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THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GA.,
I H. SEALS
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Oar New Year Greeting 1
This Is oor first issue for 1891, and hav
ing taken two whole weeks for rest and
Chiistmas jollification, it makea onr
New Year greeting a little late. Bat it
is none the less hearty, and we trust will
be none the less appreciated.
No issues of this paper were made for
December 27th and Janaary 3d, and that
will explain to all why they received
none for those date*. Bat no subscriber
loses a number, as we have often ex
plained, because .fifty numbers make a
foil yearly volume. We allow one week
for Christmas and one for accidents, and
print fifty weeks Instead of fifty-two,
Every subscriber is entitled to fifty num
bers, and will receive them if it requires
s year and a half for ns to print them,
Notice the number on each Issue.
» We sincerely hope this may be a pros
perous and happy year to each and all of
onr pratons.
Oar Last Issue Was 783.
By reference to the last paper yon re
ceived you will see that it is numbered
783 and da.ed December 20. That was
the last issue. This is number 784.
Oar Model Cyclopedia.
We give a model cyclopedia in three
volumes, one, two, and four. Volume
three we do not send because it is a
history of the late war from a Northern
standpoint and would not be acceptable
to onr people.
To Local Agents.
We have hundreds of local agents, and
as the new year Is upon ns we would like
to hear from each and every one of them
with a club of five or ten subscribers.
We send the paper free to all agents,
and with a little effort on your part we
know that you can easily raise a clnb of
five or more. Some are at work acd have
already sent in their clubs. Do not de
lay this matter, bat send in yoar new
names that they may start with the new
stories just commenced.
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sobs bribers.
Clubbing with Other Papers.
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other papers. Now is the time to take
advantage of this offer and start in with
the new year. Do not wait, bnt send in
yonr subscriptions and clubs right away.
These low rates do not include any of
onr free gifts.
Delayed Books and Other Premiums.
Owing to a rush of orders for books
before Christmas a great many were
delayed, bnt by close and hard work we
have filled each order, and hope all have
been rec.ived. Every one is delighted
with these free gifts.
Oar Free Distributions.
As every one knows our grand free dis
tributions were broken up for the pres
ent by tho anti lottery law, bo you will
have to watch our free gifts for each re
newal and new subscription and take
advantage of them. Select your present
when you tend in your money. Do not wait
for the trave.ing agoats to come around
before renewing,as it will not eniitle you
to any preeeut to renew with them. We
eanuot pay travelling agents to call on
yon and give you presents besides. So
don’t look for them unless you remit to
the ( llice.
how 1 ear’s Gift.
When you renew your subscription
tend in for yonr neighbor or some friend.
The Sunny South is increasing in circu
lation all the while,and if each and every
one would send in jast one new subscrib
er for a New Years Gift, yon would be
happy and we would be donbly so. Try
it.
The Atlanta Scotch Irish Society.
It would astonish any ona to know how
large a proportion of onr best citizenship
is composed of Scotch Irish, and It la
commendable in them to unite, aa they
have done, in a formal organization to
promote social intercourse and cultivate
patriotic and fraternal feeling. It is pro
posed also to celebrate iUnstiions achieve-
ments and preserve the history of a race
which has added so mnch to the grandeur
and progress of the ages. The Society is
non-partisan and non sectarian and will
be a solid factor in the promotion of
every good and patriotic movement. It
is not generally known that the Scotch-
irish have given five presidents to the
United States.
Mr. W. Hugh Hunter, the efficient
book-aeeper of Mr. W.P. Patiilo, is Sec
retary and Treasurer of the Atlanta So
ciety, and there is not a more affable and
intelligent gentleman in the city. Bev:
J. N. Craig, D. D , a most cultured Pres
byterian divine, is President, and Bev.
G. B. Strickler, D. D., one of tho ablest
ministers In tho South is one of the Vice
Presidents. Col. B. J. Wilson, a yell-
known and wealthy citizen, and Judge
J. T. Nisbet, Gov. Gordon’s late Secre
tary, are also Vico Presidents. All the
offioers and directors are among the very
best people of Atlanta, and tho Society
may be eet down as one of the most
worthy brotherhoods in the city.
A Handsome Pocket Diary.
Wears indebted to tho ever vigilant
GOL B. W. Wrenn for a beautiful diary
ms pocket calendar bound in Bosnian
leather. It contains blank space for en
tries during every day in the year, with
dates and the Lumber of days in each
month—also postage rates and a map of
the East, Tenn. Va. & Ga. Ball way sys
tem. Wrenn is a haulier.
The Sunny South is your organ, and
we shall expect every writer in the S jutb,
male and female, to use its columns
freely. One of its cardinal points is to
foster and build up Southern talent, and
wherever it finds a budding genius or a
matured one it claims it as its legitimate
property. Tbere are hundreds, indeed
thousands, of people in the South who
would soon become polished and sue
cessful writers if they could . fix it in
their minds and labor with patience to
tha t end. Too many take np the pen
with the idea of immediate gain, or after
they have tried everything else and
failed. Hundreds of manuscripts come
Into this office with a note, stating that
it is the writer’s first effort, and yet re
muneration is asked, and a special re
quest is made that if published their name
most be withheld. The idea seems never
to occur to them that to write well re
quires long practice and much study, and
that they most first make reputation be
fore they can hope to command a price in
the literary market. Take a MS. for
sale into any New York book publishing
house and tha first question asked, is
by an author of reputation cs a writer f If
not it is declined with thanks. Bat if
the writer has an established name the
MS. meets with a very different recep
tion. Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson told
the Editor of the Sunny South that Geo.
