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! THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA , GA* TURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 17, 1891. mj own feelings under mg feet, yon snould never nave known that I bad any thought but the merest friendship tor yon. But wnen 1 flud yon sad, neglected, fnll happy, with your dear eyes always li of fear for what may happen—when 1 And yon pale and wan, the very shadow of yourself—inay, wheu I And you wlih your tender flesh bruised and black enedby the cruel Hagers of a drunken brute, l cannot be expected to be silent. 1 cannot be silent—1 am only human, after all.” "But what is the good of speaking?” she asked. <■' “My dear one,” he answered, taking her other hand also in his and looking down into her troubled eyes, “you were forced into marrying a man whom you could not love—ne is sun always has been a brute to you—he masts your very llie a burden. Is that not so? Well, 1 love you—1 am not a new mend, a lair weath er lover; you have known me all our lives aud you know that you can tiust me while we both live and as long as we both live. Why should you go on bear ing this life of wretcuedneas and misery? It is not as If your going would hurt your husband—ne will tot mind it—he has long ago grown tired of you.” “How do you know?” she said scarcely above a whisper. “Who is Mademoiselle Valerie?” he asked “Jack!” “Why was the Major in such a fever to know where that card came from? I will tell you where it came from, Ethel. About a wtek before, 1 picked that card up at your gate, one day wnen I had seen you aud the Major go off in the dog cai t togetner. You uad toe bro wu horse, Do you remember?” “1 remem oer.” “I wonaered where it had come from, and today I put it down on a little table as I went into your room j ust to see if tbe Major knew anything about her. If you had seen him ploa it up and heard his 'Good God' as 1 did you would have guessed wuo -Mademoiselle Valerie’ is—' “i did guess,” sue broke in—“I have known for a long time that there were others.” “Then what binds you to him?" Jack cried. ‘ There are other lands far better to live In than this If he divorces you, I will marry you the first day that It can be legally doue—If he does not 1 will set tle every farthing I have in the world upon you and be a pensioner upon your bounty forever.” •■You mean that we should go away?” “Yea.” “Together?” “Yts—together. Oh, Ethel, only think of it.” “1 can’t think of it ” “Why not—oh! why not? I would make you so happy, 1 swear I would.” • You would try, 1 know, J ack—but you would never succeed. I am nottLe kind of woman to live happily under a cloud. 1 should be more wretched too. No—no —Jack, it cannot be. 1 married Major Dennis for better or worse, ana though it is for worse, It might be mucn worse than it is. 1 would rather go on as I am —life Is hard enough but 1 can hold up my head amoug the best yet." He no longer held her hands hard in his, and sue drew them gently away. For some minutes l.esatstarlug thought fully Into the little, dancing stream at their ftet, then turned eagerly back to her again. “Tell me one tning, Ethel,” he said—‘and tell me truly, won’t yon? ’ “1 will.” “You do love me?” She raised her eyes to his, so true and blue they were ne coaid have kissed them a thousand times hud he cared to do it. “1 will be quite honest,” she said. “I do love you with all my heart. What Is the use of pretending that it is not so? Bat if it will u. t help me to keep straight and true to myee.f, why ueithei your love nor mine is of any real good to either of “0! Ethel, my darling,” be began, when she put out her hand and stopped him. “Yes, I know just whatyoa would say, but 1 do buffer. I do have to struggle hard to go on living at all. 1 know mat I am rignt to say no. JoC t, dear, it Is so good of you to wish to make me happy— Heaven nuo * s 1 have need of love run some one. But let us be patient—we can always be irieuds, always the best of friends.” “1 ask for bread and you give me a stone,” ho said, bitteriy. ‘ But you wul not refuse tie Btone,” she said, imploringly. “No, 1 will taae all that X can get,” he answered, wlstfudy She drew a long breath of relief. “I have not.had mucu experience of men— I thin-r I only know Cosmo intimately— but 1 have read much, and in books men always quarr-1 and are a igry with wo man was won’t ru i avvay with them I am very glad you are not going to quar rel wlta me, J a :k.” Hi oent- and Kissed her little hand again—“my dear love,” he said, tender ly— ‘Shal 1 quarrel with you because of the very qualities which have made me love you more than any otuer wo man in the world? No—no—that would oe fool ish—chiluisn.” ‘lam glad—so glad,” she murmured “I have au idea. Jack, that it will all come right bet weeu us someday—if not here, then elsewhere.” nerves, her changed looks, her wretched life, he loved oer still, just •§ he had done years and years ago. She felt now that she was strong and brave, that she could go through with any trials or troubles Into frngSolomon’sCave inat might ^‘“co^ng to her.ta I An Aladdin-like Wonder Eclipsin: the blessed knowledge that there was one to whom she would always be yonng and fresh and lovely, one of whose life she would always be the snn, of whose dark days she would be the shining star which would never set for him on earth. 