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THE SIDNNY SOHTU; ATLANTA, GEORGIA OCTOBER 7 1893
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I he revels in summer enjoyments. Mr.
, Chittenden’s family are among the best
and most prominent of New York City,
where his brother, Henry Chittenden,
holds a responsible position on the edi
torial staff of the New York Herald. Larry
also has done a great deal of newspaper
work, and knowing the man as well as I
do, I most indignantly repel any charge of
plagiarism brought against him.
There is too much originality and honor
about him to steal another man’s thunder.
And while it is said there are some men
in existence who would not scruple to
steal the coins placed upon the eyes of a
corpse, it is not necessary for Lirry Chit
tenden’s reputation to purloin dead men’s
utterances. The mere fact that the lan
guage is almost identical is sufficient
within itself to exonerate Mr. Chittenden.
Hac. A. McEachin.
Austin, Tex.
I.ETTER5
^epEDPL!
Fob Thk Sunny South.
In response to “A poem wanted,” in
S. S. of Aug 5.
I loved thee I yes, for I could trace
In thy fair form and beautions face,
A likeness to one I dearly prized.
Whom the angels have taken to Paradise.
IP
I trusted thee! and thought to And
A heart like her’s, pure and refined,
A balm to soothe my soul’s unrest,
And in thy presence 1 was blest.
It was a dream, ’tis past, and I
Awake to know thy perfidy.
'Tis better thus that we should part
Than live deceived by thy false heart.
Thy cruel words can’t pierce the sod
Where rests my dead, she is with her God.
Her calm and undisturbed repose
Can ne’er be broken by her foes.
’Tis sad to love and be deceived
Hy one in whom I did believe.
But love’s last link has now been broken
Since thou such cruel words have spoken.
—Mrs. J . O. Gamage.
Baltimore, Maryland.
Thk address of Rosa Bouheur, the far
mons animal painter, as stated hy an ex
change, is By, Forest of Fontainebleau,
Seine-et-Marne, France.
An Atlanta lady asks oar readers for
the name of the anthor of the phrase—
‘ Time and tide wait for no man.” An
swer through this column.
She Disagrees.
While Earnest Willie comes to the sup
port of Mr. Bentley in his contention that
a writer has the same right to praise his
wares as a carpenter has to praise the
work of his j ack-plane, the brilliant young
western poetess, ‘‘Marjoiaine Marx,” who
appears rhythmically in today’s ipaper,
disagrees quite emphatically.
In a recent letter she remarks as follows
about the point i n question:
“Mr. Bentley is evidently a man of un
bounded conceit, I do not think any can
be his own impartial reviewer. Oar own
fancies are too dear to us for us to sit in
unbiased judgment on their merits. We
love them as a fond mother loves her chil
dren. If nay own little volume, for exam
ple, should ever be published, it would
command one interested reader at least.
That would be myself. Every line would
appeal to me in a way that it coaid not,
possibly, to any other person living. A
line like this for instance:
“I looked on the wine of your lips-
would take me back to the time, the place,
the lips!”
‘■KAJfCH POEMS” AGAIN.
McEachin Defends Chittenden.
THE MOOTED PUZZLE.
The Brother in Black Must Work
Oat His {salvation.
Editor Sunny South:
In your issue of September 16th, Mrs. M
E. Henry Ruffin, writing from Citronelle,
Ala., does W. L. Chittenden, the “Poet
Ranchman,” quite an injustice. Mrs,
Rodin draws a comparison between Mr.
Chittenden’s poem, ‘‘Hidden,” and Father
Ryan’s “Song of the Mystic*” and is sui-
Prised to find a striking similarity in cor-
tain lines of the two poems. Mrs. Ruffin
■peaks of Mr. Chittenden’s lines as an ap
parent plagiarism, and thinks the disad
vantage is entirely on Mr. Chittenden’s
side. She is also pleased to refer to Mr.
Chittenden as a “Texan Cowboy.”
, As a friend of Mr Chittenden, and hav
ing known him intimately for a number of
years, I feel it incumbent upon me to de
fend him from the imputation of plagiar
ism. It may be true, and doubtless is
true, that the poet-priest first used the
style and metre employed in the two
poems, but it is hardly probable that he
originated either. He also had used some
of the language and sentiment, but it does
not necessarily follow that Mr. Chittenden
voluntarily appropriated either. It is no
doubt, as Mrs. Ratlin suggests, a striking
similarity of thought ana expression.