W. Carlton, the well-known publisher,
paid her $15,000 for the MS. of her last
book without ever reading a line of it.
He paid that amonnt for her name, know
ing full well that her reputation would
sell the book.
It is therefore all important to work
first for fame as a writer, and if that be
secured the remuneration is sure to
follow.
But every one who wishes to write
cannot hope to succeed as Mrs. Wilson
did, and her phenomenal success is
therefore no standard. But let every
one who feels the itching for literary
success bend his mental energies and
dally studies to the task, and if he has
genius It will soon develop and make its
impress upon the public. The Sunny
South stands ready to foster every bud
ding genius and will lead it on to success
We have organized a board of readers to
examine MSS , and every one that comes
in will be turned over to them at once
and they will decide upon its merits; and
to encourage every aspirant we make a
special offer of
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS IN
GOLD
for the best original serial story which
shall be sent to this office by the middle
of March next, and
$25 IN GOLD FOR THE BEST
SHORT STORY.
Tbe serial story mast contain not less
than ten nor more than fifteen install
ments of two chapters each, and each
chapter must contain not less than one
and a half columns, nor more than two
columns of the Sunny South; and the
short story most not exceed three col
umns nor be shorter than one and a half
columns.
The MSS. mast bs plainly written on
one side only of the paper, and the real
name of the writer must accompany
each and be published with the story.
All the stories will be the property of
the Sunny South, bnt for every one
that is published a cash remuneration
will be sent to the writer.
Popularity of Mr. uleveland.
Thera can be no doubt that with the
people of this country, iu every part of
it, the popularity of Ex President Cleve
land is spontaneous, marvellous, irre
pressible. It has been common enough
to overwhelm his presence with plaudits
on occasions where he was on hand to
speak; but at Chicago, where the Tariff
Ksform League gave a barquet on the
30 ult., and where Mr. Cleveland was not
present, the same remarkable enthusi
asm was manifested at tbe mere men
tion of his name. The Chicago Mail
opened Us graphic report of the aflairin-
this way:
The name was hardly upon the speak
er's lips, but the audience knew wnat
was coming. Tin electric response
U tshed quickly as C a airman MacVeagh
was closing his sentence “Exigencies of
government have always been met by an
unheralded greatness, and we have found
a great leader in ’’
He coaid proceed no farther. Every
body Knew the rest.
One roand, hearty greeting of ap
plause, its parti welded by quickening
and timely enthusiasm into one spon
taneous snoot, rose from 200 tariff re
formers at the banquet tables. Old men
K unded the tables, and, while the ent-
y rattled in tbe ensuing pandemoni
nm, young men jumped to their feet and
waved white napkins to and fro in tho
air. Again and again were the cries
taken up, and each time redoubled in
tbe enthusiastic tribute to the name that
need not nave been spoken to have been
intelligible, bat was finally pronounced
in a moment of loll—Grover Cleveland.
A notable circumstance in connection
with the Chicago banquet was that it
was not wholly political. The MaU says:
Col. Bnsey, who defeated Cannon, sat
in tbe rear of tbe room, loanglng in his
chair and smoklag a c gar while intent
in the contemplation of cue proceedings.
Although the politicians were present
the aaaience was largely composed of
business and professional men, attracted
by interest in tne economic question in
discussion. Though the Democratic par
ty’s present attitude was applauded it
was not distinctively a Democratic gath
ering. Gea. Black’s address was the
only one which dwelt strongly upon
party sneoess. Tores of too eight
speakers were formerly Bipublieans.
The Bekring Sea Imbroglio.
Those who have not closely followed
the line of controversy between this and
the British government on the subject of
the Behring sea marine sealing privileges
are apt to view it as a mere airing ot in
ternational differences with nothing oi
consequence behind them. This is not
the ease.
The fact is that prior to onr purchase
of Alaska tbe valuable sealing right in
that section was monopolized by Bussia,
or nearly so, the German and British
sealers shaiing comparatively a small
proportion of the fishery privilege
through vessels protected by their flags.
The annexation of Alaakatothe United
States, while it reserved specific rights to
Bussia in this species of commerce, is
claimed not to have debarred the ptivi
leges erj eyed at the time by the seal
sailors and traders of the other two conn
tries. It is proposed by the American
government, now to forbid the British
fishermen and, sequentially, all oth
ers, the free use of the marine seal privil
eges embodied in the waters with
in a certain distance of the
Alaskan possession, this under the
gnise of protecting the female seals from
extermination and the seal far trade
from extinction, bnt in fact to monopo
lize the seal far business for the Ameri
can market. As we understand it, there
is no claim on the part or tbe contend
ing powers for new or greater freedom;
It seems to be a demand only for the eus
tomary and time yielded right to take
seals on the earns ground from which
former supplies were drawn.
Great Britain is the mover In this mat
ter, and of coarse is morally If not ag
gressively sustained by the other gov
ernments interest ed.
The present administration Is possibly
nnder the impression that anything in
tbe way of a triumph over Er gland is
likely to be popular with tbe masses of
this country, and hence there is just a
touch of politics entering into the mat
ter. Perhaps Mr. Htrrlson deems that
to gore the British government to a
rage anything short of that which pro
duced war would win to his party a
very considerable element of onr citizen
ship which rejoices at every blow dealt
at England. We do not believe a need
less quairel between tbe State Depart
ment and Salisbury would have any such
result; but, believing, on the other hand,
that Bussia and Germany, as well as
Great Britain, are viewing the action of
the administration with solicitude, and
that they will not tamely submit to be
crowded from privileges which custom
at least has sanc'.ioned, we fear that the
American President is “monkeying with
a buzz saw.”
