C
Disordered Uw
Cleopat ra.
Cleopatra being now a good deal before
the public as a topic of theatrical interest,
the Egyptian coins struck in her reign,
which are in the numismatic department
of tlie National library, are greatly run
upon there. They show her when she was
respectively wife and when queen regnant.
One sees her at all ages, from her early
teens to almost the close of her reign.
Cleopatra on these coins and medals is far
nearer to Sam Bernhardt than to Mrs.
Langtry. She is almost spare in figure
when young, and at all times lithe. The
neck remained young to the last. Had she
lived to 80 she might have looked a little
like Prince Napoleon, the month and chin
having a Mother Hubbard tendency to
meet.
The full, luscious lips, resembling those
of a Somali woman, do not mitigate much
the hardness of the physiognomy. It is
strange countenance and one easy to read.
The forehead bulges at the eyebrows. Its
prominence here gives it singular' irregu
larity, producing the effect ftlmpst of a
smaller growing up out of a larger one.
Jove tv.'is represented by Greek sculptors
with such a forehead, but on a more mass
ive scale. The eye is greatly iu shadow,
and almost sinister, having the expression
of a snake's when a bird is to be charmed.
The aquiline curve of the nose is at once
strong and delicate, and the nostril is well
open and finely curved. Taken with the
lips, it gives an impression of a woman
prone to sensual joys, cynical, fond of a
cruel joke and contemptuous.
Her firmly molded and advancing chin
shows volition. She was willful to the
last degree, and not to be turned from any
purpose. The hair is dressed in the Greek
manner, and twisted up in a knot on the
nape of the neck. She is bad and bewitch
ing; All the men she fascinated saw
throngh her, but were too intoxicated by
her charms to break away from her. She
wore the royal diadem, which is represent
ed on some of the coins.—Paris Cor. Lon
don Truth.
Close of an Honorable Cnreer.
Dr. C. A. Miller, for many years past
superintendent of Longview asylum,
near Cincinnati, recently died quite sud
denly after an active and exceedingly
useful career. Al
though not noted
for any remark
able discovery in
medicine, he wan
still widely
known aa a suc
cessful adminis
trator of Long
view and as a hu
mane and skillful
physician. He
was born in 1839
in Athens county,
O., taught school at a very early age in
Ohio and Missouri, graduated from the
Ohio Medical college and was surgeon
for two years of the Thirty-fourth Ohia
He leaves a widow and two children,
son and daughter.
OUR QUIZ COLUMN.
THB LOST WOMAN.
Miles Btandiah, Marietta, G> : Who is
the author of “The woman who deliber
ates is lost? '
Addison is the author of the trite pro
verb.
JOHN O. WHITTIEB.
Maude, lows: Where to the blrthpleee
of Whittier?
John Greentoaf Whittier, oar fbmona
American poet, waa born 1807, at Haver
hill, Maes.
BOTTOMRY.
J. V. H., Iowa: What to bottomry?”
It to to* net of borrowing money and
pledging the keel or bottom of the ship
(that to the ship itself) as security for tho
repayment of the money. Bespoadenfta
to where t e money is borrowed upon
goods shipped instead of the ship lteelC
i 8TINGS OF WASPS OB BBE8.
Willie Bernard, Tenn.: What is good
for a wasp or bee atlng ?
Stings of wasps or bees may be treated
by bathing the parts with ammonia or
hartshorn, diluted with an equal amount
of water. In case of the honey bee sting,
if there is mnch swelling, a flax seed,
poultice should be applied.
BULLS AND BE&R3 JOF W *
STREE T.
T. V., Ala.: Who are the balls and
bears that play such a prominent part in
Wall street proceedings?”
A Boll is one who, having purchased
stock for speculation, exerts himself to
increase its demand and price, so os to
sell at a profit. A Baar ia one who, wish
ing to buy for speculation, strive a to de
press the price. He will himseir became
a Ball when his object has been gained;
and the Bull will probably have become
a Bear.
PERFUMES.
Lady Raader, N. C.: Give me some
idea about using perfumer. I am very
much opposed to them?