Larry Chittenden is a young man who
has developed much of the trne poetic
faculty, and the day is not far distant
when he will take front rank among the
greatest and best of American writers.
He is not a “Texan Cowboy,” as suggest
ed by Mrs. Ruffin, but a New Yorker, and
comes of the good old Puritan stock. He
owns a 10,000 acre ranch in Jones county,
well stocked with Hereford and
Black Polled cattle. He spends his win-
oa the ranch, where the great bulk of
his literary work is done; but with the
coming of warm weather, our poet friend
hies himself to the coast of Maine, where
Judge Arnold, in a speech upon the gov
ernment’s peculiar methods of improving
inferior races, says :
“To suddenly and violently emancipate
four millions of slaves, who, from the very
necessities of their condition, were ignor
ant in letters, morals and religion, with
out houses, without land, and without
property, and in a land drained and rav
aged by war, where desolation had every
where planted her famished brood; with
no provisions made for their young, their
old, their blind, their orphans and afflict
ed ; and to immediately invest them with
all the rights and responsibilities of
American citizenship, and these too in
great states and districts in which they
constituted overwhelming majorities, and
made and unmade laws and constitutions
at pleasure, were original and daring
measures.”
He calls these “original and daring
measures,” reckless novelties. I appre
ciate the delicate manner in which he dis
cussed this refined innovation of a magni
ficently enlightened government—out of
tender regard fer their cultivated sensibil
ities, he is never openly offensive, and
yet there are piercing shafts of irony
in many of his well advanced thoughts.
I characterize these methods as fear
fully evil and destructive and in an elabo
ration of the facts attempt to disclose the
peculiar inwardness of these acts and this
dual treatment of the two races.
Did not the “powers that be” aim at the
destruction of both races ?
Was not the former slave the dominant
force under tnese#‘peculiar measures” to
fasten his “black feel upon the necks” of
his former mastery
If there are any precedents in history
are not these logical conclusions ? The
man who has treasured the overwhelm
ing spirit of liberty, rankling and restless
in his breast, was expected when freed to
hate what he regarded the tyrant—to this
element of revenge for slavery that was
supposed to lurk in the bosoms of the peo
ple, it was doubtless expected that there
would be added the cruelties and de
structive influenct s of savage ignorance
As stated this multitude of beings freed
from the chains of bondage by one stroke
of Mr. Lincoln's pen—“mightier than the
8word”—these powers of aominancy con
ferred upon him by tbe party in power,
sustained by the military at their backs,
and then turned loose without subsis
tence, aid or any means of support
amongst a people as barren of resources
as themselves, how were we to stand
against this avalanche cf destructive for
ces?
Enfranchising and organizing the negro
and hurling him against the peace and se
curity of political and social order—pro
voking collisions in order to justify mili
tary usurpation, these peculiar methods
culminating in a career of crime unre
lieved by a single act tending to promote
the education, progress, peace or happi
ness of either race.
It is startling to contemplate even now
this condition of affairs—the abrupt re
versing the condition of this number of
human beings, ignorant and vicious, as
stated, was a violent measure that would
have crushed forever any other people.
What was their sympathy for this race
not provided for V All the provision made
that I have heard of was the mythical
“forty acres and a mule.” The colored
man could only see if he were not vicious
ly blind that his only hope was in the tol
erance, forbearance, intelligence and aid
of the people about him—and must see
further tnat but for the peculiar relation
ship between the two races, the attach
ments and peculiar sympathy engender
ed between the two races during the
days of slavery, that they must suffer,
together from the destructive friction of
this startling order of the things.
We are indebted to ourselves alone for
sustenance and preservation—to the poli
ticians of North, nothing. They saw the
terrible strait into which they had precipi
tated us. They could not, dare not, expect
that we could resist such forces. The
truth is, we as a people were to be crushed
still more ruthlessly between the iron
jaws of intellectual passion on the one
hand and the relentless vengeance of a
race of slaves just made free, “What was
to become of the colored man in this des
perate crisis seems to have been one of the
peculiar features of the peculiar methods
of treating the inferior races.”
A contemplation of this outrage is shock
ing in the extreme, for no human machi
nation could have devised a more inhu
mane, diabolical scheme.
Poland, under the iron-rule of Russia,
Italy, under the yoke of the Austrian, Ire
land, outraged and dwarfed by the tyran
ny of England, the horrifying acts of the
Dnke of Alva, were all enrsed with, per
haps, refined cruelties compared to these
peculiar methods indicted upon the races
South, and that that too by a government
professing the highest refinement of Chris
tian civilization.