H A Go:
The American W
dal Reporter is
published at Bi
DAY MORNING, JANUARY 10, 1891.
IfiVUtaB.’’
, Cotton and Finan
industrial exponent
New York and
Philadelphia. Too number for January
1 contains an able and interesting ad
dress delivered at Winchester, Mass.,
before the Fortnightly Clnb, entitled “A
Commercial Invasion—What the Mighty
Dollar is Doing for the South.” The
address throughout is fall of strong
points tellingly put, and the statements
are general y sustained by figures At
tho outset Mr Frank P. Bannett, who
delivered this address, says:
“In the first n/e«a, why :m I led to
expect anything siiferent in tbe South
taan in tbe NortbT What do we mean
by th« Southern Question? and why is
there a Southern Question and not a
Northern Question or a Western Qoes-
tionT Virginia and New Eugland were
the original forces of Americsn society,
and shaped its development.”
After showing that the industrial pro
gress of the South had given the denial
to the predictions of Edward Atkinson,
Charles Snmner and others, Mr. Bennett
concludes as follows:
“All things considered, the blacks and
whites in tbe South are getting along
very well in eaVif other’s company
There is slight need of Federal interven
tion. The Southern question is settling
itself, and tbe most potent influence in
bringing about this mnch desired con
summation is the commercial and indns
trial movement—the growing interest of
the Southern people in the pursuit of
the ‘mighty dollar’in useful and honora
ble occupations.”
The Exporter says editorially, in re
vlewal of Mr. Bennett’s lecture:
‘ The Booth will probably surpass all
other sections of the United States in its
percentage of growth in population and
wealth between the censuses of 1890 and
1900, and onr articta on pige 27 contains
some suggestions as to tne social and
political progress which is being stimn
lated in tne South by the present benefi
cent industrial movement.”
Holiday Casualties and Crimes.
Ingenuity does not tire of devising
methods for the b. st possible enjoyment
of the annual holiday season. From
year to year the chuicbes find improved
means to make still more bt-autlful and
impressive the Curistmasiide celebra
tions which signalize their birth, growth
and powei; and the world at large is
i q daily provided with original ways for
magnifying its legitimate pleasures.
Christmas, in all senses, is essentially au
epoch or festivity, the whole purpose of
its imperishable commemoration being
associated with peace and good will.)
It is startling, therefore, to see and to
realize that its privileges are being an
nually more and more nsnrped by the
criminal anrj vinous, who appear to re-
main inert or hidden until brought into"
Tbe Cambridge In New York City,
The Editor of tbe Sunny South re
turns his thank* 'khd new year compli
ments to Mr. Lorenz Reich, of New York,
for samples of hiB famous Tokayer Ans-
bruch and other Hungarian wines, of
which he is tne best known importer in
America. These wines have been praised
by presidents, governors, literary people,
singers and members of Parli tmeut. Mr.
Gladstone and Lord Coleridge unite in
praising the Toaayer Au3bruch. Dr.
Holmes said “it pm the warmth of sum
mer into his autumn reins.” Robert
Browning thought if he could mix it
with his ink he could write * something
worth having.” Longfellow sc id “neither
king or kai; er ever tasted better.”
Mr. Rjicti has established a famous
hostelry at tee corner of Fifth avenue
and Thirty third btrees, New York, and
ohrictentd it the Cjinoridge. It is a
refined home for cultured p ople, where
every comfort may be round and every
waut supplied.
For the Sonny South.
OLD YKAJC. FAREWELL.
Farewell to thee. Old Year, farewell!
hear heart that heat so nearmineown,
'1 hat shared my griefs, that heard my moan,
We’ve walked together side by fide,
Together shared the fragrant tide
Of happy life, now sundered wide;
We part to meet uo more, and yet
Thro' comii-g days we ll not forget
Our walks in solitary ways
Noi think with sorrow or regret
Of trembling tears, on lashes wet
We’ll sing, told Y'ear, a nyinn of praise
To Him wno from the stones may raise
A life: may quicken leafless sprays
With clustering blossoms. Ay, we’ll sing
To memory! There, our offerings bring
And cast them down; her praises tell,
Ere yet we breathe our last farewell.
w mat remorseless worn
s fuhkUkgreeting! Whence
so'-■>* t qtuuis it to
-NelscSE arlpMe'ces thro’
activity by .this last of all occasions which
should awaken their Instincts for mis-
chief. One can easily reconcile a propor
tion of the great number of accidents
which marked the past Christmas to the
nnavoldable,while noting as an axlon that
in some way accident and crime go hand
]u hand. In other words, it has been
observed tbat in cycles notorious for the
one, the other has been rife.
The record of the fourth week of De
cember, 1890, and especially that of the
5,h day, eclipsed, we believe, all the
previous chronicles of holiday casualty
and crime in this eonntry. The daily
story was sickening and astounding. The
newspaper columns were filled with re
citals of crime and casualty, of vice and
brntality, such as no man could have read
withont a sense of horror.
Bather than that this condition may
continue, may increase yearly, will it
not become a serious problem for the
church itself, whose immemorial jubilee
Christmas primarily is; for tbat portion
of humanity to which it is an interval of
undiluted good fellowship, and even for
the little ones, to whom it is a carnival of
Sinta Claus, as to whether the anniver
sary of the birth oi our Saviour be not
best stripped by law of its outw:rd ex
uberant popular accessories, and re
stricted in observance to the most rigid
and precise limitations?
