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THE CHBYSAHTHEMOW.
A Flower of Infinite Variegation
and Variety.
'Among the Most Ancient Favor
ites Within the Florist’s
Knowledge.
N AMEBICA the chrysan
themum Is now a reign
ing favorite from the moun-
1 tain tops to the sea. From
beyond the eopse-clad
Bookies, and from the
| shores of the Hudson bay,
to the lands of the Creole
and palmetto, cornea the
I Joyous, general outcry of
U A11 hall, the Autumn
Queen!" Tile all-popular
f iui of plants holds at the
present time a position
among Its floral compeers
never hitherto accorded to any other
flower In this country. Not even the all
honored rose whose beauty has inspired
alike the exalted and meek in all nations,
and waked into sweet minstrelsy the
poets of every age. For well nigh a
hundred jtan it has been given an ob-
ewasore coiner in many American gardens,
but not until the past ten years has It
made any great advancement, as about
that period our florists began to display
its virtues and advance its fame. It has
now come into our affections, and found
an abiding place In our homes, that the
vagaries of fashion cannot displace, and
awakens alove for Its protean beauty that
time will probably never congest By
no strange alchemy has it wrought Its
way into the foremost ranks of our much
loved flowers, but by its surpassing
beauty, and its great adaptability to
grow and bloom In all locations in which
it best suits the circumstances of its cul
tivator to place it. It comes to us in the
fullness ot its regal glory, heralded not
by the song biras of spring. Its trum
peter is the November winds that it
bravely battles thiougb, and bears the
summer sunlight on its petals to greet
the winter’s snows. Blooming at this
set son.it evokes the warmest enthusiasm
in its favor,and as it Is seen it conquers.
No pampered inmate of the conservatory
dare dispute its charms; it Is the peo
pie’s flower, a great commoner among
Its gay ccterles, whose beauty is diffused
with c qual grace alike in the hand of
the modest village maiden as in the
gemmed bouquetlcr of a Newport belle.
From prehistoric times the inhabitants
of China and Japan with wonderful de
votlon cultivated this famous flower.
Travellers from the earliest times relate
the esteem in which It was held by the in
habitants of the Fowery land where it
adorns every borne from the hnmblest
cottage to the habitation of the exalted
mandarin. We are informed from au
thentic source that so great a favorite
is the chiysanthemnm in those countries
that no persuasion will deter the garden
ers from cultivating it, and they would
frequently prefer to resign their situa
tion than to be forbidden by their em
ployers to cultivate It.
The Caines a often train the chrysan
themum into cut ions and fantastic
forms, such as pagodas, horses, stags,
ships and other devices.
Also in the town of Dang o Zika, in
Japan, the most curious objects to be seen
were imitation ladies, made cut of the
flowers of the chrysanthemum. Thou
sands of blooms are need for this purpose,
and these artificial beauties smile upon
the visitors out of little alcoves and sum
mer houses, with an effect that was often
times as startling as a glimpse in a bath
ing house at Cane May.
At the most popular of the Japanese
festivals the people display effiegies of
their traditional heroes. Composed of
E lies of chrysanthemum blossoms, Ben
el, the Japanese Hercules, appears gor
geously apparled in white, purple and
yellow pompons. The Sun goddess and
other mythological persons are con
atrncted ont of unnumbered qualities of
these flowers. So tbat on its native
heath our favorite flower may be said to
paint tbe eyebrows of a Hercules or lend
blushes to a Queen.
ntaknlM?W JMS Imperial Order of the
collar, the former being lit the snapd ot
a fluted cross with a ruby in the center,
the latter being a blaze with ruby, hung
around the neck by a riband. The whole
work is in gold, silver and enamels. This
decoration Is bestowed with rare excep
tion p, only upon royal p- non'-, and is con-
sic ertd a very high distinction. Among
European sovt c gns who have been
wearers ot this mark of the Mikados favor
may be mentioned the late Czar of Bus
ria, Alexander tbe II., and the preeent
Emperor of Germany. Four yean ago
the Emperor of Japan, in order to mark
the sense of his obligations to the gov
ernment of England sent Prince Ko matt n
to London for the purpose of investing
the Prince of Wales with the order.
The chrysanthemum npto 1824 bore no
Stott fle name and was distinguished only
by its form and color. The real Chlnere
names could not be applied only with
uncertainty, many of which were curious
and fanciful. The following translated
from the original Chinese will serve as
examples of tbe names by which the
chrysanthemum was known in the celes
tial empire. “The purple lily, the white
wave of Autumn, the purple pheasant’s
tail, tbe scarlet robe, tbe yellow gold
thread, the purple butterfly, the yellow
tiger's claw, and the drunken lady." The
Japanese also delighted in giving such
high soundidg names as "mountain
mist,” “autumn cloud,” and “ten thou
sand times sprinkled with gold.”