8ne felt that she did not even mind now those qualities of ber husband which had jarred on her every hour of the day, which had gone nigh to breaking her heart. She poshed back tbe loose sleeve from the arm which Majoi Dannie bad bruised the previous night and looked tenderly at the bine ana livid mark. “1 don’t miudltnow.” she whispered, and then she pressed her lips where his had been in the first horror of hie discovery of it. A servant came to say that dinner was •welting her, and she rose and went to the little tiny dining room feeling as if she were going to sit in a palace. What an alchemist Love 1st The room wee so small that It but just All the Others. For the Sunny South. HIS OAVJS is now peer, lees in America, surpass Ing in loftiness, extent, ‘andragged macsiveness Mammoth Gave of Ken tuqky and the Caverns of Lnray, surpassing perhaps in startling beauty and unlimited variety any other knew eaveraa in the world. Its whereabouts ha from remotest time been known to the natives, bat sapersti- held thcMtoble and four chairs, thers was I handed down from father to son no pretense at any otner furniture. Bat I prevented all research. to Etnel that night, it was like • great During the maglo growth or Middles her—end tbe very air seemed alive with I w “'°“ 18 onl ? three from that city, the wonderful tact. I was bought by. “The American Lind I daresay some critic will take occa- Co.,” and these now almost world-re slon to preacb a little eermon on this I , text and explain to my readers and to I nowne| l caverns were discovered, me, fer my mtnre guidance, that it was I Not one dark cloud was aeon in the far exceedingly wrong for a married woman I off bine; the snn shone with all the splen to have any inch leellngfor a man who dor of R Bnmmer morning, yet hisrays was not her husband, well, I have not I B J rays said anywhere, to the best of my remem I were softened by the near approach of brance, that ft was right—I have not I autumn. We climbed the steep moon held upmy dear little ungutded heroine tain elde, having for oar guide a truant r.J'Sr.C! ■•—««- *°.... into her life did happen, and my readers !£™ 8 h „ downw "' d must take tbe history of them exaotly 11 t came for what they are worth. q i IIttIe hon *® It seems to me each a mistake that o™?the In rock ’ those who have a story to tell should be I \ we urged to paint their heroines In colors Inam °- so delicate and so spotless that they I akimh^fr.S Chel 7? have no resemblancT to the hnmai £“ e r d h ^ a “."““o'™£. and aqa,U women whom we meet out in the world I ond^n'oitorf'i'io tS h * *f eetud us of every day life. O f courae a woman of f.“ d .n^n > i!?i” t>e P rlml „ blameless reputation is a beautiful thing. I I hB JJ® and a woman of blameless life Is more I * ®n«i hanks of moss beneath the beautiful still. Yet in awarding tbe I 8 .. . measure of blame or praise to those who I ».h» 6 ^i* no ® n8e °f have sinned or kept themselves unspot 1 drinking In the ted from the world, I do think the clr- ‘.^® Je8tl S , fore8t . “>« cnmstances of the case ought to be taken I P ar8aaded d8 > the two a little Into consideration. I i nor< | won d«rful than Bat the critic seldom, If ever, takes Ar * t>lan calendars, to anything Into consideration—he seems I en »fLV 1 rf/oJ5i.HiS n cav ?’ , , to tar a whole sex with tbe same brush,a I _~r„ „5J?f^. cen . n ® * 8tee P "taircase we woman must either be good or bad, black I a n ,, er very - ver J r cold, and or white. I should really like to know | dew ’ 11 n,ur “ n jcd mystically, how it would be possible to please these I ??? ii ’ ^ splashed against the exceedingly captions people. I i I *S e ?, tono wa |* 8 ' ®**ing the cave For Instance, If I draw a soldier as a I I»,„!Lh , 2l.®V - ^l® “J 081 ® 88 It crept from good looking, well-groomed animal, hon-1 0 « m r. er to chamber, reiljctlng and re est aud agreeable, if not very bright of [ reUec t*ng as an Image in two poillsbed wit, then 1 am told by one critic after an- I . . other that my soldiers are angels without I ” oa t waa moored at the water’s wings and the who'e story ju»t too good I ® d8 ®' “°°n wo were In it, and witbont to be true. Tne next time 1 draw a man I or I, udder were carried to tbe farther who slanders a woman who has bo dly I ?,\?®' The water straggled and hissed sti-ppidin between him and a married I i , a llvtn 8 thiDg In the vain endeavor woman whom he loves. Then up rises a I to .? p our , c° at 88 we passed be powerful critic on a great dai.y paper I ?