A Common Sense Calendar.
The calendars that come in the fall arc
aa numerous aa tha flowers that bloom
In tha spring. Many further referable
the flowers in that they oome without
being sent for, and fade after a vary
brief existence.
The most sensible and business like
Calendar that we have seen comes to ns
from N. W. Ayer A Bon, Newspaper Ad
vertising Agents, Philadelphia, and bears
their “Keeping everlastingly at it” im
print. It is so large and clear that its
dates can be easily distinguished across
an office, and is printed in a manner to
reconcile the most fastidious to its com
pany for a y< ar.
It is sent to any address, pos'paid, on
receipt of 25 cents.
The Year 1891.
The new year came upon us gray with
cloudiness and gusty with winds, and
its first day went out in torrents or rain.
In many respects the opening of 1891 was
snmmerlike. In respect of its apparent
nnseasonableness, It merely took np the
role of its predecessor, which was in
many ways a unique year as to thermo-
metrical matters.
Bnt 1891 has began anspicionsly,withal.
It brings us much to do and promises ns
many rewards. The general condition
of the country is gratifying in every way,
and its growth and prosperity for the
new twelvemonth will startle the world.
More especially is this the outlook for
the South. Nothing can now daunt her
wonderful spirit and plnck, and nothing
delay her onward march to material sov
ereignty. No other part of the universe
performs the treble functions of grower,
manufacturer and consumer within the
same territory, and the experiment in
which her agricultural, manufacturing
and marketing interests are engaged is
impossible elsewhere.
While all the people of the common
country may therefore rejoice at the
promise of the new year, Southerners
will view its possibilities with the keen
est expectancy and will adapt its results
to the very best advantages.
Tne Sunny South salutes the whole
eonntry on the brig at prospect which is
unfolding for ns all.
“I sent to Mississippi,” said Dr.
D’Alvigny, the other day, “and purchased
a number of tbe celebrated paper hulled
pecans which I set oat on my place.
They am warranted to live, and if they
grow off Uvoly, I will soon have bearing
trees which will be very profitable with
little expense.
“By the way, why don’t eomebody im-
preaa upon tho minds of the elty authori
ties the jdee of planting pecans and wal
nuts all over tha park; or, whet is better
still, pure base a number of trees every
year and set them in favorable localities
and have them properly eared for? This
would give nut-bearing trees, in a few
yean, that would furnish rare treats for
the children of Atlanta, who osold be
Farewell! O that remorseless word
That crushes
The w izard sii
My
-WJfttEwjrfWE, _ —
It is a spectral i'fS&iho come
With silent trea/a, like restless dead
Who stalk abroad in winding sheet;
I hear the tramp of hurrying feet,
And misty lights my senses greet,
Tne shades of countless dead.
i
I see
The ghosts of pledges unfulfilled,
Of dreams that grew upon the wiog
Of Fancy struggling yet to bring
Their unrequited claims—a throng
Of crowding hopes that withered, died,
Upon their blasted stalks; the pride
Oi many summers.
Ah, ’tis well
For Death to bring their farewell knell,
And in one hopeless word—
Farewell!
Farewell, Old Year! We lay thee low,
Where brown leaves whirl and drifts of
suow
Dance on their leaden boughs; and in
Thy lifeless arms, Oh clasp the love
That died »ith thee! The shining wings
That bruised themselves, pale, scattered
things
That soar no more, but droop and trail
Like purple banners ou the gale
Of autumn, a .d their secrets keep
Securely iu immortal sleep.
‘ To ashes, ashes, dust to dust,”
Shall guard our precious human trust,
And iu the Resurrection raise
Onr songs of glad, awakening praise,
For life upsprung from death,
Till we shal wake and see
The glories of Eternity.
Farewell ’
Hala Hammond.
FUNK WAGNALL’S DICTIONARY.
The Forthcoming Work Will Rev
olutionize Dictionarial
Methods.
We have examlnea tbe prospectus and
advance pages of Messrs. Funk and
Wagnall’s Standard Dictionary if the
Englisb Language (18 and 20 Astor Place
New York), and are at once impressed
with the nniqueuess, desirability ai.d
importance of lbs volume soon to issue
under that title.
It will hardly be pretended that the
present-day lexicons of our language,
voluminous and laborious as they are,
have kept pace with the march of mod
ern English, or of the civilization out of
whicn is continahtly being evolved new
sciences’ new conditions, new relations
new substances, and, more than all, new
words and tbe need of new definitions
and methods of expr. ssion.
Messrs. Funk and Wagnall have under
taken a stupendous task, having for its
highest purpose the comprehensive in
clusion of all which has been lacking in
former dictionaries and of presenting
that which is not lacking, but in a more
efficient, trustworthy and intelligent
form. We confess to being much struck
by the original acd ready advantage of
the new sebeme. It Is a work which
will rapidly make its way to the front
and become an uuchaltenged standard.