Tbe chrysanthemum season in Japan la
looked forward to with much pleasure,
and the different communities manifest
the gi eateat enthusiasm In their culture.
A certain dey is cot apart as a enrj eantbe
mum festival, when ail turn ont to pay
due homage to their national emblem in
the many nued chrysanthemums. During
their blooming period the gardens of all
tbe prominent florists preeent a brilliant
scene. Each evening for many weeks
the notables of rank as well as the peas
ants in holidayattlte help to make things
gay. The fetes are always faeid in the
evenings and tbe grounds are b: autifully
illuminated, being gay beyond compart
son.
Some of these gardens are complete
bowers of beauty and Inezes of tropical
flowering plants tbat bend nuder the
weight of umbrageous learage. Stately
palms abound and every pool and stream
is trimmed with the bamboo In endless
cordons, from which rite the rose flushed
caps of the lotns and other aquatics,
while the chrysanthemum Is trained in
the meat grotesque forms shove and be
low, whose pendant blcstons of every
glint of color an d wayward twist of tassel
are the admired of all, tie flower of the
popular heart and the pride of home and
country.
His nalsty opens his gardens at the
Imperial Palace on this grand fete day.
All the highest native officials and for
sign residents ot distinction are present,
and noltationa are reach sought after,
and valued. It Is one of tie few occa
sions when the Empress is to be seen in
public, and she delight# in having the
moat dainty pocket handkerchief of
gause embroidered with chrysanthemums
of all colors.
Her ladies of honor also appear in gor
geona dresses with chrysanthemums of
all colon worked upon them. Hen it Is
said that tbs national flower of ovary
ho# is found to be nnc quailed. Nowhere
can they be found in such profusion, so
tally developed, so brilliant in color,
while tbs rich imperial violet silk, with
which the tents and buildings are draped,
bear upon them the heraldic Kikn, aa it
Is called in Japan, in all Itaprlstlne love*
H nras Aa the day dacUnoa and draws to
a dose, the people return to their homos
to complete the slow processor intoxica
tion by drinking Bskl, into which are
thrown the blooms of chrysanthemums,
which they suppose will preserve them
from evil the coming year.
We have been taught tbat there is no
each thing In nature aa plants having
ccarlst, yellow and bins flowers upc n tbe
same species. Perhaps the nearest sp
nrcacb to this is tbs lyadntb, bnt In It,
altnough we have tbs ye low end bine,
we have no tine scarlet. Neither is there
any true ecsi let among the ebryranthe-
moms, s bleb fact pats same c: edenes In
the Information regarding a variety of
«l,e chrysanthemum tbat exist i In Japan
havirg blue flowers. It Is repiesented
frequently cn Japanese porcelains both
acnent ard mcc-rn, especially cn that
ofSatsuma sne Kioto.
In I he hist-; ly ol Nil -tokr-ter-wanthe
following pspisgc occurs: “In 886. In the
seventy Hiid jtar ef his ei^n, se.di
of the chrysaLthbiPuai having blue, yti
low. red, white and violet flows** were
first Introdeeed into Japan from a foreign
country.” Tbe Japanese commentator
remarks: “By a foreign country ie meant
tbe Kingdom of Paik tss, one of tbe
states ot Corea.” U pon some of the por
celain ware the chrysanthemum blos
som Is painted blue or emerald green to
which fact may also be attributed the
notion that a blue chrysanthem® exists
In Jspin. It Is generally unde-stood to
b- in tbe possession ol the £*P*™* e
Buddhist priests who guard it with jeel-
ous care from the ejes of Western travel-
lens and refuse to allow it to leave their
k^Tne chrysanthemum history in Ameri
ca is easily told. Amateurs in former
yean must have Imported toe chrysan
themum very generally. Snob events,
however, have but little history. The in
troduction of the old “Arte mlsiaa’’in the
primitive gardens of this country Is a
history that it is likely no one can toiL
The records of sneh events could not con
veniently be kept by people engroeaed
with ail the arduous undertakings inodm-
the primeval forest from tho Algsmqulns
and tbe Creeks wore enterprises Itaught
with many hardships to the “palefaeed
that brooked no thought to record fw
those who were to follow the minor
•vents of the sgs ln which they lived
Thus it is onr historical research is brief,
fragmentary and incomplete. Who In
troduced thu now all-landed flower and
the precise date of the importation we
cannot learn. Its early history upon onr
continent ie lest to the historian, so that
it is not possible to say with any authen
ticity whowasthe first to cultivate it In
the New World. These potato In its his
tory must long remain a matter of uncer
tainty, bnt that It hat come, and corns
to stay, is a matter long stace past con-
tenUon.Being cultivated In England alnoe
1796, a long period could n°t har*® 1 *^**
utrtifl It became known ta America. The
florists of onr Uurgo Eastern clues were
always active in getting such things
from their English correspondents, and
doubtless but a few years only elapsed
from the time of Its first Introduction in
to England until Its roots were firmly
planted in Amerioansoll. ... .