® at “ a * ow archway The water ceased and discourses virtuously on my sins and I ns gurgling. We glanced around. Tne wickedness in thus bolding up the whole I *L al \ 8 tx P a R ded until we could see only of the British Army to opprobrium! I do I k, W8 ’ black shadows, of a Stygian not say but I think that 1 did nothing of tbe kino, that I certainly held up one , Uur little boat was anchored; our Ian- evil man to the world, and if that man ler “ 8 bashed upon the high arched dome Vappeced to be a soldier and a thoroughly and stone tapestried walls. How weird, bad lot’' at the same time, why that Is I wonderful, une. r.i ly it all was! Prac his fault and not mine. So the ntxt time , y and nnex piorable logic, dazed, I waut to draw a lover who is not a model from ds . an(1 we were delivered whol of all the virtues, I make him quite a I j unl o fanci ul, strange, mysterious v* 1 v iiuco| x lima e. uitu inr.tu it I i » * , , ' B ” i J harmnss character, his only si. being *? vln £ Imagination Hud her davoted pet- tbat he suggests in a very lusitating way 8I 2? era ’ t ‘“® '‘nancies.” to the girl ne lovtsthat they shall dls- , 1 ie .l, on f cream y stalactites that hung pocse with the marriage ceremony, j I * rc m the fretted dome she called alabas did not like doing this—I would rather ® en8er - , i the many colored stones have marii.d them off happily at Urst. I ? bou .? tn , ■ ,or ’ ottomans of India; the But I warned to show what a good Bud bould et-lllto ones of delicate yet exqui brave girl who really loved tbe man wltn I 8 ‘t® coloring oi lenlal couches. The »ta all her heart, woula do under such cir- Jact ltes of a pallid whiteness were grim, curutttaDc tl j Bcntlbels which must forever But how the critics howled over that I S u “ rd the entrance way to the great story—one (a lady ') went so far as to write “‘w? 8 treasure house, me a letter telling me that she bad been w .® n ? w fouQd ourselves in anitnmeas- asked te select a few books for a voung urat,, y largo chamber, where the shad- girl o'eighteen to read on a long voyage. 0WB were chaiiug each other in weird She knew that the girl loved my stories, I P roct!88 i o n along the vaulted walls and but she resolutely put this one away be oot^een the ghostlike sentinels as our caur.e of tho immortality of a man sug lant :rns moved; showing to us but partly nesting to a girl that they should dls I ’ ts 8 r im yet fascinating grandeur—show- pense v.ith marriage, owing to the fact M n S to ut but partly the cunning and bolad that he knew his grandfather had left strobes of the Artist's artist. Nothing, him all bis properly conditionally on his I w o thought, can equal this, yet we ware being unmarrhd at tho time of his death. M u| l on—still fanner on—to chambers I did not ans wer tbe cltur, what was I urander, more magnliicmt unseen the goad? But 1 have said ‘ God help the Imagination was ever bsside us, whisper,- poor young girl of eighteen’’ very many I l n S * n our n °t unwilling ear. times since tuen. For myseif, I have no I In what order these apartment" came, admiration for the purity which is pure I do ? ot now remember; but many of the only because it has no opportunity to be inimitsble works of art I can never for 3nythiug el-e Give me the gold that £ ot " Here before us was the balcony of has oeen tritd in the fire! Romeo and Juliet Beautiful it is, with 8o I do not ask you to accept Ethel Jtihtrolllsed vine-work of stone. Strangs oat the dark, rich draper/Fancy told wan master statues, too. Some were mutilated like Venue, Approdlte and the Gladietor, la the Vatican. stalagmites and stslsc- formlng (arabesque pll- carved, which seamed the mossy roof. Near this ohamber we stood, m the image of the virgin ’ infant Jtsna in her was a parti colored ed to the dreamy god ry stirred by the wind, on, loeiog ourselves more and more in the mazy labyrinth, bat, un like Ariadne, I bad not dropped the cord along the serpentine corridors. The kind guide smilingly assured ns memory could not forsake hi hi here. As I would have finished my imperfect description,Fancy whispers, the “Market Chamber.” - Trot, I have not told of the immense bananas, the fatted turkeys, fish, pumpkins, etc , that hung from the walls like the farmers’ display at a county fair. On a largo rock blackberries lay as though just overturned. Had we the dlgeetive powers of an ostrich, that par ticular port of the oave would have been robbed of its most interesting sped mens. Under the auspices of G B. Cockrill, General Manager of tbe American Land Company, these caverns have been ex piored eight miles into the heart of the Cumberland, and now some adventnrons spirits are making preparations to go even farther. As we retraced oar steps all seemed wild, weird and beautiful os before—tne grotesque figures on the river Styx, the Fairy Queen's boudoir and mystical river. The door grated hoarsely on Its hinges, the lanterns faintly flickered; In a moment we were again in bright, g orl- ons day! The sunlight aeemea to flood the earth with a richer, warmer beauty than I had ever known before; the flowers were brighter than two hours ago; the torrent which this morning burst so tumultuously down the mountain, was music to oar ears. Even the old covered wagons which were ever winding up the mountain, were .possessed of-a new in terest. Above ail was light and life below all was lifeless, dark and silent. Was it a dream? No; there were many things to remind us ot that vault and temple whici nature, unknown, silent and unseen, had during long ages ohls- eled for herself. In our hands was the meerchaum which we were to mould into peace-ptpea to smoke before the tyrants who had forbidden us the greatest pleas ure of our