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2 THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 10, 1892. BEZ THE MAGAZINE THE DECEMBER FORUM. HE INVESTIGATION of the achool-room work in the public schools of our principal cities made for the Forum by Dr. J. M. Kice has provoked a volume of comment and correspondence perhaps unequalled in periodical literature. In the Da cember number appears the results of Dr. Rice’s investi g a t i o n of the schools of St. Louis and of Indianapolis—St. Louis representing the evil effects of a mechani cal supervision, and Indianapolis the beautiful results of some of the best school-room work done in the world* which is described in detail. Confirming the conclusion reached by Dr. Rice, Presi dent Eliot, of Harvaid University, writes perhaps his btst contribution to periodi cal literature on “Wherein Popular Edu cation has Failtd"—a comprehensive re view of our educational woik that is among the most tLoughtful productions of ttiis generation. The World’s Fair is discussed from two points of view—from one point of view by Mrs. Van Rensselaer, the well known writer on art, to show that the Fur is the noblest of all object-iessons in art, by far the most notable spectacle that one may see any where on eaith or that men have seen since the fall of ine Roman empire. Mrs. Van Rensselaer argues that it is the duty of every American man, woman au«l child to make auy s »ciitiee to see the Ex position, for the sight of it will be an event in any lifetime. It-v. John W Chadwick, following Bishop Potter’s nota ble article in the Uctober Forum, tells why Congress must rescind its action and the Fair mart be opened on Sunday—an argumeut based on a reverence fur S m- day, but offering a plea for freedom. Another timely group of articles is on the Problems of Poverty. Prof. Francis G, Peabouy, of Harvard, who made for the Forum a study of the German system of poor-relief, especially iu Dresden, writes a minute description of this system, which has rendered a case of acute want impos sible and has banished beggary. Follow ing this, Mr Jacob A. Riis tells of the spe cific needs of the poor iu New York City, aud shows how help for them is hindered by politics. This number xs notable also lor its literary articles. Me. W. H. Marlock, writing on “Are Scott, Dickens, and Thickeray Obsolete?" makes a most entertaining study of these matters of fiction ; and J tines Whitcomb Riley explains the true function of dialect in literature in his own characteristic way. Among other articles iu this number are one on “Politics as a Career," by Ex-Sen- a or E imuuds, who writes what the out look is for a well equipped young man to euter public life; auoiher by Mrs. Faw cett, the well known English writer, on “Women in Ejglish Politics," and a thor ough study of tne Swedish system of reg ulating the liquor traffi • by giving the monopoly of it to municipalities, by Mr. John Graham Brooks, who visit-eu Swe den for the Forum to make this investiga tion. element are hardly more noticeable than the personal element, which is represent ed entertainingly by four articles: (1) “Leaves from the Autobiography of Tam- maso Salvini,” in which the great Tra gedian relates the reminiscenses of his youth and his early experiences on the stage, with characterizations of his master Modena and of Adelaide Ristori; (2) the R v. Stopfurd A. Brooke contributes an article of personal reminiscence and criti cism, entitled “Impressions of Browning and his Art"; and (3) an attractive anec dotal article by Ronald J. McNeill on Jenny Lind forms the first of a new series of separate papers in the Century on “No table Women." (5) Mr. Archibald Forbes follows up his papers on the Paris Com mune with a paper on “War Correspon dence as a Fme Art," illustrated with portraits of William Howard Russell, Dr. Kuster, Kingston, Henty, Millet, Colonel Grant, and Mr. Forbes himself. These four articles are accompanied by interes ting portraits. “Picturesque New York" is described by Mrs. Sonuyler van Rensselaer, whose name suggests intimate acquaintance with the subject of which she writt s, an i pic tures by Mielatz and Manly reinforce her contention that New York lias unique pic turesque features. “To Gipsylami,” the second paper of Mis. Pennell’s experience among the Hungarians and Bohemians, is as interesting as its predecessor in the November number, and is uniquelv illus trated with pictures by Mr. Pennell. In * Topics of the Time" the meeting of Congress is editorially taken note of by three articles; one, on “Tue First Duty ot Congress," in which the repeal of the Silver