For many years, however, It obtained
attention In a much tan degree than ln
the eountrlee of the Old World. Within
the past twenty years, however, the pop
ularity or the flower has advanced at a
steady pace, until It la now a general
favortte for the home garder, tte “htbi-
tion hall, and the conservatory. With
such a command of climate as the Ameri
can oontlnent affords, the entire culture
Is thoroughly mastered, including the
production or seed to any ex tent oorro-
spondlng with the wants ot our floriria
end the capabilities of the flower.
The new American seedlings of tbs
past few years ere probably unequalled
jn their home In the far East. The vari-
eties now produced are so refined by
intermarriage end strengthened bj c.l •
mate, cultivation and care, that their
supremacy ifl now to nil icEnowloflcM
theme. This wor derful development in
a few years by American cultivators is
phenomenal for so brief a period. We
have started late bnt have caught up
with older countries that cultivated the
chrysanthemum long before Columbus
bad thought of adding a new woiId to the
The pioneer in American chrysanthe
mum culture is Dr. H. P. Walcott of
Cambridge, Mass., who was the first
American, either amateur or professional,
to raise a chrysanthemum irom seed In
this country. Dr. Walcott raised his first
seedling in 1879 from seed ripened In his
own garden, and exhibited It in Boston
the autumn of that year at the show of
the Massachusetts Horticultural Society,
where they attracted but little attention
at tbat time. Since then the Doctor has
produced many exec lien’ varieties that
are to be met with in all collections of
this plant In this country as well as In
Europe. . . w K
Other raisers, such as Mr. w.
Harris, of Philadelphia; Mr. J no. Thorp,
of Pearl Blver, N. Y., and Mr. T. H.
Spaulding, of Orange, N. J., soon followed
in Dr. Walcott’s footsteps, so that at the
6 resent time there are many raisers In the
nited States that claim much credit fpr
the wonderful development of this flower.
America Is its climatic home, and all who
hftve gardens should grow it, and all
hearts love and foster it.
Spring flowers come like the jayous
prelude of a concert, but the chrysanthe
mum like the closing strains of a parting
song—It brings gladness to the dreary-
season at which ft blooms that is typified
in its lusty splendor.
A study of the chrysanthemum may
iftsint til tjall Mid conditions of men.
ofseedand the limltaof variation oT the
flower. To the student of our social
history she chrysanthemum is tall or
significance, and it cannot be a matter
of indifference to reflect that the Amen
can people are Indebted for a favorite
beverage—the symbol of sobriety and a
favorate flower—both of national import
ance to a people so unlike them in racial
characters and social haolta that special
legislation was enacted to exclude them
from onr country.
Send on your tea and chrysanthemums,
bnt stay at home yourself. Such is the
edict that bears reflection.
Concluded Next Week.
SHE WEARS SO DRESSER.
THE SUNNY 80PTH. ATLANTA, GAy
GoDgress in Session.
'Ord at
DECEMBER 13,1890.
Bernhardt as Cleopatra is Clad in
Strips and Jewels.
Every one knows that the dresses Bern
hardt wean in her Cleopatra are not
dresses at ail, bnt strips of material
wound around her lithe body and fasten
ed with jewels, says the Sun. Bnt there
is as much individuality to eacn ar
rangement as to the confection of a
French modiste.
The first costume which tbe divine
Sara wean, and which has no shape save
that which her body lends it, is of sky
blue,with a girdle orprecions stones and
a sacred serpent sormcanting the coif
fure made of gold and jewels.
The next Is a band of crepe de chine
enveloping the body in pale rose color,
With coiffure of wild passion rose and a
golden serpent for a girdle, its head fash
ioned of a single emerald, its eyes of ru
bles. There is a wonderful costume of
yellow stuff embroidered with gold and
worn with a violet girdle. The feet are
bare, and the tees blaze with jewelled
rings, like tbe amorous qreen’s slender
fiageis.
And there is a purely Grecian costume,
richly embroidered, and last of all the
masnificent golden Egyptian drees, em-
brolderied afl over with gold and com
S tated by a marvellous Egyptian head
rees gleaming with countless precious
stones of all colors. The jewelled girdles
are all that will save Surah from encoun
tering the full measure of the law at the
bands of the spleeny Comstock.
The snakes are rather moretronbto-
somethan Mms. Bernhardt anticipated,
tuttwo of them are becoming very docile.
The tragedienne declares that the sensa
tion of cold which contact with them
prodnoes is indescribably charming, and
that her greatest fear was lest they find
it dull.