lives. Dolphia Lane, Cumberland Gap, Tenn. South and the Speakership. It Is true, as Mr. ChauuceyjF. Black has pointed out In a despatch to the World, that Southern men will necessarily head most of the important committees of the next House, simply because the men who have served longest and with most distinction in Cc-ngress are Southern CHAPTER XII. Pray for the living, in whose hreust Tje strugg.e between r ght and wrong is raging terrible aud strong. The sun wai sinking low down in the West whea Trevor and Mrs. Donnis reached (he camp again. “i won't go In," he said when they reached the ga e; but Ethel protested vigorously against this plan. “Oh! do come in—Cosmo will ask fifty questions and I cannot ans w< r them all —I cannot. I feel as if I had committed a dreadful crime and that my face would bstray mo at once You must come in, Jack, you must.’ Dennis as my ideal of p. r'ectiou; I only ask you to take her for what sae is, a girl with good Instincts aud, thus far, a rui aea life—a girl to whom that after noon, sitting In t o sweet Septembersun- shine beside the little brook, there came the most cruel aud the most sweet temp tation that Providence could permit or the ingenuity of thj devil devise. i do not holdher up as doing right. I daresay she ought to have cut herself off from Trevor forever, she ought to have been insulted—hurt—angry! Well, per haps, I do not know. AU I can say is that she was not, ail I know is that the more knowledge of Trevor's love served ive her strength to go on living the Hfo which up to tnat day had been al most intoieraoie to her. (To be Continued.) Astronomical Coincidence. It is very seldom that coincidenees of a startling nature occur in the astronomi cal world, says Prof. E E B-marlin tie San Francisco Examiner. Perhaps this is due iu the main to the fact that nearly ali things astronomical are sub Thus urged, Trevor had little or no j 9 ®!-! 0 exact calculation, and there is choice in the matter and he followed her j nothing more chilling to the ardor of the into the pretty little silting room where average fabricator of coincidents than ihey found the Mrj or, if the truth be told, an array of facts and figures. Tuere has just awatmei fr j u a long sleep. j very recently occurred, however, a most • Weil.” he ca.Ld out apparently in the i wonderful coincidence tbit mast startle most b-laterous of g >od spirits— have eve n the astronomical world, and this, yon had a go-d time? Where did you ! strangsiy enough, instead of beta go? Dij you s;e any one you anew?” I think that nobody knew what It cos Jack Trevor to make a civil and coher ent reply to these questions—but for B.helssake he did hn host, knowing tnat she was tired and overset by tali events of the afternoon. “Ws went across tho Common, Bir, to tho knoi'- ond we made a timing r jd. By the bye, Ethel, I left my stick behind as." • Ns,” said Et tol—and though she tried hard to keep the gladness out of her voice, she did not succeed very well— “now you speak of it, d j you know I saw it go fioa'.iag a way do wn tue little sere in. What a pity—was it one you valued very male?’ “Not a bit—it was only a common blackthorn. Weil, sir, wo made a iishlng- rod'and tried our iuci in the not very promising str am.” “n nd you caugot nothing I suppose?” “We caught no fim,” returuel Trevor promptly. ‘ Au! I suppose not. Well, E.hel, I hop - you feel better for the tramp.” • Yss, out I am tired,” sue said. “Tueu 1 will say gojd bye,” said Trevor holding out his baud to her. “Wou’t you stop aud have some dinner with us?” put iu tne Major. “Not to-night, thank you, Major,” Trevor answered, “i m sst write several letters before dinner time. Good-bye.” He held oat als hand to Ethel and gave it a significant pressure. She loos ed up at him fora moment, then dropped her eyes, bat not aalil he had read there something which brought an answering light to his. • He's a very decent fellow,” remarked the major a moment later as he watcied Trevor close tne little gate and go across the open ground toward his own quar- tars. *'4 His wife escaped from the room with out answeri ng aud had reached the safe retreat of her bedroom before he noticed that he was aioae. O job there she tossed off her hat and gown and slipped on a loose and volniminous affair of pale bine woollen stuff wulch fell In soft folds from her throat to her feet. Tueu she sat down la a chair by the window to think It all over— this wonderful new stale of affairs which had male all iter life so new and different to usr. They had walked home almost in silence because Trevor had fancied that she Was very tired and that sue was utterly overset; bat in truth althougu she was tired, she was more happy thaa she had uv<>r known wnat It was to be Bince those never forgotten days at Biankhampton wnen sue aud Jick had been devo.ed frlmd- and p'a/feilows. Fur after all Jack loved her! In spiteof their having been kept apart ali these years, iu spite of the barrier wuicniay it was to think until these days, of mod ern progress no human voice ever broke the profound, the death like stillness. Strange it was to think, on this won Urous place the sunlight never fell, filling it with bright, glad