Tutre is not room here for an extended
review of all tne salient features of tne
new volume. If we quote from the pub
ushers’ circular (us claims entirely
borne out by tbe sample pages accom
panying it) onr readers will obtain a
fair idea of a few of the strong points of
Messis. Funk and Wsgnall’s Dictionary:
“In some important points it differs
Widely from tne plans of other diction
aries. (1) Tbe “locating” of the verify
ing quotations; tbat is, the giving in
eaca instance not only the name of the
author, nut also tbe name of the book
and the number of the page where tne
quotation ean be found. To thus “locate”
60 000 quotations is of itself a herculean
task. (2) Tne use, in the pronunciation
of words, of the Scientific Alphabet,
adopted by the American Philological
Association. (3) Tne placing of the
etymology after sne definition. (4) The
placing of tho moot important current
definition first, and tho ohsoiesosnt and
obsolete meanings last, that is, tho sub
stitution of the order of usage for the
Historic Order usually followed in dic
tionaries. (5) In the esse of disputed
pronunciation the giving oi the pronun
ciations preferred by other dictionaries,
as well as the pronunciation - which wo
prefer. (6) Thegivtngof50,000vocabu
lary words more than are to be found in
any other alnyU toIum dictionary I n
Bnaland or America. No now word is
admitted to a vocabulary piece,.unless it
Bd upon by tne
NATCHITOCHES, LA.
Editor Sunny South:
It Is music
“Whose piercing sweetness can unloose
The chains of freezy or entice a smile
Into the ambush of despair.”
The entertainment given Thursday
night for the benefit of the Chautauqua
Society was a decided success, both
from a social and financial standpoint.
It was nnder the management of Mrs
Edward Pniliips, and this fact alone is
siffiolent to assure success. The Twin
Sisters, though destitute of any sparkling
melodies and being of very simple con
struction, was pretty and pleasing.
Tne cast was made up partly of tbe
Normal School girls and partly of the
girls of Natchitocues, each furnishing in
t qual proportions both beauty and tal
out.
The first scene opens with a chorus of
flower girls singing their “AllHall, ’ bid
alng welcome to their queen, among
whom was the beantlfnl and accom
plished Miss Elizt McGiverin. Tbe
quten, Miss Maud Frierson, then thanks
ner suoj -,cts, and her beautiful soprano
charms all whose good fortune it is to
hear her.
Tne crowning wan touching and the
dance of the little flower gins lent en
chantment to the magnificent scene,
The dialogue between these little girls
was interesting. Taey speak of other
queens, coutalued sadness; and one of
tnem portra, s how some time previous
tbe queens sist- r was stolen by a band o
gypsies. Years after the same band once
more camped on the same spot where
they had enticed away (Flcrecct) Miss
Alice Pierson, F oreuce, being struck
with the familiarity of tne place, lingtrs
near, and the flower girts Sbung her sad
and apparent y lonely, try to cheer her
by maxing her one oi tnetr numoer. The
same now enters and ii-qairas who tne
stranger is, and a terwards le-arus that it
is her long lost s!s er, and sie too Is
crowned, making ins twin sisters twiu
queens.
The gypsy scene was superb in every
respect, and Miss E nma Johnson's Es
meralda went to the heart-! of h r hearers,
Miss Johnson, possesses a rare mezzo
soprano, and the tune ul notes
rippled from her mouth like peiriy
drops from an innocent fountain.
Tne camp scene Is exquisite, am gazing
upon tbe spectacle one feets as if they
were on the wave washed bhores of sun.
ny Italy, so perfect was tne ta loau. To
do Miss Cage’s marvelous beauty justice,
one would necessarily have to resort to
Hagard, the king of imagination, ana
borrow Irom his description of Arglve
Helen, the wer.d’s dtsire. Mias Annie
C innioa, one of Baton Buoge’s bells,
was lovely and charming; being of Italian
descent, she was in keeping in every re
spect. Once seeing those lustrous eyes,
her raven black hair and perfect face,
the words of tbe poet reminded you that
to Bee her is to love. Miss Bosa Hill, as
usual, was fascinating, and Miss Willie
Hughes made a noble gypsy. The rest
of tne cast did justice botn to themselves
-S mannyftf. ,
Mi;8 Cora Prudhomme, the beautiful
and accomplished bell of Bermuda, spent
a few days here.;
Miss Liza Baynard, the beautiful and
accomplished bell of Alexandria, is on a
visit to her cousin, Miss Tnssa Kearny.
Miss Baynard is a favorite here, and her
stays, thougn brief, are a source of much
pleasure to her many admirers. Miss
Mai Ogll8le, one of Shreveport's most
charming young ladies, is visiting Miss
Bosa Hill.
Invitations are oat for a reception at
the residence of Mr. James H. Hill, for
Thursday.
The New Year ball given at Lacosete
hall, was tbe most enjoyable event of tbe
season. Among those who were in
attendance were Mr. B. H. Lichtenstein
and Mlse Rosa Hill, B. F. Drauguet and
Miss Myra Rhodes, Mr. Jas. Caspar! and
Miss McCord, Mr. Sam Scruggs and Mibs
Bertha Hill, Mr. Jas. Stephens and Miss
Francis Htritz-’g, Mr. Jno. Frickel and
Miss Adeline Hiu, Mr. O. Q jinn and Miss
Wolff, Mr. B. Casp&u ana Miss Eunice
McMendo, Mr. Alfred Glover ana Mrs.
Wilkinson, Mrs. Pniliips, Mr. Paul A.
Simpayrac, James Hyams, Valeric Dou-
bi ion.
The grippe has visited our town and
has retained its grip quite a while, bat
all are now oat again who have been tuf-
ferii g from it.
T,:e K rights of Pythias will have an
instailatiou ana grand ball on January 8.
Miss L zzie Carter, one of the Normal s
ablrst imparters of knowledge returned
to resume duties after spending the hol
idays away.