She had tried to have them amass them
selves looking ont on the boulevard, but
they were not Parisian enough to amuse
themselves in tbat way.
LOVE LIVES LONG.
Japanese Have an Abelard and
Heloise StoryZAll/Their Own.
Alova story, from his retreat in Japan,
will outlive the memory of long w
and great prtaoeo. There exists a proof
of this in a little village, which I recent
ly visited, not far from Tokio. The vil
lage is named Meguro, and lisa about
three miles from tbs capital amid bam
boo groves and clumps of wild eamaUas
on tbs beaks of a stream.
Here Use Iburled, asar the temple of
Fudo-ftame-Bblral Gompaehl ana Ko-
MarasekTu* beautiful mtataess. And
although It Is 230 yean sines the tavern
were lald there together ondar the bam-
boos, their memory remains still as graso
as tho leaves tnat flatter above them.
Everybody hereabout knows their sto
ry; every one eon relate it to yon with
the minutest particulars: ovary one soon
er or later repair* to their grave to bon
a stick of incense there, and afterward
to sit in the teahouse by the pool of
whltejlotos.and feed the tamo carp with
pink and green biscuits while medftta*
ting each in his own way upon what
Shakespeare sayp:
Golden boys and girls all must
Consign to this, and come to dust.
Pills often leave a person constipated,
Simmons Lmr Regulator never does.
STORIES TOLD BY LEGISLATORS ON
THEIR RETURN.
Speaker Seed's Compliments to the Men
Who Write for Newspapers—Some Men
Who Were Defeated and Their Success
ors—‘.'Sold I to Myself. Said I.”
[Special Correspondence.!
Washington, Dec. 2.—Well, here is con
gress again. Here are the statesmen, the
Victorious and the defeated, the re-elected
the rejected, the lucky and the unfort
unate. But to save your life you couldn’t
tell the happy from the unhappy ones by
looking at them from the gallery. Every
where there are smiling faces. Even the
big speaker does not look very miserable
aa be ascends the rostrum and starts the
legislative mill in motion, and he wields
the gavel with all tbe vigor that character
ised his rule previous to the recent un
pleasantness. The mill is grinding away
U a perfunctory and monotonous fashion,
bnt not much attention is being paid to it.
This is an hour of good natured badinage,
in which the defeated receive wit h compos
ure the thrusts of the victors and often re-
tarn them with compound interest. It is
a reunion of personal friends, and Repub
licans and Democrats mix together telling
stories of the great political battle tbat
has been fought since congress adjourned
two months ago. Congratulations and re
grets are in order, and there is no lack of
subjects for comment. The great hall is
foil of men who have either won notable
victories or been hurled down in over
whelming defeat. Even the speaker, busy
as he is, finds time to tell a campaign story
to a group of newspaper men who have
called on him in his private room in the
rear of the halL
“My respect for the power of the news
paper press is increasing every day,” said
tbe speaker: “it was the newspapers that
overturned our majority in the house.
And one is not surprised at this when he
takes note of t he men who make the news
papers—how keen, how bright, how saga
cious and how handsome they all are.”
Whereupon all the correspondents present
bowed profoundly in acknowledgment of
the complimeut. “Why,” continued the
speaker, “I have even learned that you
newspaper men can write letter speeches
than we fellows who make a business of
that sort of thing. During the campaign
I had a chance to note this in a most
striking way. One night out west I made
a speech in an opera house, and al>out
midnight the editor of the local Republi
can paper came to me in a peck of trouble.
The reporter whom he had assigned
to report the meeting had gone off
somewhere and filled his skin full of
liquor, and the editor did not know
where on earth he would get a re
port of my speech. He said he must
have it or he would be the laughing stock
of the community. Had I a manuscript
copy of it? I regretted to say that 1 had
not, but the poor editor was in such dis
tress about it that I told him if he would
send me a stenographer I would help him
out. This he gladly consented to do, and
I sat down and rattled off my speech, or
what I thought was my speech, again.
Next morning it appeared iu the local pa
per in full, and the editor was correspond
ingly happy. But there was an evening
paper in the town, and its reporter had
not gone off and got drunk, lie was on
hand and made a report of my speech, and
when it came out in type I saw at once
that I had been mistaken in supposing the
speech which I dictated to the stenog
rapher was the same speech which I had
delivered at the opera house. They were
alike in that they bore some poiuts of re
semblance, but that was all. Now, would
you believe it, the speech printed in the
evening paper was so much better titan the
one printed in the morning paper that I
have been ashamed of the latter ever since?
I have since often thought that j'ou news
paper men do more for our speeches and
our interviews than we do ourselves.”