Law of 1890 is urgently advocated ; another, on “Immigration Pioblems;” and a third, on “G •vernmeut Architec ture in America." Mr. W. J. Henderson, music -1 critic of “Tne New York Tim^s," coutiibutes an Open Letter “To Peis >ns Desiring to Cultivate a Taste in Music." Altogether the number is one of great va riety, entertainment aud special interest. Tne Century ai-.nounces that in the J sii- uary number w ill be a humorous sketch by Mark Twain, in bis most diverting vein, entitled “The £1 000,000 Bank Note." Th i Century for December falls into the current of the Cunstmas feeling with a number of features. First ot all, it has a beautiful and appropriate special cover. In addition to this there are five fuli-page engravings of pictures by American ar- arusts t ou religious iheuns, besides a frontispiece of a beautiful “Madonna aud Child" by D ignan-Bouveretc, one of the choicest of the French artists, and a lead er in the tendency to revive the Christian sentiment in art. The American artists thus contributing are Simmons, Du Moud, Thayer, Miss Macom'ier, aud Blashfield, th) representative of the last being his Sa lon picture of 1802," “Ringing the Cnrist- inat Bells." Tu-re are several poems and stories reflecting the Cunstmas feeling and more or less relating to the holiday. These include “My Cou-in Fannie,” by Thomas Nelson Page; “Their Christmas Meeting,” by Florence Watters Suedeker; and discussions of “the Effect ot Scientific Study Upou R-uigious Beliefs," by H. S. Williams; and of “The Problem of Pover ty," by Washington Gladden, and sub jects relating to cniid-lil'e, su ;h as “Some Tenement House Evils," by Liliiau W. Betts; “The Prevention ot Blindness in Infants," by Swan M. Burnett, aud a se ries of poems about children entitled “Some More Boys," by James Whitcomb Riley, with illustrations by Kemble. . In addition to the two stories above m nttoued, the number contains five more; “The New Cashier, by Edward Eg- gl. et .u: “A Knight of tne Legion of Hon or," by F. Hopkiuson Smith, author of Colo lei Carter ot Cartersville" ; “St-reue's Religious Experience," by Cornelia At wood Pra t; aud two of Grace King’s sep arate senes of “Bale >uy Scorn a,” entitled “The Balcony" aud “A Drama of Thr*e.” In addition to these short stories the uum- ber contains the second part of “Sweet Bells Out of Tuue,” the New Yora society novel by Mrs. burton Harrison, the au thor of “Tue Auglomauiacs," and the opening par; of the posthumous novei of Western life by Wolcott Balestier, en titled “Beuetiis Forgot.” Nearly ail of these stories are attractively illustrate^. la addition to Mr Riley the poets of the number are Thomas Bally Aldrich, Rud- yard Kipling. Harrisou S. Moiris, Joun M y, Mary E. Wilaius (* prose poem), Jouu Malone and Richard Watson Gildei; and iu the department “la L gnter Vein,” William Bard McVi ;kar, Manly U Pike, Margiret Vaudergrift, aud Frank Demp ster Sheruiau. Thus the Century main tains its reputation for h iviug a targe va riety of p n-tic material iroui writers of reputation. The Christmas element and the story The North American Review for Decem ber embraces a vaiiety of aitides that, go far towards asolution of the questions ban died, and to which the public mind is at this moment directed. Tne established policy of The R view is to St cure papers from those men upou w hose opinion aid action the decision « f the matters under discussion largely depeud. Mr. Giadstoue, ttie Prime Minister oi England, hasepokeu iu its col umns on the condition of affairs iu Ireland, his paper being a reply to the Duke of Argyll, and in tbe December number the Hon. Aithur James Balfour, Secretary for Ireland in the Salisbury administration, gives what ha claims to tie the view of the real maj nily in Great Britain. His arti cle is entitled “The New House of Com mons aud the Iiisb Question." The mean ing of the Papal infallibility is made very oie*r by Hie Rev S. M. Brandi, of the So ciety of Jesus at Rome, in “When Is the Pope Infallible?" He reviews various utterances and de crees of the Pope aud points out their dis tinctions in character. The Governor of Jamaica in “Opportunities for Young Men in Jamaica" sets forth with some <-mhu siasm and yet practical detail the business advantages that are afforded by the some what neglected island. In view of rtceui achievements by American-bred horses aud the revived interest in flue stock an article of special value is that ot Coi. Theodore Ayrauit Dodge on “The Horse iu America." Iu “A Campaign for Ballet Reform" the Hon. E. Bucd Giubb re counts the history of the fight made against oonuption at the polls in