The writer wishes the Editor a happy
New Year and sincerely hopes that tne
Sunny South will always prosper. B.
anything and evsiything tor bia aaae.
And something very like this I think I
must have said to him when he told me
about it all in the night, for he thanked
me and went away down the street ham
ming the old air to himself, and I could
bear tbe j oy and hope in his voice those
words of mine bad given bim. He did
nob tell me her name, and I am sore I
did not ask It.
Batiet me tell of all the gayety and re
; j-uolng, the Christmas of Warrenton,
wi.ich began at dawn the next day with
Me clash oi bells from every spiro, the
far rowing thunder of cannon, and tbe
shouts of excited small boys who, armed
with fire crackers, whistles, drams, sod
squeaking horns, paraded iu tingle files
along the streets, in the morning all
the women attired in the mode for the
day, went en mnsse to church, while tbe
men appeared to form an unbroken line
before tne open church doors. Tm n for a
fortnight the days were occupied with
fetes and the nights with balls at the old
historic Town Hall which bad now all of
its old time gayety and glamo-:. r when the
Warrentoniacs and tbe strangers within
their gates thronged there, aud feasted
and danced the night away.
So ended Christmas at Warrenton.
Aud I wonder if the angels and flowers
in heaven can be more beautiful than
tbe women and flowers on earth in War
rentoa. Ehrta.
*?> fTOIVS
.rffJas y (hah
YORKVILLE, S. C,
Editor Sunny South: The gentlemen
of tie Whits Bose Chautauqua Literary
and Scientific Circle, of Yorkville, S. C
gave a banquet complimentary to tbe
ladies of the circle, on the evening of the
15th alt., at the reside ace of Judge With
orspoon. The menu though not expen
sively elaborate, was ample and sumptn
ous enough to satisfy the most rapacious
gormandizer or tempt the most fastidious
epicurean palate. The evening of the
banquet was the evening for the regular
meeting of the circle, and with the ex
ceptton of the usual twenty minutes dis
cussion tbe appointed programme was
carried out, table talk being substituted
for tbe discussion.
Tbe order of exercises for the evening
being over, tbe circle was requested to re
pair to the dining room, where theafore
mentioned feast of good things was
spread in lavish profnsion. With a man
ner and grace begitting tbe occasion
the worthy and honored president ot the
circle, tbe Bev. T. B. English, then sol
emnly invoked the blessings of the giver
of all good upon that about to be par
taken of and upon all those who were to
partake of it.
Tne toasts for the evening were few,
there being no more exhileratiug or
sou! stirring beverage to partako of than
coffee and chocolate; but the one “To
women” proposed by Mr. J. 3 Brcc was
responded to by Mr. T. F. McDow in suca
an able and masterly manner as would
have done credit to any occasion.
The following persons were present.
The ladies of the circle, viz; Misses L.
D. Witherspoon, Mini ie VVi.son, Eia
Davidson, S J. Davidson, Cora Kuykon
d 1, Daisy G.at, Maggie Gtsc, A C. Wal
lace, F. M. Miller. Tne g-ntlemen of
the circle, v-z: Messrs. T. F. McDow,
Geo. Walker, M. D , Withers Adickes, T.
K. English, D. D., J. S Brice, Frank
Hart, M. W. White, D. D. S.
The occasion was eminently an enjoy
able ouo, a feast of reason and flow of
soul as well as a feast—of substantial;
an evening of unalloyed pleasure that
will be forever treasured up in the minds
of those present. Tne circle promises to
repeat tne occasion some lime in Fobrua
ry as it has been divided into two eidts,
tne Herni s and tbe Demi's, and a system
of m&rkiug adopted with the understand
ing that tne defeated side at the txpira-
lion of three months is to entertain the
victors.
Correspondent.
Yorkville, S. C. 12 16- 96.
has been passed upon by the able men In
coarse of this department, namely, Ju
lius H Bselye of Amherst College, Ed
ward 8. Sheldon df Harvard University,
Edward Everett Hale,, Charles_ A. Cana,
and Howard Crapey.) (7) The indiea-
allowed to gather and crack them and tlou by the use of upper and lower case
initial letters, asi to whether word* in
have a good time without any considera
ble expense. I think it would be a splen
did scheme.”
the vocabulary
proper names
etc.
to be writt n es
common names,” etc.«
WARRENTON AT CHRISTMAS.
The Warrenton of the poet still lives
today. The age of romance is not a
thing of the past. The old Town Hall,
which has been the scene of so much
sentiment and gayety, is still crossed by
many a fair lady and brave gentleman
whose names are worth remembering;
lovers whose sorrows deserve sympathy
still keep midnight watch and sing old
songs and ballads nnder the ivy mantled
windows of their lady loves.
Warrenton is not a prosaic and com
monplace little village. It is, on the eon
trary, a town of picturesque beauty
crowned with the imperishaote glory of
a thousand associations of noble names,
heroic deeds, and eloquent memorials oi
the late war. For every man and woman
of feeling Warrenton is an ever living
poem, and it has for all the travellers
who visit it a magical, haunting attrac
tion.
I first saw Warrenton by moonlight,
and I was struck by its silence. It was
Christmas Eve. Iu the heart of the
town, from the balconied hotel—the ren
dszvons of idlers and citizens and stran
gers—only a low, hoarse ham, far from
disturbing the silence, seemed to render
it the more impressive and more solemn.
Back in the distal ce rose the snow
capped Bine Rtdge, and silence pre
vailed. There was no rattle or carts and
carriages, no clatter or hoofs, and few
pedestrians.