Among the many victims of the elections
none receives mole expressions of regret
than “Billy” Masuh, the Popular wit and
boj:Troy bacE?* sXjfe“tJ»
congressman, “1 wouldn’t care if I had
been defeated for president of the United
States. During the days that the poor lit
tle fellow was lying there choking to death
the elections never once entered ray mind.”
But Mr. Mason has in a measure recovered
bis usual good spirits, and he tells an
amusiDg story of his friend and townsman
Congressman Adams, who was also de
feated for re-election. Mr. Adams had a
hard time getting the nomination in his
district, and while the primary struggle
was on hired a large number of ward
workers to get out the votes for him. One
of these local statesmen put the price of
his influence on primary day at $40, but a
bargain was finally struck at $20, and as
Mr. Adams handed over the bank note he
Inquired, “Now that you have your money
for the work you are going to do, where
shall I find you on primary day, so that I
may satisfy myself you are attending to
business?”
“Mistlier Adams,” replied the ward
statesman sternly, with a look of pain on
his countenance, as if his intelligence or
his honesty had been called in question,
“Misther Adams, I would have you know,
sor, that on occasions of this sort, sor, we
usually votes from warrud te vrarrud. If
you want to find me to-morrer ye’ll have
to hunt me all over the district, sor.”
The primaries were carried and Mr.
Adams received the nomination, but at
the polls he was cruelly beaten. Mr.
Adams himself doe3 not care much for
this, but his accomplished and estimable
wife is much cast down in defeat. She is
the ambitious member of the family, and
is justly proud of tho reputation her hus
band has made in congress, where he is
known as the man who stands next to
Senator Ingalls and Speaker Reed in the
perfect diction of his impromptu speeches.
Mrs. Adams is a woman of wealth, very
fond of the social enjoyments of the capi
tal, and is credited with having furnished
much of the genius and inspiration of her
husband’s success.
That the average American woman is a
pretty good politician we many have oppor
tunities to observe at the Capitol City.
Here is bold, eloquent Ben Buttcrworth
receiving the congratulations of his friends
on the fact that he concluded to get out of
politics and go into money makiDg. But
the flavor is taken off the compliment by
the consciousness, of which Butterworth
cannot rid himself, that he would have
been re-elected had he stood for the honor,
and that in the next house he woold have
had an extraordinary opportunity to dis
tinguish himself. Butterworth’s succes
sor is another example of what an ambi
tious woman can do for her husband when
she sets out to lift him up a few pegs in
tbe world. Bellamy Storer is the new con
gressman from Butterworth’s district, and
Ms wife was a member of the rich and In
fluential Anderson family of Cincinnati.
Mrs. Storer some time ago concluded aha
would like to sit np in the gallery of the
national house of representatives and look
down upon her husband occupying a seat
on tbe floor. So she started out on a little
campaign of her own, arranging matters
with this leader and that one, removing
obstacle after obstacle, and now that her
lord has been triumphantly elected she is
said to be the happiest woman in Ohio.
Eons times the ambition of a wife is to
get her husband ont of polities. We have
a cam of that sort right under onr eyes.
Here aits John Wiley, member from Buf
falo, one of the few Democrats of the pres
ent congress who are not elected to mem
bership of the next congress. Mr. Wiley
would have been returned but for his wife.
Mrs. Wiley can see nothing in politics that
a man of business ability should sacrifice
his time for. She says it is simply hiring
one’s self out to a whole lot of people, in
stead of working for some one and having
but one boss, or, what is better, carrying
on a business and being your own boss.
What makes this case the more striking is
the fact that Mrs. Wiley is a young and
beautiful woman, who came to Washing
ton only a year ago as a bride, and who has
won marked social distinction here. Ad
mired by all and envied by many, the pop
ular belief was i —
followed the fashitlWi ier „ _
ated with capital and been.. ***®fin
waa expressed whej^^^Uety. G °>e ir“*
she bad declared "W beca D , , '*L. ,
as empty and
career, and had .
band to retire froA^^d return to
Buffalo a privatfll^J^ea. But every one
Who knows the rHS'essnessa"'! hollowness
of the life of a family devoted on the one
aide to politics aud on the other to society
will applaud Mrs. Wiley’s choice as wise
and bravely womanly.
Many inquiries are made of the defeated
members concerning their successors. Oue
of the queer Ait eases brought out in this
way is that of Mr. Peters, of Kansas. He
hm never even seen the man who will take
hia seat in the next house. The new man’s
name is Simpson, and he is the town mar
shal in a small frontier city—a gossiping,
dry goods box whittling chap, as shrewd
as the famous Philadelphia lawyer. He
made no canvass for congress, but just sat
around and talked to the farmers as they
came into town, and was elected by a band-
some majority. There is another Farmers’
Alliance member of the next house who is
likely to win fame as the man who wears
no stockings. We-riready have in congress
two men. Senators Reagan and Coke, who
wear no neckties, and the latter wears
no collar, but a statesman without stock
ings will he a sight to see. Rumor has it
that this same genius, Simpson, the town
marshal, is the person who gets along
without hosiery. If this be true he and
Tom Winn, of Georgia, the latter being the
man who never rode on the cars till last
snmmer, and who will he startled when he
sees his first electrie light, will be apt to
acquire even more prominence in legis
lative annals than was enjoyed by Maj.
