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THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 10, 1892.
NYE WHITES OE JN. (J.
HE TELLS HOW HEALTHY IT
WHERE HE LIVES.
IS
Sad Story of a Man Who Taught Him
How to riay I’oker—A Young Man
Wanted to Open Oysters and Do Otliei
Things—A Chicago Servant.
[Copyright, 1892, by Edgar W. Nye.]
Birdie Swartoufc, of Cripple Creek,
writes in good faith to know if coloi
may be detected by the degree of heat oi
the odor—in other words, is color per
ceptible by means of any other sense
than sight?
Le Fontaine says yes. He even goes
so far as to say that people who are
color blind may be quite accurate by
means of other senses—taste, touch,
smell or even the feeling of warmth.
He named in his last work—viz., “Coloi
Blind People and Blind Colored People
Contrasted”—a case in which a loco
motive engineer, who had been coloi
blind for twenty years and held his
position by means of the sense of smell,
claimed afterward that a red light had
an odor like red flannel, while the green
light had a smell like green flannel. He
lost his place, however, while suffering
from a polypus of the nose.
would crochet Tam CFSh&ntars lor the
poor.
But one time he tried a new lecture
for me in an uncultivated town. I was
not sure of the lecture myself and told
him to be on his guard, for some of the
ideas were keenly expressed, and the
treatment was vigorous. He got part way
through the window, but it was violently
shut down on him, severing him in such
a way that the committee got the end
containing the box receipts.
He bad a wife in Beaver Dam, Wis.
She buried him there. You can find the
tomb there today. She married again,
and had bad luck with her second hus
band also. His tomb is there too. On
the large marble shaft which his insur
ance paid for is this inscription in large,
beautiful letters:
Oh, here we have a widow bereft—
liichard on the right and Henry on the left.
Below it some one has added:
And if she should outlive a couple more,
d the other
She could plant one behind an
before.
TEACHING NYE POKER.
This may or may not have been true,
but day before yesterday we had on the
.Pullman car Asphyxia coming north a
knan who said that the race problem had
induced him to go south for the month
of November, where he found that the
colored man was well treated and rapidly
becoming so wealthy as to threaten the
supremacy of the white race. He be
lieved that in a very few years tho trade
and commerce of the south would be in
colored hands. Pie said that in one
county where he visited there were but
two colored men who owned a mule,
each, free of incumbrance, twenty years
ago, and now there are three of them.
Colored children, too, he says, are
more plentiful, and parents seem more
economical of them. He says also that
there is a strong atmosphere of progress
pervading the gatherings there, and
though color blind he says that the
other senses may be readily educated, if
at all sensitive, so that even in the dark
ness one may detect almost at once the
color of the complexion pervading the
meeting, though this of course refers
to the primary colors and not to delicate
shades.
I believe that many curious anecdotes
might he related regarding the wonder
ful distinction of color by people who
are blind or color blind. I know of a
young lady whose father was very
wealthy up to the time he began to teach
me the game of poker, and she suffered
from color blindness, at one time eloping
with the colored coachman and not dis
covering her error until two years had
swept by on untiring pinions.
My friend now is broken in health and
In fortune, living with his son-in-law,
and all day long he sits in the sunshine
thinking of the past and singing or tell
ing stories to his little black and tan
grandchildren.
Another correspondent asks of North
Carolina: “Is it a healthy state? Would
it oe a good place for hip disease, and
could you give employment at once to
one so afflicted?”
This is a healthy state. I have said so-
before. The western part of the state
has a climate like that of Turin. I say
this without wishing to keep any one
away from Turin. To show you how
people retain their faculties here, I copy
the following from the Atlanta Consti
tution:
Dr. E. S. War lick reports a case in the South
mountain section of Burke county, N. C., which
is one of the most remarkable on record, if we
except the Scriptural story of Sarah. Mrs.
William E. Smith, of Upper Fork township,
2ave birth to a child, a circumstance which
would have created very little comment in the
South mountain had it not been that the day
cn which the child was born happened to be
Mrs. Smith’s seventieth birthday. The child
was alive and well formed, and the physicians
all say this beats the record.
It is not so common at the age of
eighty or ninety to be able to read fine
print in the mountains, because some
have neglected to read coarse print while
young, but health and long life and a
pleasing mixture of children and grand
children are features of this most won
derful air.
But I hardly feel like engaging help
here that is troubled with hip disease,
for half of these cripples recover so soon
that they run away before I can supply
their places. I got a good man to help
me with light work (as he had formerly
Worked in a lighthouse). He had eleven
hemorrhages on the way here and was
brought on a mattress to the house, but
the following morning he quarreled
with the man who brought his trunk,
and breaking the poor baggage man’s
jaw with a single blow declared he
would -not live in such a lawless
country and rode back to East Hamp
ton, Mass., on my bicycle.
juice of the Early Dent corals used for
this purpose, and yields a grateful
warmth, followed by a healthy glow,
and afterward by coma, stertorous
breathing, incoherent mutterings and
other signs of the third party.
A valued friend writes from Chicago,
“We certainly not only rival New York,
but far exceed her in one thing—viz., the
impudence and worthlessness of serv
ants.” Continuing, she says: “I have
lived in Chicago for nearly forty years
and never yet have seen such utter
horror in the outlook for employers
of servants. We get as many green
servants as New York, or more, and with
arrogance and impudence added for
every mile they come by rail. Can you
Punishments In Morocco.
The notion of suiting the punishment to
the crime, however it may have found fa
vor with the great medieval sultans of
Cordova, does not occur to the Maroquine
officials of today.