Choose a perfume fragrant without
being loud, delicate with sweetness and
freedom from sharpness. There is no
objection to the use of perrumes, though
that use can be abused. A lady of refine
ment can easily be detected by the qual
ity of the parfume ohasen. Sia will In
variably eschew anything loud or com
mon. May Blossom, Lily of the Valley,
Heliotrope, Violet, Whito R>se,S:epha
notis, &c , are among the most popular in
flower extracts.
A MAN’S EDUCATION.
John Gowan, Ga : Who is the author
of the saying, the best part of every
man s education is that wnicb he gives
to himself?
Sir Walter Seott. Gibbon also has wel 1
said that “Every man has two educations:
one which he receives from others, and
one more Important which' ho gives to
himself.” The mind has been endowed
with no more laudable ambltiou than
that of self-improvement. An education
Is a certain capital, a sure investment,
the best legacy that cau be bequeathed
to children, and this education in many
cases man “can give to himselt,”
GLYCERINE JELLY FOR THE COM
PLEXION.
Fannie Brown, Mis*.: Give me some
formula for making glyctr ne jehy for the
complexion?
Galatino, 20 to 30 grains, Glycerine J,
ounce fluid, Water, l 1 , ounce fluid, Boric
Acid, 30 grains. Perfume to suit the
taste.
The perfume must
stituted for the water if desired.
DR. C. A. MTTJXR
R03A BON HE UR.
Reader: Where is the home of Rosa
Bonheur and what is her age?
Rosa Bonheur, the world renowned
animal painter, lives in the little village
of By at Thomery. S ie is sixty-nine
years of age.
As Barblzon is peopled with memories
ol Millais and Rousseau so Thomery be
longs to Rosa Bonheur. At every step
beneath the oaks and elms and chest*
nuts, where the golden sunshine sifts
through the russst leaves,one expeots to
start a family of deer crossing a rise, or
to meet other inhabitants or tne boautl-
iul woodland she has painted so often
and so lovingly.
TRE iTMENT OF EPILEPSY.
Anxious Mother, Atlanta, Ga: Tell
me what is the most effective treatment
for epilepsy?
The bromide treatment is at present
the moat popular and considered the
most efficacious. It must however be
continued for years. The elzp of the
dose is to be determined in each oase by
careful trial and observation of the pa
tient’s condition; even as much as twenty
grammes dally may be administered for
a considerable Urns without injury a
During the bromide treatment partienlar
care must be taken that a large amount
of food be ingested, and at not too long
intervals examination of the longs and
of the skin should bo made.
DIFFERENT PAPER USED.
W. C. Jones, Washington, D. C.: Give
me the names of the different kinds of
paper and when used in writing?
Legal cap is nsed in writing all legal
documents, articles of agreement, etc.
The characteristic of legal cap is a red
line running from top to bottom of the
sheet.
Bill paDsr is used for bills, etc, and is
ruled expressly for the purpose. It
usually bears the name and business of
the person using it at the top.
Foolscap is used in writing notes,
orders, reoeipts, compositions, petitions,
subscriptions, headings, etc.
Letter paper is nsed for the ordinary
letter.
Note and billet paper is nsed for all
brief communications. It is the smallest
sheet paper made.
Ocmmerdal note is nsed for bnsiness
totters and is generally narrower than
ordinary paper.
“RATS I”
Schoolboy: Can yon toll mo tho origin
of tho along—“rats?”
We will be oompelled to procure a slang
dictionary If onr readers persist In re
quiting os to giro them tho origin of
every vile slang phrase flooding the ooun-
try. Can’t you make your queries a little
more elevating and refining for the thou
sands who scan this column for asefal
information? Bnt lhr the origin of the
elegant “rate.” A flow years ageaceto-
brated polo team waa playing a match
with a team from a neighboring city.
Tho visiting team, ealtod the Star, wore
ita name oonspicoonaly embroidered on
the breast of the shirt. As the gam#
programed it became evident to the tpeo-
tators that the referee, who was in sym
pathy with thanfrjttaff team, was nnfeir
in his decisions. This caused greet IU
feeling, and soma one in tho andlsnoa
shoaled “rats,” spelling the Star badge
backward. Instantly the ere was taken
to. rats,” resounded throngh
Thencaftorth the word “rate”
CfOOto-
apaad “rate, rats,”
the I