New Jersey, which led to the conviction and imprisonment of a large number of tbe guilty politicians. Haunis Taylor writes a strong paper on “A Blow at the Freedom of the Press, ’ and expresses in a legal argument the belief that recent legisla tion in Congress and judgment in the Su preme Couit affecting the mails are dangerous, and should be, aud will be, set aside. M. Allred Naquet, of tbe Cbamber o' Deputies, the author of tbe Divorce Bill, explains the absolute need of a cer tain freedom in dissolving the marital relation in his article “Divorce: From a French Point ol View." A paper that is brilliantly written, and that will have a considerable bearing on the yet unsettled question of au international contest for tue cup, is “International Yachting," by the Earl of Dunraven. E. L. Godkin, iu “A Month of Quarantine," gives some ac count of the inconveniences of the present system of detention, and urges the control of quarantine by the Government on a basis of ihorougu science. T. D. Crothers, M. D., discusses tht question, “Is Inebriety Increasing Among American Women?’ Another article of interest on a similar line is one by Dr. Hei ry South Williams on the “Wages of Siu," noting the nature of paresis. The English pnsi has re cently been discussing the problem why poets and novelists so often fail in their efforts iu writing dramas. W. T. Price, in “Playwrights and Literary Men," points out the peculiar naiure of dramatic con struction. In other papers S. Ruett R miau discusses “American Chauvinism," aud E. Iren ants Stevenson contributes “Criti ciam Criticised." enough to be the fitting climax of so awful a disease. To make the image yet. sadder, and hence truer, it should be added that paresis usually selects for its victims the more intellectual members of the com munity. “Selects," did I say? Rather, I should have used the passive tense; for paresis does not come unbidden. Ruthless as it is when once it has seized a victim, it need have no terrors for any one who does not invite it by his actions. And this, perhaps, is the saddest fact of all in the sad hirtory of this baleful disease. To stand helpless and see a strong man cut down by disea'se is always appalling ; but to feel that his disease was preventab e; to know that he is but reaping as be has sown; to have the words come unbidden to your lips, “the wages of sin is death,"— this is indeed a bitter aud humiliating ex pel ieuce. Yet such is the lot of the phy sician as often as he meets a case of paresis. Powerless to stem the tide of this disease he must stand aside, reproach ing himself and his art, while victim after victim goes down to certain death before his eyes. Only one thing remaius for him; be can give a warning cry to those who are unwittingly treading the pHb that leads to this pitfall. From “The Wages of Sin," by Henry Smith Wil liams, M. D , in North American Review for December. Browning’s Obscurity. TO SAIL TO THE NORTH POLE. The Popular Science Monthly for De cember, 1892. THE INCURABILITY OF ADVANCED PARESIS. Of all the diseases that menace tbe race, omy a few are absoiuteiy fatal. Indeed, there is but one common disease that in variably brings its victim speedily to the grave. Tub, mo it ruthless of maladit-s is tnatteiribie form of insanity technically called general paresis or paretic dementia, aud kuowu co the layman as “softening oi the brain.” Its unvarying history entities it to precedence over consumption, cancer, Bright’s disease; iu short, places it peer less iu bid p t-aminence. Auu as if this were not enough, its malignity is ; in phasized by the way in which it juggles with its victim before it extinguishes his Ute. It changes his personality, dvthiones reasor, almost eliminates tbe mind, and, steadily weakening the body, leaves to wards the last a mere skeletal, vegetative being scarce recoguizible as the vestige of his former self; unknowing, unfeeling, mini l ss, to bis friends -it once a tearful memoiy and a terrible objective presence. Finally death comes in a form horrible All that he wrote in the atmosphere oi his passionate huinanifcywill endure when ever it is expressed in a form not too dif ficult or too rugged for the multitude of those who, iu humility, love nature and human nature. There is nothiag really obscure in Browning; bis thoughts are clear enough to himself, and a few sim ple clues, easily won by those who will take tbe trouble, will lead a student to the centre oi any labyrinth to be found in liis work. Nor ate tbe thoughts them selves complex. Tbe diffieulfy of under standing bis poetry lies iu tbe way in wbicb thoughts iu themselves quite