Martin, the long haired member of this
house who once blew out the gas.
Billy Mason is another statesman who
has never seen his successor. In the next
congress Mason’s seat will be occupied by
a young man wbosv name is Durburow.
The joke on Mason is that when he re
turned to Chicago after the last session of
congress he was told that a man named
Durburow had been put up to run against
him. “Who ilk thunder is Durburow?”
asked Mason; and his followers took np
this cry and pasted the dead walls of the
district with placflMs which read:
• WHO IN BLANK IS DURBUROW? :
The answer was given at the polls, where
Mr. Durburow, the unknown, had a very
comfortable majority over bis doubting
and facetious rival.
Another man who fell by the wayside
most unexpectedly, and whose friends are
now asking him how it all happened, is Mr.
Rowell, also of Illinois. Rowell has been
in congress a lonit Aime. and has risen to a
responsible chairmanship, that of tiie com
mittee on elections. He had a big majority
back of him and never doubted his re-elec
tion. The opposition had no hopes of beat
ing him, and so out of compliment to a
struggling weekly paper printed there
nominated its editor for congress. The
editor, a young and very poor man, t hought
as long ;is the compliment had been paid
him he would make the most of it and get
as much advertising ont of it as he could
for his paper. So.he went about the dis
trict night, after-night making speeches,
or rather plain talks', to the farmers. Elec
tion day arrived, and when the votes were
counted, to the .great surprise of the young
editor, he had a nice majority over the fa
mous Mr. Rowell. It is with such sur
prises as these and. the stories growing ont
of them that the members of the house are
now regaling one another.
Senator Manderson tells one of the best
campaign stories. lie and an Omaha
lawyer named Smith were out in the in
terior of the state making speeches, when
in a small town they fell in with a local
politician named Jenkins, and, after the
custom of the place, went in to get a
drink. While they were standing at the
bar a rival politician, a man with a fierce
countcnam e and an unsavory reputation,
an abusing Jenkins,
tho epithets he could
Manderson expected to
ins edged toward the
ut. An hour later tho
od were in the office of
qilLik 'JJUIl. talking
suited him. “I turned
uted Jenkins proudly,
ow down, dead beating,
guzzling, cowardly,
fe beating son-of-a-gun,
stepped up
applying to him
think of. Sen
see a fight, hut Jr
door and sneake
senator and his f
the town hotels.«
Manderson "arm i,
on the cuss,”
“and said he was
ornery, moon fal
claim jumping,
and that”
At this critical; moment the huge form
of Sam Johnson {loomed up in the door
way.
“That is,” Jenkins resumed in a lower
tone, “that is, I said to myself, said I.”
Robert Graves.
AN UNDERGROUND EXPERIENCE.
A High Strung Gothamite Discloses aa
Unknown chapter of City Life.
If there is anybody in this town’who
hankers after the thrilling he can gratify
his appetite at very little outlay. Let him
go to the underground station of the Har
lem railroad Eighty-sixth street and
Fourth avenue, pay five cents to the be-
whiskered patriarch who presides at the
subterranean ticket office there, and pass on
down into the aixiomen of Yorkville. Time
the trip to make it half past G p. m. of a
week day and then wait.
If he doesn’t experience within the next
five minutes a nervous sweat that will
knock out of his system a generation’s
germs of malaria, then he is deaf and dumb
or has fought in wars.
In the iirst place you’re all alone. Yon
can just distinguish in tho darkness, em
phasized by three paralytic gas lamps, a
long, narrow, damp platform, a track on
the left backed on its left by a wall of stone
and on your right a high brick partition,
punctured at its top by semi-circular open
ings, whose purpose you wonder at, but
not for long.
A drip, drip, drip of accumulated rain
water makes yaitr flesh creep. You begin
to figure out your indebtedness to the
world, your last unpaid life insurance bill
rises up to haunt you, thoughts of home
and the fellow,who’U succed to your job
make you groan, and it occurs to you how
sweet it is to die—at home, with friends
and physicians and medicine bottles and
oranges around you.
But you are brought back to earth, or
rather the bowels of the same, by a noise—
a humming noise like that your singing
top used to make when you were a little
lad. It grows on you, this noise; it hums
and then buzzes in your ears; it sets the
lamps a jigging; it seems to set you crazy.
A flash of light is thrown on the track at
your feet; you spring back in terror, a
great monster with flaming eye rushes at
you; you cover your eyes and wait for the
crash; you hear a whistle’s shriek.