beauty; the moon never shot her silver arrow headed beams Into the trembling shadows; dur ing the long watches of the eternal mid night whicu had ever reigned no far- off stars ever looked down with their wistful light! Ouly tbe fitful glare of the lantern ever revealed, even to themselves, tueir marvelous beauty, aud, as If rejoic ing in its discoveries, the light leaped radiantly from place to place, from deli cately chased cornice to mossy bank of opaque quartz, which caught the rays and glittered like a new-made snow drift in the morning sun. From my soul I cried, “Ob, the depths of the riches Both of tbe wisdom and knowledge of God!” Tae vaulted chambers rang with the voico, and a band of swift winged echoes liitted along the gigantic Gothic dome to us, bringing the words I had just uttered. The bright-eyed, fair-haired runaway beside me murmured “IIow beautiful!” Ills voice Fancy likened to a silver chancel bell struck by a kneeling boy in some great cathedral. E -o yet the voice died away “beautiful!” “beautiful!” was wafiea to u*; then all, all again was si lence, silence profound, unbroken, save for the far away murmur of that cold limped river. We passed into another apartment. Tae wise old king had imaged there myth3 of remotest antiquity; Greacian and Rmuan heroes; palatial halls in wnich the chaugerm areniteeture of cen turies is blended. “There,” said the gnide, pointing to a mass of granite, "is where our K'ng Solo- man is entombed.” It would indeed But it may be doubted whether the fact has the Importance that Mr. Black attributes to It, and especially whether ought In any wey to affect the choice ofa Speaker. These gentlemen will head their re spective committees, and not because th«y are Southern men, but because they are, by length or service and iu other re spects, the fittest men. The country wants the fittest men in such places, and the country cares very little, if at all from what region they come. In the matter of the Speakership we believe the indifference of the people to geographical considerations is even more profound. All that the great Democratic majority which has elected a House which Is Democratic, without couutine tne Southern Representatives at all, de sires is that the Fifty sscond Congress shall be wisely directed in Democratic ways to legislate good for the people. Its desire is that the bast man for the Spea jerthip shall be made Speaker, with no reference whatever to the part of the country he may come from. So far as the Democrats of the country are ooucerced, the war is ancient history. The party concerns itself with matters of the present and future, aud it holds every part of our common country in equal regard. It Is a National party and leaves sectional distrust and vindictive ness to itB opponents. It wants no man elected Speaker becauuLhe comes from a Southern State .or/ Jr orthern State. Equally It wantf»o l9 *c’ided from tb»t piaeo bfecau.-Jd t . B utm;;s to tne oho region or the otb*q ttvants the best man, l"t him corn ^.Xhence he may New York War, Oticcir! ,. ppi.icrr °*\ 3 * Hi, ,£~.ciecticfi oar ofvthe hi Asking Her Ilia’s Consent, The Most Trying Ordeal of a Tri umphant Suitor. For the Sunny South. WOULD rather ask • lady to be my wife any time than to try to spread • blanket straight on • bed. It isn’t half the worry; and if she says no, the success ia about the same. Why a man’s shirt should wrinkle in the bsek and his breath break off half way down his throat, when he offers to let a sweet faced girl cling to him through life in exchange for building fires and doing the odd jobe,Js beyond my experience. fiat when it comes to proposing to the mother-ln law, I tell yon, boys, there is no shady place to loaf in. I would rather ask tbe president to give me the United States. He probably would refuse, but if he did, he wouldn’t try to make me feel the enormity of my request like mother dose when I ask for her daugh ter. I got a good lesson in this at the time I asked for Flossie. And in truth, just at that moment myself felt that the darling little gem was worth at least the price of two Unit ed States, notwithstanding that the man who flna'ly married her would be glad to trade her off for the swampy lanas of Arkansas. However, her depreciation In value hasn’t lowered the price of my ex perience in the least. The night before, Flossie and I were sitting on the piazzaatepa, and while the moon was pasting a silver lining into a real thick cloud she murmured: “Darling, I do wish you would shave nice and smooth when yon come to see me!” frowned down oy facts aod figures, Is strongly supported by the n. 0.1 the 15 ,h of November last Prof. Z »aa o.’ tae Palermo o03orvatpry, in Italy, discovered a comot in the coostal- litioo Auriga. It wa3 moving rapidly to tne W”st and North. Oo the following night (November 16), while observing the bf the mightiest emparors. From our position of this comet with the great girdles we took theloug stsmmed mald- twenty seven-inch tslescops at Vienna, J euhair wnlbti we had gathered on the Ur. Spitaler dlsewewd auo&har aad I eanay m m jtaia slope and laid Dtiem on fainter co net in tne bald oi view with it; ! his Majesty’s maaoleum. We