simple are expressed. They are twisted, ei tangled, and broken up in a manner which I do not like to call wilful, bur. which has that air; aud this is not good art. What is simple ought to be kept simple, not changed into ridiili s, or overwhelmed with fautistic or nament. He has also another fashion, and quite a d ffereut one, which makes him d fii uit. Sometimes he is as com pressed, luoisive, and vigorous as he is at other times careless ami fluttering iu thought He has a way of leaping straight to his thought aud clinching it at once, witiiout taking us through auy of the thoughts that led to it. We see the thing bat not the process ; and we h-.ve to work out the process fur ourselves. That is quite legitimate iu poetry, when there is not too much of it, aud tbe man who com plains of that ditli julr.y has no busiuess to read poetry 7 at all. But when a number of th-se comp »t'd thoughts are expressed one aft r auotln r iu a few lines, without any care for sbo vmg their connection ; when they so jostle and trip up one anoth er that they are not really seen as wholes but as halves—then the poetry does be come more difii -ult tnau auy artist ought to permit his work to br. Some people like this, but it is for the most part tbe trouble it gives tin m which they like, and not the poetry; tbe intellec tual exercise to which they are put, and not the passionate feeling in the verse, which is, of course, what Browning most wished them to enjoy. Tue thought, when tlisy have disentangled it, is dear to them and pleases their vanity, because they had such hard work to find it out—the nut tasting sweet iu proportion to the difficul ty of the shell But this is not love of poetry, but of one’s own cleverness. More over, when the thought is found out, it is olttii the same as Wordsworth or Miltou ha) expressed iu luminous languag, but which, beiug quite clear toa childe, does not aive these persons the pleasure of a double acrosdc —Stopford A Brooke, in The Christmas Century. Uncle Moses’s ’Possum Prayer. Great consternation followed by wild laughter, was au innovation of the chapel exercises at the penitentiary the other morning. It was occasioned by a ’possum prayer from old Moses Allen, a South Carolina negro with cue leg, who was dreaming of Thanksgiving day in tilt near future. Chaplain Dudley opened the prayer meeting, as usual, and pri oners followed briefly. When all heads were bowed in reverence old Mose jumped at the oppor tunity aud delivertU the following pray er : “Dear beloved brudderin and sister’n, I tank de Lor.i for permittin’ me to kum ter church dis yer beautiful Sabbor moru. Ye all dunno that beautiful Thanksgiving day is near at ban’. On dat day some folks wi‘i eat turkey, some eat chicken, some eat duck, some eat lamb, aud some eat sheep. “But us Liggers, we good old ’poas. Cooh take all the lxaar of two nights aud Bring ’irn in. Stuff ’im like you would a turkey, an’ base ’im. Put ’im in de pan. Put sweeten taters ail round dat ’puss. Put ’im in de stove aud shst dat stove doab. Go way thinking about Bjoregard, Jeff Davis, Lin coln and Grant. “Lit ’im stjy in dere a while. Open dat stove doah. Ol’ ’pussy all turned brown aud de gravy dnppm in de pan deelar cat ’poss am coosed. Bring dat ’poss out dat stove, put ’im on de table. Dou t cut ’im while e’s ’ot. Fur Christ’s sake, amen." Chaplain Dudley stood aghast at the conclusion of the prayer. A moment after ward the chapri re-echoed the wild and wicked shouts of the prisoners. For nearly five minutes consternation reigned, at the eud oi which time prayers wtie re'umed, with no .further expres sions from the c dored brethren —Coluux- ous SDdcial iu Cleveland Leader Dr. Kansen’s Expedition Will go in a Ship Especially Designed. No vessel has ever been so carefully de signed and built for the purpose of bat tling with the Arctic ice and endeavoring to reach its core at the North Pole, and certainly no more solidly constructed or perftet description of vessel has ever bsen turned out of a builder’s hands for Arctic service than the one just fiaished for the use of Dr.