Gabriel’s trumpet disappoints you in its
shrillness; two clangs of a cracky bell an
nounce your arrival above; the air is
rushed past you; tbe noise goes with it;
yon open your eyes and find yourself in the
clouds. Tbat familiar feeling of dyspepsia
is still doing business at the old stand, and
visions of patent medicines in the land
you’re nearing cross your poor, bewildered
brain. But tbe clouds are steam; they aoon
pass through the holes above, blessed holes!
and you breathe again.
You creep up out of that tunnel a batter
man—morally that is, for of coarse your
stomach’s upset, and you know there is a
God, and you tremble and are faint.
Then yon tell your wife of the poor devil
who works in that modern inferno from 7
till 7 daily for the monthly remuneration
of 985. He most pall and haul and yank
millions of souls safely over the switches
centered there every year of his service.
Yon resolve and adopt unanimously In
your qniet, sweet home the opinion that
the best paid men in the world ought to be
switchmen.
ATEN BY SPECTRES.
lantoms Attack Living Men in
A Jackson (Miss.) House.
Jackson, Miss , Nova .ibar 23,
About 11 o'clock lsst night < ie crowd
collected in Miiilet & Robei.Va saloon
were startled by a man who c true rush-
in among them bsre herds?, covered
With perspiration and screaming at ev
ery jump. He fell forward in t middle
of the floor and was only revived after
considerable exertion on tho part of the
sympathetic crowd. When stir to do so,
he related a story of how, see slug a place
to spend the night, he had entered an
old stone house on the outskirts of town
and had there witnessed snob sights as
to frighten him nearly ont of his senses.
The tramp’s terror was evidently un
feigned, and the stories already In circu
lation regarding the “old Ferguson
plaoe,” as It is known, and which declare
it to be the nightly scene of ghostly ra
vels and disturbance, lent his feartal ex
perience an air of troth.
Several, however, openly ridiculed the
idea of spirits appearing to any man and
at last proposed to prove their increduli
ty by passing the rest of the night in tho
haunted house Furnished by John Ro-
belle with plenty of Dutch courage and
accompanied by Hero, Captain Hender
son’s bull-terrier, the party, comprising
Matt Downing, Ed Richards, Captain
Henderson ana Mitchell Bell, set off for
the ptace, which they found silent end
dark. A fire was built and the cards pro
duced and in the midst of an exciting
game all thought of the ghostly charac
ter of tho house was forgotten, when, all
ones, Ed Blehards gave a yell and the
others turning saw peering over Captain
Henderson’s shoulder a horrible, pallid
face, with clotted blood marking fore
head and cheek, while the eyes, glassy
and staring, reflected snob terror aea
lost soul might feel. Nothing below
the face itself was visible and attar a [few
moments it also began to^re treat toward
tho wall, into whieh it vanished.
(.Downing and Bell here proclaimed
that they had enough of facing the
ghostly tenants, and, in spite of the
others’ remonstrates, were making
their way ont.of the house, when a man
with a rope around his neck, which was
swollen and black, met them and, stand
ing In the way wherever they turned,
drove them back to the room where
the fire burned. The fonr sat hud
dled together for some mlnntes, without
any other vision, when a moaning, at
first low and at intervals, but gradually
increasing to a series of unearthly
screams, began to echo through the
house, coming apparently from be
neath it. The room filled with a pale
blue light which effaced the glow or the
fire, which seemed to struggle against
somethii g trying to smother it ont.
_ This phantom brllliancs would grow
dense in places, and take the form of a
human being, but so dimly as to render
it impossible for it to be seen whether it
was of a man or woman. Several at
tempts were made by the frightened men
to leave tte room, butdoor was found
to be held by some invisible force. When
the blue light disappeared from the
room, which It presently did as suddenly
as it came, great black drops were found
to be dripping slowly down from the gar
ret floor above, which formed the ceil
ing, and a pcol of blood some feet wide
formed in the room, and ran in slowly
widening streams abontthe apartment.
This went cu while bursts of fiendish
laughter could be heard issuing from the
garret.
Captain Henderson ss ya of this mcrr>
mem: “It was unearthly and far mere
horrible to me than anything we had
heard. The voice was a woman’s and
very shrill.”