I went on and on through the town,
lost in contemplation of its loveliness. I
could see its fairy spires, wa is and roofs
encbantingly illuminated in tne light of
the moon, and I could feel only the beau
tiful silence that reigned around.
At last, as the old town clook told
solemnly the hoar of midnight, I stopped
nnder a '•up that twinkled on the
street’s dg and I saw Just in front of
me a tal: maa wrapped in an old cloak.
He aigheu warn he saw his sweetheart’s
window dara. How oould he know that
she wes awake, and listening for him?
The moon looked at him over the spire
of the church that is near her house, as
he sang ont: “I arise from dreams of
thee.” And in that old song of Shelley’s
where the lover says a spirit in his feet
has led him, he cannot tell how “To thy
chamber windiw, S woet,” be came softly
across the deserted street and, standing
nnder the window, which most have
been twenty, feet from the ground, he
sang the words. He was looking up as
he sang them, until I well oould weep
for the sweetness and passionate pain of
n voice that hardly left a woman a choice,
and moat of ell I thought would I fly
from the cruel madness of love.
When the song ended he did not go
away, bnt stood long nnder the window
BROOKLYN, N. Y.
Editor Sunny South: Some years
since my attention was arrested by the
brilliant and able showing made in your
pages or the attractive advantages of the
Sonthland (as we have ail witnessed tbe
verification) as well as their literary ex-
belience. *
My strong preference for the great
Northwest was overruled, and Florida-
beautiful, but deceptive Florida—proved
the grave of fond hopes. But even there,
with a proper understanding of condi
tions of snecess, experience, oceans,
knowledge and the determination to sue
need (the secret of fortune!) no insur
mountable barrier to financial gain is
met, even in that climate so trying to the
Northern-born citizen. While tbe doubt
remains, as to the purely physical ad
vantages that would result to the vast
majority of those who might seek a
place of resisence, yet, as in the West, a
goodly percentage wonld undoubtedly
find a large compensation for toil and
whatever deprivation might be required,
over a wide area cf tbe section under
consideration, while to the capitalist no
part of our country today offers such in
ducements.
In your Issue of October IS the senti
ment and statement of fact, “Southward
the star of industrial supremacy takes
its way,” catch tbe eye and rivet the at
tention most effectually.
Through the kindness of my next neigh
bor, Mr. Marshall, I have had the pleas
ure of reading the Sunny South of late,
and have er j oyed the unique utterances,
aud chit fly sound philosophies of “Bill
Arp.”
Five generations, at least on both the
paternal acd maternal sides, who have
preceded mein American clt zsnship, to
gether with an innate love as I believe)
of truth acd justice, have fitted me to
appr. elate thoroughly the wholesome
aud masterly treatment given current
events, follies, men and theories.
The article on Parks (Brooklyn, N. Y )
was read with a great deal of interest, as
I nave no doubt it was by many residents
of this city. There are hundreds of fami
lies now in cities that would be largely
benefited by a charge to rural and farm
life; there are other hundreds that would
make no mistake in going from North to
South. Probably no medium could be
better adapted to aid In this ‘exodus’,
than the Sunny South! Speculators, i n
the very nature of tbe case, can not be
agents of a permanent movement of the
kind. “Homes for the million” Is a
watchword which will appeal to whole
sections of onr eonntry. Pardon the di
gressions and believe me.
Very truly yonrs,
Edwin Errickson.
The liberality of onr Legislature in the
matter of education will raise taxes be
yond question, but whether it will pro
mote the general diffusion of knowledge
is a red bird of another color. Free tui
tion has not thus far done much towards
diminishing illiteracy. People do not
prize what they do not pay for, and the
habit of trusting to the state to supply
the lack of individual effort is a bad
thing. Besides all this, many country
people cannot afford to send their chil
dren to school all the year, even when
there is no tuition to pay.
Mr. Edward Atkinson says that the
poor wonld be less envious of the rich
did they know how rich men work, and
that the rich would have more sympathy
for the poor did they know how poor
folks live. Tnis is doubtless true. But
how is the acquaintance with each other
to become more intimate? They are
thrown much together, and individuals
are continually passing from the one
class to the other. Yet when one be
comes rich he forgets how he thought
and felt when poor, and if one sinks
from wealth to poverty he is alike for
getful.
Had not the sentiment of loyalty to in
dividual royalty gone much ont of fash •
ion, it wonld find a splendid occasion for
its exercise in the present royal family
of Holland. Tne little Queen of that
county is but ten years of age, and 1b said
to possess ail the graces tbat render
childhood lovely. Her mother, Queen
Emma, who is to act as rtgent during
the minority of the little sovereign, is
still young, and to a beau’iful person
adds tie charms of a lovely character.
In the days o: chivalry high b rn kuigbts
would have been proud to devote their
swords aud lives totwo such iadieB.
The question, “Has our country not
outgrown its Institutions?’’ whicn some
one propounds, is altogether pertinent.
It certainly has. The Constitution that
wa3 framed for a few states lying along
thd Atlantic coaBt is not adequate fora
Nation that has spread itself trom ocean
to oesan. The United States is m-ch in
the plight of the boy wno is too large for
his breeches. There are some advantages
in having a written Constitution, and
some wisdom in adhering strictly to its
letier. But there is also the disadvan
tage of a want of the aiastiuity which can
adapt Uselito changing circumstances.
When we read of how the Red Men of
America were deprived of thtir hunting
grounds, sometimes oy fraud, more often
by violence, we are disposed to censure
the white man’s injustice at their hands.