- Nansen’s Arctic expedition. The vessel is constructed on nearly simi lar Hues to those of a Scutch buckleboat or _ Norwegian pilot. Sbo is furnished witb i out by the lato Car\ill engines of about 170 inuioated horse pow- | G F. Wright appear iu er, powerful pumps to be worked by steam or baud power, and electric light ing machinery. She also takes with her a balloon to he held captive for purposes of observation, and carries seven boats-four on davits and three on skids over the main hatchway. Two of these, larger than the others, are capable of carrying the en tire crew, with provisions for several months, and warm tents in the event of tbe abandonment of the vessel. The expedition will leave Norway in February next so as to arrive at Behring Strait in June, when the vessel will enter the Arctic waters, and push her way far as possible toward the Pole to the north of tbe Liaklxov Islands, where she will be The high character of The Popular Science Monthly is well sustained in the December number. Under the title Fioin Magic to Chemistry and Phjsics, Dr. An drew D. WLite shows how the world has been robbed of many of the benefits of science by the oppression of a narrow theology. Dr. A. M. Fanning, of New York, contributts a thoroughly practical article on Deafness, amt the Care of the Ears. That the Cathode Church still holds to the belief in possession by devils is shown by Prof. E. P Evans, under the title Modern Instances of Demoniacal Possession. Certain Recent Glacial D;s coveries iu Engl ami that have bceu worked Lewis aud Prof, this number, ac companied by a folded map. Tbe evo lution of the traits of the dog—Canine Morals and Manners, as the author calls them—is described in a very readable way by Dr. Louis Robinson. Auother evolutionary article is that on Pruttc.ive Devic*s ami Coloration of Land Snails, by Henry A. PUsbry, which is illustrated the Environment of Grecian Culture, is d>- piettd by George Perrotr, who tines many features of the laud of Greece iliat have made their mark on its people. Rev. A. N. Some.s des :nbe some of the evidences that point to Prehistoric Cannibalism in America. Recent application of paper form the snt ject of au article by Emman uel Ratoiu. There is a strong and whole- frozen in, and then conveyed, according some arraignment of the S iam ignorance n. which has been deemed essential to inno- to Dr. Nansen’s theory, to and pass tbe Pole, and be finally discharged into the E ist Greenland seas. The dim -onions are as follows: Length of keel, 31 00 metres; length on waterline 34 50 metres; length over all, 39 00 metres ; oeain molded at waterline (including “ice sheathing") 10 40 metres; greatest ream (exclud.ng “ice sheathing") 11.00 metres; depth molded 5.25’ metres ; displacement, at draught, ol 4 75 metres (800 ton*) ; height of lot k *ut from “crow's near" on main topmast above the water, 105 feet, total sail area, GOO square metres. Coal is carried for over time month's constant steaming. Thetngints will give her a speed of six knots, but ots.ili will be used generally *s motive power. The crew will consist, all told, of not more than twelve men, and provisions for five years will be carried. The vessel is rigged as a three masted fore and aft scht oner, with square sails, which can be rigged on the foremost when required. The origiual es timated cost of the expedition was about £16 700, but will probably come to cousi 7^ trably more. A WISE OLD TOAD. It Lived for Thirty-Six Years Uuder a French Farm House. would like that ’i u, bring ’im iu, ’im, put ’im out let ’im fross. Parberl ’im. Marble Works. See Wat ha n & Go., for first-cla«s cemetery work of all kinds. No. 169 Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga. tf Amoug all the stories which aie tcld of toads, none is more remaikeble, perhaps, than that of a toad which lived for more than thirty-fix years in a hole beneath the door-step of a Freneh farm house. How old it was when first noticed, no one could say, but it hail probably lived a long time before familiarity with the sight of man emboldened it to rest tranquilly on the door-step over which persons were constantly passing. The step became the batrachian’s “bunt ing-ground,” where with little trouble it might capture the ants which persisted in crossing and reerossiug the step. The toad “hunting for its supper" came to be regarded as one of the sights of the neigh borhood, and certainly the skilful manner in which it usi d its wonderfully formed tongue entitled it to be ranked as ail ex pert. For one thing it showed wondeiful skill in judging distances; tne tongue was never darted out until the insect came within a certain range. The accuracy of the creature’s aim was auoiher matter for surprise. The rapidity with which the tongue was shot foith excited much wonder. The operation is a complex one. The tongue is doubled or folded up, when in the mouth ; therefore a two'old action is re quired—au uncoiling of the weapon, and Uien the darting of it forth The withdrawing of the tongue, with the captured insect on the tip, was not, less remaikable. Notwithstanding the ; rapid motion, tbe fineness of the tongue- j tip, and