Human wisdom, profound as it may be,
can never fathom the depths of vengeance
and hate embodied in these peculiar, out
rageous methods of treating the two peo
ples of the South.
Had they left ns here destitute and in
this supposed open conflict, it were
enough, but they subsequently devised
and inflicted upon both a system of rule
and rain that were a thousand fold
worse.
Confiscation was a refined mercy to car
pet-bagger taxation, legislation and rob
bery. These hnngry cormorants feasted
not only upon individuals bat States, so
voraciously, that it does not seem credi
ble that the races conld resist their whole
sale robbery.
The government did nothing for either;
to the contrary, they destroyed the efforts
of both—they embittered and antagonized
tnem, And it is surprisingly strange to me
that the colored people have not opened
their eyes to the brazen ugliness of the
situation.
The only friend he has had was his old
master, and for everything he accom
plished he is indebted to his own indus
try aided by the intelligence, sympathy and
capital of those of os amongst whom his
eventful and peculiar lines have fallen.
If the leading, thoughtful, conservative
colored men would use their influence
aright, they could solve the muchly moot
ed problem, they should stimulate their
people to industry, usefulness and moral
power and above all things elevate them
above the abstract idea that freedom is
meat—bread—power—life and all embod
ied in idleness and the ballot box—they
must learn to divide up on political and
business measures of the day, and not re
main solid against their only trne friends,
voting only witn the Republican party
and in all national affairs arranging them
selves against those abont them.
This treatment by the Government—
though its solid manipulation of the col
ored vote made the South solid, and it
will remain solid to save onr liberties, oar
civilization and intelligence from despo
tic and ignorant rule.
The whites will remain solid so long as
the negro race is solid and menaces them
with their poisoned passions and unyield
ing ignorance.
The “man in black,” through the pecul
iar methods of the party in power, can
readily see that these methods mean race
conflicts, and must eventually lead to his
own destruction. This universal harping
about him North does not promise him
good—it is the handwriting on the wall of
coming calamity.
Unless the colored man is true to his
only real friends, the whites of the South,
acts in concert and harmony with them,
trusts themin politics as he does in all
other matters and works for his own in
terest and improvement,'respects the in
terest of the white man as he does his
own, turns a deaf ear to the teachings and
evil influences of the Republican party,
counsels against race conflicts, educates
his children to respect the interests of the
whites, his future will he sadly settled
by the rising, progressive Saxon genera
tion.
The same feeling does not exist between
the present generation of the two
races as of the past. Raised alongside the
past generation who were slaves, we had
a kindly feeling for th«m, a feeling of at
tachment and interest in common that
does not exist between the young of to
day, and this very state of affairs requires
strong conservative influences.
To send him to Africa to reclaim his
race is ail bosh. In a few years he would
sink to the horrible barbarism of his hope
less ancestors. What sustains him now ?
The power behind the throne is the intel
ligence of the white race, and if he does
not progress with us, what will be his
progress in Africa?
If there is anything in him he has the
key to the problem. He must cut himself
loose from Republican influences and ad
vice, and defer his fate and claims to the
intelligence, sympathy and justice of those
about him. He must learn that, though
the Yankees freed him, that they did not
lift the curse of au inferior race from him,
that it will take generation upon genera
tion of progress to elevate him to the
places to which he aspires. He must sub
mit as the ignorant of the world have had
to do to the dominancy of intellectual su
premacy, and that he must, above all
things, strive to hold his place in the
South harmoniously, in the great battle of
gain and progress or he will go down un
der the intellectual, moral, progressive
nower of restless, aggressive, stalwart
Saxon 1 Cr DM WELL.
CannotExpreu Her Pleasure.
The following letter speaks for it
self. It is only one of hundreds which
we have received. We sell the best
sewing machine for the money that
has ever been offered and it cannot
fail to please.
Factory, 8. C., Sept. 7, 1893.
The Bunny South Pub Co.,
Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Sirs 1 The High Arm 8ewing Machine
was received some time ago. and have given it a
thorough test, and find it just as you repre
sented it, perfect in every respect so light in
running, making such a beautiful stitch. I
can t express how pleased I am for I couldn’t
say enough in its favor, but I know its tbe best
machine rve ever tried, and am glad to recom
mend it. Yours very truly
Mrs. J, M. Robinson.
Mature** Mimicry.