But when we read stories of the savage
cruelty with which these children of tne
forest sometimes avenged their wroDgs,
we can but rejoice that a race of such
terrible instincts has been swept from
the country. There Is something of
poetical sadness about the poor Indian’s
reading bis destiny lathe setting sun;
but the world was little better for his hav
ing lived, and will be but slightly injured
by his disappearance.
In the days of savage warfare there
was often a fine play of wits between the
men who served as scouts for the oppos.
ing armies, and in many instances their
safety depended on their ability to gues
at the plans and purposes of their adver
sai ies. In the keen rivalry of trade, one’s
financial success very often depends on
the possession of a similar faculty. The
shrewd financier is apt to move towards
his ends on lines confusingly spiral, and
he often comes wholly unsaspected npon
one whom he has marked as a victim.
Something of the same sagacity that can
trace the steps of a cunning foe through
a tangled wilderness is necessary to en
able one to hold himself amid a crowd of
sharp practitioners in finance.
QUEEN CITY, TEXAS.
Editor Sunny South: Tho Presby
terian chnrch In our town on the even
ing of 231 alt. was the scene of one cf
the most brilliant social gatherings that
Queen City has witnessed in many
months. The occasion was the wedding
of Mr. J. B. Brown and Miss Sallie De
Salmon, both of Queen City.
The chnrch was beantifully and ap
propriately decorated for the occasion.
Mr. Wadley presided at the organ. The
relatives filed in to the sweet strains of
tbe wedding march elegantly executed.
Then came the bride, one of society’s
favorites, leaning on the arm of her
brother in law, Mr. B. T. Connells. The
groom, with his best man, Mr. Cabe,
waited down the opposite aisle, receiv
ing his bride at the chancel. The cere
mony performed by Bev. Crawford was
brief and impressive. The wedding
march, which had been played in a soft,
low strain, all during its eontinnanoe,
now peeled fortMntoatriamphantbarst
of melody aa tbe bridal party passed out.
Tne invited qneste, with the bride and
groom, repaired to tho reeidenoe of Mr.
Connell, where they were welcomed by
Mrs. Bomy, sister of the bride, who was
hostess of the occasion.
In a few minutes the party was invited
to the dining-room to partake of an ele-
gant sapper. T -e groom 1s a gentleman
in every sense of the word, and very
popular. The preoonta were numerous,
costly end elegant.
He haa won a pearl. e
The editor is Infallible In the sense
that there is no appeal feom his decisions.
Whet he pronounces unfit for his col
umns must be excluded with no other
reason assigned than hie instinctive
sense of fitness. Bnt it is by no means
swaj. out nma uraz uuuu tin wiuao* in,ititi>.<.i.uiiu.i ,7
hoping for e glimpse of the fair face that , he *■ lofalUhle in the sense of
oould never be more than that midnight being incapable of erring. Hundreds of
dream to him. She was a lady of noble instances are upon record in which ha
birth, and he was only a self made man, of the tripod condemned that which the
from the lower ranks of life—but a man ) public afterwards most folly aDDrovad
with a face and voice that I felt could j No one man’s taste will invariably judge
make a woman strong enough to brave j aright of other peoples testes. J K
Most men who possess or think that
they possess the speaking gift, are fond
of discussions. They ecj iy sttting forth
the reasonableness of th-ir own views
and of showing upon how slender a basis
of common sense the opinions cf their
opponents rest. But it is an exceedingly
rare thiDg that either party of au argu
ment confesses himself conviic-d. The
more common result is tbat each one
becomes more firmly fixed in the posi
tion he has taken. Yet may the time
and breath spent in the discussion of
questions not be wholly misspent. In
this way the points at issue ars eluci
dated, and while the minds of the dispu
tants may remain unchanged, others
may be helped towards forming correct
opinions.
MORL KIND WORDS.
What the People Say About the
Sunny South,
Mrs.E. A. Bridewell, C>ncord, Tenn.; “I
wish you to know how much my husband aud
myself appreciate the Sue .ny South. It always
has something so new, rich and rare in it we
would lather read it than any other paper iu
the world.”
Mrs. H. C. Etlis, Hartsville, Tenn.: “I think
we of the South ought to do all we can to sup
port and help build up your excellent and
good piper (non better). BUI Arp’s pieces are
worth the subscription price.”
R. E. Lee Tomlinson, Ma.lin, Tex.: "I wish
to renew my subscription, but do not wisb any
of the presents, The dear old Sunny South,
the de.ight of every Southern home, is good
enough by itself for me.”
L. A. Gordon, Marshall, M.; *‘I am very
much pleased with your paper. Mrs. Marie
Wright had me take the paper before I knew
what I was doing, but I have been glad ever
ince.
Maud Doseey, Socorro, N. M x.: "I have
spent many pleasant hours reading the 8unny
8outh, and think it the beet paper I ever read.
I wish you a prosperous New Year.”
Mrs. Robt. Penny and Mrs. Forney of Hope'
Ark.: “We have taken your paper for a num
ber of years and neither of us would be without
it for any consideration. ”
Mrs. H. O. Harrington, Bheman, Tex.: Yonr
most valuable paper ie always a welcome visitor
at my home. I wonld not be without it even at
double the preeent price.”
Mim Mary Preeton, Wallace’* Smith, Va.:
•Long may the Sunny South live to g 1 *'™?"
the hearts of we letter Boxers.”
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your paper, the Sunny South, is very valuable,
tong may she wave.”
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down as a life subscriber to your most excellent
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