the struggles of the prey, the vie j tim was never dropped. The toad was so tame that it might justly be called “domesticated " It would j lemain quietly in one hand, and take its i food from the other, provided a leaf were placed on tne hand which held it. Without this precaution, the warmth of the hum m skin was evidently annoying Few things seemed to please it more than to be placed on the table in the even- j ing when the lamp was lighted, It would * look round with the greatest confidence in its gleaming eyes, and when insects were ; placed on the table it snapped them up with even greater iapididity than in its Jay huntings. In this way the toad lived for thirty-six years, the pet of tbe neighborhood. It might have lived many years more, had ; not a tame but spiteful raven pecked out one of its eyes. The bird brought upou itself universal ; hatred foi this assault, but sympathy was no profit to the poor toad. He could no lougei measure distances accurately, or aim with certainty, and he died in about a year after his injury, apparently from starvation.— Youth's Comnaniou. cence, in * paper ou the Symmetrical De velopment of our young women, by 0. E. Brewster. Dr S. T Armstrong ti.ls what progiesi has been mule toward Protective Inoculation for cholera. In filacirs of modern Economises, some current theo- ri» s of the socialists, nationalists, aud other economic reformers are vigorously attacked by Arthur Kits m. G. Valbert describes the Evolutiou « f the Alphabet, Agnt s L Carter tel is how to Tie a Rope of Sand that shall save our wasting beaches, J. T. Donald writes interestingly ou Nick el and its Uses, and ibeie are a portrait, and biographical sketch of Prof. George Fredeiick Wright, the eminent geo ogist of the Oheriiu Theological Seminary. New York : D. Appletou & Company. Fifty cents a number, $5 a year. The Weakness of Sham Iguorance. Th assume, therefore, that our young women are ignorant of a state of things of whose existence tlmy are perfectly well aware, is to put them at once upon the in secure basis of the dissembler. Is this simulated innocence of intrinsic value? Does it not rather dwarf growth and cripple usefulness? Unless early ao us touted to viewing such matters from the truthful, helpful standpoint (and such standpoint does exist), our young girls become bitter and unsparing iu judgment, sharers in that sweeping intolerance which half-knowledge always breeds. Is there, I ask you in ail fairness, any justice in exacting such a false social state? Here, as elsewhere, give our young women a chance to work. Do not briug them home with education “fin ished"—thorougi.ly equipped mentally, partially equipped physically, but utterly denuded of that intelligent moral accou trement which is to make them well rounded in character, a power in their little world. Apply the strength now de voted to shielding their supposed ignorant innocence to the development of heatli- ful views on a subject which must, sooner later, confront every thinking woman. Many contend, I know, that our young girls are not strong enough to bear a com prehensive knowledge oi this subji-ct; that knowledge, even though it may not rob them of their pure conceptions, at least causes them to become depresstil and ut terly cast down. But 1 think not told with reverence, as a whole. They must face this knowledge eventually. Is it any less cruel to encourage the building up of disproportioned ideals which must ulti mately be chipped away, piece by piece ? —From The Symmetrical Development of our Young Women, by C. E. Brewster, in The Popular Science Monthly for Decem ber. Secure a Easiness Education. Mr. Joseph Hemmerich An old soldier, came out of the War greatly enfeebled by Typhoid Fever, and after being in various hospitals the doctors discharged him as incurable with Consumption. He has been in poor health since, until he began to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla Immediately his cough grew looser, night sweats ceased, and lie regained good general health. He cordially recommends Hood’s Sar saparilla, especially to comrades in the G. A. K. HOOD’S Pills cure Habitual Constipation by restoring peristaltic action of the alimentary canaL The importance of giving every! young min a thorough business education is uni- | versally recognized; and t.he Georgia * BusinesSgColiege of Macon, Ga., by com mon consent, leads all Southern Commer cial Colleges. It not only unfailingly graduates students within two-thiras the j time and cost of others, but assists them to positions, thcire not being one now idle. 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