Cnrions resemblances in nature start
with the cocoannt, in many respects like
the human sknll and almost a fac-simile of
the monkey’s. The meat of the English
walnat is almost a copy of the human
brain, plums and black cherries like the
Unman eye, almonds like the
human nose, and an opened oyster and
shell a perfect likeness of the hnman ear.
The shape of a man’s body may be traced
in the mammoth squash, the open hand in
growing sernb willows and celery, the hn
man heart in German tnrnipe and egg
plant, and dozens of the mechanical in
ventions of the present day to patterns
furnished by nature. Thus the hog sug
gested the plow, the butter-fly the door-
hinge, the toad-stool the umbrella, the
duck, the ship, and the fungus growth on
trees the bracket.—Petit Journal des
Sciences.
follies, there was a deep valley on the
eastern slope of the Sierra Nevadas at,
the headwaters of the Truckee River.
About this valley towered granite
mountains. But earthquakes came
rents were opened in the rooks, and
from the fissures poured monstrous
streams of lava. One of those fissures
crossed the lower end of the valley,
and through it poured floods of mol
ten rocks. Stream after stream is
sued, to cool inisolid sheets and blocks
until a wall was built acorss the val
ley 2000 or 3000 feet in height, and
above it was a deep basin 500, or 600
square miles in area. The storms that
fell on the granite and volcanic moun
tains rolled in rivers to fill the basin
and Lake Tahoe was created.
A Veritable Luxury.
The Crown
Lavender Salts.
Sweet** Slftlag*.
An open question—Where’s the cork
screw.
The sincere man finds out his mis
take and becomes polite.
The law is no worse and no better
than human nature.
The man who ruleth his wife’s
spirit is a great deal scarcer than he
who taketh a city.
War often follows peace. Especially
is this so when it happens to be a
piece of mince-pie.
He that is choice of his time will
also be choice of his company and
choice of his actions.
If men wish to be held in esteem,
they must associate with those only
who are eg^imable,
Don’t blame the Jews of complaining
of their fare in the wilderness. They
were not used to that manner of liv
ing.
A good deal is said of the power of
love, but it is not nearly so potent in
the affairs of men and women as the
love of power.
It takes four years for a college to
turn out a good student. But it fre
quently turns out a bad student in less
tnan three months.
Dr. Samuel Johnson must have been
a New York policeman at some period
in his life. He used to say he liked a
“clubable” man.
“How Long Girls should be Court
ed,” is the title of an article in a Tex
as paper. Very much the same as
short girls, we should say.—Texas Sif
tings.
Maj. J* W. Powell, director of the
United States Geological Survey, thus
describes the origin of Lake Tahoe:
In geographical times not long ago,
as speaks the scientist but very long f
ago as speaks the chronicler of human
Out of Sight of Laud on » Klvcr.
Were it not for a decided difference in
the color of the water you would never
know when the Atlantic is left and the
Rio de la Plata entered. The high-rol
ling, white-capped billows are the same
and no land is visible, for the great river
which James Diaz de Solis discovered, is
125 miles wide at its month, though with
an average depth of only fifty feet. Seb
astian Cabot, who arrived in the year
1520, soon after the natives had murdered
poor Don Solis, dabbed it River of Silver,
noton account of its color, which might
have won for it the more appropriate
name of Golden River or River of Choco-
late, but because he had wrested quan
tities of silver from the Indians who
swarmed its banks, and naturally im
agined that an abundance of precions me
tal remained in the vicinity.—Philadel
phia Record.
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gated and almost cylindrical, evenly
rounded at both ends, and abont the size
of an ordinary dnek’s egg. The eggs of
the sea turtle are as large as a small apple,
rounded, and have a flexible shell. Those
of the snapping turtle are much smaller,
but also rounded. Those of the terrapins
and otber genera are oblong, as also are
those cf lizards. In the common black
and yellow-dotted Ametican fresh water
terrapins, and in the painted terrapin, the
eggs require four yeais of growth before
they are laid. Take a seven-year old tur
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year-old tortoise of the same kind will
have two sets of eggs, one larger and one
smaller. One of nine years will have
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a small pea. A tortoise of ten years will
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she will lay for the first time, and give
birth to the most mature set.
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Central Railroad of Georgia.
H. M. Comer, Receiver.
Schedules in Effect Sept., 17th y 1893.
THE DIRECT LINE TO
MACON,
ALBANY,
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The East via Savannah and the Seal
Lv. Atlanta d* 8 00 am 6 55 pm 4 00 pm
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Elegant palace sleeping cars on
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