now stool enenantei bjfore the The last number of?the half-year vol u me of this excellent and long establi 3hed magazine will recommend itself to our readers. Tae opening article ia the first instalment ofa powerful story of early Christianity by Count Tolstoi, the great Russian novelist. Dr B. W. Richardson, the eminent sanitarian, writes about “Working Hours and Workingmen,” and Mr. Glodstone contributes another strik ing poper on tae proofs of Script-ureas dra vn from the latest authorities In his tory and science. Dr. Henry Behreud dnscusses ‘Tuberculous Meat and its Consequences,” and one of the most in teresting papers iu recent magazine lit erature will oe found in “Sea Power in Hi9tory,” a striking review of Capt. Mahan’s book (U. S. N ), bearing power fully on questions in ourown staiesman- shlp. Mr. Carnegie's‘Gospel of Wealth” is keenly criticised by Mr. Gladstone. Vernon Lee's story of “A Wordly Wo man” is completed in tills Instalment. Prince Peter Krapotkla continues nia interesting studies of the proofs of So cialism among the brutes and lower orders of creatures. Dr. Carl I'aterq tne great German fi.ibnater of Africa, has something to say ou Stanley and Enin Pasha, whtca will be read with Interest. One of tUe most charming papers of the I number will ne found iu cue lecture read I before the last anaual meetiug of the Rcyal Gcograpaicai Society by a woman tra/oiler. Miss Menlo MurleP Dewie, wulch made such a sensation oy its wit, fresnnes3 and ability. Tne magazine Is crammed with taking snort articles, essays, sketches, piems, etc,, and la a m est engaging holiday number. This bit of sentiment so touched me that I tore my feelings all up into sweet, soft worm. “Yon mast ask mama, yon know.” Then she gave a sigh as she laid her golden hair on my vest. “Oh, that is easy, ’ I answered, feeling as brave as a porcupine with a new set of quills. She raised her head, and even broke the solemnity of the occasion with a snicker. X didn’t feel the significance ot that snicker just then; and wueu her mother caaghea three times before opening the door my heart was filled with hope. 1 called the next evening to propose to th 3 mother. I found her austerely re - dining on a sofa, and it my appearance produced any rapture within uer breast it was extremely temporary. 1 had spent the whole day in anchoring my courage, and as 1 entered tne house it felt quite secure. But the moment the old lady’b eye grasped me she j irked it from Its moorings and sunk it, leaving me as limp and nelpless as a broken leg. Wnat snould I do? Drop on my knees to this old chunk of winter and melt her with a lover's prayer, or stand there and faint? She settled the question by seating ms with a wave of her hand; aud during the next few minutes we filled theroom with piinful silence. Howl wished somebody would throw a brick througn the win dow! I never wanted to be disturbed so bad in my life. “Wby don't the old lady say sometulug?” 1 tnought, as 1 ven tured a glance for sympatny. She Diinked contnmelioasly. 1 saw 1 must ao something bosides perspire, sol cone uded to carrom around ou general tonics until I gained my rea son. “Did you ever play hooky from scho j1? ’ I asked, trying to look pleasant. “Did I what?” Aed she looked so mad that 1 felt like one who had dropped a nickel into the slot and the machine wouldn’t sing. I next tried a subject of sense. “Do you think the passage of the Mc Kinley b.ll has raised hosiery any higher?” | ' I don’t know; I shall not wo.ir mine ; any nigher ” she answered, with great graMty. r It alwajsdid worry me to be misunder stood. However, I still held my grip and ! introduced a theme that is ev.rdearto. our hearts. Do you think one’s ancestors, when— ‘ that is—I mean if they think—” “Your ancestors evidently don’t think, or they would send after you,” she said, as sue raised up to pull a cold shudder over me, and then coutinusd in no bell like voice: ‘ My daughter informed me that yon called to obtain my consent to your mar riage. If she doesn’t know the difference between a man in love and an idiot in distress. I’ll send her back to short dresses! My daughter has been edneated to look ap to man as a being superior and enn ibledjon whose breast.she would find protection and In whom she should ex pect content, and warmth for the aeplra tions of her heart. When she lifts her eyes in wediocs, 1 wish her to see some thing besides a coat buttoned over a calf. No; you can’t marry my daughter. Go home, and let yonr parents feed you for another generation or two, and if by that time you don’t develop the brains of a dugong, i’d advise yonr mother to drown you. Go!” Realizing the usalessnessof resistance, I wont. Harry Gaddis. ike Up. If you wake up in the morning with a bitter or bad taste in your mouth, Languor, Dull Headache, Despondency, Constipa tion, take Simmons Liver Regulator. It corrects the bilious stomach, sweetens the breath and cl causes the furred tongue. Children as well as adults sometimes eat something that does not digest well, S wincing Sour Stomach, cartburn, Restlessness, or Sleeplessness—a good dose of Regulator will ! ;ive relief. So perfectly harmless is this remedy that it can be taken by the youngest infant or the most delicate person without injury, no matter what the condition of the system may be. 