This kept up some time, when the
room was cleared of the blood in a twin
kiing of an eye and the laughter cessed
slso. Attention was then attracted to
he dog Hero, which had from the time of
tits euterlng the house manif s ed fe- r,
nestling close to his master and lying
with his face hidden in his paws. AU of
a suden, however, he tprang to his feet,
snarling as at a foe auvanciDg ou him,
through nothing was visible to the men,
and then with a howl of rage and feared
sprang forward, his hair bristling on his
back, only to be hauled back as by some
powerful hand. Frantic now, the ani
mal recovered itself, only to return to
the battle with its phantom antagonist,
but as he rnsned forward te was seen to
stop so suddenly tnat he rolled over and
and back uitatenr^’ lomS'tme
Captain Henderson was so enrage l
tbe killing of his valuable dog that, for
getting his fear, be jumped to bis feet
and began to swear atthe cowardly speo-
tre, which dared not reveal itself, when
he found himself face to face with tbe
man with the a rope about his throat,
who attacked him most violently. Tbe
captain lost consciousness as the hide
on* spook approached him, but received
a most unmerciful beating from it. His
companions declare that they were nna
ble to go to his assistance, so enchained
with terror were they at the sight.
The spectre presented a most corporeal
appearance, and had it not been for its
face, which was that of a person so
long dead that it was black with cor
rnption, they would have believed it to
be a living man. It disappeared finally
through the wall, and the room wes then
plnnged in otter darkness, in which they
were attacked by blows, pinches and
thrusts and something that scratched
like an angry cat, but it was not until
the house began to shake as if under an
earthquake that they were able to break
away irom it in a panic.
They had forgottenall abontthe cap
tain, when they heard, as they fled, tne
sound of a door violently slammed, and
looked back and saw him hnddled down
on the stops of the house, which appea-
ed to be on fire, when they went back and
got him. The parties mentioned are all
well known, and if suffering under a de
lusion concerning what Iney saw, are
honest in it beyond a doubt.—Philadel
phis Times.
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TENN„ LAND SALE.
For the grand sale of lots and lands at
Dayton, Tenn., December 3, 4 and 5,
agents E. T., V. & G. Uy. syetem will sell
tickets to Dayton and return at low ex
cursion rat< s good ten days from date of
sale. Dayton is now a city o'. 5 000, situ
ated on tho Queen & Crescent Ruute, in
the beautiful Tennessee Valley, sur
rounded by an inexhaustible supply of
coal, iron and timber. Two furnaces are
now in full blast, and behind in orders,
all who come."'FuT)"partf?firai%
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CON3UMFTION CURED.
An old physician, retired from practice,
bad placed In his hands by an East
India missionary tbe formula of a
simple vegetable remedy for the speedy
and permanent care of Consumption,
Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma and all
Throat and Lnng Affections, also a posi
tive and radical care for Nervons De
billty and all Nervous Complaints. Hav
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in thousands of cases, and desiring to
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cipe in German, French or English,
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Advertisers in this column titUST -V(;T havs
their mail sent care Sunny South. It requires
too much laborious uorh on our part to look after
M RS. VAN LYONS, general purchasing agent
orders for dresses, millinery, etc., filled
promptly. Special attention to wedding outfits.
Prices reasonable. Samples and estimates tar
nished. All orders for Christmas goods will re
ceive special attention. Write for circular,
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•gents of tbe East Tennessee, Virginia
& Georgia Railway system to Asheville,
N. G., December 13,14,15 and 16, at one
fare for the round trip, to parties to at
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18 and 19t Tickets good to return until
December 21th, 1890. f Every Southern
citizen should be deeply interested in
this Convention.
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Of Lime and Soda.
There are emulsion* and emulsions,
and there is still much shimmed milk
which masquerades as cream• Try as
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so disguise their cod liver oil as to make
it palatable to sensitive stomachs. Scoffs
Emulsion of TURK NORWEGIAN COD
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Eor this reason as tcell as for the fact
of the stimulating qtMlities of the Hypo-
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CONSUMPTION,
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CHRONIC COUGH or SETERR COLD.
All Druggists sell it, but be sure you get
the genuine, as there mre poor imitations.
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Yes, The Havana Cigar Co., atrents, Wins
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Cigars, will send to any person (whether mer
chant or consumer) C. O. D. by express (with
privilege ol examination) a Bam pie lot of 150
cigars for $5.25 (retail value $7.50). They also
send In the same package a gold filled, stem
winding watch, accompanied by the manufac
turer's guarantee to wear 20 years. Under no
circumstances will this package be sent twlcs
to one party. Orders will have attention after
ward at $35.00 per 1000 cash tor C. O. D.), with
out watch. Jan 190
ANTED—You to keep your money in th#
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W ANTED—Yon to know that McEwens
Steam Dye Works by doing artistic work,
have now many customers in every state In th#
Union • They pay freight both ways, so It places
it in yonr reach as well as if in your own town,
correspond with them and patronize a worthy
Southern enterprise. McEwen Dye Works ana
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take the fanciest colors and make a beautiful
black, we pay #11 expressage, write for parties-
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we will dye it a beautiful color, put on new
buttons, re-line and thus save you buying a new
one. we guarantee it not to smut, wo pay all
expressage, write for price fiat- McEwen Steam
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