A Moorish law court is a parody of all
that Europeans mean by justice. Extor
tion is the main object of the judges, and
the contempt for suffering is absolute.
The rich may escape with whole skins, but
those without “palm oil” have scant mercy.
For instance, the mere accusation of a
paltry theft, if made from some favored
quarter, will bring on the accused the or
dinary punishment for such conduct. This
consists in breaking the ankle bones and
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guests, open oysters, and milk; good home; per
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The above advertisement is sent to me
by a valued correspondent at Wyoming,
Del., and I should be glad to give the
notice further circulation, thus insuring
some good young man with genius a
warm welcome and permanent employ
ment. The advertisement is taken from
a Philadelphia paper of great estimable
ness.
Opening oysters and shaving a few
customers seem to go hand in hand.
When fatigued with this he might also
shave the oysters and open a few custom
ers. I used to have such a man myself
as a body servant, but he is dead now.
He sometimes impersonated me and
acted as my understudy, often trying a
new lecture for me.
That was the way he met his death.
He wanted to be busy all the time. He
would on rainy days dig worms for the
feeble minded liens, end &1 night be
We only ask that people who are bene
fited by our climate will give it proper
credit. It grieves us like everything to
have friends come here breathing with
anything they can get hold of and then
go away with large, nice, new red lungs
and claim that it was Bears’ soap that
did it. That makes us irritated and
choleric.
Come freely with your abcesses and
faraway looks, your little-Eva-goodby-
Uncle-Tom air, your tallyhoes and
tubercles. Bring them all. Come and
cough up with the country. But when
the glow of health as you ride horseback
comes to your well rounded cheeks, and
also to the place under the saddle where
the hair is worn off the back of the de
jected horse, do not go back home and
say that you owe it entirely to a pro
tective tariff.
The item in the Atlanta Constitution
is true, but not complete. It should
have added that while Mrs. Smith was
celebrating her seventieth birthday Mr.
Smith, her husband, was working alone
on my justly celebrated well, which is
102 feet deep, and bringing up the granite
fragments in a bushel basket held in his
teeth, running up and down the rope
hand over hand like a cat, and cleaning
out the well preparatory to putting in
the plumbing. Mrs. Smith is his second
wife, and they have lived together as
man and wife for fifty years.
During the war they lived on a bank
of edible clay and a distant relative.
Mr. Smith regards his present health as
a result entirely of the ozone and un
restrained ballot of this state.
He has been mistaken several times
for another William E. Smith, of Lower
Fork township, who is one of the pro
foundest liars in the state, barring none.
This has given Mr. Smith cause for much
sorrow, and he has often wished that he
was dead, but that is out of the ques
tion in this climate.
Asheville has a large and prosperous
cemetery filled entirely with people from
the north who waited five or ten min
utes too late before coming here. Health
here is so good and one feels so perfectly
vigorous that the monotonous longevity
drives some to drink. The Dale* white
THE GRAVEYARD AT ASHEVILLE.
not say a word that will cheer and unite
us? A friend of mine hired a new cook,
who cooked, stuffed and served hot a
baked goose without removing anything
except the outer wraps of the bird. This
is no joke. It is the everlasting truth.
The girl never admitted that she was
utterly green and knew nothing regard
ing the use and abuse of the American
people.
“Think of cooking and serving a goose
without intruding upon its private
affairs I Think of carving it and passing
it to a person of noble birth who was
thinking of buying thirteen lots in one
of our new additions!
“Servants now ask the questions them
selves entirely: Do you have much com
pany? How many in the family? etc.
We had a girl come last week to apply
for a place, and, Mr. Nye, you could not
exaggerate, if you tried, the list of ques
tions she asked. Emboldened by my
perfect helplessness and horror, she went
on and on till she could think of nothing
more. Then she said: ‘Well, I presume
that it will do if I come Monday. I
have some engagements for the rest of
the week.’ Then she started for the door.
“ ‘You have forgotten to ask one ques
tion,’ I said. ‘You have forgotten to ask
if I wanted you. I do not. You may
ran along now. Illinois people are
called Suckers, but there isn’t such a
general run of paresis here as you may
have been led to believe from reading
the New York papers.’ She then went
away.”
We are all suffering from the same
cause. Only those who employ colored
girls warranted not to crack are perfectly
happy.
I used to write freely of the servant
question and said some bright things
about it, but that was when I was a
bachelor. Now I am keeping house, and
I am more reserved. I am writing a
book, however, on the servant question,
which will be published after my death.
It will be filled with facts and written
in a terse yet well chosen style that will
in a great measure take the keen edge
off the general public grief over my
irremediable loss.
him—hobbling over the cobbled alleys,
while the passersby nudged each other and
muttered “Thief.”
In the prisons men and women, chained
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Do Not Sleep on Your Left Side.
When a patient complains of a bad taste
in his mouth every morning on waking up,
the first question I ask him is as to the po
sition he assumes when going to sleep.
An immense number of people sleep on
the left side, and this is the most common
cause of the unpleasant taste which is gen
erally attributed to dyspepsia. If a meal
has been taken within two or three hours
of going to bed, to sleep on the left side is
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The action of the heart is also interfered
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but few men can rest easily so, and hence it
is best to cultivate the habit of sleeping on
the right side. It is very largely a matter
of habit, and the sooner it is acquired the
better for the sleeper and the worse for the
physician.—Interview in St. Louis Globe-
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Sweet clover, which grows plentifully bj
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unobjectionable to any one not afflicted witt
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sweet, white, tassel-like heads as a bouquet
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There is considerable doubt whether any
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