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H. OKU & SONS, ATLANTA GA. 733 26U** . PER MONTH made by < | agents collecting smailF | tores for Enlargement f I will copy and frame jo I own picture ‘‘at ag£| l prices,” to be . as sample to show ou- wm Address, Co., 9y % MariettaSt\ Atlaftt have bean a fittin? recupUela for the ‘ Governor RiioIvmap nf pan-iaroi’s anointed bones or for tho39 i irnur jjiiclviicr ul Ivcututky. the motion was in the j atn3 direction as th it of Ziaa’8. Upon the an nonneement of the discovery of two new coasts so close oo each other, a8tronomsrs naturally concludsd thit they were parts of tbs same const and therefore were traveling through spaee together. It was, however, soon seen thit there was no relaoiooshlp whatever between tne two, for Z >na's comet rapid ly left the other far behind, pissing eignt hours af.er Hpitaler’s discovery within six inlaute3 of are(one fifth the apparent dia lister of the moon) of the Vienna snout, si that the two mast have appeared in toe tela330pe a. a doable comet. By the night of the 17th, when Z ina’s cemet could first be observ ed in America, they were some two de grees apart, aid therefore the fainter one would have escape! discovery. They are now (Deo. 10) two hoars apart in right ascension, and differ 4 degress in desii- nation, and while one is moving aoath- ward the other ia keeping up its nortn- erly motion. Any one familiar with the discovery of comets and the comparative scarcity of the same, and who can appreciate the vast expanse of the Heavens, In which the averngee vnet ia the merest speck, will recognize in this discovery or two newcomers within a few minutes of each other, and In no way physically connected, one of the most remarkable coincidences ever kaowa. There Is no record of any t wo comets, not physically related, ever having been ssen within a degree of each other, add there are many millions of chances against the discovery of two such comets so close together as wer > Z jaa’s and Bpltaler’s, and we may safely say that It will never hanpen again. Taese two comets are being regalarly observed at the Lick observatory. Neith er is brigit. Spitaler’s is exceedingly small and faint, the merest speexofhaze moving slowly among the stars. Its omit has not yet need cem ented, but there is a > doaot, from its appearance a id slow motion, it inns: be very distant from ns. V San lay-school fo l t i IP f I.io.vi i; -j •'Raise dr Superi st ori e s ev jry S i l i./ et’iiupiu of t 5ii 5 soper.ateulent recently i ut. I so ms Pile it u jard: Keils it, don't lire *nf as m beys with ao awful Give us m auo U.IHD1 : eiaaplu I.I I let l b)/ia u tco ,f til • between them, in spite of her broken : a resi. 'iive tue girls a turn.” queen’s private boudoir. Had her Maj33 ty of dhoba seen it she, too, would have been enchantsd and with moreenthusi asm exclaimed: “Not half has ever been told.” It was all or snowy, polished stone; the stalactites glittered lixa pendants fro n au ice palace; in the canter the stone huig in volutes like a rich, creamy tapestry, upheld with coral rastenlngi. Tne entrance of the boudoir is a jagged opening in ihe rocks which seems but a rudd tear in a massive, yet careless hang ing drapery. As we turned away, sighing that no such beautiful places were on, earth for the dreamer and poet, the lanterns flashed on a block craggy bluff npon wnich a great white roci stood oat in bold roller, and beside it a bUcx one. Weirdly, Fancy wnlspcred “Hamlet and his father's ghost,” I asked the guide. He, smiling, said, “Fancy Is aright!” Fearing lest,seeing ns, the ghost would spring upon as as Intruders aid, imag iulngour lanterns to be tne lambent tires of his monitors, the gtow-worm, he wonld think the morning was near, and— But Fancy mast not frighten as with such pictures. At oar feet rolled a mor bid little stream through a gloomy wiz ard glen. Over it hnng heavy shadows whioh wonld not be cleared away. On the banks were black stones, like the shroaded figures of lost souls on the river dtyx. We shivered with the oonjarings of oar own brain as we crossed the dark, freezing water; then, passing through a narrow archway, the rays of the lanterns going before threw open the otherwise impervious gate of shadows, and revealed to as the most gorgeously beautiful apartment we had yef seen. Well, I reokoned Fancy named that stream, with its motionless figures; for this was In'- deed an Elystam, though petrified. No “soft wind stirring on tiptoe” moved what seemed drapery ot an airy, silken texture. No gentle wind moved with tne perfumed soul of the chaste white lilies beside us. We touched thsm and were c.iilied. They, too, were but stone. All, all was cold, hard, passionless, mo tionless stone! Here, again, were the many-colored stalagmites. 'Those gleaning tnersfrom j Cough dyrup is la order, utbimS That was a flue passage between the Executive of Kentucky and thewifeof the condemnsd man, who Went to Frank fort last Friday toask for a pardon. She had presented her papers and sat breath less whilst the arbiter of her fate perused them; and, as she waited, a mastiff, the playmate of the G iveroor’s little son—a beast not given to strangers—uncoiled himself from the rug wuero he nad Deea lying, and came up ia that friendly way wnich only dogs know no.v toaff.ct with perfect sincerity, and, sesiag suspense and pain in tue agitated features of the poor woman, ne put his pa ws gently npon ner kuessaaj begin to iiok uer hand. Tae Governor ii lishad the papers and tne petitioner was aojnt to speak, when the grin old soldier said: “It is not necessary, inidam; the dog has spoken for you,” aud straigntway signed the document wnich was to release a dying naan from prison aud enable him to go to his grave from his own homo. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin; and it is hard to say which moves us the more, the .spectacle or that orave gentleman and soldier, wnon it is a dellgnt and pride to hail as oar chief magistrate, stirred to the depths oy the silent eloquence of a dog; or the thought of that noole orate, inspired by we know . waa W to become an irresistible pleader for mercy before the highest court. The Incident makes a seasonable text, indeed, there was as much of trath as sarcasm in the observation of the cynic, wao declared that the more he saw of men the better he thought of dogs. The love of a dog has nothing sordid aboat it nor treacherous. Tae poor beast knows not how to dissemble. GbV. Buck ner knew his sea’s dog and believed in him. And, wnen ne saw him make com mon causa with tbs grief-Jtrleken woman, he felt that, if ha followed the lead of that dog’s pity aid love, he oonld make no mistake. And he did not; aad taea aud there tna angst that writes in a book drew a great waits mark for that Governor and tnat dbg.-Gnr Dumb Ani mals. HOME WITHOUT A MOTHER. The room’s in disonler, The cat’s on the table, Ihe floarer-stand upset.and the mischief to pay; Aud Johnny is streaming As loud as he’s able. For nothing goes right wnen mamma’s away What a scene of discomfort and confu sion home would be If mamma did not return. Ifyour wife ia slowly breaking down, frjin a combination of domestic cares and female disorders, make it your first business to restore her health. Dr. Fierce’s Favorite Prescription is without a peer as a remedy for feeble and debili tated women, and ia the ouly medicine for the class of maladies known as female diseases which is sold under a positive guarantee from the manufacturers that it will give satisfaction, or the money will be refunded. It is a positive cure for the moat complicated ca3es of womb i troubles. /AENSTRUAT10N , OR MONTWLV SICKNESS IV TWEN DURING CHPlNGV. QV VWV- GRtM V'fvHSER-’te SUFI ERINS YvlLl BE MZ01DH1 X JBOOK TCV'WOMAN"MAILEDfKEH BRADFIELD REGULATOR CD. A TLANTA GA. 749 ly Mention Sunny South THE BEST. I). M. Fbkky & Co's strated, Descriptive and Priced Seed Annual] 1891 will be mailed FREE j Ito all applicants, ami to lastseason&t |customers. It is better than ewer. ] Every person using Carden, Fltnoer or Field Seeds, shoulci .vend for it. Address D. M . FERRY A CO. DETROIT, MICH. 1 Largest Seedsmen in the world J Fairy Queen. Nickel Case. Lea’s out for clever Imitations of Salva tiouGll. Its unprecedented success pro yokes cjuuterioiss, Tuese are sue di/3 won the man with the shotgun goes out auitihg and gets back with a oal cj.l. Thea Dr. Bull’s Crookphiz (who is going to a masquerade and IK a little snort of ready cash)—‘ Say, is my face good lor a cos .ti me and a mask?” Costumer (after asnrrey of nis customer)— I don’t think it would do for a cost iin2, but it will be all light lor the mask.” Cut shows full size; sides and top are ) „,n, allowing lull view oi works. Ruus 24 hours Keep s accurate time. “ ^ j Fine steel cat pinion movement This little clock is a novelty and a beautv j and is a cute mantel piece. ^ I T^J^e^endJ/u^ittlf^clock hi/ mail postpaid with the Sunny South for only 75. LIGHT HE HITS, PLENTY MONEY MR. Editor: I have just completed my first week’s work with my Plating Machine and have f 12 profit as a reward, I am charmed with the business; the work is easy and profits large. I bought my Plater from W. H. Griffith & Go., Zanesville, Ohio, for $3, and I feel contt- dent if people only kaew how cheaply they would get a Plater and how much money they could make with it, we would see many happy homes, “where penury now exists.” It is surprising the amount of tableware and jewelry people want plated, and if persons now idle would send to the above address and get a circular, and go to work, they wonld soon have light hearts and plenty money. Mbs. J. u. Noble, Gentleman— ‘You are a cheat! The picture yon sold me yeateriay has painted upo i it Original by Rembraudt.’ It has just been proved tc me that it is only a copv.” Dealer—‘rhe siguature was perfectly correct. The original is by. Rembrandt.” “A Balm in Gilead.” for you by tak ing Simmons Liver Regulator tor yonr diseased liver. Granite of fine quality abounds in tbe vicinity of Salisbury, North Carolina. Three quarries have been opened, and many more oonld be If capitalists were to become Interested In that industry in Bowan county. 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